What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Since starting my media studies there are many things I have learnt during my time studying this subject, such as constructing different types of media products. We started with creating a preliminary exercise to learn about continuity, and editing techniques.This helped create the final product that is our two minute film opening, Bitten.

Preliminary

Bitten

To film each of these we used a Sony video camera, this itself was new to me as I have never had much experience with using this sort of technology, as the most experience I have had is just basic filming, using a camera phone. So straight away this was a high level of filming. When using the Sony video camera we learned about theframing of shots and how important it is. The use of the zoom button was helpful in getting two separate shots in one continuous part of filming which saved time and improved the quality of our film.

Some of the strengths of using the camera equipment that we were given are that with using the tripod we were able to film steady shots for our film opening and this made our shots more clean and fluent, meaing they wouldn't wobble when filming a shot. This improved the quality of how our film looked making it look more professional. Another good use of having a tripod is, we could create low shots without making them look shakey. 

To edit the footage we had, we used a programme called Premier Pro. We were taught how to shorten footage and remove parts we do not want as well as being taught how to use effects and video transitions such as fading in, changing the lighting, overlapping sequences to include audio. We also learned rules such as the 180 rule and keeping the continuity consistent. Knowing this has helped when it came to planning and filming our opening. 

Screenshots from our film opening.

Screenshots bitten from Jamie Coatsworth

How did you attract/address your audience?

Joe Andrews an nineteen year old student at Kings Oak Academy, enjoys studying maths and physics, but in his own time he likes to sit down and enjoy watching thriller films by the famous director David Fincher and Shane Black. His favourite films vary from American Beauty, Fight Club, se7en, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. 
I gave him my film opening to watch and he had this to say about it. 

"I liked the transitions between the shots, and had a good direction. The  Audio was really well used and helped create an atmosphere for the scene. It made me want to watch on to see what happens afterwards."

Aaron Bryant is a Musician at City Of Bristol College and enjoys watching his favourite TV show  Game Of Thrones, and enjoys films such as Back To The Future, Star Wars, Terminator, Lord Of The Rings, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction. I gave him my film opening to watch so I could get his opinion on it and he had this too say.

"Good introduction to tell who is playing who in the film. Also great use of voice over too tell the story, the audio stood out and really built it up. Great opening with good and unique camera shots."

Who I would want my film distributed by..

The distribution company I would like to distribute my film is the company Momentum Pictures. The reason I have chosen this distribution company is because they are one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and Ireland. They are known for releasing twenty theatrical pictures a year. They were founded in 1996 and in January 2013 they became partners with Entertainment One.
They are known for releasing a fair few horror/thriller films within the past few years. Titles such as Twilight which is a romantic fantasy film released in 2008, which involve vampires. Sinister is supernatural horror film which was released in 2012. The recently released the American Science Fiction Horror film called Dark Skies. Momentum Pictures have had some successful released films such as the Oscar released film The Kings Speech, Let The Right One In, The Illusionist and Defiance.