Mise-en-scene plan (Costumes)

 2/18

Today I am still working on the elements of the mise-en-scene for my film opening, and the other element that I have chosen to discuss are the costumes. My film opening includes daily life and nothing out of the ordinary, or supernatural. So, my costumes will be very basic and will be outfits that are worn out on a daily basis. For the girl, throughout the film opening she will be wearing cute outfits that include jeans/jean shorts and a selected top. As for the guy, I plan for him to also wear jeans or shorts of some kind with a graphic tee or colorful button up. Bathing suits are included in my costume planning as I do plan to include either a beach or a pool scene, so these are essential to capture the moment. Perhaps I will include a fancy dinner or a dinner date where they will both be wearing something fancy, like the girl wearing a dress, and the guy wearing a button-down dress shirt. The shoes will be regular shoes, like sneakers for daily wear, and open toed shoes for the scenes with water involved. This is an image of the jeans from the internet to create an image of what I plan to use. 

Storyboard

 

2/16 

This is my finished storyboard.

Media Theory Research

2/16

Today I researched and decided that the media theory I wish to integrate into my project is Todorov's Narrative Theory of Equilibrium. The reason I chose this theory is because I believe that it is the best fit for my project, as the characters in my film will be introduced, then the film will continue with events. 

Tzvetan Todorov is the creator of this theory, and he created it in 1969. There are five different stages to this theory, including: equilibrium, disruption, recognition, resolution, and new equilibrium. The three parts that I learned about in class are the equilibrium, disequilibrium (disruption), and the new equilibrium. 

An example of this is the film Moana (2018)

This goes through the stages of the theory I am researching, as there is a state of equilibrium, then disruption, and then a repairing stage, and a new equilibrium. 

The way that I will use this, is that the way my storyline will go is I will have the main character speaking and her words coming true, then the disruption where the killer is sent to her because of her words, and finally she will find out what is going on and how she will fix it.

Sources:

Todorov's Narrative Theory of Equilibrium and Disruption

Project idea

 2/12

After a lot of thought, I decided that I will not be creating a horror film opening, but instead a sad romance film opening. The film will begin with a patient in a doctor's office, where he will receive the unfortunate news of only a month left to live. He takes the news and doesn't tell anyone about it and instead decides to spend the rest of his time with his significant other who wasn't informed about it. In the month that they spend time together they will slowly drift apart, and his girlfriend will ask to break up. The last part of my film opening will have them going on a walk together and he will suddenly collapse. That is how my film opening will end. Then the camera will pan around the surroundings where the credits will begin showing on the environment and objects around. 

I take inspiration from the opening credits of the Deadpool movies.

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Group meeting

 2/11

Bella: Red, black, a bit of gold and silver. Setting: House, at wood dining table.

Audrey: Alot of reds muted greens and blues. Setting: Possibly a house or Dad's bar.

Candelaria: Bright theming for main character, and a darker blue and red for the side character (Rival).
Sports drama, Setting:

Paula:

My group members include Bella Montanari, Audrey Pangalangan, Candelaria Rush, Paula Torres. Bella was the first to present her ideas and share her storyline. She seems ultimately pretty sure about what she is planning to do for her film. She wants to create a horror film which includes a woman who sets up a table and has sudden flashbacks to a bloody crime filled table. The credits will be shown on items which move throughout the opening. She plans that the main character, a chick, will be acted by her or one of her project group members. Candelaria Rush was the next person to present her ideas, her genre is going to be a sports drama, and it will include the permitted usage of a gymnasium. The main character is going to wear a bright colored leotards, and the antagonist of the story will be wearing a darker colored leotard that surrounds the red/white/blue color scheme. Then Audrey presented her ideas next, she wants to do a psychological horror film of someone who is going crazy, when someone socializes with the character a flash to a person with a piece of tape over their mouth is shown. Her location planned is either her father's bar or a house. With alot of reds, and muted greens and blues for her color scheme. This is our group.

Genre choices.

 2/5/2025

Currently, I have two genres in mind that I plan to use when creating my film opening. Between action and horror, I'm not sure which to choose. For horror, I am leaning towards this side because when viewing horror films I really like the suspense and eerie feeling that is created, ad the sense of mystery that is left which makes you continue to watch the full movie. Well, as for the "eerie" feeling I mentioned I would have to stick to a really certain type of horror, as there are different genres in the horror genre itself. Something that I think would be a fun choice would be to do an opening that is similar to scream. The opening of the movies Scream are iconic and suspenseful. I am a bigger fan of movies like crime horror and mysteries, rather than paranormal and surreal genres. 

This image is an example of the genre of horror films that I take inspiration from.

The other genre that I am really considering is an action film, a movie that I enjoy watching a lot are the Michael Bay Transformers movies. Something that I enjoy when watching action movies is the intense opening as well as the usage of many special effects and props. Maybe an action movie that disregards the mass amount of CGI usage and is recreate able for me would be great.

Portfolio Project.

 2/5/2025

Today is the day that I move forward with my portfolio project, from this moment on my blog posts will now be about my portfolio project and include all the steps taken throughout the way. Recently, film openings were shown and taught to my class and I. I then researched and watched various film openings which gave me a better understanding of what they are and the purpose of the film openings, Aswell as how they develop the beginning of the film. I took notes as directed on the near pod and watched the many film openings provided. 

This is the Jaws opening that I clearly recall viewing as well as this Scream opening. I really enjoyed the suspense that I saw in the scream movie as well as the Jaws opening scene, I am considering doing something similar, or maybe an action film opening. Something that I really enjoyed was not knowing what was going to come next, but also the lots of movement and storyline being built happening, i want to do something just like this.