Costume creation

 HELLO THERE!!!!!!!!! REAL MADRID LOST TODAY 2-1 TO REAL BETIS, ISCO, ONE OF MADRID'S EX PLAYERS CARRIED BETIS TO BEAT MADRID. On the other hand, Atletico Madrid beat Atletico Bilbao 1-0 causing Atletico Madrid to go into first place as of now and Real Madrid into third place. If Barca win tomorrow, we'd be clear of Real Madrid by 3 points and Atletico Madrid by one point. Anyways, today's topic is costume creation. Costumes play a big role within the setting and tone of a film. One wouldn't wear a bright pink shirt that says "Fri-yay" in a medieval film. The costume helps set the tone of a film just how the setting does. The use of costuming can also tell a story, for example, color on clothes may hint at things. For example, in the notebook, when Noah is eating with Allie's family, contrast is creating just based off of what they are wearing. Noah is wearing a black shirt while everyone else is white. This hints at the fact that Noah is different from everyone else as Allie's family is wealthy and Noah is on the lower-class side, this also causes him to stand out to the viewers.

This is a picture of the moment this scene happened.

The type of costume creation that we will implement:
Our film won't need too much use of costume creation, this is due to the fact as there are many characters with simple clothing styles, especially Leo's family. Leo too will have simple costuming; He usually wears darker clothes. The only costume that will be complicated is the costume for Erebus, we will either have to hand make a dark costume for Erebus that will fit, we already have a hat we might implement within our film, and we will also have some rips within Erebus's clothes. I might lend my suit pants that are currently sitting next to me this moment.

Thanks for reading my blog today!!! VISCA BARCA!!!!

Foley Sound creation

 Hello!! Sebas the Barca fan here!! Today there is no new Barca news unfortunately, so we can make our own news!!1 Barca is the best team hahahaha!!! You know what else can be made on our own? Foley sound! Foley sound is the creation of sounds from things within the film using different objects to create the sound for a film or production of something. For example, the clash of two swords might be just to pieces of metal rods clashing in a foley room or the sound of plastic wrapper may be the sound of paper in a foley room.

These are two examples of what foley rooms are like, they are basically rooms just full of random objects to make different sounds. They play an important aspect in films as without the foley sounds, some of the sounds would be extremely hard to get or just annoying to get. With the foley room, you can achieve getting these sounds easily.

How will we implement foley sounds within our film?
We will implement foley sounds within our film in multiple ways, one example we are still debating on will be the use of scraping a metal fork against a sheet of metal to make the screech sound for when Erebus appears in Leo's visions. We would need foley for a lot of things within our film which is why the use of it would be very important to implement as we can then get sounds that are hard to find online.

Thanks for reading my blog today!!! SOM-HI BARCA let's hope for the loss of Real Madrid tomorrow versus Real Betis and Barca win on Sunday.

Location Scouting

 Hey there!!! Sebas the Barca fan is back once again!!! A very eventful week has gone by, Barca tied to Atletico Madrid 4-4 and Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad 1-0, Barca's chances to the Copa Del Rey final are very 50/50 as Atletico de Madrid is a good team. We just need to win our away game at "El Metropolitano" in Madrid. Anyways, today our topic is Location Scouting, yes, I have done a similar blog, that one was more about explaining the type of location we would need, and this one is mainly about finding the actual filming location to where we will film. Our group has already thought of various locations to film our opening.

Film Scouting 1:
Our first scouted place to film at was one of our partners houses, it's simples yet has good lighting due to the vast open space, the dining table is also a big, well sized dining table to be able to use. The lighting will also be pretty good and the area to film will also be perfect to hide the entity within. The setting is very good as it is what one would honestly expect within a move just like its type.

Film Scouting 2:

Our second filming place would most likely be my car, this is due to a short part of the scenes going to be filmed within my car, my car was chosen as it is the type of car our character would have. My car is all black even up to the rims. That is the exact reason we chose my car as it fits my characters personality and would most likely be the type of car Leo would drive. 

This is the inside of my car, it may not be the nicest, but sure is good enough for me!! It fits perfectly fine, 99% of the cars color scheme fits to be for Leo.

Thanks for reading my blog, VISCA BARCA!!!!!!!!!

