Sunday 26 April 2009
Friday 24 April 2009
Continuity task
Sorry for the chronological order break, but I forgot to post it at the beginning....
The Online Versions of Our Piece
Before watching know that the DVD version of the film is much better as the sound does not max out and the film is not jumpy at-all, I am trying to upload the film from my laptop at the moment but my efforts seem futile as blogger is soo slow and even with a download speed of 8.0 meg my upload speed is only 3.2 meg which is a massive pain. the school is even slower... sorry.
Brief summary of the problems we had
Problems
As we were filming we encountered a few problems. As previously mentioned we had problems with filming at the weekend because we were all busy, and so we had to film in school hours. On the week that we had set aside to film was the week of heavy snow and we only came into school on the Wednesday, where we filmed the dream sequence. The snow turned out to be a blessing in disguise as we incorporated the snow into the scene and ended up with stylised shots if we had any continuity errors then the whole scene would have had to have been re filmed as there would have been no snow. We were also the first group to completely finish filming and start editing, and because we made the decision to record our film in HD we were the first to encounter some encoding problems with the HD cameras and small other problems which were more easily overcome with more experience. We also had problems with iDVD as we could not get the menu music to play.
will be fleshed out in Portfolio evaluation
Editing
We have edited the film, but fortunately due to the amount of time the HD video took to export as a Quicktime file we were unable to post incremental updates on YouTube.
Similar media products and target audience
To reaserch other similar media products we watched three thrillers and the jason bourne series
In Bruges
Minority Report
The jacket
the bourne series
The international gross is not excessively high, bit it is impressive as the film was a British film and by using stylized shots, we hope to encourage some of the viewers of 'In Bruges' to watch 'Compromised' therefore widening our target audience.
In Bruges
Minority Report
The jacket
the bourne series
these films are Thrillers / thriller sub genre's e.g action thriller, horror thriller and so on.
Out of these films only the Bourne series and Minority report sold well, the other two films were more niche market films, and so after a group discussion we decided to try and combine the two main genres of thriller together action and psychological thriller. we decided to implement this by centering the film around 'secret' agents so we could get action in and we also chose to have a no linear plot so we could implement so psychological thrills into the film.
"The third in a series of spy thrillers starring Matt Damon took in $70.2 million last weekend"
| International Gross | $214,690,492 |
these quote shows the box office takings of the Bourn ultimatum, which is a spy thriller - much like ours - and the number is massive. this is how we targeted the main stream audience s they will associate "compromised" with the Bourne films and so they will come to watch the film, yet the more psychological thriller fans will also find the film appealing. The International gross is massive and we hope to tap into some of that, by creating a spy thriller.
In Bruges has a cult following that is ever expanding, many people like the stylized feel of the film and we have tried to incorporate this into our film with the framed shots and the snow on the ground.
| International Gross | $22,981,796 |
We liked the way the Non linear plot was used in 'The Jacket' to create the psychological thriller and we decided to incorporate that into our film through the dream sequence.
| International Gross | $9,151,847 |
As you can see the international gross is not high, it is relatively small, but I think that this is because it caters for a niche market, and our film is attempting to appeal to a wider audience, and the film could end up being a gateway for people to get into psychological thrillers.
The International Gross for Minority report is: $226,800,000. This is the biggest gross by far and the genre is classified as sci-fi, action thriller. we have created a psychological action thriller which should appeal to most of the minority report viewers.
We should therefore have a massive target audience and our film should appeal to a very wide audience of people, as we have seen what people like in a thriller film and what people do not like and we have tried to include and exclude these factors appropriately. shame i can't copyright it....
To research the target audience further we created a questionnaire, but the time scale would not have allowed us to ask and collate more than 30 questionnaires but the exercise would have been futile as it would only be 30 people of the potential target audience of hundreds of thousands. - the survey would not have encompassed enough of the target audience to make the results valid or worthwhile. the time that the data representation would have taken would have also consumed much needed editing and music composing time. If we had more time then the questionnaire would have been an excellent way of researching the target audience.
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