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

During the process of constructing my blog and our title opening sequence, i have used the following technologies:

 
• Adobe premiere elements 3.0 

From this peice of technology i have learnt how to edit successfully and overcome and obsticals that have occured. i have laso learnt how to insert music into clips to make it sound more effective. Addition of transactions is also another thing that i have learnt usuing this software which helped make our final product much smoother. Lastly i have learnt how to export finished clips onto a dvd which we later desgined for our final cover.

• Blackberry Bold 9700 

I own a blackberry bold which honestly i havent learnt something new from it but it helped us as a group take necessary pictures at important times. For example pictures which show us working on our blog or pictures of us editing or even filming.

• Microsoft Word  

Microsoft word is a software that i have been using since i was at primary school. During the process of contructing our product i havent learned anything new from it but it was very helpfull to use. For example when typing away on blogger we make many spelling mistakes which blogger doesnt recognise, so what i most of the time is copy and paste what ever i write on blogger onto microsoft word which then identifies any spelling mistakes made.

•  Blogger

Blogger is an important part of our contructing our product as it updates the teacher and other group members of what you are doing and how far you have reached. From blogger i have learnt how to upload pictures and resize them to look suitable. In addition to this i have learnt how to change font types,colours and design templates whoch helped my blog stand out and look different. Using blogger format i have alos learnt how to anyalise films and also our own product so that it loosk right and not out of place.

•  Windows Hotmail

Throughout my teenage years i have used hotmail for jobs, work and e-mails. However through contructing our product i have learnt something new for hotmail, how to attach files and folders to e-mails. This was very important as we as a group only saw each other twice a week in class so we was very relyant on this software. I attach files and pictures to other group members which helped them with their blog and they did the same. Even our teacher sent us work through hotmail which makes it a lot easier.

•  Video Camera

Video camera is one of the most important peice of technology that we have used whilst contructing our product because without it, we wouldnt of been able to film our preliminary task or our title opening sequence. Whilst using the video camera i learnt how to hold it steadly, pause, fast forward, rewind, view video and pictures, stop and how to put it into night mode. All of these things aided us when we were filming our film and we were able to use it to our advantage.

• Google

Google is a search engine that i have used since ive started using computers. i havent learnt anything new from it since we have been using it whilst contructing our product but it has been very helpfull. Google helped me gather information and research for films. This helped me wrtite a deatiled analysis when analysing films for our research and development. Google maps also helped us reach our destination of filming (Farah's house). We entered her post code and it gave us directions to her house.

• Microsoft paint

Microsoft paint is another software that i used which helped me contruct my final product. Whilst using paint i learnt how to print screen images from youtube and paste it onto paint, which then abled me to cut it and let me use the image i intended to use in the first place. for example:

This then ables me to cut and paste images which i used to analyise our final product and also many other thriller films. I used this technique in many of most posts, when identifing our target audience and mainly when analysing films.

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

Looking back at our preliminary task i beleive i have learnt alot of this things ranging from media aspects to working as a group. i feel as a individual i have grown as a media student from when i started in september, developing my editing skills and also my knowlege of media terms. Understanding the meanings and influence of different types of shots e.g. shot reverse shot has helped me use this to my advantage. As you can see from the still of editing from my preliminary task and our actual title opening sequence, there is a huge difference. For example:

This is the start of our preliminary task, a simple basic shot of our character just sitting down at a desk doing his work at a computer. No music used, pictures or transactions.

And this is the start of our actual title opening sequence. As you can see the development from our preliminary task we have created this picture of our title opening sequence to make it more interesting whilst playing suitable music in the background.

This is a shot of our character downstairs in the hall way. We used this to show the audience the location and setting of the film whilst at the same time going back to our pictures that we created of the actress's name. This shows how far we have come from our preliminary task adding pictures and using such methods and techniques stated above to show the audience who is in the film whilst showing the settings.

How did you attract/address your audience?

As a group we tried to adopt many things in order for us to attract our audience. As we gathered from our research, our target audience where going to be from the ages of 16-24 mainly aiming at the teenage bracket. So therefore we wanted to represent this age group in our product as a technique to attract the highlighted target audience. We portrayed your typical teenager in our product in the form of our character Samantha Evans.

As i mentioned in her character profile she is your typical teenager who likes to party and socialise with her friends. In todays western world, these acts are very recognizable of a teenagers life. So we as a result decided to show this in our piece so that the audience can feel like they can relate to the film.

