The Important of Marketing Media

The Important of Marketing Media

Marketing films are one of the most important stages in releasing a film. If a producer does not put their film out there and make it known to the public’s eyes, many people will not be aware it is there. But marketing is not only about letting friends and family know that the movie is out. It is also about the connections, how producers allow people to access it, and how they market the film.

The first example that can be used is black panther. It was released on February 16,2018. It was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures Motions. That company is already very big and has many connections as well as people who support and view their products. So, they already had many connections that made marketing Black Panther a much-anticipated film for many people. Their actors participated in events and made deals to further promote their movie. Everyone they promoted it to could go to their family and friends and promote it more. They created websites and made merchandise and to choose from to excite their audience and get more people to be interested in the film. They also made money off of many of the ways they promoted themselves.

Furious & can be used as another example. It was distributed by Universal Pictures. This is another big studio. As well as the previous example, this production studio has many connections. Furious 7 was produced by Neal H. Mortiz, Vin Diesel, and Michael Fottrell.  As well as being producers, these three men all have their own platforms which they used to promote their movie to all of their friends, family, and followers. The producers also distributed it to many different platforms to ensure that they were allowing all different types of people to see the film. They held special events to launch their movie and get people excited for it. These events were things like having a new ride at universal studios and marathons. All of these things further contributed to their movie reaching a large audience.

            Another example is Beauty and the Beast. It was distributed by Walt Disney Pictures which is another very big production studio. Along with Walt Disney, it was produced by Mandeville Films. They marketed this film using different brands and shows like Kohl’s, Twinning, The Bachelor, Morgan Taylor, and Silverware. This allowed their film to be release and anticipated by a wide selection of audience members. They also had plenty of merchandise and paired up with store to release items that had to do with the movie.

Marketing is very important. It helps producers get their film known as well as get those audience members extremely excited for their movie. All of the examples that were given, demonstrated the same idea. Each production company made sure that they were getting their movie out there and showing it every chance they had. From universal Events to selling merchandise in department or Disney stores, the producers make sure to promote their films to as many people as possible. I usually discover movies through social media and commercials. Especially when someone I follow posts about a movie. I also notice movies when I am out at an event and it is being promoted. The promotions usually interest me. It also helps make money off their films so that the actors, producers, and people who helped with the film, get other deals and maybe in time release other movies.

Sources

CCR Powerpoint

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eheJ6GFnZuUY2wozFjs4_VBB0ptp-tUV/view?usp=sharing

I had to use a shareable link because the video was not loading on the blogger. I was able to show my teacher what is going on or any of the people in my group so that I could receive help because we are on lockdown. The only way I could my video on blogger was a shareable link. This was the hardest project. I had to film and edit by myself. Filming and editing were both equally hard. When I was filming, it was hard to talk for so long. But it was hard to edit and cut the videos exactly how I wanted too. I added a lot of transitions and backgrounds to make the film look good. I also was not sure how to insert videos into another video. I learned a lot while editing this. But, I was happy to learn so much. Even though this was hard, I still enjoyed this project.

Final project powerpoint

This was my favorite Project. I really enjoyed this one. My favorite part was filming. I learned a lot about filming during this project. I learned how important angles are. They make or break many scenes. They could either make takes interesting or not so interesting. I did most of the filming for this project. I liked how creative we were for this. I also really liked the theme for our project.

Music Video powerpoint

Shooting this music video was a lot of fun. I was not one of the actors in this film. I helped film. I learned a lot about filming and editing. I learned how to put an audio on a movie. I was able to apply this in other projects. This project was okay. It was not my favorite but, it was still fun. I liked that we had to go off school campus for this one. It made us be able to be more creative.

Commercial Powerpoint

This was our first project. It was a lot of fun. This project was very hard because it was our first one. Editing was the hardest for this project. My favorite part of this project was the planning. It allowed us to be creative, which was fun. I did not enjoy filming though. It was very hot outside and we had to keep re shooting certain takes. Overall, I enjoyed this project. I also learned a lot.

Editing

My team and I have been working on our video. We finishes the content. We now just have to work on the finishing touches. Just making sure we have the rights fonts and sizes. We also have to now add the music. Adding music is personally very hard for me. It is kind of complicated. But, we did finish filming. We also finished adding clips in. The movie looks much better.

We were not able to re film any of the takes we needed to since the coronavirus started. Many of the places closed down or had limited hours. Other places were very big on social distancing. So, it was hard to come together. But, we were able to edit the film enough to where it looks good. We had to crop and edit certain takes. We also had to edit certain things out. Certain things were harder to edit out. Some things were simple to edit out. It would have been easier to retake the takes that we needed.

