Teddy bear’s Picnic- Reflective Analysis.

Reflective Analysis

 

In our film Sequence, ‘The Teddy Bear’s Picnic’ I was allocated the role of director and co-editor. The main aspects I concentrated on were the story line and the Non-diagetic sound. I had an overall aim from the start to create a dividing line between these two aspects, a line which then creates a very strong juxtaposition to contribute more meaning.

            Before filming when we’re was all just developing idea I wanted to use non-diagetic sound of one meaning over video with a totally different meaning. This was to create a disturbing opening sequence and to also create more meaning and to gain a response from the audience. The whole opening sequence that was filmed is now shown to have the song ‘The Teddy Bear’s Picnic’ playing all the way through, after the process of different editing and decision making we decided this fitted best. The reason I had decided to do this was to create a very powerful juxtaposition to disturb the viewer. When hearing the music many people are reminded of happy childhood memories or stories they were told when they were young. Separately, if they were to see the video with no non-diagetic sound it’s would just be a story and fairly confusing. It would have meaning but nothing with the power to create a response from the audience.  The non-diagetic sound when added to the video adds a lot more to the sequence in my opinion; it creates the juxtaposition in the two parts. The music now has a totally different effect on the audience and then creates more response. The audience can now see the footage of a girl killing which is read by the mind as bad and something that we as humans associate with being wrong. This footage then played with a song someone would associate with happiness and childhood not only gets more of a response it messes with their minds. The audience is seeing something which they are not sure how to perceive, they aren’t sure if it’s supposed to please and create nostalgia of supposed to upset and disturb. I think my opening sequence not only creates a response its plays with the viewer’s emotions, they are emotionally confused by what they are seeing and hearing. This can be bad and I think on some viewers it will completely lose its effect due to the confusion, which I have witnessed with a few people laughing at the non-diagetic sound with the video. They couldn’t understand the juxtaposition and therefore couldn’t compress the two opposite meanings to create one whole meaning. I feel my role had a strong impact on the outcome of the opening sequence, from reading the viewers comments the music seemed to be the part that many found the most disturbing. When editing we all agreed that it was the best choice to play the music all the way through. Before this we had a series of different edits with music starting a finishing in different places, we also had different edits of the music which had been cut up and placed in different places. The overall decision was that the song in it original from, although slowed down a few BPM had the most impact due to its relation to peoples childhood memories.

            I have learnt a lot from this experience and gained a lot more knowledge about how to film. In my personal opinion I think the film could be so much better, there are lots of things I have missed out and certain things I know I could have done better. For my first film I am pleased but now, I have a lot more knowledge to make something better. For example the one thing I true missed out on was the different types of shots, when story boarding it all I was to lost in telling the story and not how to tell it. When we filmed, we only really filmed something a second time if the first was wrong, we never went back and shot it from a different angle or tried to get a close up. Being the director I found it very difficult to place what I saw in my head onto camera, I do feel as though because it was my idea took to much control over some things. When we were filming I could see some shots that I wanted but couldn’t get because of time and the fear of taking over. If I was to do this again I would definitely want to be the cameraman as well as being director. Being an amateur photographer I have some knowledge of framing and how to capture an image in its best form, obviously it has its differences but I still think I would suit this role a lot more.

 

 

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Photo Shoot Summary

The photo shoot i feel went very well, i gained a good 20 images that we’re fit for use. These are the 3 main pictures i have settled on using. The first Is my front cover, It’s what i had planned from day one. I referred back to my drafts and initial ideas to see what i originally had planned and what ideas i had. It was good to do this because it reminded me of what i had planned out, to be totally honest i was just going to go into the shoot and take pictures without planning my shots or referring back to my plans. The second picture i am going to use for my contents page, it’s a lot more informal and has a nice colour to then create a theme throughout the page. Of all the pictures, this one i am most proud of. When i first started working with photoshop i knew basically nothing, now i feel so much more confident and this picture is evidence of that. The editing was an action i created, which i then used on a series of other images, which i shall use on the other pages of my magazine. The final Photograph will be used for my double page spread, this was also an idea i had planned from the start. I wanted to keep the sky as a background to make it a lot easier to place the text on the page. I used the landscape format to make it easier to place over the 2 pages.

Music Magazine Publishers

 

Kerrang and ‘Q’ – Published by

‘The Bauer Media Group.’

After doing some research i have decided the if my magazine was to be published the Bauer media group would fit the institution that would publish this sort of magazine. The Bauer media group are a German company with offices in any countries. The are the publisher of magazines such as Kerrang and Q, seen as my magazine is a slight mix between these two concepts i think this institution seems appropriate. In my personal opinion i do think that my magazine ha the right presentation to be a self published media text. The magazine concept is very individual in the ways it challenges conventions and leads the way to attract the sub genres of music, a niche audience but still and audience that i feel would only have this option to gain the most out of their favoured artists and music style.

