This is an xtranormal video that I created. I made a questionnaire and asked a few people, using the answers I made this film. Giving peoples opinion.

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scène is an expression used to describe the design aspects of a theater or film production, which essentially means "visual theme" or telling a story—both in visually artful ways through story boarding, cinematography and stage design and in poetically artful ways through direction. Mise-en-scène has been called films criticisms "grand undefined term."

Key aspects of Mise en scène

Décor

An important element of "putting in the scene" is décor, the objects contained in and the setting of a scene. Décor can be used to amplify character emotion or the dominant mood of a film.

Lighting

The intensity, direction, and quality of lighting have a profound effect on the way an image is perceived. Light (and shade) can emphasise texture, shape, distance, mood, time of day or night, season, glamour; it affects the way colors are rendered, both in terms of hue and depth, and can focus attention on particular elements of the composition.

Space

The representation of space affects the reading of a film. Depth, proximity, size and proportions of the places and objects in a film can be manipulated through camera placement and lenses, lighting, decor, effectively determining mood or relationships between elements in the story world.

Costume

Costume simply refers to the clothes that characters wear. Using certain colors or designs, costumes in narrative cinema is used to signify characters or to make clear distinctions between characters.

Acting

There is enormous historical and cultural variation in performance styles in the cinema. Early melodramatic styles, clearly indebted to the 19th century theater, gave way in Western cinema to a relatively naturalistic °style.

On the left we used a light coming from behind to give a mystreious look to the picture.

On this photo we used a red filter to create an effect of romance and love.

This is when we were using different lighting effects, we used lighting from underneath and filters. To create this affect of the shadow beind her i used photoshop and edited the two photos together.

Why should directors make short films?

Before taking his name from the great bandleader, Spike Jonze was born Adam Spiegel in 1969, and lived for the first part of his life in Potomac, MD, being raised along with his younger brother Sam by his single mom. He began working in the skateboarding industry as a filmmaker, and acquired much success, especially after co-founding Girl Skateborads with Rick Howard. He began his print career in about 1987 working as an editor, writer and photographer on Freestylin', Go, and BMX Action, all BMX/freestyle magazines, and Homeboy, which was into BMX, music, skateboarding, and a whole bunch of other stuff. In 1991, he co-founded Sassy's brother magazine Dirt (remember that magazine that came packaged with Sassy that most girls just threw out?). Lately, you can see some of his writings/photography in magazines like the Beastie Boy's Grand Royal and Juxtapoz. Aside from his directing, he has also appeared in various TV and short movies including Pig, directed by Francine McDougall, where he plays a nose picker, and in the Pond video for "Spokes" where he's a Hollywood Blvd. punker named Ricky. He has had other bit roles in Mi Vida Loca, Three Kings and The Game.

The first priority of a film festival should be getting people to watch films that they wouldn’t see otherwise. The ideal festival picks films that they like, and that need the exposure. No matter how good it is, a feature film with major stars and worldwide distribution already secured has no business being selected for a film festival. But if you’ve seen the lineup at any major film festival you know that they’re filled with well-known films made by well-known directors starring well-known actorsWhy make films?
Making a film - be it a short or a feature - is largely a labour of love, so it's always worth clarifying why you are embarking on such madness and adventure. You could be making it for:
Experience - you might want to experiment with pulling a team together to make a story on film.
A showreel - you might be pursuing a career in filmmaking and want to demonstrate your skills.
Partnerships - you'd like to try working with certain people to see if you can go on to collaborate on projects in the future.
Kudos - you may have found a high profile director/writer/actor, who'll help you raise your filmmaking profile, or want to use your film to elevate your own industry profile.
Testing an idea out - you've always thought a certain story would work well on screen or you've got a feature film idea that you want to try out on a small scale first.
Money - you may have been asked to work on a production with a budget to pay its crew. (This is very rare as short films don't generally pay in any financial dividends.)Where is the film going to be shown?

Their reasons for making the film should also relate to where the film is going to be shown. They could be making it for:
Your front room - many filmmakers start out by testing their ideas on family and friends.
A showreel - maybe you're building a body of work to prove to others that you have filmmaking skills and/or to persuade them to give you some funding to make another film.
The Internet - a great means of getting your work out there and getting feedback from a wide range of people, internationally.
Television - if your film is of a high quality, a television channel may screen it, especially if it fits into a slot with other short films.
The cinema - one of the hardest places to get a short film screened, but some very successful shorts have been shown before feature films on general release. Some cinemas also run short film events.
Festivals - a great opportunity to get your film on the big screen, watched by an audience of industry people and by filmmaking peers.
The answers to 'why' and 'where' determine the standard you need to work to - there is a minimum standard of technical quality required for broadcast on television and a very different quality for transfer from tape to film.
Why you are making a short film, and where you want it to go, will determine what you shoot on, which equipment you use, budgets, crew numbers and potential markets. You and your team's objectives set the parameters of what you are going to create. Be clear about these objectives and then crack on with the project.
There are small pots of money available to help create short films - especially those on digital formats. The industry is also full of people who are willing to do work at reduced rates because they like an idea, they like someone involved with the project or they simply remember what it was like to start out in filmmaking. They might also help because they think it would be good experience for their staff or their showreel.

