Prezi presentaion

http://prezi.com/ifjzlw_lnj1l/

Class review.

Media Production Interviews from James Wigger on Vimeo.

http://tompalmerasmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/focas-group-feedback.html
Tom has made a stuning post that includes everything in detail. It includes the questions and where we have shown your film.

My evaluation part.

I have posted on my local forum which age range is 16-50 and that is in the C/B social bracket.

http://railways.national-preservation.com/showthread.php/22949-A-level-media-short-film?p=335394

James has also put our film on a forum, http://playstuff.net/showthread.php/1918-Media-production-thing
There are many helpful comments and ideas to improve.

"I'd personally want the voice soundtrack less in your face - it feels too much like a game trailer.

Mix the ambient sounds higher and change the reverb on her voice so it sounds like it's being spoken in the environment she's in, rather than a recording studio."

"Loved the lighting at 2:10 when the women is speaking and suddenly you see the other man standing next to her - very nice.

Only quibble would be that the tension doesn't build up - it's there from the start which stops it pulling you in a little.

The sound is spot on, effects, music and speech all work together very well.

Camera angles and shots are excellent."

First evaluation

Tom compiled many questionnaires to suit the age ranges, he went to a bowling alley and first showed them the film then presented them with the questionnaire that fitted their age and sex. Questionnaire female 15, Questionnaire male 15, Questionnaire male 16, Questionnaire female 18, Questionnaire male 18, Questionnaire male 19, Questionnaire female 40, Questionnaire male 49.

Links to the questionnaire are on his blog and his comments and post.
http://tompalmerasmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/showing-consumers.html

Presentations

Progress Review Presentation from James Wigger on Vimeo.

Media Production Presentation 2 from James Wigger on Vimeo.

Opening credits.

These openings are little movie intos where they show some of the top names inbetween the OTS and full movie.
Watchmen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceKIN27
Se7en
Casino Royale
Zombieland

Camera techniques

Some of the camera techniques that were used in the film and what we were going to use in the film but when we came down to being at the location we decided that they didnt work.

At the start we had chosen for the camera to be pointing towards the victim and the area where the goon would appear, when we got the the location we came to a decision that the camera would pan around the tree as the victim would walk in and sit down. As it turned out at the editing this destracted from the whole theme so it was cut out just to have the first view of the victim.
We also went to a shot of the Arm looking at a watch as a match on action and this would give time for the goon to step in.
Next We were just going to move to a shot of the road where the victim would walk away, But Blaine suggested that we could get a shot from under the bench as to show the feet and then the whole of the body down the road.
Next we went for a canted angle of the street as the victim and goon walked passed close to the camera.

For the first flash back we went for a dark location and the victim walking from right to left then a mid-shot the the victim and femme fatale.

The next shot we are back to the present, and for this we chose for Tom to walk backwards to get a shot of the victim and the goon in the background.
Next was a shot of one side of the road taken from an aleyway this was to show a view of someone from in a house or a animal. This shot was longer as it had a van in but we had to cut it out as the shot was loo long and the van took to long.
Next we used a shot that was slightly canted and went from a shot up the road to a shot at the same place of the victim starting to run of the end of the road.
This then linked to a shot of just the feet running, the camera was turned upside down and still on the tripod for stability, this would then be flipped in the editing.

For the next flash back we had a behind shot of the victim showing the femmme fatale.
next was a shot of the city council buildings clock tower the then panned down to head hight showing the goon and victim running past.
Next Blaine ran behind the victim whilest he was looking back, this showed what the goon would be seeing whist he was trying to catch him.
When we where on our way back we decided that it would be good to have a shot of the victim running down the streen and the camera tracking him from the other side.

