What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Different types of media use in 'A Guide to Kill.'
by: CharlieJonesCJ

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

What kind of media Institution might distribute your media product and why?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who would be the audience for your media product?



Video Maker - Powered by GoAnimate.


To sum this question up. We decided to look at the seven different types of Psychograhics and the different groups of audience and decide which we believed would be interested in our film. The video explains our answers and the direction we decided to take the film in.

We also looked at what the British Board of Film said about the requirements for making a film for a certain age. We decided that it was best to aim for the age of 15. If we were to make the film with more gore and violence it would mean it would be an 18, this is something Tarantino doesn't sacrifice, many of his films are 18 and notorious for their violent content. However we didn't want to make it a 12 as this would restrict our freedom when creating the film. We have one Tarantino like moment when my character spits out the blood. This tells people that it isn't suitable for younger people as it does have blood and violence. Yet it isn't so explicit to make it an 18. This is why we refused to show mu character getting beaten up. 










 




The choices we made highlighted the audience we wanted. The use of dark lighting and suspense clearly shows the thriller convention. Many people like to watch a film for its suspense and our job was to ensure that there was suspense. This was partially down to lighting.

Also the use of font on the credits had a very modern, sharp edge with again adds to the element of action and thriller. Also we had them appear and disappear in the corner of the video, very much like The International, which again highlights the element of thriller as we have taken inspiration from this film.

Also the use of the 'action-thriller' sub genre is a huge hit and many people enjoy this kind of film. When looking at this kind of film and the way it sells, the audience we targetted are very interested in our chosen sub-genre.

Also, the use of music is key to our audience. It has an underlying, tense bass tone which adds to the tension of the film. This then changes at the end when we introduce the title, the use of the techno beat at this moment is music that appeals to a younger male market, it kicks in their adrenaline and also gets people on the edge of their seats, excited for more. Which is very much a key issue with Action films, if they don't get you excited, you've done something wrong. We wanted to ensure that this didn't happen.

Here is the soundtrack alone which shows the conventions of an action thriller. This was cleverly created by our Sound man Brolin. 

Here are the results of the survey we filled out on teenagers taste in films and genres.

As you can see, some people chose action however nobody chose thriller, what this showed us was that trying to appeal to a younger audience may not be worth it as they don't seem to like thrillers, however we decided that the larger the amount of people that we can appeal to, the more money we could make, this is why we use a fast, techno beat in order to heighten the action aspect to appeal to more teenagers.

How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/address your audience?

Here are 3 clips of my film. They highlight the decisions I made and why I made them according to the genre conventions and how I wanted to engross the audience. 

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

 

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The British Film Industry

Case Study: Notting Hill directed by Simon Michell.

Working Titles produced a romcom starring famous British actor - Hugh Grant and famous American actress Julia Roberts. It was going to be the next big Rom-Com. They used a huge budget of $43 million. It was distributed to a huge number of cinemas and it made a huge budget of $363,889,678 worldwide. In it's first week in the box office it made a total of $27.7 million. In 1999 it was the highest grossing romcom. It was then overtaken by 'Runaway Bride' which also starred Julia Roberts. The film was released on the 21st of May and released on DVD on the 15th of November, in the present day, a film is released on DVD very soon after it is released in the cinema so it is still popular.

Working Title was established in 1983. It was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyff. They are now opening a TV division of the company so they can Produce film and TV.

The film is British, the people working on it were British, however it had many American Investors so they could have enough budget to create the film. This could mean they sacrificed their vision in order to get investments from many different companies.

This is a major dilemma for the British Film Industry as they have to resort to American companies in order to get enough capital for the film, whether that is American Distributors or American Investors.

Main Task Script

Here is the script for our main task. I think it highlights the main conventions of a thriller.

Indie vs Blockbuster

I looked at the distribution end exhibition of and Independent film and a Blockbuster to draw comparisons between the two and how different they were.