Evaluation breakdown.

This post is to briefly say who in our group did what. To show this, we are using coloured writing, and each of us will have our own colour.
 Max = Red
 Ashleigh= Blue 
Nicole= Green


We have colour coded our prezis too to make it clear who contributed.

Evaluation Task 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

In this task we will talk about audience types that are likely to watch our film, from our own analysis of our audience we we found that our audience would be a predominantly male one  with an audience age range from 18 - 40 year olds. When we obtained this information we gathered the information of two people who fit within our audience types here are there profiles below.

Evaluation Task 4: Audience Types on Prezi

http://prezi.com/5vy075sr1lum/evaluation-task-4-audience-types/


There are numerous reasons why these people  may watch our film. For example the males may watch our film as he watches a large majority of independent films, they may also enjoy our film as he seems to go out of his way to find certain style/ music, so there is no reason why he wouldn't do the same for film. Some reasons why our 39 year old male may find himself drawn to watching our film is because of his love of TV shows similar to our own production (Sherlock has been given feedback saying that it is 'a lot like our own production').

Another way we could find different audience types who may be interested in watching our production is by linking our production on independent media websites, or taking our film to independent film festivals using these we can get a much more clear view of just who is our 'niche' audience (how old they are, what films they enjoy, etc).

Evaluation Task 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Task 6: Technologies on Prezi

List of Equipment:

Sony HDV Digital Camera HVR A1E

This allowed us to film on, in order to create our thriller opening. It had the addition extras of a normal recording camera, as it was High Definition (HD), had zooming in facilities, and also allowed you to focus and un-focus the lense. This came in useful especially for some parts of our thriller opening, as it created mystery. 

Iphone for Foley

The iPhone we used to record some of our foley. It was handy as it was small and didn't take up much room as you carry around your phone where ever you go anyway. 

Apple Mac Computer

Throughout the whole of the project we have used Mac Computers. These computers are widely used in our school, so not only do we have lots of benefits from using Apple Computers, these computers are actually the only choice we have when it comes to working on a Computer.

Evaluation Task 5 - How did our thriller attract/address the audience?

Task 5 audience attraction on Prezi

Evaluation Task 5: How did you attract/address your audience? on Prezi

Evaluation Task 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Video with directors commentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fycd5EtO9Uc

A production company provides help and stay with you during the process of making of your film until it is published. Production companies are often responsible for budgeting, scheduling, scripting, the organization of staff, the production itself, post-production, distribution and marketing. It is also important for the production company to find appropriate actors/actresses to play the roles.

Most production companies are either owned or under a contract with a media conglomerate (such as Sony, Warner Brother, or Universal), a film studio, entertainment company or Motion Picture Company. The production company of the film hold all the rights to the film, and sort out the legal terms, and contracts with the studio you are using and the music/background track you might be using in your film. If the production company is fully integrated (vertically and horizontally) the legal rights to use music will become easier as they might own the rights already. If they are a company like Sony, the production company of Sony already own their own brand of equipment, Sony music will have rights to contracted singers/artists, and Sony also have their own studios which can be used. This also helps the production company save money, as they wont have to pay for hiring the studio, and paying for the rights to use a soundtrack.

A film distributor is purely responsible for releasing the film to the public. It is then also down the production company or film distributor to market the film, and sort out the advertising and promotion side of the production. It is down to the film distributor to send enough prints of the film to the exhibitors (theaters/cinemas) and having an agreement of how long the film is to stay in the cinemas.

How would a low budget film get money?

Then it comes to money, there are a few ways a company like ours could get funded. As stakeholders in our company, we could all put in money from our own finances to fund the film. After the film gets released, hopefully it will earn more money that it cost, ensuring we would get a profit. If it did this, the original amount of money we contributed into the film we would be able to get back, and the extra money could be shared out as well, or put back into the company film fund for another film.

Another way the company could get money is by taking out a loan. This is often used to fund a company to make the film.

When creating our titles for our thriller, we did some research into what job titles were named in the other films. We did take into consideration which order they were in as well, and in what style. For example, the roles appeared in the form of 'Music by Max Brandon' and 'Costume Design by Angela Stevens' however the names of the actors had just their names, and did not say 'Actor-Matt Williams', but instead just said 'Matt Williams'. This gave more of a dramatic effect and made the film look more professional as other films also did this.

If we were to compare our film to any other film, we think it would be Inception. Although it doesnt have the psychological thriller genre, it is set out in the same way, and has the crime side of it. it is set in a busy city, which ours is also set in, and it has mostly men in.

Preliminary Task: Animatic

Evaluation Task 7: Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?