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.

Evaluation: Question 7.

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.

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.

Evidence of filming 3

On the 3rd day of filming we filmed are last scene in the park. We took shots of the girl running, the gang running after her and everyone in the park. The shot types vary as we have long, short and 2 person shots.

Below are images of us filming. These pictures have been taken using the normal camera.

Todays lesson

In todays lesson we have been editing our clips and making the ident for the film.
Mid way through editing are teacher came and watched what we had so far and gave us feedback on how we could improve the editing and other shots that we needed.

Some of the verbal feedback that we received:

• Film different shot types as we are lacking a few shots.
• Delete previous shots from the intro because they're not needed. 
• Add some sound to the intro.

As well as the editing we have also started making the ident for the film in motion.

We have used a template from the software as we don't have time to figure out how to use it completely and make our own. 

Below are screenshots of us editing and the ident being made. 

Evidence of filming 2

During our second lesson of filming, we travelled on the bus to finish filming our chase scene. We used a variety of  camera shots, different takes and angles to complete our chase scene.

Evidence of filming 1

During this lesson we have filmed the first scene of our teen film. The lesson has been very productive as we have plenty of footage and worked efficiently as a team. The images below are evidence of the team taking turns to film. These shots were taken at Angel station and the bus stop close by. In the upcoming lesson we will go back to filming shots at the other location 'Cool pepper community garden'.

Pitch