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.