Sunday 9 May 2010

Evaluation Questions

Developing and challenging conventions.
Our film is like many other chick flicks of it sorts in many different ways. Character is one of the main things as our film has the typical boy and girl relationship as well as the rivalary popular girl, and the boy being the typical jock. As well as the girl having a hard story behind her and having a hard life. The narrative like I have said with character follows the typical story line of the jock character being with the popular girl and the hard working girl wanting the boy; then the girl getting him at the end. With camera they use many of the typical camera shots and movements; they also try to use a lot of shots that are point of view shots to make it look more life like.

Distribution.
Distribution is used in many ways by different businesses and companies, it is to do with wat sort of people you would want to advertise and get your film into cinemas and on DVD. Some films may just use the typical posters in cinemas and random location as well as the trailers in cinemas and on TVs. A good example would be of a small British film company an example of a film would be 'The Boat That Rocked'; the production 'Working Title' would use the usual that I have listed above as the advertisement as compared to a large multinational company wouldn't have the money to do this, so would have posters, trailers and website if they had a film such as 'The Boat That Rocked'. This can be compared to a large American production company who would use other big companies who can do advertisment campaigns to advertise the film. An example of this is of 'Avatar' this is the most expensive film Fox have done since Tiatnic in 1997. Some of the advertising campaigns they had include McDonalds, Coke Zero, LG Mobile and Panasonic; these businesses did many different things to promote the film such as create websites and games and special codes that could only be received by for example buying a can of Coke Zero which unlocked games etc.

Technologies.
To create our film we had to use a range of differnet software and technology. For the film we had to use Cameras to record all the film we needed. We then had to use Computer editing to cut and put in place the clips before adding music and titles to create the finish product. The first software we had to use was the internet mainly for research so we could look for different films of the same genre as well as finding out background information and look for music to suit the film to the best it could and also as a group to contact each other. Through the whole process there were things that were easier than others, where as working the cameras and tripods to get what we wanted was far easier than all of the editing as the software was quite confusing and took time to get used to how it all worked.