Game of Throne Extract Essay

For the Game of Thrones extract, the theme was pretty self explanatory. It was a mysterious scene with Lord Stannis and his “Wingman” on a journey. There was no word said on the ship, but the look on their face emphasizes that something was about to happen. The conversations held before and after they were approached by the three men sets the atmosphere that there is animosity. With that strong hostility of different views the wing man is trying to influence them on believing in his partner but we don't know what will happen next. To visualize it better, the establishing scene was set. It was Lord Stannis and his wingman on his ship heading to their desired location. There was an Aerial shot taken as the ship was crossing a territory which can be seen as high angle. An eyeline match occurred. In this scene, the other object was a person, the wingman stared at lord Stannis and lord stannis stared back at the wingman. A shot reverse shot also occurred, the wing man was going back and forth with one of the three men. Sound wise, Diegetic and non-diegetic sound could be heard. The diegetic sound was heard because of the workers' loud movements and the background music all being heard at once. Non diegetic sounds were heard once every footstep was made and when the door door opened. Mise-en-scene essence included costume and lighting. The costumes included a lot of long and heavy clothing that was dark. The lighting had an overbearing amount of cool colors.the dull blue and green with brown and other shadowy colors brought the dullness into the scene. 

CCR III

CCR II

Opening Sequence CCR

Before creating the Creative Critical Reflection, I wrote the questions out. I opened up a document and fully understood and answered every question to the best of my ability. This process took forever but so was my journey. After completing the writing portion I had the perfect idea to do a talk show. Because I’m an only child, no one else was around to join so I was the host and the guest. I decided to make my mom record me as the host first. In those scenes, I asked the questions that were needed. After that I was recorded answering the questions. In some portions of the video, I was looking at my laptop screen. That is because I became a little forgetful after doing so much recording. I later on realized I need to stop looking on the screen. I started to answer the question at the top of my head for the sake of a good quality interview. After recording, I realized I answered every question just like how I wrote down. To make the video better, I added an intro and outro like Youtubers. I realized that I actually like recording myself and talking into the camera. I found joy in editing for the first time as well. I also added examples to spice up the video. I did so, so that the viewers could enjoy watching the video and show that I know what I’m talking about. Making a twelve minute video  was new for me but I believe I found a new hobby. Because of these projects, I believe I will take filming and editing more seriously. 

The next two blogs are part two and three of the blog. 

Third Project: Opening Sequence

Creating the opening sequence was definitely a challenge. We had to create a pitch that we all liked. We chose to do a suspense/horror film. Luckily, in the start of the year we did a PowerPoint on the genre so I had prior knowledge. The story board was another story. There were 10 pages to do and it really made us think. We knew it had to match up with our film so it took a while. It also had to correlate with the location. The day of filming, we lost a member and gained three other members. We all met up at the library and I gave everyone a run down on the script.  There were times when we would be in the middle of film and stop just to make sure we were following the storyboard. That was because I wanted everything to be perfect. I wanted to be captured from a different camera angle. Which meant a lot of takes and improvisation. Everything was filmed on my phone so all I had to do was airdrop everything on my laptop. When home, I converted every video into MP4. I placed all the videos in and later on realized we had to re-film. We did do it but it was in the middle of the pandemic so we didn’t get the outcome we were expecting. I decided to tweak the video that was not up to par for us and tried to make it work. I added the necessary title and sound. In the end, the final project was finalized and matched up with our very amateur expectation. 

Second Project: Music Video

The second project was a music video. In this music video there was a lot of confusion. At first a Christmas song was chosen because the holiday was approaching. I thought a less traditional song would be better though. I pitched the idea to the group and they actually agreed. We chose “No Fear” by Dej Loaf. Research on the genre was done of course. Due to the fact that it was a hip hop/ RNB song, it wasn’t a hard project to complete. The genre is very common and accommodating. The Mis-en-scene element such as clothing is an everyday attire for today’s teenagers. We chose to film on the beach because it gave the carefree feeling we wanted to express in the video. Creating the story board was simple as well. We drew a sign where we would be singing in the car. We tried to do that scene, however it wasn’t working out. We later on just decided to do everything on the beach. We didn't film the day we wanted because of miscommunication. Because we don’t want to mess the other member’s schedule up, we filmed on a school afternoon. Brandon recorded while namya and I acted. After filming the only difficult thing was matching up the song with the video. This was my first time editing on IMovie and that’s when I realized it was an easier program to use. 

First Project: Commercial

For my first project, a commercial was done. this project was actually very easy to complete. My group decided a nike commercial would fit us more because all three of us did track and have nike materials. When creating the storyboard, the only thing that took time was the drawing portion. Before, filming there was research though. I watched a bunch of amateur nike commercials on youtube and later on realized that it was the best. Majority of the concepts are based off of track. The runners on the track were in nike gears. The day of filming, we brought our clothes to school and met up on the track field. The cameraman was brandon, who later on left us. He caught many footages of us(the runners) in different angles and doing different things. There were not much takes taken because of how short the film was. After, filming we imported all the footages to pinnacle studios. We did that so we could edit the video.  The editing portion really testd me. It was difficult because I found pinnacle studios hard. On Top of that, one day we used the wrong laptop and had to restart the whole process over. Overall , I learned alot for the first project. The storyboard was short and we had all the materials. Plus, it was done at school.

Re-editing the opening sequence

With all this madness occurring, I realized that it was still vital that we finish our project. That being said there was a lot more editing done. From the original video to the one that is done now, there are a lot of new details. Editing is definitely the one thing I dislike about creating movies but I know it’s something that is necessary. So that being said, I pushed through and did it all in a day. To start off, I made sure the video matched up. I placed them in the proper order before there was editing done. After that, I added transitions. The thing about transitions in a movie, they are very quick. There is no puzzle or swipe seen in a real movie. Those transitions are for amateur movies, and though mine is, I still wanted it to look professional. So I did less obvious transitioning effects. They were cuts from every video necessary as also. Adding the title was a little confusing. The font we wanted was not available on iMovie so I had to improvise. The font that was similar seemed a little unusual for a horror movie but in the end it worked out. I decided to give the sound job to another member in the group. That is when I realized my laptop was not working the way it should. It was taking forever for my video to export to the other member which was pushing us back. Because of everything going on, all the stores were closed including the apple store. I didn't send the other member the opening sequence until two days later. When the other member got the video, she added the sound but there was a problem. The song was a little overbearing. You could barely hear the actors talk. So alteration was needed. I decided to take the task up and add the song but change volume in certain parts of the film. For some odd reason I couldn't find the specific song my group member used so I inserted a similar one. The song actually worked out well. I modified the sound in the parts that modification was needed. After that, I rewatched the video multiple times to find areas that needed improvement. To end it off, I believe I edited the opening sequence to the best of my ability and worked well with the group.