Polaroid Productions

  • Milly-Jane Peckham-Cooper 6265 Grace Redman 6274 Bethan Williamson 6357

Thursday, 24 April 2014

Evaluation Question 1

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


FOR THE OFFICIAL VOICEOVER PLEASE CHECK OUT OUR VIDEO OF ALL THE EVALUATION QUESTIONS AS MORE INFORMATION IS PROVIDED 






Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 3

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

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?





Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?


Evaluation Question 6

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



Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?



Preliminary Task

One of our tasks towards the start of of course was to create a preliminary short film sequence. In this we had to have someone walking into a room, having a conversation and then leaving.
We apologise for the characters sudden change of appearance however we were told this would not matter as the task was to see our camera work skills.

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Supernatural Vs Natural

We did research into whether our target audience was more interested in supernatural or natural films. With 19/30 agreeing that natural is better. 

We will now  choose actors and develop our plot . We want our characters to be believable to that of teenagers in society. We also want our killer to be able to look like the average teen with a tough edge 

Gang crime

One study for the Home Office found thatup to 6% of 10-19-year-olds belonged to a gang in England and Wales.

In 2008 Strathclyde Police estimated there were 170 gangs in Glasgow, with 3,500 gang members aged from 11 to 23. The previous year, the Metropolitan Police said there were 171 gangs in London.

Gang expert Prof John Pitts estimates some 600 to 700 young people are part of gangs in the London borough of Waltham Forest alone.

At least half of the 27 murders of teenagers in London in 2007 were gang-related, according to the Metropolitan Police. Officers in Liverpool and Manchester have said in the past that 60% of shootings are linked to gangs.

The majority of Britons will have little or no direct experience of gangs but they are still frightened and fascinated by them in equal measure.

This is why we feel it is an excellent area to link into our film 

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

VLOG


 video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog (pronounced 'vlog' or 'v-log') is a form of blog for which the medium is video, and is a form of web television. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. The vlog category is popular on YouTube.
Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers 
I made a VLOG mashing together footage from Grace's,Milly's and my phone to show our journey through this film opening.
This helps people get to know us and therefore be more willing to look at or buy our film after production

I used this app named Magisto. I used online tutorials  like the following to help create the best vlog I could

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9z5OKqOzp0

Promotion

It was essential to promote our film to raise awareness and deliver our film to a wider audience. We did this through Social Media. 
Due to our film being of a low budget we used free ways of spreading our film online.
However if we were a high budget film we would use ideas including bus advertisements, TV adverts, trailers before Youtube clips and Newspapers

This is an example from Youtube of advertisement



Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Development of Storyboard

This is our final storyboard that we are going to use to help create the image that we want to make a reality during the filming process.

Above shows the difference from our initial story board and the final.

We went into a lot more detail and used it a lot throughout our filming process.

Filming schedule

It was essential for us to stick to a tight filming schedule as to meet the deadlines and have time to make relevant changes

We met Monday before school to plan for the week ahead and discuss any new ideas .

After editing on a Thursday (which gave us time for nighttime to commence so we had the darkness needed in our opening) , we would film . Our lesson on Friday we would analyse footage and plan what else we needed

Sunday we went back to our location of Calverly Park to film the additions 

Our timetable is a key feature on all of our bedroom walls! 


Monday, 21 April 2014

Feedback from Audience

http://animoto.com/play/DYwtBEnVgDfGipZbjYVlRg

This is a video that displays the various audience feedback sessions we had over the time of making our film opening! This was a massive help as it allowed us to get the opinions of our target market.

Friday, 18 April 2014

Technologies used

These are the technologies we used during our process of create our film opening and evaluating it.
















Our answer to evaluation question 6 helps to explain what technologies we used throughout our process and what we learnt from them...take a look :












Scripting

Scripting. Or not scripting in our case. We have no lines in our film opening as we felt the lack of dialogue kept suspense and played to simplistic fears, The fear of the unknown.

