AS Media - Joining Together

Given the option to work either individualy or as a pair, Jordan Giles and I decided to team up to produce work with the opinion and teamwork of two minds instead of one. With the two of us working together we can constantly review each others thoughts and ideas about the productions. As a pair we produce much more ideas and thoughts about our films shots, cast, location, soundtrack and company idents.

The problem with the partnership is that one of us may be available while the other isnt, postponing the filming and lessening the time of which to edit the rough cut.
Another possible problem is one that my sister encountered while doing her own media production, which is arguements and frienship breakdowns, this can be disasterous and would greatly differenciate the final product

Target Audience

I think the main audience of our film will be members that fit into the 'Mainstream Plus' catergory as the film wont be a huge budget, speacial effects filled blockbuster, but also wont be foreign or animated.

The person who would come and see the film would be;

Francis, 24, just graduated from Nottingham University studying Law. had a part time job at Topman during his time in University, now looking to enter the buisness as a solicitor.
looking to buy a house in the Nottingham region. He spends his weekends out with around 5-8 colleagues in Nottingham either at the cinema or watching football in the directors box.
He aims to view the less commonly known blockbusters but does go to see the must see's every now and then.
Francis isnt in a relationship but is currently looking for a girlfriend on dating sites.
He is a fair distance from the rest of his family in Weybridge but fancied a change in location so moved to Nottingham on his own, visits his family on a regual occasions and takes his little brother to the cinema to see some childrens movies like 'Shrek' ect.

Brief

For our assessed piece I have been asked to create a 2 minute opening for a feature film, upon hearing this I have had many thoughts about possible ideas

Textual Analysis - Assessment

The Exorcist - Horror Market Increasing

"The movie which starred Linda Blair as a young girl possessed by an evil spirit was based on the real life story of a thirteen-year-old Lutheran boy from Georgetown, USA.

Roland is believed to have become possessed after his aunt taught him how to use the Ouija board.

It was January of 1949 when the bizarre and terrifying paranormal events began in the boy’s home. Eerie scratching noises bombarded the usually quite residence. Soon after the noises started, Roland’s aunt mysteriously died. But Roland continued using the Ouija Board, only now it was to contact his aunt.
Soon, the noises in the house suddenly shifted into Roland’s bedroom.
The boy’s bed would shake violently, toys and other objects would fly across the room and the scratching sounds escalated.
Frantic with worry, Roland’s mother decided to contact a priest. When the minister visited Roland’s room, the boy started speaking in Latin – a language he had never learnt. He told the priest he was the devil."

http://markhall.hubpages.com/hub/demonic-possession

Alot of modern films are basing their storylines on 'demonic possession', Paranormal Activity 1/2/3 is an example of this. The demand for gruesome, ghostly horror films see to be increasing.

The Exorcist's background story is quite intriging and describes a previous demonic encounter, wheather this is true or not is a matter of choice as there is no scientific proof that 'demons' exist or not.

After Effects Workshop 2

The Technician set us to work on creating the Teletubbies opening scene this was to expand our knowledge with the timeline effects, like stopping a movement at a certain time or increasing the speed of something that is moving. Also we looked at the tracking of objects; joining two objects together so that they moved in sequence. To show this we joined the rotating sun to the babies face as it moved upwards across the scene. This has greatly inproved my knowledge of After Effects and will show when I come to creating the opening of my final product.

After Effects Workshop

A technician came into lesson the past couple of weeks to teach us how to use After Effects to produce masterpieces. We began by looking at the opening sequence of Anotomy of a Murder (1959) which uses moving effects to show body parts and different objects.

Afterwards we began to create our own images and recreating the opening. To make my piece stand out i used different editable tools, like; Opacity, Rotation, Scale and Movement. The final version of the opening will be uploaded at a later date

The Hangover - Re-creating the opening

We have completed almost all of the filming for the sequence, but the sound quality is not up to scratch due to wind and other factors. We plan to re film those scenes affected and take the audio files from the new footage and switch it with the other footage.
We filmed the opening at Aimee's house in a rural village so that we could do the scene of the guys stranded with their car. Her house was also a prime location for the wedding scene as her garden was large and she had enough chairs/plants.
The cake scene was a struggle for us as we didnt want to spend money on a full scale cake, so we filmed a muffin at the canteen, we then decided this wasnt good enough so Jordan and I re-filmed that scene using our own interpritation, using people workin at the canteen showing that they are getting ready for the wedding.

Coen Brothers Top Five according to www.the-top-tens.com

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2 - Fargo

 

3 - No Country for Old Men

 

4 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?

 

5 - Raising Arizona

The Big Lebowski

Intro to Media

So far in Media Studies I have learnt the following;
- Mise En Scene
- Rule of Thirds
- Deconstruction of an image
- Denotation and Connotation
- Still imaging