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The participants include Mila Rakic, Addison Walker, Violet Roberts, and Dara Sedaka. The location will be Addison Walker's house. Our backup plan in case Addison's house doesn't work out will be to film at Violet's house. We will have Addison's parents home during the filming. This will be to ensure health and safety. They will watch over us to ensure nothing goes wrong and help us if something goes wrong. This is especially important since we have dangerous props, like a knife. For the props, we will need as follows: two barbie dolls, a rope, a cup of lemonade, and a chocolate cake. We will also need a plate for the cake, a knife to slice the cake, a small vile of green liquid, and a T.V. remote. Finally, we will need a bowl of popcorn, a glass of water, and a knife. The costumes will be regular clothes that a teenage girl would wear. This works so the audience doesn't get suspicious. It will also slightly reassemble a barbie, so things like the color pink and

  INT. KITCHEN - DAY This is the home of SARA. The two girls are talking casually, LYNN is sitting at the kitchen table, SARA is standing beside her. SARA I seriously can’t believe we don’t hangout more often. Every time we’re together we have the most fun! LYNN I was thinking the same thing. Maybe this time we could even stay up super late, like until 12 o’clock at night! SARA Yes yes we should! By the way, are you hungry? I’m so hungry. LYNN Oh, yeah, I am. What should we eat? SARA Oh! I have some leftover cake in the fridge! A chocolate cake. LYNN gasps. LYNN Oh my gosh yes! SARA Ok I’ll go get it for us. SARA walks to the fridge and removes a cake from inside. She places it on the counter and begins slicing two slices. SARA Do you want a drink with your slice? LYNN Sure! Can I have a lemonade please? SARA Of course! SARA opens the cabinet and pulls out a comically large cup. She then secretly removes a mysterious vial from her pocket and pours its contents into the drink. She walk

 This short film is one of the oddest we've ever seen. None of us can seem to discern the message. We are between thinking the message is that the media vilifies marijuana too much, or that marijuana is genuinely bad. If it is a parody of an anti drug campaign though it is genius. If it is an actual anti drug campaign, its still kinda genius. The plot is literally a girl smokes weed in the car with her friends. As a result she gets in a horrible fatal car crash. The visuals are very vivid and colorful. The shots, wide, long, close ups, are amazing. The puppets are used very effectively as props. The dialogue is extremely weird though. It is fake conversations. Nobody talks like that. However that's the point of it. It is very goofy for the most part until the grotesque puppet violence near the end. Even that is goofy, with the stupid non-diegetic music in the background and the dead bodies still moving and flailing about. Everything in this film is making fun of something, we j

 The film follows the main character who just returned from studying away from home to meet with her father before he goes to prison. Her day is filled with loads of inconveniences and negatives. She wakes up  ravaged by the ocean. She recovers from a night of drugs and drinks. She picks up a cake that is too big. Her boyfriend acts weird on the phone. She drops the cake all in her car. Her conversation with her father turns sour as she questions his reluctance to appeal his court decision. Eventually she goes partying and gets high and wasted. She discovers a camera in a room of a man she almost sleeps with. All of this leads her to question her life and have a more meaningful conversation with her father the following day. He confronts her on her recent behavior and she truly has a change in ideals in that split second. Her bond with her father is drawn tighter and she will wait for him until he gets out of prison. This film was very good. The close up camera work was very interestin

   Music is important in this film. From the beginning we noticed the nice classical music to accompany the thematic camera shots. It accompanies the film for nearly the entire duration. The music picks up at appropriate times and settles at others. The main character owns his restaurant trying to bring customers in during a pandemic. It addresses the lives of immigrants in America. It covers the expectations saddled upon immigrant children. It also discusses the prejudices that minorities deal with in America. It covers the current events that influence these. The lighting and camera work is very effective. The action matches and eyeline shots are frequent and exciting. The lighting is very dark to fit the gloomy mood of the piece. But all the characters are fully illuminated to keep the film character driven. This film is very interesting and thought provoking. The statistic about half of Chinese restaurants closing during covid is very sad. It is disheartening. This film is perfect

  This film was very enjoyable. It observes the theme of home in a sense. It touches on coping with the loss of a lifestyle and home. He loves his home and accepts that he must move on. The plot is about Nego, the main character, who lives and works on a farm. He is told that the farm is being sold. He has to cope with his home being taken out from under him. But also, he has grown to love his work on the farm. This is a significant loss to him. The film comes full circle with him bathing in the water near the farm. This symbolizes his acceptance. He understands he must move on. The camera work is interesting. It mainly cycles between handheld and far-shot still frame for long periods of time. The lighting is interesting too. The characters are kept very illuminated, even in the night. It fits the genre's character focused theme. Much of the story focuses on the setting too, showing the beautiful surroundings and highlighting the peaceful noises of nature. Music plays a roll too, w

  We watched a video about making short films. They say that when writing, we need to keep in mind what we can pull off. We shouldn't write in things that we cannot create for our film. In other words, anything too expensive we should not use in the film. They also say that the theme should guide the story. Whatever we want out of the story should be kept in mind while writing. They also say that with stories where we want the audience to be surprised, go against our first idea. This way the obvious idea will not be given and they will be legitimately surprised by things. They emphasize that casting the right people is very important. They need to be able to look the part. They need to fit the character too. This will not be a problem for my group. We will have a member of our group play the main characters and we are confident our members can do so well. They also emphasize that sound is very important to capture dialogue and noises well. Our story will have important sounds. Howe

  Part 1  We've seen how they have successfully transferred the original to a remake. It is interesting how they take the exact same ideas of the remake. They just broaden upon them. The language barrier is solved through translation. The original simply had a slideshow of sorts accompanied with a narration. This alone carried the story and plot. For the film remake, they used this to create real scenes. The editing was spectacular. We can definitely can certainly take a lot from the editing used. The confusion created through time jumping and unique editing with reverse shots and cross fades is something we can use in our film. Part 2 Reading about the differences between the films put it into perspective. The usage of memory in the original is fascinating. The plot surprise that this creates is masterful. The wide pans and editing of the remake help bring this eeriness to life too. The remake had many top actors. Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt to name them. The director's vision

  The setting of the short film is very dark. We noticed rather quickly that the genre seemed to not fit that of a children's film. The entire film was generally a thriller. There were multiple jump scares. There was lots of dark imagery and eerie settings. The plot of the film was short obviously, but to the point. It follows 9 as he retrieves the device to bring back his friends and evades the robot monster. There is no character development, which does not seem like that would even work for a short film. However, character traits are brought out a lot. Sound is a big part of this film, with tiny noises exemplified a lot. The full length film is different. For one, it contains lots of dialogue which is not there in the short. It also seems to not be exactly a thriller, but more of an adventure story. It follows the heroics of the characters rather than harping on disturbing or dark imagery. The music plays a big role in the story, but sound not as much. It is still there, just no