Up to date - Print Production - Draft 3

Things still to do

Front Cover: Finalize my decision on the colour scheme

Contents: Do columns, alignment and possibly add a background

Double Page Spread:  Position pull quotes and article properly. Also replace temp image in the bubble with real one, possibly do critic review & text to picture alignment

Updated Print Production - 2nd draft

THINGS STILL TO DO
Front Cover

• Adjustments with the choice of colour scheme 

Contents

• Page numbers
• Webiste
• Magazine Title

Double Page Spread

• Insert the pull quotes -  REALITY AND FANTASY ARE NOT ALWAYS CLEAR & THE KISS OF DEATH THEY TOLD ME ABOUT IS REAL!
• Tidy up image used
• Remove drop cap from stand alone
• Make image full length of page 

Print Production - 1st draft

BFI - Notes

Concept: Exchange

Cinema has a traditional model, customers pay for subscription/ticket in return for a cinema experience.

Types of Audience & Theatrical Distribution

• Art house: BFI,Independent cinemas; low budget films
• Multiplex: Large cinema chains; Vue & Odeon 
• Cross over

British Sub Genres

• Heritage: Nostalgic, Rose tinted view of British History
• Social Realism 
• Franchise Films: Offer similar audience pleasures to other blockbuster films and fulfills expectations of international audience 
• Horror: Tradition of going back to Gothic 
• Urban Fairy tale Rom Com 

Why do people watch British Films?

Uses and Gratifications for national audience?

• Information/Education: How do other British people live? What are the issues affecting the UK?
• Social Interaction: 'Crowd Pleasures' (social viewing), Oscar nominations (conversation point)
• Personal Identification: National pride, solidarity,aspiration, glamorization,reinforcing/rejecting values
• Pure Entertainment: Spectacle, escapism, adrenaline (thriller/horror), catharsis (+emotional intensity)

Uses and Gratifications for US/international audience?

• Information/Education: historical/literary figures,contemporary celebrities/royalty
• Social Interaction:'Crowd pleasures' (social viewing, Oscar nominations (conversation point)
• Personal Identification: Solidarity with subcultures/marginalized groups rarely represented in mainstream cinema 
• Pure Entertainment: spectacle, escapism, adrenaline (thriller/horror), catharsis (+emotional intensity)

Film Examples

Franchise: Kingsman: The Secret Service

What would a UK audience like about this film?

• Offers the pleasures of other blockbusters
• Personal Identification - Through the dialogue: "Sick": Words the younger audience understand
• Social Interaction
• Pure Entertainment  

What would a US/international audience like about the film?

• Pure Entertainment 
• Adrenaline - Stately Homes
• Typical Stereotypes

Heritage: A Royal Night Out  - 'art house'.'multiplex' or 'crossover/prestige'?

What would a UK audience like about this film?

• Personal Identification
• Tourist Marketing Strategy
• Presents the past as a spectacle, museum aesthetic: Visual Pleasure

What would a US/international audience like about the film?

• Information/Education: Royals
• Social Interaction: US does not have a monarchy 

Social Realism: The Selfish Giant - 'art house'.'multiplex' or 'crossover/prestige'?

What would a UK audience like about this film?

• Personal Identification - Focuses on working/underclass characters

What would a US/international audience like about the film?

• Information/Education: Doesn't sugar coat the issues it looks at 

Other notes

• Opposite of heritage cinema
• Deals with social problems
• Challenges the audiences comfort zones
• Prestige Film: Made on a low budget, but makes huge profit due to the incidence interest

Horror: The Woman in Black - 'art house'.'multiplex' or 'crossover/prestige'?

What would a UK audience like about this film?

• Pure Entertainment (Horror,Adrenaline)

What would a US/international audience like about the film?

• Stereotypical British heritage film - Mansion House, British Actor (Daniel Radcliffe) 'Proud to be British' 
• Adrenaline 

Other Notes

• Offers costume drama - added sex & violence 
• Rivaled US horror which has stricter censorship rules 

Urban Fairy tale Rom Com: One Day - 'art house'.'multiplex' or 'crossover/prestige'?

