Film Opening

This is my final media product, please enjoy and thank you for viewing my Blog.

Evaluation-Question 7

Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I feel that I've have learnt quite a few things about the film industry. How it can be very tedious working in the editing stage trying to make something work without breaking the continuity of the scene. I had to make sure that everyone knew what they where doing for the product to be developed as fast and efficiently as possible, it isn't easy. However I didn't make the same mistakes that I made when doing the preliminary task for example, I didn't get a match on action shot correctly and so had to work my way around it but in this no such problem had occurred.

I think my preliminary task was rushed but because I could take my time with this task I think it is of a much higher standard than the preliminary task. With this task I edited sound more and found that it wasn't all that easy getting the balance right. i had to make sure that the soundtrack was hear with enough diegetic sound to show verisimilitude in the scene.

I now understand all the pre-production issues that a studio go through before even beginning to film, e.g. recce, costume designs, props list, script, storyboard. All these must be finalised before a single shot is filmed, that way everyone knows what they are doing and it'll be much faster and easier to get the job done.

I enjoyed doing this task as it has taught me skills that i hope to use in the future of my study of media. This really gave me a chance to express myself and make something that was my idea and came from nothing into something, i'm quite proud I should say. I definitely feel more confident doing this sort of thing again and hope to in the future.

Evaluation-Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
 

Evaluation-Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

 

 

I would attract  my audience by using different marketing techniques, for example posters and other big media prints, interviews with the director and cast, and of course who could forget trailers shown on TV and in cinemas. I think this is the most effective way of advertising as it makes people see my media on a daily basis so that they may begin to consider seeing it. Also I hope to spark up conversation on my film so that more people will watch it to be able to discuss it's issues that it brings up.

 

As my target audience is mainly young people (25 or under) I feel that they would go online more so than older people. because of this I think a viral marketing campaign could be launched as to attract more people and more attention in general. one example of a viral marketing campaign is the Blair Witch project's choice to use 'missing' posters as to spark up conversation to whether or not this was a true story and a documentary or not. Another more recent example is the Skyfall viral marketing campaign.

 

 



Something like this would definitely make my film known throughout the Internet.


However I must think of something individual to my film to make this work, maybe place lots of boxes around the station instead, and you have to find where the tickets are.

I think using all of these ways of marketing would be the best way to make sure my whole target audience know about the film, which would increase the chance of them going to see it.

Evaluation-Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation-Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation-Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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Evaluation-Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

After Effects Test

My First experience using after effects and what I made. It is my name being animated with the background moving and its colour changing.

Recce

Recce

Production Schedule

Production Schedule

Equipment List

Equipment List

Credits List

This shows the names we came up with for our different titles and who they are in relation to the cast & crew.

credit list

Credits Timeline

This is the credits timeline, it shows when the credits will be displayed in our film. Showing what time and which credit will be shown. The titles are numbered to show the order of them.

The second line is the audio we haven't written anything because we couldn't estimate what time the audio would come in.

Credits List

credit list

Animatic

The Animatic of the storyboard

Risk Assessment

Abigail Risk Assesmnet

Costume List

I think that most of the costumes would follow a dark colour scheme e.g. crimson (blood red), black, grey, navy blue, and so on.

Vince Vinny would be wearing:

• black striped shirt
• black blazer
• black striped tie
• Smart black trousers
• black leather shoes

the concept of all the black is to show Vinny as being quite evil as he is a mafia mobster/criminal. The suit is a classic mobster look showing he is a professional criminal and not just a small time burglar.

Max Phillips would be wearing:

• casual navy blue/grey hoody
• blue jeans
• trainers

Max is just a security guard so he hasn't got the style that Vinny has. He also isn't to uptight about his looks so it would seem appropriate that he is dressed in such casual clothes.

Sara Carter would be wearing:

• dark grey/black coat
• crimson lipstick
• grey blouse or shirt
• grey/blue jeans
• trainers

Again Sara is only a  secretary but is also the villain in the opening scene so her colours represent danger e.g. red lipstick. She also has a short of mystery about her as we do not see her fall on at any time in the opening scene.

Character Profile

Character Profiles on Prezi

Props List

Here is a list of things that I will be using in the film:

• A shovel
• A backpack
• A mobile phone
• A box
• A coin any amount
• A desk
• Chairs

It is only a few props because we are doing most of our filming outside.