Audience and Institution Essay

 Audience and Institution Essay 

      

          Funding media products has huge impacts on whether media products flop or become a huge success. Funding allows for campaigns and advertisements to be set up and shown to targeted audiences. It also allows for the product to be made and to help with the distribution process.  

     People who fund media products look for ones that have the most upside. In the film industry, movies or television shows need funding to get off their feet and start hiring workers and actors for the film. The funding gives the production team “room” per say to do as they please if it’s within the set budget. Funding plays a huge role in the beginning of film production because without it many films would have never made it to their audience globally. Funding during the production provides such a steppingstone that is much needed for any film. In the movie “Furious 7” had many main actors who played major roles in the series, without them the movie would not have been the same, so funding help pay the actors to be in the film.  

     Funding also allows films to be advertised on other platforms. For example, films can use their funding to place ads on YouTube videos (like a trailer) or on television stations when another show ends. Depending on the amount of funding, it can allow them to place ads on T.V. stations or at movie theaters which have large number of viewers or customers. The ads promote the film and allow it to get recognition among their targeted audiences. This allows more potential upside to the film which can make the net profit increasingly higher. For the movie “Black Panther” it was marketed on magazine covers and an advertisement was placed during a live television event, the NBA Finals. These were made possible by the funding they received to make and produce the movie. Also, the movie “Spider-Man: Homecoming” performed synergy with the cereal brand Cinnamon Toast Crunch by adding a toy inside their boxes in exchange for an ad to be placed on their boxes. Without funding neither of the teams would have been able to pay for the advertisements. 

     During the distribution process, funding’s role is to help get this film to audiences. They need to pay to be able to have their films in movie theaters or certain T.V. stations where they feel will make the most profit for them. Initially, the distribution process took a lot more money to do, but now since everything is done digitally it takes up significantly less pay to do so. Still, funding allows films to be distributed quicker and provides more expansion for the film so the amount of money it makes is greater than the budget they used to make it. The distribution process needs funding because it allows film makers to get their project out there and able to be seen and/or heard. The movie “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was distributed as an Amazon Blu-Ray, DVD, and digital combo pack. It was also released in theaters globally which they made 653.7 million USD (United States Dollars). Without funding, they would not have been able to make their movie into DVDs and sent to movie theaters to be shown. 

     To recap, the funding of media products allows the film industry to thrive and grow. Without funding many films and shows would have never successfully made it to their audiences. The impact it has is tremendous and because of it it made and shaped the very culture of its audiences. 

24 Extract Essay

                                         Extract Essay (24)

                                                                      Jeffery Love

     In the 24 extract, the director creates a suspenseful and tense mood for the viewers. He does this by incorporating multiple factors such as dark lighting, the dialogue used, and the types of camera editing, shots, and movements. The director achieved this very well and even created more suspense because of the non-diegetic beginning and added music in the background. It seemed effortless for the director and actors to do this.

     At the beginning, the scene starts with a fade in and then you see a woman seated in a chair in front of a table. She is shown in a medium close up shot which shows her face all the viewer needs as of now. A over the shoulder shot is then used to see the interrogator (a male) entering the room. As that scene ends music begins to play (non-diegetic sound) to show a possible tension between the two characters. The camera is then switched back to the woman and zooms in onto her face to show her facial reaction the man entering the room. Camera quickly switches back to the man where he is seen looking at the surveillance camera in the room (camera the zooms into the surveillance camera). This was possibly used to show the man knows someone is watching and may foreshadow to something bad happening soon. The camera switches back to the man where he closes the door and approaches the woman. Camera goes to the woman and quickly back to the man where it shows a close up of his face showing he is not pleased with her and is ready to question.

