Opening sequence final product.

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Question 6.

1) What technologies have you used?
During our film making, we used many technologies such as I movie, a moving image camera (for the making of our film). For documenting of what we were doing (audience research etc. etc.) we used programs such as Blogger, Bubbl, Prezi, screencast and youtube annotations. I used these technologies to present and make my research and planning easy to read. Blogger was the website where I documented my research and planning, I chose to use Blogger as it is simple and easy to use and you can embed practically anything, so it gave me more options / ways to present my work. i presented my work in super visual ways using bubbl, Prezi, screen cast and youtube annotations. Using these programs mad my work a lot easier to look at as it wasn't huge blocks of texts. I found using screen cast was the most super visual way of presenting your work as you could explain what you were doing and show what you where doing at the same time.

2) What technologies are new to you?
A technology that would be new to me would be final cut. I not used final cut before i started media. At first i found final cut difficult to use as i had never seen the program before and i didn't know what to do with it. As i was getting more and more comfortable.

QUESTION 7.

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



From looking back at my preliminary task i found that my camera skills had improved vastly and i now know how to make the drama flow better and for the drama to make more sense. I have learnt how use i movie as well as more complex programs such as final cut and photoshop to make production logos as well as the titles for our movie. I also learnt how to put effects on the scene to make it a lot more eerie and create an atmosphere. I have also learnt how to use Imovie to a better standard as now the camera work flows more compared to the preliminary task where there are a lot of pauses between speech and it didn't flow.

QUESTION 5.

How did you attract/address your audience?



Directors commentry.






Vox pops
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Question 4.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our target audience would be aimed mainly at teenagers/young adults. We decided this as we thought the film would be appropriate for that age group. We also decided that the film should appeal to both male and female, that go to high school or university. We aimed the film at the lower middle class as we felt that the film would appeal to them the most and the way the film has been set may link to some of those peoples lives so they could relate to the film and get a better scare from it.


The psychographic of the audience would be that they want to get a thrill and be scared by the horror/thriller films. In their spare time they might go out and see friends, they would also watch other scary and horror films as they enjoy that. The males may go and play football with their mates and the girls would possibly like to go clothes shopping and do group activities, like go to Camden and things like that. They would be very interested in social networking sites as its how they would find out about the newest trends, clothes and films.

Teacher feedback.

This is our teacher feed back from our second draft.

QUESTION 3.

Final warning draft 2

QUESTION THREE.

1) what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

My group has titled the film as 'final warning' as ut hints to the audience the genre of the film and what may happen in the film. 'Final warning' also links to the plot of the film where a person discovers a note saying 'your next' and they have to try and get away from the killer and the note is the final warning to the person that is about to get killed. Our film is a triller as it does mnot have a lot of gore in it and it is a spooky and scary film that is aimed to put the audience on the edge of there seats. We have targeted the film at young adults as we feel that they would want to make the audience jump as well as enjoy the film.

The distributor for our film is 'Paramount pictures' we have chosen them to be our distributor as they have distributed high budget films of this genre in the past year. We are very certain the 'Paramount pictures' will get this film advertised to the correct target audiencde which would mean we would gbet a profit, if many people watch it. 'Pareamount pictures' have distributed films of this genre such as 'The devil inside' and 'Paranormal activity'.

Our production company is named 'Clockwork Productions'. We chose this name as we feel it fits our genre as it gives the sense that the time would pass quickly when you are watching the film. 'Clockwork Productions' also links to our film as it is only a matter of time before the killer gets you once you have discovered the note.

QUESTION 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The social group that my Opening Sequence has represented is teenagers. They have been represented by the location and the use of costume, the location of the park is Representative of teenagers as most teenagers hang out in the park with their friends. The use of costume shows that the characters are teenagers as they are both the girls are wearing leggings and the boy is wearing trendy trainers and jeans. The costume shows that they are young because if they were wearing smart clothes, the audience might think that the characters are older than they are supposed to be in the Opening Sequence. My Group decided that we wanted our social group to be teenagers as it would appeal to our target audience more and the opening sequence would make more sense to our target audience and it would appeal to them.
Our Opening Sequence wouldn't represent people in university as they are old enough to go clubbing and wouldn't necessarily go in to a park or forest. If we wanted our social group to be students at university we would have to change the costume, set and possibly the scenario.

QUESTION ONE.

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



There are eight different conventions that are generally used in an opening sequence. these are: and establishing shot, titles, mood and atmosphere, clues to the audience, equilibriem and disequilibriem, production and distributor logo and the soundtrack. These conventions are used to immideatly draw the veiwers attention to what is happening on the screen. They have done this so it will prompt the audience to ask questions and them trying to figure out what ig happening/going to happen in the film. A film in which some of these conventions are used is the last exorscism. They have set the mood by using eerie music at the start and giving the audience small clues to what could be going on.

