Evaluation Q8) Looking backat your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product.

                          

Since we did our prelim our final movie has turned out to be massively different

We changed our whole approach to filming and producing it.

Mise En Scene
As you can see here one of the changes to our approach of filming was mise en scene. As you can see in our prelim our lack of decent prior planning meant our filming location was poorly lit, leading to dark footage. but as you can see we changed our approach and managed to get an even better lit footage in a BASEMENT than we did in our classroom. this is an example of how since our poor planning and understanding of mise en scene in our prelim we have taken a turn for the better.

  
Editing

In our prelim due to the restricted amount of time we had to edit our work, we never managed to utilize extensive effects and other tools in final cut to make our prelim a better product. In our prelim we filmed the action scene of Jem getting hit in a very amateur way. We filmed from an angle that was very confusing and since then we have made considerable improvements in the way we edit the footage as well. In our final film we edited a similar scene in a better way. After Jem got hit we changed the color tone of footage to black and white and froze it all at the point the punch came in contact with Jem's face. We did this also to create meaning in our footage something we did not do much of in our prelim. This shows and contrasts the huge difference in editing skills our two films have and how much of an improvement we have made since

 

Camerawork And Planning

As you can see we greatly excelled in our camerawork skills. This shot above shows the detailed planning and skill we put in. The character walks up to a point before stopping at a good angle for the audience to see him as well as space behind in which another character fills in when he walks in and hits him from behind. All of the sequence is cleary visible and our prior extensive planning even meant that the mise en scene such as the location the actors clothings and even the weapon used were perfect for it.

In summary i have that i have made considerable progession whether it be techniacally or the fact that my work rate and ability to work with my partners to create a good product have improved greatley since the creation of our prelim product.

Question 6 - Evaluation - Audience feedback and comment

 These are a couple of audience feedback we received from students in the collage who viewed out media product.

Question 7 - Evaluation - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation: Question 4&5- How will you attract audience

If we were to market this film as a gigantic cinematic release, one of the key ways of marketing would be through physical means. these could be posters as shown above. i have contrasted the mass marketing of 007 james bond posters with our own counterpart with our main protagonist.

We would also consider using billboards as part of our huge marketing campaign. they would be placed in city centres and places like airports just like they are used here for the james bond film.

We would also consider using press as part of our campaign. we would incorporate strategies already used successfully by big blockbusters like front page covers of magazines and newspapers.

Finally we will consider a nationwide release by showcasing our product in large cinemas like odeon and vue and other large cinema complexed once we have our premier in leicester square just like the bond film did above so kit could it generate significant interest before we expand 

Evaluation Question 1-In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge conventions of real media products?

Our media film is quite similar to a lot opening sequences whether they be independent film to blockbusters to even music videos.

For the opening establishment shots we sourced from the video for Jay Z ft Alicia keys song New York. We fell in love with the shot immediately and we flipped it an used it showcase our vision for the gritty London scenes our film was attempting to portray.
we directly mimicked the spilt screen shots to the best of our ability and we replaced them with London counterparts as you can see above. This use of intertextuality was necessary in helping our audience understand that this is a thriller.

The shot below is a shot from the car chase scene in the James Bond film Die Another Day.
We liked the fact that the shot was angled so it could capture the front of the car while it was being chased. so we managed to pull of our shot by shooting from behind the bus since we never had the logistics help available to us that this blockbuster film did. We used the shot of the white BMW in kings cross and placed it as part of the establishments of the gritty London our film was portraying. The use of intertexuality here helped the audience understand and relate this thriller to the other thriller referenced here.
 

 This shot as you can see is the ever familiar panning shot used in the film Stepfathers. We mimicked it directly to the best of our ability since the safety risk concerned if we were to used much more sharper objects. So we used a couple of tools and placed them in a white tile to show the contrast. this clear intertexual reference helped the audience understand that this is a thriller as well.

This shot of jem being hit by asilhan above while the camera colour turns to grey and freezes was semi sourced from the shot below. this shot below was used in the film snatch which is a guy Ritchie film about the gritty streets of London and we felt it appropriate to use a shot as unique as that since we shared many elements with the film it was originally sourced from. this is the most clearest intertexual reference we used in our film to tell our audience that our film was a thriller like snatch 

This shot of jem while sitting on edge of the bed but with Rebbecca in the scene sitting at other end of the bed behind him is directly sourced from this famous shot of diddy marketing his new fragrance. I came across this shot by mere luck. i was researching famous bedroom shots in google when this result came up. the caption was totally different to what it was originally meant to be and had 'wake up in the morning feeling like p diddy' these referencing lyrics to the famous kesha song tik tok.

