Evaluation

Evaluation:


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


1)My media opening sequence was inspired by the film: Frozen directed by: Adam Green. For my media opening sequence I had to create a thriller opening sequence. My thriller opening includes: A thriller suspense opening, in which the tension is built up through-out the opening sequence to find out if the survivor survives and the protagonist is a male;

These are the Codes and Convention of the low-lighting Thriller that I have produced which include:

• The main character being left behind when he gets into an accident next to his friend who was in front of him.
• He is isolated from everybody when he woke up because every have already left the skiing site.
• The protagonist then saves the main character from the accident on a snowmobile.
• The Opening Sequence has a cliff-hanger because you don't what will happen afterwards.                                                                                                                                                                For Example:                                                                                                                                  The survivor might be saved and everything will turn out ok for them both or the survivor and the rescuer might get into more trouble (for example: they run out of gas when they were going somewhere safe) or they might get into even more trouble if the survivor and the rescuer get attacked by Bandits and then the rescuer gets injured and the survivor will save him and show him the things he can do that the rescuer did not expected to do. (for example: using the flare gun as an offensive weapon against the bad people who are attacking them)

A film named: Frozen directed by: Adam Greene was my inspiration for my film opening because this film tells us a story about 3 people trying to survive on a gondola when they get stranded for 5 days because the ski resort is only open for 2 days on the weekends through-out the week and they decided to go for one last ride but the people changed shifts on the gondola control

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

2)The social groups that are represented in my film opening is that no one cares about other people, the main character gets into an accident while skiing and as you can see that he has a friend who was waiting for him down the mountain as he got into a accident. When he wakes up in a couple of hours later, he sees himself left all alone, no one is by his side and he is trying to find help from anyone around. He started to crawl to the nearest light and then he sees someone on the snowmobile driving towards him, he reaches out and the snowmobile stops next to him. The person on patrol exits his vehicle and helps the survivor to walk toward his snowmobile and both of them drive-off into the distance.


3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

3)An institution is a Company which is publicly or privately owned that produces and distributes media products.

Universal Studios was founded in 1912 and it is one of the oldest film studios in America. Universal Studios has released Thriller films such as: Jaws (1975); Scarface (1983); Furious 7 (2015) and Transformers (2007).

Summit Entertainment is a different media institution which was found in 1991. Summit Entertainment has released Thriller films such as: John Wick (2014); Man On A Ledge (2012) and The Darkest Hour (2011).

Warner Brothers is also a different media institution which was founded in 1923. Warner Brothers have released Thriller films such as: The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010)


Film4 Productions might distribute my film opening because it is a thriller film opening and it distributes films for free to the public in the UK. Film4 Productions have produced films such as: 127 Hours (2010), Kill List (2011) and The Double (2013).

The date that I have researched suggests that Film4 Productions would allows me to distribute my film and I would have a higher success chance of making my film more public because this is a high statues production company.


4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

4)The audience of my film would be those who like thriller films where the main character gets into an accident and tries to survive anyway that he can until help arrives. In my film opening it shows that the character gets into a accident and he survives and lives on which could mean that since he already had this type of experience, the next time when he gets into this type of situation with someone else or by himself he will be able to survive and find help much more easier.

The target age group for my film are those aged between 15-28.

This is because most people these ages are interested into this type of thriller genre on which my film is based on.


5) How did you attract/address your audience?

5)I attracted an audience of people who like thriller/horror movies, because that it what my film opening is about.

I addressed my audience in a way that you should never go alone somewhere where you have never been because you never know, you could get into an accident and you might be left there for an hour, a day or even longer, you should always go with at least 1 extra person to somewhere you have never been to reduce the chances of getting into trouble.


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

6)I learnt about making blogs and usage of this website called: Blogger on which I did my blogs on. I also learned how to use editing programmes such as 'Final Cut Pro' to their full potential, which I would have never had been able to do if I didn't take Media Studies as an A-level. I have learnt a lot about the techniques and power of camera angels, and also how important it is to look into choosing the correct setting in which to shoot a film opening. I also learnt about editing photos, as it is shown when I was editing my Titles for my film opening.


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

7)I've learnt different types of camera angels and different camera movements through-out the preliminary task,  I also learned how to zoom in/zoom out and how to move the camera to create different types of atmosphere feelings such as: when the camera is moving slowly, the camera movements could create a feeling of happiness or a feeling of fear, (for example) the camera is zoomed into the 2 characters walking away from the camera into the sunset and the screen later on could go full black meaning those 2 characters might still have a story to tell about their journey in the future.

