Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Working in "the business" is an iceberg trick. The film that you see in the cinema, on your television, or on your entertainment system, is the top 10% of what went into the final product. The other 90% is divided into several parts, one of the largest being distribution.

In detail, distributors

• identify the audience of the film, taking into consideration who would go and watch it
• estimate the revenue potential across all formats of its release
• develop plans and partnerships to build awareness of and interest in the film
• aim to convert as much interest as possible into cinema visits
• persuade exhibitors (cinema operators) to play the film

In short, the handle the film once it is finished being filmed to when it's released.

Within the distribution circle, there are the Big Leagues. These are companies that are well known, have millions of dollars in the bank, and get the to distribute the major movies you see in the cinema. This includes companies such as Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, and Lionsgate.

This leads to a question for the little people: how do we distribute a film or video project without wads of cash at our disposal?
The answer is actually quite simple: social networks. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and Metacafe are just some of the well known video-hosting websites out there available for regular people to share their masterpieces with the world. If I had created a full film, I probably would have shared it in similar fashion.

The thing is, social networks are the little people's Big League. Like it or  not, the average person does not have access to a private meeting with the head honchos of Lionsgate or Universal Studios whenever they have a film they want to make public. This results in a network within the social network in which videos are shared and passed on between online identities generating a self made audience for the video made.

I personally, plan to use Youtube to distribute my thriller opening. At this point I think it is obvious that Youtube is highly capable of sharing videos amongst internet circles. Seeing as how it is one of the most popular video hosting websites internationally, my opening sequence will fit in perfectly.


In fact, this method has become so popular that the Big Leagues themselves have stooped to our own level and used the little guy's method to create an additional audience for their major motion pictures. What does this mean? Well, each time you open Youtube for example and an advertisement comes on before your actual clip and you have to wait for a movie trailer to end, that's a prime example of the Big Leagues in the little guy's pond. Social networking was once a joke; now it's not. Entire movements, protests, careers and charities have been started through liking, sharing, and passing on URL's. Now we as average people can distribute our own creations just as well as professional companies across the globe.

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1:

In what ways does your media project use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media projects?

Where I am now-an Update

At first I had posted about what ideas I had for my thriller opening: Chemistry lab, people unconscience on the floor with people screaming aboutthe need to get up and out of the room.

Then, I had posted about an idea to change it slightly into a 'flashback' type situation where you see the characters doing whatever it was they were doing before 'The Incident' with a part where everything is fast-forwarded to what is currently happening, or an idea very similar to it.

In actuallity, I combined the two ideas slightly. I took the 'calm' part of the second idea and merged it with the chaos of the first idea to create a situation in which you see people mixing chemicals and measuring liquids into beakers then suddenly you see them on the ground in a poorly state. To liven up the enigma aspect of the thriller title sequence I am adding the sound effect of an explosion behind the movie title sequence. As the title appears word by word in descending order, and the font size gets bigger and bigger, loud noises and sounds will create the unseen feeling of a chemical explosion.

My teacher compared my movie ttile sequence to that of Saul Bass. I was honoured since without realising it, we had been studying his work seen in Vertigo, and North by Northwest which was specifically mentioned for my usage of lines and colour.

First Evaluation Question Setup

EVALUATIVE QUESTION

Question 1:

In what ways does your media project use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media projects?

Talk about:

1. Movie title and what it hints at or gives away
2. Credit fonts, colour, sounds, and background
3. Method of intercutting and credits
4. Style of shots in relation to other films
5. Enigma of thriller film compare to other sci-fi films
6. Continuity as to what I let the audience know
7. Props seen within the thriller

What I'm going to do:

1. Get obscurely named movies (real and fictional names) with voiceovers for thoughts on movie titles from youth and adults i.e. "From reading a movie title, what do you think it is about?"
2. Compare it with other films e.g. Sherlock Holmes 2 ending with typewriter (enigma at the end, not opening), Kids Next Door typewriter opening and sounds
3. Look to the films that were analyzed previously in the course to compare how I used their styles **Saul Bass titles** ***North by Northwest***
4. Contrast to another film like WOLVERINE ORIGINS, MIB, FANTASTIC 4 (sci-fi movies with scenes in a lab)
5. Contrast to other films on different methods used. I don't think I saw a title sequence like mine in regards to enigma
6. Talk about using POV shots to make the audience feel like they are in the movie
7. I AM LEGEND comparison to entry logs

Method of Delivery:

1. Use Final cut to make a video for the audience opinion of what they think a film would be about based on its name
2. Incorporate youtube clips of Sherlock Holmes 2 ending and Kids Next Door opening sequences with audio
3. Text based comparison with screen shots of title sequences of North by Northwest
4. Text based comparison with screen shots of scenes from X-Men: Wolverine Origins, Men in Black, and Fantastic Four.
5. Reference other title sequences analysed in the course and contrast *Ask for teacher's opinion on how to handle this acpect*
6. Screen shot and discuss how the audience is moved to be a part of the thriller opening
7. Use clips of I am Legend entry logs to compare with props used and mise en scene

Re-evaluating My Thriller

I've had some thoughts as to how to go about making/structuring my thriller opening, the rough cut at least.

ORIGINALLY:

• It would be about a chemistry explosion from an experiment
• There would be fading out to white where the credits would appear
• It would be from the point of view of one of the characters in the film
• The structure of the film opening would be all post-explosion with the enigma of "What happened?"

AND NOW MY THOUGHTS ARE:

• Chemical explosion idea still applies
• I could use a pan shot of the room post-explosion in the beginning
• Use an effect to make it look like everything has been rewinded to how it all started
• BUT I asked myself, where would the enigma go? Questions have to formulate or else it would be a poorly thought out thriller as I've been told by my audience research.
• Also, if I were to change it, that would require extra work, which I'm willing to do, but I have to be conscious of my other courses as well.

I plan to discuss these thoughts with my teacher.