FINAL FILM

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09 - Steve Beaumount, Luke Vieira, Youssof Mallah from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Distribution Ident

Production Ident

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Conventions of a film opening may contain:
Film titles
The production and distribution company's name
Introduction of main characters
Introduction to setting
Setting up towards the main story
All these things are rather common within the openings of films.

The conventions of a title sequence is the following;
Production company
Distribution company
Actor 1
Actor 2
Any further actors
Costume designer
Music supervisor
Edited by
Production designer
Director of Photography
Executive producers
Written by
Director

This could be done so the actors can easily attract an audience and get them hooked into wanting to watch the film, as well as this it is then ended with the more important roles so people would remember the name and this would help the director in the future as some may remember his name and want to watch more of his films.





Timeline of the opening titles of the film The Roommate.

If we compare this to ours you can also see that in our film we used the production company's ident first

which is then followed by the distribution companies ident

and we also proceed to use the credit titles in order (below is a list we had used when writing the names into the film).

Actor 1 - Jaya kaur
Actor 2 - Youssof mallah
Costume - Mohammed Raheem
Music supervisor - Leon Hill
Music by - luke vieria
Edited by - Steve Beaumont
Production designer - Rohit Syed-Hassan
Director of Photography - Chenny Bui
Executive producers -Youssof mallah & Jason Brobosky
Written by - Youssof Mallah
Director - Youssof Mallah

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film's two character both relate to very popular teenage lifestyles, however both of these are very different lifestyles.

The female character's.

The female character in our film is psychologically effected from the death of her mother that has committed suicide, nowadays depression is extremely common throughout a teenagers lifestyle and is the most common mood disorder today, this means a lot of teenagers (maybe even more so teenage girls) can relate to the character and have an understanding of what she is going through. Even though the character's lifestyle is portrayed as negative and hopeless the ending to the opening shows her falling in love with a man who's life is completely different to hers, this helps us spread a positive message that even if your life is not the best it doesn't mean good things can't happen.






The male character's

As well as the female characters the male's lifestyle also is extremely common within teenagers, he lives a very party-hard, "live life to the fullest" lifestyle in which he'll just go to parties, do drugs and be with other celebrities. We believe that this also relates to many teenagers nowadays (which may not be a good thing), but it definitely can be relate-able to the audience. We have presented the male in a positive aspect because like real media today, it appears that all rich, celebrity like people do is drugs and party therefore we really wanted to portray this and was emphasised a lot in the voice over.

Evaluation Question 3

You can click on both pictures of the two idents to view them

With the production and distribution company both being low budget independent films it means that are film does have limits (examples given above). I think the independent and distribution companies both fit the film as the film it very new and should not have such an investment into it as it would be a high risk for mainstream companies.




When we pitched we had used to different production and distribution companies, these wereWorking Title and Studio Canal.

The company which we have chosen to use as our producer are Working Title Films. They are a production company who focus on independant filming and have helped produce many films such as Love Actually and Atonement. As you can see these films are related to ours in terms of thier genre and target audience. They mainly focus on the younger generation as we do too and include genre such as drama and romance which our film is strongly influenced by. I believe they would also choose to produce our film as they would be interested in what we have to offer in terms on content. Even though this company is local and independent it is owned by Universal meaning that it has quite a high budget which may decrease our chances with Working Title wanting to work with us as it will be risky to invest a lot into something relatively new.



The distributer is the force which is in charge of marketing the film. The distribution company that we have chosen to use is Studio Canal. It is one of Europe’s leading companies in the market for co-production, acquisition, distribution and sale of international feature films. They are an ideal distribution company in regards to our film. Furthermore, seeing as our movie is independent and based in the british region with the target audience being british, it is an ideal company to go with as we will be able to easily reach out to our target audience. They have produced movies such as Johnny English which makes it a suitable and viable distributor. They even offer an extension of our target audience, if we wanted to go further than only marketing our film to a british audience we would have to opportunity to expand on this as they have links with Universal Studios which would allow for expansion. This distribution company is very similar to the production company which is what we wanted.



The reason why we didn't want to go with these production and distribution companies in the end is because both have a fairly high budget and our film was too new and had no background reputation to really allow us to use a high budget. I think the production and distribution companies that we went with were suitable for a film anyway as they were both independent and local which ment they had an understanding of the market. Also the high budget was not a must as we did not need any CGI or stars.

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience of teen movies can be seen as a lot more then just teens, for example a teenage boy would also prefer different films compared to a girl. This would also include other people who have interest in a certain genre such as romance, action, drama and a lot more.

The audience more specific to our genre would be teenagers of both genders that contain an interest within drama and romance, as the film is also about how the two lovers raise through a social hierarchy it could also appeal to those who enjoy watching films of people achieving power. However because of the contrast in both character's lifestyle it allows the target audience to be so large, the girl is going through a hard time and being psychologically effected by her mums death, nowadays depression is the most common mood disorder within teenagers. It has effected many of us and this will mean a lot of teenagers will be able to relate to the female character. In contrast to this there is also the other side to a teenager, the party-hard, live life to the fullest teenager which is what we aimed for the male character's lifestyle to be. The two different characters mean that the film could appeal to, for example, fans of twilight because of its romance and drama but as well as this attract fan of films such as project x.


A person who we believe our film would attract to: