Wednesday, 13 April 2011
final poster
shooting schedule
storyboards
M Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense:
The Sixth Sense established Shyamalan not only as a master of suspense, but also as a blockbuster filmmaker. It established his style of dramatic, personalized thrills, shaped by both his direction and his writing. Perhaps most notably, though, it established his slight-of-hand storytelling, which culminated in one of the most infamous "twist endings" in cinematic history. The twists would continue through Shyamalan's next few movies, becoming a trademark that would characterize his early career.
Unbreakable:
Like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable portrayed the human side of supernatural occurrences, while also delivering suspense and a twist ending. Despite Shyamalan's fear of being pigeonholed as a "scary movie" director, the studio marketed Unbreakable as a spooky film in the vein of The Sixth Sense. The tactic didn't parlay the film into the runaway success that The Sixth Sense enjoyed, but Unbreakable still managed to gross almost $100 million domestically at the box office, more than enough to ensure the director's A-list status.
Signs:
The aliens in are decidedly more ominous than those in, say Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as Shyamalan plays the invasion with a horror sensibility, delivering scares without the modern crutch of gore. Although the film's reception was largely positive, some fans and critics began to tire of the director's twist endings, which by now threatened to become career-defining gimmicks.
The Village:
In the writer-director's typical fashion, the film focuses more on the human dynamics between the characters than on the supernatural element of the "creatures." Despite the criticism it garnered, though, The Village managed to earn over $100 million in the US, the third time in four tries that Shyamalan had reached that mark.
Shyamalans style is something i wish to re-create in my trailer, this will be done by using what i have drawn from his audio and visual examples.
final two magazine covers
Evaluation 2
Picnik.com
Used this for my final draft of magazine and poster
The writing
Blogger
It is the most important part in my project, I learnt how to upoald, file, pictures and videos into the blog. I also found it easier than having a project done in a writen paper which may get lost. however this helped me keep all my files safe and mostly organised. It took a big part in evulation stage as it was easier to type it in blogger rathen than written by hand or in microsoft word.
Adobe Photoshop Elements
This also plays an important part in my prject mostly for my construction of poster and my magazine. It helped me by having burn tool, so that i could make my images darker and it also helped me layer the images as i wanted.
Camcorder
This was used for my trailer, This was very useful as it had a nite mode and also it was light so it was easier to carry around. It also heped me zoom in and out at times.
Micromedia Flash 8
I used this to create my own creation of production company logos for the opening of my trailer. In my opinion it was the most difficult to use in-terms of technologies. I learnt how to create a movement in certain pictures or still images.
Adobe premiere Elements
This was used for my making of trailer, i.e editing and joining different scenes making a full trailer. This helped me change the different colour for my trailer as i wanted a black and white and blue-ish (tint) effect on my trailer as an new convention in media industry. This also helped me add different effects change the contrast, saturate the image. most importantly because i did not want any sound in mine it helped me remove all the sound and add different sound effects as I wanted.
Camera (SLR) canon ds500
As i am a photography student aswell, I found it easier to take a still photograph for my poster and my Magazine which was done using this camera. I could change the setting manually so if i wanted a darker image i could do it by changing the 'iso' setting form my camera.
Windows movie maker
This was used to make my first try out draft of my trailer. it helped me montage clips and create a trailer. However, after in my opinion Adobe Primire was much more detailed and had more options then the movie maker.
Evaluation 3
My completed Trailer - Dead Awake
Here is the draft of my trailer that i did before creating my actual trailer. I wanted to try different ideas as possible.
Evaluation 1
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Textual Analysis - Posters - The Ring Two
Textual Analysis - Magazine Covers
- bar code at the bottom
- The main image - eyes looking at you- grabs more readers attention.
- Masthead big and bold, not always same font but has the same colour.
- at most three colour combination been use
Differences :
- Different effects and fonts in masthead - depending on type of movie.
- writing sometimes covered - because people known its that magazine makes audiences feel more involved.
- no second image or have just one second image on the page - gives more attention to the main picture.
now I am going to look at another film magazine 'Film' and compare them with 'Empire' and spot out the similarities and differences.
Similarities:
- Both the magazine have bold front cover
- Both the magazine have image look straight at you - more attention
- both have bar code at the bottom of the magazine
- both seem to have yellow circle which grabs readers eyes.
- not necessarily have second image.
Difference:
- 'Film' magazine have movie names mostly bold and in centre of the page, so it is clear for their targeted audiences.
Textual Analysis - Trailers - Kidulthood
A variety of shots are used within the trailer; close up camera shots are used to provide a dramatic emphasis, highlighting characters' expressions which gives a sense into what will happen within the film based on their emotions and how they are feeling. Long range shots have been used to show viewers the environment and surroundings of which the characters are brought up in In a way, Kidulthood is able to educate those who watch it as it gives the audience an understanding into what people who live this lifestyle have to go through on a daily basis. The audience gets an inside look into how peer pressure can affect teenagers and how some can be persuaded into living a dangerous lifestyle; this is represented by the crimes they commit and the things they get up to. By viewing the trailer, the overall message that it is able to give the audience is that you should not be a follower or maybe even a leader but that you should choose your own path into how you wish to live your life.
Textual Analysis - Trailers - Devil
Textual Analysis - Trailers - Black Swan
Textual Analysis - Trailers - Signs
Textual Analysis - Trailers - Vampires Suck
Textual Analysis 5 Trailers Introduction
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Quantitative questionnaire conclusion
Questionnaire conclusion
I found that my target my audience was ‘13-19’ years old, I also tried to keep the levels of females to males equal in my demographic.
Quantitative questionnaire
Music video questionnaire
Participant background
What Is Your Age?
12-
13-19
20-25
25+
Gender?
Male
Female
Movie Trailer preferences
Genre
What genre of movie do you prefer?
Horror
Thriller
Comedy
Romance
Action
Sci-Fi
Indie
In a trailer, of the specific genre, do you like it to adhere to the convention of that genre trailer, or be something different?
Same
Different
Do you like a Voice Over explaining/selling the trailer?
Yes
No
Do you like music being featured in the trailer?
Yes
No
…how heavily (1-5, 1 being low 5 being high)?
1
2
3
4
5
Do you like on screen text, or more actual footage in the trailer?
Text
Footage
Qualitative questionnaire
Questionnaire Qualitative
1. When you see a movie trailer what features do you like?
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2. What features of performance do you like from a movie trailer?
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3. What kind of genre do you like?
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4. What kind of story do you like?
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5. How do you like the story to be portrayed in the trailer?
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6. What mix of story to dramatic build-up do you like?
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Hypodermic Needle Theory
The theory suggests that viewers of media content are a passive audience who are powerless to resist the impact of the messages in the media source. This is a lot like Action Theory, in the way that messages are portrayed and noted by the viewer. However, the thing that makes the Hypodermic Needle theory a theory in its own right is the fact that they may be subtle, and its not necessarily how an actor portrays an object, but how they are applied in the mise-en-scene, and not necessarily their relevance to the plot.
A good example of this is Nazi propaganda, which was one of the first notable cases in which this theory was applied. Action theory suggests that successful Nazi propaganda would be something like a poster of a Nazi soldier acting positively towards a situation. This was used a lot in English army recruitment posters where soldiers were shown doing 'the right thing'. Nazi propaganda differed in the way it followed the Hypodermic Needle Theory, as most of the posters showed a negative portrayal of the opposing army’s and Jews. For example Nazi children’s cartoons showed Jews as being 'the bad guys'.
I will take this into account when I make my movie trailer in the same way I will use Action theory. Both theories suggest that a subconscious note made by the audience can change peoples views and actions towards a certain media product or icon.
Social Action Theory
The social action theory, which was developed by Anderson and Meyer, suggests that movie’s and subsequently their ‘off-shoot’ products have hidden messages that influence their audience. Using this theory a producer can portray the artist in any way they wish, or portray other people/objects as anything they wish and interpret anything they want in any way to the viewer.
The theory suggests that the actor is seen as an autonomaus object by the viewer. The subject at hand is totally controlled by the actor, and their actions aren't controlled by any cultural or social structure. This theory is alot like the hypodermic needle effect, in the way it suggests actions are noted as acceptable by the passive audience. However, it sees it more from the viewpoint of the producer, who can manipulate the impression created by the passive viewer by using the actor to deliver this theory.
Rather than the objects and events surrounding the actor being the thing that interprets the meaning of the scene, it's the actor that gives meaning to the events and objects, taking things into any context the producer wishes to portray. Examples of this are the impact wrestling has on its audience. There's evidence showing a link between the aggresive behaviour of a child (a passive viewer) and the amount of time spent watching wrestling. The child doesn't take into account any moral, social or cultural structures (hypodermic needle effect), therefore anything the actor wants to interpret the objects and events as, the viewer makes note of the use of the enviroment, and not the moral, social and cultural structure of what the actors is doing (action theory). This is why an incident where somone uses an odd weapon, such as a chair (often used in wrestling), could be linked to them passively watching a chair being used as a weapon on television.
I could use this theory in my music video by deciding what I want to interpret the band and actors as being, and useing their actions to describe that. For instance I may choose a very dark setting. But the actors may be acting possitively towards it, and this may make the dark setting appear happy despite this dark setting. This will leave a good impression of the band and actors on the viewer, and this may make the viewer start to like the band, even if they're not that interested in their music. Now that i'm aware of this theory i'm going to be careful not to leave a negative impression of the band members. However, it may be beneficial to leave a negative impression of the actors, to emphasise the good impression being left by the actors.
music was scary...
didn't understand the production names , has good zoomed in lips but didn't like it having coming up too much. actors should have had more emotions showned. and lastly did not really like the smile at the end.
other than that good gob.
Nice music , like the trailer but the video colour is dark...:D
definitely would like to see this as a movie.
Good music
Scaryyy, hope she dont come back to get ME.
Above is my audience feedback, taken after i uploaded it on 'Youtube' what i have learned is i should be careful chosing the new convention