Legacy Prelim

Prelim Planning

Institution

This is an Emaze Presentation about High Budget films VS Low Budget films.

Juno

Juno Task

For our first Filming task we had to re create the opening title scene to Juno, in order to prepare for this task we had to story board the scenes and put the accurate timings of each shot. Once we had planned everything we were allowed a camera and equipment like a tripod to go out filming.
Most of the filming went well however some of the shots didn't last the correct amount of time which made it difficult to edit on premier as I either had to slow them down or increase the speed which didn't fit in with the original shots of Juno. It was also hard to find similar locations and the interruption of traffic meant we had to keep re-shooting.
When it came to editing the footage it was difficult to get the timings to match as well as finding a suitable effect which matched the original.
Overall I think it was a good first attempt at filming and editing as it was only my second time using the programme premier. To improve the video I would need to cut the background noise out the clips so it doesn't play over the music and find transitions which were accurate as well as a better overall effect to the video.

Audience

Audience

In this task we had to answer some questions on the 'film&you- film industry' programme.

Media and Audience

Could the media exist without an audience?
In my opinion I don't think the media could exist without an audience, this is because the media would be creating content for no one to view which means it would be pointless and would cost media production companies lots of money. Also when creating media content there would be no target audience or specific designed media aimed for someone. Therefore the media does need an audience to exist.

Could the audience exist without the media?
This question is very similar to the other, I think that the audience could not exist without the media because the word audience actually means 'assembled spectators or listeners to public showings such as films, concerts and the media'  this shows that for an audience to exist they need to be part of a viewing from the media. On the other hand an audience could physically and realistically exist without the media but in today's society the media has a big influence on our lives as well as updating us with what's going on (the news). Therefore if there was to be no media it would feel like living in the stone ages to this generation.

Who creates the content of the media?
I personally think that the media creates the content of what we watch and the audience chooses weather they feel if it's worth viewing or not. This could then influence the media's choice of content and what they produce as they can see what the audience is viewing and how popular it's becoming.

Does the media control the audience or the audience control the media?
I believe that both the media and audience heavily rely on each other, however the media in my view has slightly more control over the audience as it controls and produces what we watch. An example to show control of the media would be editing e.g some beauty or clothing models may have been completely edited and look extremely different from their original pictures or videos, however the audience will not see the original copy we only see the finishing product. Therefore to some degree the media does have more control over an audience than the audience has over the media.

Film Pitch

 For this task we were put into groups of three and given a random genre and target audience to produce a suitable film. My group were given the genre comedy and the audience was aimed for teen girls, within the group we came up with film ideas and how we were going to pitch this to an audience. We created a PowerPoint to present our ideas, this includes the main theme and story line of the film. It also shows what actors and actresses we felt were right to play our characters as well as information on the specific characters featuring in the film. I personally felt like we came up with good ideas for the film genre we were given, however they were heavily influenced by other films which made it perhaps unoriginal and quite predictable in some areas.


For our film pitch evaluation we received a lot of positive feedback, with every feedback form saying they would buy the film rights of our film  'The Wedding'. However quite a few people stated that they thought that the title of the film was not original and wouldn't make them want to watch it. We also had quite a few negative comments on the question 'is the film different' many responded saying that its not different and is to heavily influenced by other films such as Bridesmaids, Hangover and Were the Millers. On the positive side of things we had lots of ways to market and advertise our film which everyone agreed with.