I started film my opening scene today.
Friday, February 28, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #16
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #15
My plan for this week is to start filming on Wednesday with my friends. The plan is to film at least the first 30 second of the film opening. And to start editing those first 30 seconds as soon as posable. The plan is to go to my friend house and go to his dads car garage and film the opening 30 sec of the me working on the car and quick shots of the car. I feel that those shots will take at least 1- 2 hours to film and make sure the shots are perfect. I also want to get some sounds of the car revving the engine and the car starting up to have those sound done with and I can add them later on if I need just in case I forgot to have it.
After we film on Wednesday I am planning on starting to edit what I have film on Wednesday to see if it looks good, If it doesn't then I will have to plan on a day to re-shot to make it look better. I also have to have 3 blog post done about how my production is going. My plan for my first blog post is showing some of my rare film and explains how I am going to add to it and make it better. For my second blog post I am going to document the editing process that I am think of taking with my opening film. My third blog post will be about how we set up the set and how we made it look like we are mechanics.
On Wednesday we couldn't start filming do to my friend that had the mics was sick and could bring the mics. So what we did was plan to start filming today Friday after school and have most of our filming done cus we also have to put time into my CCR that also need a lot of time and effort for me to get a good grade.
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Portfolio Blog post #14
My goal for my film opening is having good audio. By having dynamic and immersive sound can help have high energy and storying telling to my film opening.
My goal for my Sound
- Reflect the personalities and skills of characters
- Build tension and excitement to hook the audience
Sound Effects
- Car sounds
- engine rev, tire screeches and gear shifts
- Cars speeding past camera
Tech sounds
- Key broad typing
-electronic beeps
By carefully planing my audio plan I aim to create a soundscape that aim to reflect the characters personalities and skills. It can also help hook the audience.
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Portfolio Blog post #13
Props will give information into the characters skills and personalities.
Props
Alex
- Dog tag
- Holographic map wrist projector
Jade
- Custom keyboard
- Vintage game boy modded into a hacking tool
Rico
- Steering wheel with custom grips
- photo of his foster siblings
Dax
- Brass knuckles
- Dog tag
Lighting will create mood and establish key elements
Lighting
Neon Lights- Blue, Green, red and pink these neon light colors will be used to reflect of surfaces to create a street race feel.
High contrast- The use of shadows and bright lights to add depth and drama
The neon lights will be used the garage, street race and at the gym.
Friday, February 21, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #12
Costumes will reflect each character's personality and role.
Alex(The leader)
Outfit- Utilitarian jacket with tactical pockets, dark cargo pants, and combat boots
Details- Dog tag, fingerless gloves
Color- Navy blue and black to symbolize authority and calm
Jade( The tech Expert)
Outfit- oversized hoodie with circuit board patterns, ripped jeans and sneakers.
Details- A chunky smartwatch, and a lanyard with USB drives
color- Neon green and black
Rico( The driver)
Outfit- leather jacket, grease stained jeans, and boots
Details- aviator sunglass, a locket with a photo of his foster siblings, and a bandana.
Color- red and black to emphasize his passion and danger
Dax( The muscle)
Outfit- tank top, cargo pants, and heavy boots
Details- tattoos with manful quotes, brass knuckles, and a small notebook
Color- amber and grey to show his warmth and strength
Set designs
Garage
-Workbenches cluttered with tools, car parts, and tech gadgets
- A map in the middle of the room
- Graffiti on the walls
Lighting- Blue neon lights and flickering lights
Street Race
- Neon lit lights
- Abandoned warehouses and graffiti covered walls
- smoke machines to create hazy
Lighting- Red and Pink neon lights
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #11
My characters for my film opening are Alex( The leader), Jade( The tech expert), Rico (The Driver), Dax ( The Muscle of the group).
Alex is the leader for a reason he was an ex military tactician so he knows what he is doing and know how not to get caught.
Alex Key Traits
- Is good under pressure
- Protective of the group
- Always wants to be successful
Jade is the brains of the group he is very smart and is very good with technology and when need is there for the group. He is a former student of MIT but dropped out to fight to expose corrupt systems.
Jade Key Traits
- Is brillant
- Loves tech
- Hate corrupt systems
Rico is the driver of the group, he got into car because he grow up in the foster system and cars were a way to escape from his family.
Rico Key Traits
- Reckless Driver
- Amazing Humor
- Loves vintage cars
And lastly we got Dax he is the muscle/ protector go the group. He is an ex- convict that went to jail for protecting his brother from a bar fight.
