SMART targets

By focusing on these targets I will be able to improve my grade and the quality of my blog.

SMART Targets

I believe that by trying my best to achieve these targets, I will be able to boost my grade even further and reach my target grade (A). I will try to achieve these targets by the next blogging healthcheck.

Strengths and Weaknesses in My Blog

This is a table which pretty much summarises how I feel about our blog so far as well as the individual posts that I have created over the past few months. As you can see, I have carefully thought about the strengths and weaknesses, as well as things that might be holding me back which I need to work on. I have also begun to talk about the different skills I have learnt throughout my time blogging.

Strengths I always take extra care with being as detailed as I can in my posts. There is a lot of evidence of research into pre-existing products such as looking at title sequences of some of my favourite films. This show that I have been able to draw inspiration from successful title sequence which are relevant to the genre of ours. I don’t have many posts where there is just blocks of texts and no visual examples, this makes the posts more interactive and appealing.

Weaknesses I tend to binge post when it comes to catching up with work. I try to avoid this by changing the time schedule on my posts, however that doesn’t excuse the fact that I am slow when it comes to get posts done. There isn’t much evidence into planning our locations, props and costume or any evidence of casting. In addition, I am still not using a sufficient amount of alternate technologies in order to make the blog look less dull and demonstrate my ICT skills. The branding of the blog is still not where I think it should be as it doesn’t fully express the chosen genre of our title sequence.

Threats I am slow when it comes to getting posts done and so I tend to fall behind a lot. I am a perfectionist and so if I feel that I won’t be able to get a blog post done to my best standard, I will leave it for another time. This has caused my number of post to be significantly lower than other group members. I am also guilty of procrastination.

Opportunities I feel that I have learnt a lot of new ICT skills whilst blogging over these past few months. I have had the chance to start using more alternate ICT applications to present my work in interesting and visually creative ways.

Setting my Smart Targets

My Smart Targets

As you can see, I have properly set my smart targets after reviewing my work. This will motivate me to reach those goals in order for them to be achieved whilst ensuring that the quality of my work is greatly boosted.

Analysis of my Strengths and Weaknesses

Analysis of my Strengths and Weaknesses

As you can see, my strengths seem to link directly to my threats. The problems and weaknesses I have in my blog posts are that I put an extreme amount of detail into most of my posts. However, when I feel that other blog posts do not require as much detail, it hinders the consistency and quality throughout my entire blog.
I have beaten one of my threats already being the fact that I feel that I do not have enough work to create a blog post on.
I have asked my teacher to provide me with more work, hence the creation of my trailer and the survey.
This post is very important as I can reflect back to this in the future in order to boost my marks in my coursework as well as have a constant remind of what to look out for when I create future blog posts.

Evidence of my Audit

Evidence Audit

As you can see, I fall short when it comes to creating blog posts for "Organized use of actors, Locations, Props and Costumes. As well as on shortlists, layouts etc. This is only because we have not had the need to create a high amount of posts for these. Reasons can include the fact that once we recorded our first day of filming, we had gotten most of our shots. This meant that the next time we went out filming we did not need to have to visit many different locations.However, I could make a few blog posts for the amount of props we used as we used a huge amount.I do not need a blog post on short-lists or scripting as we did not use any actors in our title sequence and when we did, it was for a brief 3 seconds of the title sequence.
                                                                         

Evidence Audit

Here is a picture of the evidence audit grid which I have filled out, From this, I can see that I have a lot of evidence of researching into similar products such as my own as well as researching into the type of audience our product should attract based on the target audience for previous products. There isn't much evidence on my blog of organising the mise-en-scene aspects such as actors, locations, props and costume, but that is because we only really started to finalise and visualise the title sequence as a whole once we got to the pitch.

There is a fair amount of evidence in terms of planning the shots, script and storyboarding which shows we have put a lot of effort and time into making a final decision on how the actual filming process will go down and how everything will look on camera. The blog overall is a success as it is easy to navigate and most posts are laid out clearly and are easy to read. All group members use a fair amount of alternate technologies to make the blog more appealing and interactive.

Setting SMART targets

SMART targets

By achieving my targets I feel as if this will improve the quality of my coursework, as I feel that that the three things that I have mentioned in my smart targets is what is letting me down, I feel as if these targets are achievable, therefore I am not setting myself unreasonable targets.