In my film I play as a survivor who gets stranded in the mountains by himself

Camera

The type of Camera Shots that I use are:

Point of View as I get into the accident at the start of the opening sequence                        
A Close-Up shot which becomes a Medium Shot in a slow-pace as the camera zooms out, WHENiTRY to get up from the lying position and fall back again, the shot becomes an Over the Shoulder shot as I reach out towards the snowmobile coming towards me.
Then the shot becomes a two shot when the rescuer stands near me and helps me get up.
The camera moves at a steady pace when the rescuer helps me get on the snowmobile.
The shot then becomes a medium shot when I am on the snowmobile
The last shot includes the snowmobile going into the distance which causes it to be a Establishing Long-shot.


Continuous Editing-

• Continuity Editing - Helping the viewer understand the action happening by implying spatial relationships and ensuring smooth flow from shot to shot. Match on Action (when I try to get up and fall so I continue to crawl towards the light)
• Transitions - Most of my shots are straight cut from one shot into the other apart from the one at the begining when I fall and wake up a couple hours later which shows that this is a dissolve shot
• Shot Duration - My film opening is a Long Shot Duration because the Opening Sequence creates a slower pace which causes more intensity and intimadation through-out the film opening
• Pace and Rythem - My film Opening starts out fast when I fall, becomes slower when I crawl and then becomes modern-fast when I get carried to the snowmobile and when I drive off into the distance.
• Special Effects - My film opening does have a couple Special Effects such as when the scenes are mostly dark, causes low-light effect which allows the surrounding area not to be too exposed to the viewers too much causing more intensity in the scenes. 

Mise En Scene

• Set Design - The Settings of a scene and the props visible in the scene.
• Lighting - Intensity, Direction and Quality of Lighting
• Space -  Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting, set design, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the story world
• Compositions - The organization of objects, actors and space within the frame
• Costume - Costume simply refers to the clothes that characters wear. Using certain colors or designs, costumes in narrative cinema are used to signify characters or to make clear distinctions between characters.
• Makeup and Hair Styles - Establish time period, reveal character traits and signal changes in character.
• Acting - In the early years of cinema, stage acting and film acting were difficult to differentiate, as most film actors had previously been stage actors and therefore knew no other method of acting. Eventually, early melodramatic styles, clearly indebted to the 19th century theater, gave way in Western cinema to a relatively naturalistic style. This more naturalistic style of acting is largely influenced by Constantin Stanislavski’s theory of method acting, which involves the actor fully immersing themselves in their character.
• Filmstock - The choice of black & white or color, fine-grain or grainy.
• Aspect ratio - The relation of the width of the rectangular image to its height. Each aspect ratio yields a different way of looking at the world and is basic to the expressive meaning of the film.

Soundtrack

I have a soundtrack of a intense sound playing through out the film opening which gives the film opening more of an,intense.feeling of what is going on in the film opening, the tempo of the music changed through-out and it follows a complex path of what is being played.


(7 minuets should be the max time, it can go over the time if I have to say more but 7 min. should be the limit)

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 2.  (http://reelwitty.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/evaluation-7-looking-back-at-your.html)

Film Schedule/Full Plan

My Film Opening was filmed in Tbilisi, Georgia


My first scene was filmed in the morning at 11am, in that scene we see me as the actor falling on my side into the snow . (5th Jan 1pm)


Last couple scenes were filmed at 8-9pm where I wake up in the snow from having a concussion, we decided to ask the residents where we could film it without being caught and then we drove up one of the mountains and were trying to find a suitable location were the snowmobile will be able to drive and where it was safe to film. (6th Jan 10am-7pm)

These scenes were filmed on the ski resort in Georgia, Tbilisi. We didn't have any trouble filming the scenes during the day or the night but we were very cautious at filming the scenes during the night even though after we finished film the scenes for 3 days, the last evening my brother and my dad got into a accident with the snowmobile when they didn't notice that the mountain would be that steep when they were going down and the snowmobile has been spin-out of control throwing both of them of board and landing on my brothers arm, breaking his arm and forcing him to have gypsum on his hand for 2 months.


Editing:

My Film Editing adds up in the film except one scene when it jumps a bit forward in time due to filming plan mistakes.

Title:

The Lonely Survivor
(My Title Opening was inspired by the film: Frozen; released year: 2010; Directed by: Adam Green; when three survivors get trapped on a open gondola in the middle of the air when being the last people to ski down the mountain and they asked the person in control of the gondolas to let them ski down the mountain one more time. The person in control gets replaced by someone else and he is told that when 3 skiers will ski down the mountain, he can turn off the gondola. So, some other three skiers go down the mountain and he turns off the power in the system and the 3 of them get trapped up in the air for 5 days. One of the skiers says that he will get help if he jumps, so he jumps and breaks both of his legs, one wolf stands in front of him and then the woman on the gondola throws her snowboard at the wolf and it runs away, then the wolf returns with a pack of wolf which surrounds him and they eat him in front of the other 2 survivors on the gondola, the other male survivor climbs down the ladder and runs away and doesn't return).