The opening sequence we created had some of interesting conventions from thriller genre. I decided that certain key ideas should be adapted such as the murderer being a woman. That’s why I decided to be the actor in our piece, we wanted the character to look sinister in the first shot but also sow that she could just be any woman, she looks ait drape and pain in the second half even over confident to what she really is this challenge the traditional thriller stalker movie such as such as the film obsession where the woman is stunning.
Our final opening sequence uses several conventions from other media but some aspects also contribute to our piece of film. The name of our film fits into the noir film conventions. The name infatuation is strong, and is one word which would be often used as a convention in film noir. Also the general concept of the film follows the conventions using low key black and white visual style.
In a lot of ways we challenged the way this type of movie would be generally be done. The ways in which we have challenges these general conventions has taken place in several ways firstly because our main character in the open sequence is the stalker character is a woman. This creates a whole new feel to the film and takes the genre into a new lease of life. By doing this and breaking the usual convention we create something really very dark because it is felt that it would be less likely for there to be a woman stalking a man. We also challenged other conventions by making the stalker a woman we made a sort of femme fatale character this combines another classic convention into the mix of our film. This shows how different aspects can be combined to make something initially new.
The demographics that are not really defined in our production, obviously because of the age rating this is due to the topics, violence and brief nudity that may have occurred if continuing the film. So this demographic is not towards a young audience. But an young adult to middle age with a demographic C to D.
The institutions that might distribute my film are ones such as paramount pictures; I noticed that paramount distributes a lot of different kinds of films, particularly thrillers, films such as fatale attraction. Other big distributors that could distribute our product would be Columbia productions as they have distributed other femme fatale films, such as the film To Die For. The two that would probably be most appropriate would be either Sony pictures or Warner bros because, they distribute a lot of films in the UK more than most other big distributor and have done so on many of the big thriller movies. Another option would be to find a local independent cinema to exhibit our media product, this would be a good start but we could have to offer them a percentage of the profits to get them to do so. But looking at it theoretically we would be more likely to get offers from companies like film four.
The audience see the plot start to unravel right from the start this grabs their attention, the audience sees images of a woman but don’t know what is quite going on, but at each point through out the opening sequence there are moments where the events help the plot slowly click in to the mind of our audience.
I have learnt a lot about how to construct a media product, the process, and how to use the media tool correctly. I found that using a Mac to edit was the best means to edit rather then using the software on the computers adobe premiere pro 1.5. I spent a lot of time learning how to use the Mac and as I made a lot of the titles and things. Garage band on the Mac was an interesting to use it created some interesting effect but it wasn’t working quite as I wanted it to so in the end we used a un copyrighted piece we found which fit what we had made a lot better for the start.
I don’t think that our final piece would have turned out as good as it did if not for doing the preliminary task. It was a learning curve, a good way to ease our group into the process of in which to make our full product. It meant errors less likely because if any mistakes that would have been made, would have been made when practising by making our preliminary task. I enjoyed the preliminary task I found that it made my experience a lot more enjoyable, because I had the chance to experiment. A lot of benefits were made from creating our preliminary such as being able to play around with the editing technologies to using a variety of transitions to learn how they look and the effect they create.
Overall I think the production went very well and I had a great time creating it and learning about how the media industry works.
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