Photos have now been uploaded!
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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have learnt a considerable amount by shooting and editing this preliminary exercise. I had almost next to nothing knowledge on the use of cameras and setting up tripods. This I learnt quite fast and got the hang of filming and using the tripod for pan and tilt shots. The footage I shot was reasonably accurate in the use of specific shot types.
The hardest aspect of the preliminary task was using the apple macs and iMovie because I had never used a mac before. Getting the hang of editing took a while. Choosing the right shots also took a lot of time as we had many takes to look through. At the end the film was all correct having chosen the right shots, titles and music but it still wasn’t amazing.

However I learnt a lot from this task from framing a shot to editing on iMovie. I will learn from my mistakes in the next task will hopefully improve on my weaknesses.

until the next time...

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How did you attract/address your audience?

the music and sound effects tie in with the tense aspect of the film that make it more interesting and attracting to the audience as they want to discover what is in the suitcase and at the beginning who is the P.A going to be meeting.
The editing is also very important to make people want to watch. Making sure the cuts looked correct and adding music and effects at the right time was all key to creating a final good looking film.
The use of props and costumes and actors were all carefully thought through to make the film look good and each actress like their character
-the P.A was very good at acting shy, scared and nervous
-Madame was very good at putting a scary condescending voice which made the poor P.A feel scared.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience for the product is anyone who would enjoy watching the film and can possibly identify with it. It can appeal to both genders and any ages beginning from teens because the humour would not be comprehensible or funny to those younger than that. It can also appeal to adults alike as the humour is not just aimed to teenagers. The genre of the film is spoof-action so anybody who enjoys action films and comedies would also be good audiences.

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

THE GENRE of ‘The P.A’ is action spoof. The gangster suggests the action side and that if the film continued there’d be more of it and the mystery with importing perhaps illegal cosmetics. The spoof element was the gangster stroking her evil looking teddy bear, (like some of the famous villains in action films) the menacing looking bubble gun and many other humorous qualities that take the ‘Mickey’ out of other action films.

THE DISTRIBUTER of the film could be various different companies or places. As this is a very short film made on a very small scale the closest it could get to ‘the big screen’ would be before a film as one of the many adverts or promotions.
The distributors could be school websites to show other media pupils examples of preliminary exercises and the possible grades it could achieve. Another possibility is a company who shows short films as part of a commercial basis. This being said a small cost may have to be charged to the audience as the film would have to bring in money if a company prepared to show it would be wanting to make money unless it was a non- profit company.
If there was a charge for the film it could be financed that way using the audiences’ money to fund various things such as hiring equipment or actors etc if the film was more professional. At the moment it is purely practising filming skills.