Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to full product?

The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug

The sequel to the 2012 Jackson film, The Hobbit. Based of the novel by J. R. R. Tolkein.


Director: Peter Jackson
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures
Producers: Carolynne Cunningham; Zane Weiner; Fran Walsh; Peter Jackson.


Budget: $225 million.


Opening weekend: $73,645,197.
US Total Gross: $258,366,855
UK Total Gross: $70,275,514


DVD Release: April 7th, 2014


The Hobbit 2's trailer came out on youtube on the 1st of October, only a few months before the film its self was released, and up to date has around 5.2 million views.


The Hobbit 2 is the 4th highest grossing film of 2013 and 24th of all time having made a worldwide total of $953,066,855 and comes just after Harry Potter 7. The Hobbit 2 comes 7 places lower than the first Hobbit did.


The film didn't receive amazing critical success, achieving no awards.


While this film came out about 5-6 months ago it is still being shown on 48,488 screens at 5,382 cinemas in the United States and Canada.

My Brother The Devil

It is a UK film based in London about 2 brothers growing up in Hackney, living lives revolving around the London gang scene.

Director/Writer: Sally El Hoasaini
Production co: Rook Nest Entertainment, Wild Horses Film Company.

Distributors: 108 Media (2012, Canada), Paladin (II) (2012, USA), Verve Pictures (2012, UK).

Budget: £650,000 (raised through private investors)

Opening Weekend: UK- £44,833 (57 screens).

US- $10,305 (Dispite it only being on 2 screens). This was the majority of the grossing this film made in the US.


DVD releases were on the 18 March, 2013.

Distribution: Trailer on YouTube (288,428 views), Trailer on Trailer Addict (2,703 Views)
 

Awards:

Won Best Actor - James Floyd at Milan Film Festival.

Won Grand Jury Award at LA Outfest.

Won Best European Film (Europa Cinemas Label Award) at Berlinale.

Won Best Newcomer - Sally El Hosaini at BFI London Film Festival.

Won Best Cinematography at Sundance Film Festival.


It has also had a re-release on Sky Movies and is available to watch on demand too.

Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of creating this product

Question 5 - How did you attract/adress your audience?

Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Photoshop - Fixing up photos

I caught a good picture of a girl i wanted to use in the magazine but she had a bit of a slip...

and so she wanted me to cover over it, making the picture look as if the top was fully covering her. To do this i had to use the brush tool and also the eyedropper tool in order to get the right colours. I was also asked if i could covver over the necklace, for which i again needed the brush and eyedropper tool but i also had to blur over the neck to make it all blend together.

 

This is the end result.

Photoshop - Adjusting hue and saturation.

In order to get on of the peopl in the band to have redish hair i needed to select their hair and use the enhance to adjust the saturation of their hair to make it look redder.

I also followed this process on the cover to make her hair look redder.