CCR question 2

 I’m going to answer the question but inserting my script as I do to help myself in the long run. The question is how does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?  

Script: Who was your main target audience?

Answer: Our target audience ranges from 16-50. A wide range in age as the genre isn’t specific to any age. Although teenagers are a big target as they love psychological concepts and creepy movies and something that will keep them hooked. We use mis- en-scene in the dark and creepy vibe to make it pull in the audience to keep them hooked from the start. The wolf sparks curiosity in the audience as it is not something that is technically real.

Respomse: Yes! that’s great.

Question: Where can we find this?

Answer: My project will be on YouTube and on one drive but of course that’s not the ideal place if you’re trying to get your film out. If it was real media text then I would consider streaming services like Amazon prime because lots of people use that platform to find movies. People love to scroll on Amazon and there can be a part that promotes the movie at the top so people will click in it. 

Response: I can back that up, I always find myself scrolling on Amazon!

Question: Will social media help your marketing?

Answer: Yes 100% TikTok and instagram will help our marketing so much, that would be the main way we will market everything. We will use these platforms for our ads to reach our audience so they can click on links and view what it is about on these platforms. The whole world uses these apps so it’s our best way to reach as many people as possible. 

Editing post #2

 This post will be about my sound.

Once I put in the audio it pulled together my whole film. It makes it more creepy and eerie as that’s the sound I used. I put in a music build up on my production logo part and then I put in creepy eerie music I found on YouTube to my credit scene and then a slow eerie music playing lightly in the back during the rest of the film but during the flashback I put a dramatic music to further reinforce the drama. At the end when it shows the name of the film I put a dramatic sound that finishes it off. When the wolf is first shown on screen there is also a very light heartbeat playing.

I found all my sounds either on YouTube or on filmora app.

 

Editing post

 We have started editing! This year was the first time I really learned how to edit and it’s pretty fun watching it all come together!

I use an app called wondershare filmora. I really like it, it has tons of benefits and has made the editing process not to difficult.

I started with putting everything together and changing the lighting to give it the dark mood. On each one I set it to dark mode and set the filter to “dark film” and adjusted the contrast to -30 and exposure to -42

I then worked on the transitions from each scene and made it flow better in certain areas I wanted including the flashback. And also the fading from the production logo.

Adding the text was next. I made the credit scene flow well by making the letters fade in and out so it matches the slow eerie vibe and doesn’t look choppy and bad.

CCR question #1

 Hello blog! It is time for me to start my CCR!! Now I need to think about how my film opening abides to media conventions and if I’ve effectively used representation.

Genre conventions: 

Question: how does your film opening fall under your genre? 

My genre, of course you know is psychological thriller. It falls under this genre because my main character, Damian, is suffers from the mental illness skitzofrinia. This is showed in the film as there is a psychologist who is the one interrogating him and she cannot see the wolf but he can. It is thriller because he is being accused of murder when she was the one who really committed the crime. Damian is not scared of her and is not scared of his mind. He just is stuck in it. This was heavily inspired by the movie Donnie Darko. I love this movie so much and I think Damian and Donnie Darko have similar traits as Donnie Darko is not afraid of the bunny that is in his mind. But he knows that he isn’t normal but he doesn’t run away from it. 

Inalso have similar lighting and vibe to it as it is dark and eery.

Representation: 

How does your film opening tie to representation theory found in media context? 

This ties together with the representation theory found in media context. The way it is dark and eery and the suspense develops Damian’s personality and shows how dark and crazy his mind is. The wolf develops what Damian is seeing in his mind. The psychologist represents authority.

Change ups!

 Soooo we had some problems in the old footage and we didn’t have enough so I wanted to refilm and film more but my old actors couldn’t make it so we had a big change and changed the actors and setting.

It is still all the same storyline but here are my new actors

Damian:

The psychologist:

The wolf:

Group meeting #2

This blog post is about our group meeting

Lydia- Scifi- Her story is about a scientist named Owen who can sees a vision of her dead. She didnt say much else about her project but she did get all her filming done. She doesnt know what she is going to do yet for her CCR.

Emma- Mystery/thriller- Hers is about a murder that she is accused of. It includes lots of flashbacks and they did very well with the set up of where they where filming and the costume design was very good to. For her CCR she wants to do an interview but have some of the characters involved too. 

Giovanna: Mystery/ Thriller- Her story is about a scientist in the FBI who is involved in a murder. His missing daughter was swapped when she was born and he had been searching for her for years. For her CCR she also wants to do an interview style.

Benjamin: Thriller- He is a teenager who is going home but this is a scene from the end of the film it cuts to his room a few hours later and is texting his mom and then calls her but a guy is talking back and he ask where his keys are and when he goes to get them they are gone. He has not started filming yet but has a date planned. He is still figuring out what to do for his CCR.

Ame: Coming of age- A girl has lived in a small town forever and feels stuck in this town but she wants to travel. Her parents want her to stay and even go to collage near them. She had to refilm because she didnt like it so then she decided to also change her whole plot.

Cristina: Coming of age- Hers is about a dj who is passionate about what he does but he is under 18 and a competition he wanted to compete in is only aloud for people over 18.

I think this group meeting was very helpful for my CCR. They told me a good idea and that I should involve the wolf in some way and I think that is a very good idea.

Filming day!

 Hey bloggg!! It was pretty exciting actually seeing my work in action and it was fun! I have pictures from us filming to show you guys a little behind the scenes of the process. It can be hard sometimes if your actors have a hard time not laughing or feeling awkward and embarrassed but my characters did really well on not having that problem. 

We first went to the bathroom and the actors got dressed and ready to film and then we found a perfect spot to film in the hallway it is creepy and gives off the perfect vibe of an interrogation room. Again the lighting will be changed through editing because it’s not the exact vibe I was going for but here are the pictures from the filming day.