Production

Production:

Pre-production: planning what to do, scripting, casting

Production:  filming or creating the media
- Digital (cheap, easy to convert to computer, easy to use for a semi-pro or someone with a low budget)  

Digital footage is as good as it is ever going to be.

-Reel   (expensive and time consuming to convert into digital, better quality and future quality)

Post production- editing (SFX, CGI, and Dolby), translating, promotion and marketing, TV tour (range of different chat shows), premiers, and film festivals.

British film industry
·         Social realism
·         Dark comedy  and irony
·         Dry, sarcastic humour
·         Reflects our lives

British film usually focuses more on real life, such as people in the working class or with little money. They are usually problematic and tell life how it is which is less in your face than American film with lots of effects and perfect people in perfect houses.

-          Zeitgeist (of the moment) 

Chris Morris- reputation for surreal, edgy and offensive comedy

-          Who would this appeal to?
-          Niche or mainstream?
-          How would promotion target these people?

A film can be called British if it meets at least 3 of the following:

·         Has a British producer
·         Has a British production team
·         A British director
·         A predominately British cast

This then leads into different categories such as:

·         Category A: an entirely British film
·         Category B: majority UK funded
·         Category C: more common co-funding scenario
·         Category D: describes a US film with some creative input from the British
·         Category E: a foreign film with some British involvement

Hollywood film industry

Simulacrum (a copy of reality)

why is overcoding used by Hollywood?

• easy
• lazy

Target Audience

I couldn't decide if the image on the cover page needed to be made bigger or smaller so i asked my target audience to help me make a decision. after i had asked for their feedback, i decided go make the image bigger as that is what the target market wanted to see and they are the ones who will consuming and buying this product.

progress this lesson

one lessons progress

this is an image of what i have achieved in one lesson. i started off with a blank page and have got this far into the making of my cover page. i still have a lot of work to complete on this page but i am happy with the amount of progress i have made this lesson and with what it looks like so far.

main image- contents page

this is my original picture for my contents page on my magazine. i chose to use this picture as it fits well with the theme and style of my magazine as well as the target market.











this is the same image after i attempted to edit it. with this edit i tried to brighten up the clothing on the model and changed the hair colour. however when i edited it the models skin turned to a slight green tint.

the picture is my final edit for my magazine contents page. i changed the brightness and the colour of the picture so i could take away the                      green tint to the skin. i like this final edit of the picture as it looks a lot brighter and more 'pop' related which is what i was aiming to do as it fits in with the rest of the magazine and the colours that i have chosen to use.

new masthead

the top mast head was one of my first designs. at the start i liked this as i thought it worked quite well. however after experimenting a with a few different ideas i came up with a new design. i decided i preferred this one as i think that it looked a lot cleaner and more professional.

editing of pictures

this is one of the photos that i was going to use for the front cover that had not been edited. just below shows the picture after it had been slightly edited.

optional images for my front cover