For the next shot of the flash back we had another mid-shot.
Then going back to the present, we had a tracking shot of the name of the road "Elm hill" and then continuing tracking as the two actors run between the camera and the wall the sign was on.
Then another shot of the femme fatale and then next a shot of the two running down the street. At this point we were going to have a shot throught the bars of the church and a shot the the sain glass windows but the light inside wasnt on and the gate was closed.
The next shot was a point of view of the "victim" running down the street.
Last shot of the flash back was a shot the mouth of the femme fatal
The very last shot was a above pan of the victim running down to an opening then to find that a car was round the corner which put its lights on full to have it fade to white.

Title's

This Friday me and the group had a quick talk about where and how we shall display the titles in out OTS.

We Have decided on Having the title's fade in and then slowly move on the horizontal axis, We also have chosen the colour of the titles to be white as this will show up the best on the dark film and will be the clearest to read.
The fonts that we decided were: Arny pro, Bell gothic and century gothic/school, We will be deciding these when we are all together as we can all vote and see which is best. As when hames was was editing the fonts that we were going to use didnt look right so he went for century schoolbook.

Just the actors names shall be in the OTS and they will be appearing a little way in so the auidence can get settled in, this shall be 1 or 2 names, the actors names will go first. The title graphic that James wigger made of a chain falling with chainbound didnt work very well so it will be replaced by just a chain bound with a slight glo.

These will be :

• Paul Palmer
• Kerry Palmer
• David Knights
• Debbie Money

This is the Casino Royale OTS

Future for film, Cameron and Jackson

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/25/entertainment/main5188475.shtml

"(AP) "Titanic." "Lord of the Rings." "Aliens." "King Kong." "The Terminator."

The men behind those movies, James Cameron and Peter Jackson, are among modern film's special-effects kings, advancing technology in computer-generated imagery, motion-capture photography and 3-D.

They met up at Comic Con Friday for an hour-long discussion moderated by Entertainment Weekly about the future of film, sharing details on their latest projects, their high-tech hopes and the undiminished allure of original, character-driven stories.

The two filmmakers say they inspired each other. Cameron said it was the artistic use of "humanoid CG" in Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" films that got him rolling on "Avatar," set for release Dec. 18.

Jackson has said that the technology he used was borne out of Cameron's CGI work on "The Abyss" and "Terminator 2."

Both are thrilled by the possibilities of 3-D and plan to convert their biggest hits, "Titanic" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, into the format. Then they lamented the shortage of 3-D screens."

All time box office records

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/
Found this interesting site, shows all time top films and movies box office records.
DOMESTIC Avatar $633,621,035
ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION Gone with the Wind $1,537,559,604
WORLDWIDE Avatar $2,240,712,214

RATED R Passion of the Christ $370,782,930
RATED PG-13 Avatar $633,621,035
RATED PG Star Wars $460,998,007
RATED G Finding Nemo $339,714,978
RATED NC-17 Showgirls $20,350,754

MOVIES THAT NEVER HIT #1 My Big Fat Greek Wedding $241,438,208
IMAX Everest (IMAX) $87,178,599

This is over time records.
Most of the top films are PG or family orientated. This is because it has a wider auidence and will atract more people because of the good feeling you get after the film.
As we have chosen the 15 target range this will drop our viewing figure numbers as we are loseing the family auidence market but we still will get a large number of people.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/

First cut of production

Media Production, R1 from James Wigger on Vimeo.

Here is the first cut of our media presentation, This will be updated and will be improved in the coming weeks.
Once we finished filming on the sunday, James went home and uploaded the footage And edited it all together for the first lesson back on the tuesday. We all put idea's together for the camera angles and what we should and shouldn't include in the film.

Semiotics

Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of sign processes (semiosis), or signification and communication, signs and symbols.
Semioticians classify signs or sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted. This process of carrying meaning depends on the use of codes that may be the individual sounds or letters that humans use to form words, the body movements they make to show attitude or emotion, or even something as general as the clothes they wear. To coin a word to refer to a thing (see lexical words), the community must agree on a simple meaning (a denotative meaning) within their language. But that word can transmit that meaning only within the language's grammatical structures and codes (see syntax and semantics). Codes also represent the values of the culture, and are able to add new shades of connotation to every aspect of life.