Analysing strengths and weaknesses in my blog

Analysing strengths and weaknesses

Here I have created a grid in which I have written down my strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities. This is so I am able to use this to then improve my posts and work on my weaknesses, hopefully this will help me to boost my marks for my coursework as well as improve the quality of my work.

Evidence Audit

Evidence Audit

After looking at my evidence audit I realise that I must do more posts on props and costume, however I feel like this was hard for me to do as my group is doing a discrete title sequence, originally we planned on having an actor, however after talking to the group we decided to stick with the usual convention and not have an actor, therefore there isn't the usual amount of posts on costume and actors compared to other blogs. One category in which I feel I need to improve on is posts on drafting , I feel as if I have not done enough drafting posts therefore I will begin to do this more and write more posts of my rough cut for example. 

Audit Task

Audit Post:

Blog Health check 2

Blog Health check 2:
As you can see, in this post my work has been remarked, to which they have seen my latest blogs and work and have come to an understanding of what i need to do to improve.





An improvement is that from last time, i have improved upon regular posting and have addressed the previous targets i have been given. There is strong focus and i am using more technologies than before.
My targets are to ensure that i use our projects title BIBLE BELT in more post so my blog becomes a product supporter.
I should offer more reflections and action points after feedback on the blog-post 27th November.
I should get feedback on my editing and filming and create a camstasia documentary about it.
Lastly i should design some posters to sell our film!

Audit Evidence

Evaluation of Rough Cut

Evaluation of rough cut from Aniela Lojek

Rough Cut Evaluation

Rough Cut Evaluation

Evaluation of rough cut

Evaluation of Rough Cut

Evaluation

In this blog post i will be evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of different aspects in my rough cut. I will be evaluating factors such as order of shots, quality of camera work, use of lighting, use of mine-en-scene and more.

Rough cut evaluation from ersila bushi

Blogging Health check 2

Our group posted many blog posts with evidence of filming and editing, which I'm glad has become a strength in my blog. In my previous health check I was advised to manage my posting time as it had become a weakness however it seems I've solved that problem since is didn't appear on this health check.
In order to improve my blog and my grade I will make sure to complete more individual posts and extension tasks on our checklist.

Blogging Healthcheck Feedback 2

This is my second blogging health check feedback. I am quite happy with it as I think I have made good improvements since my last health check. In my previous health check, my grade was a C and my mark was 13 and I am happy that I have managed to boost my grade. This is because I feel i have been putting more time into blogging overall and contributing a lot more of my own original ideas in my individual posts. I am also up to date as to where I need to be on the checklist and I am starting to use more technologies.

In order to boost this grade I will need to be a bit less reliant on my other group members when it comes to blogging. As a group, we will need to get more audience feedback on the work that we have
produced in order to get an idea on how to improve our product and make it the best it could possibly. I will also need to use even MORE alternate technologies although I really don't see how.

Blogging Healthcheck Feedback 2

I am pleased with my blogging health check grade, especially as I was able to improve my grade from my previous blogging health check. My last health check stated that one of my weaknesses was the lack of ICT apps, ever since I attempted to use more ICT apps, this has now become a strength in my blog posts. I have also attempted to do extra off tasks in order to have more detail as well as improve my grade.

However, now I need to make sure I use the weaknesses stated in the health check, and make them become strengths. I looked into my blog and realised that in fact i have done the story board and blog post 41, so now i must look into post 35, 44 and 46. In order to stop any confusion i will be posting the blog post number beside the title to eliminate any misunderstanding. I must keep posting blogs more regularly in order to keep a good pace of posts each week.

I will be attempting to improve my blog following the health check in order to improve my grade so that i can achieve a higher mark so I can secure an A grade.

Roughcut feeback

Here is a lengthy clip of the feedback we received when we presented our rough cut to the whole class. Hope you enjoy :))

Rough Cut

ROUGH CUT

Teaser Trailer and Audience Research.

During the 12th of December i created a teaser trailer for my groups media project.
The main reason for the trailers production is to be able to share it to people online and then allow them to complete the survey i created below alongside with the trailer.
The survey results will allow me to find out how well received the trailer was and whether or not it met peoples expectations.
It will also allow me to know whether or not i have captured the key features of a psychological thriller trailer.

