Media studies task final

Futher inspiration

We have pretty much finished editing our film now and we are ready to upload it onto YouTube.

However we have recently come across an editing technique which we feel as a group is worth putting into our film intro. 

The inspiration comes from an arctic monkeys music video and it involves the screen spitting into two and parallel editing people doing different things at the same time. 

I don't have an image of this cross cutting technique but I can show another picture to show what I mean. 

This picture shows off a similar effect to

what I was talking about before.

Two different images displaying the

same event only at different angles.

This is an effect we hopefully plan to

use.

New York

So I just got back from trip from New York so I am going to tell you all about it and luckily because I'm your typical tourist I took way to many photos of random things that have absolutely nothing to do with the city what so ever. Hopefully I remember to include the important photos.

Story time!

So we arrived in JFK airport around 5pm local time and it was freezing cold so naturally as soon as we all saw the first sight of our coaches to the Hotel we ran only to find ourselves sitting down for another hour.

 

When we all arrived at the hotel pretty much all of us stayed in our rooms including myself as we are all just generally lazy and didn't really realise that we were actually in New York but that there was a flat screen TV in our room.

Over the next few days we stood on top of the empire state building and the Rockefeller building, visited the statue of liberty and immigration museum, Ground zero and various Art museums you know the typical things a tourist wants to see in New York.

   Times square however was probably my favourite part of the city with its bright advertising lights and major shopping attractions such as the M&M store and Disney stores. 
This trip helped my research as it really opened my eyes into another culture and how America do things differently than the UK. The US in terms of the Film industry is much larger than the UK. In times square for example digital posters that moved and switched between advertisements. For example at this time Star wars and Deadpool were being advertised everywhere, this taught us on ways that the industry advertises its work. E.g. on top of taxi's and on sweet packets.
We would use a UK distributer such as working title though as it is INDEPENDANT with films such as Mr Bean.

Who will produce/distribute our film

When it comes to distributing our film we have a choice of UK and US

UK being local for us as we are filming in the UK so therefore it would be cheaper in theory to produce it here and distribute here in the UK film industry.

On the other hand we have US which would involve traveling to the US in order to produce our film which would be very expensive, however with the US having major film industry's such as Hollywood studios  it would be easier to distribute and get more attention for a higher cost.

I think we would choose UK as it is simple to do and wouldn't cost as much as going US.

Other peoples opinions on sequence

Today we showed off our first edit of our final piece so we were able to obtain other peoples opinions on the basic idea. Apart from the initial cheering after Jack released his nipple in bed the reaction was good, people loved the basic idea and the camera cuts in time with the music.
We did receive some vital criticisms though which we could use to improve our final opening sequence.
-We need to make sure that the camera is always in focus on Jack when he is moving s at the moment he is quite blurry which makes it difficult to read his facial expressions. 
-The Music must always be in time with the cuts of the editing so that the sequence flows well.
So our cuts when they speed up on a quicker beat is heading down the right track so we will need more of that.
-The titles when added will have to appear in scenes where either nothing much is going on so its easy to read or so that they flow out of movements in the sequence making the sequence look much more interesting and still easy to read without distracting the audience away from the actual acting.

Soundtrack ideas

As I have been given the fabulous task of directing the sound for this film opening I will be the one who directs what and how we use music, Diegetic and non Diegetic sound in each clip.
We have decided as a group that the opening sequence will consist of around 90% Non Diegetic sound as we will have a sound track on in the background. We will only need to use Diegetic sound when the character wakes up, takes his headphones out, and the end of the sequence when he either sits down at a desk or stands at the side of the road to show the real world closing in.

The use of music combined with the headphones will make it seem like he is listening to the music that everyone else in the audience is as he is (not being able to hear what goes on around him)
When he takes his headphones out and we can only hear the music in the background very quietly  as if we were actually standing next to him only being able to juuuust hear the simple beat coming from the speakers.






I will be making this soundtrack for Jack to walk along to so its important that I time the beat of the music with his footsteps to give the audience a sense of rythem.
The music also cannot be to quick or complicated that would distract them from the visual effect of the sequence which would lead to confusion. I will also need to link it with the genre of your stereotypical 'teenager' music. So this could be a simple hip hop beat to a Rock theme that would be used with an electric guitar as tey are commonly linked to young adults and the music that they listen to.
There will be three ways that I can get/produce this music:

1. Copyright (If needed)
We could acquire a piece of music already made that we like and use that. We could make this a well known song so that the audience could recognize it and link it as symbolism towards the age of your typical teenager.

2. Garage Band
We could also use Garage band to create our own tune with a wide selection of instruments such as Pianos, Drums, Guitar and strings all on an I pad.












3. Novation Launchpad
I have an instrument at home which consists of a 64*64 grid of Programmable buttons that I can use for what ever sound I want in the world. Whether that making loops or doing a solo piece this instrument can do all those things.
It would be more difficult however I think it is much more creative and will gain more marks.