Evaluation Question 7 script

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

My creative post on this question I understand may be quite hard to hear and understand, therefore I have typed up the copy of the script in which I used. 
Within this process of making our product I have learnt many new important ways to work and deal with new technologies. The most important technologies i have used is the  film recorder and its equipment and an apple mac with all it's softwares I have used such as final cut and livetype. 

Film Recorder

• Tapes are difficult to upload straight to the computer because of the leads involved.
• you have to be very careful with the tape filming  because it is easy to film over if you watch it back and then forget to fast forward the tape back to the
• Cameras with adjustable microphones do in fact pick up every sound in the background and so the place must be silent so the noise wanted to be recorded is heard with clarity and correction.
• The lighting in which you film within is very important because even with the slightest darkness it is difficult to see the surroundings.
• Zooming in and out make the pictures fuzzy and so it is best just to move closer personally.

Equipment

• It is best to film with a stand otherwise if you use just your hand then your pictures will be very shaky and unclear on screen.
• Camera should be fully charged to get the best quality of filming you intend to have.
• The tape you use should be new for each film you attempt to make otherwise you have the danger of having other film on your sequence. 

The Computer

• Final cut is a very good app to use to edit your filming.
• Editing takes a very long time to get everything precise and if you want your film to flow you must make objects that you are editing in fade in and our otherwise they will appear suddenly and abruptly making your film look unprofessionally and messy.
• You should record a movement at least three or four times in order to be able to edit it clearly and as a backup if the other recordings where shaky or had a problem within them.
• Music is also an important part of technology that makes the film, without it our film wouldn't of had the dramatic, suspended feel to it.
• Within the editing process you must use final cut and fade in and out extra products on top of the film itself.
• Livetype can be used to create credits, must appear on the screen long enough to be able to read, must be clear.

Evaluation Question 7

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

Evaluation Question 6

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

My group started upon the making of our preliminary task having not that much experience within the making or filming a film clip or editing software on an Apple Mac. We had no idea how to film and just set out to do so knowing that we had to include 4 main aspects of camera usage. Our match on action was reasonably good however throughout the film the camera would move. The lighting was dim and the sound location wasn't ideal. I feel as if we have very much learnt from these mistakes and as a result our final product is much better. I have therefore, identified in the film below all the key aspects as of which I have learnt from the preliminary task and the difference between that and our final product.

Evaluation Question 5 continued

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your target audience?

By carrying out some interviews and surveys it is obvious that we attracted the right Target audience. And this was done through the use of a main protagonist and having a narrative. It also addressed them by having the title of the film as Stockholm Syndrome, a syndrome which people are familiar with so understand romance is involved. Again the introduction to both characters addressed our female audience because clearly from some of those interviews already they were question what would happen between the two of them.

Evaluation Question 4 continued

Reasonings for whether or not our target audience changed from what we originally wanted our product to target

Evaluation Question 4

Who is the target audience for your product?

The target audience for our product was originally females under the age of 18. This in my opinion has stuck throughout the final production. However, I feel as if the actual target audience for the final product was different to what we originally wanted. This was because the portrayal of a 'girly' feel to the opening lacked a little and the overall story-line evoked our target audience rather than our product itself. 

Evaluation Question 3 continued

I have created a possible interview between the media institution that would most likely distribute our company and us as a production company selling our piece/product to them as a company.

Evaluation Question 3 continued

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Evaluation Question 3

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

Evaluation Question 2 continued

Evaluation Question 3 continued

Who is most likely to distribute our product

Evaluation Question 2

2. How does your media represent particular social groups? 

Social Groups is in reference to those people who share similar characteristics that are then grouped under a particular name. Therefore we question whether our film showed a variety of different social groups and how. 

Evaluation Question 1 continued

In what ways does the media product use, develop or change forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does the media product use, develop or change forms and conventions of real media products?

OUR FINAL FILM OPENING

Why the music is used and evaluation

We have decided to use this music for the beginning of the film because it creates a mysterious but suspense mood to the piece. It isn't too thriller or scary and in fact personally i would not base this with a typical burgle, dangerous music. This is good because the scary aspect is only a small aspect at the beginning of the film so we would not like our opening to portray that the genre of our film is that of a horror or thriller.