Evaluation Question 3 - Audience for my product

Who would be my audience?

            

A day in the life of my average target audience will consist of may activities:

6.30-7.30 get up, jog for a mile, go home shower, get ready for work

8.00-12.00 work as trainer for youth football academy till lunch

12.00-1.00 get a sandwich from local deli and meet up wtih collegeues

1.00-3.00 go to primary schools and help coach kids during their p.e lessons

3.00- 6.00 go to gym after work for daily workout

6.00-6.30 go home, shower get ready to go pub 

7.00-9.00 get to pub and stay for only 2 hours if its a weekday then get home

The above video was constructed by Jerome Holder, a member of my group.

Evaluation Question 2 - Representations

i have chosen to display two stills of images that help me answer how my product represents social groups.

i have a still shot of one of our protagonists sourced from our media product. i also have a still shot of jason statham in his movie the mechanic. we have constructed our character to be similar to the characters played by jason statham. we did this so our audience could easily recognise him and attribute the characteristics that should be associated with this type of character.

Both shots are from the side of the characters. the appearance of the characters themselves are rugged. they both seem to be wearing dark clothing and have their collars pulled up suggesting to the audience that they have something to hide and reinforces their mysterious personalities. This is why i feel we have been successful in making our product accurately represent a social group and that is instantly recognisable to our target audience

Evaluation Question 6 - audience feedback

FINAL MOVIE

Soundtrack editing movie

soundtrack research and production

i chose to create my soundtrack in a differnt software at home due to the limitiations on the primary soundtrack program available in college for me..
i have provivded some screenshots of the workstation(fl studio 9) i used and the individual patterns i created using it. i also provided a screenshot of the files which i later split and converted to WAV format for easy saving and to make them more easier to convert to Mov. files for when i use and export them into finalcut

Lying With The Enemy - Exclusive Final Edit - Corrected

Font analysis

We put a lot of thought when creating our titles. We wanted our titles to look serious but also casual.

we created our titles using the programme LiveType.

 This is the font we used, we all decided it will suit our opening as it looks serious but still casual jus like we wanted it to look like.

Here is how the title appears on our opening. 

We decided to put the titles over the opening instead of on a blank screen, this is because we believe this looks more effective and also more professional. It also means we can make the screen busy making the audience that the movie has also action in it even tho it is a thriller.

Editing process

Here are the screen shots we took while editing.

We decided to start off with a split screen because it will match with the narration which we will put in about London having a good side but also a bad side, this also interacts with our two different characters and how the husband changes his persona from good to bad when he finds his wife dead.

This is our final product of our opening split screen, we will also add in the narration and the text. 

We have some key shots that are paused and are in black and white, this is to show the audience that these are important shots.  In the first key shot you can see that the husband character is in control attacking his wife's killer while he is tied up.

In the second key shot we see that the roles have changed. This time its the husband who is being hit by his wife's killer. These two shots also show that there is a element of surprise and that anything could happen. 

Changes made from Rough Cut

We were very pleased with our rough cut, however we knew that it was not perfect and it needed some things added such as a sound track and titles, we also decided to add narration to make the audience understand the opening more and we just thought it added to the quality of the film. We did not change much from the rough cut besides adding a certificate at the beginning.                          

Inspiration - "Scary Shots"

During the earlier stages of planning our teacher Mary showed us various examples of thrillers, here are some examples of some typically thriller shots that inspired our work, these shots were used as stimuli for our final film.

























Above is a screen shot from the film "jackie Brown" it stars Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De'Niro  - specifically it was directed by Quentin Tarantino, a film director that definitely has inspired me as a film maker. Next to the screenshot of the "Jackie Brown" film is a screenshot from our AS Media submission "Lying With The Enemy" here you can see that we have interpreted the "below" camera angle from the film and put it in ours.

Here is a screen shot from 2005 motion picture release "Bomb The System" directed by Adam Bhala Lough. Here a split screen is used to show two things that are happening at the same time and are in correlation with each other, for our production, in the editing process I decided to interpret it and use this idea for the London-based establishment shots. This fits in with the "London has two sides" theme of our narration.

Above is a screen shot from Guy Ritchie's 2000 film "Snatch" in this film the editor uses a screen shot to introduce a character, which is an important addition to the film. For our edit we used a screen shot to highlight a key moment in the film and focus on a specific part of our narration.