     In these next scenes, the man is seen throwing a file onto the table in front of the woman. This is shown with a tracking shot meaning the director wants the viewers’ focus here which creates suspense as we do not know what the file is yet. The camera the switches to the woman at an eye level angle showing her reaction to this file. The music intensifies during this showing the tension in the room is rising, ultimately building more suspense. It then transitions to another man and woman (dressed formal) watching the interrogation room on monitors. The camera is the brought back the man inside the room and quickly goes back to the woman in cuffs (shot/reverse shot). This was used to show the facial expressions of both while remaining silent. The camera then zooms on a ticking clock creating even more tension because the sound of the ticking makes it seem whatever she is there to do must happen soon.

     Dialogue begins between the two when the woman mentions that the man is wasting time by trying to interrogate her. She also gives the viewer insight on why she might be there because she mentions a bomb. This creates suspense because the viewer suddenly wants to know where it is, when is it going to go off, and if they will be able to stop it in time. An over the shoulder shot is used to show the man’s face and him looking completely fed up. The man begins to ask questions and the woman is not budging or giving him the answers he wants to hear thus increasing the tension between them. The viewer then finds out that the file on the desk is something to do with the president allowing them to infer the matter is important. The man clearly does not care about the president’s file and wants to keep interrogating her until he gets the answers he wants. Tracking shot then shows the man approaching the table/woman saying things that may get her to show emotion (no prevail) it then shows him flipping the table over in rage (tension increases). The man gets in the woman’s face and yells in an angered way (tension is finally obvious and shown physically) this foreshadows that the man may try something to hurt her (he is aggressive). Camera then switches to the people watching them and they seemed worried, but won’t step in.

     The camera goes back to the interrogation room and does a close up on the woman’s face and she is unphased by the man’s aggressive behavior. She explains to him she is not worried about him because if he touches her physically, he will be taken off the case. He then seems to ease up and gets out of her face (music un-intensifies hinting at this) and he takes a couple steps back. She then says something that clearly upsets him (tension recreated) and music intensifies, and he gets up and starts to choke her and tells her she better tell him what he wants to hear. The people watching quickly run the room to get the man off her (split screen showing both actions). The man lets go and exits the room when they arrive, and the woman is seen getting her breath back (music still playing).

     The dark lighting used throughout gives an eerie feel to the scenes which creates most of the tension and suspense in the extract.

AICE Media Studies Final Task CCR

    Hey guys! Attached to this blog is the link to my CCR I did last week for my final task. The reason I am putting this on a blog is to show my readers my progress and skill increases throughout the year. Enjoy!

AICE Media Studies Final Task (Movie)

    Hey guys! Attached to this blog is the link to my final task movie I did recently in the year. The reason I am putting this on a blog is to show my readers my progress and skill increases throughout the year. Enjoy!

AICE Media Studies Music Video

    Hey guys! Attached to this blog is the link to the music video I did earlier in the year. The reason I am putting this on a blog is to show my readers my progress and skill increases throughout the year. Enjoy!

AICE Media Studies Commercial

    Hey guys! Attached to this blog is the link to my commercial I did earlier in the year. The reason I am putting this on a blog is to show my readers my progress and skill increases throughout the year. Enjoy!

Editing Blog

     What’s up guys! Lately nothing much has changed in the what I’ve done during this “Corona Virus Break”. There isn't much to blog about besides what I’ve done and why I cannot film or do my CCR. The Corona Virus has made it difficult for me to do much outside of my house. My partner has also been unable to meet up with me to finish our project which can prove difficult for it to even get finished. My parents are tentative on letting me leave my house to even go grocery shopping or to go play basketball with friends. I have been playing video games, cleaning, and just sitting around my house bored because there is nothing to do. Especially because I have to limit how much I play video games because my dad is very anti-gaming for extended periods of time. I started to read all my Harry Potter books again but got very bored of that as well. Now here‘s, in detail, what I’ve done since Monday.
     So Tuesday morning I woke up and took my dog outside so he can go do his business. From there, I did all my morning chores and went and turned on my PlayStation and logged on and started playing 2k. My friends invited me to a party (where we can all talk and play different games) and we enjoyed ourselves for about two hours. I got off the game and just scrolled on TikTok for a lengthy amount of time until it was time for dinner. Wednesday was much of the same as I did nothing different from Tuesday. Thursday I didn’t play on my PlayStation instead I went out and played football with my brother to pass the time. Today I woke up around 7 A.M. to go get a laptop from my school so I can do my online assignments that I will be assigned in the coming days. We got to my school around 8:30 and didn’t leave until around 10:00 so you can say we waited a while. But it was all worth it when I was able to get my laptop to do my work for school more efficiently. I got home and got on my PlayStation for a little then went out and played football again. Thank you for listening, bye guys stay safe!

