How did we get the CCTV effect?

1) By clicking the tab "Video FX" this gave us many options to edit our footage. However as the look we were going for was a "CCTV effect" ...the best option we found was the TV look effect. By editing the various different effect that came with this effect, we managed to make our footage look like a CCTV camera. The editing of this effect enabled us to increase or decrease the fuzziness of the camera.

2) In addition this is highlighting the fact that we included text for the CCTV footage. This is the text for the time of the camera to make it look even more realistic. By having numbers in the frame it makes the film even more believable. Overall we were more than pleased with how this effect turned out and it taught us a lot about vegas by trying out all the effects and how to use/find them.

What have you learned about technologies and the construction of your product?

1) Vegas Movie Studio 9.0 - To put together our films and clips to create the movie
2) Facebook - for contacting each other
3) Google - For gathering images
4) Youtube - viewing trailers and videos for inspiration
5) Blogger -Uploading posts
6) Powerpoint - Organizing slides
7) Itunes - Transferring music
8) IMDb - Movie database (viewing trailers and getting prouction info)

How would you attract your target audience?

Who would be the audience of your film?

What kinds of media institutions might distribute your film and why?

Warner Bros. Pictures

The production compnay that i would like to produce our film would be Warner Bros. Pictures. The famous company based in the US would be a great way to produce our film and get maximum popularity as quickly as possible. In addition by looking at the films they have produced in the past, it is clear that our film would fit in nicely with the rest of the films. The company produce many action films such as The Dark Knight which is very similar to our film.

The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight's opening scene is very similar to the opening scene of our film and so Warner Bros. Pictures would certainly look to produce a film like ours. The action based opening scene of The Dark Knight is a great example of why I chose Warner Bros. Pictures as a production company I would choose to distribute my film.

How does your product represent particular social groups?

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

For our film, we specifically chose to look at a very particular audience group and that would be those who love action-based, dramtic films. Because of this, this obviously narrowed down the genres and types of films we could look at to get inspiration from. In addition, we wanted to capture the idea of getting the audience engaged by getting inspiration from films which engaghed us (James, Piers and myself). Due to this, only a few films captured our attention and therefore this made our devlopment and inspiration from films very limited.

We looked at the film introduction of James Bond's, Casino Royale. The chase scene in the film inspired us to look at the idea of a chase scene in the first place and so it's clear that we used this real life film to develop our ideas and motivation.

Moreover various different films caught our attention, but one in particular was the film Narc. The chase scene in the film inspired us to look at a dark and gloomy mise-en-scne and because if this, our final piece was edited to make the mise-en-scne look more dramatic by making the contrast and tones of the background similar to the background used in Narc. By doing so, our film was made to look gloomy and therefore more dramatic to the audience.

Finished video with 28 weeks later soundtrack.