AICE Media Studies

  Scene 1: The girls are discussing the new restaurant on the beach. Lily talks about her new dress. The girls finish getting ready for dinner. Scene 2: The girls are putting their shoes on. The girls say bye and leave the house. Scene 3: The girls are getting into the car. The girls are pulling out of the driveway. Every searches the backseat for the leftover lunch. Scene 4: The girls park the car and hop out. Every finds the mystery bottle and begins to question in her head. Lily grabs the “perfume” and heads towards the restaurant. Scene 5: The writer/waitress gathers the girls drink orders. Megan and Everly go to the restroom. Lily digs through her bag to find the mystery bottle. Lily puts the mystery substance in Everly’s drink. Megan and Everly return to the table and take a seat. Everly takes a sip of the water. The girls discuss what they will order for dinner. Everly leaves the table to get fresh air. Megan is concerned for Everly. Lily tries to get Megan to stay. Megan runs o

The opening to our Final Task will have a cute Times New Roman font towards the beginning, up until tension builds up, then we plan on slowly incorporating a scarier, more horror-like font. Maybe something that looks a bit scratchy and less neat. This will match the mood of the film. The title will appear in the middle, and the credits will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. -Title of film: the intended title for this project will be called "Backstabber". -It will be a large, thin Times New Roman font. -The title that appears first will be in the middle of the screen in a larger size. -The credits for this film will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen. -The tiles will pop onto the screen and slowly fade out after a few seconds. -The color of the words will be white, and depending on how bright the lighting is for each scene, we will decide if there should be a black outline added. -The title of the credit will not be bolded but the name appearing aft

 Location My group will film in a house, in a car, at a beachside restaurant, and on the beach.  Participants  Actors  Mela: Megan - innocent friend, victim #2 Lindsay: Lily - killer Emerson: Everly - friend, victim #1 Vivienne: bystander  Kylie: bystander  Filming My group and I will take turns setting up the tripod and adjusting the slider. Editing Mela Holton, Emerson Botknecht, and Lindsay White Director Emerson Botknecht Schedule 2/1/24-2/5/24: The costumes will be finalized and my group will ensure we have all the necessary props to adequately film the movie. 2/10/24: My group will film all the scenes that will take place on and around the beach on this day. The original plan is to go to Aruba Beach Cafe, but if my group cannot film there, then my group will go to either Taco Craft, BurgerFi, or Playa Bowls to film the restaurant scene. Also, if it rains on this day, my group will push back filming the beach scene to the day after. 2/18/24: My group will conclude filming and fini

  Bathroom                                                                            Megan “I can’t wait to try that new restaurant on the beach! Everly “Me too!” Lily “I can’t wait to wear my new dress, I hope I got that red stain out.” Megan “We should head out soon.” Everly “Yeah, there’s a lot of scary people out at night.” Lily “Can someone help me curl my hair” Megan “Yeah here let me help” *starts curling Lily’s hair* Everly “I’ll do your makeup, can you do my hair after?” Megan “Yeah, of course” Hallway  Everly “Which shoes should I wear?” Megan “These!” Everly “Okay, but they are a little too big on me, but it’s fine.” Lily “It’s fine, it’s not like you’ll be running a marathon.” Megan “Bye dad! We’re leaving! Dad “Okay girls, have fun and be safe! All 3 girls together “We will!” *walking out the door* Car Megan “It smells strange in here, Lily.” Lily “Oh, sorry, I accidentally left my extra lunch in the backseat” Everly “I don’t see any lunch back here” Lily “Oh, that’s odd.

 This is a thriller/mystery film. Our group researched and found this movie on artofthetitle.com. What titles are displayed during the opening sequences? The opening sequences starts out by first showing the names of the most prominent actors in the movie. It then further ventures to show who the film is by, the title of the film, who the casting is by, sound designer, production designer, editor, who selected the music, director of photography, executive producers, and finally the writer and director.  What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? Throughout the opening scene there’s are numerous sudden and flashing images displayed behind the different titles. This consists of images of hands, eyes, statues, photos, a skull, a person, graphs/notes, a syringe, different news articles, ufo/aliens. Many of the images have very dark coloring on them which can be hard for the audience to make it out what it is. All these images could be clues to what the story of the movie is about

This is a horror/mystery film  Our group researched and found this movie on watchthetitles.com. What titles are displayed during the opening scene? In the opening scene, the studio, production company, who the film was by, main actors, who did the casting, who did the music, costume designers, editor, the production designer, the director of photography, the co-producers, co-executive producers, executive producers, the writer of the film, the producers, and the director  What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? Spooky, mysterious images are prioritized in the opening sequence that suggest what the film is going to relate to. These images include many up-closes of books, investigations, mysterious writings, a razor, and the colors were mostly dark, with black and white tones. This was added together to create a seamless, mysterious, spooky opening to the movie that effectively presented the  titles. How does the film establish a feeling of the genre from the opening scene?

This is a mystery film found on artofthetitle.com                                                                                                                                                                                                          What titles are displayed during the opening sequence? The titles displayed in the opening sequence are the studio, the original story producer, the original playwriter, the movie title, the actors, the costume designer, the film editor, the musician, the production designer, the supervising film editor, the director of photography, the associate producer, the writer, the producer, and the director. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence? The first image prioritized in the opening sequence is someone opening what appears to be an old, locked-up chest. The majority of the images portrayed are moving, life-like paper creations of the characters in the film, which are most likely the recreations of the actors' name that is si

                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Hello! With the final task deadlines rapidly approaching, it was time to conduct research on the opening sequences of various movies! After some research, I discovered a website called Art of the Title. This site has thousands of opening sequences from movies, organized alphabetically by designers and studios to make it easier to find certain films. I also found another website called Watch the Titles. This website also has excellent organization, giving me a strong base to work off of for my own film. Both websites have films from all kinds of genres, including the genre I selected for my film- mystery! I explored both platforms and after some consideration, I decided that both websites would be of great use to my group and me. I will definitely be utilizing these websites due t