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.