Who would be the audience for your media product?
We chose to make our thriller a certificate 15, as this would be suitable as we could relate to this certificate classification and know what is expected. We handed out 20 questionnaires to teenagers over 15.
This is Nida Kamal who answered one of my questionnaires. She can represent our target audience as she is very typical of our target audience. She enjoys watching thriller films in her spare time with friends. She doesn’t have much knowledge about genres of films, as when she was asked what thriller film was her favourite she answered, ‘Saw’, which actually is a horror film is. She stated this as her favourite thriller film because of the use of suspense. For our product we thought about our target audience and tried to create suspense throughout the opening sequence.
Thursday, 22 April 2010
Question 3 - Anam Nasir
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Our media production company name is ‘H.B.N Productions’, this was suitable as it made sense to name our production company with our initial in it. We did not make a logo for our production company, due to the amount of time we had. However if we did have time to design a logo it would most probably look like the Sony Pictures logo.
A production company is responsible for the development of a product. They may also be responsible for raising and funding for the product.
Using 20th Century Fox as my distributor would be suitable as they have distributed many successful thriller films like: Mirrors, Max Payne and Blindness.
Ideally I would think the money for a film like ours would come from the UK Film Council which awards funds from The National Lottery. They mention on their site that they “fund script development, film production, short films, film export and distribution, cinemas, film education, culture and archives, festivals and audience support schemes”. (Click on quote to visit site).
When ordering our films titles, we were confused about what appears on screen first. We looked at other film openings which help us decide what order to do this in. we came to a decision of having the production company’s name first and then the list of film makers and then finally the title of the film. We got this idea from the opening sequence of Se7en. (Click on the Se7en link to watch the opening sequence.)
Institutionally our film would be released in a similar way to the thriller films, Se7en and Final Destination; both have been distributed by New Line Cinema.
Our media production company name is ‘H.B.N Productions’, this was suitable as it made sense to name our production company with our initial in it. We did not make a logo for our production company, due to the amount of time we had. However if we did have time to design a logo it would most probably look like the Sony Pictures logo.
A production company is responsible for the development of a product. They may also be responsible for raising and funding for the product.
Using 20th Century Fox as my distributor would be suitable as they have distributed many successful thriller films like: Mirrors, Max Payne and Blindness.
Ideally I would think the money for a film like ours would come from the UK Film Council which awards funds from The National Lottery. They mention on their site that they “fund script development, film production, short films, film export and distribution, cinemas, film education, culture and archives, festivals and audience support schemes”. (Click on quote to visit site).
When ordering our films titles, we were confused about what appears on screen first. We looked at other film openings which help us decide what order to do this in. we came to a decision of having the production company’s name first and then the list of film makers and then finally the title of the film. We got this idea from the opening sequence of Se7en. (Click on the Se7en link to watch the opening sequence.)
Institutionally our film would be released in a similar way to the thriller films, Se7en and Final Destination; both have been distributed by New Line Cinema.
Question 2 - Anam Nasir
QUESTION 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In the flashback the audience see Victoria Jones in a classroom wearing school uniform. Our target audience could relate to this as they could go through similar events she goes through in the film.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In the flashback the audience see Victoria Jones in a classroom wearing school uniform. Our target audience could relate to this as they could go through similar events she goes through in the film.
Question 1 - Anam Nasir
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings).
Conventionally a male character is most likely to be presented as the assassin.
Here we have ‘The Joker’ from ‘The Dark Knight’ alongside a picture of Victoria Jones in similar makeup.
The title of the film is ‘Once Upon a Time’ suggesting the film will have a happy ending like in fairy tales, and that the story of the movie will be positive.
The setting of our film is located in school, most shots are taken in the library, this is to show the murderers influenced by books, particularly fairy tales as she holds a fairy tale book.
Here we can see a wide shot of the books as the setting and we see a book in the murderer’s arms.
Using face paint on the murderer was used to create and edgy feeling for the viewers
Our first shot consists of a tracking shot across the book shelf in the library; this was to create mystery as the shot gets to the end of the bookshelf, the audience are unaware of what is expected. To show the separation from the flashback and real time we edited the colour of the screen to black and white. We also edited the music and made it more deep using the tool on iMovie. This made the film have a more deep feel and to create a sense of enigma.
