Question 5:

Promotional pack :

Newspaper 

This is a newspaper article,  it is often given out for free at train and bus stations. A lot of teenagers uses trains and buses when they go to school so it is a easy way for me to reach out to them because they could read the newspaper.

Twitter

Twitter is used to reach my audience because the target audience for my teen film is aimed at teenagers and twitter is a popular social networking site that teenagers use, so it is a easy way for me to reach out to them. On twitter they can follow the films page and keep updated on whats going on.

Character Interview

Evaluation of filming 5

From the feedback we were given we decided that we would change a few thing such as:
at one point there is a girls scream that we selected because we thought it would be cool to have the scream of the witch but it didnt work so we replaced it with my own scream
there was a shot at the beginning that needed changing becasue there was aman walking through the station that cought your eye
There was a jump cut that needed taking out to increase the flow of the footage
More spacing was needed between the characters when chasing as they are too close together for the next shot to work
there was a second jump cut that could have been improved by changing the shots
and finally we needed to add idents titles and sound from creative commons.

Question 2:

How does your media product represent particular social groups ?

Question 7:

EXAMPLE :

(Bad shot types) In the prelim we didn't film properly, the head of the person head was always cut off but in the full product the filming was good - the persons head isn't cut off -

FULL PRODUCT

PRELIM

Evaluation: Question 4.

This is an account of a teenager who would be a part of the target audience for my teen film. The teenager is a fan of the TV series the walking dead which has a lot of violence and action in it which shows that he is a fan of action movies. The teen movie that I have created is an action and horror movie so it will most likely interest this teenager. 

This individual can be seen to be following a lot of different big film distribution and production companies which shows that he is very interested in movies and most probably watches a lot of movies, especially ones that are made by big major companies. 

From what the account seems to be following it seems as if it is a person who spends a lot of time watching film and tv, and as they are a twitter user they are more likely to find out about the new releases of movies online rather than in cinemas. 

The sub genres of my movie is action and horror. Horror movies usually have action in them as well as horror so it may appeal to this individual as action is present in my opening. Also the walking dead has a sense of thriller to it, so horror may appeal to this teenager as horrors give off a similar feel to some thriller movies. The walking dead seems to have a supernatural feel to it to which is evident in my opening which is the witch.

Evaluation: Question 5.

So far we have reached our audience with the cinema preview which was aimed exclusively at media students. Our film opening is also on Vimeo which makes it available for our target audience and not just the media students at college. As our movie is targeted at horror loving teens, it is beneficial to have the opening on vimeo as it is more likely to reach our audience and have a larger number of viewers as it is easily available and isn't only in cinemas where it is restricted to a certain group of people. Also as it is easier to access on vimeo it is easier to come across by people who like other genres of movies however they may feel that it is a film that they would enjoy. This will result in having a bigger audience.

Question 4:

Who would be the audience for your media product ?

Here is a twitter profile of a person that would be targeted for my media product:

This person is a specific member of my target audience because he is in his teens and my film is targeted at teens 16-18. This profile also shows that he is apart of my target audience is because of his interests. He is following a London rapper named 'Fekky' this artist raps about guns, drugs and sex and this is some of the genres that are shown in my media product and this is why my film will be targeted at this member. Another reasons why is because of the programme he watched 'BBC EastEnders' this programme is based in London and so it my teen film which is why this member is specifically targeted.

A teen film is a film directed at teenagers and young adults that has a story based on interests of teenagers. Teenagers and young adults are usually the people that the teen film interesting as they feel as though they can relate to the characters and story line. Usually in a teen movie the genres which are common are horror, romance or action.

The audience more specific to my sub genre are teenagers that are interested in horror and action. The reason for this is because my film consist some aspects of action in the opening scene and throughout the film there is a lot of horror. Two other specific target audiences that my film may interest are teenagers that live in London and are middle class. The reason why i say people that live in London is because the film was filmed in London so the teenagers can relate because some things that may be happening in the film may be happening to them or they may have experienced it. The reason why i said middle class teenagers is because a lot of middle classed people live in London, so again this could relate to them. 

