AICE Media Studies 2020

Faint of Heart CCR The link above will take you to the Creative Critical Response Prezi I constructed.

The tech we used for filming was an iPhone 6S so there was no stunning graphics for the playback for the video but it was serviceable for what we wanted from the film. The Film was then edited on iMovie and there it underwent cuts, playback speed changes and the addition of a song.

The production skills I had were very limited in the beginning of the filming. i had these grand ideas with my partner on how what he wanted to see from our film but had little to no idea how to get there. This is mostly things we would learn as we filmed but getting the filming scheduled proved to be very difficult given our busy lives. When we did find the time however, We learned a lot about how to put the test photos we took into actual video to shoot. Directing was more of a touch and go of looking and seeing what was working and wasn't for a particular shot. For example, A very directed shot was actually the cut with the ketchup we used in place of blood. My reaction might have been delayed so re shot to get a more realist time for pain response. That scene also had my partner acting as Svetlana. She couldn't quite get the vampire scowl we were looking for so I directed her on some pointers such as curling fingers into claws and bearing her teeth at least. It took a lot

The audience engagement taught me much about how some movies get made in the middle of a sort of era or time of popularity. The shining example of this is really "Vampires Suck" as it combines the spoof fad that exist at the time of its creation with movies like "Scary Movie" or "Haunted House" as well as general popularity from the "Twilight" book and movie series. The main audience of the "Twilight" movies is the teenage or pre-teen girls that read the book and had opinions on "Edward v. Jacob", the two rival love interests of the books. The movies did a very good job at attracting more than just than the fandom they had. "Vampires Suck" was a critically panned movie for the boy friends that got drug to see the romantic vampire movies the film spoofed. "Vampire Academy" had failed at even getting the audience of their fandom instead attracting younger girls than they probably targeted and pegged to see th

The Conventions we used in film were massively influenced by the movies we researched for example the POV shot as Svetlana approaches Ed's neck is a common staple for monster movies in which the "monster" approaches via this means. Another way the POV is incorporated is when the "monster" is hidden in bushes and characters walk by. Another Convention we used in the movie was the appearance of Svetlana in make-up to make her more pale, glue-in fangs, and black clothing. This was really demonstrated in the mid shot that went in a shot reverse shot to Ed's neck. The costume, in a mise-en-scene sense, fits the conventions of what you expect a vampire to look like. However, our vampire differs from the usual eastern european ideals of black hair and dark eyes. The movie has a draw to younger people by using the locales of Sarasota which happens to feature the number one beach in America so it figures to use a blonde, blue eyed girl. In this way it subverts part o

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