What I (Milo Fisher) did during the Filming/Editing process

At the beginning, Matthew started the storyboard while I started by being a location scout to find locations for us to film in. I found a warehouse for us to use along with getting permission for us to film on site on a school. The warehouse sadly didn’t work out, so I used a classroom and blacked out the majority of the room to make it appear as if it were a warehouse.  Matthew was in charge of costume and props; I wore a suit and brought in the briefcase that would be the key story point in the movie.

Once we started filming, I acted as co-director on the film. Matthew and I would do our own version of each shot and then decide what we liked and didn’t like in each, before finally doing a shot of both ideas combined. Some scenes involved me acting, and these scenes were primarily filmed by Matthew, and intern, scenes where Matthew acted I would film.

We had a few problems while filming, largely weather issues and at one point a broken tripod. So we had to adapt to work with what we had. E.g. For one shot, we could not get the camera in the right position because of the broken tripod, so I used my working initiative found a way around it, in the end we used a packet on M&Ms to lift the camera slightly.

For editing, I used Adobe premier pro on my Laptop. The Editing was largely done by me, but the text font, location and order of scenes were all Matthew’s ideas. I cut, slowed down, sped up and added special effects to scenes myself, but I would check everything over with Matthew before making anything final. The editing took over 4 hours in total.

Once everything was done, we published the film and uploaded it to YouTube and once it was there, it became viewable to the world.    

Evaluation Activity 4

This is a link to the SlideShare evaluation question 4:
 Who would be the audience of my media product?

Link To SlideShare Of Target Audiance

Evaluation Activity 5

Link to Evaluation Activity 5 on YouTube

Question: How did i attract/address my audience?

Evaluation Activity 5

Evaluation Activity 3

Link to Evaluation Activity 3 on YouTube

Question: What kind of media institution would distribute my media?

Evaluation Activity 3

Transcript

Hello, this is Milo Fisher from QPCS, talking about my AS Media film ‘Lost Property’ 

In our film, my friend Matthew and I used Matt’s own production company name ‘TMAnimate’ as it represented a company made by young adults, making movies for young adults. For those of you who don’t know what a production company is: a production company funds and in essence, are the ones creating the film.

For example: BBC Films, Microwave films, and Film4, who we used in our film, are both a production AND distribution company, meaning they both fund the film and will fund the DVD manufacturing and broadcasting. Other distribution companies that focus on edgy British films are Working Title.

 

We chose Film4 because they are well known for distributing hard hitting British movies that aren’t afraid to take a risk, such as ‘This is England’ and ‘Four Lions’.  

The money would be funded from 3 different sources, our created production studios ‘TMAnimate’ and ‘IVECO films’. Film4. And the national lottery, as the majority of British movies made IN Britain tends to have lottery funding, movies such as ‘Shifty’.

Matt and I named ourselves for the majority of the credits, we were both actors, screenplay writers, and directors. We featured the main actor first when it came to naming cast, as he had the spotlight and it fit the codes and conventions of film openings. 

I chose to have Steven King write the story, as it would give hints to the audience that ‘all is not as it seems’ because that’s Steven Kings main writing style. We chose to have Christopher Nolan direct, because after directing movies such as ‘memento’, he would have the perfect idea of how the movie would work.

I think our film would be ‘Institutionally’ similar to the movie ‘Shifty’ or ‘Attack the Block’. As it features young male adult protagonists who, while at first supporting the typical working class stereotype, go against it as the movie goes on. 

Our movie is much like them as it will no doubt only find a niche audience and will not appeal to a large scale audience, definitely not an American audience, this is very much a British film.

 

Links to Evaluation Activities on SlideShare

Evaluation 1 Question: In what way does my media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Activity 1 


Evaluation 2 Question: How does my media product represent social groups? 

Evaluation Activity 2 


Evaluation 4 Question: Who would the audience for my product be?

Evaluation Activity 4


Evaluation 6 Question: What did I learn about technologies from the process of constructing my product?

Evaluation Activity 6 


Evaluation 7 Question: Compared to my preliminary task, what have I learned in the process of creating my product?

Evaluation Activity 7

Storyboard for Lost Property

Lost Property - A Level Media Coursework QPCS Milo and Matthew

Lost Property

Written and directed by Milo Fisher and Matthew Holt.

It took 3 days to film and 6 hours to edit over all.

We filmed with a NikonD3100 and edited with Adobe Premier.

Starring Kyron Fortune, Milo Fisher and Matthew Holt.

Song used: Bluetech - Probability Tree

Link to 'Lost Property' on Youtube