For my USP i have made a twitter page for my film and i have made a banner that can be used on buses. This unique selling point is good for my specific target audience because twitter is now a very popular social networking site that a lot of teenagers use. Secondly i have made a banner for buses for my unique selling point because teenagers take the bus a lot so it can be seen.

Evaluation: Question 7.

Question 1:

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

Teen films have a variety of defining conventions. Four of those defining conventions could include the   characters, the dialogue, the opening credits and the story line. In most teen films there is a main character then there are supporting characters. If there are too many characters then the audience will lose the closeness of the character and they may become irrelevant. Most characters have a stereotype that they play out throughout the film. In terms of the dialogue, most of the time it creates a symbolic relationship between the actors an the writer of the film, whether it is diagetic or non-diagetic it must have an impact if used at the start of the film opening. Thirdly the opening credits are useful when trying to grab the attention of the audience straight away and it introduces the main characters to the audience. Lastly the theme of the film is presented by using different elements in the opening for example the location - if it were a horror film the location would mostly likely be dark and gloomy.

My media product uses forms and conventions of real media through, themes, opening credits and the introduction of characters.

EVIDENCE OF MAKING SLIDE

Question 6:

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

 

Evaluation: Question 3.

Evaluation: Question 6.

Evaluation: Question 1.

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

Depending on the genre of the movies they usually consist of coming of age, first loves, gangs, rebellion, conflict with parents, teen angst, difficult choices or alienation. Teen films are more likely to be incorporated with drama, action, comedy, horror, romance and thriller. 

Stereotypes such as the cheerleader,  the 'it' crowd, the jock, the nerd and the blond bimbo are found in most teen movies. 

My teen movie opening consists of a gang who are chasing a female character as in movies they are usually thought to be the weaker sex who are easier to attack. The opening which I created comes under the genre of horror mainly and action as there is a chase scene where the gang are chasing the female character.

The idea for the opening of my movie came from the movies attack the block and the blair witch project which are categorised as action and horror.

The conventions of a title sequence is that the producers and distributers are listed first and then comes the names of the actors, and then the music and costumes creators. They follow a strict order as it is usually in order of importance of the creating of the movie.

Evaluation: Question 2.

Question 3:

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

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Question 1

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

The usual genres of a teen film are dramas, horrors, or romcoms; the kind of story lines and themes that that target audience can relate to and show more of an interest in. The conventions of these  consist of difficult choices, conflict and crime, alienation and a love interest. 

For example, our film is based on "Attack The Block" and "The Blair Witch Project" so when comparing the intertextual elements you can see where we have taken characteristics from the characters and conventions of clothing. 

The Title sequence occurs at the beginning of a film and is to show the who brought you this film from the director to the distribution company, it also serves as a nice opportunity to introduce the main characters, usually without dialogue and with a backing track that suits the characters and their activity. 

We selected elements from the conventions of Attack The Block choosing from their characters aspects the way they dresss and the way they deal with situations and comunicate physically with eachother to create a more in deoth and entising product.

Q2

Question 2

Oli Flood's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Q3

Question 3

Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Facebook Profile - Video Maker

I have gathered print screen from one of our target audiences Facebook profile, this gives us an insight to what appeals to our audience and what films and genres they enjoy. 

Teen Films are generally watched by young people aged 14-21, it mostly appears to teenagers because they can relate to the storyline and can identify representations of groups in society.
Our sub genre is Thriller, the audience which will be interested in this genre is probably both males and females as teenagers enjoy heart-pumping thrillers.  
My teen film is Thriller and Action based, this makes our target audience more specific due to the content of our film, for example it may be more appealing to boys because of the gang element and it being a Thriller. Because females may prefer seeing girly things such as fashion, make-up and relationship drama. 

Question 4

Question 5

Our film was based on London teenagers and therefore so was the traget audience but a film like ours is one that can be loved by a wider range of audience memebers. Screening or product at the cinema was very helpful as it reached the demograpaphic of students and London teenagers nonetheless.

To see the comparison is our characters this is how we are on a normal day in lesson and this was us during the filming process in our characters...

