Friday, 26 April 2013
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
By Nikita Williams
Evaluation
As a group we had to come up with a genre which we think most of the community liked. We created a questionnaire and after that we looked at the questionnaire and came up with that Crime Thriller. We researched the genre which we had picked out of all the other genres, the type of information we were looking for was Sounds, mise en scene, costume and how a Crime Thriller film trailer opens like what type of distribution they used in this video.
· In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
When we were watching other crime thriller trailers we found that the sound is similar and most of them use two main colours black and red. Also got ideas to improve our video and make it look better for audience.When starting to look at different film genres in preparation for starting our group piece, we looked at different film genres and the conventions of each of those genres. For example rom-com would be very high key (lighting) and would usually had younger attractive people falling in love, with a struggle separating them. Then there was drama; using fast paced editing and lots of action to keep the audience enticed. Then we began to look at horror and thriller and as we did this we focussed deeper and deeper in on it, realising this is probably what we would want to choose for our own genre. And we did. The horror/thriller crossover share many common conventions such as a dark environment (often) with a main murderer, and a main victim (or possible victim).
· How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our two minute film opening represents modern teens in many ways through our use of mise en scene. Emily, our vulnerable actor makes us use of a car to drive in for the kidnap. This is a relevant prop in our film because it’s a modern car which teenagers are known for using as technology is a massive part of a teenagers social life via driving with friends and messing about. We also used teenagers in the film to show this is the social group we are using. Through the use of clothing, we put Emily in fashionable clothing which teenagers would wear; her top was red to show blood and violence that we were creating.
· What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The most obvious media institutions that would distribute my film would be YouTube and other on-line networks. A company that would be great to distribute our film would be Working Title Films as it has distributed a wide variety of films such as; stalker, hostage, Shaun of the Dead and jaws although none of these films have the same genre as ‘Intruder’ they all had very good box office takings and had very high ratings. Working Title Films is also associated with Film4 which means we could get our film to be broadcasted on the TV, this would broaden our audience and make people aware of our film, this would encourage them to come and watch it. Film4 also broadcasted About a Boy - which was a Working Title Film; this was a big success with huge box office takings meaning it would be wise idea to let them broadcast Intruder. Working Title would be useful to distribute our film as they have had loads of successful film releases in the past and present such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually. This could increase the chances of our film being a big success rather than a ‘flop film’. Fans of Working Title Films will be inclined to come and see our film due to their previous film successes. It would also be a good idea to use a large American distribution company such Universal Studios. This would enable us to get our film available in the USA which would also broaden our audience – this would increase the box office takings and achieve high revenue and profits for the company and us. By releasing our film into the USA, it would make it much easier to distribute it into cinemas so lots of people will be able to view our film easily. We would also advertise our film in the cinemas encouraging lots of people to come and see our film. Our film will then be distributed onto DVD release. All these ways of selling our film will lead to wider audiences and varied reviews. However it will lead to maximum gross profits. An good idea to increase the number of people that come and watch our film would be to release snaps of our film onto the internet which will intrigue people and make them want to find out more, and may lead to higher purchases of our film.
· Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience would be people who generally enjoyed watching crime thriller films. The age range would be about 13 and over, because they would understand what the film would be about and they are older enough to see people dying in films. The reason why we have chosen this type of genre for our audience, because that is the type of films people like to watch.
Loading…· How did you attract/address your audience?
People who like crime thriller and find it interesting the people that we have targeted out film trailer to be 13+. One of the models was wearing party clothes which I think will attract people that are in that age group. We also added a lot of affects to our video for our audience so the video doesn’t look boring. The affects we added into our video was text and animations.
· What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt a key number of skills that will help me in the future towards technology. I have learnt how to edit a video clip and how to add many different affects such as animations, sound and how to add text when the video is playing.
· Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When we started our preliminary task we had a good understanding of what we’re going to do and how we were going to go about it. When our group looks back on our preliminary task the way that we feel that we have improved on filming our trailer, when we were filming our preliminary task we were short on the technology such as ; Camera/ Tripod , Props for the filming , Costumes , sounds effects. I think we worked well on what we have achieved on our task and we know how to do things with sort supply of items to use.
