Monday 15 April 2013
Sunday 10 March 2013
Evaluation: Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, What do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the product ?
Evaluation: Question 6
What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
Evaluation: Question 1
In what ways does your media project use, develops or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Saturday 9 March 2013
Thursday 21 February 2013
Survey Results
Today we had to compare our results of our survey we did a couple of months ago, sadly I only had 10 replies but that is enough information to compare but is not enough to generalise to more than the 10 people, I am hopping that there will be more people answering the survey, I am surprised that there is only 10 responses but I am also not surprised because I guess people see surveys as a waste of there time, so ill put it on Facebook as a link again.
Result Analysis
Result Analysis
As you can see from the results of the question above although we cannot generalise this because its only 10 people but you can see that the people interested in my thriller blog was 16-21 years old this could also show that thriller movies are mostly viewed by 16-21 year old, but this can only be briefly linked.
This shows that most people who visited my blog like thrillers, this is probably because anyone who looks at my blog is also a media student or is also interested in thriller films.
The results above support that thriller films are very popular and especially amongst 16-21 year old's and anyone else who answered the survey, this can also suggest that our target audience are 16-21 year old's.
Apart from some quite rude and unhelpful answers than iv'e covered there was some really helpful information about what people look for when they watch a thriller and what attracts them to the film in total
Apart from some quite rude and unhelpful answers than iv'e covered there was some really helpful information about what people look for when they watch a thriller and what attracts them to the film in total, this can guide us to what we need in our own thriller opening.
This question purely guides what direction our thriller opening should take and allows us to find out what kind /genre thrillers are preferred within the audience as you can see the majority of votes have gone to crime and psychological thrillers so that is the direction we will try to put our film in.
I was curious of what films my audience had seen and what kind of thrillers they had seen so I could compare it to my own experience with thriller films,this will help me in our direction with our own thriller as I can get a hint of what type of thriller the public want and like and what we should try to characterise or embody in our own film.
I was curious of what the audience deemed a bad thriller because no matter how much you think something has worked in a film or even a short clip there will always be someone who is unhappy or unsatisfied and this is one thing that I wanted to stay away from and that is a reason why I asked this particular question just like the later one I wanted to find out what we as a group should stay away from.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Titles of Our Thriller
Titles of Our Thriller
This is the order in which our titles will appear on our thriller opening.
Format of TITLES for AS Thriller Coursework
After the IDENT use a FADE IN. The titles should then be in the following order:
(1) 'Your Production Company' Presents
(2) A Film by 'One name - usually the director'
(3) Starring or With
(4) Male star
(5) Female star or other way round
(6) Title of film - or could be at the end
(7) Also starring - 2/3/names - each on seperate title
(8) Then 3/4/5 of the following - you choose - each on seperate title
Editing
Music
Cinematography or Director of Photography
Casting
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Script
(9) Then Producer(s) - can be more than one
(10) Always finish with Director - one name, usually the same as A Film By ...
(11) Could put title here
Remember to use LiveType and try to make titles interesting. They can be either over black or superimposed over your film. Space them out over the two minutes of the film.Give the audience plenty of time to read the titles.
(12) Finish with a fade out & fade music out
Format of TITLES for AS Thriller Coursework
After the IDENT use a FADE IN. The titles should then be in the following order:
(1) 'Your Production Company' Presents
(2) A Film by 'One name - usually the director'
(3) Starring or With
(4) Male star
(5) Female star or other way round
(6) Title of film - or could be at the end
(7) Also starring - 2/3/names - each on seperate title
(8) Then 3/4/5 of the following - you choose - each on seperate title
Editing
Music
Cinematography or Director of Photography
Casting
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Script
(9) Then Producer(s) - can be more than one
(10) Always finish with Director - one name, usually the same as A Film By ...
(11) Could put title here
Remember to use LiveType and try to make titles interesting. They can be either over black or superimposed over your film. Space them out over the two minutes of the film.Give the audience plenty of time to read the titles.
(12) Finish with a fade out & fade music out
Friday 1 February 2013
Breakaway effects: The Journey
Our main idea contained the main character smashing a glass into another's face we needed to find a way to do this and we didn't originally think of sugar glass, when I thought of sugar glass I didn't think we would easily get it and I started looking on multiple sites the main ones being Amazon and Ebay and being unsuccessful. Until I found Breakaway effects, I emailed them about some information that was very satisfactory.
