Sixth Sense (1999)
In this scene Dr. Malcolm and Cole have a therapy session. They play a game where Dr. Malcolm asks Cole things and if he gets it right Cole moves closer to the chair and he has to sit down if he reaches the chair, but if Dr. Malcolm gets them wrong Cole moves near the door and can leave when he reaches it. I thought this would be a good scene to watch as the opening of our main task is a therapy session and this helped me get allot of ideas of the kinds of camera shots to use and where the sound would fit in.
When the scene starts there is no sound. We can then hear the key come trough the door and Cole walks in and the door closes.
There is also dialogue of Dr. Malcolm and Cole speaking
Music starts to play when Dr. Malcolm starts to them wrong. The music is mysterious as the audience thinks that Cole is going to sit down but as soon as Dr. Malcolm gets them wrong the music starts to play which leaves us all confused so the music fits into the scene. In the first picture there is a medium shot used. This is a good shot used to the opening of that scene as it shows who is sitting down (Coles mum and Dr. Malcolm) but also the setting they are in, we can see they are in the living room. In the background we can see that Cole walks in the door and they both look at him which shows they were waiting for him. They have also used a medium shot of Cole and Dr. Malcolm's face. This shows the distance between them which is key to the scene as the closer they get the closer the shot is, but as soon as Dr. Malcolm gets them wrong Cole moves back and as you can see in the last picture Cole is back to where he started. we can also see the expression on Dr. Malcolm's face as the closer Cole gets to the chair Dr. Malcolm starts to smile more as he is getting trough to him but the last picture shows he is confused as he started to get the scenarios wrong.
In this scene they have used close up shot a few times. They have used a close up shot of Coles shoes when he walks closer to the chair to show that Dr. Malcolm is getting them right. The close up shot shows that this is important and a key feature to the scene. They have also used a close up shot of the watch as Dr. Malcolm assumes that Coles dad gave it to him. This shot helps us see that the little boy is wearing a men's watch. They have also used shot reverse shot to Cole and Dr. Malcolm as they speak to each other.
From this scene we can see that Dr. Malcolm is dressed very smart in a suit and it well groomed. From this i can assume that he has a good job and as it he loos like he takes pride in what he wears and dressed smart he must be of a high status.
Titles

The credits start with two of the production company logo (Hollywood Production and Spy Glass Entertainment); these both fade in and fade out to the next production logo. After the production logo’s the titles begin as they fade in, the first title introduces with who is presenting the film then with a fade in the main actor Bruce Willis is introduced and this last 3 seconds until but slowly fades out. Then it fades into the film title The Sixth Sense and this last for another 3 seconds while it slowly fades out. After that 4 of the other main characters names fade in for 3 seconds each and then two actors at a time come in as they have a smaller part in the film. The titles then do the same transactions bur for; casted by, costume designer, music by, edited by, production designer, director of photography, executive producer, produced by, written and directed by and then it fades into a black screen and then the film starts. Throughout the titles the sound is very mysterious as the film is a psychological horror drama film so it fits in with the genre.
The film that we used as our inspiration was The Sixth Sense. Our film is very similar to The Sixth Sense which is why we thought we would use the way they have created the titles and the music they have used for our film. The Sixth Sense credits start with two of the production company logo (Hollywood Production and Spy Glass Entertainment); these both fade in and fade out to the next production logo. After the production logo’s the titles begin as they fade in, the first title introduces with who is presenting the film then with a fade in the main actor Bruce Willis is introduced and this last 3 seconds until but slowly fades out. Then it fades into the film title The Sixth Sense and this last for another 3 seconds while it slowly fades out. After that 4 of the other main characters names fade in for 3 seconds each and then two actors at a time come in as they have a smaller part in the film. The titles then do the same tractions bur for; casted by, costume designer, music by, edited by, production designer, director of photography, executive producer, produced by, written and directed by and then it fades into a black screen and then the film starts. Throughout the titles the sound is very mysterious as the film is a psychological horror drama film so it fits in with the genre. For our film we have done our titles very similar. We have put our production company at the beginning that we created ourselves. The next title is the production company and the picture company. The next 6 titles are of the main characters of our film, then the next 2 titles are of other people in our film but they do not play a big part so we have put two names on one slide. The next titles are of ; casted by, costume designer, music by, edited by, production designer, director of photography, executive producer, produced by. We added them titles in as The Sixth Sense did too. The font or our titles is very similar to The Sixth Sense as they are in capitals, very simple and not too big. The background of our titles are black and the colour of our font it also white. We made sure that our titles fade into each other for the 4 seconds too. The title of the film for The Sixth Sense comes in at the beginning of the film but we put the title of our film at the end as we thought it made more sense.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product? (Ruhela Begum)
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The character that we were using as a template from The Sixth Sense movie was Dr Malcolm Crowe. From watching the movie and looking at how Dr Malcolm is dressed we created our main character Joe Morgan. We have dressed Joe in smart clothing just like Dr Malcolm. We have made sure that Joe is well groomed to keep up with the high status he is. As out film is more modern than The Sixth Sense, when we dressed Joe we made the clothing more modern as we used a t-shirt instead of a shirt and tighter trousers. The audience will be able to identify the wealth Joe is from the smart clothing and how groomed he is. Dr Malcolm has a very high status, a very good job and a lot of money. We wanted our main character to reflect that with the clothing that Dr Malcolm wears.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
This is a group of teenagers. They are female and male and their ages are between (17-19). Some of these teenagers go to sixth form and some attend university. The majority of these teenagers have a part time job and with the money they earn they all like to do activities together such as go to the cinema, go out to eat etc. They all have their own interests but share many common ones as a group.
