Audience profile AO3 &AO4

For my film my main audience is the people from the age of 18 to the age of 42 as my main demographic is males and my secondary demographic is women

Creating meaning using media language AO2 & AO3

To create meaning in a media text depends mainly on the director as he has to portray his message and image across to the audience using cinematography and mise-en-sene to show that intended image to create.
for my own creation own creation i intended my final product to be quick and swift to make it fully understandable yet still retain the same concept of the continuous enigma that can be seen in the first few shots my using the right make up to create a certain feel towards the protagonist where he has extremely dark area under his eyes to symbolism that he is exhausted by everything around him yet what exact makes him stay awake those nights.
the shot types i used in my final product mainly consist of  simple shots but they are there for a reason. each shot has a center line point where you can see either the surrounding or the setting to show what is the location of scene and when is it taking place. also the shot chose heavily concentrates on the facial reaction of the protagonist.
to create this meaning you have to create every shot carefully to fulfill that criteria.
as you have to ensure that the mise en sene is right for the setting and befitting the genre to keep the meaning of what you are creating intact. you have to insure that you have a good understanding of the conventions that make your genre and understand how to apply them.
Cinematography has a major role in creating meaning in A film this allows the creator to adjust the viewing angle of the audience to make them look in that certain direction to have certain feel.
in my footage i have cut my antagonists head from the shot to create an enigmatic character to ensure that the audience keep on wondering who he is.

Call Sheet 2 AO3

Call Sheet 1 AO3

Film schedule AO3

Editing took place a week after as it took along time to pick the right footage and discard of the rest
as they were not needed.

Mise en sene Props, Makeup and costumes AO2 & AO3

Location Recce AO3 & AO4

PRODUCTION TITLE: ‘Sea of Thoughts’

PRODUCER: Omar Atabany

DATE OF RECCE: 21/12/2017

TIME OF RECCE: 13:10

LOCATION: sea

HOW TO GET THERE

Walking

PERSON IN CHARGE OF LOCATION

Public location

ACCESS & PARKING/ HOURS AVAILABLE: not necessary

POWER AVAILABLE: no

SOUND / AMBIENT NOISE / PROBLEMS: people talking in the background

PLAN OF THE LOCATION (maps/floor plan/photographs):

OTHER INFORMATION 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF LOCATION: beach

DESCRIPTION OF ACTION: panning in to the darkness

INEXPERIENCED CREW/PERFORMERS: Ryan

LIFTING & LOADING: the camera and the tripod

NIGHT/DAY SHOOT: night

OTHER INFORMATION:

PERMISSION TO FILM GRANTED:  YES 

Typography AO2 & AO3

Typography for my film was quite simple as it was only visible in the production company and it was mainly used for the name the font that i used was called Blenny this font look classy and quite mysterious.

location Scouting AO3 & AO4

Risk Assesment AO3

Story Board / Floor plans

the story board consists mainly of the shots that were captured accordingly
the floor plans also show the camera movement, light positions and angles.

Shot list AO2 & AO3

The Pitch AO3&AO4

The pitch from omar atabany

Sound research AO2 &AO4

for my music pieces i am going to use is called Elizabeth it is from the bioshock series as it is full of emotion and sadness
in this piece the use of the violins is rather intuitive as they tend to use it to stimulate the feeling of wrong doing as it makes you think that you did something wrong and it is eating you inside and that is is cemented by the piano and the organ that are playing in the background of the violins.

layering voice over on top of music is a rather hard task. you have to create a different channel on adobe audition and be able to adjust the volume of it and the intensity of it to make it audible.

Auditions AO3 & AO4

the way that i advertised for it is like sending an email to some of my friends

for the auditions i have asked 3 of my friends to read out the lines of the script to see that they can befit for the antagonist.  After the process i have found that my friend Ryan perfectly befits the role as he has managed to recreate my vision of the antagonist. i also looked at the performance of my friend sang but sadly he wasn't what i had in mind.

