Research on distribution

According to BFI Screen Online by David Sin:


Distribution, the third part of the film supply chain, is often referred to as 'the invisible art', a process known only to those within the industry, barely written about and almost imperceptible to everyone else.


Distribution is about releasing and sustaining films in the market place. In the practice of Hollywood and other forms of industrial cinema, the phases of production, distribution and exhibition operate most effectively when 'vertically integrated', where the three stages are seen as part of the same larger process, under the control of one company. 


In the UK, distribution is very much focused on marketing and sustaining a global product in a local market.
very much focused on marketing and sustaining a global product in local markets.

Sound Recording- New Technology

I used Logic 9 from the process of constructing the product. in my music tech lesson, I have been learning how to use Logic 9 to make my own music, but for media, it is totally different. In last week's lesson, we recorded Karen screaming and then we used Logic 9 to add in different effects in order to make our sound clip eerie and spooky.

Here's our sound clip:

Risk assesment

This lesson we created a risk assesment sheet. In doing this out group are able to asses and overcome risks of our various film locations. By following this, our group is able to be safer considering some of our scenes are quite hazardous for example a tall builing, water etc

Working on title sequence

I also worked on the title sequence for the movie. I have crated a short, simple animation for the title that fits it quite well. I added the fading effect which suits our title: 'Faded' and it creates suspense. It has been added to the sequence.

Facebook and Youtube

So we realised that the Internet helps distributors to advertise their films and raises awareness among audiences at a very early stage, even before the film is done.
So in today's lesson, we focused on how we were going to promote our movie opening in the future. We created a Facebook page where fans would be able to see the latest screen shots/trailers etc from the movie, and a YouTube account which we could host the videos on before posting them to the Facebook page.

Risk assessment

From our filming secession, we realised risks are involver, so in today's lesson, we made our risk assessment. We named all the risk that could be involved and wrote down solution for each accident that could happen.

Here's a screenshot of the document

Feedback

A couple of days ago, we showed our film to some people looking round on open morning. We had extremely positive feedback. People especially enjoyed and were stunned with the climax of the boy leaning and jumping over the edge of the tall building, especially with the cutaway. We heard comments such as 'I hope the boy isn’t dead' and "what happens next?". This is very reassuring and provides evidence of the feeling and emotions we wanted to create and it shows they want to keep watching. They also felt that the location was extremly realistic and made the situation of the boy even more shocking.
The viewing audience of our film included the targeted age group of 18-40+  with a mixture of genders. The movie seemed to appeal to both genres and all age groups well. We also had younger age groups which were very intrigued and grabbed by our film opening. This suggests that our film may appeal to an even wider audience than previously thought and so the chances of our film becoming a sucess is even greater.