Audience and Institution Practice Essay.

Question: How does funding impact media products?

          For my essay I will be discussing the impact of funding on media products.                                     Many popular movies made recently consist of huge budgets and big-time movie actors. Most of the time millions of dollars go into making the movies. But the spending isn’t just for the production or the actors it is also for promoting the movie. Whether a movie does good or not all depends on the budget provided by the companies.

      I would like to start this paragraph of- by analyzing the movie fast and furious 7. It was made by Universal Pictures in 2014.This movie was given a budget of 190 million USD .They made merchandise such as T shirts, water bottles, hats and posters. The main characters in the movies were also put on vibe magazine. Which not only promoting the movie but also promoted the actors. There was even a video game made for the movie. Paul Walker had died in the making of the movie so they had to use expensive CGI effects so they could finish the movie with out him. Without the budget that they had they might have not been able to finish the movie because of the fact that Paul Walker had died .But because they had such a large budget and could spend money on expensive CGI effects they were able to continue the process of making the movie without the late Paul Walker . The movie ended up having a gross revenue of 1.5 billion US dollars.

     For my second example I would like to bring up the movie Spiderman homecoming. This movie was distributed by Sony Pictures and produced by Columbia pictures and Marvel Studios. The budget for Spiderman homecoming was 175 million US dollars. The movie had cross productions such as selling toys At Target and even coming out with the soundtrack. They put the movies on kids cereal boxes like cinnamon toast crunch and also had posters and merchandise distributed .Because humans can't actually fly a lot of money went in to making the effects of Spiderman jumping from building to building. Without the money this film would not be as realistic as it was and not as highly anticipated from promotion while bringing 808 million dollars in gross revenue.

   My third example will be Jurassic World. This movie was distributed by Universal Studios In 2015. The budget for this movie was 150 million US dollars. They use this money to make the dinosaurs realistic and create a better movie. They distributed promotion for the movie through posters video games and toys like legos. They even had snacks promoting the movie like Mike and ikes and their very own Blizzard flavor at Dairy Queen. Because of the budget they received they were able to win an awards in 2015 for visual effects of the year. Jurassic World became the third largest grossing movie of all time with making 1.6 these Seven billion US dollars in the box office .

  My final example will be beauty and the beast produced by Walt Disney pictures on March 17th 2017. They were given a budget of 20,000,000 US dollars for the first beauty and the beast movie ever made. The 2017 beauty and the beast movie was given a budget of 254 million dollars making it the most expensive musical to ever be produced . They promoted this movie by making posters, dolls , costumes, ornaments , T shirts , stickers , jewelry. this movie ended up bringing 1.26 billion dollars back into the pockets of the producers .

    In conclusion funding of a movie can be the determining factor of how well the movie does. When there is a lot of money put into a movie for the actors, actresses, CGI effects, and voice actors the movies tend to do better in the market. The Film industry is tough and without the right budget a movie can really flop. In the end movies that have more money do better and movie that have a smaller budget do worse. Lastly, this is why funding has such a big impact on media products.

CCR

The third filming expirence:The movie

          Today I will be telling you about the last AICE media project we had this year. It's sad to know that this could be the last group project I ever do with my girls. The best thing about this year was growing a relationship with anyiah and lily. They were the best partners I could ever ask for and they worked just as hard as I did. They were there to help every step of the way and I'm so glad that they were my partners the whole year. We started this project off with planning for absolutely everything. We took two weeks just to get our ideas. Then another week to plan the storyboard. Then it was time for planning props and costumes. We really took all the time we could possibly get for this project because we wanted it to be perfect. We all worked really hard on this project because we wanted to pass the test. We finished all the filming and now we wanted to get a date and time. Once we had our finished plans we set a date and went on our way. We met up at lilys house with anyiah and our friend Paige. This time we took the time to pack our camera and sd card and tripod and test everything to make sure we were ready. Then we took the time to make sure all of the people we invited were set to come. We started filming in lilys house and while we filmed scenes that had me,lily and her mom. Then while we were doing that anyiah and paige held the camera and fixed the lighting.We got to the mall and we were set to film. When we got to the mall we first filmed in the Macys and we got permission to film. Then we moved to the forever 21 and filmed there. We had to wait a while for people to clear out because we didn't want anyone to be in the background. Then we got back home finished filming the homes scenes and then we started editing and going through the shots. That's when aniyah filmed the noises and found the background noises. Then we finished editing and complete the project. This was one of the best projects we ever had and we loved making it too.

