Who would be the audience of your media product?

Who would be the audience of your media product?

I believe that my audience mainly consists of 14-21 year olds from both sets of genders. This is because most of my characters are also in that age group. When thinking of the film I really wanted to emphasise on the relate ability of the characters to current teens of that age. After looking at current forms of media such as The Inbertweeners and Miss-fits and seeing their success with realistic and relatable characters I wanted to include it in my film.

After conducting some audience research to find out what age group, gender and race the comments that really stood out were the age. I received a even response between males and females and people of different cultures.  This would then help me to develop the film around that audiences such as the type of comedy to have because after all  my film is an action comedy. And also older age groups tend to prefer more psychological action and mystery. Where’s the younger ages prefer explosions, guns and fast cars etc.

The rest of my audience will be people who enjoy comedy and action. The beauty of this is that everyone and anyone could have these preferences. So not only can there be more people wanting to watch the film but these random people can bring friends and family to come along too.

But back to my main audience, 14-21 year olds. These age groups will be enjoying the film more than older people because they live the same lifestyle as the main characters. And back to that word again “relateability” I believe that this will emphasis the comedy effects on the audience because they will all know “that one clumsy person”, “the stupid person” and “the bossy one” this is just what I want because when they see it on the screen they can relate to it in real life too. And that’s the beauty of having this type of film.

Preliminary task

This is our Preliminary task:
"Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
I worked in a group with Phil, Harriett and Kayla to complete this. We decided on the idea of a strange man purchasing a keyboard in a music shop. 
This was our first real opportunity to use the cameras to film and then the editing software in post-production.

Below is the finished product..

FINAL CUT HUGO FILM OPENING

This is my final cut of my film opening. And here it is for all to see!

Research into freeze fram credit titles

 I got some inspiration for my film titles from the film train spotting. They use the freeze frame effect vey well and while watching it I felt like it would be something that I should incorporate in my film.

Here is the film trainspotting:

My Rough Cut Is Now LIVE!

HERE IS THE ROUGH CUT OF HUGO!

HUGO Advertisement Poster

This is my advertising poster for my film, HUGO.

Please note that the reviews aren't official but in my opinion very accurate!

How I have made my Video (Audio)

This is how I made the audio of my film allot better and at a higher quality.

The DOR that I used was Logic ProX. I used this as I am very familiar with it as I use it at school in my music technology lessons. So this task wasn't to strenuous for me as I knew how everything worked and where everything was.

The first step in editing the audio was to extract all the audio from the video. After that I then imported it all into Logic. Next I split the clips up for all the different surroundings e.g. Outdoor, bedroom, kitchen etc... After that I could now EQ the Audio tracks.

EQ

 

EQ modulator


For the EQ I used the analyser to show where the main body of the frequency's sat. I then did a Filter sweep to find any outlying frequency's that I needed to cut out. This would make the sound allot clearer and tighter. I then did a brick wall to the low frequency's to remove allot of the muddy sounds that I didn't need and finally a high cut to make the audio sound les 'trashy'.



Compressing


For the compression I Reduced the compressor threshold so that the dynamic range is reduced. This would allow me to normalize the track to make the audio sound more stable and clearer to hear. I increases the ratio for the same reasons and decreased the attack and release as this is a compression for speech not music.





Limiter

Finally I added an adaptive limiter so I am able to increase the gain but make sure the track doesn't clip over 0.0. db.








Here is what my finished mixer looked like:

Then I finally exported the track and mastered it. Then replaced the old audio with the new one.
I didn't do anything to the music in my track as it has already been mastered so there was no need for me to edit it.