Here is the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VXGMJM8

Improving our title sequence discussion

Title sequence discussion

Second day filming evaluation & twitter

Second day filming 

Above I have created a slide show consisting of photos taken on the second day of filming. We filmed in my garage which is in Enfield, we used various props such as a Globe taken from the Geography department, various pages ripped from old books, newspaper articles that were printed out, the Bible and jewellery. The lighting in the garage was dim however this worked in our favour. When filming quotes we had the demo light on and facing the bible, as well as having a candle lit behind the bible, the lighting was effective as when we watched the shots you could clearly the quotes as the area was well lit, as well as the fact the candle gave a warm hue to the shot.

We decided to use a globe instead of an american flag as we thought we could create more interesting shots if we had this instead. The plan for the shots that included the globe was to have a shot of the globe spinning, followed by another shot of our friend Mert using a pin to show the location of where we are in, in this case the bible belt region. This was so we can show the audience where exactly the location is set in, if we used an american flag we felt that this would be too vague, therefore by specifically showing the bible belt area this will make the audience assume that this is an important location in the film.

We used jewellery as apart of our mine en scene, the audience will be able to make their own judgements on what the jewellery represents, personally I see this as the main character collecting jewellery from a girl that may be a witch, the reason why I said witch is because the quote in the bible mentioned witches. However the jewellery on the table is up to interpretation.

On the first day of filming which was in Finsbury park/crouch end we created a twitter to inform the media department in city and islington that we are filming, we used the twitter account to post pictures of the group filming in my garage.

Overall, the second day of filming was successful, we were able to get a variety of shots such as light flickering, door closing, many shots of the desk and various other shots that would be appropriate in our title sequence. Now that we have the shots we need I feel confident that our title sequence will be very successful. 

Second day of filming evidence

Our second day of filming was based in a garage in Enfield, London.

Reminder for evaluation !!

Representation 

When evaluating the representation in our title sequence, I will make sure to pick up on the one shot of our actor pinning a green pin into the globe. This is because this is the only shot which implies the appearance or identity of our main character. We decided to only include that element in one shot since our title sequence is not a narrative but rather a discrete sequence. This means that the identity or story of our main character should not be revealed through the title sequence. The hand which appears in the shot belongs to someone who is Turkish Cypriot and so has fairly dark skin. We thought this may be an issue since our main character is supposed to be white and so should be represented in an accurate way. 

First Day Editing - Evaluation

On our first day of editing, we had to look at all the shots we took over the weekend and decide which ones were good enough to include into our actual title sequence. We decided on a rough order of the shots as well as messing around a bit with the special effects. Here is a quick evaluation of how the process went:

First day of editing evaluation

First day editing

First day of Editing Evaluation

In this blog post you will see a few examples of our editing and our methods in doing so.

First day of editing evaluation

The Editing Process

On our first day of editing, we looked through all of the shots we took over the weekend and picked out the ones that looked the best. We then begun the editing process by putting them all together roughly how we wanted them, although we knew that we'd probably end up changing it later on. This was to just get a rough idea of how our title sequence was gona look. We decided that the shots would only be on screen for a total of 1-2 seconds, however some shots may be extended for dramatic effect.

Screenhots of editing the shots outside the first church, and the inside of the front of the second church

Shots of inside the church as well as Finsbury Park, here we are putting the title sequence together

Screenshot of a potential sample of sound being downloaded to layer over our title sequence

Some establishing shots, wide shots of the park and the laundrette

Screenshot of us editing the shots into an inverted filter to make the shots look creepy - inverted shots can often be a common convention of thriller/horror 

Blog Post 49: Evidence of Editing Part 1

First Day of Filming Evaluation

We started filming at around 12pm. Our first location was Finsbury park and we filmed some shots of the outside area for our title sequence. We took shots of things like the floor, dirty and covered in leaves, the sun light coming through the trees and the trees itself. Some of these were worm's eye view shots and some were long and wide shots. We also filmed a man on a bicycle and a wide shot of a dog running down a pathway. One of the problems we encountered was that one of our group members was slightly late, so carrying the equipment proved to be more of a challenge. However, they only arrived an hour late so we weren't left with only the three of us for too long.