We decided upon using the upbeat clubland music for our soundtrack to the film when Ben enters the house because it is typical for a young woman to be listening to nowadays. It also reflects music which is around in contemporary times, highlighting the modern style of our film. We also as a group thought it sounded the most appropriate to be playing on a radio in a modern context.

We have used police siren sound effects at the beginning of our piece when Ben is burgling the house. This conveys to the audience that Ben is in danger and is a criminal.

The soundtrack we have used is also uncopyrighted and so is available for us for us to use for our opening sequence.

Chosen music

Here is our songs as of which we have decided to use for our piece....

1.   https://soundcloud.com/briannabarwell/sound-effects-police-siren

The above link is the sound of the police sirens we have decided to use in our opening as Ben runs down the street towards the house. It shall fade out however when he enters the house.

 2.    https://soundcloud.com/briannabarwell/okzide-miles-away

The above link is the sound of the music we use as the song Georgia is listening to on the radio. It shall come on quietly in the background as he enters the house and get louder the closer he gets to her in the kitchen.

3.   https://soundcloud.com/briannabarwell/chase

The above link is the final chosen music for the beginning of our opening. It will fade in at the beginning of the opening and play as he runs. However, it will begin to fade out when he enters the house or begins to enter.

Music Ideas for the running

https://soundcloud.com/briannabarwell/chase
-This one was suitable because it creates an air of mystery without making atmosphere too scary or horror like because we do not want to portray our film as a horror movie when this is just a minor aspect to the film. It creates suspense, tension and excited the audience to see where he is going.



-This music we only considered but however it is far to scary sounding and dramatic for the piece we want it to go alongside. It creates too much of a scary atmosphere when the film is nothing to do with horror at all.

Music Ideas for the radio sounds

- This one we found on youtube. It is a sound effect of a radio tuning which we originally thought we may like. However we questioned why she would be tuning in and out of radio stations, this could also confuse the audience to say that what the radio station is saying is important when it really isn't.



  https://soundcloud.com/briannabarwell/okzide-miles-away  -This one is much more of a sound of a song that would be found playing on a modern radio. Which would fit in with Georgia just doing the washing up and listening to music at the same time.


*We then searched all sites with unnamed artists musics but none where to our liking or what we wanted therefore we chose between these two ideas for which one we would use in the actual film.

Music Ideas for sound effects

Police Siren Ideas

https://soundcloud.com/briannabarwell/sound-effects-police-siren

-This one is very much what we were looking for and sounds believable, realistic and the sound is that of a modern siren.

-This one is good in terms of sound but however the siren sounds to much like one from an american police car and so wouldn't fit the location for our film.

-This one is very much a basic police siren but has some pauses within it. It sounds modern but is a little fuzzy at times.

Sound Effects

As well as music we also require several sound effects. We want to have a police siren that plays as Ben is running away so it is obvious to the audience that he has done wrong and that he is danger himself of being caught.
We want the sound of Georgia washing up so it is again clear that someone is in the house and so the boy can react to this. Therefore we also want the availability to hear a bang of a door when Ben is downstairs in the basement so this makes him jump and hurries the film opening up to find her.

What music we are wanting

Music for our film

Music 

Music acts as a very important part within the making of a film. It can set the scene because it is able to portray a particular feeling or mood to the audience. It also makes the film more interesting if it is just action happening on screen and no speech or talking.

Therefore we request to use music and edit it to our film. It is important we pick the right music and that it fits the film because otherwise it could portray a completely different mood than intended or generally make the film look bad from the beginning.

Production

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Storyboard

Here we have created a storyboard for our opening sequence in which we will follow within the making of our film. It is a simple creation of what will happen, when and what characters may say or do.

Costumnes and Props

Costumnes-

Ben
all black
balaglavar
no props


Setting
during the late afternoon


Georgia
Casual wear around the house
jeans?
casual top?
kitchen- pots and pans to wash up etc.

Evaluation of Location

Decided location

We have decided upon the location 2 within the mind map. This is because we feel this is most likely to be where Georgia herself would live. Although the house is on a main road the actual house itself would be easier to block up and hind away within.

We all went to the house to look at in person. We also allocated a possible spot that would be a good way for how Ben would be able to burgle the house. This is because the house has a basement to it and so like most criminals he can sneak he's way in through a small slitted window. The house itself is very modern looking so fits with the genre and general 'look' of the film.  However, the colours within the house are quite bright within the basement however we could argue this is because Georgia has a happy innocent life and Ben is about to ruin it. This could also would emphasis the shock of the chemistry that emerges between them later on, because they are two completely different people within society.

