Final Movie Intro

 This is my Final movie film

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Creative Critical Reflection 4

 This is my response to the Creative Critical Reflection 4 question

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Critical Creative Reflection 3

 This is my response to the CCR3 Question

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Creative Critical Reflection 2

 This is my response to the CCR2 question.

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TRANSCRIPT:

CCR two, how does your product engage with audiences, and How would it be distributed as a real media text?

Firstly, demographic. We chose age from 17 to 54, 17 as it was the minimal age rating for these age movies with due to our violence, we will go on to age ratings later. 54 is a number I calculated because we used a song called living on a prayer, which was released in 1986 so we did 54 as their age, when the song good came out was around 16. We also chose a primarily male audience. As action movies usually cater towards those with violence and with a lot of violence, blood action, which primarily are enjoyed by men, as well as a majority of our characters  are male. And as for occupation, we for the younger people. We targeted students, and for the older people, we targeted blue collar workers and white collar workers. So this is a movie that basically everyone could enjoy, besides for some niche people who are uninterested for nationality, we wanted to target this towards Southeast Asian people, because all our actors South Asian and all the writers are but also we wanted to grasp a western audience. We can do this later by using dubs or subtitles similar to what Netflix does. 

As for psychographic we chose for our interests, motorcycling, gaming and martial arts, because these were prominently featured in our opening with the first season motorcycling, with the gaming elements being the fighting and, of course, the martial arts too, for the values and beliefs of our psychographic, a lot of our teams go around justice and revenge, where, maybe, when doing revenge, you don't really work out as it would like in John Wick film. And also, we want to target fans of a similar movie such as John Wick, as we took a lot of inspiration from them as our personality, we want them to be drill seekers and adrenaline junkies. So because we have a lot of exciting scenes with the motorcycles and over the top action,

As for our age rating, this film will be R rated or seven in the US and 17 plus in Indonesia, this is due to the violent actions, the blood on the characters faces the although this movie does use teenagers to as the actors, but this is usually find in an outrage in movie as movies such as Deadpool have prominently used teenage actors for movie roles.

for marketing distribution. We want to use YouTube ads Instagram as well as Instagram ads as these are very accessible to people, especially to young people, who always look at their phones, look at their social medias, look at their youtubes. So this can help us target a younger audience, to a younger to like millennial audience always checks on their phones and sees this ad, and after seeing it as well, this actually we targeted to specific people, so we know that it will have a higher success rate. We will also want to do cast interviews on TV shows, or like late night TV shows. This will this will also help use the cast personality to make the movie more interesting and attract more customers, more viewers, especially older ones who still watch TV, and those can also be uploaded to YouTube, which can also be used to target the younger audiences.

 Our production company will be Lionsgate as we took a lot of inspiration, as we took a lot of inspiration from John Wick movies and Lionsgate was a pretty big part in that, as well as our movies are very similar, they will, of course, know how to produce it and maybe give us some tips on how to market and distribute it properly as to make it. Successful, like a Java movie.

 for exhibition, we will first release it on theaters. For our local example, it's XXI, and for our western example, it's AMC theaters. These are basically your bog standard, the golden the golden standard of theaters. We will first show these there for like, one or two weeks, months, maybe depends on interest, and then sometime later, we will probably release, we release this film on Netflix so people can be able to stream it on demand whenever they want. 

Creative Critical Reflection 1

 This is my response to the Creative Critical Reflection 1 question

CCR1 This is the link to the original presentation

Media Language

 This is an analysis of the Media language I used in my film opening

 

