The
opening to our film could relate to the film 'Ills', as they both show a
mysterious crime being committed, in which we never identify who the killer
actually is, and in both films, the victim is a helpless female, alone in a
derelict area, who dies within the opening 5 minutes of the film. We related our
film to Ills as we thought it would attract a similar audience, as both openings
leave the viewer wanting to find out more and asking questions such as 'Well,
where can the film go from here?' and 'Who is the killer and why has he killed
them?'. When researching, we found that a lot of films use this method of
starting with a disruption leaving the audience guessing, such as 'Face-Off' and
'Sixth Sense', where the disruption occurs within the opening title sequences,
like our production.
The clip below is taken from the opening of 'Face-Off' here you will see the disruption happening in the opening of the film, similar to that in ours.
Face Off Distruption from Holly Entwistle on Vimeo.
When making our production we were inspired by the title sequence in the film 'se7en', they were very jumpy and words were flashing on and off screen, ideas taken from this can be seen in our title of the film.
Both clips are shown below…
se7en titles from Holly Entwistle on Vimeo.
During
our production, the cheery sound of 'Neil Diamond-Sweet Caroline' plays whilst
two girls sit and drink in a bar. This music could be said to be contrapuntal as
we have previously seen the girl in question running for her life down an
abandoned rail-way track in the dead of night, and we can hear the panic in her
heart beat. We used this contrapuntal music as it juxtaposes the idea of the
film, and when the song starts to turn slow and sinister, it notifies the
audience that something bad is going to happen. We got this idea from the film
'Face-Off', when the contrapuntal, happy music during the opening scene turns
sinister when the boy is shot. We feel like this is the unique selling point of
our film as the song which links in with our production's title is edited to
sound dangerous and is heard in a way that it wont have previously been heard
before. It also foreshadows that a happy atmosphere is about to take a turn for
the worst.
Here is the point where our music changes…
Here is the point where Face-Off music changes…
When
talking about synergy in the media, it refers to the inter medial connections that can be used to promote and support films in order to give the consumer/viewer a more interactive and intergrated experience. We have used many different media resources to put together our production such as Photoshop and Pinnacle, we could go on to incorporate different media institutions such as Facebook or creating a game app to get our audience involved.
Media
institutions recognise that audiences enjoy using converged technology, and want
to consume media in a variety of different ways, for example: trailers, videos,
jingles etc. This can be used to promote a companies film and to boost sales to
create a profit. If we were wanting to promote our film, we would have to start
off small scale, perhaps by creating trailers and posters. In the industry, if a
film does well and creates a lot of sales, a company may wish to merchandise.
This could be done by creating a game, a range of toys, or something along those
lines. For example, Star Wars has created a range of computer games which has
increased the films reputation. Converging media is a good technique when it comes to advertising productions, a great way of doing this is through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Here people can interact with the film company itself and it also spreads word about the film as more and more people get involved and talk about it on the sites. Use of such websites is a great, cost effective way of advertising you film.
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