Task 1 - Real media product

Again a picture of the main police man,named Russel.Its a close up while he is looking at the papers the young girl was drawing onto. He is wearing a suit which represent that he is upper status also in his job. In the back you can see the glass wall where you can not look outside but when you are standing outside you can look inside.


This is a bird-eye shot, where you can see our set. You can see the two actors and all the papers laying around where the young Girl was drawing onto. Its nothing in the room exeps a chair and a table where you can already think about that it could be a police office.


This is how our glass wall worked. You could look inside but not outside. You can see one guardien who can see at the young Girl but the young Girl not at him. He is watching while he is writing something onto the wall.


This is Lou from the back while she is writing the cordinates onto the glass wall. From ouside the others are watching and Russel is still in the room.


This are the three guardiens which are watching what Lou and Russel are doing. They are finding it out on the end. They also represent attractive guardiens, for example they wearing suits.


This is the main police man in our thriller, he is watching inside Lou to find out what she is thinking and what she wants to tell everyone. He should represent an attractive and 'cool' police man who can handle any problem.On this picture he is holding up the star which the young girl was drawing. He is showing it to the other guardiens who are standing outside and watching what the girl is doing.


This is a close-up of the main character. Who is a young girl which has the devil in her. We tried to make her look scary and mysterius.In the thriller she is drawing a star all over a lot of papers, after the police man is showing it to the others, is she standing up and is writing something around the star onto the glass wall.

Task 2 - Representing particular social groups

How does your product represent particular social groups?

Our thriller is about a young girl who is possessed by the devil. A film which could be a bit the same is Girl Interrupted. Girl Interrupted is an American drama feature film with Angelina Jolie and Woopie Goldberg; about a teen’s 18-month stay at a mental institution. It explores the themes of drugs, suicide and teenage life. This related to five because of the fact that they don’t actually know if she is mentally ill or not, which could be the case of our child character.

In newspapers they have many articles about young people and crime. Our film is also about young people and crime. Our film is about a young girl who is arrested and the guardians tried to find out what is happening to her, they find out that she is possessed by the devil. However they are unsure whether she has mental health problems or is the victim of demonic possession.
In the society today people don’t believe in things like devil so they look for another reason to blame, like drugs or mental health. This is related to ‘Girl Interrupted’.
All in all I want to say that many films are related to that kind of thing, because the audience and society don’t believe in the devil they think about other things like drugs, crime or mental health. They don’t believe in other things.
Newspapers concentrate on young people as perpetrators of crime. This is shown by how they refer to young people as Chavs, show them with hoodies and talk about rising drug, alcohol and knife crime among young people. Newspapers don’t talk about mental health problems because they prefer to talk about young people as folk devils to the moral panic of rising crime. An example of this is when a shopping centre banned young people last year because they wore hoodies the moral panic created by the newspapers caused this to happen. Our film attempted to subvert this theory by looking at mental health issues amongst young people and looking at them as victims rather than perpetrators of crimes.

Task 3 - Media Institutions

1.

For our Thriller, named ‘Five’, which is about a young Girl sitting in a police office and a guardian is watching her. I would use the institution ‘Lions gate’, Lionsgate is a Canadian entertainment company that has existed in different incarnations. The current company was formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, but is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA. As of 2007, it is the most commercially successful independent film and television distribution company in North America.
They have made for example ‘Saw’ or ‘My bloody Valentine’. Specific they make horror movies, with low to medium budgets but still in a good quality of horror pictures so it looks very realistic, like for example in Saw the wounds and blood.
Lions gate would be good for our movie because we also working in a low budget but still want it realistic. So we could have more money for advertising and so many people would watch it although it is a low budget movie and probably not in the cinema’s so they would also be able to promote it on DVD That is how we could get more money than we paid for the film itself. Because almost the same reasons we could also use the Institutions ‘Hammer’ because it is one of the biggest British Film companies and based on thrillers. Also because they are really professional and if I would do a movie a want he to get popular and for that ‘Hammer’ is one of the best companies.
2.

Here are the URLS which will help you track the activities of the global media corporations. Some of them are very open about the links between their operating sectors. Some are not. Check out the investor’s information they provide in order to get a clear picture of exactly how huge a slice of the global media these companies own. Like: Disney, Sony, Time Warner, News Corporation, Viacom or Seagram.
They advertise through the Internet, Magazines, TV/Radio, Film or Music.
Media institutions are companies which get paid from Film makers. From them they get all the props and technologies also studios. They also have a lot of connections which helps when you want to have actors or advertising in TV or Radio. If you want to do a good movie/high concept and want the movie in the cinema’s you have to choose your company very good.
Media Institutions are an organisation that provide media content and supply the context within which media products are produced e.g. the BBC or News international.
Also involved are Companies/Organisations which represent the process of production, distribution and marketing.
For example ‘20th Century Fox’ is an American film Production and involve everything of a Media Institution.

