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This is the last post i will add to my blog, i have thoroughly enjoyed making my project and preliminary tasks, i have also enjoyed other aspects of the course such as film research, audeience research ect.
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Friday, 7 May 2010
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Evaluation
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our film is a thriller, most thrillers tend to have dark lighting and music but our film contradicts this stereotype and is in the sunshine, however it still has the dark music. This is how our film challenges the conventions of the genre. The reason we did this is because we wanted to make the audience believe it was a normal day and confuse them. However we did use dark music because we wanted the audience to be able to identify the genre.
In the beggining of the film we see the gangster's point of view, this allows the audience to know there is something not quite right about the couple.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our film we portray an average couple being spied on by a sinister looking man, although you cannot gather what class this man is from his brief appearance.
Matthew, the good character, we tried to make him seem as normal as possible with his average black and white clothes, although the shirt is unironed to make him seem messy/disorderly, when he came back from work and jeans and t-shirt when relaxing at home.
We tried to make Rachel's apperance innocent but with hints of a dark secret, such as the smoking (an indication of her weakness for drugs, although they are legal ones) and the bruce springsteen top which indicates a rockier edge to her life, the complete opposite to the colourful braclets and butterfly-print top we have previously seen her wear.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
After doing some research, we found that the film 'Butterfly Effect' was distributed by the film company 'New Line Cinema', we chose this company because they like 'Butterfly Effect' they produce many thriller/horror films such as 'Friday the 13th & 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' which is the type of film our's is. For these reasons we have decided to use them as the company to distribute our film.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
16-24 would be the main target audience of our film. We chose this target audience because this is the age most people go to watch films at, and from the questionaire results helped we gathered that this age group was the most interested in thriller/horror films. As the plot involves violence and no romantic side plot, I think the film would appeal to males slightly more than females- however, it would still appeal to women who were fans of the thriller genre.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
We tried to uses dark music in the first scene because the first scene on the screen is a happy couple walking in the sunshine, yet the music in the background is dark which makes the audience wonder what is going to happen. We put music that didn't fit the clip into uout product as it was intended to let the audience question what is going on. As out target audience is 16-24 we decided to use a young couple as the audience can relate to them. We also used a nice sunny field as it is relatable as a place were people can go for walks as our couple did.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Whilst making our film, i have learnt alot about film making and the the technical aspects of it. The most useful thing I have learnt is about the editing programme. For the project we used the editing software we used was Adobe Premiere Pro. We struggled throughout production with technical errors- things like files going missing and sound disappearing. The programme used also had problems as it crashed fequently and it was very slow in doing the most simple of editing such as straight cuts. We are the first year to do AS Media Studies at Ken Stimpson we were the guinea pigs for the software and equipment, and most of the staff were learning to use it at the same time as we were. There was also problems with the school camera as the microphone didnt work properly which lead us to having poor sound quality, We also had to use YouTube in order to be able to display the videos on this blog- none of us had uploaded videos onto the site before, so we all had to work out how to do this.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Througout our preliminary task, we were simply focusing on how to do certain camera shots, we gained the ability to use them in the right way and show what we wanted the audience to think as well. The point of the preliminary task is to get use to the camera, and to experiment with different types of shots and angles such as 180 degree rule and match on action, which we later used in our main project, as well as the technique of shot/reverse shot, which involves shooting one character from the front while there is a part of the character they are speaking to in the shot.
Our film is a thriller, most thrillers tend to have dark lighting and music but our film contradicts this stereotype and is in the sunshine, however it still has the dark music. This is how our film challenges the conventions of the genre. The reason we did this is because we wanted to make the audience believe it was a normal day and confuse them. However we did use dark music because we wanted the audience to be able to identify the genre.
In the beggining of the film we see the gangster's point of view, this allows the audience to know there is something not quite right about the couple.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our film we portray an average couple being spied on by a sinister looking man, although you cannot gather what class this man is from his brief appearance.
Matthew, the good character, we tried to make him seem as normal as possible with his average black and white clothes, although the shirt is unironed to make him seem messy/disorderly, when he came back from work and jeans and t-shirt when relaxing at home.
