Final Film

This is our final film, so all of our effort has pulled off and now you can see the result of our hard work, so sit back and enjoy the show.

The End

This is the end of the our journey together, so therefore without any further ado, farewell from me.

List

This is the list of all the ways I could answer the evaluation questions. As you can see by the list there are a number of ways I could present my answers to you. But I have ticked off the ways I'm going to present my answers.

Title

This is our final and the title scene we will use for our film. As you can see the all black back ground suites well for the genre we are trying to achieve. The lettering has a glowing effect which makes the candle look like it is doing the effect. Whereas the writing underneath looks like candle wax which has dripped down.

3. Dear Steven,　We are thankful for you for sending your film into us, as we appreciate young and aspiring directors making films and sending them to us, as we are committed in supporting these people, as we believe that young British independent directors should be given a chance to show off their skills to the world.
As for your film we like the concept behind it, and would like you to further the film in length and story to the point of a full feature length film, which we would like to distribute, as you are the perfect candidate for us to invest to as we have had other success with other independent British films, like Four lions.
As for your film we like the concept behind it, and would like you to further the film in length and story to the point of a full feature length film, which we would like to distribute, as you are the perfect candidate for us to invest to as we have had other success with other independent British films, like Four lions.
But we have put our name to other films such as Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tyrannosaur and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
So we look forward to receiving your answer to our offer.
Yours Sincerely
Peter Frost
CEO
Optimum

6.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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5. How did you attract/ address your target audience?

 

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

4. Who is the main target audience for your product?

The main target audience for my product would be people rangeing from 18 year olds to people in their late 40's, as a psyhcological thriller loads of people like them as they have to think abou what is going on in the film, and even if they get it wrong they are still thrilled by the film.

As going back to our research we found a lot of people like horror films, as they find them exciting as its the thrill of not knowing what could happen next.

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

Google & Blogger

The first thing we had to do was make a g-mail account and learn to use blogger so we could keep a log of our creative ideas and film making. 

Adobe Photoshop CS5.1

We then started to integrate pictures and videos into our blogs to help us get points across and also made our blogs more interesting. We created and edited photos on Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (EXAMPLE: opening sequences analysis).

Adobe Illustrator CS5.1

We used Illustrator to create posters and other creative documents. Illustrator gives the user more creative control than photoshop. It is specially designed to create images instead of editing or doctoring them. (EXAMPLE: Teaser Trailers) 

Online Creative Sites

Using programs such as as Prezzi and Go!Animate also made our blogs idea more interesting, and allowed us to break what would be big chunks of monotonous text into easily digestible chunks. (EXAMPLE: pitch to investors).

Sony HD DVC CamerasWhen it came to making our preliminary we had our first experience of the filming equipment; Sony HD DVC cameras and tripods.

Final Cut Express

When editing our preliminary we had to learn to use Final Cut Express for Mac. We also learnt how to add sound into the background of our clips and manipulate them using effects.

Recording Equipment & Garage Band

To do our directors commentary we also used a microphone and garage band to record and smoothen our voices. 

Editing Day 3 

In our third and last day of editing, we cleaned our opening scene to make it look as sharpe as possible. Therefore we tweaked aat the colours and brightness of the shots, as well we added the title of the film and the titles of everyone who helped make the film.

Edititng Day 2 

Today we did and completed the second half, of the opening scene. The second half is more important as it concludes the small story we tell to set the scene for the entire film.  

Editing Day 1

Editing went well today, with the first half of our opening scene done. The process all toether took about 2 hours. As we experimented with a few ideas, as we wanted an old film effect where it looks crakled and antiqued effect. It took us a bit of time to get use to the software we are using, as we had never used it before this day.

Editing Schedule 

We aim to do all of our editing within 2-3 days. Both me and Chris will have a go at editing to even up the load. 

Day 1:

-In the first day of us editing our film we aim to have the first half of the opening scene completed. So that is everything from the start of the opening to the middle of the opening scene we have planned out.

Day 2:

-In this day we plan to have the whole opening done and finished, so this will include us finishing the second half of the opening completed.

Day 3:

-Day 3 will be a day cleaning it all up and adding the final title scene which we are in the process of making.  

Day 3 of filming 

The footage from Day 2 was of a better quality then Day 1 by a long run. There were no shaking of the camera where it was not handled properly, we did not zoom in as much as we had, only when we really had to and if the situation suited it. 

In Day 3 of filming we went to Pettswood to film the tunnel walk.

The day was a little bit overcast but other then that, filming went ok. The night before it had rained so it gave us the perfect backdrop, as it was wet, so it gave the allusion of dampness, cold and dark which we wanted.

We also managed to get a really nice shoot in of me walking down the tunnel and train went by at the same time. 