3.
People from the age 15+ (31). Not younger because the movie is only allowed for people which are minimum 15 years old, to scary. Because our movie is not a ‘Teenager’ movie also people until 32 could watch it.

Task 4 - Who would be the audience fot the media product

For our Thriller, which was called ‘five’, which is about a Girl who has the devil in her and a Guardian who tries to find out and help her because believes she knows the answer to a powerful secret. The film will feature a lot of Action and horror, the main Audience will be men in the age 16-25. There are many reasons for this firstly, because the music men in this age range like is hard rock or metal and this is the music that is frequently played in this type of film genre an example of this is the films of Rob Zombie such as House of a 1000 corpses which features lots of heavy metal, blood, carnage and horror..
The Second reason could be when men in this age are in relations ships, they bring their girl friends in those movies to be a kind of hero. Like the stereotype is saying.
Another reason is that men in this age are studying like GCSE, A levels or university they see the cinema as a freedom and because they would not watch romantic comedy they are going to watch horror movies.
The classes they are in are often working or lower middle class these are general people which are going to watch a movie in the cinema. This is because they have the most disposable income in this age range as they have very little in the way of outgoings such as mortgages as most of them are still studying or living at home with their parents.

Task 5 - Target Audience

How Do You Attract The Audience

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Task 6 - Technologies from the process of constructing this product

Task 7 - Preliminary task

In our preliminary task they told us exactly what to do; they gave us the storyline and text to it. Also told us how to use the camera and which camera shots we should do like over the shoulder or close-up. Different was our Thriller shoot we did everything alone like Storyboard, text to it and choose the camera shots we wanted to do.
Our Storyboard didn’t fit anymore in our new idea, so we worked without and it actually worked very well. On the beginning of the day we got all the props like pens, a chair and a table. Our set was already there a small room with a glass wall on one side. We got our actors dressed and gave them make-up, for example we made from the young girl the eyes darker and the face whiter so she looks scary and mysterious. We wanted to shoot all our shots in the day and any extras we could fit in. The first issue was in the studio itself, we thought the set would be a lot bigger to allow us to take the wide shot but we hat to change our wide shots into bird-eye-views so that it could become our established shot The other big problem was the amount of time we had was the amount of time we had in the day to do all the shots.

In our preliminary task we were told to do over the shoulder, close-up, wide shot and medium shots. And we were told what kind of story to shoot. Whereas in the main task we developed our narrative from scratch, we had to think about how we wanted to tell a story, we had a storyboard which involved text, storyline and camera shots. First we had another idea and did already the storyboard for it. The idea was about a man who killed women to get his wife back, on the end he killed his little daughter because he thought his wife is in her. Still the pentagram played a big story which is still like this in our new story. Which is about a young girl who is has the devil in her, and a police man keeps her in his office. The whole time she is drawing this pentagram and on the end other police men are finding out that she wants to tell where the danger is in different cities. We found it much harder to come up with our own idea rather than the preliminary task which was given to us.
In our preliminary task we just used the basic shots rather in ours were we did much more difficult shots. An example is our fist shot from birds-eye.
Also a big difference was the sound; in our preliminary task we didn’t used sound at all while in our main one we used dark music on the end to make it more interesting. We had a problem with our ambient sound because there was a loud high-pitched tone throughout the filming, but we didn’t realized that we could get rid of that sound during we edited.
Actually we learned a lot during the whole process of filming for example how to edit and how to put sound into it.

Target Audience

Film companies

Eagle-Lion Films
Eagle-Lion Films was a British film production company owned by J. Arthur Rank intended to release British productions in the United States. In 1947 it acquired PRC Pictures, a small American production company, to produce B Pictures to accompany the British releases. The studio became one of the most respected makers of B-movies on what was known as Hollywood's "Poverty Row." Eagle-Lion was also a film distribution company under the name of Eagle-Lion Distributors Limited in the United Kingdom and Eagle-Lion Films Inc. in the United States. The relatively small film lot was located at 7950 Santa Monica Boulevard, and has long since been demolished.
From 1946-1949 Eagle-Lion was under the control of Arthur Krim who in addition to releasing films by Rank and David O. Selznick produced his own B-movies as support. In 1951 Krim was offered the leadership of United Artists to improve their fortunes.[1]
Eagle-Lion had acquired the film studio of PRC who had acquired the building from Grand National Pictures that ceased in 1939. In 1954 Frederick Ziv bought the studio for his Ziv Television Programs.

Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film Noir, and comedies – and in later years, television series. Hammer films had low budgets, but nonetheless appeared lavish, making use of quality British actors and cleverly designed sets. During its most successful years, Hammer dominated the horror film market, enjoying worldwide distribution and considerable financial success. This success was due, in part, to distribution partnerships with major United States studios, such as Warner Bros.
During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer-formula, with varying degrees of success. The company eventually ceased production in the mid-1980s and since then has remained in effective hibernation. But in 2000 the studio announced plans to begin making films again after it was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi, but no films have been produced. In May 2007, the company behind the movies was sold again, this time to a group headed by Big Brother creator John de Mol. At least $50m (£25m) will be spent on new horror films after Hammer Film Productions was sold to Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments. The new owners have also acquired the Hammer group's film library.
The term "Hammer Horror" is often used generically to refer to other films of the period made in a similar style by different companies, such as Eros Films, Amicus and Tigon.

Denham Film Studios
Denham Film Studios were a British film production studio operating from 1936 to 1952.
The studios were founded by Alexander Korda, on a 165 acre (668,000 m²) site near the village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. At the time it was the largest facility of its kind in the UK. It was eventually merged with Rank's Pinewood Studios, and was closed in 1952.
The studios were known by various names during their lifetime including London Film Studios, the home of Korda's London Films, and D&P Studios after the merger with Pinewood.
In the 1960s and 70s Rank Xerox occupied the Art Deco office buildings and used most of the sound stages as warehouses.
The site has subsequently been demolished.

Davis Entertainment
Davis Entertainment is an American independent film production company, founded by John Davis in 1985.




Sands Films


Sands Films is a small British film production company, founded by producer Richard Goodwin and director Christine Edzard in the early 1970's, and based in Rotherhithe, London. The company is particularly noted for its production of costumes for period dramas. It also has a picture library.
Notable productions for which the company has produced costumes include all the Agatha Christie films produced by EMI (including Death On The Nile)[1] , Vanity Fair (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Fingersmith (2005), or Pride & Prejudice (2005)[2]
The building that Sands Films occupies is a former granary, now a grade II listed building. Since 1976, it houses a small film stage, film theatre, picture library, workshops and costume stores.

Fox Searchlight

Fox Searchlight
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Type: Subsidiary
Founded: Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA (1994)
Headquarters: Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people: Peter Rice, President. Stephen A. Gilula, COO. Nancy Utley, COO
Industry: Entertainment
Products: Motions pictures
Parent: 20th Century Fox

Fox Searchlight Pictures is a film division of 20th Century Fox, established in 1994. It specialises in indie and British films, alongside dramedy and horror as well as non-English language films, and is variously involved with the production and/or distribution of these films.
In the early-to-mid 1980s, prior to the creation of Searchlight, Fox previously released independent films under the banner of 20th Century-Fox International Classics; the most notable of the releases under this banner include Bill Cosby: Himself, Reuben, Reuben, and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
In 2006, a sub-label, Fox Atomic, was created to produce and/or distribute genre films. Its first release was Turistas. Fox Atomic closed down in 2009.
As is the case with Fox's television unit, all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company (with some exceptions) read "© (respective year) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation".
Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards as well as a further 7 academy awards. Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty, Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine and Juno.