Although in the emails they sent back they really wanted me to ring to talk through some of the details which I dodged because I don't really like talking on the phone preferred email because it made me feel uncomfortable and nervous I know its silly its just silly old me :). so I passed the task of ordering onto a another member of the group, when I found that the person still hadn't ordered glass and we were running out of time I decided to ring them myself, during the order which I found quite funny was that the Breakaway man on the other end of the line asked what production company I worked for which I awkwardly answered back that I didn't have a production company,Now it probably doesn't seem funny but at the time it was really funny, to me anyway.
The Journey
Looking at the site I knew the glass (not on its own) was going to be pricey, sadly it was the cost of the glass, VAT and Delivery that started from £30 so I decided to pick up the glass my self. First I calculated that in total the cups on there own including VAT would be £32.40 and rather than spending the £30 on delivery that wasn't totally guaranteed I wanted to be fair to my Sister who was driving me up to Surrey and allow me and the group pay for her petrol which came to a total of £62.40 I split that amount between the 4 of us which made £15.60 and I collected that from each group member.
Surrey is only 2 hours away but unfortunately Me and my sister missed our turning which lead us to go all the way to Cambridge so it took us a 5 hours instead of the 2 fortunately we found the Imperial war museum and a bunch of really lovely cottages but knew we had a long road ahead of us, because we were in Cambridge we decided that we should start from home and as you can see it was estimated an 1 hour 33 to get home again and then set off.
So we set off from my house again,although the journey was long I did like it me and my sister got to see many areas that we did not know of, and there were pretty cool areas with funny named shops and areas that looked very dynamic and interesting.Just an all-round culture change too.
obviously any area you haven't been to looks foreign or feels foreign but I very interesting to see as we had to travel through town centres, motorways and countryside to get to Surrey.
Satellite navigation (Sat Nav) timings
These are the different timings of the main journey to Shepperton Studios from the Garmin Satnav we were using,although we used the Satnav it is very slow and freezes a lot which made us turn into wrong exits.
< Hours and Minutes
Minutes and seconds >
< Minutes and seconds >
As the SatNavs timer had gone into the last couple of minutes we started to see groups of multi-purpose warehouses, I was really curious whether one of the warehouses we had seen was Breakaway glass but then later on I saw the road name and a big shiny sign saying
"Shepperton Studios".
Then we turned round the corner and
there were numbered workshops and we had to find what warehouse Breakaway glass, luckily we had to sign in so we were able to ask what direction it was in, although we were shown the direction we still went the wrong way as you have probably guessed already Me and My sister have no sense of direction :). When we finally found the work shop we went in and got the package, the inside was really cool because they had different samples of what they made and it was just interesting and I wondered how they made it,The man who gave me my parcel was the man I talked on the phone to and he asked me to read the notice on the box before I opened and touched the glass and was given a receipt.While going to the car I found another warehouse which sold camera equipment, overall Shepperton Studios was pretty awesome.
After picking up the sugar glass me and my sister believed we deserved a coffee so we stopped at Costa coffee for a few seconds to get our take away coffee, but unfortunately when we got back to the car we found a parking ticket, weren't a great present from Surrey but at least we were caffeinated.
we finally made our way home, and when we got home I looked at what the glass looked like, it was brilliant, although a long day I definitely believe it was totally worth the journey I don't know if my sister would say the same though, RESULT !!!!!!
The Journey
Looking at the site I knew the glass (not on its own) was going to be pricey, sadly it was the cost of the glass, VAT and Delivery that started from £30 so I decided to pick up the glass my self. First I calculated that in total the cups on there own including VAT would be £32.40 and rather than spending the £30 on delivery that wasn't totally guaranteed I wanted to be fair to my Sister who was driving me up to Surrey and allow me and the group pay for her petrol which came to a total of £62.40 I split that amount between the 4 of us which made £15.60 and I collected that from each group member.
So we set off from my house again,although the journey was long I did like it me and my sister got to see many areas that we did not know of, and there were pretty cool areas with funny named shops and areas that looked very dynamic and interesting.Just an all-round culture change too.
obviously any area you haven't been to looks foreign or feels foreign but I very interesting to see as we had to travel through town centres, motorways and countryside to get to Surrey.  |
| There were multiple sheep on the hills, the hills acted as a barrier as there was a giant river on either side. |
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| Me and My sister thought that the name of this shop could be the name of a medical instrument. just sounded funny with an accent. |
These are the different timings of the main journey to Shepperton Studios from the Garmin Satnav we were using,although we used the Satnav it is very slow and freezes a lot which made us turn into wrong exits.
