What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

What does a production company do?
A production company is in charge of the making of the film. They are asserted the role of developing the film to a finished product. Production companies develop the name of the film and manage all that goes on during the making of the film. They are given the sole responsibility for funding the making of the film.

What is your idea of a film distributor?
A film distributor has the task of purchasing the rights to distribute a film from the production company. Once they have purchased the distribution rights, the distribution will then go forth and distribute the film to cinemas and retail outlets in the form of DVD's. In return the distribution company receives a percentage of the sales.

Who might be the distributor for your film and why?
Due to the low budget and small scale production of our film we are aware that our film is not going to be a major blockbuster. Therefore our film is not going to have a premiere, and will not be expected to be screened in many cinemas. We anticipate that the distributor of our film is most likely to be small scale and independent. An example includes Entertainment films which is the largest independent film distributor in the UK.

Where would the money the come form for a film such as yours?
Due to the small scale of our film we will be expected to bare the brunt of all of the costs that arise from the production of our film. This is because unlike large scale high budget films we will not benefit from a production company. It will be important that we keep our costs low although this will create many limitations in what we are able to create.

Why have the various people been named in your titles? Which jobs appear in your titles and in what order and how have you reflected this?
The various people that heave been named in our titles have been named because they made a significant    contribution to the making of the film. Because our production was such small scale we only have the names of the three members in our group. The order in which the names appear are in accordance with the importance of their role.  The director and chief camera man appear first, this is because the director plays the most important role in ensuring the direction of the film. It is common that the director appears at the beginning of the title sequence.  Second to appear in the title sequence in the name of the chief editor and producer. This is because the producer plays a vital role in the making of the film and without them the making of the film would not be made possible. Third to appear in the title sequence is the name of the supporting camera man and editor. This name appears third in the sequence because they are supporting and therefore their of less importance than the chief editor and camera man.


How is your film similar 'institutionally' to others? Name some films which would be released in a similar way.
We predict that or film will be distributed regionally, around the London area and the south east of England. This is because we don't expect that our film will be a huge blockbuster and we a have chosen to screen it in regions that we feel our film will do best in. Because of this we can draw similarities to other small scale, low budget films such as This is England as this was very much a regionally targeted film as it was not expected to do great nationally.

Looking back at preliminary task, what do you feel you learnt from the progression form it to your full product?

Shot 1, shot 1 shows our use of overt editing. The image on the left of shot 1 shows our inability to effectively alter the saturation of our film. It is clear that the saturation in the image to the left has been overly altered. This has effected the quality of the piece making it appear poor quality and unprofessional. The shot on the right evidences clear improvements in our ability to alter shot saturation. Rather than attempt to overly alter the saturation we have used it to improve the quality and make it appear to be of a professional quality as appeared to the amateur quality of that of the shot on the left.

Shot 2, shows the use over over the top shots. In the shot on the left showing footage from our prelim task we can see that the camera is positioned inaccurately resulting in the camera being tilted to one side. This makes the shot appear of a amateur quality and takes the audience attention away from the two characters in the shot to the poor position of the camera. In the shot to the right from Rags to Riches we can see clear improvements in the quality of the shot. Firstly, the camera is positioned straight as a posed to one side, in addition the cars are positioned in the centre of the shot focusing the audiences concentration of the car as intended rather than else where.

Shot 3, shows our use of match on match action. In the shot on the left we can see that in our prelim task we were not able to perform match on match action very well. This is because the shot showing the character entering the room is not clear. This is because the camera position is set to far back from the door not making the shot clear. In addition the extreme change in saturation between the opening of the door and entering of the room makes the shots appear too far apart. The shots on the right taken from Rags to Riches  shows vast improvement in the use of match on match action. Firstly because of the position of the camera, the camera is position as such to achieve maximum effectiveness from the shot the position of the camera is from behind the character making it clear that the character has only moved a little whereas the camera has changed position. Also the same saturation avoids drastic changes in the shot avoiding making it clear that the shots are showing the the same movement.

What have you learnt about technologies form the process of constructing this process?

