So this week has been stressful and hectic since my blog was a little difficult to get started, but once I got the hang of it, I really got my blog rolling.
Struggles
I wasn’t really sure how to format the pictures correctly so that it would be exactly right next to the text, so the first day (Tuesday) I had to spend some of my research time trying to find out how to really format those pictures in the best way I could so the formatting wasn’t completely ruined.
Research was another difficult part since mystery films aren’t that prominent in the industry anymore and mostly came out in the early to mid 1900s. There have been remakes in the present, but the genres may have been a bit skewed or changed so it wouldn’t exactly fit the genre I really needed. Our film also had many different genres combined into them just to mostly fit the timeline of 1990s, so combining all the research of mystery, crime, drama, and thriller became a bit of a struggle since many different components in those genres easily overlap and add to one another in different ways.
The most concerning thing that comes with this project is the time management aspect since each blog post really takes up a lot of time, and then being able to implement the best style and information into one post and also make it look the best can be strenuous at times if I have other priorities going on at the same time (aka. sports, other classes, family, etc.). Because of these reasons, I’m already falling a little behind schedule, but it shouldn’t be too much of a problem if I keep working enough to get everything done in the next few weeks with the planning stages and pre-production stages.
Accomplishments
While I did struggle with a few things here and there and my scheduling seems to be a big problem at the moment, I did get some really good information out of my research.
The genre conventions for the mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound for both genres (mystery and thriller) have really allowed me to be able to challenge them in certain ways and be able to develop the best kind of story for a mystery-thriller story. Talking with Sitara about all of our genres combined, making a more in-depth and though out story with all of the genres we looked at will be able to give us a better understanding of what our title sequence should look like. Once I really look into certain title sequences instead of mystery movies as a whole, I’ll have a much better idea of what our story should end up looking like. I ran out of time this week to try and complete a true in-depth analysis of a sequence, but once I get that done, I should be able to move on to the preproduction stage.
I was also able to figure out how to navigate WordPress easily and even be able to organize my posts by the certain category they are (research, pre-production, production, post-production, and reflections). In doing this, I can look at whatever posts I need to to remember when I planned it and how I imagined it to look before without needing to scroll through every single blog post that I’ve ever uploaded. I also learned how to link movies just by clicking on a word and inserting a link in those words, such as Murder On the Orient Express. This allows me to immediately see what movie I was talking about and to see the specific plot line, genres, actors, directors, etc.
With everything I’ve learned this past week in mind, I have to start off this week quickly and get all the research that I need to get done so I can start planning out the script and being able to truly envision the movie that I want it to be.
Into The Truth 