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.

Bedlam Productions

After watching The King Speech in one of my media lessons I was ask to to do research on one of the production companies involved with The Kings Speech. So I have listed some information about Bedlam Productions below:

-They started their operations in 2009.

-There were founded by two guys Siman Egan and Gareth Unwin

-They won Bafta and Academy Award nominations.

-Their based in Central London

-They mainly produce Tv Dramas and Documentaries, The King Speech was their fist big movie.

Evaluation Question 2

The characters from attack the block represent our social group because they are wearing standard cloths teenagers would may wear when out on the street for example hoodies and and hats, this is a stereotype to black youths in London which we have followed. This relation would appeal to young people who live in London because its the environment they live in and the characters in our films go through everyday events which youths in London would experience. The colours the characters in our film are wearing mainly, dark this helps to show the time of year as people wear dark cloths in the winter and helps to present the correcety mise-en-scene. A difference between the characters in my film compared to attack the block is: our characters are wearing their cloths like a normal teen however the characters in attack the block are dressed as vandals who are about to do some type of crime.

Instead of sticking to the stereo type of it being a group of girls who get attacked at the beginning of a horrror film our attacker is attacking a masculine group of young menwe have done this to show a group of men are jus as vulnerable as a group of women. One of our characters isn't as brave as the other two characters as he is spooked out by the story of the man and his house and doesn't want to go inside, this tends to happen quite frequently in horror films because the is usaully on person who thinks what they are doing is a bad idea but ends up following the others and dieing anyway. In attack the block as you can see from the picture on the left the character in the middle has the most power within the group because he is standing in the middle and throughout the film th other characters tend to follow his lead.

Evaluation Question 1

I think my media production relates to the normal horror movie conventions in a number of ways and we have developed different aspects to our film and made it our own.

For example in our short film the first scene had one of the charactors standing at the bus stop by himself listening to music, this is to show everything appears to be normal but little does he know its all about to  change. This has been shown in various horror films for example The first exorcist directed by William Friedkin. The girl appears to be normal at the begginging of the film but developed into a girl possessed by a demon.

The characters costumes are of tht of normal london teenagers, this is to show they are anware something is going to happen as they are on there way to someones house. This is done in all genres of movies not only horror for example in The Hills Have Eyes 2 the characters are wearing combat uniform this is because the characters are all i the army doing some training however in Halloween the characters are teenagers s they are wearing normal cloths they would were to college.

The film is set in London at a bus stop as the boys are waiting for bus. They then have to take a divertion through the park and into a forrest becuase one of the characters forgot there oyster card. When  the audience finds out the have to take a detour they will autimatically know somethign bad is going t happen becuase thing never go according in a horror film for example in Wrong Turn the characters take a wrong as it says in the tittle then they get attacked by hillbilly cannibals.

During our movie opening we were able to match the titles with the actors in the film, if this was a real film it would allow the audience to know who is playing the characters in the film. The font we used has a spooky appearance which is appropriate as  it is a horror film.

We didn't use much special effects in our movie opening. It is used once because on of the characters leaves his buss pass at home on his bed so to show this we took a shot of a bus pass on my bed and edited it to black and white to show its a past event he is remembering.