Content- This is a form of research needed for the script of the film. Optioning is when you buy the script and pay for the rights to use it. You usually get 2 years to create the film otherwise the scriptwriter can sell the script to another film maker. You can also come up with your own content by creating your own script. This is useful for short films because it can be realistic with your content research. Copyrighting can also effect it because it can lead to future lawsuits. Copyright can also be bought and sold. This is effective for short films because you can still use copyrighted products but you have to pay for it.
Viability- is when something can be realistically done. For example, if you can afford to film in another country. This affects short films because they have a small budget and they might have to think logically in order to save money and still have a good standard of short film. The budget comes into viability as well. For example, how much it costs to get certain equipment.
Placement Media
Finance/Costs- There are many costs in making short films. For example, Budget, equipment, etc. This is effective for short film makers because they haven't got a big budget to make the film
Technological Resources- Hardware is something that is real you use for editing your short film like a computer. Software is programs used to edit short films like i movie. This effects short films because the editor might not have a high resolution computer to be able to edit the movie. You will sometimes need more than one editor so you would need a group license.
Personel- There are many types of personal. For example, legal team, sales team, editing team, etc. This effects short film makers because they are unknown so people need to be really creative in order to be able to market and distribute their short film. You may need to think about creating t shirts in order to create money for you distribution.
Locations- You can use a location recce this is when you describe the location and its advantages and disadvantages swell as risks such light and sound. You will also need to think about space for the need of equipment. This effects Short films because they don't have the biggest budget so they would need to think of aspects like space and continuity.
Monday, 4 January 2016
Primary Research
Interview Techniques
Formal- A formal interview is an interview when it is set in a formal occasion and everything is very professional. For example a blockbuster would intake a professional interview because they want to become very successful. The purpose of an formal interview is to show the employee how professional the company can be.
Informal- A informal interview is an interview that it very laid back and informal. For example most short films employ people this way because they want to get to know them in order to create a good relationship. The purpose of informal interviews is to show the employer how down to earth you are.
Observations- Studying behavior
An example of studying behavior is monitoring something daily. For example, if you count how many times people use a certain crossing in the day for a week then you would be studying human behavior. The purpose of studying behavior is to understand why people do certain things.
Questionnaires
An questionnaire is a set of question that you give to certain people for them to understand what certain people like and why. An example is when a short film producer creates an questionnaire for people to fill out to understand why people like your film.
Surveys
The purpose of surveys are for people to answer questions in order to help you understand certain subjects. An example is when a director wants to find out how successful his short film is so he hands them out in the cinema where people are watching it.
Types of questions
This is when there are different types of questions. For example, there are open questions. These are questions that can have many answers, these are used in opinionated questionnaires. Another example is closed questions these are questions that only have a few answers, these are used in statistical questionnaires.
Focus Groups- These are groups that are specified down to a certain size these groups are used for general public questionnaires.
Audience Panels- These are panels which are created to help inform movie directors.
Participation in Internet Forums- This is where people all over the world participate in certain forums to have their say on certain debates.
Formal- A formal interview is an interview when it is set in a formal occasion and everything is very professional. For example a blockbuster would intake a professional interview because they want to become very successful. The purpose of an formal interview is to show the employee how professional the company can be.
Informal- A informal interview is an interview that it very laid back and informal. For example most short films employ people this way because they want to get to know them in order to create a good relationship. The purpose of informal interviews is to show the employer how down to earth you are.
Observations- Studying behavior
An example of studying behavior is monitoring something daily. For example, if you count how many times people use a certain crossing in the day for a week then you would be studying human behavior. The purpose of studying behavior is to understand why people do certain things.
Questionnaires
An questionnaire is a set of question that you give to certain people for them to understand what certain people like and why. An example is when a short film producer creates an questionnaire for people to fill out to understand why people like your film.
Surveys
The purpose of surveys are for people to answer questions in order to help you understand certain subjects. An example is when a director wants to find out how successful his short film is so he hands them out in the cinema where people are watching it.
Types of questions
This is when there are different types of questions. For example, there are open questions. These are questions that can have many answers, these are used in opinionated questionnaires. Another example is closed questions these are questions that only have a few answers, these are used in statistical questionnaires.