  

Editing

My team and I have been editing. It has been hard to edit the film. We can only talk over the phone to edit. We also could not get all of our filming done. That also has made it harder to edit. But we are working with what we have. We have been adding music. We also have been trying to make it flow. Some of the previous scenes were choppy. But we are working on the transitions. We are trying to make the movie look as real as possible.

We have also been trying to cut certain parts of the film. Some parts of the film that we could not re do are harder. It is harder to cut and edit those. We also have been working on the titles and names. We are making the fonts match. We are also making sure the sizes of the fonts. We're working on transitions. The film is getting better. As we make certain changes it improves. We are going to continue working.

   

Re shooting

We currently have not been able to film. We were able to re do a few scenes. But school got canceled because of the coronavirus. So it has been kind of hard to film. A lot of things have closed. Other things have closed early. They also stopped letting people inside. So, we could not go into the library to re shoot takes. We were able to do a few. But, many things are closing for at least a month.

 So, we have to work with the film that we have. Some of those films could have been re done. But, we cannot get into those places. We also cannot be in big groups of people in other places. So, the coronavirus has made filming way harder. So we are just going to edit. We will edit some stuff out. As well as cut videos and other stuff. We will try to make it look the best we can. But as far as re-shooting, we had to stop for now.

 

Re filming

My group and I watched all of our takes. We have watched both the previous takes and the older takes. After watching them we decided that some re filming was needed. We tried to best pin point exactly which takes needed to be re done. But as we film and fix some of the scenes, we find new issues. When we try to edit in the new takes something about the take does not allow the film to look right. Some time is does not fit the angle that the previous take was taking from. And sometimes, it does not match the angle for the take after. So, we have to re film. We also have to make sure that we are using the correct angles.
We have been able to re film a few takes. But, they still do not look right. So although we have been filming, the takes still cannot be used. We also only have a limited time when filming. Everyone has different schedules. So, this makes filming harder. It only allows us to have certain days and times to film. So we can only get a certain amount of work done. This makes filming harder because we have less time to work with. But we are continuing to film and try different things to improve the film.

Editing Blog

So, recently we have be working on editing out film. We re-filmed before we continued to edit. We also looked at all the old film. We tried to correct the things that were wrong the last time we filmed. We had lighting issues and people getting in the way.  After looking back at the films we found different problems. People that were acting for us got in the way. In some shots, the person filming got people who were not supposed to be in the film in it. So we have to fix those takes. Or we have to cut the videos.
We are also trying to look at the smaller errors that we made. We have to fix the font of the title. We used a different font to for the title in the video verses what we planned to do. We also do not like some of the other things and the way that it is edited. For example, some of the ways the takes were put together. It does not flow the way we want. It looks a little bit choppy. But we plan to keep editing. We are going to try to edit out the flaws. But, if we can't we may have to re film.

Peer Editing Blog

   

I really like the transitions. I also like the film in itself. It has good individual takes. The film wasn't choppy which I also liked. But, they could've been smoother. Some of the takes looked like they didn't belong together. But, the film still was not choppy. I also like how clear it was. The camera person was not shaking the camera at all. The video was very easy to see exactly what was going on.

The plot was kind of confusing to me. The individual takes made sense when they were separate. But, when they were put together it got a little confusing. If I could make one suggestion it would be about how the takes come together. I think they should try to make it come together better. A lot of the scenes started in one place and the next scene started in another location. This kind of made it confusing to me about what the main idea was. There was also a lot of different scenarios. The girl killed her family but, her parents were missing and someone was trying to get into her house. I was not sure how that came together.

Filming blog; started

We started filming. We had to re do many of the takes we originally took. The last time we tried to film it was raining. So, many of the previous films could not be used. There was too much sound in many of the films. And the rain the was too loud in some of the other films. When we were in the garage the cars shook the camera and was too loud. So, we looked at those films this time we filmed. We did this to find mistakes in our filming.  It also helped us improve our filming.
This time filming was a bit easier. We were able to find more spots that were not as loud. We also found a parking lot that was not as busy. This allowed there to be less sound. The library also was not as busy. So, our takes from the library as came out better. Not as many people interrupted or interfered with the camera. Filming this time was a lot more enjoyable. We were able to have fun and get a lot of work done. Its good to film when it's raining but, sometimes it gets too loud.

Filming blog : we haven't started

We recently started filming. We are working outside of class. Over the weekend, we began to film. But the weather was bad. We tried to film in the garage. It started raining really bad at first. So, we waited for the rain to stop. But, every time we began to film the rain would start. The parking garage we found was also very busy. It was also too nosy to film.
When we went into the library, we also had difficulty filming when we were in the library. There was a lot of people there when we were there. Many of the times we tried filming, we were interrupted by someone. Either someone walked past the camera or someone got too close. Other times people were talking. Even though it is is supposed to be quiet in the library, many of the small sounds got picked up. When we looked back at the films, we could hear many of the nosies. So, many of the films we took can't be used. We are going to try to find a different garage and library. We also are going to find a day when the weather is better.