Conclusion
Overall I think I have exceeded my expectations, because I have done all the work and I have done it to the best of my ability. I have worked hard for what I have aimed to achieve for example try and do over 60 posts on my tumblr and I have gone over that. The one that struggled with was the video that we had to create, because we didn’t have a lot of affects to add into the video so it would look better towards our audience. So we had to come up with another way to make our video stand out and we did. I also made sure that we did everyone’s ideas and that I listened to everyone. If I had to do it again I would do it the same way I wouldn’t change the way a thing.
By Nikita Williams
As a group we had to come up with a genre which we think most of the community liked. We created a questionnaire and after that we looked at the questionnaire and came up with that Crime Thriller. We researched the genre which we had picked out of all the other genres, the type of information we were looking for was Sounds, mise en scene, costume and how a Crime Thriller film trailer opens like what type of distribution they used in this video.
· In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
When we were watching other crime thriller trailers we found that the sound is similar and most of them use two main colours black and red. Also got ideas to improve our video and make it look better for audience.When starting to look at different film genres in preparation for starting our group piece, we looked at different film genres and the conventions of each of those genres. For example rom-com would be very high key (lighting) and would usually had younger attractive people falling in love, with a struggle separating them. Then there was drama; using fast paced editing and lots of action to keep the audience enticed. Then we began to look at horror and thriller and as we did this we focussed deeper and deeper in on it, realising this is probably what we would want to choose for our own genre. And we did. The horror/thriller crossover share many common conventions such as a dark environment (often) with a main murderer, and a main victim (or possible victim).
· How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our two minute film opening represents modern teens in many ways through our use of mise en scene. Emily, our vulnerable actor makes us use of a car to drive in for the kidnap. This is a relevant prop in our film because it’s a modern car which teenagers are known for using as technology is a massive part of a teenagers social life via driving with friends and messing about. We also used teenagers in the film to show this is the social group we are using. Through the use of clothing, we put Emily in fashionable clothing which teenagers would wear; her top was red to show blood and violence that we were creating.
· What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
The most obvious media institutions that would distribute my film would be YouTube and other on-line networks. A company that would be great to distribute our film would be Working Title Films as it has distributed a wide variety of films such as; stalker, hostage, Shaun of the Dead and jaws although none of these films have the same genre as ‘Intruder’ they all had very good box office takings and had very high ratings. Working Title Films is also associated with Film4 which means we could get our film to be broadcasted on the TV, this would broaden our audience and make people aware of our film, this would encourage them to come and watch it. Film4 also broadcasted About a Boy - which was a Working Title Film; this was a big success with huge box office takings meaning it would be wise idea to let them broadcast Intruder. Working Title would be useful to distribute our film as they have had loads of successful film releases in the past and present such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually. This could increase the chances of our film being a big success rather than a ‘flop film’. Fans of Working Title Films will be inclined to come and see our film due to their previous film successes. It would also be a good idea to use a large American distribution company such Universal Studios. This would enable us to get our film available in the USA which would also broaden our audience – this would increase the box office takings and achieve high revenue and profits for the company and us. By releasing our film into the USA, it would make it much easier to distribute it into cinemas so lots of people will be able to view our film easily. We would also advertise our film in the cinemas encouraging lots of people to come and see our film. Our film will then be distributed onto DVD release. All these ways of selling our film will lead to wider audiences and varied reviews. However it will lead to maximum gross profits. An good idea to increase the number of people that come and watch our film would be to release snaps of our film onto the internet which will intrigue people and make them want to find out more, and may lead to higher purchases of our film.
· Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience would be people who generally enjoyed watching crime thriller films. The age range would be about 13 and over, because they would understand what the film would be about and they are older enough to see people dying in films. The reason why we have chosen this type of genre for our audience, because that is the type of films people like to watch.