	Camera - Extreme Long Shot: We used an Extreme Long shot to show Mark Choi Riding his bike towards the Boss’s House. This made him seem isolated and alone as he is a lone wolf who is after revenge from the Boss who had wronged him as well it made him seem stronger as he doesn't need help from anyone. The extreme long shot as well helped show the Boss’s house and how big it is which connotes that he is very rich and powerful.
	Comedy - Parody Celebrity Names This was originally a placeholder from the editing process but we stuck to it as it added to the comedy of the film opening. As well it acts as a cultural code as these names reference popular celebrities and only people that recognize these celebrities will get the joke. For example Candra Hemsworth is a parody of popular australian actor Chris Hemsworth.
	Diegetic sound - Dialogue: Here the Mafia Boss says “So we meet again, Mark Choi.” after recognizing Mark after he enters the room. This connotes that this isn't the first time they've met and this as well acts as a hermeneutic code as the audience wonder where and how they’ve met before was it on good terms bad terms etc. and makes them also think about the relation between Mark Choi and the Mafia Boss.
	Mise en Scene - Boss’s Office Scene: When we first see the Boss we get this striking impression of him; he is sitting in this relaxed way with his legs up; this connotes that he is not afraid of Mark Choi and is calm and nonchalant. Behind him is hung up cloth similar to a Japanese Noren but with Balinese motifs this acts as a cultural code as only people familiar with these motifs will know that the Boss is actually Balinese. As well the motif/symbol on the cloth is the crest of the organization as traditionally shop keepers added their family crest or shop names on the noren. As well the table cloth on the Boss’s table is Red and gilded with gold accents this is a symbolic code of the Boss’s opulence and luxury and the red could also represent the bloodshed he had committed throughout the years and he leads a criminal organisation. On the table also lies another status symbol the orchid in many cultures orchids are known to represent good tastes and wealth. The Boss also enjoys a glass of liquor this makes him more manly and follows genre conventions of a criminal boss as they often sip from an alcoholic beverage.
	Comedy - Door Opening In these shots we wanted to create a comedic scene where Mark fails to open a door which contrasted the previous shots where Mark was shown as this confident, powerful and cool character riding bikes and climbing up walls and yet he seems to struggle to open the door. This as well connotes that Mark might not be the sharpest tool in the shed though he has brawn he may be lacking in the brain. In combination with editing and sound where the song abruptly stops which brings attention to this scene and may even be a silly fourth wall break again adding to the comedy of this shot.
	Low angle Long Shot Silhouette In this shot Mark is walking down confidently down the corridor. The use of the low angle made Mark look more powerful and menacing whilst the long shot was used to show Mark’s movements (Walk) in his environment (balcony Corridor) and the silhouette acted to conceal Mark's identity making the audiences ponder this character's identity as a hermeneutic code.
	Editing - Cut to Black: This cut to black happens in the perspective of Mark and implies that Mark has been knocked out and lost the fight. This sudden loss is also a surprise to the audience as Mark has always been represented as strong and confident and shown in low angles but now the roles have been reversed and now the boss is shown as the one in power and shown with a low angle. As Well, as this subverts common action movie tropes where the protagonist defeats the antagonist this adds to the audiences surprise which may make them want to keep watching to see what happens.
	Close up, High angle: Here we used a close up to focus the audience's attention on Mark Choi’s bloody wounds and pained facial expressions and in combination with the high angle paints Mark in a weak position as he is cornered and about to be defeated. This also contrasts previous representations of Mark as he is usually shown as confident and powerful using low angles but now he is weak and defeated.
	Pan to Reveal Boss To add more intrigue and mystery we used a pan to slowly move the camera to the right to reveal the antagonist. This also is a hermeneutic code and made the audience be filled with suspense as they wonder of the true identity of the antagonist. This suspense also has the effect of making audiences more hooked and thus want to keep watching.
	Editing - Cut to Beat Cutting to black screens on beat adds tension and builds suspense similar to strobe light or rolling drums in a dance track and as well the on beat cutting makes the cuts seams uniform and immersive as we expect a change every bar. As for song selection we choose Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi. It is a hit song and easily recognizable. It is also a hard rock song meaning it had a lot of energy with drums and electric guitars which made it perfect for a fight scene. As well this may attract fans of the song to watch the movie.
	Editing: Fast Cuts during Fight Scene Fast Cuts add energy into the scenes and makes the scene feel faster and allows for more camera angles and perspectives which make the shoot more dynamic.

New Research: Title Cards

This is a blogpost showcasing our research on title cards of movies.

These videos are compilations of diffrent movie title cards, they give an idea of how movie title cards look like and how they are presented.

These are title cards which are from movie that we share a genre with.

    

Production: Reshoot

  This blogpost explains our decision to reshoot multiple times and the ways, we improved on our footage. It also addresses key difference between past revisions and our final video and why those decisions were made.

Shoot: 1

For the first shoot as you can see its very rough as I was shooting the video and this was my first time operating the camera so the camera movements were not flexible and the shots were less than optimal as well we hadn't practiced the fight choreography before hand and we had to basically make it on the spot that's why the fighting felt slow and stiff. 

Shoot: 2

Link:https://drive.google.com/file/d/16gXSWqkI_Ou0ymEVO2qjSk0ND6B7SWYN/preview

In the next shoot we decided to swap over the camera duties to our group mate Kenzo as he was more experienced and better behind the camera as well we used the experience from the first shoot and feed back from our teacher (which was to add more camera angles and cuts) to experiment with different camera angles and improve our fight choreography as the first shoot acted as our practice. As well we decided to overhaul the opening sequence where as in the first shoot the opening opened with Mark Choi going up a stair case which made for a very mysterious opening with hermeneutic codes such as who is this character as it started with a back shot of him concealing his face but then we decided on Mark Choi instead riding in on a motorcycle which made for a very cinematic action packed opening and also this characterized him as a cool character and helped conform with genre conventions of an action movie.

                                                                            Shoot: 1

Shoot:2

However in this 2nd Shoot we decided to bring in our friend to be another character. He was first seen in the toilet as Mark Choi tries to find an entrance. We wanted him to be some sort of bodyguard or the boss's goon and to avoid a plot hole of why he didn't during the fight we decided to make him help the boss defeat Mark Choi and the problem with this was that his introduction and scenes was far to long this made our video over shoot the 2 minute maximum time and to the overall story he was unnecessary so we made the choice to cut him for the next shoot. As well another problem we encountered was a continuity error as we took a long time between takes and thus the time of day between the shots were different and thus the scene cut from day to night and for that is why we decided to reshoot for a 3rd time.

Shoot: 3 (Final)

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rFx8CC9fU2o7wIcz1Eyw5h3BxiHkKGG7/preview

In the 3rd shoot we just learnt from the mistakes from the last 2 shoots and applied them to make the best scene. As for the sequencing it was mostly the second reshoot but removing the unnecessary character and refining the choreography and camera angles/movements.