Notable films
1990s
The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Looking for Richard (1996)
Girl 6 (1996)
The Full Monty (1997)
Smilla's Sense of Snow (film) (1997)
Shooting Fish (1997, produced by Winchester Films)
The Ice Storm (1997, co-production with Good Machine and Canal+)
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Two Girls and a Guy (1998, co-production with 20th Century Fox)
Waking Ned Devine (1998, co-production with Isle of Man Film and Canal+)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Titus (1999)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999, co-production with Regency Enterprises)
2000
Woman on Top (2000)
Quills (2000)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Bootmen (2000)
2001
Super Troopers (2001)
Waking Life (2001)
Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
2002
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The Good Girl (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
28 Days Later (2002)
Being Vincent (2002)
In America (2002)
2003
Garage Days (2003)
Le Divorce (2003)
Thirteen (2003, co-production with Working Title Films)
The Dreamers (2003, co-production with Recorded Picture Company)
Antwone Fisher (2003)
2004
Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Club Dread (2004)
Never Die Alone (2004)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004, with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films)
I ♥ Huckabees (2004)
Garden State (2004, with Miramax Films)
Kinsey (2004, co-production with American Zoetrope)
Melinda and Melinda (2004)
Sideways (2004)
The Clearing (2004)
2005
Roll Bounce (2005)
Bee Season (2005)
The Ringer (2005)
Millions (2005) (co-production with BBC Films and Pathé)
Imagine Me & You (2005)
2006
Water (2006)
Night Watch (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Thank You for Smoking (2006)
Phat Girlz (2006)
Confetti (2006)
Fast Food Nation (2006) (co-production with Recorded Picture Company, Hanway Films, Participant Productions, and BBC Films)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
The Last King of Scotland (2006) (co-production with DNA Films and FilmFour Productions)
The History Boys (2006)
Notes on a Scandal (2006) (co-production with DNA Films and BBC Films)
2007
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
Sunshine (2007)
The Namesake (2007)
Waitress
Day Watch
Once (2007, co-production with Summit Entertainment and the Irish Film Board)
Joshua (2007)
The Darjeeling Limited
Juno
The Savages (2007)
2008
La Misma Luna (Under the Same Moon) (co-production with The Weinstein Company)
Young@Heart
Choke
Street Kings
The Wrestler (co-production with Wild Bunch)
The Secret Life of Bees
Slumdog Millionaire* (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, Pathé, Film4, and Celador Films)
2009
Notorious
My Life in Ruins[2]
Gentlemen Broncos
Miss March
Amelia
(500) Days of Summer
Adam
Post Grad (with 20th Century Fox and co-production with The Montecito Picture Company and Cold Spring Pictures)
Whip It!
Crazy Heart
2010
My Name Is Khan (Releasing on February 12, 2010, with 20th Century Fox and co-produced with Dharma Productions and Red Chillies Entertainment)
Our Family Wedding (Releasing on March 12, 2010, with 20th Century Fox
Arrested Development: The Movie (In Pre-Production, co-production with Imagine Entertainment)
127 hours (In pre-production, co-production with Pathé)

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu3TtPraRgQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QK67UMNRMU

Institutions and Audience

Media Prep by Emma Solms

Media Institutions and Audiences

B:

Media Institutions are an organisation that provide media content and supply the context within which media products are produced e.g. the BBC or News international.
Also involved are Companies/Organisations which represent the process of production, distribution and marketing.
For example ‘20th Century Fox’ is an American film Production and involve everything of a Media Institution.

A:

I would use for our Thriller ‘Five’ the Hammer Film Production because it is one of the biggest British Film companies and based on thrillers. Also because they are really professional and if I would do a movie a want he to get popular and for that ‘Hammer’ is one of the best companies.
Hammer is founded in 1934. During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer-formula, with varying degrees of success. The company eventually ceased production in the mid-1980s and since then has remained in effective hibernation. But in 2000 the studio announced plans to begin making films again after it was bought by a consortium including advertising executive and art collector Charles Saatchi, but no films have been produced. In May 2007, the company behind the movies was sold again, this time to a group headed by Big Brother creator John de Mol, the Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments, who have announced plans to spend some $50m (£25m) on new horror films. The new owners have also acquired the Hammer group's film library.

C:

People from the age 15+ (31). Not younger because the movie is only allowed for people which are minimum 15 years old, to scary. Because our movie is not a ‘Teenager’ movie also people until 32 could watch it.

Evaluation of our post production

Our Thriller was slow paced, to make it more scary and interesting. This represents also the genre of other horror movies. They always slow so you get the shock at the end.
In our Thriller we used realistic sound through the whole film, for example you can hear when Russel is holding the paper. Only at the end there is coming this scary music to make it more interesting. The music is coming when the young Girl is standing up.
Our title fits directly to our story, the title is ‘Five’, and the young man is telling the police man that on five different places bombs.
We did the choice to use some music at the end because it is actually in almost very horror movie like this. Also we did the choice to keep the talking simple so you can be interested more on the actors and what is happening.

Audience feedback

Our audience really liked our Thriller, they saying that it is good edited and that they like that it is realistic. Also they liked the sound which is also realistic. They said that they wanted to see more to watch was is happening next so it is also interesting.
They also said something about the mirror that is worked very well and that they liked the reflections. They also liked all the actors we have chosen especially the young Girl, Lou. They also say that they liked the whole idea, the storyline. All in all we had a very good feedback.