AICE Media Studies

    Good day! Welcome to our third blog on opening sequence analysis where we'll now be looking at the 2019 hit film, "Glass," which we uncovered on the "Art of the Title" website. We will be answering the same questions as before, which I've outlined below: What titles are displayed during the opening sequences?     During the opening sequence, multiple different titles, such as the name of the film studio, its production company, its director, its title, the names of its actors, its music composer and supervisor, its editors, its screenwriters, its photography director, its executive, and non-executive, producers, as well as its costume and production designers, are presented. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?     This film's title sequence begins by featuring the primary subject of the film in a very dark and dingy setting where he taunts his four victims. In the subsequent scene, the audience is placed outside of ...

Hello! Today we started to look at specific films within our genre and the elements of their opening sequences. To truly see how the beginning of the film is so effective in setting the mood for the rest of the movie, we'll be analyzing four opening sequences, beginning first with the 1995 film, "Outbreak," which we retrieved from the "Art of the Title" website.  I've listed the questions we answered to conduct said analysis below. What titles are displayed during the opening sequences?     During the opening sequence, the names of actors, the title of the film, the casting directors, the costume designer, the music composer, its co-producers, the film editors, the production designer, the photography director, the executive producers, the film's scriptwriters, the film's producers, and the film's director at the end are all displayed. These titles were not embedded within each scene and were written in a bright teal blue, outlined in black so t...

  Hello! This marks my group and I's second blog for today, in which we will be discussing yet another film that is part of the science-fiction thriller genre, director David Yarovesky's 2019 film, "Brightburn." Just like we did in the last blog, let's examine each piece of this film and see how exactly it fits into this specific genre.  Camera Angles, Movement, and Shots:     When it comes to the camera angles, movement, and shots, there were quite a few used throughout the movie. One of the most often used shots was the establishing shot which portrayed various locations including the subject's house, a barn, a school, a forest, and even a restaurant. Wide shots were also used in relation to location, specifically when attempting to show the scope of the subject's destruction. A combination of a wide long shot was used when the subject was high up in the air away from the ground to emphasize the vast distance between him both literally and metaphorically...

  Greetings and welcome to our third, and final, blog on films in the science-fiction thriller genre. We'll now be examining director Grant Sputore's 2019 Netflix hit, "I Am Mother." Let's break down this film into its key components and see how it fits into the genre. Camera Angles, Movement, and Shots:     Beginning with this film's use of camera angles, movements, and shots it is apparent that it instills unease in its viewers. The main camera angle used in the movie was the eye-level angle, which was often paired with close-up shots to show the variety of emotions the subject experienced throughout the film, including how she looked betrayed, afraid, determined, and happy, like when she was growing up before her innocence was shattered and the truth behind her life was revealed. Close-up shots were also used when the subject opened the airlock and seemed hesitant to act until she heard pained shouts for help outside, thereby revealing her personality to th...

Hi there and Happy Valentine's Day! As you might have expected, today was time for us to take a more in-depth look into our genre, science-fiction thriller. Being that this genre is so vast and nuanced, my teammates and I have decided to thoroughly examine three films from the grouping of our choice, in order to ensure we would not be overwhelmed by the thousands of movies out there. With that being said, our first film of choice was director Ang Lee's 2019 film, "Gemini Man," starring the well-known Will Smith. To break down this film and see how it applies to the aforementioned genre, we'll need to analyze its use of various aspects which I have outlined below: Camera Angles, Movement, and Shots:     To begin with, all of the camera shots, angles, and movements used within the film did fall in line with the typical conventions of any given science-fiction thriller. During the film, the location changed multiple times; therefore, in an effort to make things as cl...

  Hello there! I see you've returned because you're curious on which genre we chose to go with. Well, you'll be happy to hear that we've ultimately decided to merge two of the genres we researched together, those being science fiction and thriller. We came to this conclusion by noting the similarities between the two genres, particularly when it came the camera angles and shots that they used. We were also very fond of the fact that we could manipulate the conventions of either genre to our liking by combining them into one. For example, by incorporating the thriller genre into our final task, we will be able to fully immerse our audience into the emotionally-charged, suspense-filled piece we will be creating, whilst also being able to create an unpredictable plotline, in which, as I've mentioned in an earlier blog, we will be able to drop subtle clues at to what is really going on, encouraging the audience to pay more attention to details that are often overlooked ...

  Hi! The final genre we will be exploring is comedy. Comedy is arguably the most difficult genre to get down, because something is either funny or it's not, which is entirely up to the audience to decide. However, there are some tried and true techniques used for directors of the genre that seem to carry across it as a whole because they are so effective. To understand these filming choices, we'll need to examine the basic concepts of filming with regard to this specific genre. Camera Angles, Movement, and Shots:           In the comedy genre as a whole, there seems to be this running idea that shots should be more close-up and in your face, so to speak, in order to direct the scene’s focus onto a specific subject. This is why close-ups and extreme close-ups are commonly seen as part of the genre, approaching uncomfortably close distances with the subjects and essentially invading their space. This is taken to an extreme in a number of diffe...