BLOG FINISHED/CLOSED

This is the end of our group blog, and mine as an individual; we have finished our production and all of the research and all of the aspects we needed to complete.

Final Production

Evaluation Question 7

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

When we did the preliminary, we had no idea what we were doing and had no experience with the software that we were going to use, so we had to get better with the software; practise makes perfect. When we completed the preliminary we only gather a minimum level of basic skills on how to use all of the programs.

starting our final production was a struggle as we were  limited with amount of editing we could do as we weren't able to use the features. Youtube was a big help as it gave use tutorials which helped make our production smoother and better, as we got the advanced skills needed to make to do this. we have come along way from the preliminary as we have learnt so much through editing,camera work, and other aspects of production.

I am now able to use many software programs:Adobe Premiere Pro CS4,Soundbooth and After Effects. and other types of equipment that we used throughout the production.  all of the features and aspects of these software and programs, i have been been able to gain advanced skills and knowledge on how to make  successful production.

When we did our preliminary task we were only subject to little amounts of camerawork, and now we have exposed to a huge range of them, this would also be the same for lighting and sound as we hadn't had any practise and had low knowledge of them; since then we have been able to consider these aspects and add them into our production making as good as we possibly can.

As you can the top image is a High angle of Me, and Joe this is an example of the different types of camera angles that we have been exposed, as we didn't know a lot about the different types of angles and shots. We have many other types of angles and shots that we didn't know about so this proves we have learnt new things and improve as media students, and basic skills that we have learnt throughout.

Evaulation Question 6

Evaluation Question 5

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

This is Elle Marriott; she’s a 17 year old girl from Peterborough. Elle is a student studying her A-Levels at her local school where she has attended since the beginning of secondary school.

Throughout school Elle’s interests and hobbies have remained the same. She is a very keen dancer and very enthusiastic about sport. Being a dancer Elle listens to a wide range of music to suit her different dance styles. This would mean that Elle would be a fan of the music in our production. The music relates to our audience in the sense that it is a current song which is quite popular with many people, and it also has a lot of emotion behind the lyrics which can relate to teenagers going through similar problems.

In Elle’s spare time she likes to go out with her friends and chill out. Her friends share the same taste in music and films and always watch their favourite productions together.

Some of Elle’s favourite films range from loads of different genres. She likes comedy films like ‘Step-brothers’ and ‘the hangover’ but she also like Rom-Com’s like ‘John Tucker must die’. Elle is also interested in social films which represent class within schools for people similar to her age like ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘Angus, thongs and perfect snogging’.

Our media production is similar to the films Elle likes which is why we are targeting her as one of our primary viewers, other people with the same interests and hobbies as Elle will also be interested.

Evaluation Question 3

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

We all thought about different things we could call our production company and then we sat down and discussed which one was the best and that’s when we chose ‘Film Star Productions’. We wanted our production name to be a catchy one so it stands out to the right audience. We got our inspiration from big film companies like ‘20th century fox’. A production company is the one who produces the films. The more well known companies to produce your film mean more people will be intrigued to watch it. The money we would have raised for our film to be produced and distributed could be through promotions. Promoting our film to see if anyone is interested. We could do surveys in the street to get research on what the public would think to our film and what sort of films they would like to see, this is so we can make our film appealing to them. Our film is institutionally similar to other romance/comedy films produced by the ‘20th century fox’ because that is what we are aiming our production company to be similar to. It’s institutionally similar to films such as ‘Where the heart is’ and ‘John tucker must die’.

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We have found a similarity to Gina in John Tucker Must Die. John tucker is a love rat who likes to play girls and can never stick to one girl. In the film the girls are trying to get him back and the only way they can do this is revenge. This links to our film because Gina dumps Joe and Joe then wants to get Gina back because she has dumped him for another boy. It also links because it is to do with being in a relationship with someone However, there are a few differences in this, these are that Gina is a girl and John is a boy. Also, the girls are trying to get John back because he went out with all of them at the same time, whereas Joe just wants to get back at Gina because she has found someone else while she was with him. But it still fits because it is about being in a relationship with someone and it not working out.

This film would mainly be suited for girly girls; this is because it’s all about romance and boys and stereotypically you wouldn’t really see goth/emo going to watch this film because usually they are not into love and ‘cute’ films, its more about a horror kind of movie. However in some cases this could be suited for boys if they were looking for some inspiration on what to do, meaning they could be in this kind of situation themselves. However most girls like watching them because they could also relate to them and because they enjoy watching them.

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

Our opening sequence consists of a typical teenage lifestyle: young relationships, being upset, having fun and the typical home life. Ours start sequence is different to other romance/comedies because it tries not to give to much away it will give you the typical story line, but it doesn't tell you the whole story in the first two minutes. The title of the film comes up last in the opening because watching the 1st few minutes intrigues you but also leaves you hanging because you don't have any idea what the films called or about, but as the title comes up you can understand whats going to happen, without giving away the full story. The costumes we picked are made to be up to fashion so that the teenagers today can relate to these characters. We have used a minimum amount of edits in the opening sequence so it doesn't jump through the whole begining but gives enough edits to get the understanding across to the audience. The characters are introduces right from the start as Joe and Georgina (our main characters) are the 1st to appear on screen so you get the understandind straight from the start. Our genre is romcom and our opening clearly states that with the two being all loved up and then suddenly being apart, followed by our title later on 'Karma'.

