Media Studies 2025-2026 Aiden Alcindor

  Haunted House I chose to pick images of a mostly dark and eerie atmosphere. This is because the setting was a haunted house, which tend to be dark, creepy and decerped. I wanted the characters to look hostile and the setting to seem gloomy. I want the audience to feel disturbed and potentially unsafe.  A Summer Pool In this moodboard I chose photos of a happier and lighthearted tone. I was attempting to convey simple summer fun! The color schemes are light blue, like the sunny sky and the clear water and brown, to represent stuff like the rocks and tiling around pools, also it mimics sand.  A Desert I chose very few colors, green and brown. I used these two colors to express the emptiness of a dessert, and endless dessert expanse, barren. There's very little here: a person, some dunes, a cactus. Just like how there's not much in a dessert. A City A city is grey and crowded during the day, but quiets down at night, becoming almost eerie. I tried to represent that duality...

Welcome back to my awesome blog. Today in class we studied sound design, so we made a scene using a mix of foley sounds and online sounds.  Try to see if you can guess what it is.  https://youtube.com/shorts/HLjfuAM7bD0?si=2GBb3yenrPNuL-th If you were unable to guess, it was walking to the gym 1. Walking to the gym in the rain    - footsteps    - leaves rustling    - rain falling    -wind blowing    - chattering of people passing by   2. At the gym    - Weights falling to the floor   - People grunt ing   - music in background   -people talking   -people running on treadmill Here's us doing the foley sounds! Its mostly me but my partner Jose Mendoza recorded all of them and helped come up with ideas! https://youtube.com/shorts/UvtspR8f80s?si=9N-g0MFczae8cv2Z We did wind, weights moving, footsteps, and leaves crackling.

In class we analyzed the opening to a TV show, here's my case study. I chose the opening to Breaking Bad, a TV drama. The shot starts with a brief aerial shot , establishing the setting which is a dessert. From 0:03-1:06 the shot is mostly handheld , this is for narrative reasons as Walter White, the main character, is recording a confession tape. It also helps convey the character's emotions to the audience quite well, the entire shot feels shaky and panicked. At 0:22-0:25 there is a short mid-shot . In this scene it shows Walter White taking a few breaths before continuing his confession. The mid-shot helps give the audience a short breather from the constant shaky handheld camera, helping convey that this is a small break in what otherwise is an extremely stressful situation.  The camera then switches back to a close up, handheld shot of Walters face as he continues his confession. The camera is noticeably less shaky here, as the tone shifts to be more sober, as Walter...

Hello! Today in class we made a bunch of different video shots and I wanted to show you all them. I'm also going to explain the angle and why it was used. This is a reverse zoom shot. It helps drive suspense as the audience waits to see my classmates reaction to the image on the screen. This is a dolly shot of my classmate. See here, the dolly shot is used to drive into the main impactful moment, enhancing its effect.  In this shot me and my classmate attempted to recreate a Steadicam by using a rolling chair. I believe this shot is suspenseful, as its unknown what the subject (me) is walking to. This is a zooming shot into a book about the rapper Drake. This shot is more meant to bring attention and emphasis to something rather than eliciting any specific emotion.  This is a static shot of the American flag using a tilt movement. This is to show the scale of the flag. It also helps highlight the flags significance.  This is a shot using a panning movement. It allows the ...