The styles of the titles were alongside hand drawn images of fairytale characters suffering; this was to go with our fairy tale theme.
The opening of the thriller sets up the story of the film by giving the viewers a brief introductory of the characters past.
The genre of our film opening is a thriller. Our media product shows this with the use of dark mysterious music and doesn’t show any gory material, which separates thrillers from horror films. With a thriller genre in mind it was easier to think of a narrative.
Victoria Jones is introduced in the first shot of the film, staring in the camera, which can be intimidating towards the audience. The shot then cuts to a closer shot moving in gradually from a wide shot to a long shot to a middle shot, with the titles in between to give the viewer’s time to take in what they are long at. The use of this technique was to introduce the location of where the character is, then who the character is and lastly the emotion of the character.
Conventionally a male character is most likely to be presented as the assassin.
Here we have ‘The Joker’ from ‘The Dark Knight’ alongside a picture of Victoria Jones in similar makeup.
The title of the film is ‘Once Upon a Time’ suggesting the film will have a happy ending like in fairy tales, and that the story of the movie will be positive.
The setting of our film is located in school, most shots are taken in the library, this is to show the murderers influenced by books, particularly fairy tales as she holds a fairy tale book.
Here we can see a wide shot of the books as the setting and we see a book in the murderer’s arms.
Using face paint on the murderer was used to create and edgy feeling for the viewers
Our first shot consists of a tracking shot across the book shelf in the library; this was to create mystery as the shot gets to the end of the bookshelf, the audience are unaware of what is expected. To show the separation from the flashback and real time we edited the colour of the screen to black and white. We also edited the music and made it more deep using the tool on iMovie. This made the film have a more deep feel and to create a sense of enigma.
The styles of the titles were alongside hand drawn images of fairytale characters suffering; this was to go with our fairy tale theme.
The opening of the thriller sets up the story of the film by giving the viewers a brief introductory of the characters past.
The genre of our film opening is a thriller. Our media product shows this with the use of dark mysterious music and doesn’t show any gory material, which separates thrillers from horror films. With a thriller genre in mind it was easier to think of a narrative.
Victoria Jones is introduced in the first shot of the film, staring in the camera, which can be intimidating towards the audience. The shot then cuts to a closer shot moving in gradually from a wide shot to a long shot to a middle shot, with the titles in between to give the viewer’s time to take in what they are long at. The use of this technique was to introduce the location of where the character is, then who the character is and lastly the emotion of the character.
1st Draft and Final Product
This is our rough draft, we chose to take out the rewinding scene as we didn't think it worked and while we were using it to disorientate the audience we believed it looked out of place. We decided to end it with the tap as it seemed a good place to leave it and introduce the beginning of the action.
We also made changes to the sound-how the non-diagetic music ended and left the diagetic souund of the tap.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
30th March
Yesterday, after putting together our rough cut we found that it was not even a minute long and we had no more footage to add. To overcome this today we filmed additional scenes to make it longer and begin the narrative more effectively. After uploading it we found the shots we want to use and put some of them in a rough order so when we come to edit tomorrow we can concentrate on getting the timing right.
Then all we have left to finish is the sound and titles, we have planned to do our voiceover tomorrow at lunch as we had to delay it due to the fact we were unable to find someone with the right voice to do it. Once we have done the voiceover we will be able to find the right music since it’s difficult to know if they will sound right together and we only have to add the text to the titles, and then upload them on to i-movie.
Then all we have left to finish is the sound and titles, we have planned to do our voiceover tomorrow at lunch as we had to delay it due to the fact we were unable to find someone with the right voice to do it. Once we have done the voiceover we will be able to find the right music since it’s difficult to know if they will sound right together and we only have to add the text to the titles, and then upload them on to i-movie.
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
17th March
Today we have a media synoptic day, We have made a plan for what we hope to get done.
Period 1: Drawings for the credits, look for music and preparing the script for the voice-over
Period 2: Recording the voice-over
Period 3 &4: Filming in the library
Period 5: Uploading the footage taken in the library
Period 6: Filming in the classroom.
Period 7: Uploading
By Holly, Ameena and Anam
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