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  Hi again! For a recent assignment, we had to make a moodboard that matched the mise-en-scene for ANY movie of out choice... This is the moment I come out to you all as a PROUD Twilight enjoyer. I actually DESPISED the series before I gave it a chance, but now that I am one of the crazy teenage girl fans, I can say with pride that Twilight has one of the best mise-en-scenes ever. The entire aesthetic of the film is so alluring- ESPECIALLY the first move (Catherine Hardwicke changed lives with her aesthetic choices for Twilight, mine included.) For my moodboard, I really wanted to tap into both the "blue filter" aesthetic and the cold warmth of forks- like Bella and Edward themselves. The blue filter comes from Catherine Hardwicke's decision to overlay a cool blue filter over everything in the first Twilight films. It gave the movie a really unique, distinct look that you won't find anywhere else- it adds to the mystery in the plot, as well, with Bella having to figur...

  Hello again!  A while back, we had to create a "sound story," which is just a short 1-2 minute long clip of pure sound, with the intention of creating a small scene or story. I thought, what better story to portray than that of going to the movie theater- especially because we are in a film class? I didn't think I would spend as long as I did while I made my sound story- mainly because imovie is... not the most fun platform to use. In terms of sound layering, I could only have three pieces of audio going at a time, so I had to find ways to get multiple layers into one audio clip, so I could layer more than just three ( i usually love a good rule of three, but this time, it was just inconvenient.) Nevertheless, I was able to finish everything just fine, and I had a successful project- below are the sound story itself, and my "foley stage" video (me creating some of the sounds featured- that's right! I didn't only use ASMR tracks... even though I used qu...