FINAL FILM OPENING

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The playground is a location that people with children can resonate with. The storyline can be easily related to by anyone who has had the death of a child as the story line is about a man, who lost his daughter.

To entice our audience we have opened a cinema screening at screen on the green in angel Islington where we played the first two minutes of the film.

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Question 1 Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
To answer this question we must first have a look at the conventions of a film opening. Conventions of a film opening change dependant on the genre/sub-genre of the film. These are the general conventions of a film opening although not all films conform
-Production company logo
-Distribution company logo
-Title sequence
-Sound and or video to help entice the audience
-Key characters are introduced

Production company logo

Distribution company logo

As you can see in our film opening we do conform to these conventions. Although I do feel that the sound could of set the mood of the film a little better.






I have created two scrapbooks using beeclip in which I show the title sequence used by the thriller movie se7en and our own movie Imogen. I did this so that it would be alot easier to compare the two, as you can see our title sequences are very similar although there are some slight differences, but only slight. As well as this in our title sequence the titles are low down so that the audience does not get distracted from the video whilst in se7en we see that the titles are in the middle as the editor wants attention drawn to the titles. In our film opening we obey the conventions of title sequences within films.

Evaluation Question 4

This photograph shows what age group of people go to watch thriller films. As we can see people aged 15-30 are the most likely to go and watch a thriller film. I extracted this information from a reliable forum in which users were asked their age and which film type they most liked.

The sub genre for my film is crime which is predominately watched by men as they often involve violence justice system and villains. Although in recent years woman have been drawn into crime with the escapism element it entails.

Target audience

The specific audience to my film is anybody who has lost a child ,as our protagonist has also lost his child, this generally will be people aged 35-50 as this is the age which people usually have children and therefore is most likely to lose a child. However this will be a quite small niche audience

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As part of my media studies course I am going to evaluate some film openings from previous students at my college.
I think that this film opening works very well because it creates a false sense of security as it seems like the main character is having a normal day, this is very similar to what we are going to do in our film opening (creating a false sense of security) this is why I believe we can incorporate some of these ideas into our own film.
I also think that this film opening works well as it is simple yet effective, they also did well in keeping the identity of the person who posted the letter a mystery.
this person has also added foley sound into their film opening making it sound more attracting to the audience

Filming Day 1

 MONDAY 20th FEBRUARY

Our first day of filming didn't exactly go to plan...

We didn't get as much as we wanted to get done, due to a couple of reasons. The first and most important reason was the fact that we didn't have either of our two props (a doll and a pushchair). Because of our disorganisation as a group, we spent a lot of time today talking about what we would do if we had our props instead of actually doing it. This was a huge waste of time for all of us, and we only filmed 2-3 clips. We have learned from this mistake, and we all realise now how important it is to be prepared before filming.

Another problem with our filming was the location. Although we had to stick with it as we had no plan b, it wasn't as great as we thought it would be because the park we have chosen to film in has turned out to be quite popular. Whereas we were looking for the desolate, isolated and quiet feel, our chosen park is often busy and lively. This changes the whole atmosphere of our film, and we hope that the footage that we have so far and will have in the next few days will still be suitable for a thriller film. Our next day of filming will be on Thursday and I hope that that goes better than how today went!

Intertextuality in films

In this blog I am going to be explaining what intertextuality is and give some examples from fairly recent films. 


But first of all, What is intertextuality?
Intertextuality describe's the visual reference between films. Films sometimes borrow aspects of one film and incorporate it into their own. This could be the mise en scene, sound, editing, characters etc. A viewer would need to see a certain film or text to understand the intertextuality.


Some examples of intertextuality?

Spoof films such as Scary Movie, are great examples of intertextuality because these films would not exist if they did not use intertextuality. A lot of the jokes from this film rely on the viewer having watched other films or texts.

Storyboard

Research into film audiences

As part of my research i am going to have a look at which age group of audiences attend which genre/sub-genre of films. This will be essential to marketing my movie as I need to know who the film is being made for. To find out this information I am going to use the Film Distributors' Association yearbook 2011.

 According to this book the highest no. of people that go the the cinema are from the ages between 50-59 and 0-9. Because we obviously cannot make a thriller for 0-9 year olds I think it would be best to target a middle aged audience.