Overview

As we have nearly completed our final production we have to look forward and get prepared to answer evaluation questions, there are seven for us too answer which some we cant complete until our production is complete but we can have answer the rest of them; Some people we have asked have done voice overs,videos, and some just text. so we compared some blogs that people have done and we decided that we were going to  use videos and text as it was more imaginative then just using text; as this is really boring and people will become less interested and enthusiastic about our work. We are going to structure the seven questions on separate posts as this helps the reader look at it, with ease.

When we have finished the final production we will then go on  to answer the following questions that require it to be completed, before we could right a good reponse to the question as it may need screen grabs etc. Were deciding who is going to speak in the videos as we are ina group with the two actors which as they have beened filmed should they speak? but as they have they would have the best repsonse to the questions; As they were the characters of the film.  There arguement is we should do it as they have been filmed.

Film Star Productions

We have uploaded a rough cut  of a our final production, we have a positive criticism, which we will us it to  re-film and edit the production ensuring that there is nothing wrong with it and the film is at its highest potential.

Titles and Sound Effects

I feel that titles will be a major part of the opening scene as, it will grab the attention of the audince which is very  important; I will be using specail titles and sound effects to create my main titles. Adobe after effects and soundbooth are the tools i am going to use,to create them.We couldn't decied what titles we should use for our opening scene so i asked what people what they thought and what sort of titles that they liked, which nearly everyone said Fly by Titles, so using there feedback that we got.

MEDIA GROUP QUESTIONAIRE EXERCISE

Title, sound and editing

What type of title sequence do you feel is most appropriate for a ROM-COM?

How long do you feel a title sequence should last?

What kind of sound effects do you feel most appropriate for a ROM-COM?

Taking our genre into consideration, what type of editing do you think we should use?

If you were watching a ROM-COM what kind of music and sound would you want to be included?

How far into the opening of a film do you feel the titles should start?

Detailed plan of filming

·         Titles and actors name... positions like sound editor in there,

·         Snapshots of Joe and Gina when they were together

·         Establishing wide shot, near Joes home showing the area that we will be filming... for instance film the sky gradually lowering until we are the camera shot.

·          Two shot of Me and Joe walking to his house I say to Joe “mate there is only one way to get her back; play her at her own game”, I will carry on and Joe will be filmed entering his home.

·         From inside his home, he run up his stairs and match on action on his door entering....he will go to lay on his bed when he sees a picture of Gina he pick as the picture up  and remissness over her... fade out of video.. With him and Gina walking to the under pass.

·         Overlaying that video he hears me say “mate there is only one way you can get her back;play here at her own game” the video fades out and he grins.... rips the picture in half and puts it on his bedside cabinet and lays on his bed.

·         Close up on ripped picture titles come up above the picture.

Our storyboard is only a rough draft of what we are going to do, as we haven't come to a complete decision about specific details of our opening scene, we will film each individual shot and we will decide if the shot is correct and appropriate for the opening scene. The way that we will decide if the shot is appropriate is if the the scene flows through and doesn't leave us confused or more importantly the audience.

These were a recce of teh location that we may use for part of our opening scene, these were chosen becuase we needed a long path to set the scene and films some shots. we chose this path over many other locations as had many aspects that made it relate to the scene.

 

Went we for a recce trip and we thought  that it would be good to collect some photo's for our opening scene, we also collected personnel photo's of the actors Jacob and Isabella through out their life together. these are the photos where they are as they collected so that we could create a  collage for the opening scene. 

Reasearch and Filming

We Went out for a reckie trip as we needed to decide on the location for the opening scene of our film, after looking around we collecting an amount of pictures: we have yet to decide what pictures are going to be the area we actually film in, as there was so many to decide from .

As we were out we took the time to film some of our opening scene to get a quick glimpse of what our film would like, we will edit it to make sure that everything is okay and then we will go out again and re film it as we haven't decided if there area we filmed it in is the area that we going to use.

Background Song

We decided to analyse some music that we thought may relate to the film that we have chosen to do. We have looked at a few songs, but we came down to just two. To get the right song for your film you have to look if it will fit in and will relate to the film that your doing as it will sound odd otherwise.



'Maybe' and 'Wherever you will go' are the two songs that we chose, we are debating whether which one is the right choice for the scene in our film; Analysing the aspects for each song is very easy we've come to conclusion that they are completely different as they have different speeds, type of lyrics,and instrumental. Considering this we finally decided to use 'Wherever you will go' as we feel this will relate best.

There are two scenes in our film that need a background song, we have chosen 'Wherever you will go' for one of the scenes and now we need another one; This scene is different as this scene shows happy emotions so we need a song that will relate to this so we were analysing this two songs so that we can decide.



as a group wqe analysed the Pro's and Con's of each of these of the songs and we have finally come to a conclusion; 'Kiss Me' is the song we have chosen, we have chose this because the scene has intimacy which 'Wherever you will go' relates to the scene.