Evaluation Question 3

What Have you Learnt From Your Audience Feedback?

After completing the final peice of our A2 media project, the main thing you want is a good audience feed back. After the feedback we recieved, it allowed us to focus on the negatives of the project and to take credit for the positives in the work. After the research we did on our questionaires, we knew what people liked and disliked in films, so therefore we could give them the best of what they wanted overall. After the final questionaire that was handed out, which we felt crucial to us, we recognised that our film would be better for a small independant cinema, rather than a big multiplex cinema. With that time and equipment that we had, I believe this is quite a positive feedback to us, and if we want a bigger film then we would have to have a lot more time to think and plan about it. Overall, I believe that I have learnt that our 3 projects we have done were quite successful and our audience feedback came back the same as we'd hope to have, the audience were happy with the 3 projects we did, and so was we

Evaluation Question 4

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Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation question 2

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Texual Analysis of the film

Looking back at our film as a group, we feel that we should have spent a lot more time planning and preparing instead of on-the-spot thinking about what to do. Locations were another thing we should have thought about better, we could have used better locations that were more suitable to the film if we had thought and prepared. The major disadvantage we had was time to film, because of the actors busy schedual, we had very limited time to film our project. But overall i believe that the film was quite successful with what we had. I think the acting itself was good and the editing was good and worked well with the film.

Film Review

Here is our finished review that we wish to publish in the more indie film magazines such as 'Little White Lies', 'Vertigo Films' and 'Indie Wire' whose target audiences are niche audiences who prefer independant films to the more popular, mainstream blockbusters. We created this review for our own film magazine 'Slice of Cinema' using what ideas we had discovered in other film reveiws of this kind. We found that they were more simplistic in there layout and tried to keep images to a minimum, often only using a key still in a film or the films poster image. As you can see we have kept with the colour theme of reds and blacks still to match to our poster making it look more professional and more like a combined product. We kept with adding an overall rating to our film as people can see just from the 5 star rating just how good a film is or not without having to go into depth and read the whole review. We also included the films weblink at the bottom of the page for people who become interested to find out more from, this is typical feature often used to give people the option for more facts.
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Film Poster

Shown is our completed poster for our film 'Marilyn'. One slight change has been made since the taking of this photograph and that is the age certificate in the bottom right hand corner. Instead of it being classified for 18 and above it has now been certified for 15 and above after numerous participants in our feedback groups felt that this age would also be suited to the film's violence and that it would also broaden our audiences in cinema, boosting sales. We decided to use a variety of different fonts that matched our chosen genre such as calligraphy writing in the films title; 'Marilyn' and a typewriter style font for our production companys name and web address, to link with the detective theme.
In order to become eye catching to our audience, we chose a strong white backdrop so not to loose attention of Marilyn being the main focal point in the poster. We also used strong, harsh colours such as reds and blacks to indicate negativity and to simplistically connote blood and death.
Adding the two ratings either side of the photo gives other people's trusting views and opinions on the film, as we realised most people today rely on other forms of media to tell them whats good and whats not. This is because people today are sucked into this whole idea that the media are right when it comes to opinions on other forms of media and so this where the hypodermic needle theory steps in.

Finished Film

Below is our completed film 'Marilyn' We tried to keep to the codes and conventions of Film Noir to keep the realism of the film, this was acheived by costume, props, storyline, sound and camera.

Textual Analysis
Looking back at our film we as a group feel more time should have been spent planning and preparing our locations and set so that we were able to get the best out of our filming time and also we gave a more realistic approach to creating a 1940s time period. However the editing has made up for the lack of focus on set design and created a visually entertaining piece of cinema. If we were to do the project again we would assign fixed jobs to each of the members in the group so the work was done thoroughly and to a perfectionists standards. It would also allow more time to do anything that had been forgotten or put aside and avoid any last minute rushing around, that has been apparent this time around

Filming Pictures 2

Logo Development

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1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our film product uses the forms and conventions of real media products because we use the same idea as a lot of film noir detective films, where the detective is more of a lone detective, who is smart and knows a lot about being a detective, but somewhere has their own problems.  For example, Detective Sam Spade in 'The Maltese Falcon' would be considered as a lone detective after his partner Miles Archer is shot dead; Sam Spade would be considered to be a smart and well dressed detective, the same as our detective, but also he has his own problems, Sam's being with his love life with Bridget O'Shaunessy. We develop the idea of real media products by changing the idea of male dominance in Film Noir, detective films especially, where woman are dominated by men in the work place; in our film, the main detective is a female and her partner is male. We also develop the idea that the main detective saves the day, when in fact, in our film her partner saves the day. Finally we challenge the idea of a female being a detective and the main character in the film.

