Fernando Mesa's AICE Media Studies Final Project

 After successfully researching different transitions used in film I decided to use the transitions that I researched in my previous blog post. These transitions were the straight cut, dissolving transition, and a fade to black transition. After implementing these transitions, it made my film look better when compared to the film with just straight cuts. Straight cuts were the least used transition in my film. My reasoning for not using this transition more than the other transitions was because I thought that straight cuts are very basic and I could have transitions that are more interesting and less basic. The straight cut that I used in my film was used in order to switch a side shot of D.L into an over the shoulder shot. Most of my film contained dissolving transitions. My reasoning for this choice of transition is because the dissolving transition is very smooth. The dissolving transition also works very well in showing the audience that time has passed within the film. The fa...

 In films, sometimes when a scene proceeds to another scene there is a transition in between the 2 scenes. These transitions could be anything from just being a normal cut to something like the screen dissolving into another screen or the screen fading away. Some examples of some transitions are having the screen fade to another scene, a scene fading to a black screen, and just a normal straight cut. A straight cut is the most basic cut used in a film. A straight cut is just the scene transitioning to another scene without any sort of effect. This cut is used practically in every film because of how basic and easy it is to use. Below is a scene from "Avengers Endgame" that uses straight cuts. A transition where the screen fades into another screen is referred to as a dissolving transition. This is when a scene finishes and it starts to fade into another scene. While it is fading into the second scene, the second scene starts to become more visible than the first scene because...

 When going over my clip of James looking out of his door at D.L and his partner driving away I realized something. The thing that I realized is the fact that this scene only has dialogue of James and doesn't have any sound of a car driving away. After realizing this I knew I had to do something in order to implement a sound that would represent D.L and his partner driving away. Below is the final clip to my project with the foley element being used within the clip. What I did to create this sound was make a foley sound of the car driving away instead of re recording the scene with someone driving a car in the background. In order for me to do this I needed to record a car driving away in order to get the sound that I would implement into the final clip of my opening scene. What I did was I got someone to drive a car on the road and when they did this I recorded the sound of the car in order to get the foley element that I was looking for in order to insert into my project. After r...

 In films, some scenes are sometimes replaced by other scenes because the producer thinks that having a certain scene will make the film better than if the film had another scene. This occurred for me while I was working on filming my clips for my opening scene. I had recorded a scene for my project that I thought worked well with my project but then I had an idea for another scene that would work better with my opening scene. Below this is the original final scene for my project that I initially thought was going to be the last clip of my film. This original scene was recorded in front of James house outside on the road. The clip used a pan shot in order to show the vehicle of D.L and his partner and to show them driving away from James's house. After filming this clip I came to a realization, this realization being the fact that having this as a final scene doesn't show James's reaction to the crime. Because of this I decided to film a new clip that shows James seeking fo...

 My final clip of my film was the clip of James looking out of his door at D.L and his partner driving away. Since this clip was not very long it was not very difficult to perfect it. Even though this clip was very short, the first time I attempted to film this clip was not very successful because there were errors within the clip that made this clip not be usable in my film. These errors were mainly errors within the dialogue of James. This clip started off well with James successfully saying the first part of his line which was "They'll pay for this" in order to show the audience that he seeks revenge. After James successfully said this part of the line some dialogue errors occurred. The main error in particular was that James forgot what the rest of his lines were. This made the clip unusable because the clip required James to fully state his lines. Another minor error that occurred during the filming of this clip was also the fact that my shadow was visible on his fac...

 After James rushes to his front door he realizes the criminals have driven off with his briefcase. Angered by this, James says the line "they'll pay for this, I'm gonna get these criminals locked up". This line is used in order to show the audience that James seeks revenge on these criminals because of the crime that they committed and this also emphasizes the fact that James is angered because of his money getting stolen. Below is the clip of James looking out of the door at D.L and his partner driving away. In the clip, James is recorded at a low angle shot. My reasoning for this low angle shot is to make James look more empowering, because he seeks to defeat the best criminal in all of Florida which is a very difficult task to complete. For this clip, a counter stereotype is used and the stereotype that it is countering is the stereotype that an average person wouldn't be able to take down a criminal. The way that this clip is countering this stereotype is tha...

 When I was filming the scene of D.L and his partner in the car, this clip was recorded a few times. Since this clip was filmed multiple times, some of the clips did not make it to the final cut of my opening scene. The reason for why I had to record this clip a few times was because some of the clips had errors that I did not want to be included within my project. Most of these errors within these clips were mistakes within the dialogue of both of these characters. The first clip contained a few dialogue errors that made the clip unusable. The first mistake was that when D.L said the line "Look what we got" there was too long of a pause of no dialogue after this line was said. The second mistake was that when D.L's partner was saying a line, he stuttered in between the sentence he was saying. I thought that filming the clip again without the stutter would make it more appealing to the audience. The third mistake was that the lines that were stated were too long. These li...