What would a UK audience like about this film?

• Offers typical pleasures of a British Rom Com film

What would a US/international audience like about the film?

• Information/Education: London Landmarks
• Typical love story conventions
• Set in contemporary London (Other recognizable locations)
• Middle Class Audiences

Institutional Case Studies: Vertigo and Warp Films

Background Information:Warp

• Formed in 2001
• Started as a off shoot electric music label
• First Release: Short film on DVD

Production: What are the media products?

• Bedroom producer ethos 

Other Notes

• Network already established as Warp X developing lower budgeted films 
• Developing talent
• Warp used low budget to inspire creative freedom 
• Cross Media Synergy: Film Four, Screen Yorkshire, BBC, Channel 4 & Sky's Playhouse (Last Panthers) 

Background Information: Vertigo

• Main Aim today: Create commercially sustainable independent films
• Create/Identify new talent: Give them a big break in the movie industry
• Formed in 2002
• Created to produce & distribute 2 films: Football factory & Its all gone Pete Tong 
• They try to stay away from producing prestige films

Distribution: How does the institution make the product available to the consumer?

• Dedicated sales and distribution wing
• Ancillary Sales
• DVD
• Pay Per View
• TV

Marketing: How is the audience targeted?

• Wide range of products - Horror, Family Friendly
• Well known celebrity actors - Audience can associate with - Danny Dyer

Cross Media Synergy - Multiplatform?

• Teamed up with Simon Cowell record label - Syco: Worked on developing Britain's Got Talent Winners

Other Notes

• Very distinctive brand identity
• Distinctive amateur film making with a market
• Aimed at middle ground between art house & multiplex cinema audience

Film Examples

Monsters

• National Audience appeal: Pure Entertainment 
• International Audience appeal: Pure Entertainment, Social Interaction
• Low Budget: $500,000
• Domestic Box Office: £237,301
• International Box Office: $5,402,429

Streetdance 3D

• No1 in UK in the first week
• Most expensive film made to date
• Budget: £6,700,000
• Global Total:$17,695,464

Dead Man's Shoes - Warp Films

• First Feature
• Largely Improvised shooting - No shot list, storyboard etc
• Punk Rock attitude to film making
• Shane Meadows (2006) 
• Low Budget 
• Committed Cast

  

   

Photoshop Tutorials - Print Production

Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Pixel Explosion Effect Tutorial

Dispersion Effect Tutorial

double page spread feature

Progress Report – 20 January

• Work completed since 6 January

- Since 6th January, all pre production work has been completed and a small portion of the filming for the film has been done. As well as this, as of today I have also completed the photo shoot for the images I wish to use in my print production. I think that having these things completed for both the group and individual task, puts me in a good position as I am confident that I can meet the deadline. Also, having the photos done for the magazine means that I can now go onto experimenting on photo shop looking at how my magazine will look and brainstorm ideas of how to make it appealing to the typical art-house audience.     

• Any incomplete pre-production tasks

- To the best of my knowledge all pre production tasks are complete and uploaded to the blog as final copies. Individually, I will be putting the storyboard into my folder either in today's lesson (22/01/2016) or by next Wednesday as it is the piece of the pre production tasks that I have completed. 

• Next steps/Action plan

- The next steps for me to complete my coursework will be completing the filming with my group and editing it. As well, has completing the filming next steps also include starting to assemble my magazine on Photoshop piece by piece which will eventually become my final magazine. Further steps to my action plan are to make sure that everything necessary is in my folder. Once the group work and individual tasks are completed then as a class we will be doing our evaluations. Overall, I want to ensure that I meet all the deadlines and complete work to the best of my ability.   

• Date filming will be complete

- As an estimation, because the majority of the filming will need to be done at the weekends and after school I think that it will all be completed and ready to edit by half term. However, this is an estimation that has not be discussed with my group.