Evaluation Question 7



I have learnt various things from my preliminary task which came to quite useful in the making of my movie opening. For example when making this prelim task was the first time I had used the the titles. Once I had figured out how to do it I found it quite easy to do different things with them like roll and scroll. I was able to use the things learnt in my prelim task in my movie opening to make my titles look pretty good. I liked the way we added a gradient to the movie name to make it look like knives that have just stabbed someone. I was able to use different shots in my prelim task which I used in my movie opening for example an establishing shot. In my movie opening it was a long shot that showed the main character and the surrounding area, my prelim task showed me it was a good way to set the seen allowing the audience to see the location. Also I learnt from the editing of my prelim task because I was able to cut two scenes together to make it look like a seamless making a match on action.

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

My movie attracted my audience in various ways. I wanted my movie to relate to teenagers as much as possible, we done this by trying to include scenarios that your teenagers would encounter on a regular basis. For example the main character is waiting at a bus stop by himself waiting for his mates. His then then sneak up on him and pretend jump him. This I think is common among teenage boys as they often like to play fight. Our location would also attract our target audience because it set in London. This will attract audiences because thy would like to see locations that look familiar to them because it makes it look more realistic. I think audience would like this because it may make the audience feel like it could happen to them just as easily as it happened to the characters in my movie.

The audiences I think will be attracted to our movie because its set in he day time. This goes against the conventions of your typical horror movie, as they are usually st in the night time. This could attract audience because its something different, than usual. They would possibly be curious as to how scary a horror film can be in the daylight.

Our film addresses they audience as it gives them something to think about when they are about to do something they know they shouldn't. This is because the characters decided to go and have a look at the house even though they had heard the story of Jenkins. This will make the audience about the consequences next time they do something they know they probably shouldn't as they characters go to see the house and if I was able to shoot the full film they would all have been killed.

Evaluation Question 6

What Have You learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing this Project?

I have been using technology throughout the making of my movie opening in various ways. For example one of the most important pieces of technology would be the Sony Cam recorder I used to film my footage because it is good quality and fairly easy to use.

Adobe Premiere Pro has been an important piece of software because it allowed me to cut different video footage together and also add audio when I started using it i found it quite difficult to use as there are many tools available that do different jobs so I kept forgetting what they did, but as I continued to use it, it became quite simple to use and I could do things a lot quicker.

Fl Studio is a music producing piece of software which i sometime use at home so i was quite easily able to make my horror music after listening to a few theme tunes like Jaws and the song from Friday The 13. The music i made went well my movie opening so i was pleased with the outcome.

I had to use microphones to record an audiotrack because the audio I had from cam recorder was disrupted by the sound of traffic and lots of wind so me and my partner decided to do a voice over which was good because we was able to do it in a quiet room with no noise.

Adobe Photoshop CS3, I used this software to make my production company logo called Roundhouse Films. At first i didn't know how to use photoshop but i quickly learnt by watching tuorials on youtube.

Video on Demand

Video on Demand are systems which allow users to choose and watch media content on demand. IPTV technology is often used to bring video on demand to televisions and personal computers.

Television VOD systems either stream content through a set-top box, a computer or other device, allowing viewing in real time, or download it to a device such as a computer, portable media player for viewing at any time. The majority of cable- and telco-based television providers offer both VOD streaming, including pay-per-view and free content, whereby a user buys or selects a movie or television program and it begins to play on the television set almost instantaneously, or downloading to a DVR rented from the provider, or downloaded onto a pc, for viewing whenever they want. Internet television, (using the Internet), is an increasingly popular form of video on demand.

Some airlines offer VOD as in-flight entertainment to passengers through individually-controlled video screens embedded in seatbacks or armrests or offered by using portable media players. Airline VOD systems allow passengers to select specific stored media content and play it on demand including pause, fast forward, and rewind.

Sky Anytime is an example on VOD systems. This allows sky users to watch movies, sports or HD programmes on demand.

Evauation Question 4

Who Would Be The Audience for Your Media Product?

            

As you can see from my picture above my target audience will be teenagers aging 15-19 but my seconary target audience are adults ranging from 20+ they may also be interested in my film because its not exclusive to teenagers. The target audience I have chosen enjoy watching horror film action, comedy, teen movies but mostly horror films, this has been shown in a survey i carried out in my school. This is what I am looking for because my film is a horror and will contain parts of action and slight comedy to appeal to a wider audience.

The general form of transport used by my audience is the bus because its free and they can't drive this will show aspects of london as bus its a commonly used form of tranpsort by all Londoners. Their favored type of drink would be fizzy drink for example: Coke, Fanta, Sprite, KA and redbull. Teenagers tend to watch TVquite often when relaxing at home, the most popular shows watched are: Misfits, The inbetweeners and skins They like to play football. They love to go to chinese restaurants and nandos. For cereal they would eat frosties or coco-pops. On weekends there busy going out with friends to the cinema and going shopping.

Evaluation Question 3

When making a film there are various ways allowing you to get funding to produce a film. One way you can get funding is by getting a grant from government schemes to encourage creativity and new talent. Another way is Local councils will often put money towards a short film making initiative, especially if it deals with social exclusion or aids the local community in some way. If I needed to distribute my film I would want to have a distributor who will distribute my films to cinemas all over the world so my movie production will be able to get a global audience, which will allow it to be successful and make lots of money.


In an ideal world I would choose 20th Century fox to distribute my film as they have had great success distributing films like Avatar which made a gross of $2,782,275,172. They have also distributed films in my horror genre which have done well for example Alien which made a gross of $185,000,000 these figures show 20th century fox are good at distributing films successfully. 20th Century Fox is a well respected organisation so if they were to distribute my film our audience would be more willing to watch it because they will expect it to be pretty good.

Using 20th Century fox would let my film be played in large cinema organisations such as Odeon, Vue and Cineworld, because they are the cinemas that our target audience will go to watch movies. This is because they would usually show large American films because they're the type of films most cinema goers want to watch, maybe because of the use visual effects for example Transformers which is a CGI based film which attracts people because the special effect are done well also the marque names involved in the films attracts an audience.