Question 7

Question 6

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Question 6: Technology
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Question 4 and Question 5

Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media project?
Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?
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Question 3

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Question 3: What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

Question 2

Question 2: How does your media product represent a particular social group?

Question1

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Question 1 : In what way does your media project use , develop or challenge conventions of real media products?

Final film : The Covenant

Here is our final ,finished film, we are proud of all the effort each of us put in to get our film to this standard. It took a lot of hours of travelling to our location and filming at the location. We also spent a lot of time editing our films to get it too the best standard and finish we could. Thankyou and I hope  you enjoy it !

Locations + Establishing shots

We went filming during half term to our location and these were a few establishing shots , some are not the best quality because I had the camera on a pole to get a good view.

half term

Over half term our group have been to view a couple of different filming locations but we decided to use the original one of the abandoned warehouse in the end. Although there are some safety risks we have anticipated these and begun filming . We have taken a few shots that I will post up later .

stages of media production

 

 Stages of Media Production.

In the media industry, there are various stages in creating a film and, in order to apply these stages and gain more of an idea of how I will include these stages in our thriller, I decided to research them.

Negotiating a deal

The film industry is made up of big studios, where ideas must be pitched to a studio. After a film has been pitched successfully, the studio's producer hires actors, directors and a crew to work on the film. An example of some of the major film industries are: Warner Brothers, Disney, Sony Pictures, Paramount, Universal and 20th Century Fox.

In order for a film to be successful, :

• A sequel to a box office hit
• A remake of a European box office hit
• An adaptation of a best selling hit
• An original idea from a successful director

Pre-Production

As soon as a deal has been negotiated, the production team has to do a lot of preparation to do before they can begin the actual shooting process.. Actors must be cast in roles, locations decided, costumes made, , and hotel rooms booked for locations. This process will take a long time, and finally  the official starting date is decided and announced to the press.

Production

The actual production stage in films is the hardest, as everything must be correct, or it could cost a fortune to re-shoot scenes. It is often called the 'Principal photography' stage, an is often the shortest of them all. Films usually finish this part in about 50 days of shooting.



Post Production

Post production is the longest stage in the process. During this stage the film is edited, and the story put together. The director and editor may either be very close during this time, or distant - for example Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker work together for many months to completely finish a film. Sound is edited or added in, and visual effects are also edited into the piece.


Distribution and Marketing

Every part of the process is crucial to making the film a success. Marketing is the key to power in the media industries. Distributors tens to promote and market films in particular areas and negotiate release patterns with exhibitors. In the US the 'major studios' through their own distribution companies or in partnership, took over 80% of the North American market.


Exhibition

In the US the major studios were barred from ownership of large cinema chains however overseas there was no such restrictions and places such as Warner Brothers have built multiplexes in cinema markets. Ownership or control of stage productions is known as vertical interrogation and had advantages for the majors in ensuring that they will have a cinema available to take a film when its ready for release.

Potential location + Establishing shot

 Our group went to look at an abandoned warehouse top see if it could be a potential filming location This abandoned building is going to be in the main part of our thriller opening.

These are the other abandoned warehouses we may do some filming in but there are some health and safety risks involved.

 Looking around the warehouses planning where we are going to film and which parts of our thriller opening will be filmed in which parts.

This building will be quite useless as there are a lot of unsteady sheets of insulation that could potentially fall

Another one of the abandoned warehouses that we could potentially film i9n as it is empty and not as much of a risk as the others.

Key Director ; Alfred Hitchcock

Early Life:

Born on  August  in  Leytonstone England, Hitchcock was the second son and the youngest of three children of William Hitchcock , a greengrocer , and Emma Jane Hitchcock . Hitchcock was brought up as a Roman Catholic and was sent to Salesian College and the Jesuit Classic school St Ignatius' College in Stamford Hill, London.[His parents were both of half-English and half-Irish . He often described a lonely and sheltered childhood worsened by his obesity.

Around age five, according to Hitchcock, he was sent by his father to the local police station with a note asking the officer to lock him away for five minutes as punishment for behaving badly. This incident not only implanted a lifetime fear of policemen in Hitchcock, but such harsh treatment and wrongful accusations would be found frequently throughout his films.

When Hitchcock was , his father died. In the same year, he left St. Ignatius to study at the London County Council School of Engineering and Navigation in Poplar, London. After leaving, he became a draftsman and advertising designer with a cable company called Henley's. During the First World War, Hitchcock was rejected for military service because of his obesity. Nevertheless, the young man signed up to a cadet regiment of the Royal Engineers in . His military stint was limited: he received theoretical briefings, weekend drills and exercises. Hitchcock would march around London's Hyde Park and was required to wear puttees, the proper wrapping of which he could never master.
 

Films he Directed:

(1922) (unfinished)

Always Tell Your Wife (1923)

The Pleasure Garden (1925)

he Mountain Eagle (1926) (lost)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

The Ring (1927)

 

Downhill (1927)

 

The Farmer's Wife (1928)

 

Easy Virtue (1928)

 

Champagne (1928)

 

Murder! (1930)

 

Elstree Calling (1930)

 

The Skin Game (1931)

 

Rich and Strange (1931)

 

Number Seventeen (1932)

 

Waltzes from Vienna (1934)

Awards he has won:

}Hitchcock was a multiple nominee and winner of a number of prestigious awards, receiving two Golden Globes, eight Laurel Awards, and five lifetime achievement awards including the first BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, as well as being five times nominated for, albeit never winning, an Academy Award as Best Director. His film Rebecca (nominated for  Oscars) won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 19—particularly notable as another Hitchcock film, Foreign Correspondent, was also nominated that same year.

}English Heritage Blue plaque in  Cromwell Road, London, SW5 commemorating Hitchcock

}In addition to these, Hitchcock received a knighthood in  when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in the  New Year Honours. Asked by a reporter why it had taken the Queen so long, Hitchcock quipped, "I suppose it was a matter of carelessness".
An English Heritage blue plaque, unveiled in , marks where Sir Alfred Hitchcock lived in London at  Cromwell Road, Kensington and Chelsea SW5.

}In June , nine restored versions of Hitchcock's early silent films, including his directorial debut, The Pleasure Garden, were shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theater. Known as "The Hitchcock ," the traveling tribute was made possible by a $3 million program organized by the British Film Institute.