During the case study i learned that there were many different ways sony used cross media convergence and synergy to promote their movie. sony pictures used CMC with record labels and asked to have eminem make a song for the movie venom. the song was literally called “Venom.” and by releasing action figures of venom that is a form of synergy they promoted the film them selfs and the also promote their own products that the company also owns like for instance Sony also owns Plays Station 4 and in the movie venom they used a ps4 in the movie that is another form of synergy because it is their own product.

I also learned that a lot of movies will market really hard over seas and try to get ticket sales higher over seas then they will domestically. they make posters and advertise by having the actors post on their social media accounts. there would be trailers on different websites to promote the movie and also on youtube. so this is what I have learned in the case studies.

For our equipment list we will be using a iphone camera, a microphone hooked up to the phone and i will need someone to hold the microphone i place, we also need lights im working on getting the lights on amazon right now so we should have those ready to go before we start filming. my group is also going to need a tripod which will hold my camera still so we don’t have to hold the camera with our hand. with the tripod it will stay still. i need different lens that i can put on my phone i need to get that on amazon as well. for right now i think that’s all we need. but i will talk with my group and see what other equipment that we might need.

so the story boards were the main focus for us today because we had to get it done we all had different ideas of what we wanted so it was hard for us to decide which ones we wanted and we still aren’t even sure of we are going to use that story board we just needed something to turn in because I feel like our ideas will change and that over time we will need to make changes to improve the film.

so we can change the story boards just like we did with the script and even now the script can still improve. I believe anything can improve because if everything was perfect then you would not be able to learn and this is all a learning process for us so I feel like even if we do bad now at least we will know not what to do and we will have the knowledge and the techniques. so now we just need to incorporate everything that we learned and for me its not going to take one time to get it perfect in fact I don’t know if I can ever perfect something then I wouldn’t be able to learn if it was perfect and I like learning so I believe after a few times of shooting a film I could get it down but it will have to come with a lot of practice.

at the beginning of the week we were working on the case studies and I did most of it over the weekend but I had trouble with adding stuff into the power point like clips of the film so I had to learn that but besides that I was good with the word press but I really had to fix the script so we fixed it we made it simpler and we also made it grammatically correct. I personally had trouble with the set up of a scrip so I had to learn that and fix it which I did.

I also had to work on story boards and plan out how we going to make the shot. It is good to plan it all out before we actually film but the hard part Is controlling my group and making everyone work hard on this but the thing is we all have different interpretations of what way should make the film so it is kind of hard to collarborate that way but I’m working on it, we will get it done for sure but we all have ideas and not all can be done that is the only tricky part.

so we have to do a power point on a film case study about one of the big six film companies and my group chose Sony and the movie we are doing the study on is one of their new movies Venom. it came out in 2018 and we have to research on stuff like how they marketed the film and learn about how the company got to where it is at in this point in time. how much the company is worth. and who the president is and also how much it cost to make the movie and how much money they got back from the box office. and i’m excited to research this because this lets us be a little creative but we still have steps that we have to follow and it tells us what we have to research and then we are going to have to present in front of the class which i’m fine with because in my other classes i’m usually am the one that has to present.

I’ve been practicing talking in front of people so i don’t really get scared but my power point still needs to be good because i don’t like when i see other people having better presentations than me because i know very well that if i am confident then and if i put a lot of time into this that i should have a great presentation and i want my class mates to see my presentation and think that i worked hard on this because i’m going to try my best on this.

my group and I had to fix our script because the formatting was wrong and the dialogue was kind of vague so the we had to rewrite some of the lines that we wrote and make it more interesting. i was mainly having trouble making the dialogue and actually make it interesting because i repeat myself and i have to work on being repetitive and just let the scrip flow smoothly. i started formatting the script and i looked at all the notes that you wrote on the original script to help me so i keep looking at the script so i can make the script look better and make the dialogue better than it was before. and i have to work on character development. I need to make the characters that we make up more relate able and believable i would like to see the audience being able to connect to the characters. My group and I also have to story board i have one location that we can use but we have two different scenes so i need to find the other scene.

i can Vinson some of the scenes that me and my group have come up with but it is hard to make it come to life like i can picture it perfect in my head but when it comes to filming i have trouble so i need practice filming what i picture in my head we have to story board everything that we have written in the scenes so we know what we are doing. hopefully me and my group can pull this off and make a good little film because i think the concept is a good idea we just need to make the script good and execute the script when we film so it turns out to be a good film.

in my third blog entry i will be talking about the problems i have had this week coming up with ideas for what kind of props we should use in the scenes that. i am still figuring what kind of equipment we need to film like what kind of mics we need and what kind of props we are going to need for the scenes i have came up with some props but not a lot. 

• wireless mics 
• lights 
• handcuffs 
• chairs
• tables

i want to start of with an close up of the actor in a chair and then dolly out and show the location of where the scene is going to take place. i want to do the close up to show the expression of the actor and shows the audience the actors emotion and feeling and then we can use a medium close up so you can also see the actor and other surroundings. i need to work on the dialogue for the script but we have the whole idea planed out so when we get the dialogue we will start doing the story board and once we finish with all that then we will start filming. we might do a dutch angle to show how big of a problem this situation that that actor is in and he must defend himself. there will be other suspects but the sheriffs department think they have their guy but they have other people the have to interview and see who is guilty.  

hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. my group and I have changed our idea for our script so instead of making a horror we are making a drama and suspense now. we were going to go with Jose’s idea for horror but then Demetrius came up with an idea that was a good drama and was suspenseful and that we all agree on. its is going to be about a murder crime so you can say it is going to be a mystery as well. when a detective is interviewing  a suspect that is thought to be the murderer by the detective. his is trying to get the suspect to give him information and the suspect is basically telling his whole side of the story . the location we are trying to use is an office but we can change it if we have to we are still discussing where we want the film to take place. as a group we need to come up with all the props we need to be bale to make this a food film and the way we imagine it to be in our head. it is easy to come up with something in your head and then hard to actually create it and make it in real life. so i feel like when we figure everything out and make our story board we will be able to film  

through out this whole week we have been working on creating our first blog and then we started working on our final project. while we have been working on the script we have been struggling with coming up with character names and what they are going to be saying. we have already figured out what the concept is going to be about. As a group we have to come up with with where we are going to film. and we have made a list of equipment that we need to get for shooting this film. we all started brain storming ideas and i came up with an idea of using a drone and it would start as a medium shot the drone would fly up and the actor would move further away it would turn into an extreme long shot. as directors we have to know how to do blocking so we can tell actors how how to stand and where to stand. i also want to make it colored themed so we can make the audience feel a certain way. we chose horror and i feel like our group can get really creative when we are filming and it will be very suspenseful for the audience i want the audience to want to see more when they are done watching a small part of the film.