Filming Blog

     What’s up guys! This blog is basically going to be about how school and all my plans got cancelled due to being quarantined by Covid-19. I was going to reshoot over the weekend, but was unable to because my parents felt it was unsafe for me. I was also unable to leave my house over the weekend for any reason so it would’ve been difficult to convince my parents to go out and film. The spread of this virus makes me anxious as to whether or not I will be able to re-film anytime soon. Seeing countries like Italy be fully quarantined can show signs to my future so I’m growing more concerned about the situation. My partner and I were planning to go back to the house and to re-film. But, that isn’t looking promising anymore or even in the remote future. My weekend was super boring and all I did was sit around in my house. So, now that my rant is out of the way I can tell you guys what exactly I did.
     When I arrived home on Friday, I got straight into doing my homework. When I finished I seen I got a text from my friend Leo saying they cancelled school next week and was super happy. I slowly realized that my school schedule like testing and grades can be affected by this. I grew concerned, but it slowly left my mind when my friends and I started talking about plans and stuff we could do. That all went to waste when my parents said I wasn’t going to be allowed outside the house anytime soon. This whole situation doesn’t benefit me at all because I have AICE testing coming up and I don’t know how it’ll go. Saturday, I woke up and I played video games with my friends and cleaned my house up a little so my mom wouldn’t be mad. I went out shopping to try and find some food and another necessities and I did find quite a lot, but not as much as we would need for two weeks of quarantine. I really wish this will all end soon so I have a lot of stuff figured out and I’m ensured of certain things that are variables right now. Later guys!

Editing Blog

     What’s up guys! From Sunday to now I did not have a chance to go back and edit my video more. With tests and studying I barely had any time to do anything outside of those things. I also had a lot of homework which is pretty abnormal for my classes. But, this weekend my partner and I are planning to reshoot and re-edit our film. We have set up a place to film and the time we will do it. We also made times on when we will re-edit and who will edit what. I will be in charge of editing the first minute and eight seconds of the video while my partner will handle the rest. I know you may think well how is that going to work, but it has been pretty effective so far and it’s gone really smooth. Now I’m going to get in to why it was hard for me to find time to edit and look over my video for the past three days.
     On Monday, I had a huge test in AICE Marine Science that I’ve been super stressed about. I don’t think I did good, but I will have to see when my teacher puts in the grade. I had to also study that night for a math test I was having the next day and that took me from when I got home to when dinner was ready. On Tuesday, I studied a bit more in my study hall for my math test and that’s usually where I do most of my Media Studies work. After school I had to clean up my house and then do my math homework and Marine homework which was due next class. It was getting really stressful but I think I handled it well. On Wednesday, I was told to read a book for my English Law class which took me roughly 4 hours to do because I procrastinated and got interrupted throughout me reading the book. I also went home early because I felt ill and wanted to make sure I didn’t contract the Corona Virus. Fortunately I did not and just triggered my bronchitis. Today, which is Thursday, I came home and did all the essays and make up work I had to do for my Criminal Justice class.

