Evaluation- Media Film

Main Task - 'Obession'

Storyline for Obsession - Film

The begining of the film is set in the suburban streets of Oxford, around the winter time. Felix Biggs is the main character who lives a mysterious life with hardly any contact to others. He is 29, quite skinny with dark hair. Felix lives amongst the threat of being 'kicked out' by his landlord. Felix lives in the top room of the appartments; his room is messy, grotty and dirty. Though in his room their is more than only tattered rubbish, as you will see from the photos, cut-outs and other information that is stuck to the bedroom walls he clearly has a possesive obsession with Cassy Lord. Cassy is who Felix portrays as the perfect woman, lovable, kind and gentle, even though he as never had the courage to interact with her.

Felix is caught looking through binoculars out the window of his apartment by Cassy. he drops them and in worry hides in his room, The binoculars are found by Cassy and she gives them to the landlord which he then gives back to Felix. The Landlord begins to get more annoyed at the fact that Felix has no job and gives him a final threat to get the money by the end of the month.

Felix gets his stuff gathered together and tries to get a job. There is no luck, though on the way back to his apartment he manages to see someone he recognizes from standing next to Cassy in a photo. His name is Stephen oster. Felix asks him if he knew how he could get to the town center, (which he already knew, and where Stephen was already walking), He tells Felix and then they both walk together. In conversation he gives Felix a job Offer. Felix thanks him in gratitude then walks away leaving Stephen puzzled to why he walked away from the town center.

Felix is given the Job as a janitor for an advertising company and he gradually after weeks of torment from them, makes friends with the group of janitors. Alexi gibbons, Max tana and Oliver reddy are the other janitors. As the friendship builds up for them, Felix is almost forgetting how he even felt for Cassy.

Around half a year into the job, Felix has a change to how he approaches people. No longer shy or anti-social. Felix even whistle's to the female public. One evening Felix and Alexi are mopping the floor listening to music. Max is gradually becoming annoyed at the volume of the music. In slight spite Max walks over to the sterio and switches the off button. Before we even see the response a door is slammed shut, from accross the corridor. Cassy appears walking down with a handfull of books. A face of fear from Felix is seen, whilst Max and Alexi both grin looking at one another. Cassy walks past all the janitors then suddenly Max whistles, Cassy looks back and winks.

After this incident Felix throws himself upon Max and repeatidly punches his face. Alexi then kicks him off eventially, Felix then escapes from the building. The next few weeks we will see Felix turning slightly mad. Felix vandalises his room with red paint over all the pictures of Cassy. He also tries to burn down his Landlords room. Felix has to escape with few belongings of his own out of the apartment.

A few weeks on we see that Felix is now homeless, though has met a girl named Flora. Felix meets Flora by a pine tree along the river. Eventially Felix begins to get closer to Flora. The times we see them both, they appear to always be sat next to each other on either side of the tree, smiling and laughing. Felix is now looking for another job, since he has no money. As he begins to think of how he lost his last job he looks up Cassy's name in a computer and decides to place a job aplication there. As he writes this blatently infront of Flora's eyes, she remembers the name. Felix gets the job. He is now constantly working and as we will see is begining to become more obssesed.A few weeks later Flora finds an old picture of Cassy with her name under the photo and realises that Felix has left her for Cassy. Flora decides to try and burn down Cassy's house. Unfortunately Felix (at the time) is on her roof spying on Cassy. As the house is set on fire, the last we see of Felix is him falling into the flames of the house. Flora escapes into the distance and waits by the pine tree for Felix.

Preliminary Task - Film

BLADE RUNNER opening scene - compared with preliminary task

As the same group also in the pre-lim task, we decided that the film clip which influenced our group would have to be the opening interview scene from blade runner. This scene in itself shows perfect lighting which we found difficult to accomplishin our setting. The faded shine across the intrviewers table by the light coming from the window, nothing else, shows a dark setting even outside the room. The fan in the room creates tension in a way that something will always be moving, never still or calm. Character 1, The interviewer in a quiet, clear tone replies 'come in', to the nocking of the door. So quiet almost that it would be difficult to hear from behind it. The interviewer is carelessly smoking in the room, creating the authority and dominant behaviour by doing this, no concideration for the thoughts of character 2 who seems to stand until told to 'sit down' by the interviewer, which he does. Now we have seen the dominant character 1 in a long shot, which shows space for this character to move and be free. This changes into a over the shoulder shot when characer 2 enters. Then suddenly its close-up shot of the character 2's face, this camaera work always seems to give the less dominant character the close-up shots which appear more stressful and 'up-in-your-face', almost nosy. Just this slight bit of the opening with these charcter roles, and enigma codes which are set up during the conversation, and how serious the Character 1 seems, tells us there is something more to this than an I.Q test which the Character 2 refers to. The setting of a desk and 2 chairs creates more tension and less privacy for the Character 2, somthing serious and confidential is taking part already. This anxious feeling created for the character is what we aimed to achieve for our pre-lim. For the audience to feel the pressure of the interview whilst only watching, though feeling as if taking part. The 180 degree rule which we came accross during our lesson helped especially filming this scene. We were able to concentrate on where the camera would be placed as well as what shot would be used. Though it was only slightly over the 180 degree rule during out film, as an audience it can become confusing. We have now learnt from the this mistake.

Institutions - Channel 4

Mission Statement
"The public service remit for Channel 4 is the provision of a broad range of high quality and diverse programming which, in particular:
demonstrates innovation, experiment and creativity in the form and content of programmes;
appeals to the tastes and interests of a culturally diverse society;
makes a significant contribution to meeting the need for the licensed public service channels to include programmes of an educational nature and other programmes of educative value; and
exhibits a distinctive character."

Funding
It’s a privately run commercial station. Through the sale of on-air advertising programme sponsorship
It can also sell shows that they have rights for, for example; Lost was sold to Sky 1.
It can also receive government funding, in 2007 the government granted them £14,000,000

public service broadcasting

Includes radio, televison and other electronic media outlets that receive some or all of their funding from the public.
Like we just said Channel 4 recently received 14,00,000 and that was from the television license, so this makes Channel 4 a Public Service Broadcaster.

Complementary Channels
‘More 4’ - 2005
‘E4’ - 2001
‘Film 4’ - 1998
‘4 Music’ – 2008
‘Channel 4 + 1’ - 2007

Internet Presence
It has its own website; www.Channel4.com
In November 2006 they launched Channel 4 on demand (4OD). Which allowed viewers to watch any programme off the Internet.

Audiences
Because it’s a terrestrial channel it appeals to a wider audience.
Though it has specific programmes for specific audiences as such; skins aimed at 16-25 yrs, Countdown aimed at 50 yrs and above.