Threat Level Midnight Poster

Poster Textual Analysis

Poster analysis from nathanbrown1998

Evaluation - What We Have Learnt

This post addresses the question:

Looking back at your preliminary, what progression have you made from this to your main task?

Audience and Distribution

This post addresses the questions:
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract your audience? 
What kind of media institution might distribute your product and why?

Social Group Representation

This post addresses the question:

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Threat Level Midnight - Director's Commentary

This post addresses the questions:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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

Action Plan Week 10

Week 10 from nathanbrown1998

Audience Feedback - 3rd Draft

Audience feeback 2 from nathanbrown1998

3rd Draft

2nd Draft

Action Plan Week 9

Week 9 from nathanbrown1998

Audience Feedback - Title Cards - Updated

Brief update on the audience feedback we received and how it is affecting our project. We have decided to cut the colour nobody liked and use back to back title cards using the same colour which we think when timed with the lull in the music creates a really nice effect.

Split Screen

Splitscreen from nathanbrown1998

Sourcing Stock Footage

For our project we needed a shot of the sunrising for the opening sequence. Due to the time of year and the weather we could not achieve this shot so we had to source some free stock footage. WE found some without any copyright on it and have proceeded to use this as ours.

1st Draft

Action Plan Week 8

Week 8 from nathanbrown1998

Raw Footage

This is a compilation of all of the raw footage that we filmed, before putting it through any editing.

Filming

Filming from nathanbrown1998

Risk Assessment

Risk assesment from nathanbrown1998

Audience Feedback - Title Cards

Audience feedback title cards from nathanbrown1998

Action Plan Week 7

Week 7 from nathanbrown1998

Title Cards Updated

Title cards updated from nathanbrown1998

Title Card Production

Title Card Production from nathanbrown1998

Action Plan Week 6

Week 6 from nathanbrown1998

Updated Storyboard

Funding

Audience and Marketing

Permission For Copyright

Here we are requesting for permission to use the song that will we be using in our opening.

Prop List

Prop list from naathanbrown

Synopsis and Brief Character Summary

Characterisation from naathanbrown

Storyboard

Action Plan Week 5

Week 5 from nathanbrown1998

Action Plan Week 4

Week 4 from nathanbrown1998

Movie Title Brainstorming

Zoom in 75% to read properly.

Dyer's Star Theory

Action Plan Week 3

Week 3 from nathanbrown1998

Textual Analysis: Drive

Textual Analysis: Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

Textual Analysis: Hot Fuzz

Questionnaire 2 Evaluation

Media evaluation 2 from naathanbrown

Questionnaire 1 Evaluation

Questionnaire evaluation 1 from naathanbrown

Action Plan Week 2

Week 2 from nathanbrown1998

Feedback Video

We used this video to form our second questionnaire. It gave us more qualitative data about our idea rather than just the quantitative data we had previously.

Questionnaire 2 Results

Our 2nd set of results was based on the exact same sample of people to keep the results fair. For this we asked questions to see how we should style our idea. People preferred no voiceover and would like music to be playing during the title credits. They also agreed that title cards for actors names etc would act better than text just overlaid upon the screen. People also agreed that you don't always need a big action sequence to open a action movie but they did however say that the music needs to feel dirty and fast and the whole opening has to feel gritty and intense to match. This doesn't mean that you don't need to have slow building shots but they do need to feel like they mean something. This information that we have collated will allow us to better shape our vision. This questionnaire was formed from the answers we got from our feedback video and this allowed us to get more in-depth on this.

Questionnaire 2

Questionnaire 2 from naathanbrown

Questionnaire Results

Our results show that there is a clear preference for our 3rd idea. People stated that they were more interested in a intro that set the tone and mood and introducing the characters opposed to a big action intro. However people showed a clear preference for action movies in intro and what they like to watch. Using all this data we will form a 2nd questionnaire more tailored towards finding out more in-depth information about this. Our data was also highly unbiased and had a good spread of people in ages and gender.

Questionnaire

Questionnaire from naathanbrown

Initial Thoughts

Main Task Brief

Main Task Brief

For our main task we have been asked to produce a 2 minute movie opening including opening credits. The task includes researching the genre, working out a story board, writing a synopsis and finding props and cast members to film the opening. We have elected to do a action style opening whit it being fast paced with hard music below the opening credits.

Action Plan Week 1

Week 1 from nathanbrown1998

Evaluation of Preliminary Task

Evaluation from naathanbrown

Storyboard for Preliminary Task

As you can see, on the bottom of the first page of the storyboard, we had a two shot planned. We decided to cut this shot when filming because as the first character enters the room in the previous shot, the camera pans and follows him as he sits down, which already creates a two shot of the two characters facing each other. To cut to another two shot from this would be unnecessary and jarring, so we decided to go straight into the shot reverse shot.

Finished Preliminary Task

Editing the Preliminary Task

Media editing from naathanbrown

Preliminary Task Research

Media research perlminary task from naathanbrown