A New Beginning

After a full semester of learning about all of the different media techniques, I have finally been assigned the portfolio project, which I will be getting around 7-8 weeks to finish it. Although this seems like a lot of time, I know that there will be lots of work to do. I'll keep posting on what I'm doing with this blog so I can keep some documentation.

There is so much on my mind about this project right now. I don't know if I'm going to work by myself, what the genre of my video is going to be, what the plot will be, or what I'm going to do first. But everyone starts somewhere. So, I think what will happen is that I will create a schedule and deadlines for different components of this project to ensure that I will complete the project on time. 

In class, my teacher showed me something that really caught my eye. When reviewing the different type of film openings, she showed an animated type of film. This made me really interested because I thought this style of video was really cool. I knew I wanted to incorporate some of this animation in my film and probably some rotoscoping. However, I didn't even know what rotoscoping was and after some research, I found out that it was a type of editing in post-production that could be animated or could be used to edit something out of a video clip. I thought this was very interesting. But, I will have to find a genre that could fit this type of editing. 

I'm thinking of doing some horror type of film, since I enjoy horror movies, and I've already done lots of research on the horror genre as seen in my previous blog (link here). My teacher also showed me the introduction scene for Scream, and I thought it was really cool how it was mocking the traditions of horror. But my teacher also said I should stick to what I know instead of breaking the genre conventions. I'm not Steven Spielberg yet. Some things I know best are running (since I'm on a varsity cross country team), mountain biking, and school. But I don't want to do anything about school, as it would be cheesy. 

I'll be thinking about the topics some more and brainstorming ideas on what I should do for genre and plot. I can only create the opening of the movie if I know what the plot is. So, I'll keep this blog informed. Thanks for joining me on this journey.