Filming blog

We're in our filming stage. But, we have not started. We are trying to put more ideas together. We are waiting until we have everything planned out. So far we have put a plan together that seems like it works. But, as a group, we were not fully ready to film yet. We have to pick the best day for us individually that will allow us to all be available. But, we all have different schedules and activities. So, that makes it harder. We are now picking a day.
When we start filming, we're going to need multiple filming days. We have a few locations we have to go to. We need to first go to the library. We're going to the library to film the first scene in the movie. Then we have to find a parking garage. The parking garage has to have good lighting. It also has to be less busy. We're looking for a less busy garage so that filming is easier. If there is too many cars it will be harder. It also will be louder.

Storyboarding for final project

The elements of a horror film starts from slides 1-5. These scenes were filled with close up shots of every individual involved. Many of the starting scenes are in the library then it moves to the car. As the scenes go by, the intensity grows. The ending of scene 1-5 got even more thrilling. In slides 6-10 it talked about how we are going to go about playing the roles for those scenes. My scenes mainly included medium shots. Majority of the time the scenes are in the car. The scenes get intense as the story goes on. It has an ending that’s going to have you wonder what happens next? 

Title design for final Projects

This powerpoint is about the title design of our final project. The font is very important. It can create a tone. The title could draw people into the movie. For our title font, we are using Blombat. It is a very creepy horror film font. It looks like blood on a wall that has been painted. We are using "Times New Roman" for our names so, that is is bold. But times new roman also will not distract the audience from the film. The powerpoint goes more into depth about our font.

Location, Health, Safety, Schedule, and Participants for final project

This powerpoint has the details about Location, health and safety, participants and the schedule. The filming location is in a few places. We're using a library, parking lot, and trunk. We think those locations will help add the the scary tone of our film. We also have a plan for health and safety. We will be cautious when driving. We also plan to bring a first aid kit. Our main participants are Naiya, Na'mya, and Ambrielle. The schedule is done on a week by week format. The powerpoint further goes into depth about each topic.

Planning for final project part 2

Through out the power point I wrote out the whole script. I wrote the script starting form scene 1 to scene 10. I included the sounds that will be heard through out the film. For the sounds I included diegetic and no diegetic. Most of the sounds included an instrumental, music from the radio, and movement sounds from the actors. It only took me 4 slides to write out the whole script due to the fact it's not much being said. Through out the script it's manly people in shock and trying to find somewhere to hide the body not too much talking. I wrote who will be saying who by naming them Person 1, Person 2, and Person 3, and victim. The names made it less confusing and easier to understand the script for the actors. In total 4 people will be acting through out the film.

Planning the Scenes part 1

The google slide attached depicts the scenes to our opening sequence. The ten slides include every camera change that will occur. The action of each character is explained throughly. The details, small and large are also included. Details such as camera angles and movements are included. Through statements being mad are not included, the different types of sound in a movie are added into the presentation as well. This is because we want to understand our film n all aspects. The different components of Mis-En-scene are added because it illustrates what we want each scene to be like. We used our vision to further this google slide presentation. The inclusion of these elements are needed because we can look back to understand our thought process when creating our storyboard

Title Research: "Get Out"

The movie “Get Out” was title researched on www.artofthetitle.com because it has the same genre as my group and I’s genre, Horror. This movie contains seventeen titles with multiple people in each category. These titles included presenters, production, in association, the film type, the actual title, actors, castings, music, music supervision, costume designer, edited by, production designer, director of photography, co-producers, executive producers, producers, written and directed by. The first couple seconds of this opening is showing a white car on the street driving away. Instantly it switches to a tracking shot of a car driving past the woods really fast. Following that scene, the main characters appeared fulfilling their daily tasks. There were pictures shown that one of the characters took displayed in his house however it's believed to be there for aesthetic purposes. It is believed that the opening should have a connection to what the actual movie is about but there is none. The opening just included a change of scenes from a dark road, to the wood, then one of the characters house. Before the movie starts, we know its a horror film but the fact that the intro isn't scary confuses the viewers. There is nothing about fear or terror seen so if anything the viewers should be open into seeing what will happen when the movie actually starts. Around the time this movie was released, the director was getting a buzz which is why the movie did so well its opening week, not because of the opening. Viewers knew it was a horror film, they just wanted to know what direction it would go in which is what drew so many people in. The film started at a high angle with a white car driving off, there was then an eye level tracking shot just showing the woods in the background with the actors name. The shots with the characters appearing varied due to what they were doing, there were a few medium shots, medium close up, point of view and over the shoulder shots. The transitions were very quick and there was no fade into any new background or image. The editing techniques were pretty basic as well, there was no irregular or unusual technique used.