Audience and institution Practice Essay

Today is May 5th, 2020. Then end of the school year is only one month way. We have already been doing online schooling for about 5 weeks now. I've gotten very use to it so far and waking up whenever I want is a nice privilege. I hope next year we can have school for the whole year. I have had turned in my course work for a couple of my classes now. This all feels weird still and I know I say that a lot but this is the first time this has ever happened in the world where we have to transfer everything to online. Anyways, my media teacher has been keeping us busy for a good reason and we so far had to write 2 essays for the class. I had fun writing them all in my honest opinion and it was interesting doing this one because it took me back to when film was first created. I do not know when my next blog will be but hopefully soon. At first, I didn't like the whole blog thing because it felt like writing a lot of essays but now I feel as if it has grown on me a bit. It's fun writing about my life and what I am doing in school. It reflects my progression throughout the year and its interesting to look back at it. Well that's all I have to say for this blog. Below will be the entire essay that I copied and pasted it. I wanted to give some context rather than just a plain ol' essay. Until next time!

Audience and Institution Essay

Question 6: In relation to the media area you have studied, discuss the ways audience          consumption has changed over time. (Film)

            Media is the most important thing to entertainment. Films have made media expand to where is today. Nowadays, you can watch a movie or show on your phone rather than buying a ticket for a movie. Netflix and Hulu are two examples of apps that you can watch movies, shows, and even documentaries on it. The impact of media makes our world of entertainment go around.

            The first known film was made in 1888, known as the Roundhay Garden Scene by the inventor Louis Le Prince. According to article What Was the First Movie Ever Made, it states that, “In the late 1880’s various people began experimenting with photo, blending them together to give the illusion of a motion picture.” This so-called curiosity led to the invention of the motion film and therefore the first film. In this time, audience of movies never existed due to the unpopularity of films at this time. Since the first film, the number of movies being created expanded and films began to gain popularity. Just 10 years after the first motion-picture movie (1898), the total number of movies made in their respected years went from 3 to 40 films. The first film projector was invented in 1879 by Charles Francis Jenkins and this is how these films were introduced. In 1896, “the first permanent home for showing movies in the United States was opened at 623 Canal Street, corner of Exchange Alley. The name of the theatre was Vitascope Hall. Cost for admission was 10 cents. This information was founded on the website known as pontchartrain. The articles name was 1896 First Movie Theater In the United States. Only 17 years after the first known film, the first movie theater was made. According to an article known as 100^th Anniversary of First-Ever U.S. Movie Theater, the first movie theater was named Nickelodeon and was opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 19, 1905. With these two inventions, people were able to watch movies by going out to movie theaters. 39 years after the invention of films, the first television was invented in 1927 by an inventor known as Philo Taylor Farnsworth, according to a google search, “when did the first tv come out.” However, it wasn’t until 29 years later in 1956 that the first film was broadcasted on television. That movie was The Wizard of Oz. Now people didn’t have to go out to movie theaters to watch movies and now they were able to watch it right from home. 20 years after The Wizard of Oz airing on television, the VCR was invented in 1976. Now with this invention, you can watch a movie on demand that you purchased. Another 20 more years later in 1996, a new type of film distribution came out known as digital versatile disc, or DVD for short. The next year, 1997, Netflix was founded. 11 more years later, it started online streaming and is now the most popular online streaming service.

We are fortunate in the day in age where we can access a movie anywhere. The history of film is very important to todays society. It shows how over time, movies became more popular because of more provided services. Today, film is arguably more popular than music, which most movies include soundtracks within their movies. The technology of film will only improve and who knows how much it will advance.

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Extract Essay

The theme of the given extract known as, 24, is betrayal. It seems as if that the two characters in the film use to work together. Also, the girl seems to have betrayed the guy and the organization that she works for, assuming FBI or CIA, some type of government agency. She says that she has a placed a boom somewhere and she wants to have a plane so she can disarm the so-said bomb. This is the main reason why the guy in the extract is upset, or better yet, mad.

