Project: Research and script for #2 question of CCR post

 How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

This is the second question of the CCR

Product engagement with audiences (Script)

My product Pioneer engages with audience by first having ominous music (Ephemera by Scott Buckley) playing while my production studio logo slowly fades into the view. This establishes the tone as serious and almost mysterious without seeing anything but the production logo at first.

I would also like to note the silence, using the absence of dialogue to tell the story rather than using words. For me, and worded much better by Stephen King, words turn an abstract idea into a simpler one, which mostly is an annoying mistake made when trying to make a meaningful story.

In King's "Different Seasons", a collection of four novellas, one of the stories called "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" perfectly quotes how I think words diminishes complexity. Saying

"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out."

I'm not saying that dialogue is a bad device to utilize, its just that I find it more of a common mistake in movies nowadays to not know when to be quiet, and let the silence do the scene for them. Which is why I think aspiring film makers need to know when to be quiet, and when to be talkative. 

Which is also why my piece would appeal to those who prefer visual and atmospheric driven motion pictures, rather than expecting traditional storytelling. 

The logo shot then quickly fades into the next shot of a bunch of stars of an unknown world, drifting and existing in space before a nebula explodes. It then cuts to a tilt up shot of a red planet before the title card "Pioneer" fades into view. This fully establishes that this movie is a space movie by showing the planet and space. 

There is a contrast between the blue of the nebula scene with the red of the establishing planet shot, showing the differences in worlds that the universe brings. From the vast blue cold to the scorching hot red. 

I want to show the variety, the different wonders that this universe infinitely brings. 

The shots of stars also helps the audience know how the character is feeling and what is happening with the setting without using direct dialogue. This is an easy way for me to get the audience on the same page with the Astronaut/main character since a Stikbot figure, as charming as they are, has limited movement and even more limited facial expressions. So visuals like the stars help give the character a bit more personality and depth into what they could possibly be thinking.

Distributed as a possible real media text? (Script)

If my film were to be distributed as an actual film piece, then I would like for it to be shown at film festivals like the Florida Film Festival. 

I would not like it to be shown on the big screens though since theatre movies are more likely to be seen by critics, who are often known for judging amazing works wrongly, or misinterpreting the meaning of them entirely. 

This is especially notable when a rule was recently made, announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on their press website Oscars.org, that Oscar members need to watch all nominated movies in order to vote. 

"In a procedural change, Academy members must now watch all nominated films in each category to be eligible to vote in the final round for the Oscars®. All designated nominees will also be included on the final ballot."

And this rule will only start in 2026 for the 98th Academy Awards. 

I would not like my film judged by people who don't even have the decency to watch my movie. 

Film festivals offer a more "artistic" view of film, rather than seeing it as mere entertainment. The audience is composed of more common people and artists, people who share the same appreciation of film as me, rather than high status folks.

I would also like to upload my film onto Youtube, networking my movie to an even wider audience by using the internet. 

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