Dax Key Traits
- Quiet
- Uses his strength has a last resort
- protector to his close friends/ family
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #10
My film opening, Full throttle is a high energy action sequence inspired by Fast and the Furious. The story follows a crew of street races Alex, Jade, Rice, and Dax who are recruited to pull off a dangerous heist involving cutting edge technology. The opening film sets up their world, and skills.
Key Elements
Dynamic camera work- low angle shots of cars, close of engine
Framing Theory- use of tight closes ups of faces and tools
Titles- Integrated into the the background
Themes
Loyalty and Betrayal- hints of tension within the crew
Diversity- The crew reflects varied of skills
Full Throttle aims to hook viewers with adrenaline pumping action. I hope to create an opening that's both stylish and creative.
Portfolio Blog Post #9
For my porject I am think using media theory. One that I had in mind was Framing. Framing helps examine the presentation of visuals and narrative work together to shape the audience interaction with the story. I choose framing as my theory because I want to explore how the presentation of visual and narrative elements shapes the audience view on the film. My opening scene is inspired by Fast and the Furious, By applying Framing Theory, I can use visual and narrative techniques to help create my main characters. I can use close up of the engine to starting to highlight the power of the car. I can shot cars and characters from low angels to make them appear dominant and powerful. I can so include neon lights to create high engird and vibe. Movement that I can also use are tracking shot to follow the cars during the street race with smooth tracking shots to create a sense of speed and fluidity. By applying framing theory, I can create a film opening that not only looks visually goof but also effectively connects the story, theme, and emotions to the audience. Framing allows me to guide the audiences to better understand the film.
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #8
Now that I have talked with the group members I have a better idea on what my project is going to be. So I created a story broad to better help me understand on how my opening scene was going to look like. Creating the story broad help me put my ideas down on paper to see how they would look like when you put them together. It also helps me stay organized and better help me stay focus on what I am doing. While I was doing the story broad I had a lot of ideas but some ideas were good put it just didn't fit with the opening scene, so I had to brain story a bit more to fine new ideas. I like that my was able to put my ideas together and create a story broad to better help me understand what I am going to shot.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #7
For my group meeting it went really good. My group had a lot of great ideas that I thought were really good. Maximilano had a great idea; his genre was horror and he had an idea that his character would wake up in the middle of the Everglades at night with a flashlight in his face but he also wanted to the character to wake up bad in his room but he didn't really know how to put it together and make it look good. Then Maclcenna gave him an idea that when his character wake up there should be light a square round him to make it seem like he is still in his room but he is actually in the middle of the everglades. When it came up to my ideas my group really like it and they gave me a lot of good idea to add and change. For example I would have start with a group of street racers working on a car in a garage but Maclcenna told me that how I end the opening film should be how I start it because it would look better to have the title of the film in the middle of the film then the end. Maximiliano also told me that when we are working on the car we should be wearing white overalls and its should get them dirty so it look like we are mechanics. One thing that I liked about our meeting is that we all had different idea and genre but it was fun to hear other peoples ideas to see how they would do it. I can't wait to have another group project to see how the ideas that we came up with would actually turn out and to see how they would look, and if they need changes we can make them before we have to summit the project. We still have time to take the feed back that we got in this meeting and changes the ideas that we have because everyone in the group is planing on starting to film next week.
Group Members- Camila, Maximilano, Maclcennna, Natalia, Michael
Friday, February 7, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post#6

Thursday, February 6, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #5
Timeline
Week One (1/29-2/2)
Post two blog post about plan for your project and idea that I had
Week Two (2/3-2/9)
Submit four blog post
Find genre that I want to film research about
Have an almost a full idea of what I want to film
Week Three (2/10-2/16)
Story Board
Have set time when to film
have cars ready
possibly start filming
Week Four (2/17-2/23)
Start filming for sure
Record foley sounds
Start editing what I have filmed
Week Five (2/24-3/2)
have all my filming done
foleys too
have most of editing done
reshot if need
Week Six (3/3-3/9)
Have all everything edited
Start CCR questions
go over the opening scene too make sure everything is perfect
Week Seven (3/10-3/16)
Have all CCR question complete
make sure to have everything done
have all blog post done
Week eight (3/17-3/25)
extra week just in case I need it
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #4
While researching the movie Fall Guy credits scenes, the credits start with music playing in the back ground while have sequence of film set, the actor acting, and Hollywood. While having the names of the actors and in the film on the bottom middle of the screen. What this film uses
that I like is that when they show one of the actor that is one the main characters it show the real actors name and the name of the character that they are playing. I also like how in this movie the music that they use during the credit scene fits the main character. Another thing that I liked that they did is that they cut to an older tv and show clips from an older movie while also show what character are staring.
