Evaluation: In this presentation for our film, overall I found that the marketing ideas and the title of the film was found to be the highest. Mostly every possible method was mentioned for our marketing, and the title was said to be simple but intriguing because it doesn't infer a lot so makes the audience think what will happen. Also the enigma code was rated very highly because people want to know if Stacey can do her dreams in time and most of all they want to know what her top dream is. The target audience was said to have been aimed at very good, because it makes them start to think what they want on there bucket list. Most people said the characters in it were well known so it was good but Jim Carrey is known in funny comedy films so people thought he wouldn't be such a good actor in a serious but fun film. There is improvement's that can made ,like the age of Stacey becoming younger instead of around 18 years old, and adding a quote to the film poster. We overall got 60/70 and as a group we are happy with our score.
they do adverts at the start of the films and they get most of there profits from selling food like pop corn and drinks. Which they sell very expensively.
How do you get a film into the cinema?
If you want your film to be in the cinema ,you have to sell it to the distributor first, and then they decide whether or not to use it.
What does a distributor do?
A distributor is a person who is responsible for the marketing of a film.
Independent VS mainstream film:
An independent film makes you think and ask yourself questions, it is also associated with critical success. Whereas a mainstream makes you laugh/cry and is often associated with commercial success and is only made as an escapist entertainment.
My logo:
Here is my logo, I have made and from it you can see that I have done the scene of a watery sunset, giving a sense of calmness. Because when you watch a film you want to be calmed and relaxed. I have called it Faith productions because of my name, and the font is very big and outstanding for the audience. It also reflects off the sea like the sun does. I think to make this logo better I should of include movement, even if this was the words sliding in or the water moving with the text.
High budget VS low budget films:
Here I am picking a low budget film and an high budget film and analysing them both, to see the differences and similarities and seeing the production companies and what they normally produce in films. Here I have put together a PowerPoint which I have converted to a video.
In this lesson we had to speak about mise en scene,camera ,editing,and sound for the following opening scenes.we use anagrams to help.
In boyz in the hood you can see that this film is trying to say that the surrounding presence of white dominant culture, even in a black-majority neighborhood,You cannot escape it. Racial difference is a thing. Racial difference is constantly emphasized and re-emphasized.
In this film opening you can see that what these children have seen and experienced is not normal. Like when the boy was walking down the street and a fight was going on and it just seemed like normal life. The whole film is based around crime and you can tell this neighbourhood is a violent place to live, and that fighting and violence is part of the culture there.
In boyz in the hood in the first seconds you can see nothing but you can hear the noise of as gang and what sounds like bins being thrown and the sound of trash. sooner on, you can hear the noises of the shooting in the background even though it happened in the past and were now in the present. There is a lot of non diegetic sound in the opening of the group talking about what they are looking for. There is also sirens and the sound of people screaming, it really makes the audience fell for what's just happened and start making the audience put themselves into the peoples situation.This stuff that only the audience can hear ,has an impact as the characters in it cannot, so things can become clear to the audience but not the characters.
I think the screen is black when this happens because it allows the audience to think clearly about what is being said ,whereas if there was things happening on the screen, the words would not be emphasised. The shot in the street to the class room ,changes as the children begin learning about it in class, which links the whole thing, and it comes up with a drawing from a child about the shooting, as if its a story being told. The camera pans across the classroom later to the teacher. The amount of time on the screen shows the main character's and we can tell that this child is the main character and everything is revolved around him. However in this there is a lot of screen time on children. No other age really. This shows that this film is clearly about youth and the upbringing of these children and how this violence can affect them. Even showing the way the street is shows most things.
The setting is obviously in a rough street area and this being the area links to the whole film and its meaning The costumes used are normally nothing that is poor looking but nothing that makes you look rich. Being portrayed as normal people. Which links to the whole film that these ordinary children are normal but there street isn't. The lighting varies but stays quite bright and normal.
The matrix
All through out the opening it is very dark, to show a negative effect. That's why the police at using flashlights. In this the women is made out to be very strong and stronger than the men. But towards the end, she is then shown to be weak as she gets hit by a truck. The males in this are made out to be very brave and have a lot of courage and at first they think she is weak, and it is easy, in till she fights back. Normally women as portrayed to be weaker than the men. The binary opposites are used between the men and women.
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In this the passage of time is showed to pass by them doing different things eg.them getting married. Also they cleverly show years passing on by the putting on Carls tie. The sound is generally up beat music, and the camera uses zoom ins and outs, including a glides across the screen. Overall the whole lighting of the clip is bright and colourful, showing a positive affect and that they both had/have a good life. The actors are very different as Ellie at first is the energetic one and Carl is the one that need sot catch up where as at the end its the other way round. There personalities seem quite different but they seem perfect together. Overall the screen time just focuses on these 2 characters just showing them and there life story.
Cape fear
This starts with a close up view of the books and then zooms out till we can see a man doing push ups in a prison cell. The overall colour and setting is dull and dark representing this man and his mood. It is clever when he is released form his actual cell and he is being escorted by police offers and you see the camera angle change and follow him out, as if you are there and your following him out. Right at the end of the release there is a long shot of the prison and it waits in till he walks towards the camera and doesn't use any zoom ins.
