Final Presentation

Here is everything we got together. We wanted to create a new business so we chose to do it on Pickleball since there are so many people who play the game here in St. George. So here is what we all did to contribute.

Here are the defined audience.

Gregg - Gregg is a foreign exchange student who is 19 years old that is here for 2 years finishing school at Dixie State University, he has made a couple friends that are in the Pickle ball club but has never played it before and is trying to find a way to take classes before he joins the club to make sure it is for him.  

Cori - Cori is 21 who plays competitively in the USAPA Pickle ball tournaments, she has been playing since she was 15 in high school and is ranked in the top 5 players under 30. She travels a lot but her home is St. George and she loves to teach people when she has down time.

Franklin - Franklin is a 23 year old who is newly married and likes playing sports with his married friends on the weekends. His father plays Pickle ball all the time and recently passed down his old equipment to him so they can try it out. He has been playing for a few months now and enjoys playing every now and then.



I designed the website. PICKLEDOME

Here is a quick screenshot

William did the video! Haleigh and my roommate star in it, and I helped film the drone shots. 

Scott designed the logo as well as the style guide. 

Echo created a car wrap design. 

Haleigh made T-shirts for the event

Mis-en-Scene

The film I chose was No Country For Old Men, This is a great movie that I think did extremely well in keeping you at the edge of your seat. The Director of Photography was none other than Roger Deakins, who is one of the most famous DP's out there. The DP's job is that he is in charge of the camera crew and making sure the lighting works and that the frame being shot is in a way that the director wants it to feel like. Roger Deakins has been doing DP since the 70's and has worked on almost all of the Coen brothers' movies. He does an amazing job on No Country For Old Men and it shows because it won best Cinematography at the BAFTA's and best motion picture at the Academy Awards.

The scene I am referring to is when Lleweyn (Josh Brolin) Suspects Anton (Javier Bardem) is at the hotel looking for him. It looks like he is only using natural light and keeping it dark to give a mysterious mood. Shadows are very big in this because Lleweyn doesn't want his shadow to be seen but at the same time sits across the bed waiting for someone to either walk past the door or stop in front of it.  Not much detail in the room but you can clearly see the window in the background giving the possibility of a place to escape. He sees a shadow in front of the door and the camera goes to a close up of the gun slowly clicking back to try and not make a noise. The shadow moves away and he thinks he is safe until a shadow completely covers the light and then the lock shoots out at Lleweyn and he shoots the door to escape out the window.

There is great use of rule of thirds in this whole scene as well as side lighting used a lot and giving off a mysterious silhouette which only adds to the creepiness. Roger Deakins wanted this to be as stressful as it can be, and choosing to use minimal lighting rather than adding color to the scene really helped add the the tension.

Director's Choice

One of my favorite directors is Guy Ritchie, a lot of people probably know him now for directing the man from U.N.C.L.E or the new Sherlock Holmes movies. But he made some really awesome movies before this with stories that usually had different groups of people who eventually came together to achieve some sort of goal. Lock, Stock, and Two smoking barrels was his first full length film, he also made snatch with Brad Pitt and RockNRolla with Gerard Butler and plenty of other people. He made a movie called Revolver which is right there with RockNRolla in my favorite Guy Ritchie movies, this is a psychological Thriller starring Jason Statham that really plays with your head as you keep watching it. I would recommend checking it out if you have a chance!

Composing my Frame

I took this picture of my friend doing a dangerous stunt and think it follows 3 rules fairly well. The rule of thirds has his body in the upper right corner and along the vertical line as well. diagonal rule is applied here with the road and yellow line which then leads to vectors because if you follow the yellow line it takes you right to him stand on his motorcycle. And if you are wondering what happened after. he actually does get down and ride off into the sunset majestically.