In the opening sequence to my film called ' final warning' we have used a variety of conventions to draw the audience in and hook them at the very start of the film. To do this we have used the conventions of: soundtrack, disequilibriem, titles, atmosphere and giving the audience clues. We have used a creepy and uneasy soundtrack to put the audience on edge but draw them in to what is happening. 

we have also given the audience clues to what is happening by showing close ups of the dead body and some clues of how the person has ended up dead, we have also used a disequilibrium at the start of the sequence so that the opening sequence starts on a really negative note, it also makes the audience curious about what has happened and makes them want to watch on and find out how this person has died and why they have died.

Final Warning first draft

This is the first draft of our opening sequence of 'Final Warning'.

Storyboards

This is the story board that we created to help us get a picture of what our opening sequence will hopefully look like with the titles aswell.

Titles

These are the fonts we are going to use for our opening title, the fonts are called Crimes Times Six, Feast of Flesh & Face Your Fears. We have chosen these styles of font as they reflect the theme of horror and they are used to set the atmosphere of the sequence. 

We discussed that we wanted to make the audience precautious of what danger may be ahead. We also wanted the writing have the  sense that it was written in blood or written as a message to a certain person.

The title would appear: Distributer Company Logo and the Production Company Logo. The name of the Director would appear, followed by the main two actors. The main title then appears in front of a black background. The names of other actors and then the other crew names appear in the order of most important to least important.

Shooting Schedule

This is the current shooting schedule for our group, we are using this to help us know when to shoot and what shots were going to do and what props were going to use.

Character Descriptions

these are the character descriptions for the characters.

Casting

These were the decisions we made for the casting decisions.

Location Permissions

This is the form that we filled out to get permission to film in Nonsuch Park. We need to have permission to film in nonsuch park so that the council know what dates were going to filming and what props were going to be using, so they don't think were doing anything suspicious.

This is the location permit that we have received from Sutton Council which shows that we are able to film in Nonsuch Park.

Storyboard Animatic

This is an animatic to show the order in which our shots will be in with the music and the titles. The animatic was created to give a rough idea about what our opening sequence would lok like and what order the story board would go in.

The Script

(Tom and Katie are walking their dog through Nonsuch Park. Their dog begins to pull away from them as he smells something unusual. Tom and Katie follow the dog and find the dead body)

Katie: Oh my God!
Tom: Call the police!

(Katie begins to panic but gets out her phone and calls '999')

Katie: Hello?! Police?!

(Phone cuts out)

Katie: Hello? Hello?! Tom, it's not working!
          Tom?

(Katie turns around. Tom has disappeared)

Katie: Tom?!

Props, Costume & Location.

PROPS:

• Dog - so the couple have a reason for going in to the forest
• Blood - to show that they are the dead person.
• Phone - to make the pone call to the police.

COSTUME;

• Male from the couple - wearing comfortable clothes, so jeans, t-shirt, body warmer etc.
• Female from couple- also wearing comfortable clothes, with uggs or boots.
• Victim - dirty clothes that could be cut up or ripped
• Killer - dark clothes with no logos on them, possibly black or dark blue, hood up so you can't see their face.

LOCATIONS:

• Forest
• Alley
• Abandoned house
• Block of flats
• Any areas that are isolated.

Sound.

Film synopsis.

Plot synopsis by Lucy-inder on GoAnimate

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initial ideas.

Vox pop video.

We used vox pops to gather evidence of what people in our school thought should be ina horror movie. From gathering the evidence I found that people would expect a horror movie to have lots of gore in it, they also it to be fast paced with a lot of suspence.

Survey Results

Survey results. from LindsayB96


These results showed us that teenagers like to watch horror films and that they watch them quite regularly. It also showed us that they expect to see a lot of blood and murder in the film.

Ideas for filming.

I have chosen Wimbledon common forest as a good area to do our filming for the horror as the woods are an isolated place in which you can get lost in. It would also make the audience wonder where the people where ands why they were there.

I have chosen Morden Park as a good area to do our filming as the feild is very large and looks like it is never ending. it also has a small forrest in the area which we could use to give clues to te audience to where it is set.

I have chosen Morden Graveyard as a good place to film as the 'graveyard' theme would be used to spook the audience out. It is also a very quiet place which could make the audience wonder why someone would be in or near the graveyard.

