Signing off Message

WEll this is my last ever blog, (touch wood) -LOL, i have put in a lot if hard work and hopefully it will help secure me my overall grade, which is ofcourse an A ;) exam revision time! and thanks to everyone that has been supporting from the beginning. I enjoyed the overall process.

Michael

Final Blog !

Here is my final blog for blogger.
I have really enjoyed the time I had making the film opening for Noir Demon.
Group 24 had their difficulties but overall I think we work well as a group and happy with our final product.
I have done my best and I hope it is enough to help me get into A2 Media.

Bye ;)

Question 7

Question 7 (evaluation)

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The Opening of Noir Demon

Here is the final product that group 24 has made

NOIR DEMON

        

The password is 'student'

Question 7

Evaluation - Question 7

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

  

Screen grabs comparisons

The comparison between post production

Prelim 

The script

The Animatic

Noir Demon

We research film openings for inspiration

We were able to make a animatic and storyboard

We brainstormed our ideas

Because of the brainstorming and planning we were able to go and by the right props we needed and give each person a role to do that we all decided on

We was able to make a production schedule so we kne when we were filming and when we need to take out equipment

Comparison in lighting

Here you can see the first 3 pictures with poor lighting from the prelim and you can see the improved lighting in the 3 pictures below of improved light in the opening of Noir Demon.

Comparison in editing

Both the Prelm and Film Opening was done using Final Cut Pro but the editing for the Film Opening was done longer then the Prelim duration of editing (Post Production)

In the the Prelim I was only able to use Soundtrack Pro but in the film opening of Noir Demon I was able to use Soundtrack Pro and my own Foley Sounds that I created. 

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Preliminary Film

-Pre Production – Planning, Animatic & Instructions, Location in College

-Production – Camera Skills, Mise en Scene, Lighting

-Post Production – Editing & Soundtrack Pro

We had very little time to plan and were given instructions to have a match cut and shot reverse shot

Match Cut was good but could have been better.

We broke the 180 degree rule

Soundtrack was good from soundtrack Pro but we wasn’t able to create are own Foley sounds

We had no titles in are Prelim Film

We should have put the lighting brighter because it was a bit dark

The transitions were to fast because the clips filmed were not long

Film Opening

-Pre Production – Planning, Storyboard & Animatic, Brainstorm

-Production – Camera Skills, Mise en Scene, Lighting, Props, Filmed at different locations

-Post Production – Editing, Soundtrack Pro & Foley Sounds

Didn’t use a match cut but we did have a cross cut

We fully understand the 180 degree rule

We had a longer Pre Production stage so we had a clear idea of what we were going to do when it came to the Production stage.

We had a longer time to plan meaning we were able to go and buy the props we needed and plan what everyone was doing

We were able to crate are own soundtrack using soundtrack Pro and Foley sounds we created and recorded

We added titles in our opening and effects during the opening

The lighting was better (we took out lights when we went to field on the field just in case so the same mistake was not made link in the Prelim)

My camera skills were better then it was during the make of the preliminary film.

My editing skills were better this is because I had a chance to explore around on Final Cut Pro and was should how to use new things ion Final Cut Pro

We decided not to have taking in the opening becuase it didnt work to well in the prelim

Question 6

Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?
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Question 3

what kind of media institution might tribute your media product and why?
We are storm production and our distribution is entertainment 2 They are smaller companies. They would be best suited to distribute the film because they would not cost a lot of money they can be played on you tube and shared via face book. Sold onto dvd's and screened in cinema.

Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation - Question 2

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Evaluation - Question 3

Evaluation - Question 3

 

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Question Four

Generally, our film, in terms of a wider audience is targeted at people from various backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, religions and ages that simply enjoy watching thriller films. These people will have a liking to being at the edge of their seats in front of a screen and also enjoy feeling the tension being conveyed to them in thriller films.

Evaluation 4

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Question Six

                                              Jump Cuts are left to keep a fluent pace.

