Questions and Answers

Once everything was done, it was time to answer a series of questions of the media product, here the audio clip of myself answering these questions. If you want to may chose to have this on in the background while reading the other posts to understand the relevance of some posts that have evidence that needs to be seen.
Here are the questions:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
• What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• How did you use media technologies in the construction; research, planning and evaluation stages?     

Magazine Article

This is my magazine article in it's final format utilising the style from the movie of having a black background with red under-styles, using formats previously talked about in other sections of the blog and presentations I have created, to me effective and well presented article. This page is about the editing and technological aspects of creation and editing the footage with sound and colour contrast.  
Other page transcript:

"Once all filming had been done and we were happy with it, the editing process began in earnest. This requires the bulk of the time for making a film because of audio clips being introduced, footage being perfected with lighting and transitions  and so on.

The audio was a challenge, The audio for gunfire was collected from the royalty free sources while the traffic and forest noises was taken from and archive folder used by film makers. Finally the bulk of the audio, the song 'Woke up this morning' was bought which gave me legal ownership of my own copy and wouldn't need to pay royalties to the copyright holder or ask permission from them to use it in this movie. 

 The lighting posed it’s own, unique challenges. Because I had chose to film in the dark to add a layer of tension and suspicion to the film it did that in some shots it was discovered it was too dark and we couldn’t go out and reshot due to the site being used by a construction after we had filmed, so it meant that during editing artificial enhancements had to be used to make some shots visible to the audience,. But the key issues was finding the balance between the shots that were too dark having enough exposer to make them visible or too much that looked unnatural. Overall I personally feel that the editing has vastly improved the film and has produced a film that audiences should enjoy”.

The poster: The scenes have been laid out in way that is visually engaging to the audience, by using the rules of thirds where the poster is broken into three sections width wise I have laid out the scenes used in chronological order from top left to bottom right, I chose to do it in this manner  because the film is targeted at a Western audience and that is the way that we interpret text and images on a page.

This page is about the filming and talks about incidents during filming and the overall experience.    

Here is a script of everything that is included in the article:

Director  Kieran Fallows talk about his latest movie venture Dirty Work releasing on the 29th of April and the issues that arose during filming as well as the overall film. For those that don’t know what the latest film is about, here is a short synopsis:

The film itself will be set around the time of the 90’s in a world dominated by crime, shady dealings and corrupt officials in society.

Here are his words on the film.

“Of course, trying to make a film about a different time was going to be interesting as we had to source  appropriate equipment, costumes etc. For example the car is a old Skoda used in the 1990’s and thus fitted with the time line of the film.

Filming itself  posed challenges, the location was a abounded industrial site which fits the films feel but there was no artificial lighting and it was too dark for natural to be used, instead we had to relay on using the car headlights to highlight the location, however we did find during filming that this gave the overall ascetic of it being a secluded area away from civilization. Of course filming at night can be interesting, especially when you fall over! We was filming one of the last shots and one of the actors, Bradley Entwhistle fell over because he couldn’t see a pothole on set  so that set back filming because we had to check he was ok.

I have been asked many questions about this latest film and why I decided to deviate away from my previous films genre of horror, well I did because the criminal world has always fascinated me; the backhanded deals, the violent deaths, the comradery and betrayal involved”.

All of these kind of aspects make for a good film and this is how we ended up with ’Dirty Work'. To wrap all this up in nice, neat package on how I feel about this latest endeavour, I personally feel it has been a great success and one that myself and the talented actors I have worked with  very much enjoyed  creating, I just hope the  audience feel the same way when they watch it”.

  

Before and afterwards

Here is the second version of the poster as it was on the website being used to create it, after taking in some audience feedback some changes were suggested to help improve, for example:

• The BBC films logo being increased in size so that the audience could regonise a familar company
• The text below the title could be increased in size
• The centre image could be expanded height wise to fill some of the black void, this also goes for the bottom right image as well.

Here is the improved version of the poster, not a bad piece if I do say so myself.

Poster

 The text below the title will follow the normal convention of movie posters in the landscape format in that actor names, film companies etc will be included with the connecting text like 'and' being in a smaller font size.
Because it is a small, independent film the companies backing the film could be the lottery fund, however with it being an online film the support will come from places like YouTube who are known to back films.
 However if it was to go to TV then the backers would most likely change to channels like the BBC or ITV who support public projects and independent films, for example Last Passenger (2013).








