Voiceovers - Institutions

• Consider how your film might reach a wider audience - how might it be promoted? Compare with similar existing films - how did they do it?
• Independent films have different marketing strategies from mainstream ones
• Research UK film distributors- some are associated with certain film genres/themes. Use the films on this blog - what can you find out about these distributors?
• How could you use the internet to promote your film? Check the link to Moviemaker (top left of the blog)

Voiceovers - comments on progression

As well as discussing the development of your familiarity and confidence with using the camera, Final Cut, Livetype, Soundtrack, blogging and so on - you will also have learned a lot about the 'artistic' side of filming & editing. Eg - how to tell a story - how to create particular effects by placing shots next to each other, how to build pace and tension; how to film using interesting angles and a variety of shots, when to use a close up and so on.

Voice overs: - Comments on genre

If you have made a genre film make sure you discuss the codes and conventions of the genre and whether you have tried to reinforce these conventions or subvert them. These could be conventions of setting, or character, or weapons, or narrative for example.

Audiences have expectations about films - often based on genre. Audiences like repeated elements - eg in a slasher film people (often women) have to die bloody deaths, in a romance a couple should end up together. However audiences also like films to have new elements, otherwise all films would be exactly the same. So in a slasher film having two killers or a female killer would be subverting the conventions.

Character representation: You could discuss characters representations being stereotypical of the genre, and/or that you are reinforcing social gender stereotypes.

You will find that you have covered several of the evaluation points this way - 1, 2,5