The beginning of the film begins with the guy walking into the interrogation room and talking to the girl in the chair. For most of the extract, their conversation focuses on their face, this being called a close up, so that they can show the emotions of the characters in a clearer way. The extract uses a two-person shot for most of the conversation as well. This is to show the interaction between the two characters and help the audience understand who is talking. This is important to use because it also adds context to the situation as well as shows emotion of the characters. Other shots and angles within the extract are zoom, that being when the camera zoomed into the clock and the camera in the top side of the room.

Editing is important to a film because it makes it look cleaner and takes out any mistakes within the film. So therefore, the extract uses these skills to their advantage. For example, when the climax of the scene built up to the max, that being when the guy flipped the table and pushed the chair with the girl on it against the wall, It showed a split screen that was used to show the action of the agents running towards the room while the guy is still yelling at the girl. Ultimately the two split screens meet up into once picture once again. This is important because it gives better context as of why and how the agents got there. Another editing technique within the extract was known as shot-reverse shot. This was used during the dialogue between the two main characters of the extract. This technique is important because instead of constantly moving the camera left to right, which in this case would make the scene a constant use of a pan shot, it shows the back and forth conversation between the two main characters, as said previously.

Sound is another important part about the extract, as well as for most movies and shows made. Within the extract, the main sound is the dialogue between the two character. This is the most important part of the extract because it helps develop the theme the most. Dialogue shows the conversation between the two characters in the extract. Unlike the other shots, the sound is shown by the voices of the people talking to each other. It also shows the context of the extract and the reason as to why they are arguing. Another important sound within the extract is music. Music is important because it is an easy attention grabber. In this case, the music used appears to have a dramatic tone, fitting the situation very well. With the music, it increases the tension and as the climax begins to build up, the music gets suddenly louder. Even in silent films, sounds may have a large factor. With out the non-diegetic sounds of the film, it would not be as enjoyable.

Mis en scene, or staging in French, is the preparation of the film and what is used within the film. A movie can not be made without mis en scene. Mis en scene can be easily remembered by the abbreviation C.L.A.M.P.S. In the same order of the letters, it stands for costumes, Lighting, Actors, Make-up, Props, and Setting. The extract uses all six of these words of the abbreviation. For costumes, their outfit can easily be in that category. The lighting of the film is dark but light enough to see the actors face. This could fall in the category of hard film lighting. The actors of the extract are all the characters within the scene. Instead of their stage names, the actors are the real names of the people portraying those specific characters. Make-up in the extract is hard to locate and possibly not in this scene. Perhaps further in the show or film makeup can be found. Props within the film include the table that was thrown across the room, the monitors that the agents are watching the interrogation, the camera, the clock, and even the paper that was handed to the girl. The setting is the location and time of that specific scene. Although the time is unknown, the location is an interrogation room.

To conclude, the extract would have no meaning without these given factors. Camera angles, movements, and shots show what is going on as sound enhances those given shots. Editing improves both of them and usually is used after film making whereas mis en scene is the plan before the film. As said, without these 4 factors, then the message of the film would be unknown, and the film would not even exist in the first place.

extract paper

Today is Friday, April 24th, 2020. It has been about a week or so since I last uploaded a blog but besides that everything has been alright. I have been just relaxing, playing games on my pc, and watching Netflix. Although the exams are quote on quote canceled, It has been revealed that we still have to do the work for our AICE classes. They are basing their grades off of the work we turn in. Honestly, I am not upset about this because it gives me something to do. Anyways, these four worksheets I have here is a practice extract paper 1 for Cambridge. I had the choice to choose either between the two shows Game of Thrones and 24. I have seen neither of the shows but I chose 24 because I have never heard of it. It was also 20 minutes shorter. You see since we had to watch it 4 times, I originally thought that we had to watch the entire 20 minutes four times. I learned that this was false when I watched it the first time and a big sigh of relief went over me. Although it said to watch it only 4 times, I watched it 5 times only because I was confused at first. The entire thing took me awhile to do as well. After taking notes on the video, I had to write an essay which was the fastest part for me to be honest. It only took me 45 minutes to write 881 words. I will include that essay after this. There isn't anything more to write about so therefore I shall conclude this blog. Until next time.