Guy Cook asks whether the iconic sign on the door of a public lavatory for men actually looks more like a man than like a woman. 'For a sign to be truly iconic, it would have to be transparent to someone who had never seen it before - and it seems unlikely that this is as much the case as is sometimes supposed. We see the resemblance when we already know the meaning' (Cook 1992, 70). Thus, even a 'realistic' picture is symbolic as well as iconic.


 
 
 
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics
and
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem02.html

Film's showing in Brighton

These are all the films that are showing at the odeon cinema in Brighton and days of which they are shown, in this week.
2012- Thursday
3D avatar - All week
Alvin and the chipmunks 2 - All week
An education - All week
Astroboy- Saturday and sunday
2D avatar - Sat and sunday
Daybreakers - all week
Edge of darkness - All week
It's complicated - All week
Nine - all week
Mall cop - sat and sunday
Sherlock holmes - All week
The book of eli - All week
Toystory 2 3D - Not friday
Up in the air - All week
Where the wild things are - sat and sunday

http://www.odeon.co.uk/fanatic/film_times/s71/

Filming day + feed back

Last sunday at 4 o'clock we set out to start our first day of filming. This went extremely well as we most of all of the shots that we want and with a fue more decided on the day. I was very happy with the outcome of the filming and everyone played their part very well.

 

Today James Wigger came in with the frist edit of our OTS. As a group we were very happy with the outcome but a fue little details need to be reviewed. After showing the film to our teacher, she gave us some feed back on what we have to change and what looked good.
We have come up with a small list of changes:

• Cut the van out, as it destracts you from the chase.
• Make the music louder in the into, quiter later on.
• Fade in some sound in some shot endings.
• Cut the pan on the tree at the start. Extend clip 2

The possitives in the film are the little details of the watch, the overlay of sounds and narration and lighting. We will focus on these more to strenghten the film as a whole.
Our next plan is to come up with a title and insert the names in the film. The titles and names will feature on the walls and roads in the film.
The forts that we feel will work well for the titles are:

• Arny pro
• Bell gothic
• Century gothic/school

Planning 1

After sitting down with the teacher and looking though what we have to do and when we have found that we still need small details. This are a goon, possible played by my Dad but no conformation. We will be starting to film on the 25 of monday and work out any other dates after that.

Tom's Sister is playing the FF.
Tom's Uncle might be playing the Victim.
My Dad might be playing the Goon.
My Dad will supply the car.
Location will be around Elm hill.

Test film - Night

On sunday The group apart from me went up the city to test the camera in dark conditions. I would've been there as they planned it for the day before but changed it at the last minute.
They were testing the locations and lighting conditions at different times in the day.

Media Practical - Test Footage from James Wigger on Vimeo.

Here is the footage from the test day.The first 10 shots are in the day, then the last are the same shots but a night time. I am very happy with what they achieved in the time given. They discovered that the perfect time to film would be from 4:30-6:00. As it reaches the perfect light to dark ratio.

Avatar a billion dollar film.

Last this thursday I went to see avatar with a family member, I went into the film with little information and knowledge of what it is about. I was overwelmed at how the film controlled the lighting and colour and effects. After watching the film I watched a short docmentary on how it was made that had interviews with the actor. The technology that was used wasn't green screen but coded into the camera so where ever they pointed the camera either at the floor, actor or sky they would get the world of pandora. So instead of putting in the effects after they were put in whilst filming. This movie was first writen before james cameron's other hit film titanic.

I would highly recomend watching this film as it is a every emoitional film that really links in with every character and has a story and background for every character. I went to see this in 3D and found that the effects were every good, the animal were very realistic. Pandora is shot like a technology hasn't reached earth yet and has evoloved to host though linking of trees and with every animal on pandora.

I would recomend this film throughly and to go see it in 3D as it is well worth the extra money.

IMDB of avatar  Avatar website.

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