When we are filming we would like the car to stay within the drive, this therefore shows someone is in. The main rooms will sill use are the whole of the basement that Ben will search for the person. Then the main hallway of upstairs where again Ben looks around, and then the kitchen also is filmed for quite a long time to show someone is in the building.

Thoughts on each location idea

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Location Ideas

Location

As our film is mainly set within one house all we needed to cast was the area as of which Ben Samuel will break into and end up capturing the young lady within. Therefore we want this house to be somewhere that isn't that busy but not to quite at the same time, this house will also need to look quite wealthy and have an easy place to break into. From the outside of the house it should look like there is someone in because he has just broke into a house, and is breaking into this out of panic to then take the people inside as capture.

Evaluation of casting

Chosen actress of Georgia

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Georgia Actress candidate 3

Name: Christina Goedecke

Age: 17

Contact Details: CG@hotmail.co.uk

This artist also like the previous has an experience in the performing arts and acting background, this could therefore help within the production of our film and her as a part of it. She is average in height and so would be able to play the part of Georgia very well because her voice is also adult sounding and her facial features do not look young. However, she is not sure she will be available on the dates of our filming and would like us to confirm with her the dates and she will get back to us if we are wanting to cast her as the part or not. 

Georgia Actress candidate 2

Name: Marcia Wiggins

Age: 17

Contact Details: MarciaWiggins@gmail.com

This girl is part of our production team and fits the requirements very well. She is tall enough to pass as an older girl so her playing age is older than her real age, her hair is dark preferred and it is mid length.Her vocal soundings aren't young like because they are average in pitch and she speaks with diction. She also has experience of drama as she is involved with the school's performing arts academy and under takes drama as an AS option.

Georgia actress candidate 1

Name: Francesca Mallet

Age: 17

Contact Details: Franmallet@hotmail.com

This candidate is going for the part of Georgia in our film 'Stockholm Syndrome'. She fits several amounts of our requirements with dark hair, not too long or short. Her hair is very dark and her face complexion fits the part. However, in terms of her playing age she is let down for this particular part. This is because she is very short in height making her look younger than she is and also her face also is quite young looking. This would affect how she played Georgia because she is suppose to be an older girl so must look like one. Her voice also is young sounding as it is higher in pitch but however she speaks with diction and is very understandable.

Chosen Actor of Ben Samuels

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Fourth Consideration

Name: Lewis Broughton

Age: 17

Contact Details: lewisbroughton@hotmail.com

This particular artist meets our requirements very well. Although he is particulary short in height and so his playing age would look younger than what we want. However he has the light skin and fair hair we wanted for him to have, and the hair length isn't to short because it is very long and wild on top, this way we could make his hair look messy in hair and makeup design. He looks quite innocent and not very scary for a criminal however this could work, making the woman fall for him and act as a shock because you wouldn't expect a criminal to look like that. His voice is quite deep suiting our part for what we wanted.

Third Consideration

Name: Jack Howie

Aged: 21

Contact Details: JHowie1992@gmail.com

This boy meets our expectations more, consequently because of his age he looks older and could play the part of Ben Samuels precisely. He has the facial feature wanted for Ben Samuels as he already has facial hair which could make the part of Ben Samuels, would as a criminal not have time to shave or do anything to his appearance. This particular artist is similar in the height size Patrick, as is quite small so would depend on our casting for Georgia on whether or not we were to pick or cast him. His voice is deep and clear, which could be applied very well to the part of Ben Samuels. This artist is a possibility for us to cast as Samuels, however there is not much we could do to him as a film company to transform him enough to look different for the film. However, we could use wigs to change hair colours etc.

Second Consideration

Name: Patrick Herbert 

Age: 18 

Contact Details: PatrickH@gmail.co.uk

This next boy is also a consideration to play the part of Ben Samuels within our film. He's hair and physique is very much what we are looking for because we has longish hair that hides a bit of his face. The would allow for the transformation of Ben to look very different, this only problem is that his hair is very dark and preferably we would like to cast someone with lighter colored hair, although we have not yet come across any one. This is because it is more of a vast different to dye his hair darker to look different than it would be too lighten this particular artists hair. However, this artist is quite short, shorter than what we wanted to cast. This could therefore make him look younger and less believable to play an order man, we also have to take into consideration height within the casting of Georgia because preferably we would like Ben taller. 