This is an image of the tripod that was use during the filming of our opening. The tripod allowed us to maintain a steady steady camera whilst recording shots. The handle allowed us to perform steady panning shots.

These are all of our iPhones. The iPhones provided a means of communication through the group allowing us to text and phone one another to arrange when to meet up and film.

This is the Mac. We used this during the whole process of our planning and editing. The Mac stored all of the software needed to complete our task.

This is Livetype, this is the software we used to design our typewriter effect at the beginning of our opening sequence. When creating the typewriter effect we had to ensure that the text was and the sound fitted in with one another. It was important to get the text to appear on the screen at the same time as the sound.

 This is Final Cut Express. We used this software for the entire editing process of our opening. Final Cut Express allowed us to sequence our piece as well as adjust the saturation and also to time map in place, where we speeded up our piece and reverse shots.

This is an image of Youtube. Youtube is where our final product is saved. As well as this Youtube also helped us during our research process, Youtube allowed us to watch other opening sequences and research the gangster genre by watching film clips associated with this genre.

This is an image of my blog. The blog allowed me to blog each stage of my research into my chosen genre. The blog also allowed me to analyse each stage of the filming process and everything that went well during the process and any difficulties that we encountered. 

How does your media represent particular social groups?

These are two main characters one form Rags to riches and the other from Adult Hood both with similar roles in their respective films. 

Both Adam Deacon and the main character form our film represent the London youth of today. Firstly, both characters are of a similar age group, this targets older teens as they can relate to this age group. Also the way that both characters are dressed resembles the stereotypical dress code London teens. Both Adam Deacon and the character from our film are dressed in casual clothing, round neck t-shirts, jeans and hats, all commonly worn by teenagers in London helping to target our film at London teens. However, in the second half of our film, the main character form our film breaks away form the stereotypical London dress code as we see him dressed in a formal manner wearing suit and holding a briefcase. 

Both the characters are motivated by money. This a common attitude among most teens and young adults in London as there is a perception that with money you will achieve power , success and respect. Throughout Adulthood and Rags to Riches both characters gain more power and more power as the story goes on. The only significant differences between our film and Adulthood in this respect is that our character is attempting to breakaway form life on the streets where Adam Deacon attempts to use his street credibility to his advantage. 

Another difference between our character and Adam Deacon is theAdam is a more common street gang member in London, dealing in small and petty crimes. We have attempted to avoid this and have tried to link our character with much more high profile crimes. 

Conventions

The title of the film
The title 'Rags 2 Riches' was chosen to represent the journey made by our character over a day. He went from having nothing 'Rags' to leading a well respected criminal organisation with which brings with it power and wealth 'Riches'. This idea of wealth and power conforms to the typical conventions, however, the typical conventions are challenged because our character starts off as poor, this is not something that is usually represented in other gangster films.

Setting/Location
Our opening was film entirely in London.  This conformed to the typical conventions of British gangster films because such films in this genre are filmed in the east of London using cockney gangs to portray London's criminal underworld.

Costume and props
Our character main character is wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase. This fits in with the

Camerawork and editing
The camerawork and editing that we use in our opening sequence conform to the typical conventions of the gangster genre. We use panning shots of London landmarks to reveal the locations of our opening sequence. We positioned the camera to avoid revealing the main characters identity until the end of the opening sequence in an attempt to keep the audience questioning who the character is. We lower the saturation of some shots to create a silhouette  of our character keeping his identity a secret.

Title font and style
The font style used in our opening is one that represents gold bars. This style is fitting to our storyline as the aim is to become wealthy and powerful and the use of gold bars represents this wealth. The use of the dollar symbol is used to represent money and again fits in to our characters goal of achieving wealth.

Story and how the opening sets it up
The storyline is firstly introduced by the narration. The narration reveals a brief background story of or characters life at the beginning of the story and at the end of the story. The narration of the story is also supported by he showing of the character at the beginning and end of our story revealing to the audience the passing of time and our characters development from rich to poor.

Genre and how the opening suggests this
The genre is revealed through the passing of money. The passing of an object is a common feature in the gangster gene, usually the passing of a briefcase, drugs, money or weapons reveals to the audience that the genre is gangster.

