Question 1

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our plot has a non-linear timeline due to the fact it starts with a flashback/dream and then goes into the films main story. We showed the films main event before we displayed credits, this was because wanted to put the viewer straight into action and grab their attention quickly and also make them feel confused and shocked about the situation they are being shown.

Our film looks like our genre in the sense that our storyline tries to make the audience solve a problem that the main character has, we also tried to make a victim out of our protagonist and make the audience feel empathy for them. In terms of cinematography we added dark filters onto shots to make them more sinister and also tried to keep our set design grey and towards the darker end of the scale.

The camera angles we used attempted to look down on our characters and show them as weak and powerless.

We used few tracking shots in our film due to the fact we wanted to give the effect of somebody stalking our main character.

The editing of our film was done to keep continuity but we have one location cut around 1:20 without using any fades or transitions, this was done in an attempt to surprise our audience, we also increase the volume at this point. We kept the pace of our shots to a high rate and tried to use many different angles in the flash back part of the film to cause confusion. The verisimilitude is questionable due to the large amounts of white out transitions we use at the beginning of the film but this wasn’t a problem, as we wanted to give off a surreal look to the dream so I believe we met our target.

The music at the start of our film was used to demonstrate the age of our characters and make it clear they where of a young age. After this point most of our films sound is natural and the only editing we do on it is cross fades as well as sound bridges at some points.

Costumes in our film mainly consisted of normal clothes young people would wear for a party and then pyjama type clothes once our actor wakes up. Our main props where fake blood and also icing sugar that we used as mock cocaine.

The film was shot in two locations, the first was a house where we filmed in the bathroom and bedroom, and the second was at Barnsley College.

For the films titles we had to add a shadow to the white font so it would stand out more, this made our titles easy to see whilst keeping them bold and modern.

Some visual conventions of our genre that featured in our film are; drugs, death and also paranoia.

Question 7

Question 7 - Cameron Farrell from fazza0123

Prelim Exercise

Question 6

Question 4

Quesion 4 - Audience from fazza0123

Question 2

Possible distributers

 

A possible distributor for my film could be film 4, this is due to the fact that they have previously worked with independent film producers such as warp and had large amount of success with films like ‘four lions’ and also ‘This is England’.

I believe that by picking a company that has had previous experience with small production companies my film will be successful.

Film four has also distributed within my film genre of psychological horror with films such as ‘Donkey Punch’ and also ‘Dead Mans Shoes’ this will also make them better at distributing my film.

Despite this Film Four is only a small distributor in the grand scheme of things when compared to Time Warner and other larger and more international companies. Film four may also not have as much money to use for advertising purposes so the film may not be international and may be limited to a UK audience. Some may see this factor as a flaw but it could be seen as an advantage as advertising is more effective and targeted towards your audience.

 

 

Question 3

Question 3 - Distribution from fazza0123

Question 5

Overall I believe we have reached our target audience, this is because after we asked our audience if they would go to the cinema to see our film they said yes 100%

 

This chart above is enough information in my opinion to conclude we have reached our target audience and they enjoyed our film to a level where they were willing to pay to see it.

In pre production we decided that we would have characters that are a similar age to our target audience, this is due to the fact we wanted our film to be more relatable so they would be attracted to it. As well as the age of our actors we also attempted to have scenarios such as parties that they could relate to easily.

In our postproduction work we know that this worked due to the feedback in which one person said, “It's targeted at my age group and seems interesting” and also “I think it is the kind of film that I would watch”.

In our questionnaire our audience also said they thought that the film “looks professional and I thought the Camera angles where good”.

I believe the overall the successful points when taking audience feedback into consideration where; camera angles, editing and also the storyline. The improvements suggest where; “add more characters and possibly more action”. We took this feedback into consideration and to improve the storyline will have to be improved later down the line, as we had not planned to add many other main characters. Despite having to change this we had already planned in our later story to have much more action than in the films first two minuets.

Overall I am happy with the feedback we have received from our questionnaire and I think that if we take the opinions we have received into consideration we can improve our overall production.