Alexander's Blog

    In our discussion of where we want to take the project, I was given the third 30-second, or 1:00 to 1:30 mark. During our brainstorming, we all sat down and tried to decide where the story should go. Angela was making incredible progress in the first 30 seconds and me and Johansen were brainstorming how we wanted to approach the next minute. We decided we wanted "glitches" to represent the troubled minds of the patient in the therapy office as they recount their day. There was a back and forth on whether there should be two or three glitches but in the end, we settled on two, though this might change as filming starts to suit our needs.  Frame 1: As the patient is describing her day after the first glitch of the dog food in her house, there is a shot of the therapist listening and writing notes while they are in the therapist's office. He seems concerned and it is seen with a long mid-shot of the character off to the side. He continues writing and diegetic sound is us...

As can be seen from the costume the setting can be inferred to be in the 50’s or 40’s. This is a time of common sexism within the workplace with woman commonly being used in secretary roles. This is what the clip presented in “Agent Carter ” is trying to represent . This is shown through not j ust how Agent Carter is treated but how the film elements show her and her male colleagues.    The positioning and the type of shots and angles used help express an outcasted person. This is first seen in the wide shot after the character that can be assumed to be the boss gets the telephone call. This wide shot shows the protagonist in the back away from the actio n, further confirmed when she isn’t called on for the mission. This allows the audience to infer on Agent Carter’s situation and how she is likely put “out of sight, out of mind," due to being a woman . There is also a mid-shot that is used in the scene where the protagonist is sitting and a man touches her shoulder ...

     In our class, we are starting a project for the opening scene of a film. In my group, I am working with Johansen Rey, Angela Rodriguez, and Jamil Jama. We decided that the genre of our film would be drama as we believed it would result in the best product. For our roles, we all decided that we collectively would be working on different elements together such as scriptwriting. Though for a base we decided that Anglea and Johansen were to be the actors, Jamil to be the producer, and for me to be the editor. This does not stop us though from helping each other in any way we can.