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During the process I acquired different forms of software that would be used together in order to produce my final product. This included Sony Vegas and Adobe after Effects. My reasoning for using Sony Vegas is that we felt that it helped us to organise our scenes and clips, which helped us to bring all footage together and create the unfinished opening. Whilst Adobe after effects was used for additional effects which gave our product the final look it needed. For example our main editor Casper used after effects to create a distorted transition effect to make it seem as if there was an impending event about to occur and also to make it seem as the character Rakim had been hurt. This gave us the desired effect that we wanted to convey. We also used Adobe effects to create our typography, in which we used a combination of moving transitions, text and sound, as would wanted our opening to be as close to the film experience as possible. This taught me that I can use a wide range of software’s for a range of different uses. After Effects allows you to incorporate different ratio aspects in order to increase the resolution of the product (e.g. 720p, 1020p etc.). This taught me that some software’s can be used to develop and enhance the final product significantly, whilst other types of software can be used to place all the footage together in a chronological manner. However, they sometimes may be complicated to use and quite expensive. Another issue is that these programs are hard to use and difficult to acquire and use also come with regularly updated plugins, which is beneficial as new plugins can add new effects to your work. However, these plugins can sometimes come in big files such as 1GB or even 3GB, and some plugins are not free and are expensive to buy and download.

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Evaluation Task 3

Institution: An organisation or company that owns and produces media products for the consumption of an audience. As our film is an independent film it may have a smaller budget and collection of actors, with lower production costs. This may be due to the fact that we would have less access to conglomerates and institutions, meaning that we would have to apply a scheme such as the Love Film microwave scheme as we would be on a smaller budget, with less risk on the output of the film. This may mean that our films will be shown in smaller cinemas such as art houses where more social concept based films will be shown. Due to the young age of the actors within our thriller opening we agree that we would like to go down a similar path as ‘Shifty’ and use a smaller budget of £150 000 and use more unconventional forms of advertising to reach an urban audience, such as advertisements on pirate radio, using social media websites such as twitter and Facebook. This may be due to the fact that our specific audience will be able to identify with the characters in the opening. This may mean that other independent companies such as Studio Canal produced the film known as ‘Attack the block’ which although was not successful at the box office it went on to receive mass publicity.

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