Evaluation: What type of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

My media product would be released in smaller independent cinemas such as Phoenix Picture House based in Oxfordshire (also where our film is set). I think this will be suitable as Phoenix Picture House are good for independent and foreign upcoming films.

I believe it will be certified a twelve and be the best to distribute to our target audience (twelve plus, predominately females).

My media product will also feature and be advertised on television, especially on channel four and E4 as they many of their shows and films they play are romantic comedies so their audiences are similar to our movie’s and are people we need to reach out to.

E4 also have a ‘Slackers Club’ available to 16 and over students which I think would be great to release my film. Every month they show  E4 Slackers Club members free previews of films for free. For more information look at:  http://www.e4.com/slackers/about.html

Evaluation: How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

Please watch my interview on 'Marlborough News' for my answer to 'how does your media product represent particular social groups?', I discuss the ways in which my media product represents the youth in a positive light and shows two independent young adults both working for their living. I believe it refutes the stereotypes of young adults smoking, drinking, being lazy, causing chaos, and crimes, making it more appealing to a larger audience. 

Evaluation: In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

Please watch my answer which I have posted on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjo8UymnAOs). In the clip I will be talking about:

Things we saw on romantic comedies which inspired us:

 - Light hearted music

- Voice over (‘Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason’, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ and ‘The Holiday’)

- Specific scenes: waking up and showing daily lifestyle

- ‘Christmas/ New Years themes (‘Four Christmases’, ‘The Holiday’, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’, ‘Love Actually’, ‘While You Were Sleeping’ etc)

And the way in which out opening challenges the conventions of real media products through the use of younger actors as our main characters to makes it more appealing to our target audience (12+). 

Background Music

Two aspiring musicians in our year, Jack Cowley and Ben Pilston from the band Monday Coma, played the acoustic guitar for the background music in our opening sequence. We recorded this using on an iphone and uploaded in onto the computer. To find out more about Monday Coma take a look at their twitter page: https://twitter.com/MondayComa 

Voice Over

Our Final Script for the Voice Over

Joe: What is Love? Does it really exist? Love is said to be an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. It’s said to be a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection—the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another. I believe everyone has a soul mate somewhere, but not everyone is destined to find theirs.

Lily: I definitely believe in love, it's so magical, something from a fantasy  Every girl wants to fall in love from the moment they watch their first Disney princess on TV  Everyone deserves true love. I once read a Greek myth: Once upon a time, when gods and people existed together, people had four arms and four legs. They had two heads and two faces. They existed happily as they were, and grew more powerful as time went on. The gods decided that the humans were getting too powerful and needed to be put back into place somehow, so they cut the humans in half. Each human now had only two arms, two legs, one head, and one face. They had to spend the rest of their lives searching for their other half to make themselves whole again. It became the point of life.

                         

The Voice Over To Our Opening Sequence

We had the idea to do a voice over for the opening sequence of Lily and Joe talking about love over an acoustic guitar.

 We found a Greek myth from Plato's Symposium which Lily will quote:

“Once upon a time, when gods and people existed together, people had four arms and four legs. They had two heads and two faces. They existed happily as they were, and grew more powerful as time went on. The gods decided that the humans were getting too powerful and needed to be put back into place somehow, so they cut the humans in half. Each human now had only two arms, two legs, one head, and one face. They had to spend the rest of their lives searching for their other half to make themselves whole again. It became the point of life."

  

And we got the definition of love from Wikipedia which Joe will quote then his view on love:

“Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also said to be a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection—the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".

'Dreamcatcher' Analysis

Watch opening sequence here: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/dreamcatcher/

The 2003 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel was directed by Lawrence Kasdam.

In the opening sequence there is a cold theme depicting that it is in a cold country. The title, DVD cover and woodlands in the title sequence suggest it's set in Northern American.

The opening has a blue colour masks on it giving it a sci-fi feel and connoting death. The shots merge together through close up shots, they almost look as if they are being looked at through a microscope creating the feel of them being analysed. In these shots we see bones, teeth, a dream catcher, icicles, feathers and more, some of which is unidentifiable.

In the last shot at 2.38, a play with light creates an UFO shape in the sky foreshadowing the alien invasion later on in the film. The fast bird's eye view shots at 2.31 panning through the Northern American also helps link in with the UFO, as it feels like a point of view shot from a UFO as we quickly flying over the forests.