The next location we travelled to was Crouch End to get shots of churches. Since Omar knew the area quite well, he directed us to a few churches in his area which would be suitable for our title sequence. When filming the footage, we came to a realisation that some of it looked very obviously like it was filmed in London. Considering the location of our title sequence is somewhere within the Bible Belt area of the United States, we then made sure to exclude things that gave away the location too much. We made sure that the churches we filmed didn't look too Victorian on the outside since we did some research on churches in that area and came to a conclusion that they looked more modern. 

The first church we filmed, we only got footage of the outside of the structure as we thought it looked modern. We got close ups of the cross on the front as well as wide and long shots of the roof and steps. When filming, we had to make sure we didn't get any of the people in the shots and it proved to be harder than it seemed since it was a residential area and many people were walking by. On the side of the church, we discovered some pretty cool paintings in the parking lot so we decided to film them too since they looked peculiar and would fit our creepy atmosphere. However, it was starting to get dark and we had to take out our dedo light. We filmed wide shots of the wall with the dedo light moving across it and thought it looked very effective. 

The second church we filmed the outside, in the small gazebo section in front of the entrance. We used the dedo light to shine through the stained glass windows outside which looked quite creepy and effective. We also filmed close ups of the marble statues above the entrance together with the latin writing as it added to the creepy effect. We then decided to ask the church man if we can film on the inside of the church. Multiple of the shots we took were just of the statues inside, close ups and panning shots of the shrines and the pictures of the walls. 

Overall, I think we got a lot of good shots that we have now started to edit in Premier Pro CC. The day was productive, and we didn't face too many problems and they didn't impact our productivity very much. Here is a short emaze of our group members filming: 

Blog Task; First day of filming evaluation

In this blog task i am going to be evaluating our first day of filming.

We decided forehand that the first day of filming would take place on Saturday the 26th of November. After meeting most of the members of the group at 12 pm Finsbury park station, i took the members to my house where the equipment was located. We first recorded the areas of Parkling walk, Finsbury park. We took many random shots that would contribute to the eerie feel within our title sequence.
We recorded other shots at Ossian road such as the Laundrette. We then went to crouch hill to record the interior of a baptists church, and then crouch end to record shots such as the Union church exterior which would make up most of our title sequence.

Problems/Solutions:
As a whole, our first filming day consisted of almost no problems, and the problems that did occur were very minimalistic. One of the few problems we had were keeping to our schedule; the main idea was to meet up at exactly 12pm Finsbury Park Station where i would collect up all three members of the group, retrieve the equipment and have a full meaningful day of filming. Instead, one of the members had left their house late meaning that we could not keep to the schedule. We overcame this by recording whatever shots we could, then when the final member arrived we met them at Mcdonalds.
The second problem that occurred was the filming interiors of Union Church crouch end, we noticed that a service was being conducted on both the first floor and the basement daycare level. I overcame this by leading my group to the Crouch Hill baptists church where i asked the priest if we were able to record the interior, He said yes thus allowing us to get many amazing shots for our title sequence.
The last problem was the recording at Parkling Walk, there were many pedestrians walking by consistently due to us recording in a public space during day time. The only solution avbailable was to wait until there were fewer people and quickly record shots.

Filming process:The process of filming for our title sequence was very unsettled in a good sense. Our method was that if we were closest to what was available to be filmed, we would record those shots first and then travel to areas that were further away to record. As said before, the first shots that were recorded were the sinister shots in Parkling Walk. Originally we planned on recording a few panning shots and cut ins of a railway track behind a fence-this became a problem as the camera was not focusing on the fence and parkling walk was literally a few seconds away and was much more viable.
We recorded some free-hand,panning and wideshots of the forest. The tripod became very useful as we were able to record some great stable shots.
 This worked well as the context of both the music we planned to use and the location allows the viewer to get a sense of danger.
One of the shots we included were actually inspired by Donnie Darko.

After recording these shots the other shots became very useful as all the locations were relatively close by. we travelled to crouch end and made use of the tripod once more recording a ton of great exterior shots of the churches. It did become a little dark; i made use of the dedo-light and set it up for Ersila. She then shone light upon the painted wall(with children) and finished the exterior shots of Union Church. We finally went to Baptist Church and recorded shots of the stained glass, then after getting permission recording the interior of the church. We again made use of the tripod and recorded many panning shots, wideshots, a few close ups and a mid shot.
In conclusion our first filming day went very great and was overall successful.

