Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation 1

These are a example of a film called Roommate, and its convention order. Our film convention order is very similar to this however our last convention is 'written' by not 'director'. We thought that the person that write this film is a well known writer so we left it till last so that it is the last convention the audience sees and wont forget it. We wanted to sell our film so by putting a well known witter at the end, people will want to watch it for his good works

Evaluation 2

 

Representation

 

 

 

 

Our main aim  for our film was it make it similar to a teen crime film, involving drugs, crime, bullies sex , family , friendships and partying. we represented this through music, mise en scene, the actors and the settings. in terms of mise on scene we had the actors wearing what they are stereotypical presented. for example we got the bully in this film wearing all black which suggest crime and darkness. We included drug use because of lot of teenage boys get involved with drugs from a young age.

Another teen films similar to ours;

Evaluation 3

i used my friend's Prezzi to do this

Evaluation 4

 

           Who would be the audience for your media product?

 


 

A wider audience for teen movies in general will be everyone that has a special interests of teenagers, such as coming of age , first love , rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst or alienation. For example adults, they would be likely to watch teen movies because they want to reminisce back to when they were teens and just have a laugh. 

 

For example, in not another teen movie, there are a lot of stereotypical character that adults can relate to. they will watch this movie thinking i was once in that situation or laugh about a moment that was similar to theirs.

 

 

 

 

In my film, my target audience is teenagers. age 15-18 middle class, males. The Demographic of my audience would be young boys would are in education or not. in terms of race mostly black boys but some white. Boys will probably watch this with their friends or at home after college, school after playing, football or just mid day in the evening when they are bored. And will probably live in same part of London.

In my film, the main character, (Monte)l is gets bullied in school, his mother takes drugs, not having an easy life at home. Contently wears all black to not be noticed. This will attracted my target audience they might have some issues with bullying or not having an easy home life.

(His Facebook Page) https://www.facebook.com/cory.blake.714

Evaluation 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation 6

Technologies from the process of constructing this product.

In our Film is used a JVC Camera to for all our recording, this was very useful
as we had a Microphone on top of the camera that was able to pick up the volume of
the Actors voice very well.


We used a digital still camera to take process pictures of ourselves to put on the blog,  this was
significant as it showed us how much work we were doing and we able to take some pictures for fun
and memories of working in a group.

We used a flip camera to record interview's, feedback of our rough cut  and any voice overs that we needed for out film.

 We used Final Cut Pro to edit film and construction stages.We were able to cut bits that we didn't like and we were able to add transitions to make it more interesting. Also we were able to add Music.
We used Soundcloud to find non copy right music to use for our film. this was important as we wanted everything to be copy right.
 The Hard Drive keeps all our recoding for editing, to upload our rough cuts or any videos we wanted to post on the blog. This was essential as it had our film recoding on there, safe.



Evaluation 7

                                                            LOL looking back



Looking at my prelim and my film. there are major difference and improvements that I have made. I have learnt a lot throughout this project and my knowledge of media , eg shot types, lighting, match ups, 360 degrees rule etc.

In my prelim I didn't have many good match cuts and most of my and shots were at the same angle . although in my prelim I tired to use shot reverse shot, it wasn't used accurately. And when one the character was walking up the stairs the camera wasn't steady. Although we did try and pan when the other character is sitting at the desk but it wasn't very smooth.  Throughout my prelim my camera wasn't steady. Whereas on our film we were able to have a variety of shots and different angle. Also we used a tripod which helped us keep our camera steady and gave it a professional look.



Furthermore, we didn't try any transitions which made our prelim very boring, there was no music and the editing was basic. Whereas in our film there was music which made the film  more interesting to watch and they were and the editing was way better because we were able to match cuts  as we had a variety of shoots to work with. in our film we had more focus on the camera

Finally, in our film we wanted it to be believable. although is wasn't really about the acting we wanted the audience to relate and have some time of connection with these characters, Which is why we made our actors practice theirs lines and have fun with it.
We wanted them to enjoy the moment.

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Evaluation question 1

This is two examples of movie openings.
This Timetoast goes through the titles which are in the intro of my movie and explains whether and why we stuck or changed conventions.

Evaluation Question 1

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

My planning for Question 1 :) 

Evaluation Question 2

Social Groups


I asked my peers a series of questions about how particualr social groups are presented. Her is what they had to say :) :

Evaluation question 2

Represnations in media are usual stereotypes used for different groups in media, they can either be negative or posetive to make the audience feel and think certain things on characters.

usual negative representation of a "nerd"

Our opening represents young working class teens negatively as gang members and connected to drugs, this is shown in most other aspects of the media.
Montel Powell's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow
This Slidely has pictures from my movie intro alongside pictures from top-boy and kidulthood to show the negative representation in our and most media of young teens. You can see similarities in locations like our flats and the flats in the background of the top boy advertisement. similarities in characters with young, working class, ethnic minority teen and the weapons used. in most they're wearing dark clothes, lots of layers and clothes associated with school e,g bags and uniform.

