Final Vlog

This is my final vlog

Evaluation

Evaluation Questions

Evaluation of your Coursework

Here're the questions you have to answer in your Evaluations:

1. In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media 
products?

2. How does your film opening represent particular social groups?

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

4. Who would be the audience for your film opening?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

7. Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the 
final film opening?

Disability

Media - Disability on Prezi

Final Film Opening

This is the final version of our film opening - Devious.

Evaluation Questions

Below are the evaluation questions which we need to answer:

1. In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your film opening represent particular social groups?

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

4. Who would be the audience for your film opening?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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

7. Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final film opening?

Below is feedback from last years moderator:

"Planning and Research was of a proficient to excellent standard throughout and the candidates’ artefacts supported this. It is clear that candidates have been supported and encouraged to research the forms and conventions of genre as well as the industrial conventions associated with the opening of a feature film. Planning shows progression from an initial idea to final construction. The number of blog entries, and the use of ICT, was most impressive. Marking was generally in line with the agreed standard.

The constructions used forms and conventions appropriately, particularly through the use of idents and titles. The best work showed a good understanding for shot composition and used a range of shot types for effect. Most candidates had obviously very carefully considered mise-en-scene and the range of different styles were refreshing to watch.

However the evaluations were overmarked because the format chosen (video interviews embedded on blogs) was not fully exploited. Their brevity, particularly considering some were the work of up to four candidates, hindered them from discussing their responses in detail, and too often comments were superficial and not supported with appropriate examples. Candidates should remember that this component is worth as much as the Planning and Research, and this time should be reflected in their final evaluation.

This Centre has been a pleasure to moderate."

Film Certificate

Parental Guidance

General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children

Unaccompanied children of any age may watch. A ‘PG’ film should not disturb a child aged around eight or older. However, parents are advised to consider whether the content may upset younger or more sensitive children.

Discrimination

Discriminatory language or behaviour is unlikely to be acceptable unless clearly disapproved of or in an educational or historical context.  Discrimination by a character with which children can readily identify is unlikely to be acceptable.

Drugs

References to illegal drugs or drug misuse must be innocuous or carry a suitable anti-drug message.

Horror

Frightening sequences should not be prolonged or intense. Fantasy settings may be a mitigating factor.

Imitable behaviour

No detail of potentially dangerous behaviour which young children are likely to copy. No glamorisation of realistic or easily accessible weapons.

Language

Mild bad language only.

Nudity

Natural nudity, with no sexual context.

Sex

Sexual activity may be implied, but should be discreet and infrequent. Mild sex references and innuendo only.

Theme

Where more serious issues are featured (for example, domestic violence) nothing in their treatment should condone unacceptable behaviour.

Violence

Moderate violence, without detail, may be allowed, if justified by its context (for example, history, comedy or fantasy).

Disability

This is a clip of Artie from Glee, his disability is wheelchair use however they have portrayed this in a positive way due to his day to day life is as much normal as somebody who isn't in a wheelchair and he is treated no differently, for example talking to girls, playing basketball

Disability

This is Jean Slater who acts in Eastenders with a mental illness, Bipolar. Her disability is presented in a humerous way due to the things she does however for an individual to actually have Bipolar, it isn't a funny thing which therefore proves they are negatively portraying this disability.

Disability

Here is a video of Cerrie Burnell who was critisized for 'scaring children' with her amputated arm; this is therefore portrayed negatively as she was insisted on leaving children television presenting due to this.

Group Vlog - Film Progress

Film Certificate

We decided to certify our film as PG because it is aimed at a wider target audience as it is not based on adult or child humour and does not contain taboo language so it is therefore appropriate for younger audiences as it is not upsetting in any way, is not offensive and does not discuss any sensitive topics.

Section B - E Books

How often would you go to the cinema if you had the latest TV to use at home when streaming, downloading and renting films?

I asked 10 people this question to see what the majority of the public would think on the advantages of having all these modern things on a HD, plasma and possibly a 3D TV.

Person 1

I wouldn’t go to the cinema as much as I would prefer to watch the film in the comfort of my own home

Person 2

I would still go to the cinema as the experience and the atmosphere of watching the film in the cinema first is always better

Person 3

I would prefer to stay at home as it is cheaper, I can order a take-away and I won’t be tempted to buy all of the goodies such as popcorn and fizzy drinks

Person 4

The sound is always better in the cinema and the screen is bigger and more clear which makes you feel part of the film and intrigues you more which is always a good thing

Person 5

I would prefer to watch the film at home instead of having to drive down to the cinema or get public transport; it just takes up a lot time

Person 6

When you watch the film at home, you can pause, rewind and fats forward when necessary without missing any of it e.g. if you need the toilet

Person 7

If the film is a new release, there will be lots of people in the cinema and you may have to sit next to many people and be squashed, sometimes they’re smelly as well

Person 8

If the family want to watch the film but one of the kids is not old enough, it is easier to watch it at home and it is less hassle

Person 9

It’s hard to find parking spaces round by the cinema and you may be late to get in, then you have to queue up and get your ticket, it’s just easier to stay at home and watch the film

Person 10

If I have just come home from work and I am tired, I can put my pyjamas on instead of having to get dressed up

Conclusion

Looking at the results from questioning the 10 people, I found that 3 of the people would still like to go to the cinema than watch it at home and the other 7 people would prefer to stay at home and watch it. These results were answered with various different answers and reasons.

Deadly Question 6

Real Question

The issues raised in the targeting of national and local audiences (British) by international or global institutions.

