ALL ALONE OFFICIAL MOVIE INTRODUCTION

In what ways does your media product use develop or challange the forms and coventions of real media products

WRITTEN BY NADINE IBRAHIM

PERFORMED BY LIAH EL FADEL (COUSIN)

due to some problems i couldn't record my voice speaking,so i got my cousin to help out.

who would be the audience for your media product?

    

THIS WAS THE FEEDBACK WE GOT FROM OUR MAIN AUDIENCE WHEN WE SHOWED THE OUR MEDIA INTRO IDEA.

AFTER MAKING THE MOVIE INTRO. WE SHOWED IT TO A FEW PEOPLE(OUR MATES AGED 16-18)AND WE GOT POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM THEM,ALOT OF THEM SAID THEY LIKED HOW IN THE MOVIE THE MAIN CHARACTERS WERE WATCHING A FILM WHICH WAS SIMILAR TO WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THEM,THEY ALSO THOUGHT THE BACKGROUND MUSIC SUITED THE GENRE.

how did you attract your audience?

how does your media product represent particular social groups?

learning about technologies

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

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

During my progression to my final product i have learnt a few things such as :

• using convergence with different media,linking movies to music, games to movies and others 
• distribution and how it has a big role in movie production also with global institutions such as sony time warner and other
• ways of marketing a product eg using adverts to promote your product using interviews with actors producers and directors,using posters,trailers,promoting it in festivals and also making screening before the movie is distributed.
• time management in making of the movie for example with my production i had 2 months to make and finalise the editing 
• brainstorming and generating new ideas in this category i learned how to think of new ideas for my movie such as different genres.
• making an animation clip,building up to a final product as well as visualising the real product before it was created.
• ideas about genre and about horror intro generally research into the genre also the importance of sound creation of ominous atmosphere ,creation of suspense in everyday settings 
• creating ideas of using a film within a film (my previous product made before this one)
• directing actors and getting the right mise-sen-scene.

          

Questionnaire (audience research) after screening

After i edited the movie intro i had a small screening for a few people and after that i got them to fill in a questionnaire and i got different opinions about what they thought and that led to changing a few things such as making some scenes brighter,changing the corridor scene,making sound clearer, changing the duration of the background music.

Questions:

1. Do you like the acting? 40%-yes
2. Do you think the mesesscene fits the genre? 85%-yes
3. Do you like the story line? 95%-yes
4. Do you think the 'mysterious person in the corridor' is a good idea? 80%-yes                               Do you think we need to change that cut a bit? 60%-yes
5. Do you find the piano instrumental scary in a way that it fits the genre? 95%-yes
6. Do you think the sound and lighting is good? 75%- yes
7. Do you think the camera work is good? 70%-yes

all alone movie intro

school trip to picture house

We went on a school trip to the picture house,where we watched the movie 'The Kings Speech' then got a breif talk about Promotion, Marketing, and publicising films from a man called Collin Burrows who works with the special treats productions. they have been around for 20 years now,they make press junkets which is when interviewers all come on the same day to certain place to interview a star (or sometimes stars) of a film. It's basically a day of back to back interviews.,electronic press kits (EPK) which usually takes the form of a website or e-mail, though they are also known to exist in CD and DVD form that promate a movie and corporate video's which refers to audio-visual corprate communications material (such as DVD,Blu-rey or other media ) commissioned primarily for a use by a company, cooperation or organisation . special treats production have worked with movies such as cementy junction,casino royale,never let me go,and many others.their clients include 20th century fox,warner bros.,disney,sony and paramount. http://www.specialtreats.co.uk/


collin talked about some movies such as cemety junction which was damaged because of bad convergance due to the serious movie being linked to rickey jervas that is strongly known for his funny character.

if i was to promote my movie i would definatiley use trailers aswell as interviews because i think they are great ways of introducing new stuff to the public audience. trailers would consist of teasers and the originals and as for the interviews i think it would be a great idea to interview the cast of the movie and the direcors. making speacial screening aswell would be a great way of promating movies as it allows u to get an idea of what the audience think before the movie is actually distributed to a large range of audiences.another way to promote the movie would be to make posters with the main actors on them so it would draw major fans to the movie.

This is Special Treats Production`s homepage:

If I was going to puplicise our film, I would arrange a interview with the acters and invite the media that would ask questions about the film. The famous acters that we have chosen to be in our film will attract people to come and see it. I would try and get the message out to the audience that the film is a horror movie but its not so scary so its suitable for children from 15 and older. This would give us a larger audience.

Production dairy

Production begins :

Sunday 30th of january 2011

Sunday: set up scenes and shoot first 30seconds of the movie

Monday: film complete first minuite and a half of movie intro.

tuesday : go through what we've filmed so far and edit major mistakes

wednesday : finish filming complete movie intro.

thursday : edit and re-film major mistakes

Friday : complete final editing.

Monday : put filal production on blog

127 hours

127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers, family, and the two hikers he met before his accident. Will they be the last two people he ever had the chance to meet?Written by Fox Searchlight Pictures 

this movie was directed by the famous danny boyle,who also directed the award winning movie slum dog millionaire .
budget:$18,000,000 (estimated)
box office figures :
opening weekend : £2,168,570 (UK) (9 January 2011) (310 Screens)
£4,367,411 (UK) (16 January 2011)

audience research

For the audience research we decided to make a film interview  based on asking a paticular age group (15-18 year olds) what they thought about the movie idea and also their views about the different aspects of the movie inro. after viewing the short animation clip i put together.

RISK ASSESSMENT

A risk assessment  is the potential that a chosen action or activity (including the choice of inaction) will lead to a loss (an undesirable outcome). The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcome exists (or existed). Potential losses themselves may also be called "risks". Almost any human endeavour carries some risk, but some are much more risky then others.(source:wikipedia)


steps to form a risk assessment :

• identify hazards 
• who might be harmed
• evaluate risks and consider precautions
• record 
• review

risk assessment to our project:

• hazards: tripping over cables,falling over on the staircase.
• the cast.
• walk carefully up and down the stairs , look out for cables.watching out for any possible falls and try to prevent them from happening.