Here is a test example of the poster creating using: http://www.postermywall.com/index.php/posterbuilder


The poster above is an example of how mine will conform to the text convention and also having a main character on the poster. However mine will break the normal convention by having multiple segments from the film on the poster, however the audience will not know where from the film these scenes are from.
The scenes have been laid out in way that is visually engaging to the audience, by using the rules of thirds where the poster is broken into three sections width wise I have laid out the scenes used in chronological order from top right to bottom left, however this will most likely change in the final poster because of the way Western audiences read texts left to right.
The copyright and film company logos will be in the corner not taken by a image at the bottom and will be small and not visually striking as you don't want the audience being draw to the company's and not the actual 'meat' of the poster.

Finalisation

The film for the most part has been completed, the audio is all there and the clips are correct, it's just now publishing and starting the poster and magazine article.

The audio for gunfire was collected from the royalty free website Soundbible while the traffic and forest nosies was taken from the IMovie archive folder. Finally the bulk of the audio, the song 'Woke up this morning' was bought from the ITunes service which gave me legal ownership of my own copy and wouldn't need to pay royalties to the copyright holder or ask permission from them to use it in this movie. 

Overall creating this has been stressful working as a one man show when it comes to editing and creation but I am satisfied with the quality. 

Rough footage

 This is the footage, uncut and unedited for the extension to the product to add some more story and additional features to keep it in line with the brief and idea. One shot is missing and their are many different version to a single shot which i hope you like. 

Extension to the film

After reviewing the footage and using the best parts, I found it wasn't enough to constitute around 5 minutes of footage, I would have had to use lesser quality footage to 'pad' it out which for me isn't good enough, so I have decided to film more and add some more story on with this new footage to add a sense of interest to audience because they will see that it is part of a much bigger plan being carried out across many different areas of crime.

Currently I don't have shots because I still looking for a suitable location to film in but I do have a rough idea of the kind of shots and props I will need.
The new shots take place, of course at the end after the phone.

From the shot of the phone call inside the car it will go black for a moment and lead onto where
we see the front of the person with just his mouth showing with the phone next it listening to the message left in the previous shot. His mouth will be straight and without expression to signify now tough and powerful he his as he no longer gets excited by these kind of details, he just expects them now.

The next shot will be from his perspective of him clicking off the phone call and putting on the desk. We then see him reach to side of the phone and pick a red pencil with the same hand and lift it up to show that he wants to use it.

We then cut a extreme close up of two images on a pin board, both pictures are of the two men who were gunned down previously with a name tag below, names yet to be decided. However we only the see the top part of each one of the images with the pencil appearing and crossing through their face from the top to bottom to reveal their name below, this will repeat on the second image.
We then see the pencil follow a piece of string that has been pinned on next to their images, the pencil will follow it down in a slow, dramatic style as if the person is savouring this victory for his 'business'. The string ends a pinned on piece of text with a custom company name on and saying something like 'acquire' or 'buy'. The character will then proceed to circle it a couple of time and dot with the pencil on the text that isn't the business name.

We then get a short shot of him putting the tip of the pencil in his mouth as if he pondering something about this, like the first shot we will only see his mouth to hide who he is.

Then we get a shot of him putting the pencil down by his side and starting to take a step back.

It then goes to a shot of the pin board from the centre and it panning out to reveal the full extent of his plans, you will be able to see the one he has outlined somewhere on the board, this is done to reveal the full extent of his plans and what it will all lead to. When the whole thing is in shot, the camera will pause for a few moments to let the board sink in with the audience so they can appreciate the scale of this crime empire! This is also the basics for the menu screen that would let the online viewer click to other sections of the plan and watch them unfold and see how it will devolpe...

Finally there is a shot of him picking up the phone again but this time from a side shot from the tables perspective, he will pick it up and when the phone is no longer in the shot it will move to the shot from his persecptive of him chosing the person to call from his contacts which reveals a bit more about his business partners and friends till he stops on the one he needs (name to be worked out) then he will click on it and reach up with it and when it is out of shot on the side of his face it will move to the shot of the side of his face with the phone obscuring any details that would give away his identity to the audience, he will then say something like 'time to make that purchase Nikoli' or 'buy out the shares and begin aquisition'.
It will cut black and after a short pause the credits will start with possibly a fake news report saying the remains of two men have been found dead in what has been called a possbile suicide in their home and then the credits will start to roll...