26th November 2016 - First day filming

First day filming evaluation

On the 26th of November, our group met up to begin filming. However we encountered various problems during the process. One of which included one of our group members were late, we reminded each other that we were originally suppose to meet up at 12, however as one of the members were late we were missing an extra hand. We decided to use the time efficiently and begin to take shots and start filming, during this period at around 1pm, we began to film parks and pathways that was beside Finsbury park station.

When the fourth member of our group arrived we went and had a break at mcdonalds, we then began start filming with our fourth member, we visited crouch end to start filming the first church, however a problem occurred when we attempted to film inside the church. We were told that this was not allowed, as there were children inside due to the nursery. Therefore we solved this problem by only filming the outside of the shots as we were able to find may areas that we felt would look good in our title sequence. These shots include a painting of various people on the wall beside the nursery, when filming this, to make this shot appear more sinister, we used the demo lights to shine light one each painting of a person whilst it was dark out to create a ominous effect.

As we were really eager to get shots of the inside of the church, omar directed us to the nearest church at the end of the road. However we realised we cannot take shots of the outside of the church as it was a red brick building, something that is uncommon in the bible belt region of America. However we were still able to get some great shots of the windows, we tried to make this appear more sinister by shining the dedo light towards the glass and shaking the light around to create an eerie effect. We then asked the priest inside if we were able to film inside, thankfully he said yes. We took advantage of the fact that no one was inside the church, we were then able to take very successful shots of the inside of the church, I feel that these shots would tie the whole title sequence together resulting in a very professional and seamless title sequence.

First day of filming evaluation

Overview
Our first day of filming took place outdoors on the 26th of November (Saturday), we met up at 12 at Finsbury Park and started filming at around 1pm. Our first destination was a park around Finsbury along with some random shots of alleyways and a laundry place. At 3pm we took an hour break and then starting filming at our second location, which was in Crouchend. There, we filmed various shots of two churches and the inside of one of them. Overall, we filmed about 5 hours and finished at 7 pm.

Problems 
Overall, no big problems occurred however, we were a little bit behind schedule as there was a lot of church filming to do and travelling took up some time but we stayed overtime and got everything done so it turned out fine. Also, we had planned to film inside the first church, which didn't happen but we managed to film inside the second church with the permission of the priest and we got the shots we needed in the end. Furthermore, it was slightly harder to carry around the equipment than we had anticipated so we had problems travelling far. Luckily after we reached the filming of the church filming they were close to each other.

Filming
To sum up, we managed to complete all the park, alleyway and church filming, which we will be using for the second part of the title sequence. We got a variety of shots such as a panning shot, close-ups and medium shots.
All of our group was involved in the filming by switching positions around. We rotated who filmed with the camera and held/ worked with the props.  Sometimes the props would be very significant in the shot, like in the example below. The prop, being the light is moving from one end to another, which was moved manually by our group.

Ersila and Omar working with the prop while I record with the camera.

Sound Layering test

Sound layering test:

When looking back on our Roughcut, i realised that what hindered the progression of our title sequence delivering an impact on our audiences was the fact that it lacked any means of sound layering.
The use of sound layering is crucial in a title sequence as it sets the atmosphere as well as povides the viewers with ideas and conventions to expect in the rest of the film.

I decided to create a Sound layering test for the first 50 seconds of our title sequence.

This was is not the final version as many sounds are subject to change as well as the timeline of certain shots and sounds that may be added to the sequence later on, however this provides me and my group with a sense of direction of how we would layer our sound effects.

Non diegetic sound:
The main sound elements of this title sequence are all non diegetic. This is because the diegetic sound that was recorded alongside the shots contained audio of the directors and actors speaking. This would have hindered the impact that the title sequence would have.
I used sound effects such as walking through grass; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxHe9reNwtg
-This was because of the fact that at 0:20s you can see Diana walking through grass so i decided to match up fitting audio.
-I used the sound effect of a door closing and creaking at 0:25 because it matches what is seen on screen.
-At 0:29-32 i used a sound effect of electricity and a lightbulb turning on, this was because when the two sound effects are matched up they create a sinister and odd sound effect, not your typical sound of a light turning on.
-The idea of sinister and eerie atmosphere was introduced at 35 seconds in with the use of a drone and a looped quiet recorded voice of me saying the bible quote from exodus 22: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live"

Blog Post 48: Evidence of Filming Part 1

Blog post 42: The Pitch

Here is our final pitch prezi along with the feedback we received from our classmates and teacher. Each group member contributed at least 3 frames from the prezi in order to ensure that we all put an equal amount of effort into it.

