Finished product- One step ahead

Here is what our fully edited thriller sequence came out to look like.

Evaluation task 7

evaluation task 6

What did we learn about technlogoy in this process?

Annotating our YouTube video was a new experience to me as i have never had the need to do it before, it helped us make it clear to our viewers what was actually happening in our sequence. It also showed me how to get across what was happening in technological language which helped me develop my media terminology. It also allowed us to integrate visuals with writing

Finished annotated video

Evaluation task 5- how did you attract/adress your audience

Evaluation task 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

A brief description of Argo: Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.

A brief description of the fair game:  CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

                                              ARGO DEMOGRAPHICS

	Votes	Average
Males	266357	7.8
Females	60643	7.9
Aged under 18	3886	8.2
Males under 18	3098	8.2
Females under 18	788	8.2
Aged 18-29	168815	7.8
Males Aged 18-29	138320	7.8
Females Aged 18-29	30495	7.9
Aged 30-44	107522	7.7
Males Aged 30-44	89829	7.7
Females Aged 30-44	17693	7.8
Aged 45+	23488	7.8
Males Aged 45+	18463	7.7
Females Aged 45+	5025	8.1
IMDb staff	44	8.0
Top 1000 voters	670	7.3
US users	57745	8.0
Non-US users	269255	7.7
IMDb users	371116	7.8

                                        FAIR GAME DEMOGRAPHICS

	Votes	Average
Males	27687	6.8
Females	4508	6.9
Aged under 18	56	6.5
Males under 18	45	6.5
Females under 18	11	6.5
Aged 18-29	11111	6.8
Males Aged 18-29	9459	6.8
Females Aged 18-29	1652	6.8
Aged 30-44	15448	6.8
Males Aged 30-44	13632	6.8
Females Aged 30-44	1816	6.8
Aged 45+	4718	7.0
Males Aged 45+	4035	7.0
Females Aged 45+	683	7.2
IMDb staff	6	6.6
Top 1000 voters	398	6.3
US users	5197	6.9
Non-US users	26998	6.8
IMDb users	34744	6.8

 After reviewing this, we believe that our primary target audience would be from mainly the ages of 18-30, and that our secondary audience would be from the age range of 30-45 years old.

Evaluation task 3

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

We feel that we would want our film to be produced by Working Titles films, which is a British institution, owned by Universal studios. They have produced films such as Shaun of the dead, rush, the theory of everything, which are British based but come across as quite Hollywood, which is what we are looking for in our film.We would want our film to be released internationally, not just in the UK and US and with our product i think that it would be achievable as we would have quite a large audience for his type of film. We would need our distributor to be able to get our product out to a wide audience in order to maximize the revenue we can get back from our product. We would want our cast to be British to fit the film, we would choose them by having interviews and choosing the candidates who we felt matched the character descriptions the best.

We want our film to come across as a Mid-budget political thriller, and more of a Hollywood film than a British independent one. We expect it to be released into the cinema and to do relatively well in the box office, we expect it to make the cost of production back in the opening weekend in box office. Then later in the value chain we expect to make good DVD sales. Additionally we would release it onto netflix and other platforms such as Sky Furthermore Working title has already partnered up with other production companies and distributors in previous film, which could give us the opportunity to collaborate with more than one company as well, which would benefit our product a great deal. 

Evaluation Task 2- How does your product represent particular social groups?

In our opening sequence to our thriller we had four characters- 3 main actors and one minor.

Our first and most significant actor was Simon who played the part of- A middle class government worker. We were able to represent his character, through his actions/intentions and the way that he was clothed. Simons situation was that he had got hold of some important governmental information, which he is trying to keep away from the heavies that are after him. We wanted to represent Simons character in a positive way, with the audience believing he has good intentions with the information stored on the hard drive.

Our next two characters were Adam and Ted who both played the part of: Two political heavies, who were after the information that was on the hard drive that Simon was safe keeping. Though they had a high status in the sequence, they were of a lower class than Simon. We wanted to represent these two characters in a negative light, through their behavior and body language. We wanted the audience to feel against these two characters, as if they were the 'Bad guys'.

evaluation task 1

Coursework editing

 We started our editing on Monday 2nd March, and we used the software adobe premier pro to edit our thriller opening title sequence. We started by getting all of our rushes in an order that we liked them and they fir. So then we proceeded to add them to our sequence of action. This was done quite roughly but we just wanted to get an idea of what the shots would look like in order. We then went on to start trying to group certain shots together and making little sequences out of them, which then would be all put together and thus form our sequence.

On Tuesday 3rd March, we went straight into stringing all of our shots together, making the sequence run smoothly and all the transitions to fit and look good. We also had to start cutting clips so sound did not over lap and sound strange. Kingsley came back up and started editing at lunch and made things look a lot smoother and better. Then me and Ollie stayed behind at school from 6:30-9:00 shortly afterwards joined by Kinglsey. Here we put the final touches to the editing and then started to try and incorporate music into our sequence. We used a lot of ambient sound with high reverb as we felt this fit our sequence well, it took us a while to find the right sounds, but as we were looking through them we slowly started to find things we could piece together and incorporate into our sequence.

We started putting in our credits on Wednesday the 4th of March, we were given a list of what we were to include, and slowly but surely we began to insert all the necessary credits. We made up production companies and names of the produce, director etc.. For our titles we used the font copperplate, then font size 100 for the names and 40 for less significant words. We changed the font because the first font we used, we felt looked to plain and did not fit the sequence, however copperplate looked different and therefore we though it was a good fit. We also felt that our sequence was to long to be an opening title sequence, so we decided to start trimming down some of the shots. This took a while, however i would say it benefited us in the long term, because it allowed there to be more tension created which was what we were hoping to achieve.

Thursday 5th March was our last full day of editing, we started putting finishing touches onto the sequences. Making certain cuts smoother, moving some of the shots about and moving some of the credits around. We listened over the music to make sure it ran well within the sequence, and matched the actions that were happening on screen which would create effect. Later that evening our Thriller was uploaded to you tube.

However since then we have had to make a few little tweaks. For example we found that we had spelt association wrong in one of our titles so that had to be amended. Also we found that in two of our shots, we could hear us say action so we had cut this sound out as well. Then our video was re uploaded to YouTube with now, no mistakes.

I did enjoy the editing, however i found the actual filming of our thriller a lot more fun and interesting.