Day 2 of filming

When we got back to download the footage we took yesterday and we took a look at it all, we realized that most of the footage was no good to us as there were, shaky parts through all the footage we had taken, there where unnecessary zooms and the lighting in parts were so bad that you could not see a thing.

So we decided to reshoot the entire beginning part of our opening scene.

We meet up at Chris's but this time it took less time to set everything up as he had done this before i turned up with the camera, so we could go straight into filming.

Day 1 of filming 

As said on the on the shooting schedule we were at Chris's house filming today, and the filming went ok as we achieved all that we had planned to do and it took about an hour to film all the shoots we had listed to do.

As it took time arranging the props as we wanted them to be scene on the camera as the mise-en-scene is important to our film as they tell their own stories. For example we printed of some plans of bike parts and how to take bikes apart as quick as possible.

The weather for today was sunny with only some clouds in sky, so the conditions for filming were right  as the light was right but the shadows the buildings produced, we are now worried that it might look a bit blue on the screen when we go into the editing phase.  

Shooting Schedule

Me and my partner aim to film our opening scene within 3 days with  the third day as back up day set aside just in case we need an extra day to re-film or film anything we have missed.

Day 1:

- We are going to film at Chris's house for the first bit, as we have gotten the use of his step-dads white van which is to be the Villains main base of operations. And we will film Chris playing the bad guy sitting down with his computer and print out plans in-front of him. Filming length for this part will be about 20-30 seconds

- Along with that Chris's house is to be the main characters house and where a number of things will happen to like:

• The bike will be taken apart straight after the main character leaves it alone, this will take between 20-30 seconds 
• The villain shreds some paper which will have some importance later in the film but the audience won't realize that till later in the film, Shredding the paper will take no longer then 10 seconds, then when the main character finds it on his door step it will be about 20-25 seconds.

Day 2:

- Will be filmed in Pettswood as we the use of a specific railway bridge, which leads to a woods where the main part of film would take place. what we need to film there:

• we need to film me walking to the tunnel and me walking through the tunnel, with shots from both ends seeing me go in and out of the tunnel this at most will take 30-35 seconds
• we also need see me opening a letter which is waiting for me, as the villain knew I would be there, 15-20 seconds 

And then Day 3 of shooting if we need it to shoot something new or something we forgot or even a re-shoot of a scene we already have done.

Opening Titles Ideas 4 

This title plays on the words of "Happy Ever After" as I wanted that was clever and witty. While the slogan is "not everything has a happy ending" as most stories told end with a happy ending and everything goes back to normal, but we wanted a story that went against the norm. The "Ending" in the    slogan is underlined which emphasizes our point.

Opening Tiltes Ideas 3

This title uses inspiration from the film 'American Psycho' the knife would come across the screen, while the writing would be blood and as you can see towards the end of the blade the letters over hang the blade to give the apperance of the blood dripping from it. I prefer this title to the other two as it is more of a mature feeling to it were the other two titles had a childish feel to them. 

Opening Title Ideas 2

This was the second title idea I have come up for our film opening. This time I went with the idea of what do most people think of when Halloween comes to mind. So I went round a couple of people asking them what they think of for Halloween, I got a few Bats, Witches, Moons and Pumpkins. So I used the pumpkin idea. I believe this title is better then first, but it is still not the best it could be as there is still a some what of a childish element there still.  

Opening Title Ideas

This is the first of the ideas I have designed, the inspirtaion behind this title is one of the halloween feel as, mine and chris's film is set around Halloween. Because I drew this I looked for inspiration, so therefore I looked at Horror/Thriller film titles that had a Halloween fell to them like, Halloween and Trick 'r Treat. And this is the result I got, as you can see there is Halloween feel to it but it is to childish for what we want are film to be.

The script for media from Christophersonsyko

Evaluation Tasks

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

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

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

4. Who is the main target audience for your product? 

5. How did you attract/ address your target audience? 

6. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do  you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product? 

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

These are the seven evaluation questions that I will be answering for my opening scene project. Both, me and my partner Chris have decided to do individual tasks for the evaluation, as we want to create individual looks to the ending of the of our blogs. As well we have different opinions of what we should do for each of the questions.

Age Ratings 

The the link above is the British Board of Film Classification(bbfc), and in this link it gives you all the criteria of all the age limits, British films are set at due to their contents. And this made me think about what age limit are film would be set at if the bbfc had to classify are film, would most likely be a (15) as the content of the film, is not that particularly bloody or that controversial with the language or opinion of characters on screen.

This is our round up of all the information and research we have gathered for our final film opening scene. Within this podcast of ours we discuss how the research has led me to creating a psychological thrillers that was the favored genre for the majority of the people that did the questionnaire. As well as the outline of our idea for our film, is within this film as well.