Evaluation Activity 3

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A production company is responsible for the development and physical production of new media, performing arts, film, radio or a television program.

For our film Lost Property we decided to use my own production company name called TMAnimate. Our production company is made by young adults and primarily focuses its target audiences around young adults.

 

For our film’s distributor we choose Film 4 with the main reason being that Film 4 has good experience marketing films similar to ours in the past. On top of that film 4 also acts as another production company for our film meaning that they help fund and distribute it.

In terms of the credits we decided to use in our opening, this mainly consisted of both me and Milo due to us doing pretty much doing everything behind the film. We also decided to use well know names like Christopher Nolan and Stephen King.

Using Christopher Nolan’s name in our opening allows our audience to make certain implications about our films story and themes, hopefully allowing them to be more attention driven and on the edge of their seat throughout the movie.

Having Stephen King write our movie also opens the audience up for possible plot twists preparing our audience to be more aware and focused whilst watching the film due to our story following his writing style.

Institutionally our film is similar to films like Adulthood and Shifty primarily due to them having a similar story featuring similar types of characters, age ranges and themes throughout the film.  

Evaluation Activity 5

Link to Evaluation Activity 5: How did we attract/address our audience.

Evaluation Activity 7

Link to Evaluation Activity 7: Looking back at our preliminary task what have we learnt from the progression from that to full product?

Lost property evaluation 7 from MatthewMindtrick

Evaluation Activity 6

Evaluation Activity 6: What have we learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

Below is some of the filming equipment used during our filming process 

Nikon D3100 : To film our opening we used a Nikon D3100. Although a standard camera would have looked good, we both felt that a more high quality camera was appropriate for most of the shots we were looking for. Using things like the lens to get more depth within a shot and a focus effect to focus on one object and blur out another.

Tripod: The tripod that we used was incredibly small and compact. It was really simple to carry around being extremely portable. This was used mainly for the still shots that were frequently used throughout the opening to avoid movement whilst filming our stills and close ups. 

Editing | Laptop: To edit our opening we simply used a Dell laptop. We used Adobe Premier to cut everything together and to create our titles.

Using sites like facebook, blogger and youtube we were able to plan and keep track of our filming process. Using blogger we could upload screengrabs of our filming progress and keep track of what we were doing. We were able to plan filming times, actors and locations between each other through facebook. When everything was filmed and edited, we were able to upload everything onto youtube as a final product which in turn was shared on our blogger accounts. 

 

Evaluation Activity 4

Link to Evaluation Activity 4: Who would be the audience for our Media Product?

Lost property evaluation 4 from MatthewMindtrick

Evaluation Activity 2

Link to Evaluation Activity 2: How does our media product represent particular social groups. 

Lost property evaluation 2 from MatthewMindtrick

Evaluation Activity 1

Evaluation Activity 1: How does our Media Product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Full Story Board for the opening of Lost Property

Including shot types and small details of what is happening in the shot

Lost Property | A Level Media Coursework by Matthew Holt and Milo Fisher

The Film was written and directed by Matthew Holt and Milo Fisher
In total the opening to 3 day's to film and and 6 hours to edit
The opening was filmed with a NikonD3100 camera and edited with Adobe premier
The films starts Kyron Fortune, Milo Fisher and Matthew Holt
The song used in the opening was called Bluetech - Probability Tree
 Lost Property Opening Link

Lost Property Filming | Location/Character shots

Our Music

We wanted the type of music that we were looking to use in our film to consist of dark atmospheric sounds that is often quite brooding to the ear but also has slight use of electronic sounds to reflect the atmosphere and setting within the film showing a world where technology is evidently important.

Initially we looked at up pace atmospheric music from video games like ‘Metal Gear Solid’ that consist of music that sets the tone and setting for the storytelling within the game. The music however was way too action packed and upbeat for our type of storytelling in terms of our shots so we continued to search for calmer music with a similar effect. 

After searching and listening to different types of slower paced, electronic music we happened to stumble upon a song named ‘Bluetech – Probability Tree’ which had the same impact as our initial MGS idea’s but with a much slower/calmer melody whilst still being able to set the tone and atmosphere in our opening.

Shooting Schedule for 'Lost Property'

Our Films Target Audience

Below is the link to the SlideShow presentation giving a detailed overview of who are target audience is. This in turn will change the way in which our film is directed. 

Target Audience Link  

The font types, transitions and names for the opening title squence

 

Font: Arial Narrow

Director: Matthew Holt

Producer: Christopher Nolan

Writers: Milo Fisher and Matthew Holt

Publisher: TMAnimate Films

Distributer: IVECO Films

Cast:

-        (Stand in A)

-        (Stand in B)

-        (Stand in C)

Credit Transitions:

 Remove object to reveal credit

Credit appears behind building – panning

Credit along the side of object

Fade in and fade out

Reflections and Meeting Deadlines

So far I feel as if I am on target with the deadlines in terms of the ones that have been set so far on the course. I have given the definitions of the AS media key terms and have given an example of different types of camera shots and angles used in films. I have also completed the AS Media preliminary task which was to film a man entering a room and sitting down at a desk to talk to a person sitting opposite them. Rather than simply filming the task given I created more of a theme and story around the preliminary task to make it more interesting using different types of camera shots and angles as a pose to just simply filming it. Although I have completed the treatment to the film’s opening I haven’t yet completed the entire films treatment.

My power point showing the codes and conventions of a film opening

AS Media Opening Treatment

 

Lost Property

A long zooming shot of a man tied up in an empty warehouse, he is beaten and bruised, and he looks weak. There is a flash back of his life where he is performing a strange deal with a suitcase, there is then a reaction shot of this flash back of guilt. Another flash back to another friend opening the briefcase with a smile, while the man is behind it looking lost in thought. Another reaction shot of the man looking in great sadness. A third flashback to the man holding the briefcase and wrestling it away from someone, third reaction shot of the man looking agitated. A final flashback of someone walking away with the briefcase while the man is on the floor with a look of horror. The final reaction shot is of fear, as if he is about to break down in tears. The final shot is the first long shot zooming outwards, and just as the directors’ credit appears, the legs of a man walk on camera. The name of the movie ‘Lost Property' appears on screen. Cut to black.

AS Media Preliminary Task

                                                          Preliminary task for AS Media

Example sheet of shot types and camera movements.

Definitions for AS Media Key Terms
Continuity:  The maintenance of continuous action and self-consistent detail in the various scenes of a movie or broadcast.

Match on Action: Either an action commenced in shot A is completed in shot B, or an action in shot A is mirrored by an action in shot B, for example when we cut from character A in location A reading a letter to character B in location B reading the same letter.

Shot/Reverse shot: Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

180 degree rule: The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line.

AS Media

Welcome to AS G321: Foundation Portfolio in Media

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Main task: the

titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.