Media Platforms

Using Twitter as a media outlet

Twitter Page

We used twitter as our media outlet to reach a wider audience.












We constantly post things about our group activity on our twitter page to keep our followers up to date.




We used famous hashtags and created our own hashtags to endorse our film.









Twitter is our main means of promoting our film to an urban, younger audience that will be able to relate with our film.

How I used Motion

Motion

I used the program Motion to create a rough draft of a title sequence that we could use in our film. The program gave me a rough idea of how we could use a title sequence in our film.

As it was just a rough draft, I chose to use a template to form my title sequence. This meant that the title sequence I created was both simple and effective - it made it rather professional. 

All I had to do was edit the text and relate it to my film and the title sequence was finished. Below is the finished product of my rough draft of a title sequence.

My concept of the importance of Fonts

Kidulthood plays such an important role in UK filming today. Kidulthood often uses urban looking fonts as the one seen in the picture. 

This is to break away from the 'typical' formal fonts that are used in other films. 

The urban looking fonts mean that the target audience (being the youth) can relate to the film.Thus meaning that these font styles are seen and are automatically relatable to youth drama films.

Hence, we have decided that we will use urban fonts in our film so that our target audience will be able to relate to our film. 

The urban fonts will mean that the youth will automatically notice that our film is of the youth drama genre.

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How I used Garage Band

How I used Garage Band

I had to use Garage band for the opening scene as we are not allowed to use other peoples songs due to copyright infringement. So rather than only being able to use a song for a maximum of 30 seconds, I chose to use a program called 'Garage Band'.

As is shown on the right, on Garage Band we had to use different loops to make up the song. I chose to use a slow tempo and chose depressing styles to add to the elegiac atmosphere in our film. This created a feeling of sadness and depression.

As seen in the picture, I reduced the tempo of the tracks so that it matched the film and added to the sad feeling of our film.

Our use of Garage Band was rather effective as we created a song that fitted the mood and tone of our film. It also meant that we can have the song playing for more than 30 seconds (which would be the case if we used someone else's song). 

BEHIND THE SCENE :

Some pictures taken during the process of filming.

Blog Review.

Initial ideas: fonts

Error found in the process

Institutions

For our Opening sequence we had to make up our own institutions that were involved in making the opening sequence. We made up the names 'Blue Sketch Productions' and 'Reign Entertainment'

Here are the logos we have made and chosen to put on our opening sequence

Garage Band

For the Opening Sequence we are not allowed to use secondary music because of copyright. The limit for using copyrighted music is 30 seconds. Instead of using secondary music we have to make our own music using a program called GarageBand

First we have to make a new loop project and choose the tempo, we are using a slow tempo. Then we choose what instruments we want to use and the genre for the loop. We chose a dark genre for most of the instruments because our opening sequence is sad and the dark genre works well with low tempos

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After choosing the instrument and genre we have to choose what loop we want. To preview the loop we have to double click it.

After we chose what we want we dragged and dropped it onto the timeline where we add other instruments and loops. There we can control the volume of a specific loop.

On the timeline we can choose when a loop is playing and how long it is playing. There we organise all the loops and it shows how long all the loops together are.