What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

During the process of creating and constructing our media product, (A film noir opening), the group and myself learnt of how easy it could be to actually film your own media product and edit it into its final stage. We find it to be easy as there are programs out there that are easy to get and are very simple to use for beginners but have technical aspects to them as well to make you media product all the more better. The two main programs that the group used to make our product where Garageband and iMovie. We used Garageband to make the music for our media product, (Our film noir opening), it was easy to use at it had the different genres of music and it had the correct genres that would fit our media product. Making it easier to make a track. We used iMovie to edit our film and put it together, it was rather easy to use as the placement of the tracks only involved dragging them onto a certain area on the screen. After placing all of the pieces of the film that we wanted, we had to the scenes turn black and white. Then we had to drag the music that we had created over certain scenes that we wanted to have music. After this it was easy to put the titles in and to crop certain shots. Before finishing our film, we used Photoshop to create our production logo. It was easy to use the program to get what we wanted to use for our final logo. Overall we found out that it is rather easy to create a short film without using a big budget using simple programs that are available for home use.

Who would the audience be for our media product?

We intend our film noir opening to be fit for viewing for the ages of 15 and above meaning that anyone below the ages of 15 should not see this if it was a real Noir as the content in it may be unsuitable for them and they try to imitate the film. We think this because if it were to be a full film it would have all of the conventions of a classic film noir, which usually appeal to older audiences. Such conventions are; Drug references, violence, drinking, smoking and sexual references.

This is a screenshot showing our opening track to our film noir opening. We made this in garageband using the loops available on the program. We decided that we would prefer to make out own track rather than look for a ready made track or use a fully made song from garageband.

What Kind of film institution would distribute our media production of a Film Noir opening?

Adam, Robert and I feel that our film opening if made into a full film would be distributed by a British company. We think this as our opening is of low budget and there are many British institutions out there that produce low budget films for TV. The institute that we would want to produce our opening would be Film4.

We want Film4 to produce our opening as they have there own production line named Film4 productions and they have produced a few low budget films. Films they have produce include Borat: Cultural Learning’s of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Bruno, Four Weddings and a Funeral, This is England, Train spotting and two well known films, The last King of Scotland and Slumdog Millionaire.

We think that a Hollywood production company wouldn’t be best for our opening. This is because they produce big budget films and the films they produce are always widely released in cinemas and with our opening being an independent film and low budget we believe that it wouldn’t give out a big profit if mass released. So if Film4 Produce our film opening it would be released to a select few cinemas in the UK, from this point if the film was received well and we made a profit from the release it would then be massed released by the production company, if no profit is made by the release then the production company would pull the film from the cinemas and would then either be released on DVD or shown on the production company’s TV channel Film4.

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