Evaluation

Evaluation

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of the media products?
Here shows some frame/screen shots of parts of our film. The shots show that most of our film was continual however the storyline with the two characters was monatage, the use of the two characters gave the initial idea of the film, the same loaction shows this aswell. In some parts of the film we did ellipsis whihch meant that we sped a few scenes up. The part when the male actor is entering the house and when the female actress is running a bath, we sped these scenes up, we didnt speed it up by lots as it would look un-natural, we had to do it to the right speed. Another use of speeding it up was that initially our film was too long so we had to make it shorter, speeding it up helped us do this.

2) How does your media product represent particular socail groups?

3) What kind of media institutions distritbute your media product and why?

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

For our film we wanted our target age group around the same age as us; we thought that it would be better to base a film around what we would like. The chosen target audience was 15 - 18 year olds. The image to the left is a picture of 4 students holding up signs of the target audience , we chose these students as they were ages between 15 and 18.

5) How did you attract/address your target audience?
Here is a questionnaire that we created for our target audience to do after they had finished watching our film opening. The questionnaire was designed to shows the target audiences reactions and what they thought about our film. I made the questionnaire for our team to then hand out to people who watched our film. We had good responces which we were very happy with, one common thing that was said to be improved on was the acting skills however everything else the target audience thought was done very well and to a high standard.

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Preliminary

Preliminary Film

Preliminary Task
For the Preliminary task we had to produce a short film which was continual throughout and also keep to the rule of the 180 degree rule. Not only this but we had to also include actors opening a door and shuting it which flowed. The whole of the filming had to flow naturally without interuption.
How My Preliminary Turned Out
In the end me and my partner amie decided to film our preliminary task at school and film two of a our firends, natalie and emily. The plot of the preliminary task was emily walking into a classroom and borrowing a book from natalie. With this simple plot i believe that we got in all the shots we needed and kept to the 180 degree rule.

Shot 1

The image on the left is a shot from the preliminary film. I chose this shot to show how my film was continual and flowed. In this image you can see emily opening the door. We had to make sure that she pushed to door handle right down to make it easier to film it continually.

Shot 2

Now in the image to left you can see the next shot of emily the other side of the doorand about to open it. We remembered that on the other shot was left emily holding the door hangle down becuase of this we had to still show this in the next shot to make it continual. I think that me and amie filmed this part of the film very well. My contributions to this part of the film was that i filmed shot 1 and amie filmed filmed shot 2.

Conclusion

In conclusion i was very pleased with the overall filming and i think that me and amie kept the film continual throughout. I am most proud of the opening door shots becuase it flows naturally however to improve i believe that i could have done a better job of the dialoge part as some parts of the film faded.

Planning

Director's Pitch/ Treatment for Film Opening

As a group we had to think about the directors pitch and the film opening as a whole. On the link to the left you can see the basic outline of the plot and how it will appear to the audience when they watch it. The generic features of the film were very key to highlight and so was the resources needed and location. Permission for location was not exactly needed as it will be at a private home location. Because it is going to be at a memebers of the casts house then there was no need to get a permission slip or anything. The loctaion being at Wills house is perfect for the setting of our film, his long drive way will be excellent to use in our film. Finally we looked at key shots nd special features. We already had in mind what type of shots we wanted and so lucky for us the location was perfect for filming these perfect shots.

Storyboards


This is the first part of the storyboard in which we chose for our filming. To hlep us decide whihch storyboard was best we asked a number of people which one they thought would be most interesting to watch and so chose from there onwards. We also took into consideration whether the film would be easy to film/make and also whether it was a suitable genre for our target audience we chose.

This is the second part of the storyboard and so you can see how the plot of the film carries on. From looking at the storyboard you can already see

The Storyboard above is our chosen storyboard to use!

This is another storyboard that we had a choice of. This storyboard plot idea was mine and i draw it up aswell. Personally i believe that this idea is very realistic and could easily be done, however we asked a few people for the target audience and they prefered the other storyboard.

This film opening wouldn't be full of shots however the shots would be held on for a long time to fill up the 2 minutes. This film opening have a combinations of long shots and close-ups which would be ideal for a beginning of a film.