Research - A2 MEDIA STUDIES

There are three distinction areas of film industry.

- Production
-Distrubition
-Exhibition

Production is the main tagline from taking a simple idea and establishing it into a 'Hollywood' based film. There are nine stages for this to happen.

1) The film has to have an idea through a source of inspiration.
- Director
-Producer
-Writer

2) There has to involve a development of finance towards the film.

3) Once the finance has been evaluated the writer needs to develop a script which works on individual features such as:
- Narrative
-Step outline
-Sales treatment
-The sypnosis of the film
-Final draft

4) Packaging moment
- Genre of the film
- Merchandise
-Target audience
-Spin off features
-Production schedule

5) The development of finance will eventually relate into the exact finance towards the film through investors,pre-sales and insurances of completion bonds.

6)Pre production
-Full story board
-Full cast
-Equipment (props.etc)
-Set design
-Special featured effects such as 3D.

7) The shoot
- Director and producer will shoot the scenes to develop an organised motion for this final take.

8) Post production

- Working on sound and digital sound
- Rough cut
-Final cut

9) Distribution to different companies of the final monatged film.

TRUE GRIT
Genre - Western
Storyline - Remake of the classic iconic western
Director- Cohen brothers

True Grit releases the 9 stages of the film to argue whether or not it should be a film to sell. In my opinion I would not have re made this film because of the lack of loctaion, guns, wars etc.

Chosen film: SLEEPY HOLLOW

1999 - Tim Burton
Thriller horror
Stars- Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci and Christopher Walken
Budget - 65,000,000
Merchandise of t-shirts selling and posters.

Chosen film:
1982 THE THING
Sci-fi horror
Stars- Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley and Keith David
Budget- £15,000,000

Planning

The lesson consisted of imagining a film trailer that could create any theme or tension for the targeted audience. I decided to imgaine a film about love (chic flick) which involved a hidden romance between a girl and a boy. After reviewing other people's ideas they were alot more creative and subjective to understand. The boys tended to go for action thriller themes and the girls moore plesent and happy themes.

Cosmopolitan Magazine Research - Part 2

Contents Page Improvements

To improve my contents page I had to cut the highlighted effect to create more of  feel for being a contents page. I made the two pictures bigger to signify what they were for the audience.I changed the size and font for the contents to stand out and look attractive.

AMPLIFY Contents Page

By expirementing with a different skills to use of my contents pages I could improve the standard. I developed these contents pages by adding fromal fonts to create a 'school life' effect, and cropped bigger pictures to give a realistic structure into the magazine.

Diary timetable of product

Date	Task
9th November 2010	Preliminary task complete.
10th November 2010	Plan title, style and genre of your magazine.
11th November 2010	Semiotic language learning.
16th November 2010	Mock of front cover, double page spread and contents page.
23rd November 2010	Encoding and decoding model.
10th December 2010	Photos taken and uploaded.
11th December 2010	Mock up of front cover completed.
15th December 2010	Mock up of double page spread completed.
4th January 2011	Front cover & Double page spread completed.
10th January 2011	Contents page completed.
18th January 2011	First of the evaluation questions completed
21st January 2011	Second set of evaluation completed.