Here is a link below of our finished film opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_RqUd5pkHo
AS Media Blog
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Question 5. How did you attract/address your audience?
To make our film appealing to our target audience we have taken elements of other film characters and based out main characters on them.
Kaden plays a classic thriller character as a hitman. To develop Kaden's character as a group we decided to base his characteristics from the characters of Agent 47 from "Hitman: Agent 47".
I play an university student, which is more present in older films such as "Scream" which is getting more popular due to TV reboots and becoming popular within our target audience age range.
For our non-linear narrative order, we took this idea from American Beauty by having the end of the film in the opening. The film opening in a similar way to American Beauty as the events are shown after the opening leading up to what previously has been shown.
Music and sound
Our opening's music was made Charlie Watts' brother who's credited as Sam Storm. For our score we took more generic inspiration from thriller films by using orchestral instruments to add a suspense atmosphere. we decided to not have any dialogue to add to the suspense built up with the music.
Mise-en-scene
With the Mise-en-scene the costume was one of the most important factors we had to consider. It needed to be really obvious about the contrast between the two characters. With the character I played we showed the normality of the morning routine and with the hitman character we showed the contrast of what he goes through. We also ensured Kaden's clothing was messy to show reflect his inexperience throughout the film.
Editing
Through the use of split screen we were able to make our film unique. We did this to try and attract our target audience as well as to create unique USP for our film. We also decided to make the length of the shots change throughout our opening vary in order to create an unsettled feeling which changes the mood throughout the opening.


For our non-linear narrative order, we took this idea from American Beauty by having the end of the film in the opening. The film opening in a similar way to American Beauty as the events are shown after the opening leading up to what previously has been shown.
Music and sound
Our opening's music was made Charlie Watts' brother who's credited as Sam Storm. For our score we took more generic inspiration from thriller films by using orchestral instruments to add a suspense atmosphere. we decided to not have any dialogue to add to the suspense built up with the music.
Mise-en-scene

Editing
Through the use of split screen we were able to make our film unique. We did this to try and attract our target audience as well as to create unique USP for our film. We also decided to make the length of the shots change throughout our opening vary in order to create an unsettled feeling which changes the mood throughout the opening.
Killjoy Testing
Here is a link of when we were experimenting with the split screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rshOiXk0A9o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rshOiXk0A9o
Question 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Evaluation
question
Production
Other
films produced by film 4 ‘Room’ with the budget of $13 million
‘Ex_Machina’
with the budget of $15 million and ‘12 years a slave’with a budget of $20 million.
With the
research the group carried out we estimated our budget to be $20 million. We
looked at slightly lower budget films such as 'The Purge', 'The King's Speech' and
'Slumdog Millionaire' as well as the much higher budget films such as ‘American
sniper’, ‘Superman’ and ‘inception’. We opted to have the budget at $20 million
which is similar to the making of the 'The Conjuring’.
Distribution
Distribution
Paramount

‘Transformers age of extinction’
$165-350 million, ‘Iron man 3’
$200 million and
‘Pain & Gain’ $26 million. Paramount often Distributes American films with budgets starting from $20million
to $400+ million.
Exhibition
A film screening is the displaying of a motion picture or film, generally referring to a special showing as part of a film's production and release cycle. We estimated to show our film on 400 screens.
To target
the British market we decided to make a competition to win a trip to the Cannes
film festival and have dinner with the cast. For the International marketing we
decided to make contrasting billboards around the imitate the split screen effect.
cast list:
Question 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Whilst filming the preliminary task, was the less noticeable elements. An example of this was with the match on action shot, where Kaden stumbles through the door but the second shot the door was fully closed where as the door should still be closing.
Throughout the filming of the opening, it was important to maintain continuity, however with limited tri-pods and camera's this was harder than anticipated. Whist editing we noticed other members of the group in the shot. Additionally on the first filming day as I was walking out of the door and I wasn't carrying a bag, however when I got to the car I put a bag in the front seat. We then decided to re-film the shot at a later date.
The preliminary task was much easier to film the mid shots, close ups and long shots due to the space we were provided. In comparison to the many angles and locations which we had to film.
In both tasks we tried to include shot-reverse-shot, match-on-action,and the 180 degree rule appropriately, which was successful. Through experimenting we were able to do the match on action more creatively in the final piece. This is show In the gif below
Throughout the filming of the opening, it was important to maintain continuity, however with limited tri-pods and camera's this was harder than anticipated. Whist editing we noticed other members of the group in the shot. Additionally on the first filming day as I was walking out of the door and I wasn't carrying a bag, however when I got to the car I put a bag in the front seat. We then decided to re-film the shot at a later date.
The preliminary task was much easier to film the mid shots, close ups and long shots due to the space we were provided. In comparison to the many angles and locations which we had to film.
In both tasks we tried to include shot-reverse-shot, match-on-action,and the 180 degree rule appropriately, which was successful. Through experimenting we were able to do the match on action more creatively in the final piece. This is show In the gif below
Question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


We used YouTube to upload, store and present most of our test footage, early edits, logo trails and our preliminary task.

Google Drive was used to store most of our files this included scanned in files and shared pieces of work. Google Drive was extremely useful because it allowed us to share files as a group and store all our information effectively.


During our filming at the car park in Bedminster we used a tripod to achieve a smooth panning shot where Kaden and myself was walking towards the car. This was useful as the camera stayed steady and flowed with the movement really well. The tripod also allowed smooth transitions from one side of the car park to another.
We also used a scanner to upload written documents on to the computer. This was extremely useful to make our notes accessible online. For example the story boards we made.
Question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
This person would watch our film as it would be filled with action and have some elements of drama.
He fits our age range from 15-25
What is the genre of the film and why?
What was your favourite element of the opening?
If you could sum up the opening in 3 words, what would it be?
What do you think the plot of the film is?
Would you want to watch this film?
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