Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Friday, 30 March 2012
Answer to Q7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you fell you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
We achieved so much from our first Prelim as when we got to do the final product we had an excellent match cut from both settings. The story line was as well better and more creative in every single way. We follow the 180 degree rule, we used a variations of sounds non-diegetic as well as form the file in Soundtrack Pro.
As a result I learned that the lightening is really important when doing the recording as in some parts of the final product it becomes to dark. The position of the camera as well as sometimes it seems as the camera was tilted, this occurred because when installing the camera the tripod wasn't put in a right angle.
Thursday, 29 March 2012
ThankYou
As my final blog I want to say thank you to the media department for all their help and support!
Answer to Q4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Q4 Who would be the audience for your media product?
by: yasdnilrey
Answer to Q1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real products?
Answer to Q2:
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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Evaluation - Production and Distribution
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Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Our film, in two minds has a production company - Candi Studios, and a distribution company which we have chosen is Revolver entertainment
They have produced and distributed many successful british films such as Revolver Entertainment is a marketing-lead, all rights film distribution company. Founded in 1997, the company has operations in both London and Los Angeles.
In the video I have put together, it demonstrates why we have chosen a small independent company to distribute our movie. As our we had a very low budget, we improvised mostly by choosing an appropriate location where it will depict a strong meaning through the mise en scene.
Monday, 26 March 2012
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Monday, 19 March 2012
HOW TO USE VIMEO!!!
Step 1 go on to google:
Step 2 Click on login and enter the username as '283goswell@googlemail.com' password as 'Student'
Step 2 Click on login and enter the username as '283goswell@googlemail.com' password as 'Student'
Step 3 Once logged on click on 'my videos'
Step 4 All videos will be displayed go through all the pages until you find the video you want to watch
Evaluation - Audience for Media Product
Our target audience for our thriller opening is teenagers and young adults. This is our general target audience as young adults and teenagers are more likely to watch a psychological thriller. Our film is a psychological thriller, that would appal more to teenagers. This is due to the conventions such as setting, the props etc. Our film is on an estate which gives it a young urban feel and attracts younger adults as they may feel it is a film that deals with realistic problems.
Filming Shoot 2
ROLE AS DIRECTOR
Being director of our thriller opening proved to be a fun job, whilst also proving to be quite challenging. Being the director gave me the responsibility to decide if our footage seemed believable and were representative of our film idea. It was key that my group had equal input and agreed with ideas I had in order to make our idea come to life. Things to take into consideration would be lighting, shot angles and coordination of actors.
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| A bit blurry but you get the picture... |
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| Day two of filming |
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| Adding the final touches |
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| I needed a bit of help... |
FAMOUS DIRECTORS
Here are some of the industries most famous directors and heres what they had to say....
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| Martin Scorsese |
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| Oliver Stone |
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| Steven Spielberg |
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Research into Target Audience
Psychological Thriller
Our group all decided that we wanted to produce a psychological thriller for our film opening. In order to do so we would have to conduct the appropriate research in to who are target audience would be. A psychological thriller is a sub genre of a thriller that has a heavy focus on the characters. This specific genre tends to have elements of drama, mystery and horror.
This being the case it is evident that this particular genre would be targeted towards an older audience so the required certificate for our film would be a 15.
Below is a video that shows some psychological thrillers
I personally believe that our own opening should be targeted for young teenagers as our main character is a teenage girl. This should allow a young audience to relate to the main character and become emotive towards her as she goes through her ordeal. Throughout she is plagued by a series of threatening letters and mysterious injuries. She feels as if she is not safe anywhere. The way in which this concept becomes psychological is that its turns out that she suffers from schizophrenia and is in fact sending the letters to herself and causing herself self harm.
Psychological – Elements that are related to the mind or processes of the mind; they are mental rather than physical in nature. Sometimes the suspense comes from within one solitary character where characters must resolve conflicts with their own minds. Usually, this conflict is an effort to understand something that has happened to them. These conflicts are made more vivid with physical expressions of the conflict in the means of either physical manifestations, or physical torsions of the characters at play.
Treatment
Updated Treatment
As we faced problems in being able to record our original idea for out opening we decided to modify the storyline.
We still decided to keep our original idea to record a psychological thriller but realised our original opening sequence would not be practical. Now our opening begins with our main character Cynthia in her kitchen apparently nervous about something. She opens a letter which the audience do not yet see. The scene then cuts to her running outside apparently away from someone or something. She then takes the letter out of her pocket and burns it revealing the words "I'm Gonna Get You"
A key aspect to identify the tension is the range of match cuts and jump cuts. This then also helps to increase the pace and tempo of our opening
Foley Sound
Recording Foley Sound
Foley sound is the recording of everyday sounds for the use of film making. This is done because during the filming process sound may become lost due to other noise in the background. In the editing process programmes such as Sound Track Pro can be used to incorporate a soundtrack to your footage.
