Distribution

Distribution

We were first undecided as Icon had mad so many “iconic” films but at the same time we felt that Optimum had more in common with Void.

Icon

http://www.iconmovies.co.uk/lookingforeric/

If icon were our distribution company then our film would have more exposure in most probably in multiplex such as the Odeon. The one film that carried similar traits to ours was, “Looking for Eric”.

Optimum Release

However, as Optimum distributed, “This is England”, our inspirational film, it would make a lot more sense to have them distributed void. Although they are better known for releasing thrillers and especially action.

http://www.optimumreleasing.com/theatricals.php

we finally decided on Icon because, as our film was produced by an independent production company, it would need a lot of exposure to get noticed and we believe Icon could give us that kind of marketing.

Evaluation of Film Conventions

Evaluation of film-conventions

I will evaluate two components of the film, and whether

I will evaluate the logo and the title. This includes the conventions and how the logo and title may subvert or conform to the social realism genre.

The logo is conforming to various other logos because it has the black background and white writing. But I think that it reflects the genre because of this. I think it shows the contrast in the real world and how social realism portrays this. The font of the logo also reinforces this. I think that the image and the effect on the logo are subverting traditional production logo; it appears to have a fade this something that is not always seen on production logo. Unlike the ‘Working Title’ logo, which looks like this.

Although ‘Working Title’ makes ‘British’ films, these can differ from Romantic Comedy to Social Realism. Their logo is more neutral in comparison to our logo. Their logo is actually very different to ours. The colour scheme is reversed, rather than having a black background they have a whit one, but this is not something that was considered for our logo, because the logo is supposed to reflect the nature of the film we created, this also something that we wanted to reflect on the title.

The title is something that also conforms and contrast traditional titles for films of the social realism genre.

This is the title for our film.

The title is central to the type of film we wanted to create, that is why the title was created whilst the editing was near the end, because it was after the editing that the film had more of message and conforms to the social realism genre.

In comparison to the ‘This is England’ title our title is dark and the film itself is dark. But the ‘This is England’ title is brighter, although the film itself is darker. The effect on the text is similar to the effect we used. Our title was inspired by this, because it subverts the traditional design of a film title, but there is not a ‘traditional’ design for social realism films. But I chose the black background because it connotes the films characters and represents the genre as being simple and bleak.

Creating the music for our film, using GarageBand

Garageband

I felt that this was the most enjoyable process because we got to create our own sound that fit what we were trying to portray in our film perfectly. We were allowed a short cut to the soundtrack where we were directed to a copy-right free website and scout for a song that, ‘kinda’ fit the emotions shown on screen, however we thought that if we’ve come this far through technical hitches and after hours editing, we might as well go as far to make, from scratch, our own music.

At first it was a challenge, as neither Maurice nor I, the sound engineers on our project, had ever used Garageband before, but we knew what we wanted the end product to sound like. As we had tight schedules in class, we persuaded our dream of creating the perfect sound after school and in our free periods, setting homework for ourselves such as watching endless tutorials on Youtube.

Character Analysis

This image

The image on the right shows Maurice Enwright playing himself in 'Void.' We thought this was a perfect screen shot of him, as it portrays his real problem, he is a manic depressant.

The shadow of the stair banister behind his him really brings Maurice to the foreground.

This image on the left shows a screen shot from 'La Haine.'

La Haine is a social realism film, I have decided to compare Maurice to the guy on the left hand side of the picture. He also looks quite annoyed or angry.

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Final Questionnaire

For the final screening we had to create a another questionnaire. This questionnaire will not include questions on what improvements, rather it will have questions on whether the film has improved and whether it is suitable to the genre.

These are the questions:

1. Did you enjoy this film? why?

2. Does this opening make you want to watch the remainder of the film?

3. What film certification would you give our film?

4. Do you think our film fits the genre of social realism? Why?

5. What type of cinema do you think our film would be shown in?

The feedback that we receive will affect our evaluation of the project as a whole. Rather than changing the film.

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Production logo

This is the production logo I created. I used Photoshop, and I obtained a font from Dafont.com

I added the fade on the logo after the first screening. It initially looked bland, I also changed the font various times. I wanted the font be more suitable to the logo. I used the Gasmask font.

Logo created by Maurice Enwright

Post By Maurice Enwright

First Screening Feedback.

The overall consensus regarding the feedback of our 2 minute film opening was very good. The audience filled in a questionnaire sheet.

The questions are as follows.

1. Overall, does the opening 2 minutes of our film capture your attention?

Not very? A little bit? A lot?

2. Based on the opening of our film, are you intrigued to watch the rest of the film?

3. Do you think our style of camera work compliments the genre of social realism. Please Comment.

4. What did you like most about the film.

5. How could we improve our film.

Thanks very much,

Group 1.

Results,

Question 1. 60% of participants said, a lot, 20% said a little bit, and 20% said not very.

Question 2. every single person who took the survey was intrigued to carry on watching the film to see what happened to each of the characters. This is a big plus point as it shows that the opening worked. The opening of a film must be attractive to watchers.

Question 3. Nearly all of the participants agreed that the music we made on GarageBand worked well with each of the characters. Especially the dance scene staring Antonia Draper.

Question 4. The camerawork used when filming went down very well. All off the camerawork was freehand, this gave the effect of the instability of each of our characters. This use of camerawork complimented each actor.

Question 5. It seems as if 100% of participants in our survey enjoyed the dance scene. The music worked well, as well as the editing, we spent a lot of time editing this scene, and planning what we were going to film, and the camera work of this scene.

Question 6. This is the most important part of our questionnaire. As this questionnaire was taken during the first audience screening, we still had time to edit our film.

Many people had put down on the sheet that we needed to increase the volume of shouting, so we can make it clearer.

We have increased the volume of the shouting, this has made the shouting clearer.

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