Nike Commercial

Today is April 12, 2020. Two blogs in one day! Lets go! I have nothing else better to do. I mean I could play that game I talked about, in which I will, but I want to get these out the way first. I'm currently trying to multitask, which I am watching YouTube and trying to write this blog as of right now. So lets talk about the commercial. I remember this like it was yesterday but believe it or not, this was over 5 months ago. So let me give a recap of what happened. Alexis and I picked Nike out of 4 to 6 topics. I honestly forgot. So the first thing we had in mind was football, that being because him and I are football fans. So I wore my favorite teams jersey and he wore a Vikings shirt, but he isn't even a Vikings fans so I don't know why he has that. He is a Oakland Raiders fan, which is now called Los Vegas Raiders because the just recently moved. Coach Dunbar, our schools football coach and my weight training coach, allowed us to use one of his footballs. Coach Dunbar is always going to be my favorite coach that I have ever had cause he so down to earth and humble. He even invited me to go to a Superbowl meeting a day before the game but unfortunately I had to work. I got lucky though because it ended up being canceled. So to conclude the video, It was a cool first time project and It allowed me to gain the knowledge of filming, which helped me film my movie. One last thing, the song in the commercial is the instrumental of the song "Get Dripped" by Lil Yachty.

Music Video Blog

Today is Sunday 12, 2020. Happy Easter! Life in quarantine has been good because I download steam on my computer. I have discovered my new favorite game called "No Mans Sky." I have always loved space and the ocean and the game is basically about space. There are statistically more planets in the game than our own galaxy! So anyway, lets talk about the music video. I have done previous blogs about it but never uploaded it. As a refresher, my partners were Alexis and Kaylnl. I still don't know how to spell her name to this day, which I find funny. Let me give back ground to this video. At first, we didn't know what song to choose. We all brainstormed and Alexis had an idea, which he was to film himself and have us not be in the video. So we agreed with him and continued the idea. I wrote the story board. Kaylnl gave ideas of how the video should go. However the most unfortunate part about the entire situation was that we couldn't meet up to film the video so he had to do it himself. I still feel bad to this day and that was one of the main reasons I decided to work by myself for the movie. As well as I didn't was to feel dependent on Alexis. And he had to edit it as well so I felt as if I did nothing and was "carried" throughout the project.

Into the Sunrise Movie

Today is April 9th, 2020. Here it is! The final product of my film. I finished this about a month ago, filming it on January 29th. I am honestly happy with the end result. At first I was so nervous to film the movie because I didn't know what I was doing. I remember the morning too. It was cold, around 50 degrees, give or take. I woke up at 5 AM and filmed non-stop for about 3 to 3.5 hours. It was an amazing experience, in which I went more in depth in my CCR. This class has been such a fun experience for me and I would do it all again honestly. Unfortunately this Coronavirus pandemic is preventing us from going back to school cause I miss it a little bit. I know people hate school because of the work. However, in which I read somewhere, school is the most social experience a normal person will have in their entire lifetime. In my opinion, I think the rest of my Junior year will be from home. The next blogs I will be posting will be my previous projects. This includes my Nike Commercial and my music video.

CCR for Into the Sunrise

Today is April 9th, 2020. This is the moment I've been waiting for. The sign that shows I am officially done with my movie. I've worked very hard on this movie and I am only hoping that is will pay off. This has hands down been the coolest and most fun project I have ever done. I have learned so much about filming, editing, directing, and pretty much everything about the media studies. The main person I want to thank for this is my amazing teacher Ms. Marchionne. I know that the Cambridge exams are canceled, I am still happy that I got to learn all of this knowledge. So lets talk about the CCR. I'm not going to lie but I was kinda of nervous. Before the final video, I had to restart like 5 times because I would mess up. But once I got past that part, I took off and filmed everything for 13 minutes and 54 seconds. I broke each of the four parts into about 3 minutes and 26 seconds because the file size was too large. I did feel as if I needed to edit it so I didn't. My teacher said be creative so when I went to the video so I can try decreasing its' size, I saw that you can add affects in to the video. So I thought it would be cool if i were to put "breaking news into the beginning" to make it look as if I was a news story.