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Pre-recorded foley sound already on Sound Track Pro
 Filming music from head phones    The sounds of people talking/whispering |
Plan For Last Week of Editing
Friday 2nd March - Anjana and Lindsay will be finishing the sequence and deciding where titles will be placed.
Monday 5th March - Group 22 will be adding sound to the opening during lesson
Tuesday 6th March - The whole group will be meeting during workshop from 12:15 - 17:00, hopefully we will have finished editing added most of the sound.
Wednesday 7th March - Lindsay, Anjana and Chris Will be meeting for workshop and do a frame by frame check to see if we can make any last minute changes
Thursday 8th March - Lindsay, Aysen and Anjana will try and complete the entire opening before our morning lesson finishes.
Friday 9th March - If need be we will all come to college to complete the opening and ready for 15:00
Monday 5th March - Group 22 will be adding sound to the opening during lesson
Tuesday 6th March - The whole group will be meeting during workshop from 12:15 - 17:00, hopefully we will have finished editing added most of the sound.
Wednesday 7th March - Lindsay, Anjana and Chris Will be meeting for workshop and do a frame by frame check to see if we can make any last minute changes
Thursday 8th March - Lindsay, Aysen and Anjana will try and complete the entire opening before our morning lesson finishes.
Friday 9th March - If need be we will all come to college to complete the opening and ready for 15:00
Monday, 27 February 2012
OUR COMPLAINT
Our blogs are missing!!! we are very disappointed and shocked. We feel as if all our hard work has gone to waste! if our blogs are not returned in the next 24 hours we will be taking legal action against you. thanks. good day.
Filming Process!
Day 1 Of Filming:
During out first day of filming we found that it began to get dark earlier, forcing our group to have to shoot a different scene. However the day was not a waste as our group became familiar with the video camera. We did manage to gather an adequate amount of footage to help us decide what needs to be changed, as well as helping finalise ideas on the way our final piece would be shot.
Our group managed to have a good time whilst filming. This is what we got up to while setting up the equipment...
Blooper Reel
During out first day of filming we found that it began to get dark earlier, forcing our group to have to shoot a different scene. However the day was not a waste as our group became familiar with the video camera. We did manage to gather an adequate amount of footage to help us decide what needs to be changed, as well as helping finalise ideas on the way our final piece would be shot.
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| On Location Filming |
Our group managed to have a good time whilst filming. This is what we got up to while setting up the equipment...
Blooper Reel
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Teacher Feedback
Hello group 22
I like the choice of template for your blog - it looks really good.
Your blog would look even better if you kept up to date with an account of the filming and editing process as you go along: photos of you on location, vlogs of how you are getting on (you can talk about what's going well and what you need to do differently next time or re-shoot).
Keep up the great work.
Rough Cut Deadline - next Thursday during our lesson (1st March)
I like the choice of template for your blog - it looks really good.
Your blog would look even better if you kept up to date with an account of the filming and editing process as you go along: photos of you on location, vlogs of how you are getting on (you can talk about what's going well and what you need to do differently next time or re-shoot).
Keep up the great work.
Rough Cut Deadline - next Thursday during our lesson (1st March)
Monday, 13 February 2012
Sunday, 12 February 2012
Risk Assesment
There are many possible risks when it comes to filming and using the filming equipment. Here are some of the risks involved.
- When filming and using expensive equipment we need to be careful and make sure that all the equipment is safe and with us at all times as there is always a risk of the equipment getting damaged if it is not handled in the correct way.
- As we are filming some of our opening outside there is always a risk that we could trip/fall and hurt ourselves.
- As we are filming outside we need to be careful that we do not go out in really bad weather as we could fall or hurt ourselves.
- In our opening we are using props such as a cigarette, a lighter and possibly a knife. These are all major hazards and could cause potential harm if we are not careful when handling these items.
These are only some of the risks that could occur while filming.
Sound
We are planning to use foley sound to create the atmosphere we are trying to create. We are using foley sound as they sound more realistic and are a good way to achieve the sounds we want. We have already recorded some of our foley sound such as;
- A lighter being lit,
- Footsteps,
- Door opening,
- Music through headphones.
We still have other sounds that we would like to record such as door slamming, tapping on a glass etc. we will be recording these sounds when we start filming on Tuesday 14th February.
Throughout our opening we want there to be a beat in the background. We also need to record her parents talking to her and people shouting abuse. We want it to be like we can hear her thoughts and what is inside her head.
Saturday, 11 February 2012
Last minute changes
After presenting the pitch on Monday we were asked to think about some changes and were advised to keep it simple because they felt it was too dense for a 2 minute opening, for that reason we have decided to change our opening. we have taken out the countdown because we felt it became slightly irrelevant and takes up too much times - this meant we ha
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
TOTAL PAGEVIEWS
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Thanks,
Group 22
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