Development of concept AO2&AO3

the main character Brook is a person who is in a place which he doesn't know. trying to find out what is he supposed to do?
as for the luece they are twins like yet they are not they appear to be the same person their role in the Film is to give the protagonist a goal and an objective that he needs to achieve in return for his freedom which is only limited by himself which lead the audience to be in mass confusion.
in these scenes it is supposed to make them wonder if what is happening is but a mere memory or reality.
this is made visible mainly by the fact of voice overs overlapping a dialouge as if the luece was talking with some one next to him.

The Script AO2 &AO3

Act 1

Ext. Balcony. NIGHT 

BROOK sitting on a table face half covered in darkness drinking from a wine glass slowly.

Voice of the void

(calmly in a deep voice)

we are all trapped here and we know the only way out is waiting at the end of the line.

INT. Brook’S Office. Late at Night

BOOKER wakes up in his office balcony tired and confused as from the night mare he had.

Brook

(In a confused voice)

What the hell was that?

Brook puts his hands on the rails and looks in to the distance

Brook

(INSIDE HIS HEAD)

We will find her

INT.BOOKER’s office. Dark 

LUWECE

(IN A GENUINE VOICE to him self)

Do you think he will listen?

LUWECE

(IN A creepy VOICE)

We just have to wait and see

Brook

(his inner voice)

Is he real or just a mere creation of my imagination?

 (in complete surprise out loud)

How did you get in here?

LUWECE

(IN AGENUINE SARCASTICE TONE)

WOULD YOU KINDLY CARE TO JOIN US?

BOOKER collapses as he feels dizzy music starts to play
           (A baby's cry plays as the scene fades in black) 

Initial ideas AO2 & AO4

Blue Wood by Omar Atabany

Audience Questionaire

there is an audience for everything as for me that i am doing horror there is a special audience of a specific age group.
for my questionnaire i asked around 10 people about how do they feel about physiological thrillers to see their opinions about it.
in the survey i got to understand what people want to have in a psychological thriller film.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-SL9DWG358/

 i asked them how do they in general feel toward psychological thrillers and some of them liked them others not so much.

 by asking them how do they identify psychological thrillers i have manged to get a full understanding of what they expect to find in my film.

for this survey i have managed to get an overall idea of how most of the people that have conducted the survey that they don't like psychological thrillers that much and i have managed to get feedback from them to understand what to do to make my film appealing to them.
i will use the results to implement what they like about psychological thrillers in my film and avoid anything that might make them lose interest in my film.

Distribution AO2 & AO4

what is distribution ?
it is the delivery or the distribution of a media content like audio, video or else.
mainly it is meant to be the distribution of content through physical media (DVD or BLU-RAY)

the distribution process?

• The idea is created for the movie
• The outline is created and is used to promote interest in the idea
• A studio or independent investor decides to purchase rights to the film. 
• People are brought together to make the film (screenwriter, producer, director, cast, crew). 
• The film is completed and sent to the studio. 
• The studio makes a licensing agreement with a distribution company. 
• The distribution company determines how many copies (prints) of the film to make. 
• The distribution company shows the movie (screening) to prospective buyers representing the theaters. 
• The buyers negotiate with the distribution company on which movies they wish to lease and the terms of the lease agreement. 
• The prints are sent to the theaters a few days before the opening day. 
• The theater shows the movie for a specified number of weeks 

like warner brothers or Disney

 

Bibliography

http://mikedyera2mediastudies.blogspot.ae/p/todorovs-theory.html "Narrative theory"
http://media-studies.tki.org.nz/Teaching-media-studies/Media-concepts/Genre "Genre"
https://www.emaze.com/@AILOLORZ "Genre"
https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-distribution.htm"distribution"