Evaluation - Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation - Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Here are examples of the type target audience

Evaluation - Question 6

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

Here is an example where I have used a combination of technologies

Question 1

Evaluation - Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

From what I have learnt the conventions of an actual film opening are:

-The Production & Distributors Logo / Name

-The name of the film doesn’t have a fixed place in an opening title sequence.

If the name of the film is shown at the end of a title sequence it could come across as a short film. When well known actors are in the film the title of the film would appear after the actor’s titles (This is because the main actors towards the beginning / famous actors are used a marketing tool). But if not very will known actors are used the title would come before the actors.

-The Director name is important (screen play by, adaptive play by)

This title also doesn’t have a fixed place. If the film is directed by a big well known director it would be the last title but if it isn’t a big director it would be seen after the film title (before the actors)

-Names of actors.

The important actors will have their name on the screen by its self first. Lesser important actors will have 2 or 3 names on the screen.

-The middle onwards of the title sequence is the casting and technical names / titles

            Editing / Editors

            Sound

            Make-Up

            Costume

            DOP – Director of Photography

Question Five (Audio)

Evaluation 6

Question Three

Question Two

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Evaluation 2

 noir demon , we reinforce stereotypes  and represent women as weak and defenceless  and the man  as the villan we do this in many ways  take this  screen grab for instance...

we have one of our characters which happens to be a female running through a underpass  looking very scared and she has her arms folded while running which conveys that she is defenceless and  vunreabable ,  here  is  another movie were this happens ... 

this would be a typical stereotype of women in most thriller horrors, we chose to do the same.

here again representation of males have been shown to be quit sinister and as you can see only half of his face is showing , we did this on purpose to convey  the stalker side to the character and his cunningness.

here is another movie were the male is represented int he same way... 

we have represented males in a negative way and represented females as defenceless and hopeless.

overall i would say that that we have represented both males and females in a negative way; females are being represented as sinister and presented across as predators, and females represented as hopeless and defenceless this is shown when she is depicted running through the under pass with her arms folded.

Question 1

Question 1.  In what ways media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Conventions of Film openings

Evaluation 1

The conventions of a film opening are aspects of the film that you would expect to find within the opening sequence, such as titles, introduction to characters and location.  

we made our own company logo which is convention. ' STORM PRODUCTIONS'

this is an example of a production company logo. this helped us to make ours and this always comes at the beginning of a film. the majority of AS students used the candimedia company logo we decided we wanted to make ours unique , so we decided to make our own company logo. from this we can easily differentiate ourselves from our competitors. our company logo also gives our audience an idea of what type of genre'\sub genre our movie will be before they even watch the full movie.

this is our distribution company logo. 'ENTERTAINMENT TWO'

this is another distribution company logo from another film , which helped us think of a name,  we didn't  want to use an existing company distribution, so we decided to make our own. which we were hoping would stand out from everyone else.

our title is after the distribution company logo , which is conventional  here is an example of this in another film....

we made sure we done this to make our opening sequence as conventional as possible but we also made sure it wasn't going to be predictable and boring.


as you can see from the above our opening sequence follows  convention such as titles ,distribution company , production logo . we also did the same for introducing characters and location.  this also can be used to establish our genre 

In an opening of a film the genre can be established, this can be done through the editing of a film, for example in the beginning of our opening  you will notice that in our production logo  there is thunder and there is a sinister face which appears in the cloud which suggests to the viewer that the movie is going to be a thriller horror.

Creating Our Own Ident

Windows Movie Maker

Above are still images from me making our own ident

Creating Sound

Below are stills from the making of our own sounds to make a soundtrack.

FL Studios

Editing - Soundtrack

We decided as a group while we were filming on the first day to record sounds to make our own sounds to use as foley sounds as use soundtrack pro sounds.

