Evaluation task 7 - How effective is the camerawork in my prelim and it is more effective in my thriller and how?

How effective is the camerawork in my prelim and it is more effective in my thriller and how?

The camera work in the prelim isn't that effective but when we first produced it we thought it was. We used a variation of shots but only had to move the camera about 3 times. It was very basic and you can tell this from watching it back. It doesn't look very professional at all. It's a lot more effective in the thriller as we thought it through so much more. We thought about the camera shots a lot more because we had to plan them out on a storyboard well in advance. On the day of the shoot we did end up changing some of what we had put on the storyboard but we still got plenty of shots and they were better than the ones which we had originally planned. We also realised after the prelim, the more shots you have the more variety you have to choose from when editing. When we edited the prelim we only had a very limited amount of shots which made it harder for it to flow - this was a lesson learn't. This was what we noticed when editing the thriller that we had a lot more to choose from when choosing what shots we wanted.


How has mise en scene been used to create meaning, MES more effective in your thriller if so how?

We hardly used mise en scene in our prelim. We used it a bit as we were filming people who needed to show that they were cowboys. We just did this by making sure that they wore cowboy hats as this is very stereotypical
  We also used a bottle of alcohol and shot glasses to show that it was set in a bar. That was the only mise en scene we used. We wanted it to be set in a bar but we ended up just using a normal table and a few shots glasses. It won't have been very clear to the audience what the story line was trying to say. We have made the story a lot clearer in our thriller. We have set the scene in a restaurant and we managed to use a real one and a proper kitchen. We also used proper outfits for our actors. For example we had a chef who we dressed in whites and we put him in the kitchen so it was clear what part he was playing and what he was. We hope that our audience will have been able to see what scene we were trying to set. I think that its a lot clearer than our prelim was though as we didnt have much preparing for our prelim.

How effective is the editing, is it more effective in your thriller if so how?

When we were producing our prelim, our knowledge of editing was very limited so we didn't know very much. Switching from clip to clip in our prelim was very snappy and so it didn't flow as much as we would have liked it to have done. It was very basic editing and it didn't look very professional at all. There were no tittles in it at all and no different scenes. It basically looked all the same. Where as in our thriller we took a lot more into account. We had to learn a lot more of the editing skills in order to make our thrillers look half decent. For my groups thriller we have put it into box sections. This means that the audience can't actually see exactly what is going on as the boxes only show half of what is actually going on. This makes it look ten times more interesting though and makes you actually want to watch the film to know what's going on. It was very hard to get to this point though as we had to figure out how to change it from being so slow to having quick passovers. We asked our teacher for help and we all came up with the idea of doing boxes and this is what we did. We wouldn't have been able to do this for our prelim as we didn't know how to do this. Compared to our thriller our prelim was just boring and doesn't look very good. The editing really does make a difference to the final piece.

How effective is the use of sound, it it more effective in your thriller if so how?

In our prelims we got given a scrip that was already done for us. We didn't choose what we said and we didn't have any music. We didn't even use the technology to get a clear sound on the voices. We didn't even realise at first that you used things to get a clear sound. That was the only type of sound that we had in the prelim where as in our thriller we decided that we didn't want any talking as we thought it would be a lot more effective to just have music because of the quick passovers with our package. This does look so much better and it wouldn't have looked nearly as good with talking in it because it would have slowed it right down.

I have learn't that you have to be really organised to be able to film. It took us about ten minutes to prepare for the prelim where as it took us months to prepare for our thriller. You need to make sure that you have got the set prepared, that you have all the actors, outfits and all the equipment. This makes it very hard because you have to make sure that its all in order and that you are able to shoot. You need to have made a proper storyboard so that you know all of the shots you want and that everyone is in the right place when filming.

Even though making the thriller did become stressful at times because of deadlines and making sure that everyone was ready for the actual day of the shoot we held it together very well. We managed to share out the jobs well and organise who did what well. This made it fair on everyone and then everyone knew what they were in charge of. We could have given it all to one person but that wouldn't have worked as they would have got really stressed and it wouldn't have been as organised.

Evaluation Task 6 - What have you learn't about technologies from the process of constructing your product?

What have you learn't about technologies from the process of constructing your product?

We have watched through our thriller and have made notes as we went through. We did speach boxes on the actual video so we could see which parts of our thriller we were talking about.

Evaluation Task 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Task 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

 Who would be the audience for your media product?

We compared our film to The Tourist thinking that it was along the same line as ours. We would probly have around the same target audience as them. They have aimed their film at a wide audience. Many people of a variety of ages would be happy to see the film and would want to watch it. They have got a first and secondary audience. They aimed it at older teenagers such as ages between 12-20ish and then they also targeted the young 20’s to the middle age. They rated their film a 12A. The same rating that would probly fit perfectly with ours as our film would be aimed at around the same ages. We haven’t made our film to young so that we wouldn’t be able to catch the parent/older generation audience, but we can also capture the young audience as none of it is to scary or gruesome. 