Here we had to edit film clips and add in our own audio and effects. To do this we used adobe premiere. This is the my finished clip. I used many special effects like fade, colour blend, black and white colour change, roughen edges, vertical flip and many more. I cut my clips very short and mixed them all together so they match the audio, like when the beat drops, the video changes into a different effect and so the dance moves match the tune and beat. eg. so when they stop dancing or dance slowly, I made sure there was not up beat music to a slow dance. I included loads of black outs as an effect because it creates effect to the watcher.
Both the media and the audience create what we watch, the media creates it but the audience also puts their views across, and what they want so that the media can create it, the media publishes it and the audience sees it and tells there views.
Can the media exist/ Function without the audience?
I think that the media cant exist without the audience, if there is no audience the media will have no point, there wouldn't be a use for the media.
Who is more powerful: the media or the audience why/how?
The audience is more powerful because they have a reactions and the media want to get a reaction. If they don't get reaction then there's no purpose for the film and less people would watch it.
Can the media control an audience?
Yes, I think the media can control an audience. I think they do this by influencing the audiences views and beliefs.
Uses and Gratifications
It is said in the gratification theory that each film has to have one of these 4 forms:
Identify- to see the product/person in the film form.
Educate- being bale to get information, and knowledge from the film
Entertain- something that should be enjoyable for you to watch
Social Interaction- is an exchange between two or more individuals and is a building block of society.so for a film to make people talk and interact with one and another.
my experience:
Most of the films I watch are mystery and horror. so especially with these mystery films you ask people a lot of questions, so you can make a judgement. Like when I watched the film Dark Places, you ask questions to one another consistently ,about who killed this women's family.so there is a lot of social interaction going on between people.
Also
What do we mean when we use the word 'film'?
A film is a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.
Do you think it means the same as the word 'movie'?
A movie is a film generally or the film industry
what about the word 'cinema'? The word cinema is a theatre where films are shown for public entertainment.
My top 10 favourite films:
-The conjuring
-The hunger games
-Harry potter
-The other women
-Insidious
-The sorcerers apprentice
-the lovely bones
-dead silence
- 22 jump street
As you can see by my favourite films I like the genre of horror and action a lot, all these films are common to one and another because they are all something that wouldn't happen in your day to day life, and they all have an area of mystery.
stereotypes and countertypes
Here we had to look at a film opening or a poster and look at there
stereotypical representation of CLASS, AGE, GENDER, ETHNICITY or SEXUALITY.
legally blonde
In this film poster we can see that a girl is being presented as the typical dumb girl with only looks. The representation can be seen by the girl in the poster. She's blonde and this is to make a point that not all blonde people are dumb, that also why its in the title.
The audience can see that she is dressed very girly and what she is wearing looks a bit over the top. In this we can see men looking back at her looking quite disgusted and so do the girls. Their facial expressions show shock and kind of jealously. They all have simple and smart clothing but this girl has bright pink and likes to stand out from the crowd. The setting in the image is good because it shows that she doesn't fit in with these people and the setting. It doesn't suit her personality and the way she looks.
Dumb girls are normally represented as blonde, very pretty, and very over the top so people can see their personality thought there bright clothes.
I think she is being represented this way to prove that the way you look can not determine how smart you are.
We can tell the film is going to be very happy, but maybe that what others think might portray her as something else and she might not be able to get anywhere because she is being judged wrongly.
The blonde part in the title is not in capitals but the legally part is, which the blonde being in non capitals and the font makes you think of dumbness. Capital letters normally show an importance and this film is trying to get across that being blonde is not important and it doesn't define who you are, so putting 'blonde' in non capital letters it doesn't show an importance. Also the whole film poster is very bright which could infer to her brightness and whether she is dumb or not. It says 'boldly going where no blonde has gone' this sentence has referenced to her being different and that she is not the same as any blonde and shes doing things differently.
Here I am trying to apply 3 of Barthes' narrative codes to a film opening.
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In this you can see that the key characters are Carl and Ellie. I think that Ellie is represented as down to earth.A women who also wants to explore and have fun.where as Karl at the beginning is presented as hard working and wants to relax and not go out as much. In this, time is passed on, by showing ties being put on Carl, in different times and days meaning that when they show Carl and Ellie again when they are old. Some of the key themes are young and old, life and death, and opposites because when Carl and Ellie have opposite personality's and ideas.
Enigma code:
-what will Carl do know Ellie is gone?
-will he still be the same? personality wise?
-will he still carry on the dream?
action code:
-going on a picnic
-doing up there house
-working together? Is that how they met?
symbolic code:
-the hands on the letter box
-their home represents them
-cleaning either side of the same window
-having a dream
Aristotle
In the beginning you can see that they are a happy couple and that Ellie likes to go out and be adventurous but Carl seems like he cant keep up with her.
In the middle you can see that they get bad news because they lost there baby and Carl makes up another dream for them( to live on paradise falls) and they save up but they keep having to use the money.
In the end, you can see that Ellie is finding it hard to keep up with Carl, and that time is passing on to fast.
