Our Final Opening Sequence...

HOPE YOU ENJOY OUR OPENING SCENE TO 'OBLIVIOUS'

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

When I look back at our preliminary task, I feel my group and I have come along way. We have used various types of camera angles, different types of mise-en-scene and we used a soundtrack that we would not normally use.
I think everyone in our group had a speciality in the process of the film. I, for example, edited and mixed the soundtrack with the footage. Salim was the camera man and director of photography. Ainsley and I were the 2 main characters. Kiyan was our funding and director.
During our planning and preparation, we all did different items to help us start our filming quicker. I did the storyboards, Salim did the screenplay, Kiyan did the product and audience research and Ainsley the location scouting.
During the course of our filming, I learnt a lot of new things, i learned that mise-en-scene plays a huge part in setting the scene. For example, the graveyard scene would of looked much better and more formal if I was in the black suite. I also believe that I have gotten a better understanding and  know how to operate IMovie09 on a Apple Mac book.

If you compare our preliminary, in which we learned about the 180-degree rule, to our final opening sequence you will notice a huge difference in the camera angles used, the soundtrack and acting.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We used many types technologies to develop this product. In the research and planning stage, we used Blogger & SurveyMonkey to gather information from our target audience. 
During our our filming, we used our new Phillips HD camera to do all our filming. Before, we had a very old camera that didn't have that good picture quality. I must admit that we were not confident with the camera, at first we we started filming in 1080p (which is HD), however our Mac books that we were using were not compatible with 1080p. We had shot the first graveyard sequence in 1080p and I was originally wearing a black suit (as shown in our original ideas). When we came to editing that sequence, we could not edit it and were forced to re-shot that scene and due to some wardrobe malfunction, I am forced to wear casual clothes. 
We also used 'Photoshop' to create the two newspaper articles in the opening sequence. We got a sample page from the Sun and The Guardian and erased certain parts if the front page and edited it with pictures of Ainsley character Tyler. We used IMovie09 from our school's Apple Mac books to edit our footage together.

How did we attract/address your audience?

We did not want to go with the rest of the other groups in our class that made opening sequence for a movie. We chose a thriller but more specifically a psychological thriller because we knew we could do a lot with that genre. Also, the 'thriller' genre is very broad, which consists of many sub-genres such as conspiracy thriller (The Da Vinci Code & JFK), political thriller (The Men Who Knew Too Much & State of Play)  and spy thriller (The James Bond Series, The Bourne Series & Mission Impossible Series). Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most famous and pioneer in psychological filming.

 We chose a psychological thriller because our main character's struggle is not physical but mental. We could play about with our ideas and confuse the audience. This is what we exactly did in our opening sequence, we played with the audience's mind. 

One person commented on our movie on Youtube saying "The scenes flowed really well and makes me want to see more". 

Many people I have showed the video to said the sense of confusion creates a good feeling and also wants to make them watch more. However, many people said that they were confused and did not get what was going on. Many if not all said the choice of music was very good and fitted with the tone of the movie.

Who our Target Audience is

I think that our target audience is aimed at young males aged around 18-25. Our movie is a gritty urban supernatural thriller, sort of like 'Attack the Block'. It is set in South London, a very urban and youth populated area. Our movie also stars fairly young actors. 
I don't think our film will get many female viewers as there aren't female character in this,it is mainly male predominant. There are no female characters in our opening sequence, they are just mentioned in the opening credits. However, they still might go to see it due to our cast, which they may find attractive. This populorised by the hit TV show 'Supernatural'. The content of the TV show is rather poor, but due to the good looking cast, many females and a few males, watch it.
I strongly believe that many youths would go and watch the movie as it has almost every element that a youth looks for: it has thrilling sequences that startles the audience, it is set in the urban area's of south London, and many people can relate to a death of a close friends or family member (not necessarily the haunting, but the loss of a close one).
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This is a clip from the film 'Attack The Block'.
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Companies that would endorse our film

The two film companies that I think would endorse our film are Vertigo Films and Verve Films.
Vertigo films is independant British film company which is situated in Kentish Town. It has distributed films like Bronson, London to Brighton, Street Dance 1 & 2, Doghouse.

Verve films is also an independatnt film company which are passionate in discovering new talent. Since the company was founded in 2003, it has made hits such as Red Road, Bullet Boy, Dogtooth and The Arbor.

The reason i think these two companies would endorse our films is because we have new talent (which Verve are very passionate about; over 75% of their releases are from first time feature directors) and Vertigo because it has a range of thriller's, especially British horror's and thriller like Outcast, Wake Wood and 1 Day.

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"How does your media product represent particular social group"

In our opening sequence, my character (Dhylan) seems to be weak and powerless against the haunting of Tyler. Even though in the opening sequence we use the low angle shot to show that he is powerful, in fact that he has no power what so ever, he has no control over the situation. The whole power actually in control of Tyler. We have represented Dhylan to still be emotionally connected to Tyler as he is visiting his grave.

Our opening sequence has not got any female characters, yet we have a few female names in the beginning credits.  Our film mainly male dominant, our opening sequence is very male dominant. Our characters are around 19-20; Tyler and Dhylan are both more or less the same age, in fact all the characters are all similar age.