Audio Post

 Hello, Sebas the Barca fan here!! Unfortunately, Madrid won their game 2-0 earlier today, despite this, Barca is still in first with Madrid in close second and Atletico Madrid in a close third as well. The title race in LaLiga is becoming closer and closer by the second and even better by the day. The games are closer and closer and with Copa Del Rey coming up on Tuesday and Champions League games coming up as well the next week. The games will become very interesting, but I still believe in a Barca treble this season, I can feel it. Besides this, Today's topic will be about Audio. Audio plays a large role within horror movies, especially within suspenseful scenes, a horror movie with the wrong sounds may come out bad and not be as good as one may want it to be.

How we will implement sound, sound will most likely be present with every second of the opening, this sound will most likely be used for suspense for when anything seems to be about to happen and also for the scene where everything turns dark and causes dismay within Leo. Loud breathing to show Leo's nervousness, loud eerie sounds to build suspense, and also no sound after the loud eerie sounds can also help to build suspense.

I believe Horror movies are not horror movies without the sound they use. A video was once made, where they got the clip of a horror movie during one of the supposed scary encounters with the creature, they then added happy music behind it, one you would usually dance to. The video was not scary at all after that, this comes to show the importance of sound within horror movies.|

Thank you for reading my blog today!!! Visca Barca, Una victoria arribara dimarts!!!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Mise-en-scene: Costuming

 Hello!!! Sebas the Barca fan here! Today Barca won their respective game! This 2-0 win against Las Palmas puts us back in first place for the game week, the Ferran Torres banger and as well as Dani Olmos masterclass of a goal was the catalyst to our win. now it's just time to hope Real Madrid ties or loses tomorrow so they aren't 2nd place and being very close behind us. Atletico Madrid also won their game putting them only a point behind as well. Besides that, today our topic is about the costuming of our characters.


Leo:
Leo is a simple man; he doesn't put on too many clothes and his clothes usually don't contrast. Leo would most likely put on the first thing he sees and walk out with it. Most of his closet is also filled with dark black clothes, this dark clothing will be used within the film opening. The dark clothes are meant to create a contrast with the family members light colored clothes. This is to create contrast within his family and him and also to center the attention of the viewer towards Leo. Leo would most likely, in an occasion like this, just be wearing dark long pants or sweatpants with a black shirt or hoodie on the top and dark shoes as well. His coloring is also set to represent his problem with the entity of "darkness and shadows" otherwise known as Erebus. 

These are two representations of what Leo would wear and the types of clothes in his closet.

Erebus:

Erebus has somewhat of a complicated outfit, this is due to the complications of creating a good outfit for the entity that can instill fear. Once again, Erebus will be in all black and will have a tall standing, somewhat deformed figure, because of this, Erebus's costuming will be complicated to create. The colors will be all black to symbolize back the name Erebus which means "The God of darkness and shadow." The costuming of the creature will most likely be a suit that fills the whole body and makes the entity look shadowy.

This is a representation of what Erebus would look like with the right resources, it might not look exactly like this but we would try our best to achieve something like this.

Thanks for viewing my blog today!!!!! SOM-HI BARCA, El Madrid perdra dema

Mise-en-scene: Setting

Hello!!! It's Sebas the Barca fan again!! Today we will be talking about the mise-en-scene of the film opening we are creating, more specifically, the setting of the film. The setting of the film is arguably one of the most important aspects of a film. You can't film a horror movie in a unicorn land obviously. Obviously, you'd need a darker more eerie setting for a horror movie. Every aspect of the setting counts, including pieces of furniture or props.




Location #1 

This is a picture of my kitchen, it's just an example, yet could end up being the filming location. We want a kitchen like this to be able to be able to film at as most of our opening scene will be filmed in a kitchen. The lighting will also be different as it's going to be nighttime.

Location #2

This is a photo of my car, this is most likely where we will be filming the scene inside the car, it will be nighttime as the rest of our film. We will also most likely have a drone shot of the car driving as one our group members says he can maybe get his hands on a drone

Thanks for reading my blog today!!!! Visca Barca y Visca Catalunya!!!!

Character Story

Hello again!!! It's Sebas the Barca fan!!! Today Manchester City plays Real Madrid, I don't know who I want to win, either team have won too many things in the recent years and have to give a better chance to the other teams. Anyways, today we are discussing our character and their development, we will be discussing reasons behind the names, our characters personality, etc.