How the characters are revealed
Our character was first revealed through a long shot on London bridge along with the narration the identity of our character is revealed. Form this point onward his identity is hidden until the end of the two minutes. His identity is again revealed at the end of the opening sequence through a mid shot of the character as he exists the cab the shot is then frozen giving the audience a chance to notice who the character is.

Special effects
We used a low saturation throughout our opening sequence in order to darken the scene and make it appear more tense upon the revealing of a character. It also helps to create a mood during our opening sequence as the darker scene make it appear dark and gloomy. This conforms to the typical conventions of the gangster genre because gangster films use a serious and

The character above is John, he is 22 and lives and works in London. I created John using OpenOffice by pulling together several images form internet to create an audience type.

The speach bubble above John's head shows the different types of social media that John is interested in. John uses social media on a daily basis, therefore, it would prove effective to advertise on such sites as a means of promoting our film to our target audience. As well as reguarly visiting social media websites John also reguarly reads the sun, a tabloit newspaper. This again gives us an ideal place to advertise our film.

The tool box located on the right of John represents the occupation that we expect our target audience. Our film is targeted at the average young working class man. This is because we feel that this audience type will most relate to the main character featured film as from beging place at the lowest of the social ladder to the top in the same way that the working class are viewed to be lower class to that of those in a profession.

We have chosen to target our film at males because we have aknowledged from our audience research that the majortiy of those interested in the gangster genre are male.

The siloet of the London skyline represents the location that we expect our film to do the best in. This is beacause the film is set soley in London making it a London gangster. We expect that our audience will be fimiliar with the majority of the sites and landmarks shown in our film.

The camera, located by the right of John, represents Johns key interest in photography. This interest in photography will ensure the John appreciates, much more, the asthetics of our film.

lesson overview

Today we focused on finishing editing the first half of our opening sequence. We had to ensure that the sound of the typewriter was in time with the text as it appears on the screen and that the sound of Big Ben was also in the sequence.

Screen Play

Black screen

(Typewrite Effect)

London

9:00am

12th May 2012

London Southbank, Daylight, London eye fully active

London city shown from various places

Shabby character, ragged clothing.

Clearly a tramp.

Character across the road behind moving crowd.

ANONYMOUS CHARACTER (NARRATIVE VOICE)

“How's a guy like me meant to make a living around here?

It's every man for himself and only the lucky ones have a chance of getting anywhere in life.

Nowadays you can go from being a nobody, to being feared by everybody.

Me? I'm the kinda guy that had a chance.”

Black screen

(Typewrite Effect)

London

9:00am

13th May 2012

London city, morning, broad daylight

Neatly presented character.

Wearing a suit with slicked hair holding a suitcase.

ANONYMOUS CHARACTER (NARRATIVE VOICE)

And him? He's the kinda guy that took that chance.

It's not for me to judge but it look like he's a damn sight better off than me.

To get rich, and make it big, you've got to want it.

The people you know determine who you'll be.

Cos' this is a tale of Rags to Riches and how a guy like me made it in a day.

This is our final screen play. 

Final Monologue

Final Monologue

How's a guy like me meant to make a living around here?
It's every man for himself and only the lucky ones have a chance of getting anywhere in life.
Nowadays you can go from being a nobody, to being feared by everybody.
Me? I'm the kinda guy that had a chance.


And him? He's the kinda guy that took that chance.
It's not for me to judge but it look like he's a damn sight better off than me.
To get rich, and make it big, you've got to want it.
The people you know determine who you'll be.
Cos' this is a tale of Rags to Riches and how a guy like me made it in a day.

This is our final Monologue. As a group we discussed the dialogue which will be used in our opening sequence. 
Our opening sequence will be heavily reliant on dialogue to tell give the audience an understanding of the story as there is little visual acting shown in our opening sequence. It was important that the dialogue was well suited to our story  as we only have two minutes to capture the audiences interest in the story of 'Rags to Riches'. The dialogue will be heard as a narration over the opening sequence. 

Production Company Intro

The production Company intro was created by Josh May using Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects.
This intro will feature at the beginning of our opening sequence.