Welcome to Oliver Loom's AS media blog. This is where you can find all of the tasks i have completed between September 2015 and January 2016 for my AS Media Course Work.
Target Audience
Our primary target audience we have decided for our film is 14-30. We chose this because we thought this range can relate to the film well. We are setting the opening around 1980 to 90s and the opening will be based in the present day. Most people in this age group enjoy watching football. Also they will be able to get into the film as it is based around a true story.
Our secondary audience will be people outside the age range we have chosen. Also people that may not want top see the film but have a mate that does and they are encouraged to come and see it. People that like emotional films can also relate to the film as it isn't all about football and has life involved as well.
In this post is our mood board which shows pictures which represent idea's and motives for our film. It is analysed underneath.
Above is our mood board, it shows our motivations and ideas for our film/film opening. In the top left of the board there is a picture of the shot from the beginning of the film 'Saving Private Ryan' when the man is remembering his experience in the war the camera zooms into his eyes and then flashes back. We have taken inspiration from this scene and have decided to incorporate something similar in our opening. Obviously the film is football based which is why alot of the picture have football players and footballs. We have taken inspiration from a deflated football which will be in our opening shot and will stand as an enigma code for the abrupt end to our main characters career. Some of the photographs are in black and white, this is to signify that our setting is in the past. Injury is a theme in our film which explains the disturbing photographs in the center of the board. The settings are displayed in this mood board as the pictures of 'the changing room', 'the park' and 'the tunnel' out to the football pitch.
In this post i will talk about the music we are considering for our film opening.
The music we are going to use is going to be quite slow and emotive however we want it to build up into a climax when the character walks out onto the pitch. Piano and String music will be very good for this opening. Here are some of the kinds of music we are going to look into using. Occasional silences may also be effective in showing emotion, silence can make moments more poignant.
This piece builds very well but i think that there are too many instruments in it. We want the music to be extremely stripped down so there is only one or two instruments, this will make it sound more personal therefore being more emotional.
I think this piece will be perfect for the part at the beginning but it doesn't have much of a climax therefore it won't work as well at the end of the scene. The piece uses piano which is an extremely good instrument for showing emotion which is why it will work well for the beginning of our opening.
This is an analysis of the titles from the opening of the film Skyfall. I looked at the length of the titles, the role the person in title payed and the order the titles come in.
Here are some evaluations of film openings we watched in class and which i watched at home.
Roses are Red
What went well?
A lot of the aspects of this film opening work really well for example the titles which are incorporated in a really clever way. The genre is displayed clearly as teen, this is displayed by the set which is in a teenage girls bedroom, it is very bright and colorful and the music complements what you can see on the screen. The ending also adds a sense of enigma and starts the narrative.
Even better if?
The ending of the opening has very bad sound quality. I also thought that it didn't match the rest of the video. This would be better is it wasn't included because if it wasn't there then it would affect the nature of the piece.
Mother and I
What went well?
Enigma is created really well at the end of the piece due to the story line. The music choice also worked really well to establish the genre. Camera work was an effective element in this film, it worked smoothly when one of the characters walked across the house.
Even better if?
I think at the beginning there is too big of a jump, there is just a simple scene and then it skips ahead 30 years, this takes impact away from the scene. The music which comes in at the end of the scene is slightly too abrupt, it should come in quietly then slowly build up to create tension.
The Edge
What went well?
The titles are incorporated really well by using editing. The title is effective as it has a distinctive design. The music worked really well with the piece, it helped establish the genre and made some parts look exciting.
Even better if?
This piece would have been better if it was slightly shorter as it got a bit boring and if it didn't include the same name for every role as this is unrealistic.
Captive
What went well?
The music and sounds work well together to create a tense atmosphere. The mise en scene works really well with the blood and cuts across the characters face and the blood on his clothing. The shots work really well at the end flipping between flashback and real time, this matches the music also and helps to build the tension. The titles are incorporated in a really interesting way to match the mystery of the scene.
Even better if?
The only problem for this piece in my opinion is that the title is at the end, this makes it seem trailer like rather than like a film opening.
Revenge
What went well?
The editing is really well worked, the titles are incorporated very well and look effective. The foley added in in the park works well but doesn't include all sounds. There is enigma created at the end of the film which is good.
Even better if?
The first half of the piece looks more like a music video than a film opening. The colour of the titles suggest the film is going to be romantic because of the font and colours but it goes against everything else in the scene. There is a lot of sound missing from at the park, a car drives past but you cant hear it.
The Promise
What went well?
There is good narrative to the story, and the flash backs work really well. I like the enigma's which are created at the end of the piece and the music matches it quite nicely.
Even better if?
The font of the titles at the beginning are quite difficult to read. There are also quite a lot of wind sounds in the dialogue scene at the beginning.
Above is the presentation I made for our filming process presented on Emaze. Emaze is a presentation website used to make interactive slides which are more interesting than a regular PowerPoint. When I first started using Emaze I didn't like it, found it difficult to use as it was unfamiliar to me, as I got more familiar with the website it still didn't make the process any easier. It takes a very long time to flip from slide to slide on the average Emaze PowerPoint and the movements made my eyes hurt and feel nauseated. I noticed there was an 'Emaze your PowerPoint' button so I decided to start the process again on PowerPoint then upload it when I was ready. When uploading the PowerPoint I found that it didn't work on my Laptop, this could be the Laptops fault however when I did finally upload it from a desktop it still took a very long time. When the PowerPoint finally did upload I found that my video's were missing and my photo's were of a bad quality. I replaced the video's but could not find the original photographs so they had to be left unfocused. When the long process was finally finished I upladed it to blogger, then found that one of the slides had been shifted to the left and the photographs were barely on the page, I did my best to improve this but not much came of it. This is why my 'Filming Photography' slide looks extremely awkward. I think I will try and avoid using emaze in the future as although the presentations do look very impressive when complete the process is too long and cumbersome and other presentation programmes work just as well and are easier to use.
Our secondary audience will be people outside the age range we have chosen. Also people that may not want top see the film but have a mate that does and they are encouraged to come and see it. People that like emotional films can also relate to the film as it isn't all about football and has life involved as well.
