Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 3

What kind  of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Me and my group decided what distribution companies we wanted to distribute our filmed based on the sub genre we chose and the budget we went for. Since we were doing a High School drama, from research we found that High school dramas tend to be very successful and well known they also tend have mainstream distribution companies. From this finding we had an idea of what production and distribution companies we were going to use.

For our High school drama we decided to use Atlantis Alliance as our production company and use Icon pictures as the distribution company. Both these companies are quite major and so hat's why we chose them We wanted our film to attract more than a niche audience since that;'s what the conventional High school drama tends to do. 

Alliance Atlamtis have produced well known tv shows such as CSI and have also distributed well known films such as Rush Hour 2, Spy kids and Scary movie 2. We though they would be suitable for our movie niche we wanted to attract a wider audience but at the same time we didn't have a big enough budget to make a Company like Disney Pictures produce or distribute it. Alliance Atlantis is quite popular and so that was perfect for us since we couldn't make as big as Disney produced film but still use a known production company. 

Icon Productions is more of an Independent distribution company, they've distributed well known films such as 12 years a slave this was the distribution company for Australia. Icon Productions distribute films in America, Australia and the UK. Me and the group felt this would suit our film because of our budget, we wanted our film to attract more than niche audience but not a global audience and so I think Icon productions would be best for the aim we are going for.

Our production company meant that we could include almost most of the conventional titles you would expect to see in a high school opening. Since it's quite a well known company we were able to also make the titles themselves look more creative. We were mainly influenced by mean girls with the design of our titles and so with having them as a production company we were able to get our
 design the way we wanted it.

Evaluation Question 4

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Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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Evaluation Question 7

Heres a link to my prelim and opening sequence and also a prezi talking about how much I've learned.

14. Lorel, Shanai, Meshaiel, Amy from 283goswell on Vimeo.
14. PRELIM Daniyal Naeema Lorel Cherelle from 283goswell on Vimeo.

editing

As a group we all take turns in editing. During every editing session at least two of our from
the group would be there to help eachother. If we were all there we would all have different roles
when editing. Editing was very frustrating at some points. We would try
to be independent when solving issues but would
also received help from the teacher.

Receiving help from the teachers also allowed us to get more feedback and
often from this we we learnt new ways of editing things and overall improved editing skills.
This was especially seen with one of our match on match cuts
when we asked for feedback our teacher realised
it wasn't edited accurately and this helped us fix up messy edits
which could have lost us points.

Locations

Around Angel, Islington. We wanted to stay local
as it would make it easier to get through more shots

Around Angel, Islington

We asked to film our other character getting off the bus, this was one of our favourite ideas and I'm glad it was achieved.
This is outside, City and Islington College. This had t be re shot due to bad framing but we had done it during the holidays. When we arrived back to college  the college gates were closed, so we had to use dialogue to establish that they were making their way into the college .

Our inital plan was to film in oxfam but due to
the time of day when we asked they said the store was too busy. So we ended up using cancer research for one of our main locations, which we used to establish the social and economic background of one of the characters. In the opening sequence we see her stealing clothes and shoes from there

Changes to costume

we changed the costume of our popular girl since she is from a poor background we thought her previous outfit was too 'glammed' up and so changed her outfit to something that still makes it clear shes popular but also hides that shes poor.
Below is the new outfit used.

6(extra)screen shot examples of title types

This is titles over animated or motion images.
This is a very effective way of grabbing the audiences attention
without also giving away too much of the story line

Here is an example of a title on a blank screen
You can see how plain it is but is yet until this day
very popular.

This is a title over a still image
You can say this is quite similar to titles over moving images
but this can be seen as very effective and creative
 with what can be created
using still images instead of moving

Here is a link to this title sequence to show what titles over moving
images looks like. http://youtu.be/4No2ZhJwVGU

37-blog brand

We decided to change our display page of blogs to suit the

production of our movie more. It's a high school drama, based on two female teenage characters 

hence why we decided to make the main colour pink. Linking to the use of the colour pink, for our title sequence we intend

on using pink for the colour of our Title texts to establish that it's a female

based high school drama and not a youth drama. One other reason why we used pink is because of 

one of our main characters (Jessica). She pretends to be that lead  popular girl in her clique that 

always seems to love the colour pink, this was inspired by mean girls. Overall the colour pink reflects the story line of our 
movie and that is mainly why we chose it.
Adding blue to the text colour was a 'lighter' also can be seen as another 'girly' colour to add in. 
Another  reason for the use of blue is our
'geeky'  characer is seen as different from the average teen or popular girl and so the choice of blue relates to the 
story line of both our main characters showing major differences but in some way 

end up forming a friendship.

Our Last Changes

Final Changes

Originally Walt Disney were going to be our production company but due to the outcome of our movie. We personally thought it didn't look so much of an Disney Production movie and so changed the production company to Alliance Atlantis a lower budgeted production company. Alliance Atlantis was a Toronto-based Canadian-American media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona and Sydney.

Pictures from last filming session

Practical Remake ACtivity- A room for Romeo Brass

Ideal Order Of Titles

Sound for the opening sequence

Sound 

Creating sound for our opening sequence has been one of our greatest difficulties. This is since we want the sound to represent the mood of our characters without changing the music all the time and so that's what we are finding hard doing.

Although this is difficult we've enjoyed experimenting with the types of sound you can make with all the different instruments. This can be seen in the images below of us finding our base sound and adding sound on top to see if it will match and build up the music.

Unfortunately

 I think it will be better to use queen free music for our opening sequence since we are finding it very hard to create our own and also since we are starting to run out of time

On the other hand we've been looking for royalty free sound music that we can use. We mainly used soundcloud to do this.

Pictures from 3rd filming session

one of our best shots
filming our main character from an estate balcony

Our over the shoulder shot

Trying to achieve a match on match shot
of our character coming down
the estate staircase

Reflection from 2nd filming session

In our second filming session.We moved on to one of our very important scenes which was basically showing our popular teen character that pretends to be wealthy is actually not. In this session w aimed to establish where she really lives and how she decepts her everyday life. We wanted to show how she lies to her friends at college but the audience are in on the secret and in this scene that's where it becomes clear. W filmed outside an Estate in angel Islington and at a local bus stop where the estate was.

What went well 

In the background is the estate we used to

establish where this character

really lives.

In this session although the weather was very cold it didn't prevent us from filming where as in our first session a lot of time was wasted due to rain and so we had to wait until that stopped before we started filming. This allowed us more time to film and so we didn't feel rushed, another thong that went well was that we were able to shot in all our designated locations which meant not a lot of time was wasted on finding the locations we desired to film at. One other important thing that went well was the use of the tripod. We learnt that using the wheel to film was not really effective for the type of shots we were using and so we learnt that using the tripod was so much better and are shorts were a lot more clearer and stable.We plan to carry on using that for the rest of our production. 

                                                          Problems we had

                                                                       When the shots we filmed were viewed the feedback we got back were that most our shots were badly framed for example a lot of our shots included a lot of head space which was incorrect and so this made things look very unprofessional. 

The tripod giving us more professional
still shots

Next filming session

in our next filming session we are going to have to re film this scene due to how bad our shots were framed. In advance we've been shown how to correctly framed our shots so we can get it right in our future shots

                                                                               

Rough Cut feedback and Next Steps

Rough Cut Feedback

-The storyline isn't clear from what is shown.
-Too much camera movement.
-Some match cuts need work for example some bits jump
-Straighten up some shots
-We need to add in more bits to illustrate how poor Amy's character really is.