AICE Media Studies Project

Another suspense film opening scene is from the movie GET OUT. It opens with a man walking down the sidewalk in the middle of the night on the cell phone. He is followed by a car and eventually abducted. Although there is a non-comedic event occurring their choice of background music gives it a light mood and a comedic effect. I don't know anything about the movie and the opening scene gives you very little information, adding to the suspense. The movie grosses over 200 million dollars with a budget of 4.5 million. It also was nominated for 24 awards; some include Critics Choice Award and Empire Award for Best Horror.

The first opening scene we looked at is "The Shining". It's genre is a suspense horror theme. I think the director purposefully gave very little information in the first few minutes of the film in order to give people a sense of mystery and get the watcher invested. The first few minutes really just explains that the main characters are going off into a far away location and that they are staying in a hotel. From the trailers you can image what will be happening in the film and all it does is set that up. The shot used was a wide drone shot from several hundred feet into the air. This lets you see the car as well as the lack of civilization in the area from all directions. I really like the simplicity of the opening scene because it gives you an interesting yet unsettling view of the film. The film got multiple awards in its time

What I've chosen to do my project on is a film. It seems like the project that I can use former experience to create a great product. It also seems like I can use my imagination and really be free to create any sort of film that I think would really work for this activity. I love the idea of creating a movie with my good friend as well as share ideas with him as we can from a better and better film. We were thinking of doing a suspense and some what dramatic film with a deep story line. I feel we both have different aspects of skill and knowledge when put together can create a masterpiece. Honestly, I believe that a magazine would be an easier task to quickly complete and get a good grade but that's not what I'm trying to do. I am very excited to start the process of making a film and see what we can come up with.

A film would be my first choice considering how much I love to capture things on a camera. I used to video different things involving my everyday life and this seems like a new challenge that involve my interests. I do have a partner in mind is is also very seriously considering  doing a film and we already have a basic idea of a theme. It would be a suspense theme and we would act in it as well. My partner I consideration is someone I trust to put in the effort to create a quality film with a decent idea of editing skills and filming history. We would create the film i school and use our resources given to create the best product in the amount of time we can. I love watching and seeing how movies were created and making one of my own seems like so much fun. Again a film was my first choice because the idea of making a suspense film gravitates toward me more than a magazine.

A magazine although not my first choice may be a good challenge and a fun task. I love to write and it does seem like a fun project based just on writing about things that I am interested in. I feel I am quite good at making things that I write about interesting so it might be a good decision off that basis. I have never been really interested in reading magazines so that may cause for a lack for motivation in this project if I was going to do a magazine. I also love things to do with photography and taking pictures for thing magazine sounds like a lot of fun. I have a partner in mind that would be interested in doing one with me and they would be a very good partner to do it with. This project would interest me greatly and it would be a fun task. Again this is not my first choice but it seems like a good challenge and a fun activity