Change Of Plans!

      Over the weekend I made a big and needed choice. I noticed over the days that some things weren't working well and I decided to change my plans for this project completely for the best. The thing was that me and my partner where having trouble with working out our schedules to work together and so we have been falling behind on the plans for the production Not only this but we looked at the project from totally different sides so I believed it was the best for us to part our ways. Dayna wanted to stick with the idea of a silent film but I was simply not into that, especially after learning how hard it can be to successfully prosecute it. So yes, Dayna and me will be working together no longer. 

    After making this big decision I already feel a bit relieved and I can think clearly on my own ideas and how I want to proceed with this project. It was all very sudden but I am ready to move forward as the research I have done up till now is still helpful as I am gonna prosecute my original idea of sticking with drama as my genre. 

   One thing that gave me a change of heart was speaking with a fellow student, Manuel Name. We talked about our progress on the project and discussed our ideas and we found out we have a very similar aim to this project and so we thought partnering up would be vastly advantageous for the both of us. And so I talked to Dayna and she completely understood and agreed we didn't make the best group seeing that we had very different conceptions intended.

    From now on, you will hear lots from Manuel and me and our journey through this projects production!

Music to My Ears

         What's up guys, today I hung out with Dayna and we were talking about possible solutions to music. Our issue is that for this project we have to either create original music, copyright/royalty free music, email the owner of the song that we want to use if it was created by a popular artist or possibly making our film opening silent. She was thinking of using Spotify to take a look, but we were also exploring other options like YouTube and Sound Cloud. We were talking and she also told me she has a friend who is really good at composing music and also had me look at his page. He's really talented, but I don't know if he would be compatible for the project because he tends to create songs that are of the jazz genre and I'm not sure if that's what were looking for. If he's open to it, I think it would be fun to work together to make a different genre of music. 

     While looking though these different mediums to find copy right free music, I was surprised to find what a big selection of songs they offered. There where lots of options with lots of different genres. Spotify had playlist full of great copyright free songs with great potential. YouTube also offered a wide variety of songs but I still preferred to look through Spotify since it was much easier to utilize and go through. However, since Soundcloud haves users upload their own music from all types of genres with a wide range of terms. Most of these songs are royalty free, to find out, I just need to filter the license type on Soundcloud and be truly sure that the song is copyright free.

Research - Silent Films

       Today, me and my partner got more in depth with the silent element in films as to getting an idea on what crating a silent film would be like. Before I began my research I thought silent films weren't a thing anymore since the only thing I knew about them where that they where incredibly popular in the late 20s. But as I began researching I found out that even though the silent film era peaked about a century ago, the films are making a come back and becoming increasingly popular among younger audiences. This made me pretty excited about doing a silent film. I'm eager about this element in film because I believe silent films are an important part of film history. Silent films evolved film language over time, you can see this by comparing how camera angles were used a certain way to show emotion in a silent film. Not just the camera movements but also the derived actions of the actors had a significant importance to keep the film moving forward. 

    A silent film is a film with no audible dialog or synchronized sound. Because of this, acting in these films was much more physical than in any other type of movies. The audience would have to read the character's emotion by looking at their facial expressions and their body language. Silent films may have subtitles or title cards to help the viewer understand and stay on track with the film. But for the most part, silent films convey narrative and emotion visually. A really famous silent film is, The Lodger 1927, this is the story of an innocent man wrongly accused of murder. The film haves no dialog or synchronized sounds whatsoever, but it does have a score throughout the entire film. This score keep the viewer captivated and helps them feel a certain way about the story line.

   Because silent films are communicated well by very experienced and expressive actors because of the physical process, I believe this would be very hard to execute ourselves, me and my partner. But if we really put our research into good use and learned from these films, we could come up with something not too bad.

Genre - Drama

    Today I did some researched on my original idea on a drama. I researched about what really makes a film a drama, characteristics of this genre, and movie examples. From what I learned, dramas are most certainly emotionally driven. Every scene and character moves the story forward in a defined narrative plot structure with emotional and relational development. This genre portraits real life scenarios with realistic characters in realistic setting and extreme situations.

    Characteristics and elements that shape a drama lie in character and relationships, mood, atmosphere, dramatic tension, audience, voice, tone, movement, and role. The drama genre fits into a broad spectrum of films since there are a bunch of sub-genres. Some of the most popular ones now a days are romantic drama, teen drama, and historical drama; however, a widely known one is film noir.

   Some really well known drama films are The Godfather and Casablanca. I have always really enjoyed drama films and these two can be recognized by how amazing and remarkable they were. 

The Godfather is a 1972 hit movie still well known now a days as one of the greatest films ever made. This is a mob drama based on Mario Puzo's novel. The film got nominated for and won multiple Academy Awards.

Casablanca is a 1942 romantic drama film, and as well this film is considered one of the greatest films ever made; after all it did win three academy awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Director. The film shows themes of love and sacrifice as a main conflict.

We Became a Team!

  Saturday, February 19, 2022

   Today in class we got the option of picking a partner for the project! My partner's name is Dayna and her blog is daynasuniverse.blogspot.com. Dayna is a fellow class mate I met a few weeks ago when we got put together to work on a project. I enjoyed working on our past project together and so I thought it would be great if we worked together once more. She brings a whole new set of ideas that are different to mine, and so I think it would be practical if we worked together by combining both of our ideas; I just know we are going to have a fun and constructive time.

    Dayna's interests are similar to mine and so we got to bond easily. She enjoys learning new languages such as American Sign Language and Spanish. Because she speaks Spanish, we get to communicate our ideas straightforward in the language we are most comfortable with. She also enjoys watching Netflix and listening to a wide variety of music. Her background is Peruvian Jewish, she has two older brothers and a dog named Bella. In her free time she works at a math tutoring place and she likes to roller skate while listening to some good tunes.

Apart from all this, we are a good paring because I live really close to her, I only live a few streets away. And this is very convenient for when we need to work on our blogs and continue the whole process of our projects production. 

    Some of her ideas for this project are really cool, I really like her creativity but I want to see if we come up with some ideas mixing our stories and interests. She was thinking of something really cool, she wanted to make our project soundless. I know the idea is a little out there but we are still brainstorming and I'm interested to see what a soundless project would even look like. I honestly think making a soundless production is going to be too hard for us since we are only beginners but with the right research we can make it happen. If we where to go for this soundless film, I think a drama would be an interesting way to put it to work. 

    

New Project - Ideas and Going About it

  Hi everyone, My name is Julieta Gedikian but I like to be called Juli

            In my class we started a new project its called "the Portfolio Project". Our task takes about two months for completion. My job is to make a film opening using shots, angles, and themes through out the following months. I got to think and the genre I would like to incorporate is is the theme of drama.

I think I like the theme of a romantic drama because I grew up watching Telenovelas, which are soap operas in Spanish. I think having a dramatic look would be fun to create within the project. Sometimes I think I want to do things out of the typical norm because at least its an experience and creating a film with lots of possibilities would be a lot of fun. Having all this responsibility to create a film opening from zero all by myself is a bit scary but extremely exciting at the same time. I can't wait to start my research and go about all things I could do.

I was also thinking of maybe a drama that could occur to a high schooler, so I could have a mix of fantasy involved with my lifestyle and maybe even apply it to teens like me. It creates a different world within my own to toy around with the idea of an alternate reality.