Media Studies Portfolio

        Alright its time for the second post of the week. So in the previous post I hit on the topics about genre and our main character. Now I will be goin a little more in-depth with the concept and other things that should help our process.         So like I mentioned previously we will be doing a horror/thriller combo. We draw inspiration from movies like Get Out to be able to get as close to the thriller feel as we can. Since we are planning on having a sort of virus take over, we are hoping we can grasp the feel in the film opening. We are planning on having a very run down room with a couch and a tv. Our main character would be living in this situation and be watching tv. This way we are able to grasp exactly what we want to achieve cause usually old, run down things might scare people.I do not want to give too much away cause then what would be the surprise later?         Beside the whole concept thing we ha...

        Hey guys so today i will be getting you up to speed about what I have began to think about for my film opening. So to get started I am actually not working on this alone. My partner, Jules Fuentes, and I have began the process of brainstorming what will be occurring in our film opening.          To begin we had to pick an genre in which the film opening will be consisting of. The first genre that came to mind was Horror and as a matter of fact that is what the genre of this film opening will be. The reason we had come upon choosing horror is because we feel that we have a wide range of ideas that we could use for this film opening. Going hand in hand with horror we have also decided to include thriller in with the horror. Coming up with our idea did take a bit because we wanted to make sure that our film opening was not gonna fall loosely under this genre. We are still not 100% done with what our film opening is going to co...

        Hello everyone and welcome to my blog page where I am about to share my experience in creating a film opening! My name is Amanda Cortes and I am currently attending Cypress Bay High School as a junior. I have always enjoyed filming and editing since I was in middle school. I am excited to begin this journey and I hope you enjoy the process:)