Portfolio Project Transition Post

Transitioning to Cambridge Portfolio Project 

This past week we have learned about the instructions for our portfolio projects and the requirements we will need to fulfill to receive a good grade. So from this point forward, all of my future posts will be about the development and process of my submission for the Cambridge Portfolio Project. All of the previous blog posts have helped me organize and store all of my new knowledge that I have learned from this class. To be completely honest, the task seemed very daunting to me at first due to seeing how extensive all of the work has to be and the high standards, but I am already formulating ideas on what to do, which genre it will be, and how to do everything I want to do. To start us off on our projects  teacher showed us a few good examples of previous submitted film openings and taught us about what made them be considered good.

One of the approaches I am primarily considering doing is developing character techniques. I like using this one because the character development relies on things like the dialogue that the characters is apart of,  the design of the character, and the interactions between the character and their environment, which all work together to provide a lot of insight about who my character is, what type of person they are, and can allude to their background. It is a great way to start a film opening because you can develop all of this one character and still expand on it by focusing on other characters or the relationship between the characters within the same opening. 

Another approach that I am considering is the establishment of background techniques. The establishment of background techniques mostly relies on mice-en-scene elements to develop the context without the use of character dialogue. Another thing they rely on is the establishment of the setting which is the location the character is in and includes prop details, costume design, make-up, representations that may allude to future events that will occur later on. All of this combined can create a lot of intrigue if you show specific things that the viewer does not fully understand individually but can piece it all together by the end. Through the use of many different shots or angles you can provide another way of viewing an object, person, or location which can build up the background and context even more.ss