Mise-en-scene post

 My activity was to receive a prompt of a character, and bring the character to life using mise-en-scene techniques. My character’s name was Taylor Richardson, and she was a movie lover that loves social gatherings with her friends, and writes her own blog about movie reviews. I created a prompt engineered image of my character using reference photos from pinterest and descriptive wording, which I then put into picsart where with an ai tool it helped me create my character.

Me and my group organized our station by bringing in a soft and fuzzy black blanket and used it as a tablecloth to make the viewers feel like they are in a comfortable home environment. We also created small tv antennas to put on the computers to make them look like tv’s. We had three computers with a canva presentation that we created. The canva presentation had information about our character, a kahoot!, and a blog writing activity for them to complete.

Our character has a physical appearance of blonde hair and light green eyes. Her costuming consists of knitted cardigans and other warm clothing. She lives in an apartment with a large living room perfect for her and her friends. She also has two cats Milo and Lila. My group and I came up with the idea of the antennae together, and I brought the blanket to use as a tablecloth. We definitely all had a big part in this, with us all working together during class and on call after school to bring our ideas together. We all believed there were small things we could’ve tweaked, related to the overall organization of our project.

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Sound

 I learned that sound is an extremely important aspect in production, whether it’s the use or the absence of sound. The first sound project was where we had to create a story using little to no words and sound without any visuals. The second project was where we created a soundscape for our OWF video, which originally had no sound during filming.

In sound project 1, me and my partner created a story of a man working in a police station getting struck by lightning during a thunderstorm. During brainstorming, me and my partner exchanged ideas of how our story should sound from beginning to end, and what small details we were going to include to make the story interesting. Our outline helped us decide on how the sounds were going to flow from scene to scene, and create a realistic time frame and environment where the story takes place. We used clipchamp and one thing we completed well was the layering of many different sounds, and using many sounds that mesh well together to create realism. One thing I think we could improve on is the actual storyline itself, and the time frame it happens in. AwadallaSuarez_soundscape_per4.m4a

In sound project 2 I used foley and downloaded sounds to create my soundscape. During brainstorming me and my partner talked about the different sounds we would use, and what the specific sounds you wouldn’t hear unless you were listening out for it in a real life situation. The outline helped us organize the timing and layering of every sound we each wanted to use in the final product. I used clipchamp and I think my foley sounds were done well, which included a backpack being picked up, footsteps, and notification noises from an actual phone. Something I want to improve on next time is certain sounds I would layer to create sound in a realistically quiet environment. OWFSound_Suarez.mp4