Media Studies Portfolio

Here it is the final product! 2060! https://youtu.be/JnPLY28rfos https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vURtKxeYPnNOz4VP5n6gR2YNqb_p1wkr/view?usp=sharing

Hello my name is Natalia Munoz and here I am at the end of my production. It wasn’t an easy road, but I have successfully created my film opening for 2060. That’s right I’ve finally come up with a finalized title! It’s about time am I right? This process wasn’t easy and I am grateful that I have gotten to the finale. As I have recounted throughout this process with updates on my blog, 2060 is about a dystopian race war that takes place in the future year of 2060. It follows the stories of 3 young girls from different backgrounds and ethnicities on the run from one of their enemies. It didn’t initially start this way though. I had the idea to create a horror based movie, but as time went by this evolved into creating a dystopian film. I had taken inspiration from the film Get Out as I wanted to find a way to incorporate race into the horror genre much like how Jordan Peele managed to capture his vision on screen. I wanted to bring the fears people of color face on the daily to life by d

     I think I have successfully conjured up my vision for what I want this film to look like on screen. I think filming the scenes and having visual representations has given me an idea of how I want to string all of the footage together. I know I want the brainwashing scene to be strewn in between all of the forest clips as it would act as a cross cutting technique that would imply that both scenes were happening at the same time. I did not capture any dialogue during the entirety of my filming process and that is because of the fact that I wish to do a voice over of different "news reportings." While filming I realized that the brainwashing itself was not necessarily clear enough. That is why my first voice over will be said with a voice alterer that will deepen and slow down my voice and implement key phrases over and over again in order to show that this is in fact conditioning the people to think alike in racist mindsets. I want these strewn throughout to show the signi

     Filming has been completed! These next two posts will recount the process and how everything ended up playing out. So I managed to lose two of my potential characters for my dream cast. I was down one on either side of my proposed "race war" dystopia. This initially scared me and left me having to work around my story board and create on the spot alternative plans. I decided to take a different approach to my film and focus on formalist elements rather than realism. I felt that this would more accurately capture the general "feeling" of the opening, by using color schemes in the mis-en-scene and creating a visual contrast between the antagonists and the protagonists. The filming process did not take as much "work" as I had expected, but technical difficulties surely did make the process last longer than expected! I filmed over the course of two days, which was not expected, initially I was only supposed to allocate the Wednesday for my film, but due

Updates! I got my cast finalized for Wednesday and I have left Thursday open as well in case of possible issues that may arise and re filming that may need to be completed the following day. I am worried that my scenes may possibly look differently from day to day as possible weather differences can play a factor as well as characters overall appearance. I am hoping that all goes to plan in terms of my characters being able to make this day dedicated to filming and having people available to re film on that Thursday for precautionary measures. I will be providing transportation to everyone involved in my film and the majority of my day will be spent arriving to the location planning out my angles and movements as well as writing them down in an orderly fashion and trying my best to stick the original storyboard I had planned earlier on during this process. As I started typing this I have just realized that I do not have a name for my film! All this time planning and processing and I

Audio, audio, audio! I had no idea how hard this could possibly be, but here I am, definitely struggling with how to properly execute my vision. I realized I am extremely limited on resources in terms of both camera and audio technology. This brings me to make a creative executive decision to ensure that my final product is up to the quality of which I would like it to reach. With all of this being said, I came to the conclusion that limited dialogue would work best for my film opening. I want the majority of the feelings for the film opening to be displayed through human emotion rather than audible speaking parts. Not only will this make it easier for me to execute my film opening with as little issues as possible, but will also add to the emotive quality of which I want my film opening to possess. I can’t just say scratch audio completely as this clearly isn’t A Quiet Place. Therefore I am going to use the tactic of voice over. Through voice over I can provide background and storyli