AICE Media Studies AS- Montidoro, A

     The name of our film is "The Decision", but the title will not be shown until the end of the first two minutes. The introduction will follow the main character, Mackenzie Young, around during the school day. We will show her hugging a pile of college textbooks in her hands as she rushes through the hallway. A teacher will stop her in the hallway and ask if she made it into her dream school that is a prestigious college; she will respond with a big smile and a nod. Before she walks into class she will be stopped by her boyfriend, and he will ask her how she is and give her a quick kiss before rushing off to class. We will show a time lapse of her sitting in class throughout the day and end off on her in her bathroom. Her mom will not be shown in the first two minutes, but her voice will be heard from outside the bathroom door saying that she is going to run some errands. The positive pregnancy test will have its own shot. Mackenzie will walk out of the bathroom and gr...

  CATEGORY   DETAILS   Film OR Magazine   Film   Genre   Drama   Target Audience  (Be specific)   Pre-teens, teenagers, young adults, females    What is your concept?  (Be thorough & specific. Review the links on Blackboard)   A girl who takes school seriously and is friends with everyone enjoys her last year in high school with her boyfriend .  All  a sudden she gets pregnant and she  must  decide whether  she  must  choose whether to keep it or not. There are many factors that she must think of and goes through each one through the story. How did you conceive the idea for this concept?   On television, there was a lot of controversy popping up arou nd the Roe v. Wade supreme court case, and many girls  fear  their rights being  taken away.  We wanted to incorporate this fear into our film. We were already leaning towards a coming-to-age genre for our film, s...

     I consider myself a very creative person. I love creating new stories. What is challenging to me is bringing those ideas to real life. My high expectations and perfectionism leave me stuck in a box. Duncan Wardle, an innovation speaker, presenting a TED talk called "The Theory of Creativity". He discusses his work done at Disney and used Walt Disney's creativity as an anecdote. Walt Disney was the first to create the idea of theme parks. He was unsatisfied with movie theaters and wanted his creations to be shown more interactively. Walt Disney was able to take an idea and build more onto it. Wardle also talks about naive experts and how to use them to your advantage. A naive expert is someone new you can involve in your project and can give you unbiased advice. They won't necessarily answer your questions or problems, but they give you a different, fresh perspective that you may have never thought about before. An activity that opened my mind in class was gre...