First Consideration

Name: Joe Egan

Aged: 17

Contact Details: jegan@hotmail.co.uk

This particular boy meets some of our requirements for the part of Ben Samuels but unfortunately not all of them. Preferably his hair is a little to dark and neat. Whereas, we had in mind for Ben Samuels as a criminal to have slightly more manic and messy hair, and a little bit lighter. So it will be easy for him to be transformed into a neater looking, darker haired chap. However, Joe could play the 22 year old because he has features that make him look older than he could be, allowing him to be able to play the part of Ben Samuels with confidence. His style and look overall is too neat to play Ben Samuels who is suppose to be one of the most wanted criminals, he also wears braces which could effect the age in which Ben would look within the film. However, his voice is clear and concise, but speaks with a formal tone which may not necessarily show Ben as a troubled criminal because he is suppose to be from a trouble background, and so may not talk with such clarity and pronunciation on words. 

What we are looking for in an Actress

Actor to play Georgia 

What we are looking for in an Actor

Actor to play Ben Samuels is needed

Who we need

WHO DO WE NEED TO BE IN OUR FILMING? 

To film our films opening sequence we only require to cast the main man (Ben Samuels) and woman (Georgia). We therefore asked for any budding actors within the performing arts academy within our school, which helpfully me and marcia are both also involved within. We gained 4 actors that where keen to do so and also one of our production team Fintan also agreed to auditioning for the part also, and so we carried out our opinions on them and took our time choosing.

Casting

The next few blog posts are to do with the casting of our film in the production process. The casting process is always very stressful for both the company and the actors as it is very important you get the 'right' people to play the suitable part, if they do not look the part the film will not have the effect intended.
When choosing it is essential for us to get their contact details to arrange the time and meeting places for filming days, we cannot hire any one that does not turn up to rehearsals or filming, this could possibly ruin the films quality because time for editing will be cut.
When casting it may be possible for us to take into consideration the following:

• Looks
• Age
• Style
• Gender
• Hair Colour
• Wage
• Weight 
• Ability 
• Versatility
• Voice
• Reliability

Final Audience evaluation

Our Target Audience Specifically 

TEENAGE FEMALES UNDER THE AGE OF 18. 

GENERALISED: FEMALES 

We have evaluated and resigned our film to be targeted at Females Under the age of 18. However, we are initially guessing that people would come to see our film when in reality the film industry within the box office is very tough and does not necessarily guarantee an audience.
There are many 'niche' factors in which audiences say tie them into coming to watch a film or not. For example, the location may effect if a person wants to watch the film or not. If the film is set in London any people who love London will want to watch and the same way as if the film was filmed in America. The actors are also said to make people watch a film, even if it does not look particularly interesting many women would say they would go to watch a Channing Tatum film just for the entertainment of looking at him for 2 or more hours. Therefore the casting and location settings for our film will also play a huge part within the target audience for our film.

Limitations on production

UK film audiences

Both of the above images show the graphs and estimations of the most likely way of showing films within the UK, this can be founded on the BFI film index website. This shows and suggests that a film created will in some way be guarteened an audience if distributed and shown within the UK. However, again the top circle shows that within the UK the biggest audience is not within the cinema screenings but through television showings

Audience

Audiences

This shows the top rated films that where UK and managed to target worldwide audiences, notably none of these films are Romantic Dramas or in fact Romantic within their main story-lines. This could therefore limit the production of our own film to not be that successful if we were to screen and produce to worldwide audiences. Therefore, we may be better of to target a British audience only and generate the film to be produced to DVD releases within other countries.

Audiences Researching

Gender of audiences

This survey shows the most highly rated films by male and females within the UK and Republic of Ireland. The Romantic  films I have identified in order to relate back to our own target audiences, the film 'One Day' was rated second by 81% of females showing that romantic dramas may be more for the females than the males, this is again supported by the romantic drama film Twilight which also was more highly rated within the female category.

