Final Film

LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO FULL PRODUCT?

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

Hardware
In this process I used a variety of equipment and software that I have never used before or even heard of. Primarily, we used I macs to set up our Blogs and do all the software based stuff.

A really big problem was using the E05 Cannon camera. Nobody in my team has ever used it and we struggled using it from the preliminary task. We had teaching into how to use is and taught ourself from the web.

Lights was another problem. We hardly used it in the preliminary task so using it now was difficult. Again we used web to help us get that orange glow to it.

Software
Sony Vegas Pro 11

Sony vegas pro was used to help edit the typing sound of the titles used in the final movie (check Editing Post for more details)

Adobe Photoshop Cs5

We used adobe Photoshop Cs5 for minor editing like annotations and print screen edits. We also made the poster on in photoshop

Microsoft Excel 2010

We used excel to format our data collected in the planning stage and process it into charts and graphs to see patterns and give conclusions.

Adobe After Effects CS5

In my opinion this and the camera was the most complex piece of technolgy I used in the production of our movie. It was so complex and detailed. The typing effect was made all by me which was quite satisfying if i must say instead of just adding a effect to it. The process of getting use to editing keyframes and keeping contingency was difficult and long but in the end became worth it.

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

Our media project contains non diegetic music that contrast to typical horror conventions. Its slow tempo feeds into the calm, harmless interchanging messages sent and received by the talker and the victim, until the final shot where the victim is hung from the tree and shows a great opposition in relation to the previous scenes. This will make the audience ask multiple questions as to what exactly just happened which we thought was a great idea. This method of not reveal too much in opening sequences is shown to be effective in drawing audiences in in movies like seven, where pretty much nothing is shown. Countless close ups of different things that locations are not revealed helps question the audience as well. The costume and attitude of the female character can relate to almost any women that cares about here appearance and can have an effect on drawing the audience in. We have the idea that advertising our digital posters on social networks such as Facebook and twitter will get our audiences attention.

We received feedback from people and they agreed that the choice of music and the way it was shot created an interesting opening, although the opinions could be biased due to the fact we knew the people we were asking.

WHAT WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT

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WHAT KIND OF INSTUTUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?

Our film would be difficult to sell to distributors. Although we have a unique idea, pitch our film to an institution would not sound appealing to independent film distributors as the opening might not make sense to them. That is why a condensed summary of the film is what would do the trick. A wealthy intelligent man is a counter-type and has a obsession on challenging stereotypes even if it means killing strero-typical girls in order to get his point across; his ultimate goal out of this is to find someone that loves him for himself as everyone loves him when he is not himself. He finds a girl that is a potential candidate but soon realises that she is just as clever as him and has her way with men and nobody can tell her otherwise which drives him insane as he cannot get to her, another one of her fans that worships the ground she walks on tries to warn her about peculiar stuff happening around her due to the stalker. While all this happens, police is on the case slowly cornering him.
Film company Miramax is great at distributing Independent horrors such as 'Halloween The Curse Of  Michael Myers' which proved to be such a great success. Our film has that flare to it that makes it perfect for Miramax; from as big as the mise en scen to the title fonts involved. According to IMBD, Halloween was estimated to 5mill budget and made more the 7mill in the USA alone in 1 screen. We believe our movie has parallels to Halloween and can see why wont it make that much too.

We believe our film should be a limited release saying 50 prints or so and should be played at film festivals such as 'Raindance Film Festival' which helps promote independent UK films and then we will see what happens from there. To be more precise, a motion picture unit of Miramax Called Dimension films could be ideal for the distribution of the film. This is because of the parallels of our project with previous successful horrors. They would be in favour to distribute our movie because of the low budget needed to create it; So, more money can be put into marketing, consequently leading into a profitable margin. Additionally, there could be marketing spinoffs like a 'chatroom' app that could potentially lead to viral marketing.

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

The young female can be categorised as a stereotypical teenager in multiple ways. The selection of shots used in our media product depicts her social status. The close up shots of her drawing love hearts about the guys as well as playing noughts and crosses with herself represents the naive teen beauty being head over heels to a complete stranger. This happens in modern day society where teens constantly think they are in 'love' just by simple wordplay of another. The fact that she is playing naught and crosses with herself reflects the stereotype that teens are lonely people and but always searches for that missing piece of the puzzle in their life.

Also, the shot of her rosy pink lips and the shot of her drinking water plays into the ideology that the stereotypical teenage girls contently worry about their apparently hence does things to make them more attractive; in other words they are always trying to climb the never ending beauty ladder. Appearance is an important aspect for some teenagers such as typical beauty queen, like the female character Melek played. Although the shot selection of the male is almost identical,but narrates a different social class with him. This mans' appearance is in deep contrast with the young beauty queen, with things like his hair, nails and teeth poorly groomed. There is purple discharge from his mouth indicating the significant contrast with appearance with the female.

He is shown to be heating up a drug mixture in a spoon, suggesting low life self abuser that is looked down upon by society. He is in a dark basement on a social network pretending to be someone he is not to find his soul mate as his current self does not prove to be successful. This makes the audience feel pity towards him, as he is societies reject. His insecurities lead to him to believe he is not accepted in society so he has a pretend to be someone else to get closure. The male desires his intertextual lover but is yet to find her, so he ,murders the less fortunate out of ignorance.