Evaluation Question 3

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Evaluation Question 4

I have created a Facebook profile for a member of my target audience. He is 17 years old and my film's target audience is 15-19 year olds. Aaron is a member of the public who I'd hope would be able to relate to my movie.

I made this status to portray Aaron as a teenage male, who understands the idiolect of the 'streets' we used language that youths who grow up in places such as council estates and 'rough areas' would understand (stereotype). Words such as 'dun'kno'. In my film words such as 'wasteman' are used, these language is used within gang culture. 

I have made Aaron upload images of people using illegal drugs. This is another way that he can relate to my film as drugs play a big role in my film. 

I made this status to show that members of my target audience can in fact relate to my film, as 'Aaron' said he could relate to the 'drugs' 'gang culture' and 'violence'. 

Evaluation question 4

usually teen films are targeted at teens at school, and the very usual life of an awkward teen coming of age. usually in American high schools where life is easier.  

The target group for our film was
age:15-18, gender: boys, ethnicity: black, class: working

info: probably from a life in rough areas and used to gang culture, may even be able to relate to some accpects of the film, listens to rap and grime music and likes gangster films.  

this brakes conventionsas our film follows a different lifestyle in teen life.
Jacob Tyler is a fake Facebook account I made to represent our target audience. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008028941768

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

This is a poster I made on phtoshop. It may intice my target audience of teenagers to watch my film as the use of drugs is obviously portrayed and some teenagers may be able to relate to drug use.

"Shot caller claims to tell the shocking dark secrets of the 'grime' generation. They did a splendid job of this. Producers took into consideration the harsh realities that could lie within many youths lives. This film was executed very well. One to watch!!

 
"Fighting, boozing and drugs - your average 24 hours for East London teenagers. It will ruffle feathers but shot caller is a refreshing slice of urban life."

 Heres a facebook like page for 'Shot Caller'. It is public on Facebook and is a place where our audience can find out more about the film/competitions etc. We also use this page to post new pictures and videos so our audience can directly engage with the film.

 

 

A member of our target audience engaging with the film.

Evaluation question 5

Evaluation question 6

Evaluation Question 7

 

What have I learnt?

From the start of the college year I have learnt an awful lot in relation to media. Although I did media at GCSE I have distinguished between the difficulty of this and A-level. I had not heard of programs such as Motion, Final Cut Pro and I had never made a blog in my life. I now know how to use all of these programs and many more and how to use different equipment such as: flip camera, JVC camera, fig rig and a tripod. Even though I was faced with difficulties at first, I overcame them with the help of my lovely teachers. Overall, I would say I understand the many different conecepts of media in depth. 

 

Evaluation questioin 7

In our Prelim's post production we had barely any planning, we simply copied a script given to us and made up most of our work on the spot. 

When making our movie we done a lot more planning with things like storyboards and research shown here and in our blog 

below is a comparison of some problems we had in the prelim compared to the movie intro 

Problems We Faced

We faced some problems, especially with our first rough cut. The shots were very shaky as we did not know how to use the tripod yet.

Also picking a storyline was a challenge as we had to chose something that would appeal to our audience males (15-18). However after weeks and weeks of planning we decided to come up with oyr Final story 'Shot Caller'

We also had times when we were not able to all meet up at the same time and this stressed us out a little bit, but it all worked out in the end, thank goodness!
With our second rough cut we did not realise until after that some shots were unfocused, this made our movie look really bad, therefore we removed those shots.

Picking music was also a difficult task due to copyright reasons, we were unable to use many of our desired song choices because they were not copyright free, however we managed to find covers of the original songs we liked that also sounded cool. :)

What I Am Hoping For When People Watch My Movie

I hope teenagers that view our teen movie in college are effected by the story line as it is a rather harsh one.
Scenes include drugs, bullying and parenting issues. All these issues are as important as each other and when watching the movie I hope people who are going through some of the same issues perhaps can relate and seek help in the real world.
These actions lead to negative things in the future. It is not a comedy, it is a realistic drama and people that view it may appreciate its realism.

What I Learnt

I learnt many, many things through this filming task!
I learnt how to use equipment such as;

• Tri-pod
• Camera
• Flip camera
• Camera light
• Fig Rig

All of which I hadn't used on a professional level such as this, it may seem easy but it proved to be rather difficult to get to grips with! I'm glad I now know how to use these pieces of equipment, this will help me in the future.


I also learnt how to use programmes such as 'final cut pro' and 'motion' that I had never even heard of before! It was difficult to get to terms with at first but when you are constantly using certain programmes you eventually learn how they work, which I did.


Another thing I learnt are rules when filming, there should never really be any head space and the rule of three, things I had never heard of before either.


I also learnt about different shot types and angles, including;

• Close up
• Mid-shot
• Establishing shot

ETC.

Comparisons

Comparing both our rough cut and final teen movie, I can see major positive differences.
With our rough cut, no non-diagetic nor diagetic sound was added. Personally without other sounds besides narrative, I found my rough cut rather boring.
Once music was added I really enjoyed watching our final teen movie, especially when the idents were added. The ident's make our film look more realistic and professional. Once we added fades and slow motion too, our film became even more interesting! With all our good shots the transitions etc went really well also.
We also removed some scenes as the shots were either not focused and did not flow well.