Editing Blog

     Hey guys! After filming, it was time to edit all the clips together to make the play through smooth. The editing process can take a while if you don’t know what you’re doing or what tools you should use. Instead of using Pinnacle Studios this time my partner and I decided to use iMovie. iMovie is an app on IOS devices which I was able to edit on. Since I was new at it, I watched a lot of youtube videos to try and see options and skills I could learn to speed up the process in which I was going. I got the hang of it eventually and my partner even edited the movie with me so I didn’t have a full workload. We played the video over and over and it seemed to be a bit choppy so we added some transitions into the video. The video wasn’t fully edited around the time peer review came along, but I went with what I got. I received feedback on how to better my editing and make the video less 

choppy but was unsure how I was going to get them done because I was rather a novice at iMovie. 

     I was stuck, but I remembered that one of my friends that also had AICE Media Studies uses iMovie to edit their videos. I texted him and asked if I could go over to his house and he could help me make my video run smoothly and to help fix the choppiness. We decided I’ll go over on Saturday and get help on my video. When I got there Saturday we got straight to work on editing my video. He talked me through editing and suggested a few transitions I didn’t know we’re possible for my video. With his help I was able to remove any choppiness from my cut of the movie. After we watched each other’s videos and gave compliments to each other. After I finished editing, we decided to go to our friend Brooke’s birthday party which was really fun and stress relieving. I felt confident in my half of the video and when my partner and I finished and combined them it ran smoothly to our surprise. Thank you see you next time guys!

Peer Review Blog

     Hey guys! In class today we were able to give constructive criticism and help to our classmates on their final projects. We peer reviewed them to ensure they had no errors like choppiness or audio black outs. Peer reviewing helped me get a view from an outside party giving me neutral feedback. The ability of being able to do this gives students many positive outlooks like them having a great video. We also were able to compare videos allowing us to be inspired to add certain types of music or title design ideas. Allowing students to peer review also set up more constructive conversations in the class on how to improve videos. My partner and I did our best to review our partner’s video so he could get the best advice he could. I think this helped him out a lot because I provided him with tips and advice to better his video. Now let’s get into the actual experience I had while doing this.
     I entered class and I checked the board to see who I was peer reviewing. Once I knew who it was I went and grabbed a peer review sheet and filled out my partner’s and my name. I then approached the people peer reviewing us and sent them our video. After I approached the kid we were peer reviewing and my partner and I watched the video. We watched it about 3 times to ensure we didn’t miss anything that he may have needed help on or something that went wrong. I filled out the sheet as best as I could with what I saw and talked to him about what he can improve and what was good about the video. After we finished I took a picture of my completed peer review sheet and then went to the group that was peer reviewing my video. They gave me some really good feedback on what to improve like to add music to certain parts. Their advice gave me a great idea on what to reshoot and re-edit in the coming week. Thank you for listening, bye!

     

Filming Blog

     Hello guys! Over the weekend I was unable to film again due to a busy schedule throughout between my partner and I. She had work and other plans while I attended to my girlfriend’s birthday weekend plans. Though we both were super busy and unable to film we still made time to ensure our plans to film this weekend were a hundred percent. We secured our location and made sure we’ll be free during the designated time. We tried to see if we could squeeze in time to film over t weekend, but it ultimately failed. We both weren’t free at certain times the other was or we were both busy at appropriate times. And through our best efforts nothing prevailed, unfortunately. On the bright side we can finally film this weekend and get into the best part about the project. Now here’s why I was super busy over the weekend.
     Friday was my girlfriend’s birthday so she invited me over to her house to go enjoy a nice meal and get together with her family. It was fun and the food was really good and I got home around 9 which made it impossible to film. Saturday, my girlfriend invited me to brunch with some more of her family around 11 in the morning. After brunch, my girlfriend, her friends, and I all went to the beach to chill around 1 in the afternoon. We all got bored and decided to change into our regular clothes and go to the hotel my girlfriend’s dad and was staying at. This was the first time I met her dad and honestly I was really nervous, but it was great. I got home around 9 again making it impossible to film, yet again. Then on Sunday, my partner was busy before 2:30 and at that time I  went to go see my uncle I haven’t seen in a while. We went over and played games and talked about how life was. Then we got to eat and open Christmas presents he wasn’t here to give us.