During our evaluation however we did script. We created a film of our answers and the majority of these were scripted, in order to ensure precision and profesionalism.

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Further posts on Facebook

This has been a key aspect of our development as there must be an aspect of target market influence throughout. This is why we as Polaroid Productions felt so strongly about being on the social media sites to fully reach our target market

You Tube

We have officially uploaded 'Bellgrave Park' on to You Tube! 

Take a look...

Polaroid Productions Bellgrave Park






Health and Safety

We felt it was important to look at Health and Safety to ensure the smooth running of our film



Actors
Not putting them under physical/ psychological  strain
Rests between running scenes
Making sure our location was close to public areas (not isolated)
Make sure the area was a safe one

Location
Carpark was empty (as possible)
Had high visibility clothing between shots and if filming

Equipment 
Car turned off so it couldn't move

Title

As a group we have finally decided on our films name ...

BELLGRAVE PARK



We drew inspiration from the tv series 'Broadchurch'. We liked the idea of using a location as a name as it makes it more personal and therefore more intimidating to the veiwer. We also wanted the location to mean something sinister eg) grave. We researched into haunted and crime filled areas in the UK and Bellgrave came up. We used the 'park' due to our filming in the Calvery Car park.

IT'S A WRAP!

Well an exciting journey has come to an end! We have finished filming officially for Bellgrave Park! We have more interesting blogs to come so please carry on veiwing! 



Please carry on following,liking and sharing our film opening!

Our editing process

Many hours have been spent in this editing sweet.
Many strenuous hours but it's all worth it as we now have our final cut.

This memory stick has aided all of our editing, also showing how we have used multiple different media devises such as iPhones, memory sticks and iMac computers.


Final cut story line

Our final cut story line is now a chase scene, we see an innocent girl running through a carpark being chased by a girl of similar stature however in darker clothing with darker hair. 
The innocent girl makes it into her car and there is a moment of relief, however quickly followed by a jump moment when we see that the other girl chasing her is now in the car behind her. She then runs out of the car and runs down the stairwell, but this time the other girl has caught up with her and there is another jump moment when that girl goes to strangle the innocent one. She then strangles her to end the film opening. 

This leaves suspense and the un answered questions such as 'why is she being chased?' 'Do these girls know each other?' 
By us challenging the representation and having two girls of similar age, this makes it scarier as it makes people think that anyone could be their killer. Even the person sitting next to you now.

Here is our final film opening: 





We hope you enjoyed, if you have any feedback please leave a comment on our blog or alternatively on our you tube channel, facebook, twitter or Instagram pages 

Monday, 31 March 2014

Evaluation Questions

Polaroid Productions are hard at work preparing for our evaluation questions


Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Credits

In a motion picturetelevision program or video game, the opening credits are shown at the very beginning and list the most important members of the production. They are now usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the show. There may or may not be accompanying music. When opening credits are built into a separate sequence of their own, the correct term is title sequence (such as the familiar James Bond and Pink Panther title sequences).
List in order: (Due to our play only being 2 minutes we are focusing on the top 5 credits)
Director
Producer
Executive Producer
Top Billing Actors
The Movie Title
Key Cast Below the Title Billing
Screenplay Writer
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Original Score Composer
Production Designer
Costume Designer
Special Effects/Visual Effects Supervisor

Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Evaluation

Our most useful pieces of information?
Our director research gave us a wide range of methods of how to work and ideas. Also our research into Japanese horror helped us realise we had over stylised our film to be likes Japanese horror when we wanted a film opening more applicable to everyday life.


What do I know now I didn't know before?
We have gained a broader understanding of how to use different technologies including the Macs and iPhones, including many Apps. I personally have grown in understanding the use of transitions between clips and how to place them appropriately. 


What was our greatest challenge making this film opening?
Our greatest challenge was getting our music to fit our film due to our film and music heightening in tension at different points.Also our fractured filming at the end required a fractured sound to match  

Is there typical conventions in which our media product is promoted?
Yes, social media is a common way for low budget films to raise awareness and share their product.


