My Blog.



My pieces Relation to real Media.

When i started my The Truth piece i initially intended to use popular producers and actors, but still keep in the sci-fi genre. Before and during the making of this piece i thought it would work, though when i showed my teacher he said the nature of my editing clashed with my choice of actors and producers. Because my film, including it's soundtrack and other media such as images and videos wasn't in the best quality, so it didn't look like it had particularely high production values, which a film with popular actors would have. The piece looked like it was aiming at audiances of cult movies, though it did stick to story and have continuous running action. By making the choice to use these famous actors in credits but have strong caracteristics in cult movie i was chalanging the media, in that i was saying i could combine the two genre expecations. I got inspiration from Paranormal Activities, though that film didn't use particularely well known actors.

Paranormal activity trailer:

The Truth (original)

Actors:

Pierce Brosnon                                                                            Tom Cruise

               

 

So after some thinking i had two choices, change the nature of my film and editing, or change the choice of actors to slightly less known ones. I chose to change the actors, because i was really happy with the way my piece went and looked. I also made this decision in the end so that my film would be easier to market and distribute. Aswell as changing the actors i made some small editing changes to make the piece look a litle cleaner as far as editing. Though the storyline and continuation remained the same, and i was pleased with my final works.

The Truth (final edit)

Actors:

Roy Sheider                                                                             Jeff Golblum





Distributars of film.

Iv'e decided to have Lions Gate distribute my film because their studios haven't done as large number of big release films as other film studios, which will fit in perfectly with my artistic/ cult audiances. Though they are a well known and reasonably popular company, so my film should get good marketing and distribution notice. They would also be apropriate because they have distributed popular sci-fi, fiction films such as Battlestar Galactica, X Files (perfect for my initial inspirations) and The Fog. Lions Gate Eintertainment formed in Vancouver is a Canadian-American eintertainment company with headquarters in Santa Monika was co founded by Brad Pelmen and Laurie May. In North America is is most commercialy succesfull independant film and distribution company as of 2007. Lions Gate are also in convergance with the interenet video group Hulu, where it's vast library of Tv and Movies can be viewed, this could be very usefull in getting a viral audiance.

The Fog trailer:

Character reprisentation comparison to existing media.

While looking through the exam questions for our final analysis and having discusions, we talked about social goups represented in our pieces. When we came to my piece, i said that teenagers where the represented social goup because teenagers played main roles in the piece. I also said that the teenagers whern't represented stereotypicaly, but they played the roles of much older adult characters, agnets, which was unusual and interesting. Sir told me to think of another piece that did something similar, i remembered the tv series MI High on CBBC where kids played serious roles as spys, but where still recogniseable as teenagers. So i thought it would be good to make this comparison with my piece to existing media known, it wouls also be usefull when it came to writing my my final analysis piece. Seing as sir said he wanted us to have it made up of media pieces that would answer the questions, with small sentances along side. This comparison and piece woud be usefull in answering the question "How does your media products represent particular social groups?".

Audiance Research

For my audiance research i wrote up my final question air and gave it around to a number of different students, from that question air i found out a number of things. I heard of a program called Wordle that would make data and information look colourful and fancy. So after some difficulties with the program i figured out how it works, so i will input the information into simple terms into the program and sea what i get. After the question aires, i got inspiraton from the final analysis look over to do a video and recording of students watching my work, then their reactions. The video turned out quite well, i got some positive and helpfull feadback from the student, the recording was a litle shorter, the recording was because my other student didn't want to show his face, though i got some honest feed back from that to. Afterwards i decided after uploading the audiance research to my blog i would do another video and recording asking questions directly relating to the apropriatness of my piece to the target audiance. This research will help me in writing my final analysis.

Audiance Research video:

The response from this student tells me that their is an audiance out their that still craves for sci-fi fiction films, also that what my teacher told me about my peace not being long enough, was correct.

Target Audiance question video:

                 

After further questioning from the same student i found out that the features of my piece that he enjoyed, he believed that his friends, who share his interest in sci-fi/ fiction movies, woul be interested in to. They also watch sci-fi/ fiction films together as friends. This is good because it shows that their is an audiance for my piece. (all responses honest and withought point led).

Questoin air results:

Like Sci-Fi ? Yes 5 No 2

Seen Paranormal Activity ? Yes 3 No 4

Paranormal Activiy, opinion ? scary 2 boaring 1 Good 1

Film themes ? Topic 1 thrills 3 laughs 2 actors 1 laughs 3 Romance 1   adventure 2 exitment 1 drama 1 ending 1

Big stars ? Yes 3 No 5

Stars ? Jhonny Depp 1 Robert De Niro 1 Al Pacino 1 Keira Knightly 1

Genre ? Comedy 3 Action 3 Romance 2 Thriller 3 Fantasy 1 Drama 0 Sci-Fi 0

Sea films in, cinema or DVD ? Cinema 4 DVD4

Cinema ? quality, screen, new  DVD ? topic, home,

My film summary ? Yes 4 No 4

Like X Files ? Yes 3 No 3 Havent' seen it