Filming Blog

     Hello guys! I was not able to film over the weekend because I was really busy and had a lot of work to do. It would’ve been really difficult to squeeze in any amount of time to filming so my partner and I decided to wait until next weekend. My partner was also really busy because she had to go to work and that made it even more difficult to come up with a plan. We both agreed that we would set aside a weekend to film our movie. I went through the precautions of making sure everything was set for that weekend on Sunday night. I made sure our set wasn’t going to be occupied and that we both could make it to the set relatively quick. I also made sure to make  ourselves available for the designated time slot we planned to film during. I can’t wait to start filming and editing this movie though! It’s going to be so exciting and a very interesting process.
     Over the weekend I did a lot of things I had planned for a while. I went to the fair with my girlfriend on Saturday nearly all day. Towards the end of the day I went and ate with her at Chick-Fil-A and then went home around 9. Sunday, I stayed home and cleaned all day because my mom basically forced me to because I was out all day Saturday. Also I spent time with a friend and played video games all day just to really catch up. On Monday, I went to the beach with my girlfriend and her family nearly all day. We spent time together and had a lot of fun at the beach and went and got food after. When i got home around 5 I did all of my homework. All of this made it impossible to film during the weekend which really sucked. I really looked forward to doing it and now I’m super anxious about filming!

Title Design Blog

   The google slide attached shows an outline for our title sequence idea for our movie shoot. This will help us during the editing process so we know hoe to make our titles. The google slide helps us by also making whatever is on it accessible on our mobile phones just in case we forget anything. Using google slides was a good idea and it differs from our last project. It helps everything be more organized and is very good if you're on a time crunch. We really like the google slide addition because it has everything available to us wherever we are especially during the editing process. Now that we have our title sequence idea donet, we can trust we have strong idea and plan for our titles. The google slide can also help you guys understand why we put certain fonts and sizes on words. We are excited that we get to start filming soon! See ya in the next blog.

Schedule, Location, Participants, and Health/Safety Blog

   The google slide attached shows a schedule/planning idea for our movie shoot. This will help us stay on track and on schedule throughout the filming process. The google slide helps us by also making whatever is on it accessible on our mobile phones just in case we forget anything. Using google slides was a good idea and it differs from our last project. It helps everything be more organized and all planned out. We really like the google slide addition because it was everything lined out for us. Now that we have mostly everything planned out, we can begin shooting. The google slide embeded below includes our schedule, the location, participants, and health/safety. We are excited that we get to start filming soon! See ya in the next blog.

Sound and Dialogue Script

The attached google slide is the dialogue and sound script for the opening of our movie. It includes the multiple conversations between the main characters and numerous diegetic sounds that are heard by the audience. Making this helps the actors to stay along track and to also be used to produce the movie correctly and orderly. The use of the google slide gives us access to it as long as we have a mobile device or laptop. The google slide also helps show the what scenes are what to the producers and/or actors. The google slide was easy to make and use and went relatively quicker than a storyboard. It was much more enjoyable and made it much quicker than drawing the scenes. Showing this google slide allows the audience to also see how things are expressed in the actual scenes and what is said and meant. We will begin storyboarding soon though and that’s where we really begin to start the process. And after that we will begin filming, have a nice day!

Shooting Script Blog

So today's blog is our shooting script. For our shooting script, we planned it out on google slides.We have a total of 12 slides which include the scenes that will be in our movies.. Each slide has a different scene on it. Today in class, Jeffery and I came up with the shooting script together. We did have a few disagreements about coming up with some parts but we finally agreed on something. We came up with some very good ideas. I think our script is straightforward and I'm excited to see all of this get put together. We also get to start filming soon! See you in the next blog.

Movie Research: The King of Comedy

Movie: The king of comedy (1982)
Website: Art of the Title

1. How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
19

2. What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
In the beginning, there was a shot of a lady banging and screaming at the window, then after all the titles were shown, the same shot was shown

3. What connotations do the images carry?
I have not watched this movie so 'm not completely sure what these images were showing.

4. How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
 Genre is reinforced because it is showing a lady with a crazy hairstyle, yell out the window to paparazzi taking photographs of her while she is trying to get them to stop.

5. How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
The title sequence gives the audience questions like who is this lady, why doesn't she want photos taken, what are the photos being taken for, and etc.

6. What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
The strategies used are, since a lot of questions are being raised from this lady's actions, it would make the audience want to finish the movie to answer these questions.

7. How has technology been used effectively? You want to consider camera angles, transitions, and camera techniques.
There was camera angles such as over the shoulder shot and wide shot used.

Title Research on Comedy

Title sequence: The Interview

Viewed on: www.artofthetitle.com

Number of titles: 20

Images that are prioritized: Images seen throughout this title sequence are war-like images that appear that they are from an ethnic group different from the main characters. The sequence shows military actions, missiles, and weirdly basketball in it. 

Connotations these images carry: The images may hint that the movie has something to do with war or violence between nations. The different race of people goes to show that the main characters may need to stop that race of people from starting a war against their people. 

How the genre is reinforced through technical and symbolic codes: Though there is not much in this sequence that resembles comedic features there are a few bits that can hint towards this. The use of a baby and basketball player image can show a bit of off topic-ness which can prove appealing to some as humor. The Hispanic-like music when images that were described are shown is a bit humorous as well. 

How the film sets an enigma: It leaves the audience questioning why these images are being shown. Is there a war the movie is based on? Is there a reason such violent images are being shown? Why is there a war in a movie called The Interview?

Strategies used to appeal the targeted audience: Some strategies used to attract their targeted audience is the use of pictures. The pictures can be viewed as graphic for some which can mean their targeted audience is older in age than most other comedies target for. 

How technology was used effectively: The use of editing with pictures is genius because it goes to show what the movie will be about or the setting of the movie. Also the sequence has a lot of jump cuts and burn-ins in it. The sequence also uses the editing of sound (music) to lighten or create a mood for the audience.

Research on Titles (Comedy)

Title sequence: Are We Done Yet?

Viewed on: www.watchthetitles.com

Number of titles: 29

Images that are prioritized: Images that are used a lot are cartoon animations of Ice Cube (the main character) and kids. The kids seemingly make fun of him and laugh at him while e fails to fix the title sequence which can hint at what's to come in the movie.

Connotations these images carry: Since I've previously watched the movie, the animations of Ice Cube repairing/fixing the title sequence does indeed hint at what's to come in the movie. It shows humor is the way he plans and carries out repairing a specific object, it doesn't end up being fixed or is made worse, thus leading the kids and audience with a laugh.

How the genre is reinforced through technical and symbolic codes: The background of the title sequence shows moving pictures of floor plans and tools that may hint at the building of a house. The title also hints that the build may take a while. The use of repairing gone wrong can be seen as humorous which is essential for a comedy. The fact that children in the movie are laughing hints and shows that the action that was previously shown was meant to be funny.

How the film sets an enigma: The title sequence gives the audience questions like, who is this character and their importance. Since Ice Cube is shown a lot we know he will be a main character, along with the children. It also sets a question as to why is everything not being fixed successfully in the titles and why is Ice Cube beginning to become tiresome towards the end.

Strategies used to appeal the targeted audience: The use of animation may have been used to draw in a younger audience or a seemingly more childish one. The music used is upbeat and a bit fast which also appeals to younger audiences or those who find this kind of music enjoyable (music is used to draw attention and keep it on the sequence).

How technology was used effectively: The animation used is creative and unique in a title sequence of a movie that has actual actors in it. The editing in the repair and break of the titles helps shows and create a mood for the movie within the first minute of watching. Camera angles used in the sequence are low angles and a couple eye level shots. Camera movements used are tracking shots and a pan shot.