Mise-en-scene

 Mise-en-scene Project

For this project me and my group members had to create a station which represented our given character. Our character was a single banker who liked to go to the gym, had a dog, and liked throwing parties. Me and my team had to come up with a creative and interactive way of representing our character. We decided to create a minecraft world which people got to play on to see the life of our character.

Character Development

To show a good representation of our character, we created all the settings of where our character goes in the minecraft world. For example, because he is a banker, we built a bank in the minecraft world. We did this for all things that represent him like building a gym, an apartment, a party room, and a dog park. We also put up signs to guide each person playing where to go and where to see each setting.

Reflection

Overall, our project was very interactive and I can boldly say it was likely the most interactive station. However, there were some areas to improve. We forgot to add music to help represent our character even further through the use of different senses. More props also could have been brought to make the station look nicer for the audience. But in the end our project was a very fun one to create and was also very fun for the audience. Below are some of the videos I used to help build the settings. 

Dance floor

Bar

Comedy Genre

 Comedy

Definition 

 The obvious purpose of the comedy genre is to make the audience laugh using the central element of humor. This genre originates from Greek culture. Some comedy films can sometimes not have a very specific plot or story, but primarily aim to just be a funny watch. 

Genre Conventions

Comedies are typically very satire and are not very realistic. Any violence that happens in comedies are generally done so just to make the audience laugh and not for any other purpose. In contrast, genres like action and adventure use violence to thrill the audience and show the plot moving forward. Comedy films often use camere compositions and angles such as close-ups to capture the reactions for the characters which help develop humour. The lighting is usually very bright to make the tone more light rather than dark. Humorous sound effects can sometimes be used in these films to make the audience laugh.

Marketing

Comedy films will draw in their audience by putting some of the funniest scenes in the film in the trailer to quickly hook the audience and make them instantly entertained and hungry for more. They will also use famous actors that are known for being very funny in real life or in other comedy movies. For example, when the actor Kevin Hart is in a comedy movie, the audience can instantly assume that the film will likely be funny because he is associated with funny comedy movies and is a comedian in real life.

Film Example #1

This comedy film is about a man who is a part time drug dealer who plans to take a fake family to Mexico and smuggle drugs over the boarder. This movie appeals to the natural audience by using everyday things such as an RV. The characters in this film are extremely exagerated and unrealstic with the family including a homeless teenager, a striper, a middle aged man, and a strange boy. This film uses a lot of sexual and innapropriate humour which appeals to many people. This film is rated R making the audience assume this movie will be funny as it will not use kid related humour, but adult humour that will appeal to a larger audience.

Film Example #2

This film is hybrid genre film which is both comedy and an action movie. The main comedy and humour comes from the contrast between Lee (Jackie Chan) and Carter (Chris Tucker). The differences in race and culture create a unique chemistry between the two characters and is depicted in a very humourus way. A common way that this movie made the audience laugh was the language barrier between the cultures in this film. For example, The part in the film where detective Carter gets confused with the man in the dojo ("Yu, Mi, him"). The film uses a mix of diegetic and non-diegetic sounds in the fight scenes to develop humour. This film is marketed using the actor Jackie Chan, which is a well known actor for his famous stunts and also is in various comedy movies.

Recomendations

Game Night

The Hangover

The Mask

Liar Liar

Step Brothers

Daddy's Home 2

The Dictator

Sources:

https://nofilmschool.com/comedy-genre

https://www.flixist.com/review-we-re-the-millers/?utm

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/RushHour3

Sound

Sound

Summary

For the topic of sound, I learned various different sounds that are used in media that develop purpose. Some of these include Soundscapes, synchronous sounds, diegetic sounds, voiceover, and many more. Additionally, I had to complete two projects related to sound and one of them being related to my OWF project.

Sound Project #1

In this project, me and my partner had to create a soundscape which is simply all the sounds in a piece of media, and we got to choose what type of scene we were doing. Our scene was about a man who gets struck by lightning at a police station. We got this idea from "The Flash". We used the resource clip champ to edit all of our sounds. In this project there was also meant to be no visuals to allow us to try and tell a story by only using sound. Overall, this project was well paced and it is pretty easy to tell what is going on just by listening, however, I could have utilized more sounds in the soundscape to make it sounds more realistic. To listen to this project, click the link below.

Sound Project #1

Sound Project #2

For this project I had to revisit my OWF project. If you are reading this and are unsure of what that is, you can revisit my last blog which explains the project. For this project we had to add a soundscape to our OWF project. This was slightly more difficult than sound project #1 because it was sometimes difficult to time the sounds with each movement or scene. Overall, I feel like I did pretty good on this project, however, I noticed that while watching it back, some of the sounds were not perfectly lined up, but I know I will improve this in the future. To watch this project, click the link below.

Sound Project #2