Second filming expirence: The music video

                 Hello everyone today I will be taking you through the second project I was apart of in AICE media. This project was about a music video. My partners and I went through multiple stages of choosing songs and looking for ideas. It took a while and even a whole project restart. WE restarted the project because we didn't like our original idea or the song anymore. So we picked a new song and a new theme and we got on our way to filming. We planned to do the music video to the song from the movie teen beach. The song was called surfs crazy it was a fun and groovy song and we loved it. We thought it was a perfect song to dance and sing along too. We planned a perfect day at the beach with props and friends and the camera and the trip. The day had finally come where we were going to the beach and things went wrong really fast. This time we were so busy making sure our equipment was ready and that we had a backup plan for if it rained or if there were too many people, but we did not plan for the disaster ahead. We forgot to double-check to make sure everyone was able to come and bring the props they were in charge of. We had about ten people in the beginning and they were all supposed to bring props and food and lily and I were in charge of the camera and the tripod. First, it was our partner anyiah that had canceled because she no longer had a ride but that was oke. But by the time we got to the beach so many people had canceled, it was just Lily and me. We made the best of what we had which was just a camera and a tripod. We got to learn some dance moves and got to singing and we finished filming. NOw that we had finished we had the sd card and got to editing on iMovie. This project was better than the last but not as good as the next.

First filming expirence: The commercial

       Hello, everyone, as you know the school year, has been put online and I'm going to be showing you my progress through the year. This year I have taken part in many media projects and have absolutely loved all of them. The first project I will be taking you through is the first project I ever filmed edited and helped produce. Thought this one was a rough start and a rough project as a whole I ended up liking the complete commercial. So ill start you off with our storyboarding and planning. It went smoothly and we took our time to make back up plans for the weather for our background for the scenes. We finished all of our planning and scheduling and we were on our way to film for the first time. We got our checklist and we were on the way we picked up our camera, tripod and sd card. We walked all the way to our spot to film and it was perfect. We got the right spot and perfect lighting and we were just about done setting up. This is when things started going down hill. We are about to put the camera on the tripod and this is where it went wrong for the first time. The piece to connect the camera to the tripod wasn't in the bag. So we pack up the stuff and bring everything back to the class and get a new bag and this time we checked it before we left. When we got back to the spot it was less sunny and someone was filming in our spot. But we asked them and they were almost done so we start setting up again and we finally get the camera on and it only had 20 minutes of battery left. By the time we got back and finally got the right spot and the right tripod and the right camera we only had 15 minutes to film. We didn't finish what we were filming and we only had 45 minutes the next day. This time we made sure we checked everything and got all the filming done. We edited and found out it was hard to edit with pinnacle and we couldn't even find our right sd card this point. Turn out someone else had also filmed on it and was using it. So now that we finally got all of our films and started editing we had to switch to imovie because it worked better for us. We finished editing and now we could turn it in. NOw we had looked at our grade and we got a 90% not our best try but it was a good start.

film blog: whats gonna happen?

   Hello everyone, this is the last filming blog I will be doing for a while so let's make it the best. As I told you before we are under quarantine by our parents and are not allowed to leave our houses. We were supposed to get together to film our ccr and complete this project. A lot of things are getting in the way of us finishing this project and it's getting harder and harder to complete it. Since we have no way of coming together to make this ccr final easy for us we had to put our heads together and think of a way to complete it with everyone playing an equal part in it. We all sat and texted for a bit trying our different ideas but most of them all ended in someone doing more than the other. Or all of us having to do it separated and that wasn't working either. THis ccr is different from the others we have done in the past. We have done powerpoints and blogs ccr but we have never done a filming style before. We have chosen to do it like a talk show. Making as if we were called on to a show like the tonight show with jimmy falon and he was asking us questions about our new an dup coming film. The only bad part is that we can't be together and we won't have common backgrounds because not all of us have the same painted color walls in our house. But we will try to get at least neutral colors in the background. So our idea is we all get on facetime and answer the questions altogether making sure that the response to the questions is at least 4 minutes. Then after wards, we choose who wants to talk about the questions. And finnally becayse there is only three of us whoever has the least amount of time on there part of the question will do the final 4th questions. Then we willl get back on facetime and edit them together.

editting blog; the world is under attack we cant be together

 Good afternoon everyone. As of today, the world we live in is being attacked by this virus that is corrupting humans as we speak. All of us knew that the virus was bad but I don't think anyone anticipated it being this bad. We were about to end the third quarter when we were uprooted from school and had to be on early leave. Though most found this break an advantage to have fun I did not. I was more worried in fact than anything. The students didn't take the time to realize that something has to be extremely worrisome to cancel schools almost worldwide. This is going to really affect the way we could get together and go over our films and blog together. Also, this virus will directly affect the films that are currently being shot all over the world. It's crazy to think that this world has gone to mess so quick. Everything just stopped. People completely being irrational buying 18 tons of milk and 100 rolls of toilet paper and napkins. I think it's ridiculous that people lose their state of mind in an emergency. The worst thing to do in an emergency state it to freak out and go crazy. AT first, I forgot to go by this rule and it is what saved me from getting an f. I and many of my friends are on house lockdown due to the virus and our parents. I was going crazy thinking about how I was gonna get an f. How we weren't gonna be able to do the ccr. All because we weren't together and could be together. But then it hit me, we live in a day and age where everything is digital and we could make anything work as long as we tried our hardest. So e all went through the reflection question and currently, we are coming up with our answers as I'm writing this. I'll tell you the rest in the next blog see you later.