Our movie as previously mentioned is a thriller/horror which has a small niche British audience but that can be as succesful as a blockbuster movie,
Take films like Kidulthood for example a small production solely based on London teenagers that generated a great profit and has a cult following in the film itself and even the actors that played these characters the audience loved to hate.

What I think helped appeal to the audience was that the opening was based on something that occurs often in a teenagers life either picking on someone or being picked on its all relatable and clever for an opening sequence as it grabs the audiences atention from an ealry stage.


I filmed one of our viewers to get his opnion...

 

 

 

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Question 6

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Question 7

Final evaluation

The final film opening is now finished. Throughout the opening there is travelling, sound, and representation. In terms of travelling we have walking, for sound we have two instrumentals so that the two social groups is represented (the gangsters and the innocent girl), a voice over, and a sound effect and for representation we have made the used mise en scene so the audience can tell the difference between the two social groups (the gangster and the average girl).
If there were any improvements to be made we could have added more another travelling scene for example a bus scene - we took shots for this scene but we did no add it to the film because it didn't fit in. For sound we could have added monologue so that the characters could've informed the audience with thoughts that they may have had, this could have changed the opinion that the audience had of the character due to their surface appearance.
How we represented the characters was okay so no change would have been made for this.

Overall I am pleased with the film opening scene although there could be some changes and me and my group have successfully worked together to finish it all. Throughout the project we have bonded and come together as one to get everything done, we have helped each other out with editing, filming and blogging and we have all learnt a lot and had a lot of fun !

Evaluating Lesson 7

Toaday I carried out editing in the workshop, to complete our teen film we had to add credits to the start of the film and choose our background music.

Music 

We have selected background music and edited the soundtrack into our teen film, we have chosen an up beat track to emphasise the chase scene and add suspension to the film. The soundtrack has not been copyrighted allowing us to use the track.

Credits 

Our credits show the actors feauturing in the film as wella as the Executive and Director.  We had issues choosing a particular font to match the feel of our film which is very modern, in the end we found a neat font which looked somewhat proffesional. The credits are within the boundaries of the squares, guranteeing that the credits will be shown clearly.

Evalutation of editing - Lesson 6.

In today's lesson we carried on editing. In the editing we adding the credits for the opening and we also added sound. We decided to use instrumentals for the music because we thought it had more of an impact. We chose a song from youtube then converted it into a mp3 file using an online converter.  The song we chose was a instrumental it's rough, loud and has a lot of bass. However it starts off soft, the reason why we chose this song is because it builds up tension for the opening and it makes the audience engage in the film as soon as it starts, which makes them want to watch more.

Once we finished adding the sound and credits we then asked Fergus to give us feedback on what we had finished. From watching it he told us that we could make the credits longer and add some sound effects as well as music. After receiving the feedback we then made changes.

The first change we did was the credits, we made them longer so they crossed over more than one clip. The second change we did was adding sound effect, we adding a sound effect of a gate closing which matches with the clip and we also did a voice over of one of the gang members screaming. The reason why we chose to add the voice over is because we thought it had more of an impact compared the diegetic sound.

 We carried on editing throughout lunch to make sure everything was perfect and we are now finished our teen film. 

Below is evidence of us editing and the gang member (Oliver) recording the voice over :



Evalutation of editing - Lesson 5.

In this lesson we exported what we had so far and uploaded it onto youtube so that we could import it onto the blog. After uploading the rough cut we then presented it and got some feedback.

Change girls scream

Choose different section of opening

Jump cut when looking left and right

Spacing between chase scene

Idents titles and sound

From the feedback we decided that next lesson we will change the girls scream and let the gang member that is chasing the girl scream. We will do this as a voice over instead of re-filming the shot again because it will save time.
We will change the opening section so that we get to the subject of the section instead of showing the station.
In terms of the jump cut, we will have a transition from one scene to another so that we change scene quicker.
Thirdly we will space the chasing scene so that it isn't so long and it doesn't take up so much space in the opening sequence so that we have space to maybe add other clips.
Lastly we will add the titles and sound over the scene. We will also add the ident at the end of the opening scene. The credits will be added over the clips and they will fade in and out. The font from the ident will be the same font used for the credits so that it looks professional.