We tried to make Rachel's apperance innocent but with hints of a dark secret, such as the smoking (an indication of her weakness for drugs, although they are legal ones) and the bruce springsteen top which indicates a rockier edge to her life, the complete opposite to the colourful braclets and butterfly-print top we have previously seen her wear.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
After doing some research, we found that the film 'Butterfly Effect' was distributed by the film company 'New Line Cinema', we chose this company because they like 'Butterfly Effect' they produce many thriller/horror films such as 'Friday the 13th & 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' which is the type of film our's is. For these reasons we have decided to use them as the company to distribute our film.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
16-24 would be the main target audience of our film. We chose this target audience because this is the age most people go to watch films at, and from the questionaire results helped we gathered that this age group was the most interested in thriller/horror films. As the plot involves violence and no romantic side plot, I think the film would appeal to males slightly more than females- however, it would still appeal to women who were fans of the thriller genre.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
We tried to uses dark music in the first scene because the first scene on the screen is a happy couple walking in the sunshine, yet the music in the background is dark which makes the audience wonder what is going to happen. We put music that didn't fit the clip into uout product as it was intended to let the audience question what is going on. As out target audience is 16-24 we decided to use a young couple as the audience can relate to them. We also used a nice sunny field as it is relatable as a place were people can go for walks as our couple did.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Whilst making our film, i have learnt alot about film making and the the technical aspects of it. The most useful thing I have learnt is about the editing programme. For the project we used the editing software we used was Adobe Premiere Pro. We struggled throughout production with technical errors- things like files going missing and sound disappearing. The programme used also had problems as it crashed fequently and it was very slow in doing the most simple of editing such as straight cuts. We are the first year to do AS Media Studies at Ken Stimpson we were the guinea pigs for the software and equipment, and most of the staff were learning to use it at the same time as we were. There was also problems with the school camera as the microphone didnt work properly which lead us to having poor sound quality, We also had to use YouTube in order to be able to display the videos on this blog- none of us had uploaded videos onto the site before, so we all had to work out how to do this.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Througout our preliminary task, we were simply focusing on how to do certain camera shots, we gained the ability to use them in the right way and show what we wanted the audience to think as well. The point of the preliminary task is to get use to the camera, and to experiment with different types of shots and angles such as 180 degree rule and match on action, which we later used in our main project, as well as the technique of shot/reverse shot, which involves shooting one character from the front while there is a part of the character they are speaking to in the shot.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Audience Research
These are the questions we asked 30 students at our school about films and the top 3 answers for each question.
1. What type of Genre are you interested in?
1. Comedy
2. Romance
3. Horror/Action/Sci-Fi
2. What interests you in this type of Genre?
1. Funny
2. Edgy
3. Love/Fantasy
3. What interests you in going to the cinema?
1. Friends
2. The Film
3. Quality/Food + Drink
4. How do you usually watch films?
1. TV
2. DVD/Cinema
3. Internet
5. Do you watch certain films because of a certain actor? (If yes please state who?)
1. No
2. Yes (Jim Carey, Jonny Depp, Hugh Grant)
6. Do you watch certain films because of certain Directors? (If yes please state who?)
1. No
2. Yes (Spielberg, James Cameron)
7. Name 3 films you have recently seen?
1. Avator 3D
2. Alice in Wonderland 3D
3. Twilight 2: New Moon
These are the results of our Audience research as 'our' age group is the type of audience we are looking for.
1. What type of Genre are you interested in?
1. Comedy
2. Romance
3. Horror/Action/Sci-Fi
2. What interests you in this type of Genre?
1. Funny
2. Edgy
3. Love/Fantasy
3. What interests you in going to the cinema?
1. Friends
2. The Film
3. Quality/Food + Drink
4. How do you usually watch films?
1. TV
2. DVD/Cinema
3. Internet
5. Do you watch certain films because of a certain actor? (If yes please state who?)
1. No
2. Yes (Jim Carey, Jonny Depp, Hugh Grant)
6. Do you watch certain films because of certain Directors? (If yes please state who?)
1. No
2. Yes (Spielberg, James Cameron)
7. Name 3 films you have recently seen?
1. Avator 3D
2. Alice in Wonderland 3D
3. Twilight 2: New Moon
These are the results of our Audience research as 'our' age group is the type of audience we are looking for.
These are pictures of the blood scenes we used... some are pictures what we were going to use but then didn't...
This picture is of the scene were Rachel is found, this is the scene we ended up using in our film as the lighting in the indoor scene's wasn't good and the sunshine outside helped conrats the drak events that have happened.
This picture is of our group trying to make some fake blood and the end product, as you can see it wasn't very good so we decided to scrap the idea.
This is Matthew after he wakes up from his blackout, another scene we ended up not using, also the knife which Matthew finds as he is running out of the house.
This picture is of the scene were Rachel is found, this is the scene we ended up using in our film as the lighting in the indoor scene's wasn't good and the sunshine outside helped conrats the drak events that have happened.
This picture is of our group trying to make some fake blood and the end product, as you can see it wasn't very good so we decided to scrap the idea.
This is Matthew after he wakes up from his blackout, another scene we ended up not using, also the knife which Matthew finds as he is running out of the house.
Monday, 12 April 2010
These are some of the clothes used in our film...
Dan (Matthew) is wearing a normal top in the first scene with jeans and socks on, this indicates that he is just a normal average guy. However in later scene he is scene in Black shoe's and a Tie which shot there is a darker side to our character.
Dan (Matthew) is wearing a normal top in the first scene with jeans and socks on, this indicates that he is just a normal average guy. However in later scene he is scene in Black shoe's and a Tie which shot there is a darker side to our character.
Nikkie's (Rachel's) braclet's and bright coloured top indicate a lively, innocent person, the braclets show her childlike nature and help show her vulnerability as she is only in the film for a couple of minutes. However is contrasted by the Bruce Springsteen top.
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