We chose Leo as the main characters name due to many reasons, for example, Leo is a really simple name, yet so popular throughout the world. Leo is also an easy name to remember as we want the viewer to remember our character easily. Leo, despite being a very simple name, has many meaning behind it. Leo is linked to Latin roots, meaning Lion, Lions are ferocious, strong, brave, and curious. We wanted our character's name to signify a part of our characters personality. Since we wanted our character to have this sort of personality. This personality choice comes from the fact that he's enduring this. We've also named other characters, for example, we named our entity as Erebus, this is due to the meaning behind the name. We wanted our entity to be dark and mysterious, and sort of in disguise to a point where it is unrecognizable on screen. The name Erebus helps add on to this, it is the name of the Greek God Erebus, the name means darkness and deep shadow. This helps convey the dark and shadowy suspense brought by this entity. The film will also be named behind the entity, Erebus. 

On the other hand, the therapist, will be mainly unnamed. The therapist is the person Leo resorts to talking to while he goes through this. The therapist also can't help Leo with his situation with Erebus as she doesn't fully believe him and besides, she can't see Erebus anyways and hasn't had to help anyone within a certain circumstance. Despite all this, she still attempts to help Leo out with his dilemma.

We made a mood board for our character Leo, we wanted him to have a sort of a personality that a teenager who likes to focus on themselves, build upon their strength. For example, we have a picture of the statue of Atlas to signify the strength and endurance of Leo. Leo also deeply loves music, especially, metal and punk rock, we decided to add this to his personalities list. The board also consists of a guy who appears to be stressed, this is to show Leo's turmoil within what he's undergoing as it causes him much stress.

Do you think out ideas are good?

Thanks for reading my blog!!! SOM-HI BARCA, TREBLE SOON.

Media Theory Implementation Theory

 Hello!!! Sebas the Barca fan here!!! No new Barca news today, only thing is that our defender Araujo is finally back from injury and will be available to play tomorrow!!! Besides that, today I will be talking about how I will implement a media theory into my opening theory. The theory I would like to implement within my opening film is the Hermeneutic theory otherwise known as the Enigma Code theory.

The Hermeneutic theory is when a narrative withholds information to develop a mystery or leave a plot point unexplained. Roland Barthes, the one who came up with the 5 narrative codes (The Hermeneutic, Proairetic, Semantic, Symbolic, and Cultural codes), said that the use of partial answers may also be used but usually, the answer is kept away. These clues and delays to the answer keeps the viewer hooked to the film to want to know the answer. The Hermeneutic Theory or Enigma Code is commonly found in mystery or horror, this fits our genre.

Two good examples of the Enigma Code can be "Scream" (1996) and "Get out" (2017), these two movies take advantage of the Enigma Code to add suspense and mystery to the answer of these films. The smart use of the Enigma keeps the viewer engaged and hooked into the movie which is a key component as to why these movies are so well rated and popular.

How we will implement this into our opening, we will most likely have factors that involve with mystery, for example, something basic but we could do is the entity leaves something behind. Otherwise, we could just have no partial answer within our opening film and just leave it all to the imagination of the viewer what had happened. This would keep the viewer engaged for the rest of our film since they would be dying to know what happens

I chose this theory because it fits our genre very well, it also would make our film exceptionally better than what it could be and keep the viewers' attention.

Thank you for reading my vlog today!!! Let's hope Barca wins tomorrow again and SOM-HI BARCA!!!

Script Blog Post!!

 Hello again! It's Sebas the Barca fan, as we enter the weekend preparing for the new game week and I wash my shirt to wear the day of the game, I do other things like these blog posts for my media class!!! We have created a script in which we basically describe every single detail of our opening film. The script uses many adjectives and descriptions to make it as accurate as can be. Scripts are necessary to have good acting as well, without one, the actors wouldn't know what to say or do. 