Audience Research

This Survey I found on the BFI website in one of their Statistical Yearbooks of 2012. It shows the average amount in percentage of the most likely people that will go to the cinema. I am looking at the more recent years of 2010+ because that will be the audience generations of which my film will be distributed to. Therefore it is shown that the most likely people to attend the cinema are those of the young ages of 15-24 and those least likely to go to the cinema are of the middle ages (in 2011). It is important to notice that within every year the most likely people to go to the cinema is the younger generations. Therefore, it is important for the target audience of your film to be of those younger ages if your production company is wanting to screen films within cinemas and be guaranteed an audience.

Romantic Drama Audience research

Establishing our target audience

Our Target Audience

Next we as a group had to establish our own target audience for the film we are producing. This was easier for us after having done our research especially with looking at The Vow because that also is a romantic drama. Although we could just say our piece attracts both viewers of dramas and romance films, this isn't specific enough for us, as a production company to work from and target towards. Therefore I have decided to do a little more research into the target audience of romantic dramas in order to get a specific, realistic target audience for our film. This will then help in the creating of our films opening etc. I have done this by looking at a few more surveys on the IMDB website for romantic drama stated movies.

Computerized Logo

I have created the logo for our production company on the computer to be edited into the beginning of our film and look professional.

What I have learnt

The Holiday's- TARGET AUDIENCE

The Vow's- TARGET AUDIENCE

Target Audiences for films

For research on the creation of my own target audience I have revalued the films that I looked at for the influences of my opening sequences. These films included the confessions of a shopaholic, the holiday and the vow; so for these I will create blog posts on each of the films target audience. I will evaluate who they attract, looking at why and how they do this.

Film Audience Research

Film Audience Research 

A Film audience is simply the type of people who are going to watch the film and these is visible for every film. However, although the view is mostly watched by the targeted audience most definitely you also get people outside of the target audience range who also view the film.

A films visual interpretation attracts its targets audience because of the way the producers have made the film 'look'. Colours and in particularly the name of the film will be targeted at different types of audiences. For example, Romantic Films are aimed at women in particular and especially young teenage girls with the idea of bright, happy colours; however in comparison an action film is targeted specifically at men because of the stereotypical fighting and deaths that occur within them.

Categorizing a film bases the film on the stereotypical factors of that certain type of people, however the film industry will include factors that attract different audiences in to widen their audience amount.

For example, The film 'LOLs' advertisement shows Miley Cyrus centralised immediately saying she is a main role within the film. This film therefore is already targeting Hannah Montana viewers as well as Disney viewers in general, this therefore will be targeting young girls in particular. We can also tell its target audience is girls due to the use of the colour pink, stereotypically linking a colour to a specific gender.  

Another Example of a target audience shown in the way the film looks is Flight Plan a drama film.  The look and colours are very sophisticated  making it obvious this film is not for young children. The use of dark colours makes the film modern, but however this film does not drawn in a particular gender audience.  

Chosen Log-Line

Chosen Log-line

As a group for our log-line we have decided to go with idea 4. Although this piece was the longest sentence we found it the most effective.
We also questioned our peers for their thought and emotions on each idea and to vote for their favourite log line. In all we only asked around 15 but mostly the thoughts were that 1 and 3 weren't exciting enough however the favourites were idea 2 and 4.
More than half agreed on idea 4 being their favourite and as a group we voted this as our favourite as well. This is therefore the last blog of my film's treatment with the decided log-line printed below.

"Stockholm Syndrome is a character-driven romantic drama about a most wanted criminal who captures a young innocent girl, as well as capturing her life he captures her heart. As they begin a dramatic romance together."

Evaluation of each Idea

My personal evaluation of the Log-line ideas we came up with

Idea 1 
The first idea we created is short and concise. However I feel as if it doesn't involve or tell much of the story-line as a whole and sounds more like a 25 word pitch rather than a log-line. Although it does create excitement as it create 2 different kinds of characters which a unlikely to fall in love making the audience want to find out why they do infact fall in love if they are so different. However this idea was not my favorite and it is most probably because it was our first idea also. 

Idea 2 
The second idea we came up with was a step forward in terms of its excitement and power compared to our first idea. It introduces the films title within it so people can associate with it. The story is more or less told concisely and specifically. The reinforcement of falling in love for me creates a sense of excitement and character journeys. 

Idea 3 
The third idea we came up with was another quiet short and concise idea. It introduces the characters in more depth however doesn't do this in a wordy or boring way. The characters are pictured as different and interesting. The ending of the piece I find effective however a little too cliche. However it leaves the audience to want to find out who this person is in which he falls in love with and why she is so 'unexpected'. 