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Opening sequence of a film

In the opening seqquence of a film, they have a specific order in which the opening credits come up in. First off they have the distributors and the production logos, this is so you know who has made and funded the film. Next they have the cast with the protagonist at the start of the cast list, then secon, then third etc. etc. Then they have 'the crew' starting with casting, then costume, music, editing, production designer, director of photography, executive producer, produced, written directed. They may also include screenplay, but it depends if the film is an adaptation of another film. They put all these titles in the opening creedits so you can see who made the whole production come together, it also give acnowledgements the the people who helped create the film.

Spiderwick chronicles analysis.

Conventions of a sequence.

BRIDGET JONES DIARY.

Bridget jones diary The mise en scene in the sequence of bridget jones diary, you can see that this woman is having a 'mid life crisis' as she is sitting there with a bottle of wine, a ciggarette in her pijamers. Her apartment is really messy and neglected, this could reflect her relationship, or lack of relationship. It could also show that her life is unorganised. She lives in a cliche comlex apartment. The old fashioned television could suggest that the film is old or that she cannot be bothered to buy a newer t.v. In the cinematography of the sequence, theres a long shot of the block of flats that she lives in. The shot of the flats has low key lighting which may suggest that her life and house has little excitment. There is also a wide shot of her apartment where she is smoking, drinking wine etc etc, in the shot she isn't engaging with the audience which may suggest that she has lost all social skills as she is 'forever alone'. It could also suggest that she is so swallowed up in herself that she dosen't notice that people are there to help. There is a cose up of a party hat with snow on top of it that may suggest that a part of her life is over and she's sad and lonley. These let the audience know how Bridget is feeling and are used to try and make the audience feel compassion for her.

At the start of the sequence, the music starts off diegetic and changes to diegetic half way through the sequence. This lets the audience connect with the character as it is a well known song that everyone knows. On top of this there is a voice over of Bridget explaining her inner thoughts and explaining just lonley she thinks she is. This also engages the audience as they are getting closer with the character already as she is expressing and sharing her feeling with them. There is a sound bridge throughout the whole sequence. The lyrics 'all by myself' are used to reflect her life at the moment which is surrowful until the drums come in and she suddenly becomes posetive and motivated. The titles at the start of the performance are in a bright colour, this shows that film is going to be less serious and that it might even be funny. There is also a cross dissolve from her drinking wine and smoking, this shows a passage of time and suggests that she's demotivated. This also shows that she dosent have the energy to even get off her sofa. This relates with the audience as they may have had a 'mid life crisis' and haven't been able to get off the sofa.

Wallander.

WALLANDER ANALYSIS.

In this image, they have used clothing to reflect their personality. Both the girls are wearing black which may suggest that they are dark people or that they have done something wrong. The girl on the right has he hair in a messy hair do with red streaks through it, this may suggest that she is quite rebellious or different as it is out of the ordinary to have your hair in that style, i think the hair has been made to look messy so then she can intimidate you. Where as the girl on the left has a lot plainer hair in a pony tale, it may suggest that she is the more innocent one in the drama. There black clothes contrast against the pale green background and draws all the attention to the girls. I think the director has done this to ensure that the audience are focussing fully on the girls.

The extreme close up in this shot is used to show an important object. The extreme close up shows the audience that the rebellious girl was the one who killed the man in the car, we can see this by the fact that the camera has focussed on the knife and hand and has blurred out the background. The shot suggests that the girls don't care that they've got blood all over there hands, it could also suggest that the girls have done this before and they don't care what evidence they leave behind or that this is the first time they have done this and theydon't know what they're doing.



In this shot they focus on the breathing the most as the girls sound out of the girls breathing quite quickly. this could suggest that the girls are quite shocked at what they had done or that they had just ran away from the car. At the start of the sequence there in a droning ambient sound. The sound creates a tense and eerie atmosphere and draws the attention of the audience in, it also makes the audience wonder what has happened that is making them f eel so tense.

At the very start of the sequence there is a panning shot of the landscape and you can see a small car in the distance. The panning of the landscaoe shows us that there in an isolated area that is full of marsh land. It also shows that the scene could be set around autumn/winter time as the scene is ful of dark colours, the colours of dying grass and leaves. The panning shot suddenly turns to the sot of the girls walking away from the scene of the crime. The director has done this to make to show the audience where about the girls are and just how isolated it is and how quiet it would be.

