Blog Closed

My media blog is now closed and I wont be putting any more post's on it. I have done a lot of research and planning and a lot of construction and also the seven evaluation questions. I also have my groups preliminary excercise on my blog and also our main flim opening. I have learnt a lot throughout the filming and editing process and overall i am satisfied with the work our group got done.

9 Frame

This is a screen crab of 9 photos from our media film opeing. It contains the main 9 shots which help explain the story.

Kung Fu Panda nine frame

I added this to my blog a while back but it was saved as a draft so it has only just been published.

Story board

 This is our new storyboard, it describes the basic story of our film opening. It has the main scene's in it aswell.

 However, due to the fact we have recently finished our film the storyboard does not completly match our film but it is almost identical. There are just a few differences because the storyboard was drawn up a while back, whereas the film opening has only recently been finished.

Survey

                                              

This is a survey what we asked our classmates to see what film they would most likely to see. Action and thriller was what the majorty said.

Horizontal Integration

A horizontal integrated company owns or has shares in lots of different companies and these companies can be used to produce, market and supply products. For example a film can be purchased as a feature at the cinema, rented on DVD, purchased as a download and finally purchased as a DVD.

Vertical Integration

Vertical integration is when a company oversees the planning and creation of a product, through to the marketing, advertising and distribution and then on to the retail of the product to the public.A company which is vertically integrated has control over all the stages of a products life. In media this means they have control of three procsesses; production, this includes writting, planning and the creation of the product. Distribution, taking the finished product to the retailer and marketing the product. Finally exhibition, the point at which the product is sold to the consumer.

Synergy

Synergy is the process through which media products derived from the same text are promoted in and through each other and throughout the subsidiaries of a media conglomerate. Synergy is closely linked to convergence as the coming together of the seperate companies associated with different technologies within a conglomerate allow for synergy to happen. Synergy works on two levels; the main text is promoted using the many subsidiaries of the conglomerate, and the individual products used to advertise the main text are linked to each other.

Convergence

Convergence is the term used to describe how technology has brought together previously separate media channels. For example, a mobile phone and a camera work independently from one another but since early 2000's the two technology's have converged and most mobile phones now include a camera. In the film industry digital recording and distrubution methods mean that previously separate forms can be bought together or converged. The digital content produced during film making is compatible with other digital media so can be used on websites or in games. Convergence is just the coming together or merging of two things.

Post Production

 Post production is the term for all stages of production occurring after the actual end of shooting and recording the completed work. Post-production is, in fact, many different processes grouped under one name. These are; video editing, writting, adding visual special effects and sound design/ effects. Post production can take longer than the actual making of the film itself this is because it needs to complete the editing, color correction and the addition of music and sound. Post production can be seen as second directing because through post production it is possible to change the intention of the film.

Production

The production part in media is the actual making and filming of the film. This is when the film has been given the go ahead and they can get deep into and concentrate purely on filming of the film. However its not this simple, there are in fact many different stages of production and different things to consider. It all begins with the producer, he get's everything together and organised, for example the cast, the idea, the development and the crew. Then in order to film the idea and the scipt must be good! then the package, this is where the screen play needs to be written, need to sort out the budget. Atracting investment this is where the producer meets other producers acrros the world, this is essential because without the investment the film will not be made. The planning is very important, they should make sure time is kept for the harder and longer scenes when shooting. Also the budget is very important, this is based on the investment and when they have this they need to draw up a financial plan showing how they are going to pay for eveything. Above and below the line costs, above the line is the script, screen play, actors, producer, director and below the line is the designers. They also need to consider their audience so they need to consider the location and who will want to see the film. Finally the marketing, this costs more than making the film, they need to find a gap in the market for their film.

Pre-Production

Pre Production is the process of preparing all of the elements involved in a film. Pre Production begins once the project has been given permission (greenlit). This is the stage where finalizing preperations for production go into effect. During pre-production, the script is broken down. The individual scenes and all the locations, props, cast members, costumes, special effects and visual effects are identified. At the begining of pre production the screen play is page locked and scenes are numbered, this helps avoid confussion.

Filming- rough cuts

We have started filming a few of the shots needed for our new idea. We will be continuing filming soon and will hopefully be finished the shots and come to edit them together to complete our film opening. We will be discussing what shots we need to film and also go over. Also we will check are rough shots to see if we can improve them or if they are ok to put into our film opening. Also we have got a title for our film which will also be added as the title clip in the film opening.

Logo

this is our logo for our group, lunitic productions.

youtube channel

we have created a youtube account where we have uploaded our preliminary excercise video, and will also be uploading our film opening when it is fully complete.
http://www.youtube.com/user/LunaticProduction100?feature=watch

these are our reccie shots which we took to give us an idea of where we will be filimg our film opening. we do now know where we will be filming it. we took shots of places every where we went.

 these are our first reccie shots so they are not all that good but they helped us decide where to shoot our film opening and we got different camera shots of various places.

new idea and research

We have decided to do a new idea which involves a famous person giving a speech to many people and a threat from a terrorist groups arises and the famous figure gets assinated, however we are not too sure about who the famous person will be, however we have found a good place to shoot our opening and will be uploading the recces shots soon.

Here is the research that we carried out into what genre of film our target audience would like to see most.

Main project idea outline

This is one of our intial ideas in detail. It shows the title of our film, also our plot outline and our opening sequence outline, the characters and their roles, finally mise en scene, props, costume, setting and location.

Prezzi presentation

these are the ideas which we came up with for our film openings, they are based on horror/thriller we used the prezzi software to present our ideas to our media group, fianally we gained feedback which helped us think further into the ideas.

our video upload

we are currently unable to upload our presentation video of our film ideas. however whilst we try to upload it we will upload some photos of our prezzi presentation.