Monday, 24 March 2014

Target Audience Evaluation

The question I had to answer for one part of my evaluation was:
Who would be the audience for your media product?
There were some mini questions that I answered to help answer this big question:
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience? 
This video took a very long time to produce and I like some of the ways I have laid it out and will involve some elements like the voiceovers, clips etc in future videos for my evaluation. 

Thursday, 20 March 2014

Psychological Thriller Opening

This is our final psychological thriller opening: 'Christian Carter' 
Christian has killed his girlfriend and seeks therapy due to him finding his brother dead on the floor when he was younger. As the film progresses we will get an insight into Christians life and find out why he killed his girlfriend.


Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Institution Evaluation

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

We chose Warner Brothers as to be our production company and New Line cinema to be our distribution company. We created a Prezi in order to get our information across about our production and distribution company.
This is part of my evaluation also.


Thursday, 13 March 2014

New Script

This is our new script which we had to make adjustments too due to there not being enough time to include it all. With the voice overs some did not fit where we wanted them to and it flowed better without the one voice over, we also had to shorten the one voice over and change the words because it did not fit into the time we had, but a good thing is is that it fits better and works better.



Friday, 28 February 2014

Shooting Schedule

We created a shooting schedule in order to know what days we will be filming and when we will need certain people,props, outfits and settings. It helps us to be organised so we can get the most out of filming and do it the way we want and need.







Friday, 14 February 2014

Storyboard for Opening Sequence







We had to create a storyboard on Celtx to show the scenes we are going to use in our opening and our camera shots that we are going to incorporate. This storyboard shows exactly how we are going to produce our opening. It shows that we are going to start off with a black screen which will then show the title of the film 'Christian Carter' because it is the protagonists name and is a film about his life, so it seems relevant, it then shows that we are going to have an establishing shot of a field and slowly zoom in on the figure that is in that field where all gets revealed: That it is a teen male holding a dead female body in his arms, this creates enigma also due to us not knowing anything about what is happening and wanting to know why she is dead and why he is carrying her through a field. We have a series of close ups on the female body then to show that she is in fact dead and she is a female. After this, there is a close up on the boys face to show his emotion and then the medium shot after this shows the environment of which is a bedroom and we see that he has just awoken, the voice over helps to anchor what was happening in the field. There is then a P.O.V shot of a picture frame which connotes that it has some sort of importance and then zooms into it revealing what the picture is of, and it is the boy and the dead girl which connotes that they had a relationship, it then fades out to show the same girl on a missing poster, the dream at the beginning anchors that she is dead and shows us that the characters in the film (apart from the boy) think that she is missing but only the audience and the boy know the truth, the audience feel as though they have been let in on a secret. There is another long shot showing the boy walking down the street, creating enigma, where is he going? The medium shot connotes that the voice over is coming from the boy and the voice over then answers our question as to where he is going and the flash back anchors all of what the voice over is saying. We are in a medium shot until he gets to a door and then we get another long shot to reveal all 3 people in a frame and also the dead girl... which will also be shown via an over the shoulder shot, it will then fade out to black to end the opening sequence.
This storyboard is going to help with our filming and will be a major guideline with filming and will help us know what shots are going to happen and where, it will help us to produce a good opening we have imagined and thought of. 
*At the very very start of the opening we will have the institution that is going to help with production etc with our film, like, Fox, Disney etc*


Character Portfolios





This is the protagonist Christian's portfolio of which says everything about him as a character.












This is the protagonists girlfriend Alice's portfolio of which says everything about them as a character.














This is the therapists portfolio which says everything about them as a character, there isn't much to say about the character because they are only there for Christian to talk to, they are not a major character.












This is Christians brother Matthew's portfolio of which says everything about him as a character, there isn't much to say about Matthew due to him not being a major character and only being used as a little backstory as to why Christian goes to therapy etc. 





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