Technology/Technical aspects

Technology/Technical

For the technological part most of the filming will be filmed on my cell phone. Everything else will be done on my laptop. My iPhone camera has been reliable so far so ofc I'll continue using it. I don't have the budget for a decent camera so I'll work with what I got. Other aspect such as lighting, I'll probably have to use flashlights and natural lighting anything I can get my hands on really. As of now since I haven't decided on my genre yet. I'm not too sure what kind of shots I'll use. Just a collection of everything I have learned up till this point. I'll also have to improve my editing skills and practice that, using either iMovie or editing software DaVinci resolve.

                

                DaVinci Resolve                                                                             iMovie

Plot Aspect

 Plot

For plot, the genres I've thought about was doing an action, drama, or horror film opening. For the drama genre it would typically introduce a conflict and a good character and you get attached and see how the characters change for better or for worse and see if they conflict gets resolved or you have to wait for another movie. 

For a good action film and the one's I can think is Marvel. They do a great job at keeping viewers entertained as they follow a great storyline. Ofc given I don't have the resources for that, they also have good characters and they introduce interesting new characters and their stories to the ongoing timeline and ofc AMAZING FIGHT SCENES. This past Shang Chi movie they had amazing fighting scenes and it was really engaging and entertaining. 

For horror films it's follows a fairly simple plot. You engage the audience, keep them in suspense and play on their fears. Horror films you can do man vs nature, man vs man, and even man vs supernatural. These 3 choices are what I am looking probably going to choose out of. 

This:

 https://www.haikudeck.com/conflict-uncategorized-presentation-9NOmEPuT4z#slide4 

Helped me with all the different conflict types and what I can do with the film opening possibly. 

For now this is where I'm at see ya next blog! :)

Exploring music and genre

I have thought about what copyright-free music I can use and see which genre it would fit well in,

I have been using https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=m3YZ0l0l1Q8&list=RDQMTgh66LaGkb4 It has a ton of different copyright-free music and I have just been exploring copyright-free songs.

I will see if I can find something that’ll resonate with me and see which genre I'll choose.

These films have excelled at the genres they have chosen:

                                            

 “Fight Club” (1999)     “Jaws” (1975)                     “IT” (2017)

Thriller/Drama                               Action/Thriller film             Horror/Thriller

I want to either do Horror or an Action film.
Where I can implement characters and come up with a solid plot.
When I settle on a genre, then I'll establish characters and come up with a plot.
I have done previous research on the horror genre before so I have some back knowledge on it.
I’ll have to research more on action films. But for now, this is where I'm at, so I’ll catch y'all in my next blog post.  

                          

Blog Genre and Audience

 Genreeeee and Audienceeee

For the genre, I haven’t completely decided yet. I was inspired by the coming of age film opening that Ms. Stocklosa showed during class. I also thought about doing horror and considered a plethora of other genres. I have used the word random generator idea and it got me: 

These words got me nowhere lol. I also watched some videos and tried to get some ideas. But when I would watch a video and think of something new that video would be in the back of my head.  

Just currently been trying to draw inspiration and get ideas. I have also tried writing or drawing. But I have just been drawing up blanks. I believe I need to come into this with a clear mind. I know taking inspiration is good but I can’t let it influence me.

Audience: For the audience i've been thinking whatever genre, probably either teens such myself or a general public. So that teens can relate to me and so forth or anybody can relate. I want to make something that I'll be proud of. While having fun doing that with my friends who’ll be the cast and let everyone see. 

Again this is just where I’m at this moment, How I’ll tackle and am tackling these problems and getting inspiration. So I’ll know what I want to do with my film opening, I’ll probably discuss it over with my friends and see if they like any ideas I ask them as well.

My approach

PORTFOLIO PROJECT 

Eddie Wang 

P2

2/13/22

It has begun:

The Portfolio has been assigned. I have no clear where to begin to be completely honest. I don't know what I want the film opening to be about. For now I'll just probably like other previous students I'll use a random word generator. That way it gives me random words and ideas that I can possibly build around. 

My approach: I will first probably see what I want to do with my film opening given the words. So I'll play around with it and draw a story board seeing the direction I want to take this project in. 

My characters: would most likely be my friends that it'll fit them into the roles and possibly write scripts for each character after I decide on what I want to do with my film project.

 Step one: Would be finding out what I want to do for certainty with the film opening. Drawing a storyboard for the whole opening, making the story, make the characters and all that. I can also just pay attention to my surroundings and see what inspiration I can draw from it. I have to stick to what I can do, and is in my close vicinity.

Step two: I’ll also have to think and envision all the different settings of the opening and how to film it. My friends will also be my cast and can also help me brainstorm the ideas and the steps I want to take for the movie.

Step three: We’ll start filming and see how everything is, if it’s the way I want it and such. Editing and everything as well. If not that’s totally fine, I’ll improvise as I go along, for now this is how I envision the steps to be.

 It’ll probably be a lot more, but I’ll keep you guys posted on what’s to come. So for now, I’ll catch you all next time!!!  Watch out for many new exciting things to come!

 

Music Marketing Overview

MUSIC MARKETING

Well first we had to plan the direction we wanted to go with this project. Which we had a bit of difficulty with, that was until we decided upon my name Eddie and then technicians. After that we were on a roll. We decided the social media platforms and created one for each accordingly. We also decided a website with merchandise, tour dates and about me for each of the member was also crucial. We also did research for 2 major companies that our band was under and we created our band logo afterwards. We drew on a storyboard out how the music video was to go. We settled on a partying scene with the technicians and then Eddie the "cop" was going up to them as they were partying and he just wanted to join. However, they saw the cop and they all dropped everything and ran away from the cop thinking they were going to get arrested. The cop chases after a member catches up to the member and asks to party. They come back walking together and it ends with them all partying together with the cop. That's essentially the music video as well, we all agreed to meet up on a Saturday night, the scene opens up with the technicians all on the floor at 4 am and them getting up and asking where's Eddie? Then it cuts to them opening the trunk and there I am holding a spider man bear. Then it jumps back to when it 1am of all of them partying. Then the whole Eddie shows up and so forth. The video includes lots of edits and cuts and it gives off the partying vibe. That's what we were going for, our target audience would know how to party and our message is to tell them to let loose once a while. It's also literally night-time and there was times when we were running. The scenes were filmed around Tequesta and under a bridge. It was at night time and temperatures were rather cold. However we persevered and still got it all done. For the presentation it was split up on who does what and we went up and presented accordingly.

Overall I learned that it's a fun yet tedious process to make something from the ground up. Making something from scratch with love, time and effort and sometimes a group. Every aspect of this project will aid in my future projects that I do for my Cambridge portfolios. I learned how to work better with others and compromise and listen to their opinions and suggestions. This project was a real fun project to work on and the outcome of the music video, I couldn't have been more happy.

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Our website: https://sjkaiser04.wixsite.com/eddie-technicians