Media Studies 2025-26

 Today is class we chose any short film we found interest in and got a rubric we can base our rating off! the rubric;  The title of my short film is; THE THING IN THE APARTMENT I would give the film 20 points on the criteria that it keeps the story interesting and in my opinion holds the audiences' attention throughout the whole film. I think the opening of the film jumping into one of the main character (Sam) being called by her friend (Lindsay) who is panicked and scared of something going on in her apartment (there being a thing in the apartment ;D ) keeps the audience hooked from the get go due to its suspense and tells us to expect our focus to be automatically needed to keep watching if we want to know what happens. I want to keep watching to find out what is going on and if she will be able to help her friend and not get tangled in the danger while trying to save her. I would give the film 15 points for its demonstration of camera work and editing used to enhance the st...

  The Quiet Place (2018) ;  https://youtu.be/4CmmKmlXD9I?si=5pIefrX7jSg_d9px This is my case study on a clip from the movie ‘A Quiet Place’! I analyzed the miss-en-scene of this clip. Setting and Art Direction:  The scene opens at an isolated train track in a forest leading to a lonesome bridge that immediately establishes the characters  '  decision to keep moving forward, despite the fear of the unknown and after what  was  previously shown (people dying at any little sound made). The setting is deep in the forest  ,  with multiple trees  and  branches fallen on the  ground,   and  train tracks and bridges leading the characters deeper into the empty  woods  . The forest is indicated to be lonely by the different views used, which show no other background characters other than the main family (to visualize that the family does not know if they are the only ones safe or if other people are still alive aro...