I'm Here

This is a poster i created for the film I'm Here. i editied the twon main characters out of another picture and placed them in one of a cinema front. i also added the love hearts which are only visable is looked at up close, i didnt want them to be to bold as it wouldnt be realistic. I wanted to give the impression that its natural and simple.

Short Films

Short films can be easily distributed via the Internet; Across the Hall, for example, was solely distributed on the Internet. Certain websites encourage the submission of user-created short films, such as YouTube, Openfilm, BritFilms and Newgrounds have attracted large communities of artists and viewers, whereas sites such as BBC Film Network focus on showcasing curated British shorts.
Openfilm.com is a fast-growing online community where filmmakers and film lovers around the globe discover and distribute short and independent films.
The audiences for short films are normally people that are interested in filmmaking and people who prefer shorter films.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p006dc5l

I like this film as its so different and unique, it takes you through his life, but flicking through paper. I think its a really good and different way to present and a short film as its realistic and gets his story through.

I also found this on the bbc website, i like how different this short film is and how it shows how different people cope with different things. It shows you real life and how strange and secretive some people can be.

If found this film on the bbc website, i liked how it was just a simple story and somones thoughts and a joke of how the world was created.

From Dusk Till Dawn

From dusk till dawn is an action comedy thiller. We immeditaly meet two bad guys or robbers, this reveals to the audience who the main characters are. Within the trailer we see alot of crime and violence indicating and appealing to their audience. The soundtrack mainly features Texas blues. There are sound effects used especially when the tention is building and also when fighting and the explosion occoures. We dont realise until the end of the trailer that the two main characters are fighting zombies, we see this by a flash shot of hem attacking. Which also opens up to a difference audience as its another genre.

Kill Bill

When watching the trailer for Kill Bill you immeditaly see that there is no dialogue between the characters until towards the end. The two main women are represented as leaders, as they are fighting each other and are portrayed at strong dominent women. The loctaion of the trailer is in a chinese style room. The western style music and soundtrack comprimises many musical genres. The music varies from country music to selections from the speighetti western films. We immeditaly see that there is violence within the film and we can see that Uma Thurma-the bride-is seeking revenge.

Why is genre an important factor of film making ?

The genre of a film is dependent on various factors such as who the director is, what the audience expectations are and the storyline. In using the genre it creates a short cut in how the film describes and we know what to expect. When making a films its important to know whom the intended audience are. For example you must take into account what time the film was made and for what audience. Every genre has a unique set of characteristics influenced by the medium it will appear in.
Genres are also important to audiences, as they select their choice on the genre also certain genres are considered appropiate to certain ages or genres in society and their choices are made accordinly.
Audiences have a system of expectation about the content and style of a text according to its genre. this enables the audience to take pleasure in what their watching, pleasure may also be drawn from the differences.
Also audiences idenitfy with repeated elements in generic films and this may shape their own idenity, such as young girls dressing the same as their favourite film stars.
Genre provides structure and form which can allow a great deal of creativity and virtuosity, especially when a reworking of a generic conventions happens.
When making a film its also important to the producers as they market films according to genre because a niche audience has already been identified as taking an interest in that type of film.
Producers standerise the production according to the genre and audience, therefore cutting cost. Overall genre is very important when filmmaking as it determines the audience and structures the film.

Introduction A2 Media

This year in A2 Media we will be studying the concept of short films, our brief is to produce a short film of 5 minutes in a group, we then have the choice when working individually to create a poster to advertise the film and a review of he film for the publication in a magazine or a radio trailer. We will cover the development of short film as a media form, the narrative process in film making, representation issues, audience consideration, generic devices and technical code to help us make our sort film. We will then study these issues together to inform the promotional material for short films and we will explore film review writing techniques.

As well as producing the film and practical work we have to provide an evaluation and evidence of research and planning on this blog.

Evaluation

When creating my magazine i used different fonts on the front cover and sometimes re-used some that were eye catching and stood out from the rest, this grabbed the readers attention and made them want to read the articles. I also used selling lines and and pull quotes, dip in styles and enter points. I flattered the audience, making them feel as though the magazine is polite and talking to its audience directly. i selected certain colours and make a specific layout for the magazine, so that the style was similar throughout and also consistant, therefore giving a more professional outlook on the magazine.
I would want IPC to publish my magazine as they would be the most suitable, they also publish magazines such as 'heat'. The audience for my magazine would be young teenagers and adults, as my magazine uses bright and bold colours and fonts, it also has articles that young people would take more of an interest in, such as interviews with up and coming artists.
To produce my magazine i mainly used 'Photoshop', I took my own photos and used them throughout the magazine, by doing this i learnt the basics of how to use a digatal camera. I leanrt how to use 'Photoshop' and by doing this it helped me alot when it came to editing my photos and adding special effects.
When i created my music magazine i focused a lot more on the quality and audience, whereas when i created my college magazine i was just trying to to hard and focusing on my photos, i believe that i have improved a lot more and now understand what goes into making a magazine and how the audience effects how the magazine is put together.

