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Evaluation Question 3

We created our own distrubution company, it is a small local distribution company, we named it Retina Productions and created our own unique logo for it.

Our distribution company is similar to 'Revolver Entertainment' this is because revolver entertainment is a small London based distribution company that only distributes small independent films made mainly by youths and home made low budget films. Revolver entertainment  started of as a distribution company only known locally in London but overtime has become more popular and known in the US and Canada. This would be the ultimate goal for Retina Productions on along term basis.

Revolver has distrubuted many small independent films for example 'ANUVAHOOD' and 'Sket'. Both films have similarities to ours based in London, all main characters are young people (teenagers mainly).

Anuvahood is a real film that is similar to our as it is small and independent and has local London aspects within the film to attracts the target audience which is young British people. 

If Retina Productions was a real distribution company, we would distribute films like 'SHANK' 'Uwantme2killhim' because both films have a unique catchy storyline, are made by small independent distribution companies and have a mainly teenage cast to attract a young audience, having young actors will allow the audience to feel a sense of comfort when watching the film as they will be able to relate to the actors.

SHANK action film, set in a dystrophic future London in 2015, where society has fallen apart, gangs have taken over and the economy is in complete anarchy. The story follows Junior and his older brother, Rager, who are in charge of a local gang, "The Paper Chaserz". They try to stay out of trouble and refuse to kill as part of their 'moral code', which is especially enforced by the strong but defensive Rager.

Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton tries to establish why British schoolboy Mark would want to stab John. The two were supposed to be friends, yet Mark claims that the crime was necessary. As she looks deeper into the crime and the two teenagers, she discovers that Mark frequented chat rooms and became fascinated with Rachel, a woman he met in one such room. With her prompting he agrees to make friends with her brother John. Mark quickly begins to fall for her, sympathizing with her tales of domestic abuse by her boyfriend Kevin (Mingus Johnston) while believing that they cannot meet because she is in a witness protection programmer. The target audience for Uwantme2killhim? would be young people based in Edinburgh like our film it has a small independent distribution company that is only known locally. This will force the film to be low budget and be available in only small local cinemas   

Our distribution company will enable us to have a restricted local release, as the films we will tend to release wont be in the charts or popular to the majority of the public. When premiering our films we will target small local theatres with a high population of young customers to show our film, Our films will be available for free on YouTube and can be seen on UK Netflix.
 we have chosen to make our films free and easily accessible as we are a small distribution company that specializes in distributing independently, low budget made films.




For digital distribution we have made our film very simple and easily acessible to our target audience by having our film available on youtube for free and on only UK Netflix. This will help make our film popular as its free to watch, we have a young target audience this digital form of distrubution  will be convent for them to acess as most young people would not want to spend money on having to by a film thats not popular or mainstream.














Our marketing and promoting strategies are all visual and easy to access.
We made a retina Productions twitter @RetinaProductio page to promote our film on social media, we chose to create a twitter account as it is easy to relate information to our target audience, statistics show that the majority of that visit social media sites everyday are teenagers and young people aged 16-24. Having a retina productions twitter account makes it easy for our target audience to follow our film details and keep up to date on any news or information.

https://twitter.com/retinaproductio


Retina Productions is a small distribution company who specialises in distributing small independently made films. Retina Productions focuses on broadcasting young peoples work, to encourage youths to get there work noticed and seen by there local public.

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click the link to view my full blog, here are some screenshots on the elements of how we attracted our audience that i focused on.

Evaluation Question 6

Different Technologies I have used

Technologies is have learnt to use

-Imacs
- Video cameras
- after affects
- premiere pro
- Blogger
- bensound

Imacs

using apple macs play a major part in getting all our work done one time to a high standard. Luckily i was already familiar with using macs as they have some differences to normal computers that can be seen as difficult to understand and use first time round. We used to macs for editing, research, blog posts, finding sounds. We used softwares on the macs like prezi and Emaze to create appealing slideshows and powerpoint. Another aspect that i used the macs for was research and planning, all my initial ideas was researched and then throughly planned. I used safari (google search engine) on the macs to do this.