Loading…· How did you attract/address your audience?
People who like crime thriller and find it interesting the people that we have targeted out film trailer to be 13+. One of the models was wearing party clothes which I think will attract people that are in that age group. We also added a lot of affects to our video for our audience so the video doesn’t look boring. The affects we added into our video was text and animations.
· What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have learnt a key number of skills that will help me in the future towards technology. I have learnt how to edit a video clip and how to add many different affects such as animations, sound and how to add text when the video is playing.
· Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When we started our preliminary task we had a good understanding of what we’re going to do and how we were going to go about it. When our group looks back on our preliminary task the way that we feel that we have improved on filming our trailer, when we were filming our preliminary task we were short on the technology such as ; Camera/ Tripod , Props for the filming , Costumes , sounds effects. I think we worked well on what we have achieved on our task and we know how to do things with sort supply of items to use.
Conclusion
Overall I think I have exceeded my expectations, because I have done all the work and I have done it to the best of my ability. I have worked hard for what I have aimed to achieve for example try and do over 60 posts on my tumblr and I have gone over that. The one that struggled with was the video that we had to create, because we didn’t have a lot of affects to add into the video so it would look better towards our audience. So we had to come up with another way to make our video stand out and we did. I also made sure that we did everyone’s ideas and that I listened to everyone. If I had to do it again I would do it the same way I wouldn’t change the way a thing.
By Nikita Williams
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Friday, 19 April 2013
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Friday, 22 March 2013
Saturday, 16 March 2013
Saturday, 2 March 2013
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Preliminary Evaluation
In our preliminary task we had to develop a video which has a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action shot/reverse shot and the 180 rule. The few things which we have learnt since we did the preliminary is that we have leant more on how to edit the film and our technical gadgets have improved like we have used a tripod and used different scenery. This has made our main project to have improved on the technical and sounds, mise en scene and costume.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Friday, 15 February 2013
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Friday, 8 February 2013
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Groups within the group
The roles that are within the group are dedicated to the students which have played the different roles.
Nikita- Was the one that walked and had a conversation with the other student (jessica)
Jessica- Was the one that was sitting on the chair waiting for nikita to walk in and then had a conversation with the other student (nikita)
Danielle- Was the one that filmed the video.
Chelsie- Chelsie made the plan and the ideas and the script.
The way that our group was well stuck into the time schedule was that we spent alot of time getting our ideas and plans to come together and also create a script to follow off. We handed work out to eachother so we all had our own work to carry on with.
My thoughts what i thought went well were that we all worked as a team, if someone was stuck and didnt know what to do we would all help as a group, we all came up with the different ideas for the video.
My thoughts on which we could of improved if our group has more time would be to be able to edit our video to a more of a standard.
Nikita- Was the one that walked and had a conversation with the other student (jessica)
Jessica- Was the one that was sitting on the chair waiting for nikita to walk in and then had a conversation with the other student (nikita)
Danielle- Was the one that filmed the video.
Chelsie- Chelsie made the plan and the ideas and the script.
The way that our group was well stuck into the time schedule was that we spent alot of time getting our ideas and plans to come together and also create a script to follow off. We handed work out to eachother so we all had our own work to carry on with.
My thoughts what i thought went well were that we all worked as a team, if someone was stuck and didnt know what to do we would all help as a group, we all came up with the different ideas for the video.
My thoughts on which we could of improved if our group has more time would be to be able to edit our video to a more of a standard.
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Friday, 18 January 2013
Thursday, 17 January 2013
Research for Preliminary Task
We worked well together by listening to each others ideas and not cutting across them when they are speaking. The people we had in our team were jess, dani and chelsie we all put our own ideas into the video. we thought we did good by listening to people and ideas and doing them, because nikita and jess were the actors in the video. There was no arguing and were all enjoying it, because it was something different to do and when we were doing the video someone stepped in to help with the video. Once we finished the video we were all pleased, because we worked well together as a team and what we have achieved at the end.
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Friday, 11 January 2013
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