Eriberto Mendoza's AICE Media Studies Final Project

 

 4. How did you integrate technologies – hardware, software, and online - in this project? Podcast Episode- Transcript: Host: “Welcome to another episode of the SKBD Report, today we will be welcoming student producer Eriberto Mendoza, better known as Eddie” Eddie: “Thank you for having me sir!” Host: “Eddie here is the producer of the project Beneath the Hood! A comedy-mystery film about Detectives Ed and Fern’s hunt for the mysterious Killer drenched in a black cloak.” Host: “Eddie! How has your day been?” Eddie: “It’s been going pretty good, just got done writing a blog about you guys. How about yours?” Host: “Same as ever (same as ever)” Host: “Well anyways, let’s get into the stuff they’re here for. Eddie, throughout the creation of this project, how did you incorporate hardware into the production of your hit, Beneath the Hood” Eddie: “Well sir, I used several pieces of hardware while creating this film. To write, plan, and edit this film, I used my laptop, and it has helped ...

3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project?  Talking Head- Transcript: CCR #3 3. How did your production skills develop throughout this project? My production skills developed greatly while producing my project, “Beneath The Hood” in many ways, from editing, to background research, to recording, to even something as simple as explaining things to others.  Before I started this project, I did not utilize many tools I had available to me, such as using score in the background of a scene’s audio. Here is an example of a project I had made earlier this year, called Pork. This project lacks any score, or sound effects, which makes it seem less convincing, and more empty. This leads the audience to being unengaged, and bored while watching it.  During the production of my project, Beneath the Hood, I researched into the effects of score on an audience, I learned, specifically studying the effects of score in the movie “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”, about how sco...

2. How does your product engage with the audiences and how would they be distributed as a real media text? Short Video- Transcript: Did you watch that new film, Beneath the Hood?  No, but I watched the trailer for it just a minute ago on Youtube I heard it’s on that streaming service SKBD Plus, we should watch it. (voiceover) This is just one of the many ways that beneath the hood could be distributed, on streaming services, such as Youtube, Netflix, and Disney+, and theaters.”” “Wait, do you hear that music, that’s from JJK, I love that Anime!’ (Voiceover) Beneath The Hood also engages its audience, by using score that some people may recognize from properties they enjoy, like the song “Our Mission”, from Jujutsu Kaisen. Here’s the scene from the show”  Wait! He said it, the Low Taper Fade! Finally, Beneath the Hood uses modern humor that many younger generations will recognize, in its script and score, such as two references to modern memes and jokes, to connect and create r...

How do your products use or challenge conventions, and how do they represent social groups or issues?  Presentation- Transcript:  "My project uses the iconography of detectives in order to give Ed and Fern credibility as detectives. I achieved this with the costuming of Ed and Fern, which includes the standard detective stereotype of dark outfits, more specifically, trench coats, suits, and fedoras. As you can see, Ed is suited in a black suit, a tie, and a fedora, while Fern is suited in a black trench coat and the same fedora as Ed. My project, Beneath The Hood, also challenges racism and reinforces multiculturalism. Racism is the discrimination and prejudice against a group because of their ethnicity, and multiculturalism is the mixing of multiple ethnic groups into one society. My project, Beneath The Hood, reinforces multiculturalism due to Fern and Ed’s friendship, which shows people from multiple cultural backgrounds coexisting. This is shown as they are working togethe...

 In my Blog Post #55 - Editing: Title Update , I showcased my newly made title card, and it used the same "Dramatic Accent 01" from iMovie that I originally used in my Blog Post #20 - Cinematography   However, I don't think this fits the title card very well, and it doesn't flow well into Ed entering the office. Essentially, I would like it to be a short song I can flow into the next scene (Ed entering the office).  To find a song I liked, I was looking for these requirements: fast, short (~20 seconds), upbeat, and energetic.  To do this, I looked through iMovie's sounds catalog, as I commonly do, and then went to the Jingles section to find short songs. Doing this, I found a song called "Sideman Strut Medium", which I liked, and it fit all the requirements. This was a decent fit for the title card, but it had more of a connotation to it of a businessman in a big city, or at least that's the image it gave me. I continued looking in the Jingles secti...