Issues

Our main issues with filming so far is locations, actors and times.

Locations- We have had a few issues when filming outside because of traffic, and as our film is set in the 50's, it wouldn't look right to see a brand new car in the background. We are resolving them by choosing different times to film and different streets, so its not too busy to film in.

Actors- At the start of our filming, we had big acting issues, as the actors couldn't film for us when we needed them to, due to their plans. We have resolved this by changing one actor for the film, who is more flexible with their time.

Times- Our film is set in both day and night, and because we are almost in winter, it gets darker a lot earlier now, so therefore we would have an issue with filming day time scenes after college, but there wouldn't be a problem with filming night scenes. We are resolving this problem by making a schedual more flexible for everyone to film, so we can get it done.

2nd day of filming

Yesterday we started our second day of filming. We only had one problem, which got resolved straight away, we had an actor issue of which someone couldn't act when we needed them, so we had to get a new actor. On the 2nd day we decided to film the detective interrogating Marylin about her husbands murder, we did this in our theatre of which we also got props for. E.g. chairs, sofas, costumes, walls and telephones. We made a massive improvement and progression on the film making, and we achieved everything we possibly could do, so overall a good filming session.

Filming Pictures

First Day Of Filming

On our first day of filming, we decided to film the very first bit of the film which is the murder of Marylins husband. We encounted a few problems with the filming because the street we were filming on was busy, so we had to sort of rush into the getting the filming done, also the battery life on the camera was very low, this also created problems. All together we was out filming for about an hour, but we aren't going to be using that much of the footage, so it is a slow start to the filming.

Filming timetable

We have put together a timetable so that we can plan when we are able to film, create our poster and blog. This will help orgainise the making of our film efficiently so that we dont fall behind when it comes down to editing.

Cast and Costumes

Tom (me) -

I will be the Camera man and Director, therefore I will not be needing any costume to wear, just casual clothing to make it easier to film with. I have already made mistake with I was wearing by wearing slim jeans, this made it harder to film as I couldn't freely move around.

Marilyn; Kirsty

Dressed in a black 1950's style dress, to match with the genre and era of the film. Also dressed in a fur coat, black heels and white pearls to show she is elegant and extremely wealthy. To symbolise she is a woman of passion we have added red lipstick to the costume, it is also symbolises the blood of her husband, whom she murders. Putting her in a black costume shows she is mounring for her husband after his death but also hides the fact she killed him herself, as the style of the dress emphasises elegance.

Policewoman; Sophie

Dressed in the stereotypical police uniform colours of black and white, to show she is a part of the profession. Casually dressed as they would have been in the 1950's, still need to create a badge and hat to make the costume more realistic to the audience. Hair is tyed back as she would have needed to blend in with the male workers.

Storyboard

This is the storyboard to our film, in the storyboard, it shows what the characters roughly look like, the shots we would like to use, the amount of time taken on the shots, and the edits we would like to use.

Film Noir Posters

This Poster is from the film 'The Blue Dahlia'. In this poster you can tell who the main character is and the protagonist is, it would have to be man in the middle, because he is the centre of attention and has the biggest proportion on the poster. You can also tell who the antagonist is, because of the man with the gun in the background and the negative expression, also he is in the shadows, which is a codes and conventions of being an evil character. The female character on the left looks to be the distractor of the film.

 In this poster, the female character in this film called 'Laura' is the dominant character, you know this because the film is her name, so she has to be of significance. Also the fact that there are two male characters looking at her, this could mean that she is a hard to get character. Also the fact the she is wearing red signifies sexual or love. The man looking down onto Laura would be another protagonist because he shows no sign of being a bad guy, and he has light on his face, and you wouldn't put too much light on a bad guy. The guy on the right with the gun is obviously the antagonist in the film because he also has a lot of shadowing on him.

Main Character

Marilyn Winters is the name of our main character in our short film. It will be played by Kirsty Rice. She is the murderer in our film, but it is unexpected because you are made to believe that she hasn't done anything and proven innocent by our detective whilst he interogates her. Throughout the short film, Marilyn will be wearing a black dress, which symbolises that she could be a bad person

Font Idea's

These are our font ideas. We chose the italic idea because it looks more feminine, and therefore more relivant to the film. The other idea looks like type writer text, this is also appropiate as well because computers were not invented in the later 40's/early 50's. Also, it is very common in Film Noir films to use type writers on screen to show

- Time

- Date

- Location

We have decided to go for the top left font because this font looks feminine and elegant, which is appealing and appropiate because the main character in our film 'Marilyn' is meant to be both feminine and elegant.