IPC Media

IPC media are the leading magazine publisher in the UK and sell over 350 million copies of magazines a year. NME one of the other main music magazines that would be closest linked to my media text is published by IPC media. Although IPC are the leading publisher i don’t think this ‘brand’ would take on a magazine such as mine, the concept  and the individual personality that my magazine has would not be be something this publisher would like. In their terms i personally think i would qualify of enough of a cash comeback. IPC tend to aim in more less specific direction, for example they have a magazine called ‘Women’. From the title you can see that their audience isn’t a certain crowd, its a whole gender.

Other magazines like Rock sound which i must admit is a magazine i missed in my research, is a self published magazine that doesn’t have a major leading institution it is completely self reliant. The magazine it’s self is a lot like kerrang but a little more open to new music, this is close to my magazine and probably more of a rival than kerrang. After looking at this magazine a little more i realised that my magazine would be a very good some what ‘spin off’ from this magazine. If it was to make to an institution of them all i think ‘Rock Sound LTD’ would be the best institution to publish my magazine.

Teady Bear’s Picnic- Finished AS Film Project.

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Second Front Cover Draft.

After looking at my first draft of my front cover and gaining some feedback  from peers and my tutors, i realised there was a few clear errors and dislikes about the draft. The colour was the main feature of these problems, me personally and other people commented on the style and the impeding P.O.V. The direct eye contact was a strong dislike, many people commented that it looked very intimidating and slightly aggressive, for a magazine like kerrang this would fit but for my magazine its not the sort of thing i want. I proceeded to then make a second with a different picture but mostly the same styles around it. A few changes were made to the style but eventually i found something i am half pleased with.

The reason i haven’t been continuing with contents and double page spread is that i have still not yet taken my photographs. I plan to do them this week end and shall then continue with my magazine contents and double page spread.

Mast head font i’m still not 100% on. I don’t think this will be like the final i will use, the font was one on the hardest dicisions i had to make, in the pdf i have loads of different fronts i messed with. i still need to decide.

Disney/ Pixar Case Study

After researching into Disney and Pixar it has become very clear that Pixar are needed strongly by Disney. Pixar have sold out many cinemas due to their amazing quality and revolutionary animation. Disney alone have not had a box office hit in a long time, Pixar were the company taking the lime light. Pixar were a massive rival for disney, so the only way to keep the business and to make something from it was to buy them out.

http://www.ndstory.com/origins/wdorigins.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World

Walt Disney World Resort is the most visited and largest recreational resort in the world, containing four theme parks; two water parks; twenty-three themed hotels; and numerous shopping, dining, entertainment and recreation venues. Owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts segment of The Walt Disney Company, it is located southwest of Orlando, Florida. The property is often abbreviated Walt Disney World, Disney World or WDW.

It was founded, oct 16th 1923 as an animation studio, then some who they worked with baught there ideas. the walt decided if there was to be any more ideas they would be owned by him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disney_Company

Market cap	$ 57 billion (2008)
Revenue	$ 35.51 billion (2007)
Operating income	$ 7.827 billion (2007)
Net income	$ 3.832 billion (2007)

Disney is not just a company, it’s a brand. People all over the world recognise the name.

Oct 16th 1923- First cartoon made about a girl in a wonderland, ‘Alices wonderland

The reality behind disney is close to Walts quotes, I visited Disney land a few years ago i was long past my Disney years and long past the days of watching Disney films.

“It has that thing, the imagination and the feeling of happy excitement i knew when i was a kid.”

I agree with this Disney quote, age becomes a minor fact when you are there everything doesn’t seem to be as it is. The reason being that most people are there to enjoy themselves, no one who wouldn’t want to go would be there, there for the Park contains an atmosphere. As I’ve got older and grown to understand the media and institutions more i can definitely see that money was a very strong aspect behind the park. The reality is that the park makes money and although this may have been a dream and desire of Walt Disney, now, its all about making money and i think this was realized after the first 10 years of being open.

“By 1965, ten years after opening day, 50 Million visitors had come through the gates.”

The opening of Disney land was a complete disaster, a 15 day heat wave and a plumbing strike meant that the hear was around 110 F  and only a select few of the water fountains were working. This came close to ruining the park and it then took ten years for the park to pick up. Since that date in 65 i think Walt then realized that this was the cash cow that would keep giving, this being the reason i don’t agree with his statement about making money.

Disney will stay with any one through out there life and Disney land is a way of capturing that, parents will enjoy and any one of any age will enjoy it, Walt had the idea and the imagination to make it work.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?id=vs-pixar.htm

Incredibles (2004)

Domestic gross- $261. 4 m

Production Budget- $92 m

Finding Nemo (2003)

Domestic gross- $399.714 m

Production budget- $94