Film - Evaluation Questions

For the evaluation we must answer 7 different questions. As there is 3 of us working together on the evaluation we have decided to each write up 2 of the answers and then write one answer all together. My questions were " What kind of Media Institution might distribute your media product and why?" and "What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your Media product?"

What kind of Media Institution might distribute your Media product and why?

We think that the most appropriate production company for our film would be Film4 Production. The company is owned by Channel 4 and has been responsible for backing a large number of films in the UK such as 127 Hours, Shaun of the Dead and Slumdog Millionaire. Film4 is known for show casing British Drama films which are typically low budget.  A good example of this is the film This Is England. Released in 2006 the film grossed over £5,000,000 with a relatively low budget of £1,500,000. Judging by our film opening, our film would be low budget made; similar to that of This is England.  The most suitable distributor of our film would be a UK based distributor such as Optimum Releasing. Optimum releasing are one of the UK’s largest film distributors. And with releasing around 200 films a year they are the most prominent distributors in the UK independent film market. 

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing your media product?

The most important thing that we have learnt in the process of constructing our media product is how to edit properly.  When making our preliminary tasks we were very limited in what we could create and add to our film as we were all relatively new with the I-Movie software. As we continued with our project we begin finding new things that we could do our projects such as spacing out the text that we used. We did this with the Title of the film and the actor’s names to make it look more professional and polished.  We also learned how to trim clips of music. The beginning of our film opening starts with the slower paced part of Hometown Glory then moves to faster pace and then ends with again the slow part of the song. We had to make sure that all parts of the music fitted in correctly with the scenes that we wanted to. Another thing that we learned was how to make animations. At the beginning of our film we used an animation which we made of the software serif.  We had briefly used the software a few years ago in ICT but for our film we used how to make a stop frame animation which we were really pleased with.