Final Production

Task 10 Evaluation - Foundation Portfolio: Question 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final product?

From the preliminary task, we have learned many techniques with editing as the preliminary task was only a basic edit as it was the first time editing a piece. Also, we have learned and used many more shots than we did in the preliminary task as we gained a better understanding of how to use the camera as it was also shaky in the first preliminary task. We also learned about advertising our product and to what audience so that we could base the film around them. Sound plays a big part of every film and from the preliminary task we learned how to make the sound either louder or quieter and we learned how to add music in so that we could add to the atmosphere of the film.

Task 10 Evaluation - Foundation Portfolio: Question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

The different settings that we could use on the camera allowed us to take advantage of this and make it fit our film genre in a better way. This meant that we also could use a tripod to make our footage steady instead of the camera moving around and not being stable. Therefore this helped make the film improve its quality. For the editing aspect we used adobe premiere and this allowed us to learn new techniques for improving the film. An example of this was when we turned the flashback scenes into black and white. We also used the green screen to add in gunshots to make the film look more realistic to engage the audience more. We have used blogger on Google throughout all of the coursework to show our research before carrying out our final piece. This shows our progress throughout and it enabled us to embed videos and pictures as evidence for our work. 

Task 10 Evaluation - Foundation Portfolio: Question 4 & 5

Our films target audience is quite broad due to the genre as many adults would want to see it as this could of been a very popular genre when they were of a younger age. The film also appeals to younger audiences because the film features younger actors, which give the audience something to aspire too and possibly relate to aspects of the charectors personality. Our film would be mainly aimed at a male audience due to the gritty violent undertones that re occur through out the film. We feel this would be more appealing to a male audience rather than a female one. This is proven through many action films such as the die hard films having an established male following in comparison to the amount of women who would watch it. Our film would appeal to all ethnicities but would mainly have a white following due to the actors being of that ethnicity, meaning people of other ethnicities would struggle to make a connection with characters due to the lack of similarities they share with them. This doesn't mean that other ethnicities would watch the film because that would be a naïve thing to say, just that mainly people of a white British ethnicity would make up the main body of the audience. Another reason why it would mainly apply to this ethnicity is because of the fact that other ethnicities wouldn't of been able tow watch this particular genre when it was at its most popular in the golden age of Hollywood. Our film would be rated a 15 as it has strong language and violence on three different occasions. The general income bracket of the people watching this film would range from B-C2 (middle class to skilled working class), as well as there will most definitely be E class people (students) who will watch the film as well. Usually the film noir genre attracts C1 middle class but due to the upper class portrayal of the main character as well as the use of intellectual themes in the film we feel that may also attract C2 middle class so we expanded the target audience bracket further.

Task 10 Evaluation - Foundation Portfolio: Question 3. What kind of Media Institution might distribute your media product and why?

Our film would be distributed by dimension films and troublemaker studios as they were the companies that worked together to produce the sin city films. This company would produce our film as sin city is similar to our film in the sense that it features some traditional film noir conventions yet has a post modern spin on the classical genre as does our film. This shows they have an interest in a modernistic contemporary view on a genre that's been around since the golden age of Hollywood.

 Troublemaker studios most popular releases which they've had a role in are the spy kid films which would help our distribution campaign as its another series of film which show children partaking in responsible tasks and promote a more positive view on children in films. Although the spy kids films are more innocent in comparison to our film they still try and carry through the same message.

Dimension films are a studio which seem to produce more dark films scream 4 and other horrors. Again this would be good as our film is quite dark and has underlying horror roots which appear in the film.






Its hard to say what production company are stereotypically associated with film noir in modern times as these films aren't seen as very popular anymore so therefore aren't released as much as other genres which production companies know will be a huge success. Our film would be more of an independent film as with a smaller budget it allows for a bigger profit to be made and due to the genre of which it is there isn't a huge production value again in comparison to other genres such as the action genre.