By doing all of this, it also helps address the audience on what this other fellow teenager is going through in her life. It address's them in all different levels from everyday normal teenage issues to them being addressed as the audience and seeing what they are going through everyday but the through the prospective of another person.

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

After much research on Distribution Company that may distribute our media product, i have decided a universal studio is our ideal company. Universal Pictures (sometimes called Universal City Studios or Universal Studios for short), a subsidiary of NBC universal, is one of the six major movie studios. Founded in 1912 by Carl Lamelle, it is one of the oldest American movie studios still in continuous production running for over 95 years. On May 11, 2004, the controlling stake in the company was sold by Vivendi Universal to General Electric, parent of NBC. The resulting media super-conglomerate was renamed NBC Universal, while Universal Studios Inc. remained the name of the production subsidiary. In addition to owning a sizable film library spanning the earliest decades of cinema to more contemporary works, it also owns a sizable collection of TV shows through its subsidiary NBC  Universal Television distribution. It also acquired rights to several prominent filmmakers' works originally released by other studios through its subsidiaries over the years. Its production studios are at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City California. Distribution and other corporate offices are in New York City. Universal Pictures is the second-longest-lived Hollywood studio; a Viacom-owned Paramount picture is the oldest by a month. With this much experience behind universal pictures, it was only right that i chose it to distribute our media product. Also there success in thriller films that they have distributed in recent years such as:

Devil

Devil (also known as The Night Chronicles: Devil) is a 2010 US supernatural thriller film based on a story by M. Night Shyamalan, written by Brain Nelson and directed by John Eric Dowdle. The film was released on September 17, 2010, and is the first of The Night Chronicles trilogy, which involves the supernatural within modern urban society. The film's plot follows a group of people trapped inside an elevator that realize one of them is the Devil Universal studios budgeted this movie around ten million and grossed over fifty one million showing there smart business stature and experience coming into play..
















The Fourth Kind

The Fourth Kind is a 2009 American science-fiction thriller film, starring Mila Jovovich, Charlotte Milchard , Elias Koteas, Will Patton, and Mia McKenna Bruce. The title is derived from the expansion of J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the fourth kind denotes alien abductions It claims to be fact and uses real archive footage of actual events. The film purports to be based on actual events occurring in Nome, Alaska in 2000, in which psychologist Dr. Abigail "Abbey" Tyler uses hypnosis to uncover memories from her patients of alien abduction, and finds evidence suggesting that she may have been abducted as well. The film has two components— dramatization, in which professional actors portray the individuals involved, and video footage purporting to show the actual victims undergoing hypnosis. (At some points in the film, the actual and dramatized footage is presented alongside each other in split-screen.) Throughout the film, Abbey is shown being interviewed on television at some point years after the events of 2000.The film was a box office success, earning US$47.46 million worldwide, from an estimated $10 million budget. Again Showing Universal studios smart and effective budgeting along with their  experience. 
















All of these factors above played a part in why i have chose them to distribute our media product. They may also want to distribute our product as they have found much success in the thriller genres so they might see this as an opportunity. They have the experience and marketing scheme as they are well known worldwide in distributing excellent films worldwide.

Preliminary Task & Grimaldi Title Opening Sequence

Who would be the audience for your media product?

As you can have seen on previous post, i have researched our main target audience for our title opening sequence. This is more specific in general and it is about one of our audience member called Marcus.

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How does your media product represent particular social groups?

As seen on previous posts, we identified the 15-25's as our target audience for title opening sequence. So it is only right that we represent this social group in our title opening sequence. Our character as shown on earlier posts is a teenage girly girl living at home with her parents.  She likes to party and socialise with her friends with little interest in school. She has a boyfriend who's not an angle and her parents dislike him.

This is our character Samantha Evans posing for a picture at a party. This represents the teenage social group in our title opening sequence. We purposely did this to represent the teenage social group. We did this as our target audience is predominantly teens so we wanted to represent this in and out of our film.

As you can see from the above picture, this is the type of social group we wanted to particularly represent as they were likely to be our audience. This as a result alows them to relate to many things that Samantha Evans is going through, throughout the film such as party's, get togethers, fighting with her parents ect.




One of the main elements of a teenagers life is partying and clubbing, if we had the chance to make the whole film we would of represented this in our film as it represents this social group. Heres what a typical club teenage scene would of looked like: