Transitioning!!

Transitioning into the Portfolio Project!

What's up Cambridge! I am officially beginning my portfolio project and will be publishing A LOT of blogs to take you with me! Not gonna lie, I am a little scared because there are so many directions to take this project and I don't know which one to chose. So, there is definitely a lot of research that must be done!

If you check out some of my earlier blogs, you can see the activities I have done to prep me for this project. In class, we did some more prep and learned about film openings! Check out the pictures below of the notes I took! At the top of my notebook I listed some film openings we were shown that I was interested at looking back at later!

                    

There are so many aspects to account in a film that seamlessly tie into its purpose together. There's tone, setting, characters, background, conflict, and vibe. This list stresses me out but after diving deeper into each one I became more at ease with the approach I want to take!

To me, background is the most important (along with character which I will build with/off of the background). I feel it defines what direction I need to take with the tone and setting, and overall mise-en-scene too! 

Naturally when I think of background, character comes to mind! So once I get a solid idea of the background/context of the film, it is likely I will start developing the character and their costuming and story. Then, I'll use my 2 pillars to inspire setting and tone. This is just like what my group did in our mise-en-scene project where we had to create a character and their background based off of a description we were randomly assigned. (I have a blog posted about it: go check it out!

Before any of this can happen I need to decide on a genre with my partner! I'm not sure what genre I would like to do so it's time for the research to begin! Talk to you soon!👀