 The driveway scene is the final scene in my project and is an important one. It shows Ed and Fern getting in the car and then backing out of the driveway. Since Ed and Fern are both in the car, there is no dialogue, which makes the other aspects of sound very important. The aspect of sound I will be focusing on here is the score, which is the music that plays in the background of the scene. Currently, the scene feels very empty since the only noise is the noise that the car makes and the noise Fern makes by closing the door. This scene should have a more energetic and hyped up feel to make up for the emptiness of the rest of the scene. To do this, I will have to have a loud, fast, and overall energetic song, which brings to mind a genre, modern funk. More specifically, a specific song comes to mind. This song is known for being humorous to younger audiences, which plays into the humor of the rest of my project. Although, for anyone who doesn't know, it will still effectively serve...

 As I've discussed in my last few blog posts, every scene of every films has to have its sound perfectly planned out, a part of this sound is the score, which is the music that plays in the background of a scene/shot. The same goes for the security camera shot, which is a scene inside of my conversation scene, which i did the score for in my Blog Post #57 - Editing: Score for Conversation .  My security camera shot   is supposed to have a more dramatic, worryful feel when the camera shootage is shown, but not too much, in order to not dampen the rest of the scene . This means that t he security camera shot must have score that is darker and more dramatic, meaning slower, and a lower pitch. The security camera shot must have score that is darker and more dramatic, meaning slower, and a lower pitch. To start, I looked again on iMovie to look for a song to use, and I found one that fit my description, called "Pursuit". Here is it down below Here is the song edited into my pr...

 The conversation scene of my project is vital to the narrative, as it shows the motivation of the detecitves, and where they go at the end of the opening. Because of this, the score for it must match the tone of scene, and help to tell the story of the project, while also making it entertaining and fast. The conversation scene is supposed to be playful, and faster than the montage scene. Because of this, the scene must be more upbeat but still calm, envoking a conversational vibe in the audience.  For the start and end of the scene, I had searched for a song in the iMovie catalog, as I did in my previous blog post, here is the song I found that I thought fit the scene. It is named "Sanskrit". The reason I did not end up using this song is that it had a desert-y type vibe. Here is it down below. Since I did not want to use this song for the conversation scene, I thought of songs I have listened to before that I have liked to listen to while performing other tasks, such as wri...

 Score is an important part of any scene in any film, as I researched in my Blog Post #56 - Editing: Score for Montage . Score helps a scene to feel less empty, impacting the feeling of speed in the film, leaving behind an emotion impact, revealing character motivations, or creating excitement. These are just a few examples of the impact of score. In the montage scene of my project, Beneath The Hood, I plan to use score to create a more levelheaded, calm, and slow scene, to display Fern going about his daily activities in the office.   To fuffill the requirements of this scene by using score, I will need a slower, instrumental, quieter, overall calm song. To look for songs, I first looked up songs that fit this description on Google, but I didn't find any song that fit my description. I then followed this up by going through iMovie's sound gallery, and I found a song named "Watercolor Medium" that perfectly fit my description, but it was too short. I then looked furth...

 In my Blog Post #38 - Titling Sequence, I researched title cards and created one for my project Beneath The Hood, which is seen down below. This title card did not add much to the atmosphere or vibe of the film, overall having a low impact on the film. Since this title sequence doesnt leave much of an impact on the audience, leaving the audience with a lower energy and feeling after the slow-paced montage scene, I want to make a higher energy, and exciting title card, to up the energy for the latter half of the project. I also want to put in an aspect that includes the presence of the killer, since that is whom this film revolves around. The symbolism of the black-hooded killer are his black hood, blade, and his victims. I can stem off the topic of his victims, and use blood as an example of the symbolism of this killer, and more broadly killers in general. The easiest way I can think to add blood to the introduction is to overlay blood splatters onto the intro, but I want to do a...