I've never written a script, what I have done is always daydream in class and make the best story that I think would bring in many Oscars. I am a very creative person; I play two instruments, and I think I got my creativity from here. Making this script kind of felt like improvising on piano, to put into terms to compare playing the piano and making a script. For example, choosing the genre is kind of like choosing what key you're going to play, if you start playing in another key, you might be able to pull it off, but it would be really hard. So just like that, when doing a certain genre, you have to stick with that genre rather than doing another one by accident. Then once you begin freestyling, it's just let your creativity flow through and change things up, do something unique that you might think would be cool. This, in my opinion, works exactly the same when script making, I felt like I was just letting my ideas spew out when deciding what to do for the movie, I also implemented many unique ideas. Finally, when I freestyle on piano, I also add in certain licks that I can pull out from different songs that I hear and change it up to add my own style to it, especially in jazz or anything that may involve piano. For film making, I can research what different films have done in their openings within the respecting genre and add into my own film with my own ideas changing it up a little bit.



This is a good example of a script and helped me with my script making: 

These are the pages for the script I made:

EREBUS

Thank you for reading my blog!!! Let's hope Barca wins this weekend, SOM-HI BARCA!!!

Post Summarizing Our Idea: Erebus

 Hey there, Sebas the Barca fan is here, my group and I have been discussing our project and what we would do. We have been inspired by many movies, the biggest one being Smile 2. We have been researching our idea for a while, but we believe this idea is final. We had a group meeting with our teacher too, we were excited to present it and then she told us "This is horrible, scrap it." We had to plan a whole new opening, but we were able to achieve it. 

I believe our new plan did end up being better anyways. Just like Barcelona's current soccer team, we locked in and got to brainstorming, once we got our new idea, it felt like beating Madrid 4-0 and 5-2 again. I believe our idea is very unique and I like how we were all able to have our own ideas within it so it's a group work together. 

Our group:

Our idea starts out with our protagonist eating dinner with his family, as the dinner goes on, the family eats and makes jokes together, just like one would with friends!!! After a while, the protagonist begins to feel uncomfortable! From here suspense begins building up due to loud sounds and music and the face of the character feeling uncomfortable. Then a loud noise happens, and everything goes dark, and his family disappears. There's a strange unrecognizable entity standing there peeking through the edge of one of the walls. It stands tall and skinny in all black. The protagonist doesn't react and just continues eating as if this has happened before. The entity doesn't move on camera, instead, the entity seems to move really fast. This entity can only see by the protagonist, when the protagonist is in the realm where he can see the entity, he can't see anyone else, yet those people are still there, and the entity can see them and mess with them. The entity moves towards the protagonist's father, it stands over the father as if it were to attack him. The protagonist then goes to scream NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (not really that long and he will probably say something else, but it's just to get an idea!) Then, we plan to have the entity disappear and everything goes back to normal. When everything goes back to normal, he is now standing, and his family looks at him like as if he is crazy. They know he is "Schizophrenic" (He isn't instead the thing that happens to him is caused by the entity, but this isn't revealed in the opening and instead later on in the film if it were to be longer.) and shrug it off as a hallucination that made him scream like that. He then runs out the house and into his car with his family screaming behind him, he gets into his car and calls his therapist, he then says, "it's back," and it ends.

We plan to name the movie Erebus after the Greek mythological figure who represents darkness. This name pertains towards the entity who is in the opening.


Gràcies per llegir el meu blog, anem Barça! 

Group Meeting Blog Posts

Hello!!!! Sebas the Barca fan, TODAY REAL MADRID AND ATLETICO MADRID TIED, if Barca win, we go into first place!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, let's get started. On the day of Monday, the teacher had put us into groups with people of other teams that are working on the portfolio project as well. We got to talk about all of our ideas, we also received feedback on our ideas and what we could do or change, some ideas I got were really good. I also gave back good information in my opinion. During this group work, I felt really productive, I was able to learn what other groups are doing and also what I could be able to do on my own project!!!

I want to thank everyone in my group for the great ideas. One idea that really stuck out to me, is to maybe add a little bit of foreshadowing in the opening for a thing that might happen in the future. The reason it stuck out to me so much is due to the fact that it had been something I had thought of already implementing, so to see that someone else also believes I should add it is very reassuring. I will mention it to my portfolio project group and see whether or not they like the idea.

I also felt good helping everyone build their ideas out as well. Some of them had some really high achieving ideas, for example, one of them had a partner who knew CGI and wanted to implement it within their film opening. Knowing I had the creativity to help people build upon their ideas actually helped me also think about new ideas for my film opening due to the confidence I had then. 

