Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for my media product will be a mixture of girls and boys, from the age range of 15-21+ purely because the content of the film such as voilence and the language is suitable for a 15+ film. i ahave already wrote about this previously in the blog and went into quite abit of detail. just like the target audience post i wrote about at beginning of the blog, tell you what our audience are and i have mentioned in in the other posts on my blog. but we have aimed our target audience and teens and in young adulthood. One of the main reasons is because i and the other people in my group and the people in my media said that they like films like our idea's. we told them about the film we was going to do, they said that they either liked that or comedy, we thought that the psychological thriller would be more fun with transitions and conventions of a thriller would be much more interesting to do, and with a comedy, we would have found it harder to do as, we have to try to make it funny and because were not real actors or anything it would have failed in my eyes because i don't think we would have succeeded the humour part. the language and contents of the film fits the age range too as they understand the language of modern day life.

Story board

our story board we had trouble uploading our story board, but we finally was able to upload it after alot of technical difficulties, kayley drew up the story board and me and jess filmed it, the first time of filming the story board was hard because i couldnt' keep my steady, but the second time, it looked much more professional. the drawing of the story board took some time because we wanted to look as animated as we could and kayley did a really good job at doing that, for instanance the face of the young girl getting stalked was very professional and looked animated in itself without any effect put into it. the music runs over the filming as we didnt cut the music as it was far too long, we made the music on garage band.

     

what have you learnt about technoglogies from the process of constructing the product?

We used the technologies given to us, such as the macs and final cut express, using the macs to do our film, were suitable for us, as they had all the technology we needed, on the mac but also we had two different editing stations on it, there was either final cut express, which is what we used, or there was imovie. we tried using imovie before we decided on which editing thing to use. i found imovie much harder and more difficult to use rather then final cut. Final cut express allowed me to view the editing options as well as the work I had done clearly, which was important to me because it helped me understand more when experimenting with different editing techniques.

When i tried editing the preliminary task, i was inexperienced at it, and i couldn't do it very well, and i only got a little time to do it as it was a very small task to do. Because I had never used final cut express before, everything I did was an experiment and it took me a long time to achieve the effects I wanted.

When it came to doing the final piece, the real opening sequence i found it hard still, but because of my involvement in the preliminary task I felt more confident with what cuts and effects to use. i understood how to edit, so i ended up editing some of the film and putting some of the titles into the film, as Jess showed me how to do it and i put 3 titles in, such as 'A RANGER FILM' and i also put the title 'can you see me now?' in so that it came in with the music and faded out with the music. with final cut express we found out that the most professional title effect is simple and sophisticated affects such ac Cross stretch as it symbolised that it is all going to explode, in the film and  makes it at suspense. this helped me progress my skills of the titles and final cut express.

The transitions we used in the film, we experimented on as well, we tried a lot of different transitions to see what looked good, we had about 3 in, but we realised it looked really unprofessional, so we changed it to just using one that was called 'addictive dislove' i thought this looked much more professional, so we kept it. also we had to see what font to use, she we tried a few of them, which i posted on my blog a few weeks ago, in the end we went with Charlemagne std because it was the one that was the easiest to read and had an edgy vibe to it.

Using the camera, was much easier then editing the film, we used two different camera's for the preliminary task we used a flip camera which wasn't very good and the quality of the film was rubbish and there wasn't many options on the camera that suited to make a film look professional.

We then got given another camera which was an actual video camera and made everything much easier to use and which made everything look more realistic, such as when we did tried doing different shots, for instance the zoom into a close up, the video camera was much smoother to zoom with. we also had a tripod to use to keep the camera still when we were doing some of the shots, such as the shot in the snow when Lydia and i were walking up the hill before i go to chase her.

opening sequence feedback

i put my film onto facebook to see what everyone thought, as most friends i have on facebook are from 15-21 mostly so i thought it would be a good idea.

the response i got were all positive except the ending how it just cuts off but we thought we would end it on the establishing shot, to show everyone where the first scene would be.

I asked them to rate the film out of 10, the feedback i got, was 3 people said 10, 3 people said 9, and 1 person said 8. so the feedback we got was very good and made us proud of it and helped us evaluate the blog.

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

Well from my preliminary task , i didnt really know what to do, or how to do it. for instance, i didnt know how to even work the mac's, or final cut xpress. i didnt even know how to work the camera's. but from doing the preliminary task i got to grasp the mac's and final cut xpress. i didnt get to film much with the prelim, i only done 5 seconds of filming, which wasnt much for experience. so when it got to doing the real thing, i got a bit nervous as i didnt really know how to do anything, only work the blog. so at first we practised with the cameras and then cutting some filming that wasnt need for anything just to see how final cut xpress and the camera's worked. after we started doing the real thing, i done quite a bit of filming and tried different camera shots, such as the establishing shot, the wide shot, extreme close up, close up. then i done some of the filming for the actual film, of lydia and i also took alot of pictures of her for the film and got a few props for our film. i also learnt how to edit the films, and i ended up editing some of the film.

from the prelim, i think i progressed alot, seeing as i didnt know how to use the computer or final cut xpress to actually editing some of the final peice, along side jess and kayley. i put some titles in too. i was really proud of how much i done and how far ive got along side my blog, and our final piece came out perfect, except from a few technical problems.

I done well, editing, filming and being in the film myself.

how did you attract your audience?

I attracted our audience by having people of their age staring in the opening  sequence, we though this would attract them because they feel similar to them in some ways, such as they could put themselves into the film and think of it is was them it was happening to.

Also we asked a few people around the age of 16-18 and 20-21 about what genre of films they liked, most of the 16-18 year old, said horror and thriller and the 20-21 year old mostly said drama and thriller, so we went with the thriller because more people liked it.

After we had finished our film opening sequence, we put it on youtube and we put it on our social networking sites such as, twitter and facebook. we did this so that we could get feedback from our target audience, family and friends of that age range. our feedback comments were very positive, most of them said about the filming being up to scratch and that they liked the non-digectic and the digectic sounds, such as when Jack (the stalker) was drawing a line, you heard the cracking of the charcoal when it had broken.

we told our friends and family about what we were doing and the idea of the film we had in mind and we asked who would watch it, my mum said it wouldn't as interest her as much, but she would still watch it. my grandad wasn't to keen on watching it but my 20 year old brother, my 15 year old brother and a few friends at school who are 17 said that they are keen to watch it and it would catch their attention.

What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

The media institutions that possibly could distrube our media film, could be paramount pictures, because they do a range of genre of films, such as comedy's, drama's and thrillers. for our film we had put paramount pictures as the institution to our film, because i knew what other sort of films they released, such as the devil inside, which is a triller.

Also i think columbia pictures would distribute our film, as they are basically the same as paramount just a totally different complay, but they distribute the same genres of film that paramoun does, except columbia does alot more comedy films then paramount, such as 'are we done yet?' which is a film that columbia produced. a thriller that they have produced for example would be 'the grudge' this is a thriller, it keeps you in suspense.

so either paramount or columbia could distribute my film,  whereas as distributer such as 20th century fox would distribute more of comedy and drama's and more childish films,.

dimension films could maybe distribute our film as they do a mixture of all genre's really, except romance, the research i did, showed me that they don't do any if many romance films.

From my earlier post about my research on paramount, i stated some films that paramount have distributed, from the early 1900's untill now. on the lines of them films, i think paramount would be the main company that would distribute my film.