FINAL VIDEO

Question 6

Question 7.

7. looking back to your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

since our continuity task we have found that the work was a lot better as with in our continuity task it didn't really pan out as a good piece of work considering the amount of film shots we did they didn't really have any change. which shows how much we have developed in our skills with cameras and the technical things such as the editing and sound tracks is a lot better than our first piece. 

  

Question 5.

5. How did you attract/address your audience? 

we attempted to attract our audience by forming the characters and molding their impression into one that appeals to all. for example we made the main lead (man) wear a suit and carry a bag and camera bag so he looked smart and then made his character seem suspicious and smart. we also did the same with the woman but made her seem more down to earth smart as if she's coming home but from work with a simple black out fit with some colour's. the location we filmed at made the film seem a lot more high class and modern. this brought a very different feel to the film as did the outfits and it proved that the mise-en-scene did matter. we also used camera effects to try and make the shots stand out to a wider more now-a-day audience as we tried to make it seem more dynamic and snappy, more modern. 

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?


Our opening sequence was acceptable to be classed as a 12a as it includes footage similar to the expectations of the BBFC official website.

12A – Suitable for 12 years and over. No-one younger than 12 may see a ‘12A’ film in a cinema unless accompanied by an adult. No-one younger than 12 may rent or buy a ‘12’ rated video or DVD. Responsibility for allowing under-12s to view lies with the accompanying or supervising adult. Theme The theme of our piece is thriller government spy themed. We believe that the theme is not suitable for younger children, mainly because we don't believe they'll will understand/grasp what's going on. Language The use of strong language (eg 'fuck') must be infrequent and as we hardly have the characters swear, we are still in the guidelines for this and racist abuse is also of particular concern but we dont have any references to this so we are good for this. Violence The bbfc say that, "Violence must not dwell on detail. There should be no emphasis on injuries or blood." As we only have one scene with violence in and that does not have any blood in sight and the injures are not horrific, we are ok for this to be a 12a. They also say, Horror Sustained moderate threat and menace are permitted. Occasional gory moments only. Our film doesnt have any gory moments to it and as moderate threats and menace are allowed, we fit into this as we have harmless threats in one scene. As our film has reference to drugs, It fits in with the gidelines of a 12a as the bbfc say, "Any misuse of drugs must be infrequent and should not be glamorised or instructional." and as we do not show much of them and do not make them sound good, we are ok in this area.

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Question 3.

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

our logo was first designed for our first theme of social realism drama. once we had decided to change our theme and had come up with some more film ideas we had not got enough time to re-do our logo so we stayed with the logo we had. our idea for this at the time was as it was quite comical and simple it was rather well fitted for the social realism but as we looked into the work of our logo it had few faults such as the word font was a little difficult to read although we knew we had this issue there was not enough time for us to finish the idea. also the design of our logo had that as it brought a certain unique theme to the work. a distributor for our film would most likely be a indie film industry as its not really got the big movie ideal to it. 

Question 2.

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

with our first idea it was more likely to represent the younger teenage age scene but now with our final piece that had dramatically changed through all of the themes we decided would fit more of a adult age group. as for social groups we found that there wasnt a very specific range that would watch the film as we thought our project suited all. there is however a gender stereotype with the main characters through out the project. for instance the main man seems suspicious at first when he actually is not suspicious atall it is really the woman who is the culprit if anything. i found that our final project fitted the genre and reached our target audience aswell as we had expected.

Question 1.

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

Our media product uses the forms and conventions of the real media through using the different styled shots. which try and bring out more to be looking at. a few scenes that we decided to use with this technique was the shots of the woman's legs as this is a different style to the other points in the film as we felt it added more dynamic styles towards the project. for our final project we found that it did not inspire us to do a certain technique with just one idea or one film opening, but we were influenced by many different ideas from many different films. as ours was of the thriller genre we found that it used many styles used in many different thriller films, and or television series.

Titles

When we made the titles the first time round, we saved them buy the names of the credits and as it saves them in alphabetical order, they got muddled up. WE put them into our footage and realised when we watched it. We had to take them out off our footage and put them back into the correct order. After we had done this, we put them back into our film and it looked really good. An example off our credits is below:

Piecing together

When we were putting our footage together, we found that it was really easy to do as at first, we didnt know what to expect once we had uploaded it. We deleted a few pieces of footage as they didnt fit in with the rest of the film.

For the soundtrack, it changed every time we changed our storyline. our end piece went well with our footage as it changed with a different character. For the male, it was more jumpy, whereas it was smoother for the female. It took awhile to make the soundtrack as we had to make sure it was in time with our footage so we kept looking at the film to see the times of which character came and left. This worked really well as once we had uploaded this to the film, it kept in time with the footage and added to the effects.

New Idea

After we had finished our rough cut, we all had changed how we felt about our storyline and as our footage was not great, we all decided on a new storyline and made a time to film when we were all free to do it.

This time, we had all our actors so we could film and managed to get all our footage quicker than we had expected. We were in a new setting and we had kept the idea of it being in a flat but this time we were down the end of long road instead of going all the way to Royston.

Dramatic change

We had a problem with filming our footage as one of our actors didnt show up to the filming session. This meant we didnt have a male actor for the main role and, as we couldnt find another male who could film in such short notice, we had to change the storyline. We had gone to Royston to film as one of the groups friends had a flat we could borrow.

We quickly brainstormed up a new storyline and started filming a variety of shots including long shots and close ups. We had got enough footage to last a good amount of time and then uploaded to the college computers. We edited it so it all was in the right place and made sense. We added footage we already had to it as we had made our new plot as it fit well which also lengthened it out to a sutable time as once we had edited the first bit of footage, it had decreased so once we had added the old footage, it went back to a suitable length.

Crew List

1. An Asbo productions presents
2. A Doug Larry Film
3. Pamela Hambidge
4. Vivien Edwards
5. Mathew Savage
6. Costume Design by Nilo Otero
7. Art Direction J.Andre Chaintreuil
8. Production Design by Nathan Crowley
9. Casting by John Papsidera
10. Film Editing by Lee O'Sulivan
11. Cinematography by Sally Anne Harper
12. Original Music by Stan Fisher
13. Produced by Micheal King
14. Directed by Doug Larry
15. Stolen.

MONDAY 9th MARCH - 9am - EVALUATION DRAFT TO MOODLE

MONDAY 9th MARCH - 9am - EVALUATION DRAFT TO MOODLE

Evaluation Questions

The following questions must be answered in your evaluation PowerPoint:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?