6. NEW TECHNOLOGIES

RESEARCH

BLOGGER 

Blogger is hosting all of my other new technologies at the research and planning stage. As a multi-media social networking tool it allowed me to collate, archive, display and create research and planning with images, videos, sound files and posts that I could share with my group. It hosted all my other presentational tools, from Emaze to Slideshare,Trello and Photoshop. My blog is where everything can be found an there everything is kept. Feedback left has helped me improve my work and get it to a better standard. 

ONLINE MAGAZINES 

I looked at MediaMagazine to learn about the film industry, such as distribution 'Lionsgate: Can Katniss Everdeen (Dec. 2014).Here is a screenshot of the cover of the online magazine.

TWITTER

I have created 2 twitter accounts. One twitter account is for media use and my research whereas, the second twitter account is for the movie opening for my production company . Twitter is a very useful new technology platform as it help communicate with the rest of the world in a very fast and efficient way. You can also look for inspiration by looking at the your followings pages and get some ideas for your own project.  

YOUTUBE
Youtube has helped me understand how our main character may behave in a photo shoot so i can take that in and copy that when it comes to our photo shoot scene. This is a video that i watched. I also made a blog post to explain the style of a photographer.

FACEBOOK
A Facebook page has been set up for our production company so that we can update is and show the progress we are making and is a way of film distribution.

INSTAGRAM
Our group has made an Instagram account were there are pictures from main title of the film to where we are on set filming. Each picture has its own cation and can be a very useful way of communicating with the audience and is also very good for the distribution of the film.

EMAZE 
I have used Emaze to present some of my research such as Behaviors of Audiences as it stands out well from the colours and makes the presentation of my work look interesting.

POWERPOINT 
I created some of my Art of the Titles Research on powerpoint and upload them onto slide share then put them on my blog. This is because you can get a professional look on powerpoint and is a great presentation tool and is easy to use. 

PREZI 
I have used Prezi on the distribution of films presentation and really liked it. This is because it presents the text in a elegant way and has unique animations to go with the text.

PLANNING 


iMessage 
Our group has used iMessage to keep in touch when planning.

GOOGLE DOCS 
This is a sophisticated and flexible tool that enabled us to work collaboratively on the same documents wherever we are and even on a mobile device. We used it extensively when creating the shot list, the call sheets and the scriptsideas, add photos of locations, plan the blocking of movements with photos to prompt our memories and keep our ideas looking professional and easy to access. Google doc. It is flexible because we could update s let us create and share our work online and access our documents from anywhere.

TRELLO
I have used trello to keep organised and plan everything I need to do in the near future regarding my project and let me know what i have done and what i still need to do.

CONSTRUCTION

DIGITAL CAMERA 

Canon D550, D650 

ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS
I have used After Effects to work on the production company animation.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

I have used photoshop to create the production company logo for our production

EVALUATION
NEW HIVE

This enabled me to present all my evidence about how I used technology in a visually exciting and logical way with images, text, embedded video and audio.

This is a link to my New Hive presentation 

  

CONSTRUCTION: PRODUCTION COMPANY LOGO

In today's lesson I have been working on making the production company logo on photoshop. This is the progress so far.

UPDATE ON THE PRODUCTION COMPANY LOGO:

I have finished the production company logo on photoshop and is ready to be put on our film and is shown below.

The production company logo is complete and here is the final version.

REPRESENTATION: INTERVIEW

REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL GROUPS: INTERROGATING OUR PROTAGONIST

PLANNING: PHOTO SHOOT SCENE

For our Film opening, we are including a scene with a photo shoot with 2 models to represent the main character and to show that he is a controlling photographer. To plan for this scene we have looked at videos of fashion shoots which will help us understand what goes on during a photo shoot and the environment in which it is set. For example, I have looked at how fashion photographer David Bailey to see what kind of shots we can use like his, here is an example:


This image can be used as one of the positions that one of our models can do during the shoot for out film opening. This is effective as well because its in black and white which suits the theme of our film.

This second shot shows how David is directing the model in which pose to do next and almost commanding her what to do. I could use this in our production to make my character seem more controlling towards the models such as David Bailey would.

We also decided to use another fashion photographer, Tim Walker who used Women in such a way which was similar to our main protagonist 'Sam'. We took an example out of his book of a picture of a female model posing in an uncomfortable way in our character interview to portray it to 'Sam' This was because it would show how 'Sam' feels towards women being treated in this way as being 'objects' to him. We decided to choose Tim Walker because he has been a fashion photographer for over 10 years and shoots for magazines which will represent these models for Tim in a similar way our main protagonist will view women.

DISTRIBUTION: WEBSITE

Every film nowadays as a basic minimum has a website which is created several months before the film is released and which hosts a group of related social media platforms, such as the films Facebook and Twitter pages. Our production company, Sabre productions, have created a suite of platforms to which we will distribute our film. 

I have made our films website which was influenced by 'The Martian' 

I am in charge of making sure that we have a website so i have done some research on film websites which can help me understand what they look like and what they also in include. Such as this one: 

This shows a poster of the film and an overall look of what it may be about. Secondly, it has the title of the film along with certain dates of which it will be released on DVD. Thirdly, perhaps the most important feature is its interactivity; the target audience is invited to watch the trailer, make memes , download posters, pre-order and link to other social media. Finally, it has drop down bars at the top which tells us where it can be shown in each areas in cinemas. 

PLANNING: CALL SHEET #3

Shoot date: 27th November 2015

Location: Claremont Fan Court Photography Studio



Crew:
Bea Chavdarova: 7896 ******
Chloe McDowell: 7472 ******
Alex Davies: 7710 ******
James Eager: 7531 ******

Extras:
Amy Spalding
Florence Selwood

Equipment:
Canon Camera
Tripod
Dollie

Props:

Lights
Cameras

Wardrobe:
Sociopath's Attire:
Black Top
Black Jeans
Black shoes

Amy Spalding's Attire:
Black Channel cocktail dress
Black heels 

Florence Selwood Attire:
White dress
Black heels