Focus Groups- These are groups that are specified down to a certain size these groups are used for general public questionnaires.
Audience Panels- These are panels which are created to help inform movie directors.
Participation in Internet Forums- This is where people all over the world participate in certain forums to have their say on certain debates.
Sunday, 3 January 2016
Film Reviews
Wes Anderson Retrospective: “Hotel Chevalier” Short Film Review
By Michelle HsuA short, ambiguous film about love and heartbreak, Hotel Chevalier was talked about as one of the most thought-provoking short films of 2007.
Running for a total of around 13 minutes, it tracks the encounter of a Man (Jason Schwartzman) and a Woman (Natalie Portman) as they reconcile in a hotel room in Paris.
I first saw the film in my screenwriting class, when we were studying the narrative structure of short films, and how they manage to tell a story in such a short time frame. For this film, I would say that the interesting part isn’t what the story tells, but rather what the story doesn’t tell.
Not much happens in the film; the Man, seemingly used to living alone in Paris, gets an unexpected phone call from the Woman, who asks what his room number is. He’s reluctant to tell her, but she demands to be seen. She shows up at his door, and there is a very definitive air of awkwardness as she breezes into the room with a bouquet of flowers, giving him a hug, and an (uninvited) tour of the bedroom. The ease in which he surveys his territory suggests that this is a game that the two of them play often; they are extremely comfortable, yet extremely uncomfortable, with each other.
About halfway through the short, she asks him what happened, and he simply replies that he’s been living in the room for about a month. There are hints to a relationship that might have happened, and one that definitely ended badly. There is a sense that a deeper conversation is about to ensue, but it is untimely interrupted by the arrival of room service. The second the room service leaves, the Man and Woman kiss passionately. Before it can progress any further, she asks him if he’s slept with anyone (presumably after they broke up) and he responds that he hasn’t, asking her the same question. She takes her time before replying that no, she hasn’t, and he remarks on the long pause. He also comments on the dark bruises that he sees on her arm; they’re in the shape of fingerprints. He asks about them, and she says they don’t matter.
Now lying on top of him, she says that she doesn’t want to lose his friendship, and that she never meant to hurt him on purpose. He responds that he doesn’t care, and that he will never be her friend. The film closes with them looking out over his “view of Paris,” which is just a view of another hotel building across the street.
There are a lot of questions that aren’t answered in the film, which lends itself to feeling like this is a real story. Trying to avoid all the uncomfortable answers when talking with an ex-significant other is a universal occurrence, one that is portrayed quite accurately in Hotel Chevalier.
The self-sacrificial nature of the Man leads to some questions about what really happened to the relationship that the man and the woman were in. Even the name of the film suggests this, with “chevalier” a play of the word “chivalrous.” There’s a lot of pain in the stoicism of the interaction between the two of them.
There are subtle clues and motifs that run through the film, in particular the song “Where did you go to my lovely?”, which plays as an undercurrent in almost the entire film. Coupled with the idea that he doesn’t seem to care if she hurts him, and the idea that she must have slept with someone else while they were broken up, prompts the idea that the main protagonist is desperately romantic.
For their parts,the actors did a fantastic job. Natalie Portman is, as always, beautiful and stunning as ever in the film, carrying an undercurrent of hatred for the man. The man, on the flipside, is broken, obviously still in love with her, or perhaps what their relationship meant to him. The film is very much stylistically Wes Anderson, with the actors all giving understated performances, instead of the wild and often times exaggerated performances that are popular in today’s films.
The film was, additionally, shot over two days, with a crew of 15 people, on no budget. It’s supremely impressive, and a testament to Anderson that he is able to make such a simplistic story so nuanced and layered.
While I haven’t viewed much of Wes Anderson’s works, I’m looking forward to see what interesting projects he has in store for audiences next.
Hotel Chevalier
By Amber Wilkinson
Writing about Hotel Chevalier as a stand-alone entity seems rather redundant, given that it has such a bearing on The Darjeeling Limited, which it preceded at the New York Film Festival, although this will not be the case at all screenings, according to director Wes Anderson, which is odd, since there are key facts revealed in this short that echo throughout the main piece.