Feedback

Some feedback that we recieved this lesso:

• change girls scream
• choose different section of opening
• jump cut when looking left and right
• spacing between chase scene
• jump cut in park
• idents titles and sound

Rough Cut

Evaluation of Filming - Lesson 4.

This lesson we had all of our cast in and we had to reshoot some of our shots as we didn't have as many different shots as we thought we did, so we went back to Culpeper park and redid some of the shots including the cast member that wasn't in when we had previously filmed. 

We shot a lot of different clips so that we had enough footage so we won't have to go back to film while we edit.

Whilst filming the last scene it had started to rain which meant that the scene which we had shot the other day had to be reshot as the weather was different and it wouldn't make sense to have it sunny in one shot and have it raining a few seconds later. We hadn't taken a media umbrella with us so the umbrella which I did have was quite small and more care had to be taken to try and not get the equipment wet. 

We used a fig rig today to try and make the handheld shots more steady. However running with a fig rig is harder than running with it handheld. 

The outcome of the filming done to was a positive one as we have finally finished filming all of our scenes and made sure to film each scene more than once incase we want to use different angles or aren't all happy with a certain footage clip.

Evaluation of Filming - Lesson 3.

This lesson consisted of us going to Culpeper park and filming the ending scene of our opening. The weather was much better than all of the previous days which we had filmed, so it was a problem as some of our filming was done in the rain and others were done when it was sunny so it would look weird when we have finished editing and putting together the opening. We were missing one of our members of our cast, so we had to try to work around that and try to get the filming done, so that we have enough footage to experiment with and finish off our opening. We were hoping that we could finish filming so that we have a lot more time to edit our opening.

Evaluation of Filming - Lesson 2.

During our second lesson of filming the weather was slightly better than the lesson before so it was much easier to film chase scenes. We decided to go to a quieter road to film as we thought that we would have less people in the background so there would be less distractions in the shots and also we wouldn't have to reshoot shots again.

Although the roads were slightly quieter there were still many people walking by which delayed some of our filming time and cars were quite loud so we had to wait for them to drive by.

We also filmed the bus scene of this day which was very hard to do handheld as the bus was constantly moving so the filming wasn't very steady. The engine of the bus was also quite loud so the speech that we put into this scene cannot be heard very well. 

Evaluation of filming - Lesson 1.

During our first lesson of filming the opening of our movie we filmed a lot of shots. Overall we have done a lot of filming and have got very strong opening shots which range in a variety of different angles and closeness/wideness. Due to the weather being very miserable we did have to carry around an umbrella which made it hard to film chase scenes as it was hard to follow the camera around making sure it didn't get wet. Also it was quite hard to film in a busy place as many shots had to be reshot due to people getting in the way.

Evidence of Filming 4

In todays lesson we have re-shot some scenes which have previously filmed but haven't come out the way that we would have liked it to. We also finished off filming the last few scenes of our opening. We have also edited our opening.

Evaluation of filming 4.

In this lesson we filmed the final footage that we figured we needed from listening to the feedback that we were given. We decided to film one more chase scene from a road right next to the park. This is where everyone runs into the park from the chase. To make the shots better than the last chase shots we used the fig rig to stabilise the camera and to make sure the movement of the camera was much smoother. We also used the fig rig when filming from the tree to stabilise the camera. We also filmed the girl hiding and everyone seeing the witch. We had a few problems when filming, one of the problems was the rain, it started raining but we still carried on filming (while we has a umbrella over the camera), the rain also made the surface slipper so we had to take extra care with our movement and the equipment so that neither us or the equipment got harmed. Another problem that we has was there was a lot of people in the park and so it was harder for us to film because they got involved in most of the shots so we had to retake, which wasted a lot of time. Having a lot of people in the park also meant that it was noisy and so we had to suggest that we used voiceover just incase none of the dialogue from the actual footage could be used. Overall we had as enjoyable filming lesson and we finished filming. Once we got back to lesson we carried on editing during lunch, which helped us catch up with filming.

Next lesson: we will finish editing and add the ident and finishing touches to the opening scene.