Video Cameras

Using the videos cameras was one of the easier technologies we used its straight forward to use and simple to understand, we did have some trouble with the SD cards as we would always accidentally insert the picture SD card instead of the videos ones, this would be a big problem to get around whilst filming before we located the source of the problem and corrected it, this lead to us wasting filming time and have to film more during our free time and rush through the filming time we was given in lesson to keep up to date with all our filming, editing and blog posts. without the videos cameras we would have no film as we would have no way of filming our shots. We never faced any problems with storage as the memory cards had a large capacity, this made it east for us to upload all the footage as all we had to do was insert the memory card, drag it and save it on our group hard drive then we had full access to opening our footage and beginning to edit our footage if premiere pro and after affects














After Affects and PremierePro
Premiere pro and after affects were very important when it came to editing, they are both equally important when it comes to editing our clips, it creates our ideas that we have filmed into a presentable film. I am better with using Premiere pro as I used it more than after affects which made me more confident with using it and exploring it, I tried out new things as i got more used to using it some I liked and incorporated in my work and some i didn't like and chose not to incorporate however both are still equally as handy to know how to do. it is quick and simple to use. The only somewhat time consuming aspect is having to render all the clips individually. Without the use of premiere pro we wouldn't have been able to edit on a green tint, the green tint in our sequence ties the whole film together as it represents our protagonists characters point of view.


Blogger
Blogger was the easiest to use. I think that blogger was one of the most important softwares that  we used, everything we did was stored on blogger as evidence, for example
-planning
-research
-editing
-filming
- schedules
without blogger we would never have been able to be successful with our film.




Bensound
I used bensoud to find Royal free sound that my group could use.
Bensound was easy and straight forward to use but i struggled to find a sound track that all the members in my group were happy with, and one that matched our thriller genre. Overall we wasted a lot of time on ben sound trying to find the most suitable sound for our film.

Evaluation Question 7

Font for the credits

When on adobe after effects i could not find a font that would suit our genre for our title credits so i went on www.dafont.com and found a font that i liked for the film. 

Rough cut 2 feedback

pros:

- Good use of close ups throughout and a good variety of shots
- Clear Shots
- Easy to understand storyline
- good use of lighting (Shots are never to bright or dark)

here is an example of our good lighting halfway through the title sequence

cons

- However there the title credits are a little too big
- title credits doesn't match the genre
- some shots are to wide and have to much background room

This image shows a shot that is to wide, to improve this we will re shot the shot

rough cut 2 (The Redeemer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pk0ncm3VHU

Order of title credits

 1. Production Ident : Retina Production

 2. Distribution Ident : Artificial eye

 3. Title: The redeemer

 5. Actor 1: Lea Grantham

 6. Actor 2 : Jamal Sherdian

 8. Casting: Zainab Jaiyesimi

 9. Costume: Gilbert Mafesto

 10. Music supervisor: Leonard Harley

 11: Music by: Uzmah Kadeshi

 12: Edited by: Scott Neil

 14. Director of Photography: Sheridan Floor

 16. Written by: Char cole

 17. Director: Earl Davinson

Rough Cut Improvements

This shot we need to improve the POV (point of view) pace of the the second character by speeding it up and cutting it slightly, in post production.

 






Within this shot we wish to get more shots of the guy stalking/punching the main character. We feel as if this medium shot is to bland and we need more close ups of the other character.

Finally within this shot there is too much head room. To improve on this we want to break this shot up into a series of smaller medium close-ups of everything in sight.

Rough cut feed back

Pros:
- There was a good variety of shots used within the opening title sequence
- The performance of the actor was good

Cons:
-Some shots need to be re-shot, for example Figure 1. has to much head room, when we reshoot the scene will be required to be broken up into smaller shots, and not just one shot with everything in it.














-The R printed on the leg will need to be enhanced in post production, so that it glows and doesn't just look drawn on with a pen (As it obviously
was in the rough cut of the opening title sequence)

36 Final Mise-en-scene dicisions

With Mise-en-scene we choose to have the main female character dressed in bright colours (Purple) to overall make her stand out more on camera and with the surrounding area.

For the stalker we choose to dress him (it) in dark colours such as black, this was so that we could contrast between good and evil between the two characters within the opening. We also put a mask on his (its) face... this was so that the audience got a sense that either the person or the thing in the mask wasn't human, or normal.

Filming session 2

During the 2nd filming session we filmed the start of the chase scene where the main character (lea) is being followed and Watched by the supernatural being (Jamal) some parts are filmed from the perspective of the supernatural being and some parts are filmed from the main characters perspective

These shots were taken at regents canal

Filming session 1

This is our first filming session where we filmed the ending scenes of our opening title sequence. These shots include the main character (lea) waking up from her supernatural dream and a close up of her eyes is shown along with a scar in the shape of an 'R' shown on her leg

Xmas homework

Task 1

Task 2

Rough Cut

Practice shot 3 Lea leaning over tree

This Practice scene is of Lea looking around a tree in an attempt to locate her follower. This will add to the suspense due to the fact that after she has finished looking the audience will then realise that the person/ thing is following is behind her, adding to the suspense/ tension of the scene.

Practice shot 2 Lea being watched by something (POV)

Lea is being watched by something in the woods. Whilst this POV shot is taking place there will be a green filter over the screen to show that the person that is watching/ following her is not human.