Final film

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

I feel that I have learnt how different lighting can create different effects and that you have to plan out all your shots and make them consistent.

Consistency in our shots became more important as time went on as in our movie we couldn’t have one shot with one person sat in one place and then in another the next, as it would confuse the viewer. We also had to make sure that we had consistent lighting and that if we made sure that everyone remembered their lines and said it exactly the same if we had to re-take a shot, especially when we tried a shot reverse shot. At the beginning, we didn’t think about this as in the preliminary film we just made sure the story and objective of the main character was clear

Looking back at having a rough storyboard, I have learnt that it is more important to have a detailed storyboard or having a few different storyboards is better. This is because if we got to filming with everyone and we had a minimalist storyboard and script we would have struggled as to where to start. Also, we wouldn’t have had a chance to film the shot and realise that it wasn’t quite what we wanted and chance it and it would have taken us a lot longer. Part of what we learnt was that time management, organisation, persistence and cooperation really help in producing an effective final film/ opening scene.

Teamwork was a very important thing that we learnt as we had to adapt to fit the idea that we both had in our heads. If we completed the work separately I think our work wouldn’t have been as accomplished as it ended up. This is as we have learnt that having two opinions and perspectives is a lot better than one and that it is way better for coming up with ideas. In my very first preliminary task with Rossi and Lewis, our ideas were more one sided and the co-operation was less as it was a much smaller task and I feel like I have learnt how to co-operate better.

I have also learnt the use of colours and what effect they can have on a clip. For example, we edited a shot of a wine class and the red wine was left red while the background was black and white. This foreshadowed the later blood on the table from one of our shots of a dead character. It also connoted blood and danger. In our preliminary video we never really thought about using colours or foreshadowing and I’ve learnt that really fining down all the little details really can make a difference and make the viewer pay much more attention to the video. It’s got me to think a lot more.

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

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5.How did you attract/address your audience?

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

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

Our movie would most likely be independent as it doesn’t really fit into the tropes of what you would see from a movie released through Disney or time warner. It doesn’t really fit in with the perfect glamorous Hollywood actors and movies you would see released by those companies. Our product would most likely be funded by Kickstarter or the BBC as those tie in with independent films. Our movie would most likely be featured on the BBC if we were lucky, this is as our target audience would stereotypically watch the BBC. Also, our movie is similar to ‘And then there were none’ which is a series that was featured on BBC one and gained some popularity. Our movie also follows a style similar to that seen in ‘Inspector Calls’ which was also featured on the BBC which also happened to be independent.

Depending on if we could get a company to sign a contract with our movie to help fund it, it would most likely be funded by something similar to Kickstarter or Kickstarter itself. If so it would be released and shown in a select few cinemas near the local area it was made. If it was released under a company name we would more likely get cinemas all over the country as cinemas would recognise the company and could see it as something that would draw audiences in.

A company might choose to distribute our movie because they most likely would think it would draw audiences in so that they could gain money. They may also choose our movie as they like how unique it is and how it illustrates how a certain class may act in society. They could have not had anything in our genre for a while viewed in their cinema and may have come across our movie and distributed it to get a wider audience to come to their cinema, and/or for the cinema to expand, promote and distribute something that’s new and different for them. 

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

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