Yr 12 Group 5 Double Dealing

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

With our prelim task, one of the task we were asked to do was match-on -action. Which my group done when the character opened the door.

Then with our opening sequence we also used match-on-action, when the main character is walking to the main door.

On my prelim task we didn't pay much attention to text and how it related to what type of genre we were using, and we just done it simple and didn't do anything technical.

Whereas with our opening sequence we had more time to play around with the different software we could us to create our text. In the end we used livetype and put it over a clip, we also made our text fade in and out which kept to the genre of film we were creating an opening sequence to.

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

Imovie is the main software that we had to use to create this product and we used it to edit our opening sequence. I had experience of using in my own time out side of school and when we made our preliminary task. We imported the clip that we filmed from the camera, and then organised it in order so we knew how our opening sequence would look like. The we cropped the clips so that the timing was right and it didn't look jumpy, but some times this didn't work to how we wanted because the clips we filmed jumped so it was hard to make them flow, therefore we decide to use transitions to make it look smoother.

We also used LiveType, this software was a bit harder to use than imovie and we also used it for the editing process. At first i was only able to make clips with text that when imported to imovie wasn't able to fade over the clip from where it had a black background. Then i tied to find out how to put a writing over clips and i finally found out that you had to export the one clip you wanted the text to be over then make it as a background on LiveType. This ended up working so we decided to put most of our titles and credits over clips that we wanted.

Itunes was the software we used to upload our music on to so we were able to put them onto our opening sequence, and from where itunes is connect to imovie once our music was on itunes it was easy to get it up on imovie.

We used a camera to capture the clips that we needed, and we could also look back at then to see if there was any other clips that we needed to film.

This is the wire we used to upload the clips we recorded to imovie. The wire plugged into the camera and to the computer.

 We also used a tri-pod to hold the camera steady. It also help move the camera left to right steady, where as free hand it would be quit wobbly.

The mac was another main part to help us edit our opening sequence, the reason for this is because all the software is on the computer.

This is a screen grab of blogger. I used the blogger website to publish my work and communicate with my group. I also recored all my research and information from the questionnaire's i asked to find the target audience for thriller genre.

We also used youtube to upload our final product and blog updates, which we posted to blogger as well to show a verity of way to put my work on my blog.

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

4.) Who would be the audience for your media product?

This is Bob, he is male, 18 years old, and enjoys watching thriller films.
He like to shop in JD and loves his trainers, he is usually casually dressed but dresses to impress when he goes to parties.
All types of music is enjoyed by Bob, but his favourite genre of music is dub-step.
When he see a film that interests him he would usually go to the cinema to go watch it, because he enjoys watching good films on big screens. He also is more likely to see a thriller film in the cinema from where it creates a more scary atmosphere and when one person reacts it make everyone react, and that makes him more scared. When he does see a thriller film he likes to bring a girl so that when she is scared she can cuddle up to him.
Bob usually watch's thing like game shows and documentaries about teenage's, from where he can relate to what is going on.

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

What does a production company do?
A production company usually take care of concept and completion of the film and the supervising of the whole thing. They also are responsible for the financial side of the creating the film and selling it to make money. They don't only help create films but the can help t.v programmes and performing arts. They also take care of all the advertising so that people are aware of the type of media they are trying to promote.


What is your idea of a distributor and who that might be and why?
My idea of a distributor is a shops and cinema's companies, this is because they are the ones that help sell films. Also thing like youtube is a type of distributor, from where it lets people world wide see trailer or opening clips to the film.

Where the money might have come from for a film such as yours?
If we did wanted to create our opening sequence as a film we could pitch it to a production company. Then if they believe it has potential to make money they would invest in your film, and give money to create the film, advertisement and help with distribution. Then with the profits you make they would take a cut of it so that they don't lose out on money, which they in vested in. For example big companies like Warner Bros. Pictures, which produced the film Gothika, would need to know if the film has a big money potential before the invest from where they cant afford to have there company name put by an unsuccessful film.

Why the various people are named in the titles- Which jobs appear in the titles and in what order and how have you reflected this?
There is various people named in the titles, so that people that have help working on the film can be referenced on it. Usually the actors are named first in the titles because they are the most important people in the film because without there wouldn't be a film, and the last person in the titles is usually the director.

How is your film similar 'institutionally' to others? (name some films which would be released in a similar way)
Our film is similar institutionally to low budget films that don't have the money to advertise the film in large way and rely on the film being cheep and the film looking interesting for people to buy the film to see what it is like. Going back to the research of 5 opening sequences Butterfly effect and Seven are both produced by New Line Cinema, this shows that this production company likes taking on thriller movies. From knowing that new line cinema produces thriller film if we done a good enough pitch they would most properly invest in our film.

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

This is the main character in my groups opening sequence and his name is Fredrick. He is casually dressed, laid back and is a generally nice person who is easy to talk to. He cares about other people rather than himself and would put his life on the line for something he believed greatly in. He would also be classed as a middle class person from where he lives a normal life and is just able to pay his bills. Amongst his friends he has a high social status from where they look up to him and aspire to be kind like he is.

Here is a screen grab of the main character from Memento and compared to our main character his is more or less the complete opposite. I know he is the complete opposite from where in the opening sequence you see him kill a person, therefore out straight away no that he is not a nice character. He also seem to have high social status amongst people from where we find out he was a investigator. He is dressed more smartly to suit the type of work he does, which also is different compared to our main character.

This is a screen grab of the main character from the film Gothika and she is more like our main character but she is different gender. She has a higher social status amongst her pears as well from where she works in a mental institution and people usually think that mental people have low social status from where they find it hard to communicate to people. She also dresses casually, because the type of work she does she need people to feel comfortable around her. Altogether our character and Gothika's main character are very similar in a way that they both try and fight for someone's justice.