week.3 part.2

 
 Poker research 


POKER RESEARCH 


In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player with what appear to be strong cards nevertheless loses.

            - This is what we have decided to make our project name "BAD BEAT" as it describes what we are going for perfectly. In our film we are running a poker scam to gain money and find out the past history of the father and why he got arrested. But the people we are playing against have already lost before the game even started. But the whole time they are led to believe that they are winning so they can play the highest bet and then lose on a "bad beat".      

               

                For the film opening it is not necessary for us to know poker but just to pretend like we know poker. Every once in a while say some poker terminology here and there to make it sound real. 

For the film opening itself as of now we have a general idea of what we want to but nothing is 100% yet, but we obviously want a poker scene but we haven't agreed on what we want to do for the rest of the opening.

  - Ways to cheat in poker.

                                    - Method 1 Holding Out

1. Wait for a card you want. 

2. Keep an eye on your hands for any cards you might want to hold.
3. Hide the card you want to keep. 

4. Take your whole hand under the table and leave the card you want to hide hidden somewhere on you.
5. Drop your hand.
6. Keep playing.
7. Switch the card or play it.
8. Wrap things up.
                                     - Method 2 Colluding With Friends

1. Gather a friend or friends
2. Select friends you can trust.
3. Decide your communications.
4. Practice with your friends
5. Keep your team work a secret

        We will most likely to go with the second method because it follows our group scam idea better.  

A film to take inspiration from is 21 here is a little summary of the film. 

Ben Campbell, a brilliant student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, needs some quick cash to pay his tuition bills. He joins a group of students who, under the leadership of unorthodox professor Mickey Rosa, use their math skills to win big in Las Vegas. Seduced by a beautiful teammate and loads of money, Ben learns that the stakes are higher than he ever imagined when he crosses paths with casino enforcer Cole Williams.  (This summary is from Wikipedia)

Week.3 Part.1

     Today is Monday, February 24th and it is week 3 of the project and now we are starting to make big moves with our project. First thing i would like to share with you is our basic plot that we brain stormed over the week end. 

Basic Plot:(opening)

-Father of main character gets arrested for tax evasion - fraud, poker scam H

-Lost their fortune and property.

-Main character is a young man who now has to live in a poor house. He now runs a poker scam, talented from high school experience.

-His goal is to get the money to pay off the crooks his dad has beef with, and to discover the truth behind his dad’s history.

-Lives with his uncle now and works with his best friend and uncle to run the poker scam.

-Challenges Mafia people to poker game to dispute the payment, he beats them

So for the characters we plan on having me (Emil lorwa) on playing the main character of "Nathan Hill". Sadly we have not found anybody to play the two other characters of  Best friend (F):Rebecca Martin, and Uncle (older M): Chester Hill (preferably an older male (if we can find an actor))

  Really the only problem we have with this right now is getting hold of a poker table. I have everything else i have poker cards and poker chips just don't have a poker table. We have come up with a solution of buying a round plastic table from Walmart and tapping or stabling some green felt to it. Or we plan on all chipping in and buying an actual table and then return it when we are done with it. But i will look around my house a little harder just to make sure in case I have one. 

     So far everything else to do with the project so far has stayed the same no major changes as of yet. Although we have come up with some movie names. We came up with the idea of naming it after a card or a move in  poker. o what we have so far is (BET, ALL IN, ACE, and CLUB) but we have not decided yet so it is still to be determined. 

Part. 2

    So it's day two of week two and so far no real changes have been made to any of our plan for this project. As of right now it is defiantly going to be harder to write about something on this blog post because well nothing has changed. I hope in to future i will have something to update everyone on.
    But I have been doing some more research and found a film to take scenic inspiration from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdYQyIJiOyU

So i don't know how to make a playable video link. So what i will do is explain the scene and add some pictures.


pic.1




As you can see here it is a picture the scene is like something that i explained before. It has the yellow under tone lighting and is kind of dark. But most important of all It is a sketchy poker scene in a run down dirty place. And its Perfect because its a film opening too so its easy for us to inspire from.
    So over all not much has changed about our filming locations and filming and editing days but we are starting to find things like the example above.

