Monday 26 March 2012

Evaluation

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3.    What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Task: Use the www.IMDB.com template to create a page for your film. You will need to fill in all of the blank information.




4.       Who would be the audience for your product? Harry-Potter-Empire-Magazine-July-2011l-SongsBlastss_Com-2
I feel that ‘EMPIRE’ magazine would be a very suitable magazine to feature reviews of our film, as is the biggest selling film magazine in Britain, consistently outselling its nearest market rival ‘Total Film’ and is also published in Australia, Turkey, Russia and Portugal.
I feel that the covers would mainly attract men, but I think both genders would read the magazine. In my opinion, I think the likely age of people reading this magazine would be between 17 and 30, which is the rough age of our film so it is ideal, however ‘Delirium’ may attract a younger audience also as we rated it a 15. The magazine is priced at £4, so a strong proportion of the audience for this magazine would be middle/upper class. EMPIRE magazine has a bold, appealing front cover that would definitely stand out from a far. It is a monthly issue compact with top headlines and various actors, which is why I think this publication would suit our film review as it is a well known magazine that the general public seek guidance in. It is a mainstream magazine, which is what the psychological  thriller Delirium should also be categorised into. I think our review would be more suitable in EMPIRE rather than another movie magazine, such as 'sight and sound', as I feel that this front cover attracts more of a niche audience, and it doesn't appear to have masses jumping off the page and attracting a mainstream audience, like EMPIRE is.



Delirium is a fast moving, suspense endearing thriller that has recently been released, receiving a four star rating from EMPIRE! The psychological thriller, starring Katherine Morris, takes you on a mind blowing journey to reveal how something so unintended, became the biggest mistake! You kick start with the tension as soon as the ident disappears, as you are met by an intriguing eye that won’t escape from the screen. Awkward, high pitch sounds fill your head while the suspense is killing you to find out what is going on, and why such eccentric behaviour?

This question then becomes more answerable when unimaginable shots of the actress holding her head in distress, screaming with no sound is shown, displaying clear result of insanity. Proceeding clips with her pronouncing through different shots is what makes this film so diverse and thrilling! Probably the greatest achievement of this suspenseful sequence is the variety of lights we see this character in, and how you, as the audience begin to feel involved with her emotions through the techniques used. In my opinion, the insanity is most explicit with the use of sound effects, time lapse and the dangerous look in the famous, Katherine Morris' black eyes. The use of flashbacks in the middle of the sequence makes the audience revel in curiosity,

The colour red in the sequence reflects a series of connotations but which one were the directors trying to achieve? It’s these moments that linger after the film has finished.
As thrilling as it is 'terrifying', Delirium's opening sequence is a MUST SEE, that will not fail to make you question the un-questionable.


5.   How did you attract/address your audience?

 Notes: We attracted/addressed our audience in our opening sequence by;
  • Using extreme close-ups to identify her with the audience
  • Different colour filter (lighting) to add to the atmosphere
  • We used layering to create suspense- the audience liked this effect
  • Different angles and camera movement to vary the way the audience see her, and to show her insanity!- Low angle shot looking up at character where she is repeating 'I didn't do it'- addressing the audience of crime/insanity/distress in her head- 
  • Also the high angle shot looking down on her, where the camera goes out of focus and she looks up intimidatingly- the audience didn't expect this but really liked the effect it gave
  • Our audience also fed back and told us they liked the idea of the flashbacks and how we made them look and bult them in to our sequence.
  • They preffered our final cut final to the rough cut they saw as they suggested that it was slightly confusing, so we changed this and they aggreed that it looked a lot more like an ending to a title sequence
  • We addressed our audience with our ident (to a graphic match shot) and our titles

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

         Final cut express-   I discovered how to move the sequence all together by highlighting it all and dragging it if a clip was deleted instead of doing it one by one. Also how to use transitions effectively!  With Final cut, we were able to re-arrange the filming into a different order on the computer to what we took on the day. I learnt how to blur the edges,  layer effectively, and on top of this how to time lapse certain clips in our sequence. We also removed frames for extra effect so we were showed how to do this by zooming in on the timeline, and cutting the clip up! This effect made a huge difference to our opening sequence.

       Garageband-  I leant how to crop the song, so it fitted with the shots in the opening sequence, also if it wasn’t long enough, to double up! On top of this I learnt how to fade out songs/effects. We was also showed  how to add the final cut video into garageband so it was easier to edit.

        Equipment- With our thriller we  needed the lighting to be effective so I was therefore introduced to different lighting equipment and filters which we was showed how to mantle.  The filters were interesting to experiment with as I now know what looks good in different genres on characters faces through our lighting test.

Screen shot 2012-03-22 at 15.36.35

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