The Genre of thriller films takes in 4.2% of all years box office increased from 4% in 2009 and 2.7% in 2008. The top 3 films in the thriller genre in 2010 were Shutter Island, The Town and The Wolfman. The top 2 Genre's in film is action(which takes in 26.4% of all years box-office) and drama(which takes in 18.1% of all years box-office) this is why I have been thinking to broaden my audience even further it would be a clever idea to make the sub-genre either Action or Drama.

PHANTASTICUM

[note: we have decided to completely change our idea, so 'phantasticum' nor any of the ideas posted on this blog will feature in our film. we have decided to leave this blog here, however, to show how our ideas have developed and changed.]

As a group we have been discussing further ideas to develop our first concept, which was suicide incorporated into the relationship of a teenage boy and girl. These ideas have included the title of the film, possible locations and the wider picture of our storyline.

Film Title

We have decided to call our film PHANTASTICUM, the Latin word for "imaginary". This is because it is revealed at the end of our film that the girlfriend actually does not exist; she is a figment of the boy's imagination. He suffers from some sort of illness, and ends up killing himself after finding out that his 'girlfriend' has committed suicide. He is obviously unstable.

Possible Locations

Some of our film will be filmed in Tom's house, because he will play the boy who will attempt to phone his 'girlfriend' from home. The other aspect of our location will be SUICIDE BRIDGE, a famous bridge in Archway where several people have been known to commit suicide. We thought this appropriate because of the suicidal themes in our film.

Wider Picture

We have considered what the whole film would be about, and not just the opening. I have already mentioned the main ideas of insanity and suicide. Here is a brief outline of the main things that would happen in our film if we were to shoot all of it - 

• Girl commits suicide.
• Her boyfriend tries to get in touch with her via phone - she does not answer.
• He finds her suicide note.
• Boyfriend sinks into depression.
• He questions reality.
• He cannot cope with her 'death'.
• He is taken to a mental institute.
• He commits suicide.
• It is revealed at the end that the girlfriend was only a figment of his imagination; he has been mentally unstable all along.

Early planning ideas

Brainstorm

What is foley sound?

Foley sound is the reproduction of everyday sounds for use in filmmaking. A lot of films use this method to create sound effects, it goes un noticed by the audience. This helps to create a sense of reality in the scene as without them the film would feel un-natural and uncomfortable.

This video shows very good examples of foley sounds. Usually, in the film industry, foley sounds are created by mimicking the sound in a recording studio. Since we do not have a recording studio we had to take our camera and use an attached mic to record the sound.  This is our results -

Some good examples of foley sounds are:

• Corn starch in a leather pouch makes the sound of snow crunching
• A pair of gloves sounds like bird wings flapping
• An arrow or thin stick makes a great whoosh
• An old chair makes a controllable creaking sound
• A water soaked rusty hinge when placed against different surfaces makes a great creaking sound. Different surfaces change the sound considerably
• A heavy staple gun combined with other small metal sounds make good gun noises
• A metal rake makes a great fence sound (it can also make a great metallic screech when dragged across a piece of metal)
• A heavy car door and fender can create most of the car sounds needed but having a whole car in the studio is better
• Burning plastic garbage bags cut into strips make a cool sound when the bag melts and drips to the ground
• ¼” audio tape balled up sounds like grass or brush when walked on
• Gelatin and hand soap make great squishing noises
• Frozen romaine lettuce makes great bone or head injury noises
• Coconut shells cut in half and stuffed with padding makes great horse hoof noises
• Cellophane creates crackling fire effects
• A selection of wooden and metal doors are needed to create all sorts of door noises but also can be used for creaking boat sounds
• A heavy phone book makes great body punching sounds

All of these examples of sounds were taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artist

Prelim final with foley sound

Prelim final without foley sound

This is the prelim final that we recorded without foley sound.

Arlington Road Remake

As part of our film project in media, we were given clips of the opening to ARLINGTON ROAD and we had to put them into a new chronological order which made sense, and edit it. This was an interesting task because there was no one correct way to order the clips, and so we went by what we thought looked best rather than what we thought was the original sequence.

            THE ORIGINAL -         

OUR REMAKE -

Prelim Storyboard