Week. two

    As of this moment our group hasn't started on the project just yet. Although we have started to brainstorm a few ideas for what we want out film intro to look like but we will talk about that latter on. Right our group is just focusing on planing seeing what time and day works for everyone and things like that.
   We have come up with a scheduled everyone that everyone is okay with and that everyone can work around. We agreed on everyone will be available Tuesday and Wednesday, which for me is kind of bummer because  i have to skip soccer practice for the project but i can suck it up. So Tuesdays and Wednesdays we film and then on the weekend we look back and reflect to see what we still need and what we can do better. Then we just repeat the cycle till we done with the project.

the pictures below show examples of what we want our set to look like.

Right now we have a general idea of what we want with the "garage scene" and it goes something like this....

Poker scammers (dark comedy drama): Young 20 year old just lost all of his family fortune because his father got arrested for tax fraud. He now runs an underground poker scam, searches for the reason his dad got exposed/caught.

Settings:

Garage

Beaches

Everglades (bottom locations still being discussed)

High school

Houses

Genre research pt.2

Our idea 

             

               An idea that our group has come up with is to go some where along the lines of discovery. 

A look for the stars kind of idea as our character goes out searching for something or someone they get drawn into a long adventure. An inspiration for this what’s the lion king. The lion king takes us on an adventure of self discovery send be who you’re meant to be. Throughout the whole movie here switching he’s searching for who he wants/needs to be. But as you search your name we are taken On his whole journey. While the adventurous journey is still an interesting part of the film the focus is more what is happening to the character and not where he is going or where he’s at. .

                      

  Also the film opening for the lion king is something that we can also use as an inspiration. The opening scene of the lion king tells a brief story going to happen. This is something that I would like to include in my project as it’s not telling you directly what is going to happen but it is telling you that it’s a story about growing up and living life. 

portfolio genre research

Action - Drama 

                           The Action-Drama genre is an interesting genre because of how different the two singular genres are.  Dramas often give actors a chance to emphasizes the role and the character more then usual compared to other genres that wouldn't allow them to. This is because drama films focus on building up characters that the audience can engage with and not the actions or environment that is unfolding around the character. The plot does not depend on EXTREME action stunts or anything like that to drive the movie forward, rather it uses action as a side story booster while still being an important part of the film.

                          The cool thing about the Action-Drama genre is that it allows both things to happen. 

In most Action-Drama films the main focus is on the character themselves while all the action is still taking place but the action is not the main focus and is used as a plot builder. 

                          An example of a movie like this would be the "Hurt Locker". 

                           The hurt locker blends these two as close to perfect as you can get.The characters in this film are the central points and the conflict is between the men themselves and the action is all being play out around them. This mix of  telling a story about someone in adventurous way is something I hope I Achieve successfully. 

Music Marketing

               Our music marketing project was based in the pop genre. As we did our research found that many artists that work in the pop genre have their own unique way to market and distribute their music. For example Billie Eilish released her albums with exclusive content on certain streaming services. An example of this is on Spotify. She has short videos that go along with the song that is exclusive to Spotify. So inspired by this we came up with the idea to have our debut album come out in February and have an exclusive album cover only for people who bought it in February for Valentine’s Day theme.

          Running with the theme of Love and Valentines we also use jukebox as a distribution service so couples could listen to the songs that we released. our artist Luke Ross was a love pop artist and was focused on the target audience of teenagers and young 20s. We wanted his character to be relatable to the target audience so he can make music for them and they would be interested. We wanted his character to be able to spread love and happiness to his followers and to bring his followers together. We want people to listen to his music and wanted them to feel a connection with other people as they listened. 

                     One thing that I learned while making this project was how to develop a character that people could relate to. At first I was just trying to create somebody from scratch but then I realize that it’s better to go off of what you know and to convey that into a person that possibly could have an impact on other people by connecting to them and speaking to them in a different way. Also another thing I learned was no matter what you create you have to create something that will catch the attention of the people you’re trying to sell your product to. You can’t just make something and hope for the best do you have to make something that speaks to people and give them a reason why they should feel a connection to what you’re making.