Blog 4 - House Advisory Prep 1

"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on." - Alfred Hitchcock

1.) Write a short explanation of what you are hoping to accomplish through your senior project topic. 

• A: Over the course of the senior project, I hope to grow as an upcoming filmmaker. Having the opportunity to explore the film industry before being completely engrossed into the field of work is a really good way for me to understand how the job works. In addition, I feel that by being introduced to the art at an earlier age I can help familiarize myself with more difficult techniques and styles. Currently, my focus of my senior project is on the combination of cinematic arts and psychology, also known as psychocinematics. For me personally being an amateur filmmaker, I always wondered how I could properly set up my short films in a way where the audience reacts the way they do when they watch a good Hollywood film. I started to ask myself questions like: “How could I set up a scene where my audience would actually be scared?”, “Why do people cry when watching certain films?”, and “What defines a sad or funny movie?”. I realized that if I wanted to become a successful filmmaker, I would need to learn the art of exploiting certain techniques through editing, cinematography, and screenwriting in order to influence viewers into feeling specific emotions. I felt that by studying this aspect of filmmaking would positively affect the way I execute my films on screen and carefully choose the right and wrong things to do in order to achieve the correct emotion I want.