Translated Question

The problems or topics brought to everyone’s attention in the targeting of the national and local British audiences for many reasons by international or global organisations.

Some issues raised about the national and local British audiences are that now TV has become such a popular and advanced piece of technology within British audience, organisations are seeing problems such as less people are going to cinema, for example, to watch their films when they are spending loads of money to have it released at the cinema; they are losing out as the audiences would now rather wait for it to be released on DVD or on TV which is cheaper for the individual but is a setback for the film companies and international or global institutions.

Section A - Planning

Hollyoaks

Section A - Planning

Benidorm

Cinema Resarch - Section B

Media on Prezi

Films

Today I watched 'The Vow' at the cinema. This film started with the past in a way, as it did not show us the whole relationship between the man and woman, but instead reflected back and showed us what happened before the woman lost her memory and how it happened. This is similar to what we will be doing in our film, the opening will be of what had previously happened before the 2 girls meet so that we are not showing a whole story but we are instead showing the audience what the whole 'meeting up and disgussing what happened' is about. Also, when the male actor was trying to help the woman regain her memory, a voiceover was used which we will also be including in out 2 minute opening.

Definitions

Here are some key terms we need to know for Section B in the exam:

- Production: making films

- Distribution: promoting films and getting them into cinemas and out on to DVD as well as any spin offs/related media products.

- Consumption: people paying at the cinema, renting or buying DVDs and downloading and purchasing related products

Group Vlog

Vlog

This is a vlog about what we have done so far with our filming

Vlog

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Filming

Today we began filming our new film opening which all went to plan. We created all our story boards so that we were fully prepared and knew what to shoot, what angles to shoot from etc. Our group got the first part of our film shot on camera; which included our fantastic actor Steve! All we have left to do is our voiceovers and shoots outside of school which we will storyboard and plan to do hopefully this weekend. We will upload our footage onto the iMacs in tomorrow’s lesson and begin to start editing.

Articles

Articles

Articles

Practice Filming

Here is our group practicing a shot for our film opening again

Practice Filming

Heres one of the ideas we are going to use in our film opening.

Final Decision

We have come to an agreement, along with Miss Foster that we are going to make a rather mysterious film opening, with a few twists within it..
Here are some images of the places we are looking to film in:

Film Opening

Our group have had many discussions about what we will base our film opening on and what genre we would like to do after having to scrap our spoof. We came to a decision that we were going to base it on Little Red Riding Hood, but in a modern day version, although we kept falling back into the cliche things of walking in the woods alone and thinking someone is following her. We had various ideas of how we were going to make this happen and make it brilliant, however whilst we were talking about it and planning it we discovered that there had already been a modern version of this film made, which was released early 2011 and most of the things we were hoping to include in ours was already put into this film.

Universal

Universal Pictures, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal is one of the six major movie studios founded in 1912 by Carl Laemmle, it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production. On May 11, 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBC. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBCUniversal Television Distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years.

Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Pictures is the second-longest-lived Hollywood studio; Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures is the oldest by a month. In the 1920’s they made films such as White Youth and The Flamming disc to then go onto making films like Kick-Ass and Get Him To The Greek in 2010.

Dreamworks

DreamWorks Pictures, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks II Distribution Co., LLC, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games and television programming. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totaling more than $100 million each.

DreamWorks began in 1994 as an ambitious attempt by media moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen to create a new Hollywood studio of which they own 72%. In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom, parent of Paramount Pictures. The sale was completed in February 2006. In 2008, DreamWorks announced its intention to end its partnership with Paramount and signed a $1.5 billion deal to produce films with India's Reliance ADA Group. Reliance provided $325M of equity to fund recreating Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks studio as an independent entity. The movie studio is 50% owned by Reliance which is led by Anil Ambani. They have made films such as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Bee Movie, Puss In Boots and Madagascar.

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is one of the six major American film studios as of 2011^[update]. It is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, just west of Beverly Hills, the studio is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

The company was founded on May 31, 1935, as the result of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz.

20th Century Fox's most popular film franchises include Avatar, Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, X-Men, Die Hard, Home Alone, and many many more, plus famous TV shows such as The Simpsons and Family Guy. Some of the most famous actors to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th Century Fox's first film star, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.

Film Openings

Whilst watching various film openings, I came across this one which caught my eye. It did not seem the 'typical' film opening or what you would expect the film to be like, nevertheless it was still intriguing. The close up shot of the man in the water, followed by the title being smothered in smoke set the genre for me as being spooky yet very mysterious. However, whilst watching this I realised that the whole 2 minutes of the opening were set in black & white and it was also all slow motion, this makes me question whether the whole film will be like this or not and if so, I feel, narrows it down to a specific audience which could not benefit the film. The title of the film reflects what happens, you can see this in the high angle shot of the man and woman swimming to rescue as the men throw rope down to help them, which "The Fall" relates with, which is them falling in the water. It would be interesting to see what the rest of the film turns out to be like..

So Far

Since last blogging, we managed to do most of our filming and begin editing, however when we put part of our film together; our group, along with Miss Foster did not feel that it was going to plan and it was not turning the way we expected it to or wanted it too. We all went away over the christmas holidays and tried to think of various ideas, we agreed we would base it on a 'horse theme' but due to other difficulties we couldn't go aead with this idea. Our group had a chat with Miss Foster today as we aren't focused on a solid plan yet and need to get filming, we are all going to have a think over the next couple of days and see what we have come up with by then and try to make a final decision.