I think that our film would either be a certificate 12 or 15. These would be suitable for our film as those ratings arent to young or to old for our audience. I think 12 would possibly be better as a 12 year old would understand the storyline of our film. As our film is going to be a group of spys chasing after one guy there would be scarier parts in it. This would then make it more appropriate to rate it a 15. We don't want to loose some of our target audience though by rating it higher than it should be.

We have also thought about whether it would be more popular with boys or girls. We asked a few boys and a few girls aged between 16-20 to see whether or not they would watch our film. These were their responces.




Name: Abigail

Type of genre enjoyed: action films and chick flicks

Would you watch our film? : Yes, I think I would but I also really like girly films, so i'm not sure that I would like it. I would watch it though as I enjoy films that have lots going on.

Names : James

Type of genre enjoyed : mainstream films like 'James Bond'.

Would you watch our film? I would yes, as it's not been produced by a big company i'm not sure what I would think of it but I would give it a go. I like the James Bond films because they are classics and I like the stunts.



Our secoundry audience would be middle aged, (30-50). We think this as the James Bond films are along the same genre as ours and the middle aged love them. We think that our film fits into the social class status of films. This means that we are aiming it at a wide audience not just high or low end. Our secoundry audience probly wouldn't go to the cinema to watch our film because it may not appeal to them to go our and watch it but we think that they would be the type of audience to watch it at home.

So overall we have our primary audience who are our younger viewers who would be likely to watch it in the cinema and our secoundry audience who would probly watch it at home or on a DVD etc. We have thought about theses audience carefull as we wanted a wide audience. We didn't want to aim our film at a small audience and then it ending up not being very successful. 

What Tribe?

The tribe for our film is most likely mainstream. We thought this because of the music that we have used. We have chosen mainstream music and it's a film like 'The Tourist', 'Bourne' and 'Taken'. These are all very mainstream films. Most people would say that they would be aimed at males who are students or around that age but in actual fact a lot of people are interested in watching these films. Boys, girls, parents and all ages like these. We also have evidence of this above.

Evaluation Task 3 - What kind of media instituion might distribute your media product and why?

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

We did some research into production companies to see which would suit our film best. Our title sequence is a developing spy film, which means that it has a fairly wide variety. There are films such as James Bond and Bourne. Our film obviously isn’t as big as that! We found a production company called 'Studiocanal'. This company has a variety of films that include either spy scenes or the whole thing is a spy film.  StudioCanal is a French based production and distribution that owns the third-largest film library in the world. The company is owned by the Canal+ Image, which is owned by Vivendi and Universal Studios, which is part of NBCUniversal.  

  

We looked at The Tourist, which StudioCanal produced, but Columbia Pictures distributed it. The tourist is a thriller,  which is like our title sequence which is the reason we looked at it. Also the fact that it was a remake of the action film Anthony Zimmer and in our sequence we have Passovers and poison which helps it all tie in. It has two very big actors such as Angeline Jolie and Johnny Depp. The actors would have cost a lot and that it why they have to have a high budget.  It had a $100 million budget and went on to grose $278 million worldwide box office. If we budgeted our film the same as that we could make ours similar. We didn’t have that type of money though so our film could go either way, either a small or large budget. Another film that was along the lines of the action/spy genre was the film 'Wanted'. This film also stars Angeline Jolie  but it has a smaller budget than 'The Tourist'. It also had James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman and Thomas Kretschmann. ‘Wanted’ is an action film and it about discovering which fits in perfectly with ours.  

Columbia pictures is both an American distribution and production company. Columbia pictures distributed the film 'The Tourist' and this film relates to ours in many ways. Columbia pictures is now part of Columbia TriStar Motion Pictures which is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. It is one of the leading companies in the world, making it in the so-called 'Big Six'. The main reason we chose this as one of the distribution companies was because of The Tourist. We could see our film being distributed with Columbia Pictures. 

Universal Studios is another American motion picture studio. It is owned by Comcast and one the major 'big six' movie studios. They distributed the film 'Wanted' which also contains big stars but also relates to our film. This is another production/distribution company that we could see our film being distributed by. 

Both of these companies are very large and both American. Even though we see our film as an English film we could still see it being distributed by one of these companies. Our title sequence/film could work on both a low or high budget and if we did have more of a budget then we would be expecting it to be distributed by one of these. 


Coffee Films is a small British independent film prouduction company. Coffee Films incorporated in 2003 and within a year was recognised as one of Europe’s leading young production companies. They started of by doing documentaries on music and wildlife and gained critical acclaim for the film Last of the Scottish Wildcats. They then started opening up the genre of their films and began producing thrillers such as 'Lucid'. The film is about a group of Psychiatric patients taken on a therapy weekend to assess a new pharmaceutical drug. 