Our audience profile for Remembrance would mostly appeal to teenagers and adults (15+). As our film is a drama, mystery thriller the younger years would not be able to watch this as it is not suitable for their age group. Men will mainly be attracted to this film as it is a thriller and has some action scenes in the film and is a thriller which they would enjoy. This film may appeal to women as there is an emotional side to it. This film will be appropriate for teenagers as there is minimal bad language. This will attract teenagers a lot as it is a thriller and teenagers love watching films like this one with a group of friends. is a group of teenagers which who like to watch a wide range off film genres. Our film would appeal to them a lot as it is a thriller which a big group of teens would like to go see together. As our film has an emotional side that will appeal to the girls more but we also the thriller and scary side will appeal to the boys and girls but the boys more.
How did you attract/address your audience?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLB9_o_urao
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main product?
The film that we used as our inspiration was The Sixth Sense. Our film is very similar to The Sixth Sense which is why we thought we would use the way they have created the titles and the music they have used for our film. The Sixth Sense credits start with two of the production company logo (Hollywood Production and Spy Glass Entertainment); these both fade in and fade out to the next production logo. After the production logo’s the titles begin as they fade in, the first title introduces with who is presenting the film then with a fade in the main actor Bruce Willis is introduced and this last 3 seconds until but slowly fades out. Then it fades into the film title The Sixth Sense and this last for another 3 seconds while it slowly fades out. After that 4 of the other main characters names fade in for 3 seconds each and then two actors at a time come in as they have a smaller part in the film. The titles then do the same tractions bur for; casted by, costume designer, music by, edited by, production designer, director of photography, executive producer, produced by, written and directed by and then it fades into a black screen and then the film starts. Throughout the titles the sound is very mysterious as the film is a psychological horror drama film so it fits in with the genre. For our film we have done our titles very similar. We have put our production company at the beginning that we created ourselves. The next title is the production company and the picture company. The next 6 titles are of the main characters of our film, then the next 2 titles are of other people in our film but they do not play a big part so we have put two names on one slide. The next titles are of ; casted by, costume designer, music by, edited by, production designer, director of photography, executive producer, produced by. We added them titles in as The Sixth Sense did too. The font or our titles is very similar to The Sixth Sense as they are in capitals, very simple and not too big. The background of our titles are black and the colour of our font it also white. We made sure that our titles fade into each other for the 4 seconds too. The title of the film for The Sixth Sense comes in at the beginning of the film but we put the title of our film at the end as we thought it made more sense.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Hello. I
am Ruhela Begum an a level media student at The Howard School and I will be
talking about intuitions within our film. This is our production company that
we created ourselves. We thought this would be a good production name to use as
there is a lot off unusual pictures that go with the name, we did make this
picture ourselves so we thought of a name that linked in with the picture.
After this we included the production name again but also ‘Dreamland Pictures’
as many films add more than one production company involved. We set this out
exactly the same as the sixth sense as we used this film as our template.
Hollywood pictures and Spyglass studios would be very appropriate for our film
as they produced Sixth Sense which is very similar to our film. A distributor
is in charge of marketing of the film, an appropriate distributor would be
Bandur Film who are very popular with thrillers. As Bandur Film
is a
American
company,
our film will reach a large
audience
as they are very popular.
What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product? (Ruhela Begum)
YouTube - YouTube was not used too much compared to everything else, but we used YouTube to upload our film so people can see what they think of it but we also had to upload our audience feedback so i could post it on our Blog. We did use YouTube to search for music to use in our film but instead we used a copyright free website.
