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I worked with Ollie Monday-Rowe 1346, Ryan Evans 1321 and Milo Gammond 1323.

I hope you enjoy my blog, which contains work on the G322, the titles and openings of a fictional sports film which we named 'Nine'.

My final piece can be found immediately underneath. My evaluation questions are above. 

PLANNING:SHOT LIST

Here you can see the Shot List which we have created. It clearly shows what happened, and what was required in each scene of our movie. This clear layout was created on excel as you can easily access tables and looks highly professional when it is completed. This style of shot list is very easy to follow as everything which is required while filming is clearly noted, for example what props will be need and who will be needed to film. This shot list combined with the call sheets and story board made it very easy to plan and create our movie.

CONSTRUCTION : MY FILM POSTER

I took responsibility with Milo for designing and constructing a film poster for our film Nine. As we developed our ideas, we sought feedback from our group and from our target audience. The reason for creating a poster was to demonstrate that we knew how to attract and address our target audience. In Photoshop, we used a mid shot of our protagonist overlooking the rugby pitches. We used this specific photo as it emits a masculine vibe, clearly shows our genre of sports and the emotional battle of the protagonist, how he is torn in two different directions. Our target audience of young men, are likely to be sports fans and relate to themes and the plot. The genre is clearly addressed as he is wearing his rugby jersey with the number 9 on his back, the position which he plays. He is also holding a rugby ball to clearly show the target audience this is a film they will enjoy as it revolves around rugby.

In Photoshop we added the protagonist name at the top of the poster to clearly show who is acting in the film. We made this a large title as actors play a large role in the reason for people going to see films, as this actor is unknown, promoting him like this is to promote his name. Underneath the actors's name is a tagline which relates to the story of the movie, the idea that 'one decision can change it all'. This shows the audience just how much of a big decision the protagonist faces as one decision in his life could change it forever. The title is the largest text on the photo to show the audience exactly what the film is called. This is vital in terms of getting our film to our target audience as they need to know the title of our film to be able to enquire about seeing it and visiting our social media pages. The release date of the film is also at the bottom of the poster to let our target audience know exactly when the film is to be released in cinemas.

We have had very positive feedback about this poster, and we believe this poster will be instrumental in attracting our target audience and our film becoming a success. We will also put our poster on our Facebook, twitter, Instagram and our webpage.

DISTRIBUTION : OUR INSTAGRAM

Here is an image of the instagram page which I made to further the distribution of our film, raising awareness for it, prior and after release. This Instagram page will let our target audience see important information about our film such as release date, or important updates about production. This lets our target audience feel more involved in the production of our film until the release, this will make our audience feel more involved in the process and growth of the film, making them more inclined and excited to see the movie.

Our film production team is aware that the target audience for a film about a young man and rugby is likely to be predominantly male. However, in the same way as 'Star Trek' designed their most recent P&A in order to attract the female demographic which traditionally did not turn out for 'Start Trek' movies, we think that we can reach female audiences through Instagram. This is because many young women in particular use Instagram for fashion and lifestyle reasons. I have also noticed that film fans use Instagram to build collections of fan pictures e.g. hashtag wolverine. In addition many film fans like using Instagram to recreate particular, specific 'looks' in order to mimic their favourite directors, I found this from www.vulture.com.

FILMING:INTERVEIWING OUR CHARACTER

In today's lesson we completed a task of us interviewing my character 'Xander'  15 years into his career. It involved Ryan asking me a series of questions.  These type of questions consisted of 'what was your greatest achievement', to which I answered 'winning the top try scorer award in the 2019 rugby world cup'. This shows the audience how proclaimed and talented our protagonist is. The aim of this task was to deepen the understanding of the protagonist in our film, it gives you an insight to my characters thoughts and views on his career and life.

We got the idea of interviewing our character from the Film Escape website, the post is from Charlie Sierra where she quotes Pen Densham, an oscar nominated filmmaker with over 16 features and over 300 hours of TV. He talks about how interviewing your character can increase the depth and understanding of a character to the audience. It helped us as well as it was a way of opening up my understanding to who the character could be. You can see the website here.

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CONSTRUCTION:CALL SHEETS

These stills and video was filmed on our school grounds on the rugby pitches and top of the hill which over looks the pitches. These shots were taken on the 26th of November in the afternoon, we chose to do it at this time as the pitches were not occupied so we could film uninterrupted for the afternoon.

CONSTRUCTION:STILLS AND VIDEO

Today we went out onto the first team rugby pitch and recorded some video footage of me kicking the rugby ball for our film. We then also took some stills of me on the hill which over looks the rugby pitches, this still will most likely be used for our poster. The reason we will use this image is that it clearly shows our target audience that the film revolves around rugby and it gives off a masculine vibe to the audience, making rugby fans wanting to see our movie.

This image is a close up of our protagonist, his masculinity is shown through the confidence which he has while holding the rugby ball, he is comfortable in this domain of rugby. He is ready to play, he is in kit and ready to play whenever he is told to, this shows that he loves the sport and relishes the moments where he can wear his jersey bearing his number '9'. Not only did we take these stills but we also took video of me being in the same stance but slowly turning my head looking over the grounds which lay in front of me. This is symbolic of my character looking ahead into the future, in particular at the rugby pitches.