Th sounds that we used for the film opening are:

Done Angelic Mystery (background)

Running / footstep (using are own Foley sound)

Fence rattle (using are own Foley sound)

FX 02 (Crickets)

Heartbeat

Concrete Jungle

Lighter 1

Fire 2

Planning - Skills Audit to date (Pitch)

The skills that we have learnt so far are:

-Using Final Cut Pro for editing are work (animatic, Arlington road practical etc.)

-Using Soundtrack Pro for adding sound

-Blogging on blogger.com to blog about the work & research done for this AS course

-Foley Sounds to add to our work that we have recorded are selves

-Using Mac – for some members of the group using the Mac computers and software’s were new to them.

-Prezi using this to make are presentation for are pitch.

Planning - Risk Assessment

Here is are Risk Assessment for when we film - 

Planning – Title sequence Inspirations

There a 3 title sequences that we looked at that inspired / influenced us for what to do for our groups title opening / sequence. We decided that we wanted to make a discrete title opening.

After looking at the opening for Seven we have decided to try and recreate how the titles appear on the screen in our title sequence because we think it effective. The reason we find it effective is because the title doesn’t say still so the viewer has to look and follow it with their eyes to read so they are paying attention and also we like the font of the titles (the job being in large caps and the names in small and large caps). We have agreed that are titles will be all in the same font and colour because most title are like that. We have chosen to use the colour white for are titles because we know that most of are footage is going to be dark so it will stand out.

Here is the opening of Seven:

Another opening that inspired our title opening is from the film Enemy of The State (1998).

The titles also inspired us. The font used is interesting and we like it because it is not normal text font but it can be read, also the times when the title change is at the same speed (pace) / beat of the music and we would like to do that. The music we also liked because the sounds linked to the genre of the film that was being shown in the opening also we want to use ambient sounds like in this opening that relates / links to the genre of our film Noir Demon  We would also like to do different location shots. Because we want to make are film have a discrete opening we would like to have fast and slow parts in are opening like in this opening.

Planning - Sound Ideas

As a group we have lots of different ideas about what sounds to use for are opening. We are planning to use sounds we have recorded are selves using Foley sounds a well as use Soundtrack pro (because Michael is a DJ and he has the most experience with working with music and sounds we have decided to put him in charge of sound and music for the opening of Noir Demon)

When we were filming on day 2 we recorded sounds of things like fences rattling and foot steps of Susan running in the underpass using a film camera and Michael has converted the sounds to MP3’s at home so that we can added it the timeline on Final Cut Pro or Soundtrack Pro.

We have the idea to have a slow and fast music to play through out the whole opening the works with the titles and also have layered sounds. We have an idea that the music that runs through out the whole opening should be a bit like the exorcist and Halloween film theme tune

So far we have the ideas of have static sounds in the opening.

Film Distribution for ND (institutional details)

We have decided that because Noir Demon is a low budget film it is going to be an independent film, so we hoping to have a major marketing campaign so that it could lead to a film with a wide release.

Because it is an independent film it will be screened at film festivals before distribution at the Raindance film festival, BFI London Festival, Cannes and Sundance so that we can hopefully get more distributors for the film, so this could result to a mainstream film production.

Viral marketing will be are main marketing because of the low budget, so this will be done by thought the internet from things like social networking sites leading to word of mouth between friends, families and people to advertise the film to audiences as well as newspapers posters, train posters, radio, trailer and small interviews.

We are thinking of any one of these companies to help distribute / found / produce Noir Demon because they do it for many other independent films Film4 Productions, Lions Gate Films, Summit Entertainment, ThinkFilm, Entertainment One or Working Title film.

Changes

We had to make some changes on the first day of filming. The first change we made was that instead of having symbols drawn on the cloak we came up with the idea of having one of the symbols re-made using black candles that are lighted by the ‘demon’ because we thought that that way we could film the lighting of the candles in an interesting way and that it would be better and more interesting then white symbols on a black cloak. Unfortunately Jobedha was unable to come for the filming.