Preliminary Task- The Exam

This is the Preliminary task entitled the Exam. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UUklYTRENNw

THE FINAL FILM.

This is the Final version of our film. We had to re record it as our first attempt at a shoot came under technical difficulties and a re shoot had to be done. This is our final piece.

Distribution and Exhibition

Due to the nature of undertaking Distribution wasn't really required. However, if we had to distribute our film due the nature and genre of our film (see genre) and budget of our film it would have a wide audience but would not be able to survive in a global market due to finances and so we would had to lower where we would release it. We would therefore be forced to do a saturated release in a couple of cinemas and if the film was to succeed we could extend the films distribution to an international release in cinemas across Britain. Before this however we would have to create a trailer and then release the trailer using primarily viral marketing as it would be the cheapest and easiest way to get our film out and known seeing as it is only a independent student project finance is a major factor in our distribution strategy.
Sadly the only exhibition we could actually go through with was to our class mates but we received very positive reviews from our class mates and teacher alike.

Evaluation.

In the outcome of our film we managed to challenge conventions in several ways. Mainly, the use of a young cast challenges normal conventions as many film noir films have a much older cast usually between the ages of 30-40 year olds. Ours consists mainly younger people which was suppose to be aged between 18-20 year olds. The use of this gives a completely different take on the usual conventions of film noir.  The film Brick also used a similar technique of bringing film noir for a younger audience.
Thanks to how we've challenged our conventions we have also managed to represent youth in our film. Youth are shown in our film in a faily negative way, smoking and drinking whilist playing an illegal game of poker before the fiml leads on to tale of revenge. The film "Brick" was produced by the production company Bergman Lustig Prodcutions. This company specilises mainly in low budget, inpendant films which would be perfect for the production of my film. The audience would mainly be young people under the age of 25 as the protagnoists are all around that age. It would possibly have an audience from all ages who just enjoyed film noir or independant films.Well the first thing would attract an audience is the age group of the characters. By being younger the audience would be able to relate to them more. Whats happening on screen would also attract audiences as there is much smoking and drinking on screen which would be a stereotypical habit of the audience. By being a low budget independant film noir some other people may be attracted as they like that genre of film. By doing this project i learnt alot about how to produce a film with thecnologies such as final cut pro and iMovie which we used to edit our film. I also learnt about how to record a film. Within the project i learnt about a lot about what you have to do to make a film. I learnt a lot about all the paper work involved in pre production. I also learn about how to record and built a set and in post production i learn a lot about editing on computers.

Genre.

We had made our film in the Film Noir style of film making. Our genre is basically crime drama as the main story of our film centers firstly around an illegal gambling ring which when one player cheats cause the others to seek revenge. Which therefore would sit us in the genre of crime genre. Due to the desired slick 1940's style of costume and camera use we would easily fit withing a modern Film Noir style of film.

Post Production

Our final step was Post production. However, from the start of this we had issues as it appeared that we had acquired a camera which had no sound function. Although we had planned to put music over most of the film we needed some other sound effects for the climax. Therefore, me and Joe had to recreate sound using an empty room and the poker chips from the shoot. We used a handheld recorder to do this.

Storyboard.