Blogger - Blogger was used a lot. We used blogger to upload anything that needed to be uploaded for example any tasks out teacher set and anything that needed to be done for our main task e.g 9 frame analysis, shot schedule, shot lost, location shot etc. We also used blogger to look at our classmates work and give any feedback, we also looked at our teachers blog to see what needed to be done and any comments made on our posts.
Photoshop - I used Photoshop to combined pictures together for all my 9 frame analysis. Me and Jodie also created our own production company, when making this we used Photoshop to create the image and put everything together.
Sony Vegas Pro 11 - Sony Vegas was used to edit our film. We used this software because we thought it would be an upgrade for where we used Windows Movie Maker. We thought this program offered a lot more different elements that would look good when putting our film together. Having everything we needed in this one program we thought it was very useful and made it very easy for us to use.
Computer - We used the computer for everything. We used it to assess all the website needed for our task, and all the software's we needed to use. We also used it to save anything that we needed or worked on, any research we did etc.
Nikon Coolpix Camera - The Nikon Coolpix camera is my own camera that we used to film our films. We used this camera as it was high quality. As this was my own camera it made it easier for me to be able to assess anything when i needed from it as it was at home. If i used a school camera then i would have to wait and it would be less convenientHow does your media product represent particular social groups?
The character that we were using as a template from The Sixth Sense movie was Dr Malcolm Crowe. From watching the movie and looking at how Dr Malcolm is dressed we created our main character Joe Morgan. We have dressed Joe in smart clothing just like Dr Malcolm. We have made sure that Joe is well groomed to keep up with the high status he is. As out film is more modern than The Sixth Sense, when we dressed Joe we made the clothing more modern as we used a t-shirt instead of a shirt and tighter trousers. The audience will be able to identify the wealth Joe is from the smart clothing and how groomed he is. Dr Malcolm has a very high status, a very good job and a lot of money. We wanted our main character to reflect that with the clothing that Dr Malcolm wears.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
This is a group of teenagers. They are female and male and their ages are between (17-19). Some of these teenagers go to sixth form and some attend university. The majority of these teenagers have a part time job and with the money they earn they all like to do activities together such as go to the cinema, go out to eat etc. They all have their own interests but share many common ones as a group.
Our audience profile for Remembrance would mostly appeal to teenagers and adults (15+). As our film is a drama, mystery thriller the younger years would not be able to watch this as it is not suitable for their age group. Men will mainly be attracted to this film as it is a thriller and has some action scenes in the film and is a thriller which they would enjoy. This film may appeal to women as there is an emotional side to it. This film will be appropriate for teenagers as there is minimal bad language. This will attract teenagers a lot as it is a thriller and teenagers love watching films like this one with a group of friends. is a group of teenagers which who like to watch a wide range off film genres. Our film would appeal to them a lot as it is a thriller which a big group of teens would like to go see together. As our film has an emotional side that will appeal to the girls more but we also the thriller and scary side will appeal to the boys and girls but the boys more.
How did you attract/address your audience?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLB9_o_urao
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the main product?
With our preliminary task we set our film in school. I thought this did not worked well as the setting did not match the genre and story line of our film. You could clearly tell that it was filmed in a school as people kept walking past, there was computers in the background and a lot of people were talking in the background too. In our main task our setting was a lot better. We set our film in a house which went very well with our film and as the house we used was very modern and big, this matched our storyline a lot better and made the audience understand the characters a lot more. As our preliminary was a horror we wanted the actors to wear dull dark clothing to match the genre, but the actors all looked different to one another and put them out of character. The way we dressed our characters in the main film helped the audience understand who was who and what their role was. We dressed both our main characters in smart clothing which put them in character. When watching our main film back I think it will also help the characters understand what is going on in the film a lot better than the preliminary task. In the preliminary task we did not have a lot of dialogue but with the few bits of dialogue we did have the sound was very poor as we were in school and there was a lot of noise in the background and people talking which made it hard for us to understand what was said. Also the camera work was very boring and poor. When we were filming we used the same camera shots which made it very boring to watch but when we were filming the camera was shaking a lot and looked very messy. In the main task we used a variety of shots and the camera work was very clean and the quality was a lot better. In the preliminary task our editing was very messy. We did not know to edit very well so everything looked like it did not go together. With our main task we used a wide range of transactions, music etc. which made our film come together and looked very clean.






















