BEFORE AND AFTER FEEDBACK

OUR TWITTER PAGE

I have used Twitter in two capacities whilst making my film opening, first as a research tool and, second, as a distribution tool for my film. As a research tool, Twitter is valuable as it allows you to access a diverse genre of social groups, companies and people. It connects you as a brand, company or person to the people of our world. By doing this it gives people that don't have a voice in decision making a voice. It allows you to receive audience and customer feed back to produce something that will not only be successful but athletically pleasing as well. As a form of distribution, Twitter excels thanks to the interactivity of web 2.0 and the way fans can re-tweet my posts, creating viral marketing. For example you can receive new information quickly. It's an amazing human search engine that harnesses the crowd. You'll follow all sorts of movers and shakers. You can also use the hashtag to follow specific threads. You are also able to start a conversation with strangers as well as friends and share fresh ideas when you're thinking about them. I personally really enjoy the quick share-ability of the social media page.

RESEARCH: LAURA MULVEY - VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA

Through my research I have read an article which was written by Daniel Chandler on the gaze theory by Laura Mulvey. 'Film has been called an instrument of the male gaze, producing representations of women, the good life, and sexual fantasy from a male point of view.' This theory is essentially saying that women are there to be looked at and the men to look at them. However Mulvey argues that movies put women as 'subject positions' which 'objectifies' them. Throughout many years of movie productions women have been used for a sexual representation. For example Halle Berry is often in very revealing clothes attracting a large male audience. This is classified as the "male gaze". This theory also suggests that men are not sexually objectified in mainstream cinema. However two people argue against this theory. These two people are Steve Neale and Richard Dyer. 

DISTRIBUTING INDIE FILMS

OUR FILM POSTER

We have had very positive feedback about this poster, and we believe this poster will be instrumental in attracting our target audience and our film becoming a success. We will also put our poster on our Facebook, twitter, Instagram and our webpage. However like everything, nothing is perfect. Some of our feedback stated that we needed to include some social media advertisement logo's. For example Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat. As a distribution company we leaked another copy of your film poster showing our social media icons that we feature on. 

In order to address and attract our audience, we have used a variety of social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. The reason for we have included these social media websites is because all of them have been used by us in the process of distributing our film. 

SHOT LIST

CHARACTER INTERVIEW

In our character interview, we used Xander as if it was in the future. We did this to show how his career had progressed and developed over time. We then used myself to question him about various aspects of his participation in our film ‘9’. The questions that were asked ranged from ‘What was your main motivation in life?’ and ‘What has been your biggest achievement in life?’ By doing this it added a sense of realism to our film by showing Xander in his representation. To showcase our character interview I used my research from ‘New Technologies’ and uploaded it onto Youtube.