First day filming

26TH NOVEMBER 2016 - FIRST DAY FILMING

On saturday, our group got together to begin filming for our title sequence, we were able to follow our production schedule as closely as possible, however we didn't have enough time to visit all the locations however during filming we were able to find other locations to film that we felt would be appropriate for our title sequence. We originally met up in finsbury park and then began to make our way to Omars home to help him collect the equipment. We felt as if it was best if omar kept the equipment as he is seen as the most careful out of our group. As we all began to make our way to crouch end, we found a appropriate location beside a park, we then began to film this as we felt that if we incorporated this into our title sequence it would make our title sequence appear more eerie and less artificial as our plan was to only film made made building such as churches.

We took mundane shots such as inside a dry cleaners, parks, diners, anything that would suggest we were in the Bible belt region in America.

We then took a break at 2 o clock to eat and have lunch, and whilst this happened we were able to look over the shots we took and create new ideas of how this would all be edited together as well as having new suggestions of wear to film.

We then began to make our way to crouch end as omar suggested it would be a good place to film as there was a modern church in this location, we took various images of me running and begins filmed as i do so (this is due to the fact i have blonde hair and the plot revolves around our antagonist hunting witches with blonde hair), we also found a large painting on one of the walls, although the painting would suggest something friendly (this painting was beside a nursery, no children were filmed) we thought that with a negative filter this would oppose the friendly message. We also found another church beside the one we were already at, we were able to filmed the stained glass, we also asked if we could film inside the church, and thankfully we were, we were able to get a large amount of footage here, luckily enough we filmed this in the evening so there was no one in the church either.

External Research

External Research and First Hand Photos

In preparation for our pitch on Thursday, our group decided to go out and take various photos to inspire us to create our title sequence. We all had different tasks, by this I mean that Omar and Aniela went out to Crouch end, Ossian road, Granville road, Stamford Hill to take various images of churches as that is what we plan on incorporating into our title sequence for Bible Belt.

  

Ersila visited Holloway to take various pictures of more churches and other images that will fit the title sequence well. Although this does not link directly to the theme of churches and religion, we as a group decided it would be a good idea to add images of alleyways and unkept doors as it would create an eerie atmosphere

*DIANAS IMAGES HERE*

41: Cinematic Details/Story Board

Storyboard of shots for the title sequence by Ersila Bushi 

Above is a storyboard that the group will be following when filming our title sequence. However some of the shots will vary, this is because we are creating a discrete title sequence. By this I mean there would be atlas a hundred shots in the title sequence that will be on the screen for half a second or more, therefore I was unable to fit all shots in the story board due to the immense quantity of shots however it will follow the same story line as showed above.

Blog post 32: Finding a Distribution Company

A distribution company is responsible for many things to do with the film such as buying the rights of the film, selling as many prints as possible of the film to cinemas so the film can be exhibited as well as creating a successful marketing campaign in order to draw in a wider range of audiences.

Our film will include the codes and conventions of a psychological thriller and will therefore need to be distributed by a company which has sold films of that genre before. In order to decide which distribution company would be perfect for our film, I have decided to do some research into two films that are similar to ours in terms of genre, budget and cast. 

Reservoir Dogs

The Blair Witch Project

Based on my research, I think the most suited distribution company for our independent, low budget film would be either Lionsgate Films or Artisan Entertainment.

This is because they are well known for distributing low budget thriller/horror films and so they will be perfect for our film. 

5) Institutional Detail(Omar):

Here are some institutional details on our film!