Idea 4 
Finally we have idea 4. This too me is very powerful as it targets the target audience of a romantic drama by the straight away point of what genre the film is of. The sentence also directs the film's title again letting the audience have an insight into the films story-line. The log-line in my opinion also tells the story concisely and creates an enjoyable feel to the film with the introduction to a "dramatic romance". 

Log-line ideas

After discussion we came up with 4 possibilities for the Log-line that will sell our film. The creation of these were reinforced by the research I had done earlier so I was able to create good powerful ideas to later choose one from.

Analysis of a film Log-line

In the creation and thought process of our own log-line I thought that looking at an example of another films would be very useful, picking out what they do and why it is effective. This will therefore help us when we put together our own because we have the knowledge now of what makes it good and bad as well as what works well.

An Effective Log-line

The following video discuss' what i think differs a good log-line from a bad

Logline

Final Logo Design Evaluation

Final Logo Design

As part of the decision on what logo we thought was the most effective we asked around 20 people on their opinions asking them to tell us which one they think would work best for acting as our company logo. 80 percent of the people agreed on design 1, whereas the other 20% went on design four.

As a group however, we have decided upon allocating the first design as our company logo, we all agreed on it being the most appropriate for the companies advertisement. We also all stated it as our favorite amongst the others and this was backed up with the percentage of people that also preferred this when we asked them. The logo is probably the most likely to be memorable and stands out from all the other designs for its difference in shape and style. From this logo especially it is identifiable as a film industry logo because of the use of a clapper board, for which audiences will associate with film and media.

Analysis of each design

Analysing each one of my designs

Following on from my last blog post and the designs for our production company i have analysed the pros and cons for each design. The reference to each design in the recording reference my last blog post with each design numbered.

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Production Logo

Our own production company

As a group we have decided that we shall create our own production company to produce our film. We have decided upon calling the company 'FMB Productions' as a collaboration of the starting initials of each of our team members involved in the making of this film. This therefore gives the company a personal attachment to us and sounds professional as well as unique.

We have designed a range of different logos for our company so we can co-operate this into our title sequence, because from observing film openings the big production company involved is created at the beginning alongside a showing of their main logo.

Film company's logo moodboard

Film logo mood-board 

After looking at some mainstream brand and company logos I then decided to look into more depth at some Film industry logos. At first I was not going to because I had the fear of making logos too similar to them, but when I researched they were nothing close or like my ideas. The film companies although do tend to include their names the actual design reflects the company's name if they reflect a particular image such as 'DreamWorks'. Therefore this reinforced my thoughts for our group to create unique logos unlike the ones on the market for film industries already to portray a more excitable, fresh tone to our company. 

Logo Moodboard

Logo Mood-board 

To secure my knowledge on what makes a good and bad logo I created a mood board of logos from all sorts of company's and institutions.

By looking at these I noticed an obvious trend for logos to have a circle shape to them as a number of the ones I could see on Google where based in circles. Therefore, in my opinion I think our company logo needs to not be a circle to be unique and original enough to then stand out from the crowd within the market and be remember-able by the public. My of the logos have either the name of their company on it or some kind of symbol that relates to their company name, this is something my group will also have to take into consideration for when designing our own company logo.

Creating a Production Logo

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Existing Independent Studio

What is an Independent Studio?

An Independent studio is a studio that is privately owned, they are often small companies.

Working Title

Working Title is an independent film studio based in London. It has produced films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Billy Elliot and Love Actually. It has been running since 1983.

Blockbuster Style Opening

Production Context 

Within the making of my film i need to consider what production company I would like to use to make my film. I decide between whether I am wanting it to be a Independent Film Company, a Blockbuster Company or the creation of our own production company.

A Blockbuster Style Opening Introduction:

Final Word Pitch Decision

Final 25 Word Pitch

Evaluation of Why we have chosen to go with this 25 Word Pitch:These 25 words some up the film roughly without giving the story-line away too much and this is why we felt it sold the film title the most. The reference to Georgia as 'young' creates empathy for her and targets our young woman audience range. Both characters are addressed in the pitch so introduces them in separate ways with Ben being known as a 'criminal' hinting at the dramatic side of the film. Both names are both modern so show to the audience that the film is to be set in modern day times. The 'emotional' link that it says they both go through suggests the romantic side to the film and therefore attracts our target audience of teenagers/girls etc. The word 'surprisingly' also I think impacts greatly upon the audience because it suggests there is many dramatic and unexpected events that happen within the film making it sound much more exciting and adventurous to watch, this therefore widens our audience range to adventurous viewers.

