Opposites Attract - Finished Film Opening

Evaluation Question 7

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Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

For Question 1 I decided to create a webpage.
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This is a screen shot of my webpage.

Illistrated Essay for question 3

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

When deciding which production company would produce my film and which company would distribute my film there are different things to consider. I have to consider the types of films they have produced or distributed in the past. As my film is a romance film it would make no sense to ask a company such as Twisted Pictures to produce my film when they only work in the horror section of the industry therefore the companies I choose must have past experience in producing and distributing romance film. This is important because the company will have experience in the romance genre, they will also have a audience who have been to see their romance films before meaning that the film will get watched. Using a well known company would mean that the film would already have an established audience whereas if the film was produced by an independent film company it wouldn't have an established audience and this could be risky because it could mean that there would be no one going to watch the film meaning it would make a lose when you want to make a profit.
I would use a company that is well know for creating romance films because they would already have an established audience for the film so this would mean that people already know what kinds of thing to expect from the films that the company produce and would know that they like about the film that the company has produced. By having a company that has a established audience it means that the film would get watched and therefore has a better chance of either breaking even or making a profit. 

The production company I would choose would be Screen Gems because they have produced films such as 'The Vow', 'Dear John' and 'Friends with Benefits'. Screen Gems have helped produced many different film and they have made a reasonable profit, for example 'The Vow' had an estimated budget of $30,000,000 and in the opening weekend at the box office made $41,202,458. This film made a profit and I feel like this would be the right choice for my film because it would get it out to a wider audience meaning it would be watched by more people and would make a larger profit, however the downside of having Screen Gems produce my film is that they don't specialise just in romance films they produce films from all different genres so that they might not know all of the genre conventions meaning that the film may not be as popular among the target audience. 

I would choose 20th Century Fox to distribute my film as they have distributed many different romance films that have be successes for example, Titanic, The Fault in Our Stars and This Means War. By having this company distribute my film they would know the kind of techniques that worked well when they have previously promoted romance films and they will also know what types of social media worked well with the promotion of their romance films. The only downside of using this distribution company is that they distribute many different genres of film and this may mean that they are not as up to date with distribution of romance films. 

Illistrated Question 6 Essay

What have you learnt about technologies from constructing this product?

When creating my product I used many different technologies so that I had used before and others that I had not used before. The technologies I have used can be divided into 3 groups, Hardware, Software and Online. In the hardware section comes the camera, the tripod and the Mac. In Software falls Premier Pro, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Word and After Effects. Finally in Online comes YouTube, IMDb, Prezi, Slideshare and Blogger. 

The camera I used was a Samsung HMX-Q10 full HD compact camera. 

This camera was my own so I already had experience with using the camera so I already understood who it worked, this made filming my product easier because I already understood how to work the camera and how to get it to film the way I wanted it to, however I had never filmed a project like this before and the camera had only really used to shot home videos at times like Christmas and Birthdays. Filming this made a nice change and it meant that I got to use the camera and got to understand how to work it better. I feel that by using my own camera it made it easier for me to film my project as I wasn't waiting for other people to film their projects before I could use the camera, by using this camera it mean't I could film my project

at whenever my location was available and it didn't limit me on when I could film. 

The tripod I used was from the Manfrotto compact collection 

  

This Tripod is also my own, I hadn't really used it before I began filming my media project however I did understand how it worked. It was very useful to have my own tripod which could do pans and tilts because I needed to do a pan within my project. Having my own tripod benefited me because it meant that when I was able to go on location I didn't have to worry about whether or not there was a panning and tilting tripod available at college. Having my own tripod and camera meant that I could go on location without having to sign things out from college before hand. 

Throughout my project I used a Mac Computer 

Before my project I had never used a Mac before. I found the Mac hard to get to grips with at first however after a few weeks it became easier to use. I liked using the Mac because it was fast and easier to use. I thought at the start of the project that the Mac was difficult to use but know it is like second nature and I find it just as easy as easy as using my windows laptop at home. Using the Mac made creating different parts of my project quicker because the Mac worked a lot faster than my laptop at home. 

The three pieces of software that I mainly used to create my product were Premier Pro, Photoshop and After Effects. 

 All of these software's linked well together as they are all created by Adobe. They all look very similar and it is easy to understand one of them if you have mastered another one. The hardest one to get to grips with was After Effects as it does so many different things. I used Premier Pro to create my film opening it was very different to Imovie which is what I used to create my preliminary project. Premier Pro allowed me to edit shots that weren't quite right and make them fit well within the film where as in Imovie I was unable to do this. I used Photoshop to create my still logo which was used on all my documents such as location release forms and talent release forms. By using Photoshop I was also able to edit my logo so that it went from a rectangle shape to a square shape which was then used on the Facebook page. I used After Effects to create the moving logo that features at the beginning of my opening. I found this hard to use because there were so many different features and I was unsure of how to use some of them, however I watch some online tutorials and soon understood  the features of after effects that I wanted to used to create my production companies moving logo.  

Other pieces of software that I used were Word and PowerPoint

I have used both of these pieces of software multiple times  and have a good knowledge of how to use them. I used Word to created documents such as Release Forms and Risk Assessment forms. I mainly used PowerPoint in my research stage as a way to present information that I had found out that was related to the same topic. Powerpoint made presenting information easier as it is easy to include pictures and text that are based on the same thing. it also allowed the information to be seen all at one go on the same screen rather than having to scroll through different pages. Words was useful when creating my document because I was able to use templates to make them look professional and it helped me know how to lay it out and where to put specific features of the document. 

I used quite a few new websites thought the production of my film opening. 

I used both Prezi  and Slideshare as a way to present my research and planning. 

 Both of these sites gave me different ways with which to present my work. The benefit of using sildeshare was that it allowed me to include YouTube videos with my slides shows which was particularly useful for my codal analysis because it meant that I could include the video from which I was referring. Prezi was useful when I was deciding on my story ideas because it allowed me to easily show my target audience the kinds of things I had come up with and it also allowed me to show them all in a way which looks smart and professional. I found Prezi hard to work with in the beginning but after a while I got the hang of it and was able to understand how to use Prezi to its full extent. 

I also used IMDb (international movie database) to research into existing films and to find out audience demographics. 

 Using IMDb made research easier as I was able to see the kind of audience watch certain films, what kinds of films already exist and the sorts of themes that are most popular with people watch romance films.This made deciding the kind of film I wanted to make easier and it helped with working out different title ideas and helped me work out the kinds of characters that I wanted to feature with in my film openings. IMDb was also useful because it allowed me to see what kinds of film that were out there and see what kinds of hybrids I could create before I decide which to make. 



I used YouTube to get my project out there. 

I used YouTube as a way to share the progress of my film and I uploaded Logo Movement Ideas and Shot type practices and the my final project. I had never uploaded to YouTube before however it wasn't hard and it didn't take logo to grasp it. YouTube was extremely useful in sharing my progress with others who were watching the progress of my film opening. 

The main website I used throughout making my final project was Blogger 

Blogger was extreamly useful because it allowed me to view all the work I had done at the same time in the same place. I had never used Blogger before I started my project, I found it easy to use and I got the hang of it rather quickly. I found that Blogger was extremely useful especially when I was trying to find work that I had already done to looks at the choices I had made within them. Blogger was easy to work with and useful because I could upload text, images and videos to the same place and it was relatively easy to use. The fact that I could use this all at the same time meant that everything was stored in the same place rather than all over the computer.

Opposites Attract Survey

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