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

 

 

Looking back at creating my prelim task I alot, this is in terms of planning, creating, filming and editing. it also gave me a deep insight in what goes on behind closed doors when producing a film. For example, using narrative theories, showing charcaterisation, camera techniques and props. It also helped me evolve my basic editing techniques to help make my film run smoother and more suffiencent. However there isnt much editing invovled in the prelim, therefore when it came to my real thing I developed many more skills and techniques, such as cuts, dissolves, showing action and enigma codes, colour and distortion. I also learnt how to use camera angles to convey a meaning behind the narrative and to help set the narrative more clearly. Mise En Scene is not used as heavily in my prelim as it is in my final product. In my final product my characters have ajusted their clothing to fit in with the characteristic features of the person and to help personalise them into their specified social groups. Facial Expressions and actions have been used in my prelim for example: Angry face when shouting, hand movements, however they have been involved more in my final product for example: when 'Ronnie' is getting arreseted he looks restless and uncomfortable. In my prelim I do not incldue any sound tracks or sound effects, however in my final product i use sound effects to enhance tension and natural sounds to make it feel more realistic. I also added background music to increase nerves and tension within the audience. I both my prelim and my final project i have used diegetic dialogue to create feelings and emotions within the characters to enahnce the realism.creating my prelim has helped me with my continuity errors withing my final product and taught me how important it is to have continuity throughout my whole film to make it more effective.  To conclude, I have expanded my knowledge within the creeative side of developing a film, also in filming and using the editing sofware. I have also learnt how to convey meaning through the four technical codes and editing, to make my film look more proffesional.

Quesiton 6 from Lily Meyer

HOW DID I ATTRACT/ADDRESS MY AUDIENCE?

I catered for my target audience in many ways; this is through, mise en scene, actors, and characters, name of film and action and enigma codes.

Firstly I’ve aimed my film around my target audience of males aged 15 to 40; this is good because it allows me to focus on features within my film that will interest my target audience. To make my mise en scene fit my male audience, I used props such as; Guns, knives, cars. These props are all male orientated; also from my research of other films I found that most males enjoyed the violence and crime. The Majority of my actors in my film are male, this will help my target audience relate to them easier and be able to understand them in a more sufficient way. My characters are dressed in fashionable clothing, preferably dark colours, this relates to the younger part of my target audiences as they are usually the ones that interested in crime and gangs. The action codes attract my audience because it helps make the storyline clearer and more understandable, this will draw the audience in.  My enigma codes set questions for my audience that they will then wish to discover, therefore they will hen want to carry on watching the film to then let them be revealed.

Preliminary Task

 

 

The idea of the prelim task was to gain experience of using cameras, also it was to learn how to use the cameras practically to do 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot, continuity and match on action. The overall prelim task was for me to take multiple shot recordings of someone walking through the door, and catch them coming back through the other side, then for someone walking towards a table and then sitting down, finally recoridng a shot reverse shot of two people speaking. I did this so i could get practise before filming my final piece.

 

To plan this prelim we had to draw out a story board showing each stage of recording and where the camera will be, this is so we knew what to do when we came ot recording and didnt get muddled up. we also had to do this so we we could get the correct 180 dregree rule. I also needed to make sure i knew who my characters where going to be and who would do what. When it came to filming I found it much easier as i knew what was going to happen and where i had to be at each stage or recoridng. When i was filming i had to bear in mind where i was standing at each stage because otherwise the 180 degree rule would be wrong and it could confuse viewers.

 

When it came to editing this piece of work I found it particularly easy, this is because we used a clear programme called Final Cut Pro. Firstly i took the clips i had recorded and downloads them onto the mac and into Final Cut Pro, next I selected the correct clips and cut them to the right section of time to be able to interlink them all, so it looked smooth throughout the film. I then went through the film to see if i needed any affects in it to make it flow better. However whilst using Final Cut Pro to edit, i found it hard to make sure that the clips were at the correct length to make it flow perfectly throughout the whole film, to get over this, I took more time to go through each clip, by pressing the i and the o on the keyboard to cut my shots and make them them the correct size to fit into my film clip. I also added a dissolve tranisition, this helped it look more in sync.

 

Whilst making this piece it helped me learn how to use many filming techniques, these were, 180 degree rule, I used this when i was following a character becuase i had to stay on their right side to make it loook realistic. Next i used shot reverse shot, i used this when showing the characters talking to eachother. I then used editing on the macs to make sure the continuity of the film was precise and realistic. Finally i used match on action when showing my character walking through the door. It allowed me to develop my timing skills and my practical camera shots. However this did not able me to expand my knowledge on Final Cut Pro as it did not show me how to add titles or elaborate on my editing skills, I will need to use these in my actual film opening sequence so i will need to go back and learn how to do them properly. I will also need to elaborate on my practical camera shots when I film.

question 3 evaluation

Evaluation - Question 3

                 WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE        
                                           YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?

My film 'Escape Route' was made with a small cast of 22 people, this film is a British Independent. My film is an Independent because it is produced outside the major studio, this means that my company 'Major Meyer' doesn't produce a film on regular basis. My film is an action/thriller, although I have spent minimum money, If I was to merge my company with an conglomerate I think it would be Universal or a company like this as they usually distribute action, thriller or adventure films for a 40% stake in the film. 

As my film is low budget I could save more by distributing my film using social media, for example; Facebook, Twitter, Youtube. I would do this using 'Major Meyer's' account as it would then promote my company as well as the film. In addition to this it will not cost any money as it can cost if I put my advertisement on specific areas of a social networking site. This will also help promoting my film to my target audience, as young males tend to use social networking sites, however it can also exceed this target and create a mass audience. I would upload teaser videos and teaser posters my accounts which would then be viewed by a mass audience. Facebook has over 650 million users, twitter has over 241 million users and youtube has 4 billion videos that are viewed each day. These statistics will hopefully have a positive impact on my increase in audience.