It concerns Jack (Jason Schwartzman), a man in a hotel room. Lounging about in his dressing gown, watching Stallag 17, he receives a phone call. It's Her. And She brings the weight of their History. She's coming. Right now. He has half an hour. Just enough time to run a bath and set his Ipod to stun, courtesy of Peter Sarstedt's Where Do You Go To My Lovely? Then She arrives, in the guise of Natalie Portman, looking decidedly underfed. Relationship stuff happens, some of which is amusing and some vaguely erotic.
It's certainly a rare treat to get such good production values in a short film. Colours and style ooze from the screen and, as a prelude to the main action, it works well.
"What the f**k is going on?" asks Natalie, pertinently, and the audience joins in the chorus. Oddly, it is more like a coda than an overture, but perhaps that is the point. Either way, as a stand-alone film, without the prop of its "big brother," Hotel Chevalier teeters on the brink of so what?
My Thoughts
This review reflects how good with the short film saying that it is an amazing short film and that it was one of the best he has seen. This is useful because i can look at both sides of the argument to weather this film is good or not. The Second review was quite negative however stating how boring the short film was.
Bibliography:
Wes Anderson retrospective: ‘Hotel Chevalier’ short film review – (2014) Available at: http://www.popinsomniacs.com/2014/02/hotel-chevalier-short-film-review/ (Accessed: 12 January 2017).
Film (2006) Hotel Chevalier (2007) movie review from eye for film. Available at: http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/hotel-chevalier-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson (Accessed: 12 January 2017).
Saturday, 2 January 2016
The Purpose and Nature of Primary Research
Defintion- Primary research is new research, carried out to answer specific issues or questions. It can involve questionnaires, surveys or interviews with individuals or small groups.
Advantages- The findings are fresh and new and can be help you massively because you do not have to waste time finding research from other people that is beneficial to you. For example, if you are making a short horror film and you want to find out what make your target audience scared then you might create an questionaire to help you find this out. This is effective because it is created by you so the feedback is fresh and unbiased.
Disadvantages- The disadvantage is that it takes time and money to do and also it is a lot easier just to find someone else's work that is beneficial to you. For example, you are making a short film review and you wanted to know what the genral public thought of it. So, you research a questionaire created by someone else to help you understand what they thought about it. This is effective because it informs you.
Advantages- The findings are fresh and new and can be help you massively because you do not have to waste time finding research from other people that is beneficial to you. For example, if you are making a short horror film and you want to find out what make your target audience scared then you might create an questionaire to help you find this out. This is effective because it is created by you so the feedback is fresh and unbiased.
Disadvantages- The disadvantage is that it takes time and money to do and also it is a lot easier just to find someone else's work that is beneficial to you. For example, you are making a short film review and you wanted to know what the genral public thought of it. So, you research a questionaire created by someone else to help you understand what they thought about it. This is effective because it informs you.
Friday, 1 January 2016
Audio Material
Audio-materials are Non-paper educational or promotional such as cassettes, CDs, DVDs, videotape, etc.
This applies to my situation because they are really easy to access and they contain lots of valuable information. This also means I don't have to waste time or money creating my own research.
Bibliography:
WebFinance (2016) ‘What is audiovisual material? Definition and meaning’, in Available at: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/audiovisual-material.html (Accessed: 24 May 2016).
In-line Citation:
(WebFinance, 2016)
This applies to my situation because they are really easy to access and they contain lots of valuable information. This also means I don't have to waste time or money creating my own research.
Bibliography:
WebFinance (2016) ‘What is audiovisual material? Definition and meaning’, in Available at: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/audiovisual-material.html (Accessed: 24 May 2016).
In-line Citation:
(WebFinance, 2016)
Secondary Research.
Reference-Based Books
Definition- a book containing useful facts or specially organized information, as an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, yearbook, etc.
Purpose- The purpose of the defence book is to share references with people and inform them on certain subjects.
Directories
Definition- a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
Purpose- The purpose of directories is to be able to locate people in a certain city. This is useful because it means you can find people.
Periodicals
Definition- a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
Purpose- The Purpose of a periodical is that people who are interested in a certain subject can research it by investing in these magazines of journals.
Newspapers
Definition- a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising.
