Possible ideas.

Today in class Caroline came up with an idea which puts our previous footage to good use. Together we decided that it would be a good idea to change the story slightly. Now our idea is...

A girl receives a phone call from someone we can not see or hear at a train station. She then rushes home to check on 'it' leaving the audience in suspense as to what it is. As the girl is about to check there is a flash back to two years earlier where we see the girl in a park paying particular attention to a young toddler.

If we had to some the story up in a twenty-five word pitch it would be 'A young blonde girl gets mixed up with someone who takes advantage of her deep obsessions. Can'.

Where do I go next?

So far Caroline and I have been out filming for one day and have in total about one and half minutes of useable footage. We are both in agreement that we need to add to it, however we still are unsure of what our next move should be as we have to be careful that we don't change our film too much. Through talking to people they have suggested that we make things slow and that our titles will fill up the remaining time. I personally feel that this is a big risk and that it would be better to get more footage than we need now, rather than have too little when its too late.

One idea is that we create a blog, and film the last few seconds of our current footage so that we can carry on building the suspense, which also means we have the opportunity to introduce new characters. I believe this could also be good as its a perfectly basic idea. All we need to do it sit down and discuss the details so that when we edit it together there is a flow.

Definitions

PRODUCTION: making films

DISTRIBUTION: promoting films and getting them into cinemas and out on to DVD as well as any spin offs/related media products.

CONSUMPTION: people paying at the cinema, renting or buying DVDs and downloading and purchasing related products.

Questions

Whats meant by the terms institutions and audiences?

Producers
Distributors
Marketing
Companies

7 areas you need to cover within media...

 the issues raised by media ownership in contemporary media practice;  the importance of cross media convergence and synergy in production, distribution and
marketing;
 the technologies that have been introduced in recent years at the levels of production, distribution, marketing and exchange;
 the significance of proliferation in hardware and content for institutions and audiences;
 the importance of technological convergence for institutions and audiences;
 the issues raised in the targeting of national and local audiences (specifically, British) by international or global institutions;
 the ways in which the candidates’ own experiences of media consumption illustrate wider patterns and trends of audience behaviour.

Key film production companies...

Warner brothers
Fox
Universal
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Paramount

What do production companies have in common, and how are they different?