what kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

Intitutions are responsible for the making and planning of a film production. Different institions use different methods to raise funds which is another atibute the instition must do (provide funds). This is important because especially british films struggle to gain funds for their film production (unlike big institutions in america for example hollywood).

The uk film council (UKFC) is a british film industry which was introduced and established in early 2000 by the government in power at the time (labour) and was primaily funded by thye National Lottery. The national lottery fund has an annual expendeture of 630 million pounds. there has been considerable critisism about the diversion of lottery money away from genuine good cauese such as towards mimisterial targets and party political targets for the labour party which should be funded by taxaction payed by the public.

There are three funds offering around £15-18 million lottery per year for the quality of productiuon and development of films being made in the UK. It has £12 million to invest over 3 years from the lottery funding. The money that is provided over a three year period is used to produce roughly 7 to 10 films per year. the premeir fund invests £8 million of lottery funding per year into main stream, it also encourages the involment in the of british creative talent in a range of films that can attrackt worldwide aduiences not just in the UK. This is vital to try and gain international recognition.

who would be your audience for your media product?

I think that our audience would be directed at young people aged from 15 to early 20's. Our opening scene is about a young girl (Emily,16) who has has suffered the death of her parents. She becomes depresed because she lives with her aunt you does not like her. I feel that there are many girls out there who could relate to this film which makes it more apropriate for them. Our audience would also be girls. 'Fish Tank'

Our questionair discoverd that girls were more interested in our opeing scene and even said in the questionair they would be interested in watching the hole film if produced. the boys were not so interested saying there was not enough action or humour. so the target audience would be girls from 15 to about early 20's.

How did you attract/adress your audience?

I think that our opening sequence atractts the audience because of our first scene where Emily is sat in the bath and the flash back occurs to her in the hospital hearing the news oh her fsmily parents dying. This is a strong and bold start to the film which we felt as a group would draw peoples attention. The setting is important because the quietness in the barth room where emily is represents loneliness and perhaps depression. The audience will notice this and it is an afective start. This is a good selling piont for our film because it is dramatic and an interesting begining.

For flash backs we dimed the light and gave it a hint of red which gives a powerful affect of anger of death. The first flash back is of the hospital scene where Emily is told of her parents death the dim light with a hint of red makes it more dramatic and the audiece may pick up on this which is a good selling piont.

what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

camera on tripod: The camera was obviosly a vital peice of equipment involved in making our opening scene production. the camera was on the tripod and we could adjust the hight to suit our liking. you could also rotate the camera on the tripod to follow a character for example. you could also go free hand ( hand hold the camera with out tripod) but we did not use this method due to it being not still enough.


digital camera: To take pictures of our filming locations and our charracters.

scanner: Scanner was useful for copping (scanning) infomation so we could put it into our bloggs.

laptops and computers: Laptops and computers played a massive role in our film production for our opening scene. with out these machines it would be virtually impossible to do. the computers provide us the option of posting things on bloggs and to save data and ajust when needed (unlike written infomation).

internet: The internet provided a vital role in the completion of our opening scene. Google search engine was very important because it was needed to find out infomation about definitions for example mise en sene and shot reverse shot. Also for background infomation on history of teen drama (our theme) and recent films from our genre. Sites such as wikipidia were useful but not totaly reliable so did not base all infomation from there. Another exteamly important atribut the internet provided was our bloggers which was a use full and pratical wasto store ans update work when wanted.

software adobe premeir pro: This was the technology we used to edit our opening scene once fimed. it is difficult to understand at first but with practice and time it became easier to do and we all contributed when editing it together. also used to put sound and title/credits together and generaly make it look more proffesional.

Timeline Juno (film)

Juno

00:17 staring ellen page as juno

00:28 staring mincheal cera as beaker

00:41 staring jennifer garner as vanesa

01:06 staring jason bateman as mak loring

01:16 staring allison janney as bren

01:28 Director reitman

01:38 producers liane halfon, john malkovic, manson novich, russell smith

01:51 writer by mateo messina

02:20 JUNO (film name)

Looking back at the prelimonarly task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

For our media coursework we had to develop an opening sequence of a film. a lot of work had to be done to ensure that it was a sucsesful production that would encourage veiwers to watch the rest of the film if it was to be fully produced into a full film.

As a group we needed to work together and split the work aproprietly and fairly. I felt we worked well and we managed to complete our opening sequence in good quality. Our group started with four members but was then reduced to three. We had to make some changes in our film that we had not anticipated puting into the final in the pre production report in our story board and our scripts. These were changes that as a group we decided had to be done to improve our film to try and achive a more profesional outcome which would benefit all.

Looking back at the prelimonary task, what do you feel like you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?


In the prelimonary task i had a central acting role and did not get thew oppotunity to do any camera work. This was disapionting becaus it is an interesting and fun job. But in our opening sequence i had a key role doing most of the camera work which for me was new and i became a lot more familia with it. It little bit of trial and error took place and we had to take quite a few shots to get it right at first but in the end i became comfortable with it and enjoyed it.


I also feel that tho the prelimonary task was a sucsess I feel that in the opening sequence production I learnt and grew with confinece in many different areas. Firstly I think I made huge improvements in the edit suite. In the prelimonary task I played a central acting role but stuggled with the editing side of things. Editing was not easy for me and I did not have the confidence to edit our film by my self. But this time around I was a lot more confident after learning a bit from the prelimonary task and then having a play around in the edit suite which improved my abilities a lot. I made a good contribution to the editing of our opening sequence and became quite quick with it after several sessions ajusting our film. There were some areas that I still struggled with for example logging all our data was tedius at times and I struggled at first but with help from my group we completed the logging and I understood it well.


In our prelimonary task it was our first ever (for most of us) time we had ever had to produce a mini film. I think we were unorganised and could have done certain things a lot better if it had been planned to a better standard. This time around we were a lot stronger as a group and all made valuable contributions to the production of our opening scene. Our opening sequnce is much more diverse and is filmed in four different locations unlike the prelimonary tasks which was only set in one. This shows how we have developed and improved with our organisation methods.

pre production report

Pre Production Report


Our group firstly consisted of 4 people due to unexpected circumstances our group was reduced to only 3 members. We all agreed that everyone will play some sort of acting role in our film. We began with forwarding possible story lines for out film we discussed our ideas for our production we made slight changes as we started to develop our story and came up with solutions that would befit the film. In our opening sequence we thought that we should use past and present (flashbacks) filming technique. When Emily is in the bath these flashbacks occur which gives an atmosphere.


After discussions with our media teacher we thought the best way to use the past in our film was to show a newspaper article about the fire Emily and her family were involved in. This will give the audience a sense of emily being depressed and unhappy, and will also make the audience undersatnd why she has moved with her aunt. This was a good decsion beacuase it helps give the audience a good understanding of the story without giving to much of it away in the opening sequence.

While emily is in the bath the flash backs occur. We agreed that it is vital that we make the audience notice when the flashbacks occur. We decided to use give an affect by making the coulor in the flashbacks senes black and white. This gives an effect of darkness and depression and also clarifies to the audience it is a memory of the past. We (as a group) gave our selves a challenge by deciding to try and create a emeotional teen drama. We feel that we will need to ne sensitive and sophistocated to give a dramatic and affect ion the audience which i feel will be difficult.

We also had to agree as a group that others who are not in our group will need to be used for actors in our film production.