Purpose- The purpose of a newspaper is to inform people on what is going on in the world daily weekly or monthly.
Film Archives
Definition- A collection of films that have been preserved because of their historical or cultural interest.
Purpose- The purpose of film archives to to preserve historic films for people to watch in the future.
Photo Libraries
Definition- a collection of pictures and photos that is held by a particular company or organisation
Purpose- The purpose of photo libraries is that a company can hold on to particullar photos which they find interesting.
Worldwide Web.
Definition- an information system on the Internet which allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
Purpose- The purpose of the internet is to be able to find certain subjects and help people understand certain subjects.
Searching Internet Forums
Definition-An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived.
Purpose- The purpose of internet forums is that people can debate and discuss certain subjects.
CD Rom databases
Definition- A compact disc used as a read-only optical memory device for a computer system.
Purpose- to store memory for the person so they can acsess it on any computer.
Ratings
Circulation figures
Goverment statistics
audio material
Definition- a book containing useful facts or specially organized information, as an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, yearbook, etc.
Purpose- The purpose of the defence book is to share references with people and inform them on certain subjects.
Directories
Definition- a book containing an alphabetical index of the names and addresses of persons in a city, district, organization, etc., or of a particular category of people.
Purpose- The purpose of directories is to be able to locate people in a certain city. This is useful because it means you can find people.
Periodicals
Definition- a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
Purpose- The Purpose of a periodical is that people who are interested in a certain subject can research it by investing in these magazines of journals.
Newspapers
Definition- a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising.
Purpose- The purpose of a newspaper is to inform people on what is going on in the world daily weekly or monthly.
Film Archives
Definition- A collection of films that have been preserved because of their historical or cultural interest.
Purpose- The purpose of film archives to to preserve historic films for people to watch in the future.
Photo Libraries
Definition- a collection of pictures and photos that is held by a particular company or organisation
Purpose- The purpose of photo libraries is that a company can hold on to particullar photos which they find interesting.
Worldwide Web.
Definition- an information system on the Internet which allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
Purpose- The purpose of the internet is to be able to find certain subjects and help people understand certain subjects.
Searching Internet Forums
Definition-An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are at least temporarily archived.
Purpose- The purpose of internet forums is that people can debate and discuss certain subjects.
CD Rom databases
Definition- A compact disc used as a read-only optical memory device for a computer system.
Purpose- to store memory for the person so they can acsess it on any computer.
Ratings
Circulation figures
Goverment statistics
audio material
Monday, 28 December 2015
Program Ratings
1. Gathering agencies are companies that collect specific statistics and data. For example, Barb collect statistics for the most viewed television programs in that current week. This is effective because it can show you the most viewed programs of that week which shows how popular that specific program is.
2. Most Popular TV Programs:
- Sherlock (FRI 21:04)
- New Year's Eve (THU 23:59)
- Eastenders (FRI 20:02)
- War and Peace (SUN 21:00)
The main reason I think that Sherlock is at the top of the list is because it was the Christmas special and it showed the return of Sherlock, after his so called death. This is effective because the producers left the series on a cliffhanger this means that the next episode will be extremely popular because the audience want to know what happens next. The main reason that New Years Eve was so popular because it was influenced by the media because it is a free fireworks show. This is effective because it shows how influential the media are and how they influence what people watch on TV.
3. Short films have to be more creative when using data because they are not as popular as main stream programming. For example, agencies such as Barb analyse data through how many views the program got. On the other hand with short film it is very rare that you see them on TV. This is effective because it is hard to analyse the data of short films because they are never on mainstream Chanel. Therefore the solution to this is to use other data to analyse short films. For example, Facebook and YouTube hits. This is effective because it can increase the popularity reported on short films as it is a corrects statistic.
4. Short film directors are interested in RAJAR data because they use the radio to advertise. For example, it is unlikely a shot film will be advertised on TV because it costs to much for the director. Therefore they will appear on a talk show to advertise their show. This is effective because after the show they might use RAJAR to see how popular their talk show is. This could lead to the film getting more views due to how popular his show is.
Evaluation
The purpose of this task was to help with my blog
Evaluation
The purpose of this task was to help with my blog
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