While researching Baywatch it also uses music in the background while having sequence of what is happening on the beach. We also get shots of lifeguard training, helicopters, and people on the beach. What I liked that this film credit sequences it uses like a too screen in most of the credit sequences. While having the slip screen it shows the character that are going to be in the film while having there name in the middle bottom of the screen, while also showing other clips of the character. I also like how at the end it shows Baywatch on both of the screen with big text.
While researching spider man 2 starts different than any other film that I have researched because this one doesn't show any character, it only shows a spider wed in the back ground with a red back ground while playing music. While this is happening its show the characters that are going to be in the film and the producers and directors of the movie. After the first minute of the credit sequence we see one of the characters that are going to be in the film and we also we a spider. Then we see like sctechs of things that are going to be in the film and what happens.
Monday, February 3, 2025
Portfolio Blog Post #3
While researching opening scenes i found that in the film Baby Driver it used a lot of close up and medium shot of the characters. For sound it also had music playing in the back ground while the characters are getting ready for a heist. You can also see that the driver is lip singing to sounds based on what is happening in the first 2 minutes of the film opening. For example when the film cuts to the crew robing the bank the music changes to a more hard kind of beat. Also when crew runs out of the bank it uses a lot of fast paced cuts and pans to create a sense of panic. It also use low angle show of the driver when they are running away from the cops to create a sense of focus.
For the research of Fast and the Furious opening scene it use an establishing shot to show where its taking place. This opening scene also uses a lot of close ups and medium shot to show the character. It uses close ups when the character is driver to show the fast pace of the car. In Fast and The Furious it also uses high angle shots to show the car going fast round the track to show how fast the car is going. You also get this sense because it also cuts to the driver changing gears fast while cuting back to the high angle shot. There is also a lot of camera techniques used in this opening films like the camera shacking while tracking the car going around the track to get the sense of how fast the car is going
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Portfolio post 2
For my film opening project, I’ve narrowed down my options to two genres: Psychological Thriller and Action. Both genres offer unique opportunities for storytelling, visual style, and audience engagement. Below, I’ve outlined the key characteristics of each genre, along with examples and how they might influence my project. Psychological thrillers focus on the mental and emotional states of characters, often exploring themes like identity, reality, and perception. These films rely on tension, suspense, and psychological manipulation to engage the audience.
Films like Gone girl, Black Swan, and Shutter island use psychological to create a better meaning to there character development.
I am considering this genre because It allows for creative storytelling and visual experimentation and the focus on character psychology offers opportunities for deep, thought-provoking themes.
Action films are known for their high-energy sequences, elaborate plans, and charismatic characters. These films often feature thrilling set pieces, fast-paced editing, and themes of teamwork and loyalty.
Films like Baby Driver, Ocean's Eleven, and Fast and Furious use action to create a scenes of high/ fast action that create a sense of trill.
Why I am considering this genre-It’s visually exciting and offers opportunities for creative action sequences, the ensemble cast dynamic allows for diverse character interactions, and It has a broad audience appeal and is fun to film and edit.
Both genres have their strengths and challenges. A psychological thriller would allow me to explore deeper themes and experiment with visual storytelling, while an action film would be more dynamic and visually engaging. Ultimately, my decision will depend on the resources available, my team’s strengths, and the story I want to tell.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Portfolio Blog post #1
For this project, I was tasked with creating a two-minute opening sequence for a new fictional film. The goal was to follow institutional conventions of commercial cinema while showcasing originality in storytelling, visuals, and sound design. This portfolio documents my journey from initial ideas to the final product, highlighting the challenges, decisions, and skills I developed along the way.
Right now for my project I am think of doing an opening scene about a car guy. My genre is going to be action because I want my project is going to be about a group of street racers and what they do during the night when his parents are sleeping. My film is inspired by fast and the furious. Right now my ideas of my story are A crew of street racers is recruited by a mysterious benefactor to pull off a high-stakes heist involving cutting-edge technology. The opening sets up the crew, their skills, and the first hint of the heist. I was think of calling the Film "Full Throttle.
A garage , a street race, and a brief glimpse of the heist target.
Urban environment with neon lights, busy streets, and a gritty atmosphere.
Key locations: A garage (introducing the crew), a street race, and a brief glimpse of the heist target.
Action Elements:
Include a high-speed street race or a chase scene to establish the adrenaline-fueled tone.
Use close-ups of engines revving, tires screeching, and intense facial expressio
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