This almost links to ours by using 'drugs' as we used poison in our thriller. The budgets for Coffee Films are also very low cost because they are only small. They average to be around £500,000. 

I think that overall our film could have been distributed or produced by either a very big, well known production/distributor because our title sequence it suggests that our film can either have a big budget or a very little one. We are lucky as we have the option. I think that a small film company such as Coffee films would produce and distribute our film as it has a small budget and they have started producing thrillers recently. Studio Canal is another smallish company although it has done very well known films such as 'The Tourist’, which was a very successful film. That film has a budget of $100 million where as Lucid's budget was about $500,000. There is a big different between the price. We didn't have very much money at all when we produced/distributed ours but if we had $100 million then we could have done loads to ours to improve and make it very big and successful. I also think that if we had had $500,000 we would have been able to do lots with that too. This is where we are very lucky with our thriller. 

The bigger distribution companies such as Universal Pictures and Columbia pictures would also be good for our films as they are well known by audiences and mostly do successful films. This is a well-known label so people will be more likely to watch it and rely on it being a good film.

Overall I think that the best company to distribute our film would be Columbia Pictures. I think this because its well known which almost guarantees it being more successful than a company that no ones has heard of. I also think that as they distributed the film ‘The Tourist’ which is fairly similar to ours in the sense that it’s a thriller. The Tourist also doesn’t reveal everything until the end, which is what we would hope to do with ours. I personally think that Columbia Pictures would be the best for our film.

Evaluation task 2 - How does your product represent particular social groups?

How does your product represent particular social groups?

When producing our thriller 'The Bearing' we had to consider many things. We had to think of what social groups our thriller was going to represent. When thinking about the social groups we had to consider our target audience. As we have a primary and secondary audience we wanted them both to understand our thriller. We presented this through the way in which the characters dressed, act and their overall look. We haven't represented many social groups in our thriller, the reason for this is because of what our thriller is about. We chose our actors according to the character description, we wanted boys but at a variety of ages because we could represent different things through this.

Maxim Baldry - Maxim shows a negative representation of a young boy. This is shown through mise en scene, we dressed him according to the stereotypical look of a dodgy looking person. To both our target audiences it would be clear that he was representing the 'lower social class'. We dressed him in a hoddie with the hood up, jeans and trainers, all of which were black. My group and I thought that the best colour to show a negative representation is black and our audience would have understood this indefinitely. Through the use of the camera you can see how secretly he is trying to deliver the parcel and the way he is looking around shows that he aware of everything around him. This demonstrates that he is up to no good. The look he gives the camera is a very dark, mysterious look which proves that he is a shifty character.

Theo Bhat - Theo is another character who takes part in the passover of the poison. He shows a negative representation of himself through the choice of outfit which is all dark colours. He could encounter the audience as higher/middle class though. The reason for this is because he looks like he is trying to disguise himself. He does this by wearing a hat which covers his hair which transforms his identification. In addition, he gives himself a negative representation by the way he looks at the camera, he looks very nervous and gives the impression that something is bothering him.



Adam Grant - We chose Adam as an actor, due to his mature age which we felt would widen our target audience and would make the movie more appealing to the older generation. We attempted to present him as part of the 'lower class' social group as well as being a suspicious and dodgy character, achieving this through the use of costume which included a zipped up hoodie and a hat. This therefore instantly creates the stereotype of an aggressive character, whose scruffy clothes create the image of someone who is of the lower class.


Kitty Birks - Kitty looks very innocent in 'The Bearing' and has the stereotypical appearance that she is just a person trying to enjoy lunch with her child. She gives a positive representation of a youngish mother with her child. She is smiling, not directly at the camera which proves that she is unaware of what is going on. She represents the higher or middle social class due to the way she dresses and the way her hair is done nicely.




Paul chesterfield - Paul is another one of the men that is included in the passing of the package. He is also dressed in very dull, dark colours. He shows a negative representation of the lower social group. He displays this by shaking Habeib's hand while at the same time passing him the package. The audience can clearly see that the parcel is being given to the chef and it's very suspicious as it is all filmed in a kitchen of a restaurant.



Habeib Fasai - Habeib in our thriller looks like the typical chef due to the outfit that he wore - chef whites. He is a chef from an African ethnicity which helps with the stereotype that he is powerful and in charge.In the kitchen there were extra actors who were taking part in preparing the food. Habeib was the main character we were focusing on. This was distinctive through the use of camera. It was his hands we zoomed in on, the camera followed him, the others were just in the background. This will have been clear to both of our target audiences. He gives a negative representation of a chef as he opens the package and puts it in the food.

Hendrik Speelmans - Hendrik isn't part of the passover in our sequence. He is the waiter who takes the food through to the restaurant. He is very tall and looks relatively smart. We would place him between the middle and upper class social status. Hendrik gives himself a positive representation in the tittle sequence as he clearly has nothing to do with the poison and is just doing his job.