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Evaluation Question 7- 'Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?'

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

PRELIMINARY TASK VIDEO (FINAL) 

 

- During the preliminary task, i learnt a variety of techniques, terminology and elements of film. But only a small pool of knowledge compared to present, since i have created my final product i have learnt lot more! My teacher shown us and taught us the '180 line rule' which is a camera positioning technique used for conversation. Imagine two people conversing on a red line, the rule is basically where the camera must stay on only one side of the line and not cross at any point in the scene, because this confuses the audience in terms of who's talking and is difficult to follow. This can be challenged and used in some creative ways to break this rule but its very rare. I also learnt how to vary shots in terms of long shot, medium shot, close ups, etc, to emphasise particular objects or activities. I used this in my preliminary film, where i used a long shot of a man standing against a wall, on his phone. I then cut to a close up of the phone in his hand and then cut back to a long shot to show the activity. I learnt all of the basic camera distance terminology, such as; close up, medium close up, birds eye view. I also learnt what they're typically used for, for example; a bird eye view could be used to show the isolation of a character or a crowd of people. The preliminary task process itself went well, i worked in a group of three, Jamie, Joe and I. We got on really well and all had a similar depth of knowledge in the subject. I perhaps knew a lot more at editing as i already had edited several products before, so we switched the roles round so we all learnt something knew, Joe edited as he never has used an editing programme before, i filmed the footage and Jamie directed and sorted props etc out. We were all happy with our roles and learnt together and was a good few days. However, the final product wasn't the best, the editing was error'd several times and a few filming problems however we were grateful of these flaws as they were great mistakes to make so we can not repeat the mistakes in our proper product. We learnt a lot from this and i have learnt so much since the preliminary task. The editing could of been a lot better and the filming could've been better also, such as the reflections in widows showing us filming etc. In comparison to my main task this differs significantly. The editing is a lot smoother in my final media product, there is also a use of visual effects in my horror product. I used greens screens in my final product, which i didn't know how to do during the making of my preliminary task. Overall, my main task is a lot more successful in terms of planning, editing, camera, mis en scene, location and the way its composed, this is because I had more time and worked independently and not in a group.

 

 

Evaluation Question 6 - 'What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? '

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Evalution Question 5 - 'How did you attract/address your audience?'

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Evaluation Question 4 - ' Who would be the audience for your media product? '

The audience for my product would be mainly teenagers. This is for a number of reasons. I want my audience to be teenagers as teenagers are stereotypically known for going to the cinema with their friends and watching horror films on television when they get together at one another's houses. I found this information from a website called; 'http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/sep/26/teenagers-theatre' and their website states this....


“The appetite for theatre among young people is striking. In age terms, 87% of 16- to 19-year-olds said they were likely to see something at a theatre, compared with 66% of 45- to 54-year-olds. More generally, 63% of people had been to the theatre in the past year, while the figure was 53% for music concerts and 47% for a sporting event. "


These statistics state that teenagers are the primary audience for the cinema/theatre. Therefore, if teenagers are the main audience for my film, then my film is more likely to receive bigger viewing and therefore more revenue. If I receive more revenue than my budget and expenditure, then I will make profit.

My audience will be mainly females. This is because I took a very similar product to mine, Annabelle. According to a website women made up 60% of “Gone Girl’s” opening crowd and 51% of “Annabelle’s” premiere audience. (Source; http://variety.com)

The audience will be teenagers as the main character in my film is a teenager. I think this is appealing to teenagers because it gives the teenage audience something to relate to. dress sense, decisions, teenage language and how the character acts in general. I think its important to have particular elements of my film to relate to my audience so that it becomes more interesting and relative. A similar film to mine, Annabelle, grossed $84,273,813 which shows there is clearly a large market for horror.

Evaluation Question 3 - '•What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?'

My film is similar to Annabelle. Why? Because my film has used the typical conventions of a doll that is believed to be the cause of miss happenings and exposing the house my character lives in to ghostly figures and paranormal activity. Annabelle was distributed by Warner Bros. (New Line Cinema) Warner Bros are clearly interested in distributing horror films with typical conventions and nothing particularly challenging, its all very conventional.











My film is fairly conventional too and is not particularly unique. To create the film Annabelle it cost $6.5 million. This is a lot of money considering there are no real eye openers in terms of expensive effects or scenes. It’s all filmed in a friendly typical town with a typical family and all the effects or paranormal effects are mainly just green screened. My film contains similar effects such as the green screening however I have done the opposite, I have inserted figures into the footage where Annabelle producers have masked people put, to create the illusion to the audience that the strange events are happening on there own. My film would cost around £4.2 million. This is because my film is very similar in terms of effects, scenes, characters, props and mis en scene and Annabelle cost around $6 million, I have changed the currency as I have produced my film in the UK and it comes to approximately £4.2 million. My film should be released worldwide in over 30 countries.

 They all have the same release date and therefore I will release my film on the same date worldwide, this is because once the film is released it is venerable to piracy and therefore massively decreases film profit as people watch it for free at home. My film will be exhibited in cinemas in the countries, which Annabelle was most popular in (top 20). My films rating are going to be brilliant in terms of all time worldwide rating because the film Annabelle is 9^th worldwide lifetime and it has only been released for around 8 months. This is compared to films that have been released for around 5 years, which is brilliant.

Hollywood in 1920’s created a lot of horror films and basically created what we see today, they shaped the way horrors work and created the conventions, and since the 1920’s horrors have just been reproduced with the same conventions and very similar narratives. This is because the 1920’s in American Hollywood were believed to be the ‘Golden Age Of Hollywood’ and the audience wanted to see more of what Hollywood was producing. Therefore Hollywood created more of the same films more or less and the audience loved it.  Horrors were and still are appealing to the audience because of the old fashioned conventions and how they are linked in with the modern day storyline and how it relates to the audiences every day lives.  

How it works is my small production business 'RedFish' will request finance off the large distribution company such as Warner Bros. Once my business request the 5 million (maximum)off the large distribution company and then we produce the film, assuming we are granted the 5 million pounds of Warner Bros. They listen to the narrative, review a plan and assure the finance requested is reasonable and then the choose whether to grant. If they do then RedFish will produce the film and give it to Warner and Warner will distribute it to cinemas, sky store box office, advertise it etc. Then RedFish will get a percentage of the films gross profit, e.g. if the films gross profit is a billion pounds, then RedFish may receive 70 million.     

Evaluation Question 2 - 'How does your media product represent particular social groups? '

My product is based around a teenage boy who has psychological problems and believes something greater than him is controlling things that happen, and they are. I use the representation of gender. The stereotypes of how teenage boys dress around the house. My characters costume was a plain white t shirt (slightly creased & food marks) and boxer shorts. This is so teenage boys can relate to the character but also the audience in general as they're aware that teenage boys dress like this around the house. There is also a stereotype that the average middle class teenage boys are lazy and plays console games, lay around and eat. This matches the convention of this stereotype by the way he dresses. However there is no real male representation, as it is a solo acted opening. Male representations usually include men being; in control of themselves, others, financially independent, aggressive and protective. 




However i could also argue i challenged the conventions and representations of Teenage boys because teenagers are typically seen as an overall 'youth' group. As you can by the images 'youth's' are typically seen as mischievous and troublesome. They are stereotypically seen to often party or 'hang around' lazily all the time. I have challenged the representation of this because this boy is different, this to emphasise to the audience he is isolated to people around him (hence the lack of characters in the opening) This works hand in hand with the fact he has psychological problems.