Genre Rescearch AO2 & AO4

Genre from omar atabany

Narrative theory AO2 & AO4

Claude levi strauss[1] from Raj1992

opening scene movie analysis 2 AO2 & AO4

Inception ppt from omar atabany

Analysis of an opening sequence 3 AO2 & AO4

Under the skin from omar atabany

Research: Mise-en-scene AO2 & AO4

Mise-en-scene
it includes
-the setting
-props
-costume and make up
-off screen space
-facial expressions
-movement
the props help the movie make sense and it helps the director visualise what he had in mind like costumes as it helps the actors to have a personality that we can identify and relate to or connect them to it through reference or common sense. it can also be used to create a room with certain props to give it a certain meaning or meaning.

the setting helps the audience to understand the time and the location of the movie that the audience are watching
the lighting helps set the mood for the setting
the facial expressions and the movement of the characters shows as well
the make up and the costume reveal the state the character is in

Research: What is Cinematography? AO2 & AO4

cinematography
it is the way the camera takes the shot
there is a lot of ways a shot /scene can be portrayed on a screen like
-rule of thirds which is a grid that helps the director get the shot that he desires by having the object or the person that he/she want to have the audiences eyes on
-tilt which is the movement of the camera on the axis
-track the movement of the camera on a track which follows a certain direction
-dominant contrast is the first place our eyes go to
-subsidiary contrast first place in a dark scene that our eyes go to
-symmetrical having symmetry which its purpose is to give the viewer satasfaction
-proximics   is the distances between people acting in a scene which indicates their relationship between the characters
-composition is everything inside of a frame for a scene
-focus it is the way a shot is taken to create a certain vision like
1-shallow focus: it only shows the object/person closest to the camera
2-deep focus   it shows everything in a scene
what is its importance?
it is one of the main things that makes the audience like a scene and hooks them in to the movie

The Stepfather analysis 1 AO 2 &AO 4

the stepfather from omar atabany

Research: The conventions of an opening sequence AO2 & AO4

what is the importance of the opening scene ?
the opening scene is one of the most important aspects in a movie as it contains all the conventions, narrative and plot points that the audience need to know to start explaining the movie and what is happening in it and something that attracts the audience with an enigma.
but first what are the conventions of an opening sequence

Prelim 4: Equipment

Cinematography

Camera

For filming you obviously need a camera but also you need to know how to use it as you open it you have to press live view then record to see on the screen rather than through the eye hole but there is a tiny problem the battery life is not that long.

Tri-pod

For the tripod you need to stretch the legs and extend them to reach the desired height and you can use the side handle to tilt or pan the object attached to it and it is extremely stable but sadly it is stationary.

Shoulder mount

It is used after it is expanded as it is put on the camera man’s shoulder as it contains the camera but it isn’t that stable as it is mainly used for chase sequences or shaky shots but it gets unstable after a while as the person who is using it is going to get tiered after a while.

Gimbal

It’s a stabilizer that you put your camera on and helps with stabilizing for hard shots taken up close but it has a short battery life.

Lighting

LED lights

The lights have different tones warm and cold temperatures for the lighting it is controlled at the back by a control panel that you can use to change the temperature and they are portable but they are man powered and by battery that might die

Sound

Use the Mics and connect them to the recorder 

Prelim 3:Move on action

this was made due to the help of: Ayusha, Omar, Mathew and Aaron

Prelim 2: Lighting

this clip includes different the different types of lighting techniques and application to create different settings and shadows that are affected by the different light setups like for the fill light and the backlight.
this was made by the help of omar , Ayusha , Deo and Mariem

Prelim 1: Editing and Kuleshov Effect

Editing in making a film is essential as editing helps the director create what he had in mind in the first place.
Editing makes a movie meaningful and it gives the movie a plot instead of having a mixture of sticking shots that have no meaning.
kuleshov effect :
Its the use of one closeup shot of a person's face and putting another shot which changes its meaning
if the person is looking at a plushy means that the person is peaceful or a genuinely happy person but if you put it next to a person who destroys a plushy you think that the person is evil or sadistic.

while creating my own kuleshov effect i didn't take a shot that showed us the face of a person who looks at the plushy before it was destroyed  which somehow changed the clip that we took.
I learnt that the kuleshov effect is quite useful as it can help use the same scene with different shots that shows different feeling that the audience can have from them.