We also had to create a double page spread for our magazine, again i used a made up pop star named, Lola Belle. I created an interview with her and made up questions and answers that would be believable to my audience of people interested in pop/ indie music. I also took photos of my singer as though it had been done professionaly as though it was a photoshoot and i was happy with the outcome.
This is my double page spread.

We then got on to making our magazine, we had some lessons on photography and designing our front covers. For my front cover i looked at other bands for inspiration and decide to get a group of my friends together and create a pretend band name 'brella boys'. I edited the photos in photoshop, and picked the one that i thought was the best and most effective. This was my front cover for my music magazine.

After learning about these we picked our audience that we were targeting, there are many different ones such as; goths, heavy metal, pop, punk, indie, grunge, rap, mc,dance, techno, country and westen and many more.

For my magazine i picked pop/indie. We had to do a readership profile of the people that inspired us to pick the genre of our magazine, i chose to do this through photoshop;


This was my readership profile.

We then did a questionairre, the see what our audience would be.


1. What is your age?
0 - 15 16 – 25 26 – 37 38 – over

2. Male or female?

3. Which ethnic background are you from?

4. What genre of music do you listen to?

5. How would you describe your fashion sense?

6. How would you describe your personality?

7. What region do you live in?

8. What religion are you?

9. Are you in full time education?

10. Would you mind telling us your mother and fathers profession?

11. What are your interests and hobbies?

12. How would you describe your lifestyle?

13. Where do you prefer to eat around college?

14. Do you think there is enough time for socialising during college?

15. Do you have a part time job, if so where?

16. Do you have a boyfriend of girlfriend that goes to this college?

17. What do you aspire to be?

18. Who would you say your role model is?

19. If you could be anyone for one day who would it be?

20. If you could change anything to make the world a better place what would it be?

21. What made you choose prior college?

22. Do you enjoy college, if you do, what do you enjoy?

23. If you could change anything in college what would it be?

24. Do you take part in after college activities?

25. What type of music do you listen to?

After creating our college magazine we then went on to make a music magazine. We looked at NME and other music magazines for inspiration. We looked at what makes different mediation, such as selection, organisation and focusing.
We also looked at media concepts such as the popularity of media and how it can influence the way we behave. We looked at different audiences we aimed to explore how audiences are defined , how to go about defining them and how you may conduct research on finding a specific audience.

We finally got on to making and desinging out front covers for our college magazine. From the photos we took a few lessons back we used them for either our front cover or contents page. I designed mine around colours and light and dark.

I used photoshop to help me create the front cover contents page.

This was my front cover, picture taken outside the priory.

After making our front cover we then went on to make a content page for the college magazine, it had to include pictures of the college and thing that would make it sell like good articles that people would find interseting.
This was my content page;

Constructing my magazine

After looking on tips and ideas on how to construct a magazine we started using cameras and taking photos for our front covers for our college magazine. We were only to use our own material and not to use any pictures from the internet or that other people had taken. We learnt about the: frames, shutter speed, balance and juxtapostion, rules of thirdsand angles.

We learnt about different photographers such as Helmut newton and David Bailey as this showed us how they postioned their models and how this helped to distinguis there shots. It showed us how it influences compemenpary fashion. It also helped us to decide what front cover we could do and gave us some inspiration.

We then did a magazine analysis of the prompts: technical, how it is presented on the page, Symbolic, do the colours represent anything and do the signify anything ? Written, does the writing have an ambigious meaning or does the master head signify anything? And does the overall layout and stlye aim to attrackt he reader.

Ideology and house styles

After looking at ideology we then looked at house styles we had to develop ideas on creating house style and possible 'angle' using differnt audeinces and features. We then had to define and analyse conventional features of a music front cover. We also had to design and pratice our own house style. When doing this we had to look at the different audiences that we would aim our magazines at when we were desiging them.

To help us design our front covers we looked at what all magazine have in common such as the banner, masthead, cover line and menu strip. We also learnt that most magazines still to a simple 3 colour scheme whislt adding virbrant patterns and designs to catch the readers eye. Also we looked at the picture on the front cover suggesting to the audience the mood and type of magazine, there can be super smiley, chocolate box, romantic or sexual and invitational.

We looked at what the avreage age we would aim our magazine at and how the front cover reflect the target audience.

After we had looked at house style we moved back on to our questionnaires, we looked through them and created an analysis showing a consclusion of our results. Using our results we put together a series of ways in that we could use them for our college and music magazine.
When then identifed the main selling points of our magazines, we explored ways to read and contruct different types of text.

Key concepts

We than carried on with our work in Key Concepts. We looked at ideology and identity, we explored the meaning of ideology and how it is used within everyday. We looked at the political meaning of ideology and how to apply this to media. We experimented with ideas on forming idenity and we looked at how ideology forms a vital part in our daily lives.