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Friday, 25 October 2013

Magazine Spread Deconstructions


This is an example of a magazine spread. Most of the spread consists of stills in the film, as well as behind the scenes images. In the pictures we see primary characters, as well as primary props from the film. The whole thing is dominated by promotional images, and I will reflect this by including many stills from shooting and from the final product itself. There is some boxes including highlighted quotes from the text which I quite like the look of, and might include something similar in my final piece to bring the reader's attention to specific pieces of information. There is also something to the left related to another film, which appears to be a frequent piece in the magazine which is something I will think about incorporating into my final product.


In this spread, it seems again that it is primarily dominated by movie stills. This is likely to make the large spread more digestible for the reader. The piece seems primarily concerned with providing teasers to the audience, in an attempt to draw them into seeing the film. It provides small pieces of information, and large stills from the films showing various characters and shot types, providing a range of different thoughts as to what this film may be like. 


This spread, from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is the same. Most of the spread is image and a smaller portion is text. Again, I believe this is to generate hype for the film in a way that is considered quite digestible. This is not supposed to be an informative piece, but more of an advertisement.

Throughout this deconstructions, I have found that they are all dominated by images to make the article more digestible to the audiences. I believe this to be quite patronising to the audience, and I am going to try and avoid this by having equal parts images and interesting information about the film in my magazine spread. 

Friday, 18 October 2013

Audience (Survey)

As part of my audience research, I created a survey which I handed out to students to fill in. Here are the results from all 10 surveys:

Age Survey

Finding out if people watch short films















Finding out where people watch Short Films, if they do at all
Finding out what people's favourite genre are



























Through these findings, I know now that there is a market for my short comedy film. Most people seem to prefer YouTube for accessing said films, and that is where I will upload my film when it is finished.

I also found out that these are particularly present in an age group of 15-20 due to the fact that they were the majority and these were my findings. I believe this age group to be my target audience as this film is about people who struggle with themselves and their identity as well as relationship issues. Because of this, late teens/early twenty's are my primary target audience - both male and female. I believe this is an age group that would identify most with the characters and their story.

'The Simpsons Movie' Trailer

As part of my practice using Adobe Premiere and working to specific formats, I created a trailer for The Simpsons Movie using a few provided clips and some royalty free music and sound effects. The trailer can be viewed below:


Filming Practice

As further practice for using the cameras, me and some friends made a very short film following a scenario set to us by my lecturer. This can be viewed, on my friends YouTube account due to formatting issues, here.

Shot Types

Along with some fellow students, I made a short film demonstrating various shot types. This can be seen below:


Overall, I do not feel this will be useful to my final product considering the style I'm going for, but it has been useful to experiment a bit with them, and help refine what I want to go for with my piece.

Time Management

Coming to the end of my first half term, I am evaluating how I feel I am progressing.

I feel I am progressing steadily, with over half of my work done for the blog. I have all of my actors ready to go for filming in the next two weeks, and everything is prepped for the filming. I feel ready to begin as soon as I am able to, and when I have finished filming, I feel like I have adequate time to edit my film together and complete my blog.

Monday, 14 October 2013

Film Storyboards


These are the completed storyboards for my film. I will take these with me on set and constantly refer to them. Any deviation from them will be noted in my final evaluation.