Aice Media Studies Blog

For our film, there were many different distribution ideas. Since our film is a scary movie, the audience is going to mainly wanna see merchandise that they will relate to and like. The younger group of kids would want to see phone cases, posters, t-shirts, stickers, pop figures(character figures) etc. The more they can use it, the more reason for them to buy it. We would want a more of a younger audience to buy our merchandise and reply to our advertisements. If we were distributing our product to young teens and the audience then we would advertise our movie through social media such as snap chat, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Those are the main networks that people use to communicate these days so if our product went through one of those four accounts then the distribution would spread. For example, people watch TV all day, every day around the world ,so the main target is to get the trailer in commercial form. When advertising on television, you don't want to give a...

The Conjuring 2 is an example of this as their film budget had a production budget of $40 million and was produced by New Line Cinema. The Conjuring 2 was released on June 10, 2016 and has a domestic total gross of $102,470,008. The film made $40,406,314 during opening weekend in 3,343 theaters. The film stayed in theaters for 11 weekends from June 10th to August 25th, 2016 and had a worldwide gross of $320,392,818 in 41 different countries. The movie then became available on streaming services such as HBO Go, Netflix, and Vudu.  Overall, The Conjuring 2 generated lots of money mostly from box office sales but continues to receive money from different streaming services.The New Line release nearly matched the first “Conjuring’s” $41.9 million debut, but its $40 million price tag is nearly double what its predecessor cost to make. It made short work of the weekend’s other contenders. With “Conjuring 2” dominating ticket sales, Legendary and Universal’s “Warcraft” settled for second ...

For our storyboard we had to revise it and change the layout of the scenes. Since I drew the first storyboard I resketched it and showed what we have decided to change our film to. In the first storyboard you can see the difference, it has a little bit different plot and climax because instead of me going into the water and getting wet we decided to have it where I get kidnapped instead because it was more realistic to be thrown in the back of the trunk instead of being called into the ice cold water. Not just that it was super windy again by the water and we didn't want to get that sound problem again and it was pretty cold. I believe that the scenes came out clear and better because the sound and the flow of the scenes are better. Before:  After: 

From watching the Super Bowl commercials in class, me and my group both decided that the new Doritos and Mountain Dew commercial, the Alexa loses her voice commercial, the Skittles commercial, and the Crocodile Dundee commercial targeted similar audiences as we are. The target audience for these commercials are mostly the younger generations. In the Doritos and Mountain Dew commercial, it is starring popular actors such as Morgan Freeman and Peter Dinklage; both are famous in many movies in all targeted audiences. It has Peter Dinklage lip singing to an older famous rapper, Busta Rhymes, and Morgan Freeman is lip singing to another famous older generation singer, Missy Elliot. Those that were born in the 1990s and up, grew up listening to the famous hits from those two singers/rappers. It targeted not only my younger generation but also 20 year olds. In the commercial where Alexa loses her voice, it has more well-known famous people, for example, it has big time chef, Gordon Ramsey; ...

We decided to re shoot our film because the sound quality and camera shots weren't that great. The film was still shot at Siesta Key but instead of doing it at the pier we decided to do it at the main beach area. there were a lot of people there but we still got some good shots that we got. the camera and sound quality was a lot better and believe that this one will turn out better than the first. We also changed the scenes and script because it was more improv and didn't want to go into the cold water that day so i was kidnapped instead of being drawn into the water. We even used the old plot about the girls going missing, but instead of going to the water and disappearing, I was kidnapped and thrown into the back off a trunk. This was a better area to film because it was more designated and ha more features in the background. And that day was not as windy and the sound came out.

The Lost Shot 1: Canted angle of girl hanging missing posters. Shot 2: Mid- shot of Rachel sitting at the table waiting for Shane. Shot 3: Mid-shot of Rachel hugging Shane when they meet up. Shot 4: Mid- shot of Shane and Rachel talking about school. Shot 5: High angle of girl giving them the missing posters Shot 6: Over the shoulder of Rachel looking at the missing poster and asking Shane about it Shot 7: Close-up of Lt. Daniels phone call Shot 8: Zoom out, mid shot of Shane taking the phone call and walking away Shot 9: Close up of Rachel playing on her phone and accepting phone call from Shane Shot 10: Long shot of Rachel walking to car Shot 11: Close up, mid shot of Rachel being thrown into the car

Since the first movie shot didn't go so well with the sound, we decided to re shoot the film to get a more clear sound. When we arrived to Siesta Key, we were talking and decided that we wanted to change a couple of scenes. Instead of dealing with the wind and the freezing cold water we just stayed at the tables in front of the pavilion so we were surrounded by solid objects. Instead of me going into the water because some thing called me in there, we made it more realistic and collaborated with me getting kidnapped instead. Since we didn't have another guy to shove me in the trunk of the car, my brother took off his hat and shirt so he could look different from behind and be the "kidnapper". The script also changed a lot , but we still had the same concept about the brother and sister not seeing each other for a long time and that they were catching up on everything at the beach. They talked about school, then boys. The brother is actually a cop that supposedly had t...