Evaluation

My media product reflects the same way that most introductions work, introducing a basic story line so people know whats going on i did this by showing a normal person discovering his dead brother and revealing it to be himself who seemed to kill him, and also posing questions so that people want to stay and find out more like: how will he cope with his illness and how will he overcome it if he does. I think I accomplished this quite well.

My media product is about a teenage boy challenged with schizophrenia, therefore it represents the teenaged social group, it represents them in a posative light how they have to cope with troubles that are usually associated with elderly people or middleaged people.

I dont know if it would be distributed in cinemas because it is not a popular genre of film however I feel it may be featured on T.V in places like channel four aimed at teenagers. I also think it would be released on DVD by Film 4 but would not be released by any major company as it is indie and not a mainstream genre.

My media product would be aimed at teenagers and parents, I would hope for it to reach a wider audience but I think teenagers and parents could appreciate it more as they may be able to sympathize with the main character.

I attracted my audience by trying to make them curious while not giving away too much, for example posing questions to them like: How is he going to deal with his split personality; how would he stop his other personality commiting murder and how it all happened. I addressed this as a bit of a thriller at the beggining and then trying to add some mystery.

I found that to make this appeal to the audience i had to get straight into it which i did by putting in a chase sequence from the very beggining. I also learnt that to make a good introduction i had to get the audience to watch the rest and the best way to do this is do pose questions which i explained above. I also learnt that to make it flow i had to use good transitions in order not to break the tension.

I think since my preliminary i learnt that i had to explain the story better for an introduction, because if the audience did not understand they would be less likely to enjoy the film as they would not know what was going on, i did this by starting at the beggining and adding more dialog.

This is  my preliminary work, i had very little knowledge of how to use editing software and what shots, angles, effects and mise en scene. I also did not know much about continuity and match on action either but while editing and in the  evaluation stages i learnt alot from this piece.

Final piece

This is my final piece of coursework, im very happy with it.

Production logo's

This logo will be used to label products produced by my company.



This logo will be used at the begginning of films and programmes my company produces.

 I chose to have two logos in order to make it better for certain use, due to having thin blue lines on a dark background it would be hard to see if it were small or far away therefore i also have black on a white background, where as the black on white is very boring  if it is to be annimated in the future or even if its just stood alone therefore i also have a colour version which will be more aesthetically pleasing at the beggining of films and programmes etc.

Age Certificate Research

BBFC is the British Board of Film Classification, this organisation classify each film so they are suitable for certain ages

A 'U' certificate film is suitable for all audiences, it may contain mild horror, or violence but this will be strongly disaproved of.

A 'PG' which stands for parental guidance; is suitable for most children at the age of 8 or over. The parent is encouraged to consider whether it is suitable for their child especially if they are more sensative for example. Most genres are acceptable but only mild, for example only natural nudity and no sexual content.

A '12/12A' is reccomended as not suitable for children under 12 years old, however if accompanied by a parent or guardian the child may watch the film, the responsibility of effects on the child lies with the parent or guardian. In 12/12A's most genres are acceptible but must not be glamourised.

Nobody under the age of 15 may view a 15 rated film and are not aloud to buy or rent a 15 film. All Genres are acceptable but easily accesed weapons are not to be glamourised and easily accesed solvents and aerosols are unlikely to be acceptable.

Nobody under the age of 18 may view a 18 rated film and are not aloud to buy or rent a 18 film. In the 1998 human rights act it is stated that Adults may choose their own entertainment, however exeptions are made when the film contains material gathered illegaly and if the material is believed to harm the individuals pyschological characteristics or if sexual violence is involved.

'R18' films are only to be shown in specially liscensed establishments and cannot be purchased on the internet or by phone etc. These usually contain strong sexual content including fetish. These films may encourage an interest in sexually abusive activity.

Synopsis

I had a few ideas for film and film intros:
The first was a film about a police chiefs son being kidnapped and held for ransoms, the hero would of course be the police chief and the villain would be the kidnappers. The disequilibrium would be his son being stolen. I did not do this due to the fact i would need atleast 4 people to act in it and they would have to be a range of ages.

The second idea which I am going to carry on with is, a man wakes to find his wife dead in the bed next him, he tehn notices a figure run out the door, he imediatly gets up and chases him down the hall and corners him in the room at the end, when he turns the flee'ng man around he discovers it is himself. He slowly discovers he has a split personality with murderous intent. This would be simple to do because i would need 2-3 actors and the intro could all be done in one place.

Opening Credits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875R8kHxzrA

During our research into opening credits we looked at the film “Dawn of the Dead”. This introduction gives a theme of death due to the song by Johnny Cash ‘When the man comes around’ which is about the grim reaper knocking at peoples doors. It also shows the theme of death using blood to write out the titles. It also shows cuts of screeching zombies, army, people panicking, praying and all things related to a zombie apocalypse. This also introduces the genre of horror/thriller and the theme of zombies. They used general clips from the news and of people praying but put it next to the zombies and blood to change the context making it relevant, where as before a picture of thousands of people praying could be completely normal.