One of our group partners also had done an idea which was very bland, we helped them build upon it more and make a better project than the one that they had already thought of, I hope it really helps each and every one of my group partners in this activity were able to build upon their ideas from this.

My own portfolio project teammates had also comeback with amazing ideas they had been given by their own groups. From here, we were able to change up the idea more and more and build our script around these ideas which we already had and ones that we had newly received

Overall, this group activity really did help me and hopefully my group partners build upon their own ideas.


THANKS FOR READING, let's hope for a Barca win Monday, even in Barca fashion, I learned the anthem on piano by ear!!!

3 Opening Credits Research

 Hello Cambridgers, I am here to write about 3 opening credits I have researched!! These opening credits are from the Horror genre. I will be analyzing each to possibly implement some of their features into my own intro.


Halloween:
Halloween's opening credits only includes a carved out pumpkin and credits that just say who did what, these opening credits took the easier route rather than showing a lot. This can make production easier. The flame of the pumpkin was just glowing in a dark background and the music gave it an eerie feeling even though nothing happened, it still made the viewer nervous. As the credits go by, the camera tracks closer and closer to the pumpkin until finally the pumpkin disappears and the screen becomes black and there are no more credits. 

The Shining: 
The Shining's opening credits are rather interesting, without the eerie suspenseful music, it could be seen as a scenic drive through the wilderness. The music is mainly the largest part of this whole opening credits scene. The music was very eerie and suspenseful which instilled a bit of fear in me, the music was very slow and loud and the type of noises it made is not found in upbringing songs. As the credits go on, it follows a yellow car, by now that's all we have seen, a yellow car navigating through the mountains snake like path. This whole opening instilled a lot of foear in me and because of this I rate it high on my list. 

The Thing:
The Thing's opening credits in my opinion are boring, yet they bring in many emotions. The music in the opening was rather powerful and loud, it really made me feel uneased. The credits just had text appearing and a black screen which also the black screen in my opinion made it more suspenseful than what it is meant to be as it is like as if you're walking into the unknown due to the black screen.

3 Film Openings Research

 Hello cambridge!! Today I will be studying 3 film openings for my blog today!!!

Smile 2: 

This opening scene is very interesting as it was all filmed in one shot, this caused it to be harder to make than what it really was. It also starts by showing key components of the previous film made by them. This opening scene starts out very rough with already threats of death and a final death at the end. The plan of the character that the opening is based off of is to pass on the curse to someone who deserves it and has done bad in their life.

JAWS: 

This movie starts out with quick paced editing with the running happening as the guy chases the woman towards the beach. The camera pans as they run following the main subject throughout, as the woman enters the water it all becomes quiet and makes the viewer feel a sense of calmness yet suspense, the viewer knows there might be something about to happen since they know what movie they have come to watch but at the same time, the quietness of this part makes it feel soothing and calm also due to the scenic sunset. As it goes, the woman starts getting attacked, all of this happens in a shot where we can't see what's happening, yet we can see the woman being fumbled around the water screaming as she suffers. All while this happens the man is laying on the beach, hard to notice what happened to him but could have passed out due to being drunk as one of the things he says while chasing the woman is "I'm not drunk" while very seemingly looking drunk.

IT:

Its opening scene is very suspenseful and very graphic especially compared to the last two previously mentioned as part of what happens is Georgie gets killed by pennywise and eaten, it is very graphic, and discretion is advised when watching it. It starts off on a rainy night where Georgie is chasing a paper boat down the stream of a sewer line. By this point, the music and Georgie's laughing makes it seem very delightful. Then Georgie is running and slams his head into a road barrier that passes over the stream where the boat was, when this happens the music changes to a more powerful and loud type of music that makes it seem more suspenseful. What appears to be a pile of garbage disrupts this flow as it is in the way of the stream and the boat goes to a nearby drain on the other side which is a little bit further down. This is all mainly in long shots showing all of Georgie. Once Georgie gets to the drain the paper boat goes down the drain, by then we are met with someone in the drain. This certain someone is later known as pennywise. Pennywise then talks to Georgie asking him many questions most likely to gain his trust, he then picks up the boat and tells Georgie to grab it, once Georgie sticks his hand in the drain, Pennywise bites Georgie's whole arm off and Georgie is laying there in a puddle of blood in the rain.