Representation Blog Post

Representation Analysis

Movie: 13 going on 30

In this movie we are introduced to a character named Jenna Rink. Jenna Rink is a 13- year old girl at the time and she represented as a insecure girl that's trying to fit in with the popular people. Jenna is dressed with bright colors and childish clothes. She invited the popular kids to her birthday just be left out. Jenna cant fit in with the popular girls and she just wishes she was 30. She keeps saying this one phrase "Thirty and flirty and thriving". Jenna was a very naive girl and didn't know what she was saying. She just wanted to have the guy of her dreams and be popular.

Jenna Rink got her wish granted and she woke as a 30 year old woman of herself. She has a mind of a 13-year old and she still very weirded out. 

Musical Research

 What is a musical?

Since I do theater myself, I felt like it was right to do it.

Musicals are a theatrical performance that includes things like drama, dance, music, and acting. All these elements create a musical. In a musical a story is told by songs for the most part. In a musical, the story is developed through both spoken dialogue and musical numbers in which characters sing and dance to convey their feelings, ideas, and motivations. What makes a musical a musical is the content that it has.

Content:

Dancing happens a lot in musicals. It adds more to the background and adds personality to the musical. Dancing is a way to add to the story of the musical. It also makes the audience get more engage into the show because its visually pleasing. Dancing is such an important aspect to any musical because it uses movement to convey stories and emotions in a way that goes past words and music. By giving the narrative an engaging and memorable dimension, it enhances the audience's experience by adding a layer of visual spectacle and emotional depth.

Ex: This is the musical newsies and in this musical dancing in involve a lot. The dancing is added to show the playfulness of the boys and gives them personality.

Music and songs that are in the musical are the reason why it is a musical. It uses songs to convey a story without having to use much dialogue. But instead uses music and songs to show the character feelings or emotion. They provide characters a means of communicating their deepest feelings, wants, and thoughts that spoken language cannot. The narrative gets a unique depth by the music, which increases its memorability and engagement.

Ex: The character Lydia Deetz is talking about her dead mom. She sings that she thinks that her mom is still alive and not dead. That her mom might be a part of a world beyond the one in which she lives. When she singing you can really see her emotions while singing this song.

Product Techniques:

A musical performance can be created, staged, and presented using a variety of methods and procedures that are included in musical production techniques. These methods cover a wide range of production-related topics, including as set design, lighting, sound, choreography, and music composition. These are some vital techniques for producing music.

Set design are very important when setting the scene. Without having something in the background to go to the next scene, the audience will not know if the musical is switching scenes. Set design also add more color and nice visuals that will keep the audience more engaged.

Ex:  This is the set of Beetlejuice. This is a great example of a set design because it shows that their in a house with many details added into the house.

 

Marketing: 

The audience for this film is for people that like the aspect a musical like the music, dancing, and the story line. That targeted age is any age. Some musicals are meant for an order audience and some are meant for all ages. It depends on what the story is about and how its made. 

When musicals market there plays. They use adds and saying that their selling tickets. Some popular movies like mean girls and legally blond was made into a musical. So people that like the movie are most likely to see the musical. On Broadway musical are very popular but they use print, ads, radios, and social media. They use every type of platform to promote their musical.

Samples:

The musical Hamilton made it on Broadway in 2015. The musical is about the rise of the founding father Alexander Hamilton for his legacy. Most of the music in this musical was rap and singing. The person that wrote Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) wanted to add a new type music to a musical and he choose rap. The set design, the costumes, dancing, acting, and singing made the musical very engaging and made a lot of people around the world love the musical. The attention to detail in this musical is why its still popular in 2023. 

Mean girls the movie was made into a musical in 2017. Most musicals were films. Means girls is about this main character Cady just came from Africa and move to Illinois and is starting public school. She meet the mean girls of the school. But she has these friends that want her to ruin their lives because they did something to them. So cady goes along with the plan because she like this guy which is Regina George (The main mean girl) ex. But soon after Cady starts becoming one of them. By the end of the musical they all went their separate ways. Basically Cady goes through the challenges of high school and tries to fit in and climb the social latter. The music in the musical really shows the emotion and their personality though these songs. The set design is simple but explain perfectly where the setting is. Some things were added and some things weren't to fit this type of musical.

Some musicals to consider:

- wicked 

-west side story 

-Matilda 

-Waitress 

-Bring it on 

Sound project

Description

- In this project, me and my partners had to create a realistic 1-2 minute scene with only sounds; using the techniques we learn. We were only allow to use seven words in this project and also had to create four foley sounds. Once we had done the project we needed to upload pictures of layering in are editing, the sound project, and show videos of one of are partners making the foley sounds.

Sound project outline

Development of project

When me and my partner were coming up with a scene, we wanted something that could have a lot of sound layer on top of each other. We came up with multiples ideas such as baking, sword fighting, carnival, and more. At the end we decided to do baking. After we got are scene we needed to add conflict in the scene so we ended up with baking and then a fire starting.

After we have are outline put together we started doing are project. I found most of the sounds use for the project. One partner handle most of the editing and the other did the foley sounds. Once everyone had a job we started putting the project together and even made a group chat to do it after school. Once we finish we submit the requirements that were needed in the submission.

Project: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DHGArauZY_SKM9EkyqzmRTAHRegniu5Z?usp=sharing  

shots/angles quiz

 shots/angles quiz:

For one of my preliminary projects I did a shots/angles quiz. In this quiz I had to create a story with only fifteen shots of the camera shots and angles that I have learn in the class. In this story, objects had to be the main focus not humans. Humans can be added but they can not be the main focus. The shots are teacher wanted us to use is....

• An establishing shot

• A Long shot

• Two medium shots

• Two close-ups

• An Extreme close-up

• A Point of view shot

• Any type of shot using a high angle

• Any type of shot using a low angle

 There are 5 shots left are for us to pick what shots and angles we want to use. This a all had to be on a power point or a google slideshow and each shot/angle have to have 1-2 line explanation on why that shot was use.

development of your final product:

How me and my partner developed are final product was figuring how are story would go and what shots we would use to make are story. We wanted to make a story about a girl finding this stuff turtle and them becoming best friends and at the end she had to leave school and say goodbye. We took many shots of their friendship developing even though it was for nothing because the girl had to leave school. These shots were to get are story across and make it seem easy to understand what's happening. All these factors combine we ended with are final product.

What was good/things to improve on:

I think what me and my partner did good on was telling the story. Are shots mostly explain what was going on. We included all the shots our teacher ask us and follow directions. The one thing that I think we should have improve on was shifting the focus more to the object.

First Post

Hi, I'm Brianna and this is my first post. In my blog I will just be posting about portfolio projects and will be posting a lot of stuff about media studies. This will be important because I can keep track of things.