'Brick' analysis

Brick (Johnson, 2005, US)

At the start of the opening sequence the music starts of really loud, there is a cowbell which sounds like an alarm with the sound of running water playing at the same time. This makes the audience alert as well as makes them calm, it also completely contrasts the fact that someone has died. There is a sound bridge in the scene where the school bell rings in one scene and carries on ringing in to the next scene, it makes the sequence play more smoothly and seem naturalistic. In the mise en scene they focus on specific aspects of each character, with the girl, they focus on her bright blue bracelets and her blonde hair, we know this as they do a close up of her hand in the stream of water with her blue bracelets on her wrist. With the boy, they focus on his brown shoes and his round glasses. These characteristics of each character make the audience try and figure something out about each character, for example, the girl is perceived to be quite popular with her wavy blonde hair, where as the boy is made out to be a bit of an awkward child with his round glasses and turned up trouser legs, the sequence suggests that the couple are aware of each other but don't really talk to each other. The director purposely holds back information from the audience to try and make the audience figure out what each character looks like. The editing in the sequence is slow paced as the boy sits there and just watches the girl lie in the stream with the water running through part of her hair. The pace then changes when the school bell rings and there is the hustle and bustle of everyday school life. There is a crab shot along the ledge of his feet, they also use a graphic match as the bracelets are in one place in one shot and are in around the same place in the next shot. In the cinematography they have used a wide shot of the area where the girl has laying and the boy is crouching. The director has done this so you can see what the girl looks like and how awkward the boy looks. They have also tracked in on important objects such as the girls; hair, feet, hand and braclets and the boys; glasses, feet, rolled up trousers and hair. They have done this to make the audience wonder who had killed the girl. They have used a pull focus when using an extreme close up on the boys eyes/ glasses. The director has done this to suggest that the boy was in some sort of a shocked daze and was coming back to reality as the camera was focusing. The extreme close up of the boy may suggest that the director, is again, hiding things from the audience as he has his hands blocking most of his nose and mouth from the audience.

The sixth sense.

The sixth sense analysis (Shyaman, 1999, US).

In the opening titles they have a black background with blue text that fades to white. The black background may represent death as the film is about death and the afterlife. The black may also represent a sense of isolation, danger and fear of the unknown as you cannot see in the pitch black and you can feel uneasy when your in the complete dark. The font is in serif, which is quite a serious font, the blue fading to white may represent danger as blue and white are seen as quite cold colours. This could represent the loneliness the woman feels when she's down in the cellar. These titles are accompanied with an unsettling sound, the sound makes the audience feel quite wary of what might happen next. when the title 'The Sixth Sense' comes on to the screen there is the classic horror film orchestral shrill. this keeps the audience alert and intrigued with the film as they want to know what will happen in the film.

In the mise en scene they place the camera behind the wine rack in the cellar. this gives the impression that the woman who has come down in the cellar to look at wine is being watched from behind the wine rack, she then hears something and the camera starts to track in towards her face to intensify her facial expressions and concern that someone is there. This makes the audience feel a sense of uncertainty as they don't know if the woman will be under any threat or if she will walk away unharmed. In the editing they have edited it so it has a slow pace. They have done this to add emphasis on the fact that someone may be watching the woman, where as if the pace had been quickened it would have lost all sense of drama and danger.

In the cinematography they have used a wide shot of the woman turning around to look at where the noise she herd was coming from. They have used this shot to show the size of the cellar and how old and dusty it looks. This shows the audience the scale of the cellar there living in. In the mise en scene they have use low key lighting to show a sense of danger in the cellar.

In this image, they have used an extreme close up on the light bulb. They have used an old fashioned bulb and a rusty light fitting and no lampshade to show that wherever this light bulb is, its in an isolated place that a normal person wouldn't go. The lack of homely feeling in this scene is made to make the audience feel unsettled and inquisitive about why they have used an old light bulb and why they had used it in the first scene. You don't see the link between the light bulb and the next few scenes until the woman is in the cellar and there is a wide shot of her and you can see why they have used the exteme close up of the light bulb as those light bulbs are in the woman's cellar and you can see that it's not an inviting place. The extreme close up automatically grabs the audiences attention as it leads them to ask a lot of questions.

Brief.

For our main task we have to create the opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All the video and audio material must be original, produced by candidates with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright free zone.

- an example of a fiction film.

comparing a trailer and an opening sequence.

This is a trailer for 'Iron man' The difference between a trailer and an opening sequence is that a trailer has the mos important parts of a film in it. If the film is a comedy hey normally have the funniest and most interesting parts in the film. it also has a voice over selling the film to the audience. This makes the audience want to go and see the film as it could look 'funny' or 'scary'. Where as an opening sequence is what is used to set the scene of a film to give you a taster of what is to come throughout the movie. it also introduces the actors and the brands of the companies that have made the film.

embedded video.

embedding a video.

preliminary task.

donnie darko annotations.

cinnamon challenge.

screen capture.

this is some form of screen capture, i dont even knew what it is.

lucy-inderrrr

media 2012