What is the most effective way of promoting our product to our target market?

After looking at Instagram,Twitter and Facebook statistic in relation to our target market I saw an opportunity not only for free marketing but the ability to reach mass numbers of people quickly and effectively. 

Friday, 28 February 2014

Wednesday, 26 February 2014

First Draft

This is our first draft, our final draft is going to be adapted quite a lot however this shows our stages of development and we thought you may want to take a look.

New idea

After gaining positive and negative feedback we have chosen to improve our overall piece by putting our feedback into play. We have drawn up a storyboard of our new opening and are re-filming this weekend.We are using more close up's to increase tention and increasing the pace of the running to make it more believable.We have got into contact with a local musician and are recording a classical piece tailored to the moments of fear and suspense in our opening. 

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Editing Timetable

Here is our editing timetable! We were proud that we stuck to this and due to this managed to edit our final piece with in our deadline, even with our glitches along the way meaning re filming was needed.
We took individual time to edit and as a group for final desisions.
Our final piece shows we delegated our editing roles effectively and worked well as a group.

Questionnaire feedback

We were given feedback on our questionnaire, which we then evaluated by re watching our film opening and creating a Prezi and commentary to show this feedback. Enjoy.

Monday, 10 February 2014

Photos from filming and Evaluation

We looked through our initial shots (some featured below) and evaluated areas which needed to be improved. The following issues we felt needed to be improved:
>higher key lighting to make image clearer
>change of costume due to bare skin at night looking unrealistic 
>shots with the main character gaining more focus 
>More car scenes due to the intimacy being intimidating 


Sunday, 9 February 2014

Logo sequence


This is our 'Logo sequence' to go at the beginning of our film opening. It is the first thing the audience see and allows them to understand who the production company is behind the movie.

Here is an example of Universals one:

 Interestingly Warner Brothers change their sequence slightly for each film they produce. The logo is the same, but the colours, background and music changes slightly. Here is and example of some:

Here is Paramount's one:


Here is Polaroid Productions:(ours is a little shorter but just as effective)


Thursday, 6 February 2014

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Research development

My post before on Japanese horror helped us see the over stylised approach is not one in which we want to go down. Our aim is to create a film which is applicable to everyday life, believable and therefore scary.

I did research into films that did this, including Human Centipede 1 and 2. The scare factor comes from the fact that it is humanely possible for these crimes to take place and the crime is carried out by a member of society. 



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By researching into crime rates and everyday crime we can now get a gist on what areas we should focus on, this will be done in my following post 

Saturday, 1 February 2014

General update

We have been editing our first draft for our first draft showings and along the way have realised parts that will need to be refilmed and slight changes to our story line will be put in place. This along with the feedback we will gain from our first viewing via our questionnaires will help us to create the best piece we can! 

Monday, 27 January 2014

Production company logo sequence (first draft)


First attempt to create our production company logo sequence to come up before our film opening...
It's a little shaky and not quite perfected yet..but it's a working progress :)

Saturday, 25 January 2014

Editing difficulties

Editing was the area of our film which we found most difficult and therefore spent most time on. However the hours have paid off and we credit ourselves on our on point continuity editing! The following are problems we encountered:
We used GarageBand to add music to our opening . We had issues before using music off YouTube due to it being being Copyrighted. Editing the sound was hard due to moments of tension no coinciding  with the moments of tension is our film, meaning we had to copy and paste the slip several times and crop it, positioning moments in the appropriate places
We also had to crop moments out to deliver good continuity editing. We used quick transitions eg)jump cuts to allow a quick pace, continuity had to be on point for the opening to make sense 
We had issues with footage from different days having different lighting. Therefore we heightened the saturation and contrast. 


Sunday, 19 January 2014

Twitter posts

We have been tweeting about Polaroid productions - take a look at our twitter page @polaroidP