Author Archives: Rafael Benavente

This new film would be very reminiscent to our previous film, but different in several key ways. First of which is the absence of dialogue. Our previous idea involved the usage of dialogue, but to create a more artistic piece, we decided to not include any dialogue throughout the film. This wasn’t our only modificationContinue reading “Our New Film “Lonesome””

With the recent cancelation of school and the widespread outbreak of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, our film ran into some impassible road blocks. Our film severely relied upon the actors that were supposed to be involved with the film. However, with the outbreak, one of our major actors were incapable of leaving theirContinue reading “The Coronavirus’s effect of production”

While in class our film teacher told us that while in the beginning credits, a film production company had to be shown. Now, for me and my partner, this was seen as kind of trivial and unnecessary. However, as our teacher explained to us, the production studio and its name is extremely important for theContinue reading “The Studio Behind “The Hornet’s Nest””

As I have established in previous blogs, me and my partner completed the story board for our final project “The Hornet’s Nest”. Now my film teacher advised the group to create a screen play for the film. However, neither me nor my partner Michel knew how to make a screen play. So I did asContinue reading “Screen Play for “Hornet’s Nest””

Sound The usage of sound in our film is rather complex. Being a horror film, our final project utilizes diegetic and non-diegetic sounds to invoke certain choreographed emotions onto our audience. The stark sounds of wasps are not only a repulsive and irritating noise, but could also convey fear, insanity and disruption. As a result,Continue reading “Screenplay Ideas for Sound, Lighting, and Mise en Scène in the Final Project”

One of the steps which is necessary when in the process of creating a film is to create a document which has all the shots which are going to film be in the different scenes of your film. Even though my partner and I have not started our film yet, but we immediately knew whatContinue reading “Shot List for “The Hornets’ Nest””

Story Board From the very beginning, my group established that our final production would be some form of horror film. Earlier in the blog I addressed the actions we were taking to pursue the conceptual stages of the final project. Finally, the fundementals of the project are complete with the most importiant part, the storyboard,Continue reading “Story Board “Hornets Nest””

After creating the screen play to our film, our film teacher advised us to develop the script to our film “The Hornet’s Nest”. So I worked closely with our script writer to help create our script for the film. Though I played a minimal role in the creation process, as Director of the film IContinue reading “Hornet’s Nest Script”

Feminism has had a great influence on Western society for the past 40 years and the idea that women are strong and independent beings that can live very comfortably by themselves has been a main focus of the movement. However, in media studies, women are typically defined as adopting some characteristics in film and inContinue reading “Gender in Film”

Our Survey Student Survey Film What grade are you in? What’s your favorite movie genre? What are three favorite horror movies? 1: 2: 3: Who is your favorite director? Are you scared of the mood and gore in scenes? What’s your gender? how many movies do you watch a week? Who is your favorite actor/actress?Continue reading “Horror Film Survey”