Final Cut

 

CCR 1: How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

 

Project Proposal: For our Film

CCR 2: How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

 Trailer:

Trailer: In Broad Daylight

Cypher in Video:

Cypher In the video

Posters:

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxnbQhiERchS4Tg7u3_vVrPQvR-Ke7ZyFA?si=pmzemfy0nMkSUJxx

Poster 1

Poster 2

Poster 3

Poster 4

Cypher Code in the Posters:

Cypher Code in the Poster: 1

Cypher Code in the Poster: 2

Cypher Code in the Poster: 3

Cypher Code in the Poster: 4

Cracked Cypher:

Cracked Cypher Saying: Mother Nature's roses have thorns for a reason.

CCR 3: How did your production skills develop throughout this project?

Memes:

Magazine:

CCR 4: How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

 

CCR 4: Tech Interview 

Short Description of the Interview: This YouTuber is interviewing the behind-the-scenes of the prop crew. To learn how they made the knife with said equipment.

How do Murder Mystery Films, Advertise and Distribute Their Films? A CRR: Research Post

Advertisement:

The title and question that I need to answer have a lot of layers with my initial though being to look at murder mystery (who done it) films: notably Knives Out. Using the articles of Knives Out | Get Your Cut — Esturd and Knives Out, and the rarity of a big marketing campaign that doesn’t spoil the film | Film Stories I was able to learn that tradition murder mystery films have a list of requirements and or recommendations that we have do for our film that is following convention:

• Cannot show who the Murder is (can hint)
• Activate Curiosity

To say everything but nothing at the same time is something most forms of marketing need this but especially with the mysteries genre. 

Some Ideas that already exist:

The first idea that most movies (which kind of has to happen) is a trailer. This is probably one of the harder things to do with not filming everything, but we can and probably should film extra scenes and make more props. But this another way to give tone and mood for the audience like the opening

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

The second most common thing to do in marketing is to have posters and other smaller advertisements on social media that are out in the opening for all to see. These do not work in withholding information well, but you could add hidden messages or a cypher to it. This was best used in (I believe) gravity falls.

A Gravity Fall Cypher Code

To do a video or board game like Knives Out could not really work due to not having money to do something like that. Also, we cannot reek the benefits of basing the movie on a game like Clue the Movie as the style of marketing this would definitely attract board game lovers, but mystery is a maybe. Overall, the weakest idea in execution.

Clue the Board Game

Distribution Methods

Our film is mainly targeting ages 25-45 (Millennials through early Gen Z) for our film. In general, most Secondary to younger University students do not like thinking when consuming media (, due to no attention span). For our film, what works at engaging this specific audience? Our film is planning in releasing in theaters. 

Take Away:

For marketing why not do all that I mentioned. With trailers and posters being peas in a pod with the added fun of a cypher this will be a lot of work and will entice audiences to go to theaters.

Implementation of Interrogation Room-

Interrogation Scene:

This blog will go over the first two pillars of the interrogation scene, as well as how they will change in the film.

Changes:

Before this post goes into full detail, a few things had changed behind the scenes. The change is to the second scene story. This occurred due to the editor noticing the film was way too similar to a trailer when putting it all together. For the integrity of the film, the decision was made to cut the scene with the quick cuts to each of the talents in an interrogation room. I will say this right now not all of the shot were taken due to the talents having to leave early so her are the two shots I took so here are the first stills.

Scene 2 Shot 1

The shot is the beginning of the conversation and the transition of power by starting at a high angle low level to make it show the power dynamic from her telling the story of the event. I would like to point something out with the background it is split in half, which could mean a fragile story (a happy accident). This scene follows all the requirements were not stated in the Interrogation Scene-Planning post (but the practice of the images was the basis for the requirements, but) they include:

• Low Level
• High Angle
• Center frame 

Scene 2 Shot 1

Scene 2 Shot 2

This shot shows the detective thinking about the story and follow up questions, he does not currently have the power to find the murder as seen in the low angle, high level shot and center frame. This will change as the person with the power (the detective,) plays their cards throughout the film. This change will come after all the people will be interrogated and he begins to deduce who the murder could be but, drags it out. 

Scene 2 Shot 2

Overall:

This scene from what I took so far has been good. The practice of application with the talent, was helpful for making and perfecting the shots; like before "I am happy with the shots", this only has a few problems that are due to a lack of videos and audio.