Things I found difficult

I find it particularely difficult to come to terms with using new equipment and digital media. Filming was a bit of an uphill struggle at first because we didn't realise the importance of the tripod(evidently shown in our first rough cut). For this reason, we had to re-film and ended up changing our plot at the same time. I also found it hard learning how to use Final Cut Pro as I haven't used any editing programs as advanced as this one before. In addition, we used Motion to create an ident for our movie and not many teachers knew how to use it leaving us to our own devices to figure out how it works. This was quite hard at first and it took some time trying to understand how it functioned.

Review from an experienced audience member

I asked my friend in A2 to view my final teen movie in college then tell me what she thought about it. Here is what she said:

"I really enjoyed your teen movie. I feel like it was very realistic and resembled real media products. You followed the conventions of this genre which made it easily recognisable as a teen movie. I particularely liked the range of shots you used as I think this is very important in establishing settings and displaying character emotions etc. The storyline was simple and easy to understand and I wanted to see what happened next."

Choice of sound (editing)

We chose a song from sound cloud (Shot Caller). Usually the sound used for idents are mostly non-lyrical sound, more like music jingles, natural sounds or minimal speech. You never really hear proper songs/music. We decided to go against the conventional way of producing an ident sound as we felt the music we chose went extremely well with our plot and even with the idents.









We thought choosing this song instead of having a normal sound over the ident will be unique and a bit more interesting. As the song relates to the character so we wanted the audience to have that feel.

Framing Tutorial

Before We Filmed

Important steps we followed before filming, this really helped us have an idea on how to film successful

 

• Keep the camera steady
•  Vary your shots
• Have actors walk in and out of the frame 
• Use the tracking shots to create movement
• Shoot plenty of  'Cutways' 
•  Mirror the actors POV
• Pan slowly in one direction only 
• Don't zoom (Zooming causes an amateurish look)
• Continuity is vital - Take photos 
• Match cuts make all the difference
• Remember 'The Thirds Rule' (The thirds rule is a grid you use to make sure your filming is in the centre.Most of the time you imagine the grid is there while recording to ensure the clip is accurate.)
•  Close ups are essential
• Finally number 
• NO HEAD SPACE - EV

We had equipment such as Fig Rig and a tripod. the advantages in using these equipment  is that the camera is steady while filming and it gives the film a professional look. Also using the Fig Rig allows you to get good close up and worm's eye view. the tripod allows you to get contestant good long shots

What i've learnt / My Experience

Throughout the course, I have learnt so many things and experienced different thing really enjoyed making the film and had a lot of fun. I would love to film another.

Filming / Editing  - Before filming, I have never actually used a camera to film a while 2minute piece and edited it. I thought filming would be a whole lot easier but it takes a lot of time and thinking. I learnt that while filming you need to take more than one shot and different angles to make it interesting, several shots in fact. This will help you when editing as you have many different shots and angles. I also learnt about the 180 degree and the thirds rule, and that it has a lot of impact on how your film will look like. Also I learnt to keep the camera still and make sure it was focus at all time, I had no idea about this before.

 

LOL me and Montell Filming, at this point im getting the hang of using the camera.

Editing was a enjoyable experience, although sometimes it was hard to figure out what to do, such as making sure the sound is above the shots that i had and using different transitions to make our film look a lot more interesting. 'slow motions was one main transitions that was used and made our film look a whole lot better.It enabled me to use Final Cut Pro. Before this I used it once or twice in my pervious school but I didn't really edit much using it , I found it difficult and complicated, However  I was able to explore and experiment with Final Cut Pro, it shows using the software, you  can pretty much edit any thing from films to music videos and even mini clips. I found it very interesting to use.













Using the equipment for filming was probably what i was not good at to start with. The JVC camera has so many bottoms trust me, you will end up forgetting what each buttons does. However, it took me a while and the help of my group members to figure out how to use it. And i now able to record use use a fig rig and a tripod which made our film look very professional as it was still and  we were able to get so many different angles and shots by 
Using shots such as, long shot, close up, bird eye , panning, shot reverse shot etc

I learnt how to blog consistently, the blog almost became my everyday thing, before I go to bed I would make sure I blog just like a dairy and keep it up to date, I found that really fun and I able to treat the blog like it was my personal site and have fun with it.

(That's meant to be me lol )











I Also learnt about different teen films and what they all had in common. I was able to spot out the stereo typical points in many teen film that i have recently watched. lol and now when I watch any sort of teen films I look at for the same conventions and think to myself, ' knew that was gonna happened'.

Overall, I really enjoyed working with my group and i had a lot of fun, and experienced new skills such as using Final Cut Pro, using the Fig Rig(which was my first time using that ),being able to take the camera out of college and filming it in the locations our film was set in was a great experience .Making this film made me have a film of what the filming / media industry would be like and i loved every moment of it. :D