Evaluation Question 3

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

From our research, recurring distributors of the psychological thrillers are American companies such as Columbia Pictures or Universal Pictures which will help distribute the product over in America.
However, these films have A-list actors and high budgets, and are mostly filmed in America, which is the complete opposite to our media product. The suggests that, unless we were to have a high budget and well known actors, our product would not appeal to the American audience. Therefore our distribution would be targeted in the UK.

Two media institutions from the UK distribute films, which of which some genres are similar to ours.
These are Pathé Distribution and Verve Pictures .

Pathé distribution

is a company that has distributed films such as Memento and Severence. These films have a fairly low budget, Severence being £483,152, which is still more than our product, but for a full film is still a low budget. Like our product, neither of these examples have A-List actor/esses, which suggests that Pathé distribution will distribute products which aren't huge blockbuster hits, but more creative media products. Pathé is involved in all aspects of film making, from production and development to the distribution of the final product.

Verve Pictures is an independent UK film distributor, which specialises in British and independent films. This includes low budget films, compared to the American market. By distributing independent films a media institute such as Verve Pictures would be the type on institution we would use to distribute our film.

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Youtube Links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoRf8NAfO80

- 2nd Rough Cut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOr_VZczVL8

- Final Cut

The Snared Final Cut

Production and Distribution Logos {DRAFT}

It is uncommon for a film to start without the production and distribution logos being shown before the film. These are a simple way of advertising of the company for the contribution of creating the movie.
Well known hollywood production companies such as Universal







In our own production, we came up with a production company and a distributor, in which we created our own logos. We tried various methods of creating these production titles, with programs such as Flash, iMovie, and finally LiveType, which we found was easiest to use and most effective.

The idea behind our logo was to make a simple text logo, to suit the genre and avoid a tacky look. For our production logo, we chose the name Jameth productions, a mix between names, which makes it less likely to be copyright. The text used is called Gouldy Old Style, which is a serif font, which signifies the genre of thriller. The animation on text is called Elastica, which is a simple shuffle of the text, zooming in and then back out in a jumbled order. The background is black, with an animation of a build up of shapes, which appears behind the text. We like the simplicity of this and feel it is effective for our production logo.

The distributor is called Twisted Media, which we decided upon from the rope being twisted, and could relate to the genre of Psychological thrillers having a twist. For this logo we have gone with just text. Editing the shadowing of each letter to be different than the one next to it, by changing opacity, scale and offset. We feel this creates a bit more of an interesting look to the text, and with the animation, looks as though it has actually been twisted. The animation is called Quick Twist, and it simply twists the text as it comes onto the screen. The colour scheme is black, red and white. The red signifies a danger to the film, and the black and white contrast it to make it stand out.

For a sound track to the logos, we have used two very short soundtracks, using the same instrument as the main sound track, it signifies the production companies fit the genre of the film. The sound also slowly decreases, to easily blend into the soundtrack of the film, which reduces the blunt cut from one soundtrack to another. The soundtrack was created in Garageband, using only Reflective Strings, with a variety of high pitched and low pitched single notes which signify the genre of the film.

Soundtrack

Psychological Thriller Soundtracks:
For this genre, the soundtrack tends to be slow, which builds up the tension. Through use of low strings and some high pitched strings, or a rhythm that upsets the viewers heart rate, which causes them to feel tense.

Our soundtrack:
For developing our soundtrack, we have to have an idea in what we want it to sound like.
We have decided that is should start off slow, whilst the car pulls in, which builds up tension. To do this we shall have a sequence of one low note which is prolonged. Throughout the main parts of the filming the soundtrack will just build up the general tension, and the ending with the fast editing sequence, quick, high pitched notes shall play, to upset the heart rate of the viewer and create a dramatic atmosphere for the film, until he sits up in bed, when the soundtrack shall die down.

To create our soundtrack we used Garage Band. A piece of software in which you can just pre-recorded sounds on the software to create compositions.
Here is a screen shot of part of producing the soundtrack. We chose to do the whole piece in Reflective Strings, using different pitches to create tension.


In addition to our soundtrack, we added sounds from the Imovie Media library over the sections of the protagonist hanging.
These were to emphasise the thrilling scene of the body hanging. Particular sounds we included were footsteps, heartbeat, clock ticking and there is one where in the actual shooting of the scene a police siren could be heard in the background.