< Hours and MinutesMinutes and seconds >
< Minutes and seconds >
Last leg of the journey
As the SatNavs timer had gone into the last couple of minutes we started to see groups of multi-purpose warehouses, I was really curious whether one of the warehouses we had seen was Breakaway glass but then later on I saw the road name and a big shiny sign saying"Shepperton Studios".
Then we turned round the corner andthere were numbered workshops and we had to find what warehouse Breakaway glass, luckily we had to sign in so we were able to ask what direction it was in, although we were shown the direction we still went the wrong way as you have probably guessed already Me and My sister have no sense of direction :). When we finally found the work shop we went in and got the package, the inside was really cool because they had different samples of what they made and it was just interesting and I wondered how they made it,The man who gave me my parcel was the man I talked on the phone to and he asked me to read the notice on the box before I opened and touched the glass and was given a receipt.While going to the car I found another warehouse which sold camera equipment, overall Shepperton Studios was pretty awesome.
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Sad News :(
After picking up the sugar glass me and my sister believed we deserved a coffee so we stopped at Costa coffee for a few seconds to get our take away coffee, but unfortunately when we got back to the car we found a parking ticket, weren't a great present from Surrey but at least we were caffeinated.
End Result
we finally made our way home, and when we got home I looked at what the glass looked like, it was brilliant, although a long day I definitely believe it was totally worth the journey I don't know if my sister would say the same though, RESULT !!!!!!
Monday 14 January 2013
Studio Idents
Within our opening sequence we must have our own production identification (Ident), which is a identification that is used among production companies, this is an easier way for the public to remember significant film companies such as Warner Brothers,Walt Disney and Paramount.
Syncopy
When designing our ident I will like to use Syncopy's logo as it is very interesting makes you think that the studio company takes on interesting and complicated plotted films that are not only complicated but mysterious and thrilling for example Syncopy are one of the partners in the film Inception which is know for its complicated plot, the production company normally supports the mood of the film.
Pathe is a very different Ident it somehow portrays creativity and it takes a home grown effect which makes you believe that there films aren't well known which is true in some respects but they are films that encourage social acceptance like the film Bride and prejudice which was a remake of Pride and Prejudice films that test social views and make us think about society, Pathe is written in speech marks which could mean the opinion of the production team is reflected through the film.
Film 4
As you can see the logo changes for the mood of the film for example for a action movie there will be a scene from another action movie in the background and the logo will overlap the image this can be considered that they are suggesting that Film 4 can fulfil the scenes you see for example they co-produced 127 hours.The top logo is memorable as it perceives a sense of mystery that is very interesting but also has the effect of raising goose bumps.
Touchstone
Touchstone used to be a very famous and commonly used production company's, famous for well known films like Pretty Woman and Sister Act, sadly there status has lowered.
Although Touchstone is now gone its ident was unique as it is very simple but still has the ability to stick into your mind, its simplicity is memorable as it isn't clichéd it is very different to other company idents
Lionsgate
Although Lionsgate could be described as clichéd
the cloud effect portrays a sense of Godliness or that they are out of this world or that the sky is the limit this is striking and memorable at the same time as it perceives power
Lionsgate also changes its logo for the mood of the film as you can see by the second logo it is the same but tinted in red this displays that the mood is either an action film or that there is danger to come within the film.
Syncopy
Pathe
Film 4
Film 4 is a British film company that produces and supports mostly British film makers.
As you can see the logo changes for the mood of the film for example for a action movie there will be a scene from another action movie in the background and the logo will overlap the image this can be considered that they are suggesting that Film 4 can fulfil the scenes you see for example they co-produced 127 hours.The top logo is memorable as it perceives a sense of mystery that is very interesting but also has the effect of raising goose bumps. Touchstone used to be a very famous and commonly used production company's, famous for well known films like Pretty Woman and Sister Act, sadly there status has lowered.
Although Touchstone is now gone its ident was unique as it is very simple but still has the ability to stick into your mind, its simplicity is memorable as it isn't clichéd it is very different to other company idents
Lionsgate
Although Lionsgate could be described as clichédthe cloud effect portrays a sense of Godliness or that they are out of this world or that the sky is the limit this is striking and memorable at the same time as it perceives power
Lionsgate also changes its logo for the mood of the film as you can see by the second logo it is the same but tinted in red this displays that the mood is either an action film or that there is danger to come within the film.
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