De Last Post

DE LAST OF THE POSTES

     I probably should have gone the route of writing this blog post in the beginning of the week before my sanity packed up a suitcase and left in the middle of the night, but it just sent me  a postcard from the happy recess of my mind so here it goes before I forget.  

     Just like everyone else probably I must reflect on the past year in Fiction Field 2, it had and has its ups and had and has its down, but one thing is for sure...I learned a lot. I learned a lot about production, myself, and other people. Highlights include the workshop with David Scalafile and the Sound Workshop in the Field with Jeff Pullman, and of course the Beautiful Stopover City!

     This was the first semester where I was actually given a taste and an idea of the what the actual industry is like outside of work in the way of making film and television, and i'm happy to say I was excited and optimistic by what I saw. I definitely have a batter of understanding of what i want to do outside of college and what I need to be doing now to get there. 

     Going off that tangent, there is a lot that I know nothing about and there is a lot that I need to learn and fast. I am always over my head but slowly I feel like I am swimming up to the surface and hopefully my next film will go a lot smoother and more stress free than this one. I am so thankful for everyone who helped out on this project and their experience and dedication, I only wish that our in class group was bigger so we didn't have to rely on so many outside sources, as most of them had to take time out of their extremely busy schedules to help us, thank you to all you lovely people!

     To this semester and to this class I say Adios! And in some ways just good riddance, I can't wait to leave the inexperience of this semester behind on my part and now tackle bigger issues that I need to work on to be the best filmmaker I can be.  

Can We Talk About American Horror Story

American Horror Story: Coven premiered last wednesday night, the third installment in the groundbreaking, boundary-pushing series. The horror genre is experiencing a boom as of late, and its becoming increasingly more popular among youth, especially with the youth appeal of American Horror Story. The Tate-Violet romance of the first season sent young girls into a frenzy, and now the third series follows a group of teenage witches in a witch boarding school. It sounds like a cliche YA trilogy, but AHS is guaranteed to bring much darker, sexual, and disturbing tones to otherwise cliche stories. 

Horror has been prominent throughout all of Hollywood's history, but it is only now grabbed the attention and profits of all audience niches, for a fraction of the production costs. American Horror Story earned more Emmy nominations than any other show, and nearly every network is following suite with the success of horror as a television genre. A few examples of horror in television: Supernatural, The Walking Dead, Bates Motel, Grimm, Hannibal, Hemlock Grove, and NBC's Dracula premieres this month, and TV version of The Exorcist and American Psycho are in the works, to name only a few. 

One thing (among many) about AHS that stands out is their use of promos and teaser trailers. For all three seasons, the short promos are guaranteed to give you the creeps, and don't offer much about the plot unless you look closely and pick out the clues. They typically only make sense after you've watched the entire season. But their mysteriousness and utter creepiness is what makes them and the show so appealing. It's almost like a game, and I'm sure there are threads on the internet where people pick apart every second of every trailer and discuss theories. 

And here, if you're interested, is the trailer for Dracula: