Blog Post #9: Regular Teen Issues

 Regular Teen Issues

 With all the puberty that goes along in young adulthood, it causes a lot of mental problems. So, identifying them will help me get ideas for what to put my theme into a well thought out scenario.

Mental Health

Mental Health has always been a huge part of someone's life, especially a growing adult. It causes many breakdowns and can exhaust someone into just not wanting to do anything. Especially, halting a person's success with task that are draining both physically and mentally. Problems like Depression and Anxiety are two of the most common things for the young adulthood age group. 

Stress

Stress is something that can just come by being overstimulated with the common task of your everyday life. It makes doing task quite hard without the constant heart racing, and teens experience thing mainly with school. School puts a lot of responsibilities that can just make a person feel like they are trapped, so teens usually deal with it a lot considering their limited freedoms and the feeling that they need to get prepared for their life.

Family Problems

Family issues have a big impact on teens specifically because they have no way to escape it. It can have a huge impact on their morals and who they are, as well as how they act to others. Having a teenager/adult in this environment might make them more hostile, since that is what they are used to. Family issues involve things like Neglect, Abuse, and being ignored or having your feelings being not taken seriously.

Blog Post #8: Real-World Settings

 Real World Settings

The school is a great option for me to do my media film. This is a particularly good option for children being the main focus. It helps achieve the theme of growth, especially when you consider school is the place that you learn to grow as a person.

The home is a great setting to focus on home life and family themes. It helps show the theme of self-growth and it can also show how family can help someone along the way. Showing family dynamics in a home can bring upon a developed narrative.

The workplace is very specific to Adult life, or Early Adulthood it can show your growth in morals and overall how you deal with relationships in a place of work. 

My Project

This will help my project because it gives me ideas for where to put my characters to help portray the right message to my audience. It also gives me specific themes for each setting, so I can build on those ideas to create a meaningful piece.

Blog Post #7: Intended Audience

 Intended Audience

The audience is a huge part of any film production, especially since they are the one's giving you the feedback. To have a good film, you must appeal to a certain demographic. Applying a film to many demographics could lead to disaster, so its best to have one main audience that you know you can appeal to. It helps focus your film on only certain objectives and themes, rather than a whole range that could just make your film look like mush if not done correctly.

My Audience

My intended audience is young people, around the age of 14-25. I picked this age range specifically because they are the people that usually have to discover more about themselves, since this is the time where you have to grow as a person and develop a sense for how things work and who you are in that environment. 

Blog Post #6: Steven Spielberg

Christopher Nolan: Drama Director

He is a director that specializes in Non-linear story telling, diving deeper into his hivemind of making a narrative that can blow an audience's mind. He has done many films that are driven by pure intensity and the many, many drama aspects that make it interesting. He had many famous works like "The Dark Knight" that did very successful in the film department. He is very known for his master storytelling and psychological depth of every character he has made. It greatly uses obstacles that present great challenges, which provides this dramatic, almost traumatizing aspect to his works. The tight plots he loves to use also brings the drama part of his films to life, creating this seamless and intense film that will make you question everything about morals. In addition, he does this all usually without a storyboard, which expresses his amazing camera and interpreting skills.

"The Dark Knight"

This was a film was by Christopher Nolan, made in the year 2008. In this film he uses the problems that come with saving the city to show the psychological aspect of everything about the human mind. It dives deep into the human influence of it all, showing that a lot of problems with the world are man-made. It also transforms the idea of teaming with people who have a totally different purpose than you, expressing that even with disagreements you can have a common enemy. 

Blog Post #5: Preliminary Exercise

Preliminary Exercise

In this shot I chose to use this shot to show a dog waiting, upset by the huge eyes and the focus on the dog's face, rather than focus on background elements. I placed a laptop on the side to develop an idea on the dog is waiting for their owner, and I used the bed to show that he was comfortable in this room, just felt like he was missing something. I did this at an upper angle to make the dog look smaller and more afraid. I could improve on this shot by darkening the lighting a little bit but putting filler light on the face of the dog to show a clearer focus.

In this shot I use a focus shift to show a kind-of torn-up and exposed room. This shows a sign of aggression/laziness to the scene. It also shows that the room was lived in and used recently, with all the stuff still being out and looking newly used. Also, this is at a downward focus to show the items, rather than the more upper objects. I did a Pan shot to show the whole desk, and to make sure to shift the focus at the end onto a more messed up looking closet. This sets in an unorganized look, and shows the person/people that live here are not clean. 

In this shot I used a horizontally aimed shot to perform the look of the dad sitting there, not performing any task that are looking like they need to be done in the messy-looking house. It also shows that he is very ignorant to his surroundings, as the fill light of the phone shows the man's focus is his phone and not his surroundings. While I added the dirty looking atmosphere, with the clothes to show that he lives in this house with multiple people, so it makes sure that the audience might assume that their family.

This shot is taken from farther away, so that it shows that the dog's focus and that it shows that he is sitting at the door. His whine in this scene expresses that the dog is sad at the door, and which from there the audience could assume that he is missing someone. While the dog being in a pink room makes the audience assume that it could be his girl owner that he misses. The shadows also make sure that the dog is surrounded by shade to show a focus on him, it also puts a focus on him because his is in the middle of the shot (Rule of Thirds).

I could improve on my usage of lighting throughout my videos; I also could use better atmospheres for my shots.

Blog Post #4: Character Types in Drama

 Character Types in Drama

The drama has many different character types that

 present ways to tell a developed and well-told plot. You have a basic one, the protagonist which is the main character and focus of the story. In my Psychological Drama it will be entirely focused on the journey and struggles of them. Also have an antagonist, which in my case is going to involve a constant undermining of the main character, rather than a villain or "evil" person. In addition, supporting characters are used to build the relationships and dynamics of the main character, helping the development of the plot. The use of stock characters are also going to be used, which are characters that fulfill a specific role and trait. They help relationships build and increase the amount of emotion in a specific plot that further show a character's morals. 

These characters help tell a plot, and in my case show a theme that represents everyday life. I want to be able to show a story that can be seen and analyzed as a deep and personal success of an individual. So, I will be using the characters listed to do such.

https://thedramateacher.com/character-types-for-drama/

Blog Post #3: Drama conventions

Drama Conventions

In Drama there are many conventions that help engage the audience, but to also add aspects that audiences will be able to recognize and analyze. These conventions of genre create a plot that will help me create a genre that can correctly represent my theme. 

For one, Dramas are typically dialogue heavy, since this dialogue is what creates the tension and the obstacles between the characters in the story. Dialogue can also help just create relationships that will be able to develop the understanding of the plot and the story as a whole.

The plot is often in chronological order, since it shows a dramatized order of events that will develop throughout. It can either be fast or slow-paced and creates this way of telling a story that shows everything that can impact it. It adds the tensions and the overall look of how relationships build and more.

The actions in the story usually involve a risk of something, whether it's personal or physical risk. It gives the character some kind of battle/obstacle that develops a dramatic and tense environment for them.

Lastly, the emotions of the drama are high and often exaggerated. Showing tension and building the characters morals and feelings to a point where they can convey a message.