Portfolio Week 1 post #1

    Today is a momentous day in my AICE Media Studies journey. I am finally starting our Portfolio project for the AICE exam and with that, I will be transitioning my blog to be solely focused on documenting the progress of said project and my contributions. 

    For week one my group and I decided to think about the genre and the way we will be using our film opening to develop our story. From class, we learned of the various ways to utilize film openings and how centralizing an opening around a central theme like establishing a theme or setting can really help produce a good and meaningful opening for a potential story. Considering that, for this project, I was really drawn to the creating a mystery method of film openings. The way that a mystery can make an audience hooked on a product while still not fully understanding what is exactly going on was very interesting to me and I want to recreate that in my project with my group. For the genre what I was thinking was using the horror genre or maybe the crime genre. I feel like those 2 genres are tied hand-in-hand with mystery constantly revolving around questions like what happened?, how did it happen?, why is it happening?, and how do I solve/stop it? and making the audience question these things themselves as well. So I feel like whatever I end up doing will be in these 2 genres. I have already researched the horror genre in a previous blog posting link here but I have done little research on the crime genre and will have to do so later on. I also will go on to research other film openings in the horror and crime genre that utilize mystery to set themselves up. For the plots, if I end up doing a horror movie I will likely do something like someone being killed or someone already dead and If I end up doing horror I will likely do something like someone is being killed by a monster or entity or is scared by a monster. 

    All and all, I have my work cut out for me and many ideas swirling in my head for this project. I will work on sorting them out and will report back here in week 2 so stay tuned.