Mise-en-scene Blog Post:

Mise-en-scene Blog Post: 

Activity Goals: Our task for this project was to create a multimedia character station. A space where the audience could get to know your character through a visual, audio, and tactile experience.  

Character Description: 

Jonathan Jacobson, 32, Male, 5’11, Green eyes, Black hair, right-handed, White, Ray Bans, Wears a copious amount of cologne. Suits Hugo Boss suits black, grey, and navy. Shoes, Giorgio Armani, Single, Lives in an above average apartment. He rides his bike to work. 

Dog: Max, Golden Doodle White 

Setting: Central Park New York, Upper West side, Dog Park, 

Examples: Mood boards, Spotify playlist, and WayGround quiz, vinyl record, bank statements, and $100 bills. 

As a group we decided to develop our character in a unique way rather than just straight up give the audience a written-out character description. We wanted to immerse our audience in the world of our character and let them figure out who our character was. Our goal was to make our station as interactive as possible. We worked together as a group to produce ideas and activiti.es that would immerse the audience into our character world. I believe the way ground quiz was an excellent way of giving the audience a chance to understand the character and also give them a full character description as well. 

Our group process in creating “Jonathan Jacobson” started with the basics. His overall look was important to us to get right. We wanted the audience to look at him and immediately know where he is from and what his job is. After that we made sure the dog we gave him fits his personality, job, and look. The interactive games and tactile representations were put together to just add and solidify the “Jonathan Jacobson” character. 

We did a great job with our creativity, communication, and results. Our goal was to give the audience a fun and interactive experience to learn about our character and we achieved that. There are definitely things we could have done better, but overall, I believe we did an excellent job. 

 

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Genre Research Blog Activity:

 The Science Behind Science Fiction (Sci-Fi):

Science Fiction is a genre that explores and focuses on the future, science, technology, and A.I. It includes things like space travel, aliens, robots, and galactic wars. Science fiction is a story that imagines what life is or what life could be like if futuristic changes happened. The genre often questions society, people, and the world the story takes place in. 

• - Typical target audience of the genre: 

Teens and Adults(13-35)

• Genre conventions: 

Futuristic or other worlds. 

Explores the “What if” scenarios. 

Alien life. 

Environmental catastrophe. 

 

• - Institutional conventions: 

Visual Effects(VFX) 

Cinematography 

Set design 

Production design 

Costume Design 

Make-up and Hairstyling 

 

- Marketing: “Floating head posters,” uses of merchandise, promotions through social media, TV commercials, and fan-events like comic con; which is huge for massive sci-fi franchises like STAR WARS and MARVEL. 

 

• - Film samples within the genre: 

#1: INTERSTELLAR (2014) 

Director: Christorpher Nolan 

Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Micheal Caine. 

Interstellar embodies the world of sci-fi in every way. Christorpher Nolan crafts a masterpiece with this film. The film explores the possibility of the world ending, and in need of a savior “Cooper” an astronaut and his crew must travel into space to find a new habitable planet for the people on planet earth. It dives deep into the concept of black holes and wormholes. Its unique production design and cinematography propel this film into one of the best science fictions moves ever made. This film was marketed in a way that helped the viewer question and be in awe of the scale and science behind the film’s magic. 

 

 

#2: BLADE RUNNER (1982) 

Director: Ridely Scott 

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. 

 

Blade Runner is a film that totally embraces its world in such a special way; the viewer becomes a part of the world in some sense. The combination of the direction, cinematography, production design, costume design, and set design all make the viewer believe that this world truly does exist. Blade Runner has it all including flying cars, massive futuristics cities, and robots(replicants). Although this film is a sci-fi film, its sub-genre technoir heavily helped with the marketing of the film, which brought the film more attention. Blade Runner is the definition of sci-fi. It inspired so many science fiction films and continues to do so to this day.

- Other examples: