EVAL reflecting on creative process

Questions:
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Q1a: how you used or challenged CONVENTIONS
Q1b: REPRESENTATIONS of social groups/issues
Q2a: how you engaged with AUDIENCES
Q2b: how might it achieve DISTRIBUTION
Q3: DEVELOPMENT of production skills throughout the entire process
Q4: how you integrated TECHNOLOGIES (software, hardware, online) in the project

Creative Process:

Q1. Street interview/Q+A in car (Gordon Ramsey-esque comedy skit)

• Walking around in town and asking people questions about Conventions.
• Driving around and picking actors up and ask us questions about conventions
• While filming have a mean director/producer/editor

Q2. Presidential campaign/Q+A on stage (Nigahiga video)

• Big audience + Journalist asking a lot of questions of how we engaged with the Audience
• Photographers ( Flashing lights )
• Bodyguards behind the president in suit 

Q3. Who Wants to Be A Millionaire

• Game Show
• 1 question 4 answers ( Skills developed throughout the process)
• including our own adverts

Q4. Apple Advert

• advertising FCPX
• showing the audience the possibilities
• Including features

Influences: 

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VODCAST / Conventions of a film opening

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1. Idents
2. Titles
3. Establishing shots
4. Narrative Enigma
5. Sound
6. Exposition
7. Intro to Characters
8. Basic Narrative Structure
9. Genre Signification
10 Transition to Film

Film Opening report

HOT FUZZ

Working Title

BBFC:15 MPAA: R

Budget: £8M

Box office: £80M

Distributed in 41 countries

Trailer:

TITLES

Number of people/company names in titles:Start/end time of main titles: 0:33-1:01Running time of main titles: 58 seconds
Titles in order using exact text:

UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIOCANAL

A WORKING TITLE PRODUCTION 

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

BIG TALK PRODUCTIONS

TITLES ANALYSIS 1: THE COMPANIES

In the opening of Hot Fuzz only 4 companies were credited and those were the main production companies. Universal Pictures is a member of the big 6 and Working Title is a subsidiary of Universal. StudioCanal is a massive European production and distribution company. Big talk is a smaller production company who is owned by ITV.

TITLES ANALYSIS 2: ROLES

No actors have been given a title which is surprising considering Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are very well known actors.

TITLES ANALYSIS 3: GENRE/NARRATIVE CONNOTATIONS

The font used for the titles is bubble, white. This connotes that this wont be a very serious movie, but it wont be childish due to the more serious white colour. Everything is in upper case, however the names of the companies have been made larger, probably to put emphasis on the names of the companies. This font has been used to signify the movie wont be serious but it wont be a kids movie either.

FIRST SHOT + THE PROTAGONIST

This is an interesting way to show the central protagonist as there is just one long take where the protagonist, in this case Simon Pegg, walks all the way up to the came and shows his badge. As he come closer we can see part of the costume and it becomes clear what he is when hes close. He is a PC.

Shot by shot denotation

This is the video we denotated shot by shot.
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So for this video we divided the video into 3 and we all took 40 seconds each and denotated the shots in the part we had assigned to us. I had the middle section from around 1:07 to 1:47.
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Shot list of Candelabra from OliStr

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