Evaluation of initial 25 Word Pitch's

Evaluation on Initial 25 Word Pitch Ideas 

• "Everyone wants Ben Samuels locked away but he's ruining a young woman's life. However, this captive symbolises his weakness as they undergo an emotional journey." - Analysis of Idea 1: This first 25 Word Pitch idea isn't all that short and snappy because of some of the longer words such as 'symbolizes'. However, the introduction to woman as young creates sympathy straight away for her as the audience would begin to perceive her as very innocent because of the idea of youth. This also directly appeals to girls as a target audience. The story is summed up by the reference to the woman being a captive so they are enabled to understand he ruins her life by capturing her. The ending of the pitch 'they undergo an emotional journey together' is appealing to our target audience because it follows the idea of an emotional romantic drama. The main character is introduced and the pitch tells a basic story-line for the film.
• "Stockholm Syndrome could be diagnosed when a past criminal keeps an innocent girl captive. Together they undergo an emotional journey together." - Analysis of idea 2: The films name is used within this pitch to introduce the film to it's audience and portray a basic outline for the story. Again the description of the girl as 'innocent' creates empathy for her and the way she is not addressed to with a character name leaves her as a mystery. The reference to her as a girl is attracting our younger teenage girl audience members also. 
• "Ben escapes the media to hide away and capture a young woman, together they had no idea they'd begin a roller-coaster of an emotional journey together" - Analysis of idea 3: The main character is addressed at the very start of the pitch. The reference to the media could relate to the dramatic side of the film therefore targeting that specific side of the target audience. The pitch gives a basic outline of the film without revealing too much of the story itself.
• "When Georgia's life gets bombarded by a wanted criminal, she had no idea that her life would be changed for good" -Analysis of idea 4: This fourth pitch idea is one of my favorites because it is short, snappy and straight to the point and in my opinion sells the story. It attracts viewers because it tells them straight away that her life is changed leaving the audience to want to know why. The reference to 'her life' suggests almost a dramatic genre to the film as well as the reference to a 'criminal'.
• "Young Georgia's life gets bombarded by criminal B.Samuels, she herself had no idea of the emotional trouble this would cause her, and surprisingly neither did he" -Analysis of Idea 5: This particular idea of a word pitch introduces both main characters suggesting a romantic side to the film already, attracting romantically interested audience members. The reference to Georgia as young creates empathy for her and attracts our younger teenage girl target audience. The word 'surprisingly' also hints that the film has lots of twist and climaxes within it, which I think creates a greater impact on the pitch rather than 'they undergo an emotional journey together' because it creates a dramatic feel to the piece; hinting that nothing will go smoothly for either characters. 

25 Word pitch

Initial Ideas and Thoughts on a 25 Word Pitch 

Introduction to Characters

Introduction to characters

I have put together a range of comic panels which introduce the 5 main characters within our film. Each panel has a picture of a cartoon character which could present the type of person we would like to cast as each character. Beside each character is a short speech bubble where they introduce themselves with who they are and what they play within the film.

Further Treatment

1. Working Title

"STOCKHOLM SYNDROME"

Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy, sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors. It is sometimes seen as a form of traumatic bonding, where strong emotional ties and develop between two people; where one person harasses, beats, threates, absuses or intimidates the other. When a victim believes the same values as the aggressor, they no longer become a threat. Therefore, as a group we have decided upon calling our film 'Stockholm Syndrome' to reflect the overall story line of the film.

2.    Writers Names & Contact Information

Marcia Wiggins 

MarciaWiggins1996@gmail.com

Brianna Barwell

BriannaBarwell@gmail.com

Fintan McHugh

40957@rws.uk.net

Feed Back

1. To keep up the balance between the creativity and evaluation of my posts.

Blog Grade D

Influences

Influences into the structuring of my opening sequence

The Three Act Structure

Evaluation

Why did we choose a romantic drama?

As a group we decided upon creating a romantic drama due to the audience types it will draw in, by mixing a romance storyline with a dramatic middle. This will widen the audience because people who enjoy both genres will take interest in the film. After doing some mood boards and research we also understood of the colours and storylines to use which would be could to recreate.

