What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? (Evaluation question 3)

Seeing as our company is independent and is making an independent film, larger mainstream will not be interested in the distribution of our product, this is because of the specific genre that it is and how limiting the target audience which in turn limits the amount of money which can be made from the film. This deters the big company's from investing in small projects and film due to the lack of profit that will be made.

From research that I have made on the group blog, Independent companies that will be more likely to distribute our film will be the BFI, Film4 or BBC Films

How does your media product represent particular social groups? (Evaluation question 2)

With in our opening sequence the only character that we showed was the main teenage boy character, we have tried to portray him as a nerdy/Gothic teenage boy.
here were the clothes that our character Alex was wearing

we wanted to put the character in dark clothes to create a Gothic look so we used black skinny jeans and a dark red t-shirt.

 

we show the geek sterotype in the media piece by having the character Alex use the computer not only have we include the computer in the props to help with the representation but we have also used news paper articals in the piece to show the intrest and obsesiveness of the teenage character, these traits are all sterotypical toward nerds like social groups. 

 

 

 

Gender in our pieces seems to be mostly focused on the male teenage boy character.The characters in our media piece can be catergriesinto sterotyped groups which are the unpopular, nerds, goths. we wanter to make this representation by dressing the teen chacacters in the dark coloured cloths which are sterotypical to nerd/gothic stlyle.

 



In what ways does your media product use, devlop or challenge forms and convetions of real media products? (Evalutation question 1)

The genre of our media product is a supernatural thriller. Our piece includes generic conventions to convey the genre of the piece such as the pictures and images used to show the audience the supernatural monsters which will be shown in the media piece. It is to create building tension which most commonly seen in most stereotypical Supernatural Thriller film opening.

our use of title font was important to get correct, this was to help with the conveying of the genre of our media piece. We experimented with different fonts in our rough cuts to try and find a font which best suited the supernatural genre that we wanted to portray. 

 

In comparison to other film sequences its alike in the fact that the film sequence gives hints about the film, story line and the characters, it also helps with indicating to the audience what will be going on, helping the audience distinguish what the genre type is of the piece


in our sequence we only really introduce our main character, which from other research from film sequenceces that it it usal that the main characters are introduce in the opening sequence. this is so the audience can make a link between teh storyline and the characters involved.

 

Final cut

Rough Cut

Audience theories

The hypodermic needle theory
This theory suggests that the audience is a passive, where they consumes media without thinking about it, and its where they dont have seek to have any other evidence for the media that they have consumed, the media has "injected" the audience.

Gratification theory
 This theory suggests the audience is an active and  it is not a passive, the theory suggests the audience chooses what media they consume. The media does not control the audience but the audience in some ways controls the media consumbtion.

Logo Design

So its important that our logo can easily be reconised to represent our company well. Our Company name is Sun Bear Productions.

here is the logo which that I had designed

it had the relevnt image of a sunbear linking it to the production companys' name but in the end my logo wasnt choosen to represent the production company and its intitutional logo.

We had decided that we wanted our company logo to be represented by a bear so we all grouped together with ideas for the intitutional logo
here is the logo/image that our group had decided to use for the logo. This was designed by Joe Waters

we found that this picture was too simple so we added our production ame and made some effects on the logo.

Why I looked at Film titles and made Time Lines

I looked at film titles because then I can get an idea  from where names should be placed and also seeing how long a title may be on screen for. Its important not to have a title not to run long enough, it reads to be a correct length of time so the view can read and understand the title. The title length can also signify how important the name or company is to the film.

Analyising two Genre related opening sequences

With in this post I will be analysing two different opening sequences which are of the same type of genre of each other and also of the genre that our group have decided to produce which is a Supernatural Thriller.



Here is the opening sequence to the film The Dead Zone.

Genre
the genre of this piece is a Supernatural thriller, though it doesn't seem to give the impression as it seems to mostly just be still pictures of a location. the title is then integrated into the still image on the screen.

Narrative
there doesn't seem to be much of a story line in this sequence as it is only still images which don't give much information to the audience what the narrative is. which can make it intriguing for the audience, making them think what the story may be about and questioning if the picture have relevance to the film and what type of relevance they hold.

Character
There are no obvious chacters introduced in the opening sequence, which is not uncommon in supernatural thrillers as it makes the audience more interested inteh storyline and questions the characters and there motive when it come to the actual film.

Atmosphere
the atmosphere of the piece seems mysterious making the audience question what is going on in the sequence.

setting
The sequence doesnt have a particular setting its just it just still pictures of different outside locations.

sound
The sound make the sequence more mysterious, the non dietetic sound used makes the audience on edge with the use of the mysterious music.






Genre
this film is under the genre super natural thriller,though it doesnt seem to hint at the gernre, it feels more like a horror due to the darkness

Narrative
the narriative of this film in the sequence isnt clear but it shows a woman and children. in the sequence there it uses still images/drawings
charater
tthe charcters in this sequence it doesnt introduce main characters or give the audience much hint to who or what will be going on in the film it just show a woman and two children in drawing form.


Atmosphere
the atmoshpere of  this sequence ma put the audience on edge wh and makes you question whats going on in teh sequence.

Setting
 teh picture all seemed to be linkerd in with the house which is shown at the end of the sequence this make the audience wonder how it will be linked in with the film and characters

Sound
the sound has an effect on the audience, it makes the sequence mysterious and make the audience wonder about the storyline


Both of thes sequences have used effected sound to help with creating the atmophere of danger and mystery. our opening sequence will need to have good non diegetic sound which can interprete dnager and mystery to the aduience, also teh use of still pictures can be made effective, both of these sequences