Mainstream or Independent.
Our film will be an independent film. This is because our film wont be associated with any major company. The reasoning behind this is that major companies usually contain a huge budget and team(consisting of multiple actors, directors and film associates). They are also usually able to satisfy the demand of the market as they have a huge reach to the general public.
We are an independent company for the following reasons:
Our film will be created by a small group of people(in this case being 4) and we have a generally small budget.
We do not intend to market our product either meaning we do not have a market to satisfy


Who will distribute our film:

-After conducting the research seen in Blog Task 32, i decided that the best company to distribute a film like ours would be Lions gate Films. T
-The reason i have decided on this idea is because Lionsgate Films have released many films in the past that are similar to our genre. This means that since they have experience with our genre kind of movies, they would know how to market it to the right audience.
-For example, they have released thriller films such as the Saw franchise, Blair witch and American Psycho(NOTE: We are actually inspired by this film)


What other distribution companies are similar to yours?
*New line cinema would be a distribution company very similar to ours.
 This is because they have released a ton of thriller movies in the past which would mean, just like    Lionsgate films, they have experience with managing the social reach and marketing.
*They would be able to ensure that the public would be able to identify the characteristics of the  genre the film is being marketed under.

Momentum pictures is another distribution company similar to ours. They are known as one of the top leading UK and Ireland distribution companies and have released movies such as; The Woman in black, Frozen and the Girl who played with fire.

Name some films that have been distributed like yours/if you were to make this a full feature film indicate why our distribution would be lit.
Films that have been distributed like ours would be American Psycho, Frozen, Black swan and  The butterfly affect. These films are all great as they made use of social media in order to gain a huge audience. They all made use of television ads for marketing and were featured in various newspapers/articles.
-If we were to make our film a full feature, the reason why our distribution company would be lit is:
As previously stated our company has experience with our film genre before. This means they know how to market our film in a way that would leave a positive impact on the audiences we are targeting. The thriller films our distribution company have released before have a similar demographic meaning we can reach out to a similar audience.


How would ownership affect the type of titles and credits you have.
-Ownership would affect the type of credits and titles we have as the distribution company would have more control over these things.
For example, if the movies Title Card/Title credit were to contain something that could offend a certain group of people then they would instruct us to change it-this happened with the title credits for Donnie Darko.
-Due to the distribution company being the one of the most important credits of a film, the order of the credits could be re arranged due to ownership changing the order of what credits are shown first. I.e, the distribution company would be shown first in the order of credits.

6) Audience detail(Omar):

In this blog post i will be discussing the audience detail for our film.

Core target audience?
Our core audience are men and women within the age range of 30-50's.
The reason we have decided to make this our core target audience is because after researching into target audiences on the website called you gov, we found out that movies similar to our film ranged from the same age group.
A typical audience member in our target audience would watch a lot of television. Enjoy movies that contain genres such as thriller and drama's.
Here is a picture of a typical member of our core target audience!
Wider Target audience?
Our wider target audience would be reaching out to people who aren't in our core audience.
An example of our wider target audience would be those who aren't typically interested in our genres. Other wider target audiences would be people who do not fit in our demographic or age range, such as teenagers.
Reaching to a wider target audience is crucial as it means more people will view our product!



How will you attract them to your film?
We will not be able to have a huge significant reach to all members of our target audience because we are independent. This means that we have a limited amount of marketing tools that we can use to attract our film to these audiences.
We can attract them by:
Making social media posts and posting them to different social groups that would attract different people, this would allow us to market it to audiences of different ages.
Another method would be asking people in the street if they would like our film idea, like we did in the interviews!

The photos below are examples of me collecting information on our wider target audience. As you can see i have collected information on those who are clearly within our demographic age range, and one who is not within our demographic to get different opinions!

Title credits (Diana) (36)

• The title credits will be incorporated into moving images and will actively move with the actions happening in the images. Although this will take a lot of editing, it helps the audience notice and engage more with the title aspect of the sequence. It is also useful as it makes the title sequence seamless and put together. 

• There will also be a lot of overcraking and undercraking involved, which means the titles will have to be edited to the same pace of the moving images. This is effective as it will help the audience focus on specific shots and therefore specific title credits, which may be more important than others. An example of this is seen in the 'Taking of Pelham 123' title sequence where some scenes were in fast-motion and then slow-motion for focus, taking the titles with them. 

• The font of the text will be kept a simple typography as we want the main focus to be on the moving images  and the colour will be white as this will contrast the darkness of the scenes and therefore allow a more noticeable appearance of the credit titles.

