"The Ace of Diamonds" Film Noir OTS - Final Product

Our Film noir OTS is finally complete, and this is the final product. Due to some difficulties with lip syncing, some of the speech may appear out of time, this is mainly due to the actor, in order to fix this, if we were to produce this OTS all over again, we would consider another actor for the hero.

OTS Presentation Pitch

Right near the start of our OTS planning, our group done a pitch to our class on our idea's and themes we'd like our OTS to have, this is that presentation:

PRESENTATION 5 from fLIX.TV on Vimeo.

Video Blog: Pre-filming planning + Script work

This was a videoblog we done a while back just before we started filming, discussing how we wanted the filming to go:

Media Evaluation Part 2

So these are the video's we done dicussing our evaluation:

Media Evaluation

So now that our OTS is complete, that final thing to do was an evaluation.
I chose to do some of mine of Powerpoint, as it was easy to use and quite effective.
These are the slides I have done.

We also decided to do a group video evaluation, discussing the evaluation questions and covering the questions I have not done in the powerpoint.

Preliminary Evaluation

Ok, So pretty much the final thing to do for our Film Noir OTS is the evaluation.
Whilst me and my group are planning on doing a video evaluation, discussing our project and planning, I've done some notes that will help us discussing he questions that must be answered:

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Use of black and white – conventional

Stereotypical femme fatale, protagonist and antagonist: in suits and fedoras – conventional

Use of animation + in colour – challenge conventions

Use of bar as set + filmed at night – conventional

Lighting, dark, atmospheric + sound, jazzy, slick and slow - Conventional

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Aimed at working class men: male hero and villain, attractive femme fatale, action, power and style – guns, suits etc.

Older generation represented as classy/slick with the dress style

Mise En Scene.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Could be distributed online – cheap, fairly easy to advertise, would have a wide contemporary/internet buff audience.

Mainstream cinema: potential to attract a lot of our target audience – Guys night out, office parties, although very expensive to advertise + create a desired profit.

Smaller cinemas. Cinema city etc – not as expensive as mainstream, but would not attract as much of an audience, possibly more elderly people who like the conventional film noir, films of that era.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Male office workers, elderly people who enjoy the genre, ages 18-64 – action and style
How did you attract/address your audience?
Questionnaires, primary research, focus groups, influential films (James Bond etc) and their audiences

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Camera Angles and shots, Use of blog, Social networking for research and communication, editing software and effects, lighting equipment, uploading files

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Larger scale production – More to do.

Continuity

Camera angles + post filming effects (sounds, black and white)

Explore more conventions/possibilities to challenge them

Understanding of audience

Group skills and communication

Target Audience Research - Focus Group

The group decided, for some audience research, one of the best ways to gather some information would be to show our initial live action footage to a small group of people.

The people we used were a small group of media diploma students, aged about 15-16. We also gave them a questionaire, and asked for their comments on the footage, which were genrally good, with a few constructive critisims. This is the feedback we recieved from the questionaires.


Comments on Location

• Works very well for the plot/genre.
• Created a good atmosphere.
•  Could of been filmed with less of the public in the background.

Comments on Footage/Plot

• Contains a few continuity errors - Necklace, Extra actors etc.
• Plot was very interesting and grabbing.
• The hiding of the characters faces was very effective, as it creates the sense of mystery.

Comments on Camera/Editing

• Many of the angles used were interesting and well used.
• Some people said the camera was shaky at points, some people liked this in parts, such as the beginning of the film, whereas some did not.
• The black and white effects recieved very good comments - It added a great feel to the film.

Once the OTS is completed, we will try and show it to the same group of people, and see what their thoughts and comments are after everything has been added.