Question 5: How did you attract your audience?

Question 4- Who would be the audience from our finished Piece

Historically, Teen and youth drama audiences were typically young people and anyone who was into that type of movie genre, such as avid movie goers.

Our wider audience however mainly just young people. As this was a student film we collectively decided to aim it at young people such as ourselves. This also allowed us to enforce social stereotypes as we felt it would simplify the overall view of  groups of people.

when we started off on this blog we investigated the typical target audience of a youth drama such as the one we were about to make and we found...

This was extremely helpful to find early on as it guided us on how we should construct the overall ambience of our film.

It was at that point we decided to create a Twitter as well as a Facebook page to attract this type of audience to see if anybody was interested.

This was very successful as it allowed us to experience very low level marketing of of a low budget film.

Question 2- The representation of Social Groups

Question 7- What have I learnt

Question 3

My group would have chose to use gateway productions to promote and distribute our film. we have done some research into independent production companies and major production companies, and we feel that it would be more beneficial for our film to be produced by a small independent company such as gateway. Gateway Productions is a British independent film production company, that are behind the creation of a number successful British teen drama's including as 'shank And Anuvahood' both of which everyone in my group has watched. Through watching the title sequence of Anuvahood we were led to Gateway productions and went on to do some research about the company. After reading up about Gateway, my group then came to the conclusion that this would be the perfect company to produce our film. The Reason for this is that Gateway unlike Many major companies work with newly established / Un-established British talent to create these extremely successful films.


Due to the fact Our group had no budget for the creation of our film, it would be unrealistic for us to try to persuade a major production company to work with us for no money. The Gateway Website states "  to make good quality films alongside some of the World’s biggest film studio’s on sensible budgets with new and established talent." this has us led to believing that small independent companies are more suitable for this project.


Research on major production companies consolidated our decision to use a small independent company. information taken from page 140 of the Ocr Media Studies Guide, states in the uk there are five major production companies that dominate the Uk film industry, Including Sony and century Fox, It also States that these companies work directly with Hollywood production companies and in some cases Hollywood is preferred over British talent for profitable reasons. we came to an agreement that this was not suitable for our project.

Question 6 (what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?)

Used my friends account hence 'Liam Hughes'.

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

Photobucket:

I used photo bucket to post up all our pictures and videos to promote our film to our potential viewers. It was quick and easy to use and required little to no effort. Really effevtive and handy when out and about!

http://s284.photobucket.com/

Login details:

ab06403@student.candi.ac.uk

kieronlikeswaffles

Template for our title sequence (Rough)

DON'S FEEDBACK ON MOTION

- Change the sizeof your font it is unreadable on the fast moving clips

-Make the names more realistic, its not a parody movie

-Change the font from white to black

-Put the font in bold to make it more noticeable

-Change the placement of your opening credits, some are more clear than others

-Change the title

-Put the title in white for effect

Personal Feedback(Matthew)

After so many days shooting and so many days of endless filming we really did pull through. The film looks great, the motion now as best as we can do, the music is emotive and dramatic and sets the scene perfectly and the editing is good as far as i can see. I learnt so much about final cut pro during my time in the editing suite and really enjoyed the entire experience. If i could change one thing it would be the death scene as my camera work was a little shaky which unnerved me... if only we had a track. All and all it was amazing and worthwhile!

Editing

I took some footage of Matt to show what happens when we edit.

Pictures from our editing session:

Kieron blogging

Soundtrack

whilst Heather and Matthew started the editing process of our film, I went down to the music studio to begin creating the sound track to our teen title. Using logic pro 9 I created a short track that we intended to use within our film. Matthew suggested that I use the soundtrack to the trailer for Dead Island as a template for the creation of our track. It was quite difficult and the chord progressions were hard to learn but i fought through it to create a short sequence. After feedback from peers we decided to use the actually trailer instead of my rendered version as it was more emotive and set the scene and sympathy for the protagonist better than my version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPda4CVExK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms

Feedback from peers:

FEEDBACK:

Our friend and classmate, Liam, gave us feedback on our film so that we work on the constructive feedback.

Half Term Filming.

THE OUTCOME.

Over the Half term we filmed throughout two days to better our shots and include more angles. We got together our trustworthy group of actors and crew and shot in Coppett woods, this time during the day as we took into consideration our disastrous affairs with the dedo light of numerous occasions previously.

The weather was perfect for us to get every shot done with little rain or wind. It was cold but our actors pushed through it. 

Poppy exceeded her amazing make up skills once again on Heather for the death and beating up scene.

MAKE UP FROM THE FIRST SHOOT

MAKE UP FROM THE SECOND SHOOT

We uses are sparse knowledge of stage fighting to safely carry out small 'violent' shots for the film.

Overall we got everything that we needed to, in the small amount of time we had to do it.

New production schedule

Monday 16th February- First filming day
Filming commences at 11.00-16.00
Consisting of fillers and smaller shots
Meeting at Matthews house ON TIME
Busroute(43)
Break between 1-2
Most shots to be filmed inside the house




Tuesday 17th February- Second filming day
Filming commences at 11.00-16.00
Main filming section of slow motion rewind scenes/ fight scenes
Coppett woods
Meeting at Matthews house
People needed:Heather, Matt, Kieron, Poppy,Nathan and Georgia
Break between 1-2
Get as many different shots and angles as possible

CONTACT DON ON ARRIVAL.

Directors Interview

Here is the interview with the director of Stitches Matthew Hill as seen posted above.


We asked a variety of questions based around the film and filming.

DONNA'S FEEDBACK

ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT :

CHANGE THE HEADER ON THE BLOG TO THE TITLE OF OUR FILM
-Make sure its of the title we are going to use (stitches).

CHANGE THE TITLE OF THE INTERVIEW WITH HEATHER
- change it to the interview with the actress/protagonist.

CHANGE THE BACKGROUND OF THE BLOG TO BLACK
- the blue contrasts too much, monochrome always works.

INTERVIEW WITH THE DIRECTOR AND ANOTHER CHARACTER FROM THE FILM
-Get their take on how filming is going.


POST SOME OF THE SHOTS WE HAVE TAKEN AND WILL DEFINITELY USE IN OUR FILM
- give a run down on what we have already achieved and what has ben successful.

Emaze on filming (4.2.15)

Influences 2