• Also we have decided to put the main actors name before the director. This is because we are assuming that he is a household name, who will bring a wider range of audience. Not only fans of psychological thrillers but also fans of the actor who may not necessarily enjoy thrillers, but would watch one if their favourite actor was in one. An example of this is in the 'Black Swan' where the name of Natalie Portman comes before the name of the director as she is a starring actress and therefore bringing recognition to the film, making a 'Natalie Portman film'. 

• The actual name of the film will appear after most of the other credits are given, in big letters and right in the middle. This is because this will help establish it's significance and stick in the minds of the audience. 

40: Risk Assessment (Ersila)

Risk Assessment by Ersila Bushi

There are a variety of different risks and complications that may arise during the filming of our title sequence which will be during two days. In this post i will be stating and explain ing then various risks that may occur, as well as solutions to these problems and also precautions we will take to prevent this from occurring in the beginning. 

Technical risks may occur during filming, this risks will eventually set our group back and therefore waste time therefore we need to find precautions so these issues never occur in the first. One of the complications that may occur is if one person has lost or damaged the camera and equipment, so much so that we are unable to use to the equiptment setting us back, as we would have to film at a later point, although this is unlikely, there still is a possibility of this occurring. Therefore to prevent this we will be collecting the equipment a day before we begin to film, this is the likeliness of this occurring decreases due to the fact it will be in our groups hands for much less time. Also we will give the responsibility of keeping the equipment to someone in our group that we find to be the most trustworthy and responsible. Another risk that may occur is if we do not have our props ready by the filming day, therefore we will create our pin boards days before filming, therefore when we are setting up to film we do not have to spend time creating our board by pinning countless images as we would have done that prior therefore we could spend that time filming. Also, there is a chance of us not knowing how to use the cameras properly, such as actually turning on the cameras, setting up the tripod, recording and packing the equiptment safely. To ensure this doesn't happen old the day so we don't waste time, our group has decided that we will either ask the technical team or our teachers how to successfully set and pack away the equipment as well as use on the week of filming to ensure we don't struggle and so we don't accidentally miss handle the equipment.

Also, there are errors that may occur due to simple misunderstanding and miscommunication as well as simple human errors. Such as, one of the risks that may occur is if our character does not arrive, maybe due to miscommunication or confusion. To combat this not only are we going to ask an actor who we trust to be on time and will know how to be professional (we will be asking friends that study drama) but we will notify them throughout the week in which the filming will take place to eliminate the chances of our actor not arriving as well as being late setting the whole group back. 

Also, there may be problems that arise on the day of filming due to problems with travel. One of the problems that may arise are cancelled trains. There fore to minimise these risks it is best two check the train times on the day before leaving the house, also incase of a train cancelling it is best to know different routes to get to your destination, for example, I have three different routes in getting to college incase a train cancels. Also when travelling with equipment there is always a chance that the camera and equipment may fall or get damaged, therefore when taking a train or tube, it is best to stand behind the yellow line (though that is obvious) incase of anything falling.

Blog post 31: Final Ideas (Aniela)

Final Ideas - Aniela 

After finalising our group's ideas, I created an emaze which summarises our ideas for the final title sequence as well as the plot of the film and a brief synopsis. In this emaze I also talk about other title sequences which have influenced us in the past and are also from the same genre.

39: Production schedule

Production Schedule by Ersila Bushi

 

Here I have uploaded a video of me about to enter a Church when on  holiday, I am posting this as these are the type of shots we will be taking or our sequence, as its quick and the camera is shakey. Therefore when filming we will have an idea we are able to follow.

Dates and times	Shots to film	Location and Setting	Characeters needed	Props needed
Saturday, 26th November	Various short, snappy shots of the outside of churches, parks, trees, crucifix, alleyway scenes, random shots of pedestrians	Crouch end churches, Granvile road churches, Enfield churches, Finsbury park	None	None
Sunday 27th November	Garage scenes. This includes various shot scenes, of trinkets, bible quotes, American flag, confederate flag patch on jacket shoulder, poloroids of glrs, pieces of hair on a desk, short shot of side of main characters face .	Ersila’s garage	Piotr (Annies friend who studies drama)	Trinkets, Bible, Holy water, Crucifix, polaroid’s , strands of hair, American flag, news paper articles on abortion, witches, republican ideals and politics