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Pre Production (Script) During pre production, making a script played a vital role in comprising our opening scene. A script can be described as a written plan that contains the movement, actions, dialogue, and directions for a film or opening scene in this case. I will be depicting the first draft of our script that my teammates and I came up with to create our film "Caught Up". To give a brief synopsis of the film, it is about a boy named Spencer James that gets set up by a shady friend named Nicholas Wilson who stole a valuable bag from a powerful entity and gave it to him at a high school. This gets him into trouble by one of the subordinates of the boss named Berry Doncic, who catches Spencer, knocks him out, and takes the bag back. After Spence realized he was set up by his shady friend, he wants answers from Nicholas, revenge against Berry, and wants to find out what's inside the bag that makes it valuable. The script for the opening images of this film can be seen...

  Pre Production (Storyboard) Pre production is the most important step towards creating a sustainable film. It is the process of planning or designing elements of a film prior to its production. This means coming to a unanimous decision on what the film should be named, what the theme of the film should be, and the elements we can use to support the genre being developed. The name of our film is "Caught Up". The film revolves around the main character Spence who is given an assignment to take care of a bag that was later found out to be wanted by the boss of the antagonist Berry Doncic. Berry catches Spence, knocks him out, and takes the bag and now Spence even though not knowing what is in the bag wants revenge and to get the bag back. To plan out how we would organize the opening scene of this type of film, my teammates and I created a storyboard. For each shot on our storyboard, it shows a depiction of what the scene will look like, a description of it, the camerawork use...

 Film Opening Conventions and Editing in Film Group Analysis For the past week, we were assigned a group assignment to analyze the film opening conventions and editing of the opening intro of "The Giver". The link to the opening intro of the movie is  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDVEH9mOKrk . Additionally, the names of my teammates and I, and our group efforts can be seen below.  For the first section of this assignment, Planning in Film Activity 1, my teammates and I analyzed the purpose of editing in a film, conventions of a film opening and narrative structure, the save the cat beat structure, the narrative continuity of the opening, and editing in film. This can be seen below. For the second section of this assignment, Planning in Film Activity II: Sound in Film Analysis, my teammates and I analyzed sound in film. We analyzed the purpose of sound in film and sound techniques, and sound editing in film. This can be seen below. 

 Planning Parameters of Group Film Opening On March 2nd, 2021, my teammates Dillon Wilson, Nicholas Davila, Jonathan Spence, and I discussed the parameters of our group film opening. We talked about 6 key points, our audience, genre, theme, point of view, the protagonist, and plot of our film. Additionally, we discussed and created a save a cat beat sheet, which includes beat 1: The Opening Image, beat 2: Theme-stated, and beat 3: The Set up. The Save The Cat beat sheet is a popular story structure template that film makers use to subdivide the beginning, middle, and end of a story into 15 plot points. In this case, we only discussed the first 3. Everything can be seen below.   

 Student Assessment On Film Opening Of "The Giver" On February 22nd, 2022, my peers and I took an assessment on the visual and auditory messages demonstrated in the film opening of "The Giver".  This was used to assess our understanding of elements needed to compose a sufficient film opening. The link to the YouTube video is  https://youtu.be/xDVEH9mOKrk . For the first section of the assessment, I documented the general information the opening of "The Giver" portrays such as how it starts, how title credits were integrated, what and who are introduced, the themes and genres introduced, and the plot set up in the opening episode. This can be seen below.  In the second section of the assessment, I documented the visual clues or evidence provided in the film opening to support the main message. I provided 3 examples from the movie that exemplified each key concept, which included the setting, acting/characters, costume & makeup, lighting, color, tone, an...

 PowerPoint Group Homework on Camera Movement To get a better understanding of camera movement in films, my teammates and I made a PowerPoint presentation on 12 camera movement techniques. These techniques include static, pan shots, tilt, dolly in, dolly out, zoom in, reverse zoom, tracking, trucking, random movement, whip pan, and camera roll shots. We put 2 techniques per slide with a total of 6 slides, defining the techniques, presenting 3 key points, and an illustration of the camera movement. Participation and work can be seen below by my teammates Dillon Wilson, Nicholas Davila, Jonathan Spence, and myself. 

 Introduction of Camera Movement in Film To introduce camera movement in film, it is the way a camera shifts to visually narrate and shape a viewer's perspective of scenes. This is important to cinematography as it shifts the audience's view without cutting, creates a psychological and emotion effect on the audience, and makes a film more immersive. The people responsible for camera movement in  productions are the camera crew who operate the camera and capture the film's footage. Camera movement is useful in regard to directing the view's attention, providing narrative information, and creating artistic effects.  Two techniques that I have seen before are pan shots and tracking shots in films. I recognized pan shots in mostly action films, where the camera  rotates left or right in a fixed position, and tracking shots in films that have chase scenes where the camera follows the subject in front or behind.