1.As foundation portfolio evaluation
By Franklin, Petros and Ed.
http://wwwfranklinfineartsfinal.blogspot.com/
http://petrospoyiatgi.blogspot.com/
http://edhfa.blogspot.com/

2. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
3. Opening titles convention
For our opening titles we looked at the opening of Se7en
We found the effect of the titles jumping like in Se7en was the right effect.
Se7en opening
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4. Narrative convention
We used a narrative convention to create enigma in our opening, similar to Tormented. This introduces the characters BUT doesn't tell the audience how they got to the position they are in.
Beginning of film
5 days earlier
Beginning of film (flash back is later in the narrative)
5. Sound convention
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Se7en
These are the sounds from the opening of the films we researched and our own.
Dark Days
We have used the sound convention from Tormented over our opening titles to create tension and mystery from the start.
Tormented
6. Continuity editing
We used conventional continuity toestablish a logical flow of our opening.
We used this so the audience could follow, also we used different paces of editing.
Example of continuity editing.
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7. What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?
8. Distribution
We thought that Revolverwould be interested in our product because they are independent distributors.
We thought that our film would be suitable to have revolver because it fits the genre of our film (drama films such as Kidulthood).
Example a Revolver film
We would be closer to Warp than Working Title as an independent distributor.
9. Why Warp and Revolver?
Art house
Low budget
No famous actors
Genre
Not a high concept film
10. Other options...
We would distribute this ourselves on YouTube and Facebook
Filmed on DV
Very easy to distribute
With web 2.0 we can distribute Dark Days our selves.
We could create our own adds and viral adds on YouTube.
11. Who would be the audience for your media?
12. Audience

16-19 year olds.

13. Young Cast 14. Teenage themes 15. MALEMale lead Character
Violent themes
Research reveals that the film was more popular with teen males
16. AUDIENCE
The audience for our film can also be defined by the genre
Dark Days is a Teen Crime Thriller
We feel Dark Days would attract a similar audience to films like:
17. How did you attract/address your audience?
18. Audience
The sort of films that Warp and Revolver distribute films like ours.

Teenage actors

19. Audience could relate to the film 20. Enigmatic code used to engage the audienceDealing with
teen themes
youth crime Recognised genre murder
hoodies
theft
Teenage actor same age as target audience
21. Themes that attracts our audience.
Theft (keys)
Mobile phones
Theft and money
22. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
23. Technologies
cheaper
expensive
DV cameras
Software on computers
Lower advertising costs
The wide range of options that web 2.0 opens.
E.g. YouTube, MySpace etc..
Old cameras
Rolls of film
Editing
24. Easier filming and editing
Addition of DV cameras means faster easier filming
Also with new editing software means faster easier editing
And easier to correct bad filming, add effects that would be hard to get and cost effective.
We were able to re-frame shots as well as use some transitions such as fades
25. Producing ideas...
...is made easier with software such as Celtx
Celtx formats the script to the industry standard. This means that we know that 1 page of script equals one minute of film
It produces cast/props lists
Skype allowed us as a group to communicate our ideas with each other.
26. Time
New software is a huge time saver.
We can film, then quickly download it on the computer and then edit the movie and sound.
We also saved time by doing our schedule with Celtx.
Editing and finishing off the film has been made a lot faster with the help of computers and the software's they can hold.
27. Soundtrack pro

We used soundtrack pro to create all of the foley effects.

28. We added things such as birds and general atmos.