Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Below is a Pinterest board I have created which answers the second evaluation question of how my media product represents particular social groups, demonstrating how it does with screenshots and annotations from my opening title sequence. 

Follow Heather's board Evaluation Question 2 on Pinterest.

Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Below is a Scribd document that I have created which answers the first evaluation. Within this I explain how my opening title sequence conforms to typical conventions within real films and also how some aspects challenge these.

Evaluation Question 1

My Final Opening Title Sequence

Embedded below is a YouTube video of my final opening title sequence to a thriller film. 

How Has Research and Planning Influenced My OTS?

Below is a Scribd document I have created as a plenary for the research and planning aspect of this coursework. I explain the journey I have taken throughout all of this blog work since September 2014, and how it has all built up to the production of my opening title sequence.

Research and Planning Plenary

Audiences and Institutions - My Audience

Below is a Scribd document I have created that explains the demographics and psychographics of my audience for my film, which is important to bear in mind when creating my OTS because it is important to film based on the type of people who are going to be watching, so it has to appeal to them. I also explain which distribution company would distribute my film.

Audiences and Institutions - My Audience

Independent vs Hollywood

Independent Films: film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly outside of the major film studio. 

Hollywood Films: the entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing blockbuster movies.

Some films are made independently rather than by a major film distributor studio. The Hollywood film industry is so dominant of the whole film industry because many people who want to see a new release will almost 100% of the time go to see a film in a multiplex cinema. 

Successful British films like 'Slumdog Millionaire' (2008) and the Harry Potter (2001-2011) series can only be thankful for their success due to distribution by Twentieth Century Fox. This means that the profits of these films does not all go back into the British film industry. 

Commercially successful British films, e.g. 'The Inbetweeners Movie' (2011) have higher production costs than independent films such as 'Happy Go Lucky' (2008) because the aim of the directors for these films is to gain critical success through the art of film making rather than commercial success.

Costs involved in making a Hollywood movie include:

• Budget
• Story Rights
• Screenplay
• Director
• Producers
• Cast
• Production
• Visual Effects
• Music
• Marketing

Ways of how Hollywood movies try to break-even include:

• Box Office
• DVD/Blu-Ray Sales
• Merchandising
• TV Releases

Information from: Blockbuster Economics - BBC Article. This article was useful as it has given me an insight on how expensive the Hollywood film industry is with how many costs that go into producing and distributing a film. 

Film Distribution

Below is a SlideShare presentation I have created which explains how film distribution companies work and some examples of some big ones.