Final Film

Evaluation

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




2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

                                       
4) Who would be the audience for your media product?

5) How did you attract/address your audience?

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing  

Question 6 from That_Taylor_Kid

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

Preliminary Exercise

Production logo for our group

Before actually deciding what our group wanted to call our own production logo some research was conducted into other logos which we could use as an examples for our own. After looking through a range we found that a lot of the titles have puns to them, like how 'Reelium' on the right is a play on the gas 'Helium' which then goes with the logo's image of the film reel that is acting as a hot air balloon which Helium would be used to inflate so it could fly.

After some discussion we as a group decided to call our production company 'Pork Pie Productions' because we enjoyed the alliteration of the three 'P's and we had a good idea for what we could then link in with the logo. As with the other examples shown here, we decided to include the image of film reels and the actual film in ours, which works well with the fact that Pork Pies are round so would be easy enough to make with minimal photoshop skills that the group has.

Something else that we noticed as common in all three of our example production logos is that the name of the company is always underneath the logo picture. In 'Grow production' and 'Locomotive production' logos the text featured is all in capitals, whereas on 'Reelium' the whole titles are in lower case letters. 

Music/ sound effects for our film

Throughout our film, we used a range of different sound effects and tracks. All the tracks we used are listed below:

News Jingles:
https://www.freesound.org/people/mansardian/sounds/61320/
https://www.freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/105981/

Title & Running Track:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1010820/paranoia

Static:
http://freesound.org/people/Jace/sounds/35291/

Tension:
https://www.freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/164774/

End stuff:
http://freesound.org/people/genelythgow/sounds/203725/
http://freesound.org/people/thenudo/sounds/146765/

Explosion
http://freesound.org/people/Johnnyfarmer/sounds/209769/

Rumble:
http://freesound.org/people/DanielsonIII/sounds/68396/

7 samurai running scene

7 Samurai running scene. This links in with the running scene in our film as it shows more than one location with people running

Character Profile of Enemy Characters

Enemy-

Soldiers:
No.1
Name: Alina Bashkov
Age: 20
Occupation: Russian Army
Appearance: Brown hair, ponytail, black uniform, brown boots, leather jacket, medium height
Characteristics: leader, bossy, loyal, ambitious
Role in the film: As the leader Alina of the enemy Russian army squad sent into the building she can be seen running across a field at the front, leading the way.





No.2
Name: Vera Aleyev
Age: 20
Occupation: Russian Army
Appearance: Medium height, blonde curly hair, ponytail, black jacket and trousers, black shoes
Characteristics: Determined, loyal, patient
Role in the film: Following her leader Vera can be seen running in a single file line straight after Alina.







No.3
Name: Maya Olenev
Age: 19
Occupation: Russian Army
Appearance: medium height, short brown hair, slightly curly, black clothing, Dr Martens boots
Characteristics: loyal, adventurous, devoted,
Role in the film: Maya is the last of the running soldiers that is visible on screen running across the field behind Alina and Vera.


No.4
Name: Boris Kuzmin
Age: 21
Occupation: Russian Army
Appearance: Medium height, brown hair, large gun, white and navy shirt, black trousers and black shoes
Characteristics: Funny, loyal, unintelligent
Role in the film: Although Boris cannot be seen running across the field with his fellow Russian squad members, he is later seen walking up the stairs with Olga sneaking up behind Yuri brandishing his gun


No.5
Name: Olga Lukowskaia
Age: 19
Occupation: Russian Army
Appearance: Medium height, long dark hair, phonebox red streaks, grey shirt, black trousers, black boots, large gun, punk jewellery
Characteristics: Mean, rough, loyal
Role in the film: Olga is seen walking up the stairs with Boris, intimidating Yuri with their large guns which is the only place that we actually see her as she is not seen to be running across the field with the other Russian squad members




Other:
Scientist - 
Name: Dominika Mirskii
Age: 19
Occupation: Scientist
Appearance: Short, long blonde curly hair, slightly too big labcoat, staff pass on a red lanyard
Characteristics: Educated, devoted, naive
Role in the film: Dominika is one of the lucky scientists that is working on the Nuclear weapons for Sebastian Markov, during a video clip that is shown in the news broadcast she is seen to be shaking hands with the Russian peacemaker himself as a recognition of all her hard work in getting it done.

Music

Using the free music website jamendo.com I went through the 'action' music tag in order to find songs that would fit into the genre of our film.

Going through the tag I then listened carefully to the different songs available and the ones which I thought were the best into a playlist so then as a group we could listen to them all once editing is done and narrow it down to the ones which are the most relevant.

As of right now we are particularly fond of Speed of Sound and Paranoia.

New risk assessment

During filming we changed one of of locations so we no longer did any filming in Locke park, instead we filmed in Saint Mary's church, new burial ground, churchfields therefore we had to alter our risk assessment a little. 

Shot List Alterations

1. As a group we felt that it would be better if we removed the last shot completely, as by ending the opening of our film on a minor cliffhanger, it woukd engage the audience more and create a greater build up of tension.

 

2. Between many shots, we have decided to add in some close ups in order to show the audience exactly what has happened in scenes that may not be as clear. Close ups will also cut long scenes up, leading them not to drag, and also help when showing the expression on our characters faces.

Character Costumes

Yuri

Hair - Tied up (out of their face)

Jacket - Dark Green

Top - Dark Green Camo T-Shirt

Bottoms - Black Joggers

Shoes - Grey Pumps

Sebastian Marcov

Hair - 

Jacket - 

Top - 

Bottoms - 

Shoes - 

Risk assessment

 Here is our risk assessment for our short film

Shot List

Filming Order

Inspirational Video

Thanks to the actor who is playing our Sebastian Markov, Joshua Hinds, for directing us to this video. He thought that it would be suitable for our own film as inspiration, and when we all sat down to watch it we all agreed with this. Although the video is shot from the Point of View of the character the fights and the supernatural element are very close to our own film and this could help us choreograph our own fight scene if we go ahead with it.

Script

Locations

News Host Desk - Barnsley College Old Mill

Science Lab -  Holy Trinity

End of corridor- Barnsley College Old Mill

Office/Tea Room (with TV) - Barnsley College Old Mill

Field - Churchfields St Mary's

Staircase - Barnsley College Old Mill
Inside:

From Outside:

Final Storyboard

Questionnaire results

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Audience Questionnaire