Out of your three ideas which idea have you decided upon developing further into the opening sequence?

Idea three is the idea in which we are going to proceed with. This is because the other two pieces we felt weren't original enough and on the market already there is a lot that follow similar story lines. Again we found that the car crash was over taking the main story line and there was no real reason to create a dramatic conflict within the middle of the films, each of the first 2 ideas also sounded very unrealistic and because we wanted the car crash to occur within our opening sequence we agreed that this would be very hard and could go ethier way with how effective the piece could be. 

Therefore, we have decided upon creating and developing idea 3 where the man keeps the woman hostage. This is because our other ideas where getting too technical and confusing, and where as this final idea can be made to a good standard with the equipment avaliable to us to use to do so. 

Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas 

As a group we have decided upon creating a romantic drama. After creating several mood boards and researching the meaning behind a romantic drama film we were able to create some overall film ideas for our project.
Overall we came up with three full film ideas that made sense and would attract a varied audience. In the presentation below is our ideas, fulling explained with a beginning, middle and an end.

Definition of a Romantic Drama

What is a 'Romantic Drama'? 

"Romance" 

A Romance film is defined as a genre within film where the story revolves around the love between two protagonists. It may then explores issues within the couples love, these plots can vary greatly. They often evoke strong emotional meaning to the audience ending in either happiness  or tragedy. 

"Romantic Drama" 

A Romantic Drama is a sub-genre within film which explores the complex side of love. The story most always revolves around a particular obstacle which is preventing the two protagonists from fulfilling their love for each other. These obstacles vary and can often involve emotional pain such as death or illnesses. Many romantic drama also end with the two lovers separating because they cannot overcome the obstacle. 

What is an opening sequence?

What is a film opening?

An opening sequence is the beginning of the film which give credits to all those companies and people involved in the production, distribution or exhibition of the film. The opening sequences are kept short but give an insight into the film. 

Some sequences start the film where a character is followed, or some however take the chance just to introduce the genre of the film by using music or a picture, using the sequence to credit others.

The opening sequence will also introduce all those actors involved in the film, some also introduce the actors with a picture of them on screen.

Genre Codes

Products within the media industry are categorized due to similarities within the narrative as well as its story-line. Different genres are attractive to different audience, therefore once a film in a particular genre does well, more films are produced to please that audience type. That audience will then be developed enough in that genre to feel connected and involved in the film.

Genre types involve:

1. Thriller

2. Romantic

3. Comedy

4. Action

Sub-Genre is a category within the film industry where a film crosses over with 2 types of genre, for example a Romantic-Comedy or Action Thriller. This pulls in a wide audience range as well as making the film arguably more interesting.

Conventional

A film opening in which is in conventional order would normally open with a production companies indent followed by the distribution companies. After these would follow either the film title or an introduction to the actors involved. If an actor is not well known these titles would appear first. After the actors more people will be credited such as the costume designers, editors, music supervisors, casting agents, producers, directors and production designers etc. However all films will have different conventional orders depending on the importance or status of that particular company/person within the film industry. 

Moodboards

Mood Board

Firstly, I have created a mood board which consists of words and images in which relate to film/TV dramas. I gathered a range of ideas in which relate to film/TV dramas. I gathered a range of ideas which in my opinion stand for or relate to a film drama. I particularly noticed that the colours used are dull and dark to represent fear and danger. The words collaged represent either particular events that occur in a drama ('scream'0 or a particular type/reaction of a film drama. I have gained particular interest in a romantic drama, which ends 2 people in danger or leads one to help another in danger. Therefore, I have decided upon creating more boards that develop my ideas and knowledge in the film romantic drama genre. 

Secondly, I have put together a series of images of films that specifically come under the film genre of a Romantic drama. The idea of tragedy and dangers as a result of 'love'. Particular images symbolize and relate specifically to romance or the idea of love between young people. The colours used are of bright more happy colours, however subtle hints of foreshadowing danger are visible with the use of the colours red and black. 

Thirdly, I have put together pictures of images related to Romance in particular to help me understand one side of the genre of 'Romance'. Th colours are all bright and happy and the words relate to many of the misfortunes that undertake as a result of 'love'.I have researched also some locations in which are seen as romantic in particular.