FILM LANGUAGE

Camera angle, shots/ movement and positioning-

• high angle 
  
• low angle
• eye line match
• pan
• tracking
• crane
• stedicam
• extreme close up
• close up
• medium shot
• long shot
• extreme long shot 
• rolling tilt

sound-

• Diegetic sound- in the world of the film. if the characters play and act to the sound, (can hear it,) then it is diegetic.
• Non-diegetic- sound which we do not recognize as part of the film world such as voice over or the soundtrack. 

Colour-

• how different colour's represent different characters, such as red symbolizing danger.  

Half Term Review & Preliminary Task

• Learnt how to use 'Blogger' 
• how to use the camera
• the different names of the shot i.e Long shot, close up etc.
• also the difference between the shots.
• Filming, and keeping continuity in each shot
• how to use Final Cut Express, editing our film, 'The Arrival.'
• copy right free play, choosing the music for our films.
• Textual Analysis
• Learnt the ways to find detail in depth about a film 'Internet movie database.'
• learnt about production and Distribution

Atonement Producers

The Producers of Atonement:

1. Universal Pictures: 

• Based in the US and are is a very popular producing company. 
  
• Currently have 274 films in development
  
• In the past produced around 3500 films, (first in 1992).

    2. Studio Canal:

• Based in France and is also a popular producing company, although not in comparison to Universal Pictures.
• Currently have 5 films in development
• Also have only released around 270 films

    3. Relativity Media:

• Based in the US also however is not a big company
• released roughly 80 films, however does have 20 in the making. 

    4. Working Title Films:

• This is the only one of the producers for atonement that is set in Great Britain 
• Not a big company in comparison to ohers
• roughly produced 120 films
• Currently 21 in development

What have i learnt during filming...The Arrival

Continuity:

• Wearing the same clothes during filming
• Keeping the lighting the same
• sets the same
• using the same props

charging the camera battery

always keep the props in safe place

always making sure you are at the end of the tape when you start to film

plan out the scene before you start filming

always do three shots so that you have enough footage

always do to much filming so that there is a definite amount of footage rather than too little footage

Distribution

How does a company like Metrodome 'distribute' a film? 

 Marketing: 

• Posters
• Trailers/adverts
• Billboard posters

How did Metrodome find out about Shifty?

• Film Festivals
• Connections through then production and director team.

How did being part of the Microwave scheme help Shifty find a distributor?

• pro script editor had connections

Where is Metrodome based?

• Metrodome is a UK company based in the UK, although it is uses many american films.

 What difficulties did Metrodome come up against as they attempted to 'market' Shifty?

• Low budget on the film, therefore hard to market the film.
• The film is about drug dealing, and that message needs to be given across, without the film giving a bad message across. 

Production

Production involves:

• keeping film on budget
  
• Getting the money
• Distributing the money
• Sorting the location

 Inspiration behind Shifty

Eran was disappointed with previous films about urban life, they ‘tended to get it wrong.’ So he started to create Shifty to show what real life was like there. He had grown up in Essex and therefore had heard and new from personal experiences some interesting stories, putting all the stories together, he cam up with Shifty.

 

Difficulties in making film, with a low budget

•  Shoot scenes in certain way- not to many cuts etc.
  
• No complicated filming
  
• Change ideas/ plans because of budget
  
• Restricted amount of time and ideas
  

 

Microwave scheme

• Gave Shifty £100,000 to spend on the film
  
• Help develop film according to the budget
  

 

Microwave

Other films:

• Mum and Dad
• Freestyle
• The british guide to showing off
• Analogue
• Foxglove 
• Strawberry fields

Careers in the Media- Skillset

There have been noticeable changes in employment over the past two years. More people were working in cable and satellite, while fewer were working in terrestrial channels

This suggests that people are constantly upgrading to get a bigger variety of television shoes, and also many people are using the internet to watch television.

The majority of women in the media work in Broadcast and Radio and only 38% percent of the workforce are women.

Due to a reduction in the web and internet workforce, there has been a small drop in employment in an interactive media.

The Skillset census suggest that the industry is low paid and has a much younger workforce. It is more representative of the country as a whole than many other industries, and is less attractive to men and more attractive to women

Case Study- Shifty

Codes and conventions

Representation

Institutions

production companies: 

Film london: Based in London, all the filming they do etc. 

Between the Eyes: Also based in London, produced many films and music video

Over all £100,000 as spent on the film in total.

Audience

Target Audience would be for roughly 15-25, people who...

Niche Audience: 

Genre

Action/Thriller

Ideology

How drugs can change peoples lives drastically and how it messes up communities.

Institutions and Audiences

1)There are many ways to 'read' the BBC. The Television, the BBC have many channels on the channel includion BBC 1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, News 24 CBBC fior children, Cbeebies for younger children naf others. The Internet, the main BBC website has many links to go to, for instance bbc news, bbc sport, cbbc, cbeebies, and many of the programs on BBC have many of there own sights, forinstance Dr. Who. Now BBC iplyaer enables people to watch programs they have missed on tv watch it on the internet.
The BBC have many Radio stations, including radio 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. not only can you get it on the radio, you can also interact with it on the television.

2)Doctor Who, is meant for many a wide range of audiaence from young children to adults although, it seems mainly based for children. There are toys, games and magazines for them. The website has many games, blogs and a way for the children to feel closer to the program this therefore engages the children, the cartoon version for the children woudl be better to watch, rather than the original. Whereas older ages interact more by watching the programs rather than looking at the website.

3) The Televison is were ordinarily an audience would watch Doctor who or recordin on the television. Although there are other options as to how to watch it. After each series The Doctor Who DVD comes out which has all the episodes on from the last series. Another way to watch an episode is on BBC Iplayer although, they only have an episode up to a month. Using other illegal websites, it is very easy to access any episode.

4) Film indusrty in Britian:

• Studying all the films made in Britian in the past.
• Films made by british directors
• Film industry using many famous British actors/ actress'

5) How does the film industry 'converge' with the internet?

My Media

• TELEVISION: 
• neighbours
• home and away
• Hollyoaks
• The News
• The X- factor

• FILM:
• 'I Love You Man'
• 'Bourne trilogy'
• 'Seven Pounds' 
• 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince'
• 'Marley and Me'

• INTERNET:
• Facebook
• BBC
• Guardian puzzles
• YouTube

• RADIO:
• Radio 1
• Capital
• Kiss

• NEWSPAPERS:
• Guardian (mostly puzzles) 
• Metro

Matt Damon

I am a fine of Matt Damon simply for his performance in the 'bourne Trilogy.' The sequence of novels include Matt Damon in every film, him playing an oscar winning performance. He makes the films more interesting to watch because of the suspense he brings to the film.

The new version of, ' The Taking of Pelham 123's' trailer, gives the whole music suspense, 

it has densal washington and john travolta as the main actors who are both