Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Let's face it, the preliminary task was bad. To put it bluntly. I've learnt a lot between the preliminary task to evaluating my final piece. The preliminary task was one of the first experiences I'd has of coming up with an idea and making that idea into a short film, and it probably wasn't Oscar winning. I've learnt a lot about the fundamentals of film-making and the story a film tells.
I've learnt a lot about how I work when being a director and what I can do to improve my work and my productivity and therefore other people's productivity on set. I've learnt about editing and what products to use in editing and what is best for my style, or the independent style of the film that I'm looking for.
Overall making the introduction of Four Walls has definitely been a massive learning experience for me, covering pretty much everything there is possible to learn about in film making. Four Walls was really fun shoot, I'm pretty happy with how it looks and definitely how it feels, but I think that it could look even better with more experienced people behind it. I will be sure to return to Four Walls sometime in the future.
Captain's Log, April 16th 2012.
16/04/2012
Evaluationz; Part 4 - Thinking big
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I would prefer Four Walls to be made independently because I wouldn't think it would practical to have a massive crew with only two actors, so I think just the bare minimum of crew would be best suited when making this film. I started looking through independent movies that have had funding from relatively large distribution companies, I looked at films that didn't get a massive distribution and marketing campaigns, like Monsters, which did get shown in some bigger brand cinemas, but was mostly shown in cinemas showing independent and international films. Monsters is a feature film which focuses on the travels of two characters, this is much like the confined character range of Four Walls but has a big scale in the locations of their travels.
The distribution company of Monsters was Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment, for the UK DVD & Blu-ray distribution. The film didn't get any major theatrical release in the UK, but did get a DVD & Blu-ray release. I think that this film would a be a good place if the film was popular enough to get to DVD, but as merely a small theatrical release I don't think there would be much chance in it.
Lionsgate release many horror, crime and mystery films every year and pick up mostly small scale films that are popular in the aficionado audiences but also breaching into bigger audiences. A few Lionsgate films have become much bigger grossing films when getting a major release into big brand cinemas, such as The Hunger Games, Saw and Transporter 3. Lionsgate release many independent films to bigger audiences every year, and pick up films that have been made and finished, then release them to much bigger audiences than would be possible on small budgets.
I would prefer Four Walls to be made independently because I wouldn't think it would practical to have a massive crew with only two actors, so I think just the bare minimum of crew would be best suited when making this film. I started looking through independent movies that have had funding from relatively large distribution companies, I looked at films that didn't get a massive distribution and marketing campaigns, like Monsters, which did get shown in some bigger brand cinemas, but was mostly shown in cinemas showing independent and international films. Monsters is a feature film which focuses on the travels of two characters, this is much like the confined character range of Four Walls but has a big scale in the locations of their travels.
The distribution company of Monsters was Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment, for the UK DVD & Blu-ray distribution. The film didn't get any major theatrical release in the UK, but did get a DVD & Blu-ray release. I think that this film would a be a good place if the film was popular enough to get to DVD, but as merely a small theatrical release I don't think there would be much chance in it.
Lionsgate release many horror, crime and mystery films every year and pick up mostly small scale films that are popular in the aficionado audiences but also breaching into bigger audiences. A few Lionsgate films have become much bigger grossing films when getting a major release into big brand cinemas, such as The Hunger Games, Saw and Transporter 3. Lionsgate release many independent films to bigger audiences every year, and pick up films that have been made and finished, then release them to much bigger audiences than would be possible on small budgets.
09/04/2012
Evaluationz; Part 3 - Naaah
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
It doesn't. There's only two and a half characters. Never do either of the characters interact with any other characters than the other two. And well Geoffrey?... Geoffrey just gets killed and that's about it from him. Jason and Johnathan have an hour and a half long conversation, but it isn't a social occasion, it's for work.
Jason is a psychotic killer. Not really sure if that's a social group. Nothing is ever found out about Jason's life other than he does work, he has money but we don't know what from, and that he kills people on a regular basis. From this, it's hard to tell what his social group is.
Detective Spencer is a working man who sticks up for his colleagues a time of need. So you could say he is very friendly and caring. He has a family, but not much is found out about them other than he has a wife and a daughter of 4 years old.
I could ramble on about the characters, but in the end, there isn't any social interaction between them besides objectives and such.
It doesn't. There's only two and a half characters. Never do either of the characters interact with any other characters than the other two. And well Geoffrey?... Geoffrey just gets killed and that's about it from him. Jason and Johnathan have an hour and a half long conversation, but it isn't a social occasion, it's for work.
Jason is a psychotic killer. Not really sure if that's a social group. Nothing is ever found out about Jason's life other than he does work, he has money but we don't know what from, and that he kills people on a regular basis. From this, it's hard to tell what his social group is.
Detective Spencer is a working man who sticks up for his colleagues a time of need. So you could say he is very friendly and caring. He has a family, but not much is found out about them other than he has a wife and a daughter of 4 years old.
I could ramble on about the characters, but in the end, there isn't any social interaction between them besides objectives and such.
Evaluationz; Part 2 - Creatively Challenged
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I think that Four Walls more develops and challenges current conventions such as the size of a film; major Hollywood films and even smaller independent films take place over massive distances, with a never ending amount of effects shots, story lines that include many main characters and what sometimes seems to a never ending amount of sub-plots including many smaller characters.
Four Walls takes place in just one room, few shots outside of it. I think that this is more challenging modern conventions of film in the sense of its location and characters, as using just one room is something that is rarely used in modern cinema. I don't see how this challenges it a sense of creating a character, because surely for most films the audience are wanted to have a good sense of the character, but moving location and having many different characters makes this quite difficult. Having the characters in one room with nowhere to go and to distract the audience it will make the audience have nowhere else to focus.
Four Walls also challenges the forms of modern films by having to keep the attention of the audience for a feature length film with only the characters to do so. Other films, for instance, like Transformers take the action around the globe meeting different characters, having the character change their objectives and such. This is not an option for me in Four Walls, the action will have to take place in one room and be intense enough or intriguing enough to keep the audience involved.
I think that Four Walls more develops and challenges current conventions such as the size of a film; major Hollywood films and even smaller independent films take place over massive distances, with a never ending amount of effects shots, story lines that include many main characters and what sometimes seems to a never ending amount of sub-plots including many smaller characters.
Four Walls takes place in just one room, few shots outside of it. I think that this is more challenging modern conventions of film in the sense of its location and characters, as using just one room is something that is rarely used in modern cinema. I don't see how this challenges it a sense of creating a character, because surely for most films the audience are wanted to have a good sense of the character, but moving location and having many different characters makes this quite difficult. Having the characters in one room with nowhere to go and to distract the audience it will make the audience have nowhere else to focus.
Four Walls also challenges the forms of modern films by having to keep the attention of the audience for a feature length film with only the characters to do so. Other films, for instance, like Transformers take the action around the globe meeting different characters, having the character change their objectives and such. This is not an option for me in Four Walls, the action will have to take place in one room and be intense enough or intriguing enough to keep the audience involved.
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