Friday, 1 May 2009
TITLE!!!
We spent ages trying to decide what to call our Thriller and with a little help form our friends we dicided on - "When Summer Ends". This is because our flashback scenes look very much like summer and as the scenes set in the present are done in a school it also represnt the 'School Year'.
Evaluation of finsished production
1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our production follows many of the conventions that are typically in a Thriller such as a crime at the centre of the narrative. Furthermore, we have a antagonist and many protagonists whose lives are directly linked and are trapped in a web of intrigue by the antagonist. Also we used mise-en-scene which echoes/mirrors the protagonist’s plight to really demonstrate that we understood the genre of Thriller. Moreover, we used a convention which is typically seen in Hitchcock films which are also directly linked to the genre of Thriller. On the other hand, our production challenges the conventions of thriller with that fact that we have filmed in bright light conditions and our protagonists don’t really display a flaw that can be exploited by the antagonist as they are all confident and aren’t influenced by their peers.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our production represented 1 particular social group and that was teenagers. Our film followed the social and emotional anguish felt by many young people going through their teenage years. Many social groups were left out of our production due to our target audience. Our target audience was teenagers and upon the distribution of a questionnaire they said they would like to see: “a mixture between Crime, Horror, Psychological and Action. They are more interested in spotting clues to attempt to work out the plot of the story. However, shockers are appreciated, as are the suspense or the film.”
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product why?
I feel “Film4” would like to be evolved in the distribution of our media product as our film has a niche audience and this is what “Film4” specialise in. Furthermore, “Film4” specialise in “Art house” or “Independent amateur film” productions and this is another subject our production would fall into.
4. What would be the audience for you media product?
The audience for our media product would defiantly be teenagers. Our production only features teenagers and teenage problems so there are automatically people that the audience can identify with. Moreover, our questionnaire showed us that teenagers would be the main audience for a thriller showing psychological conflict and therefore would be the people that would go out and watch the actual production.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
We addressed our audience’s needs by producing a questionnaire that would directly show us what our audience would want to see. We attracted our audience by sticking to the conventions, brought up in our questionnaire. This meant that when the production was actually completed we almost had a guarantee that it would appeal to our audience and people would want to watch it. Furthermore, when putting the actual film together we used a combination of clever camera shots and music to maintain our audience’s attention the whole way through our production and always kept them in suspense so it kept within what they audience actually wanted to see.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I had worked with film camera’s before so I didn’t really learn much from that side of constructing our production. However, working with the iMac and the iMovie proved very difficult for me. I had never used this software before so was completely lost at the start but as I familiarised myself with the software it became easier. By the end of my production I could manipulate iMovie to such a standard to produce a well edited film production.
7. Looking back at you preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?
I have learnt that things will go wrong if you become too compliant and think that everything is covered and you won’t have to change anything. Furthermore plan, plan and plan again! Moreover, make sure you have plenty of time to do everything you want to do and so you can complete the film with ease so you can get lots of editing. Editing is THE most important process and shouldn’t be overlooked as a thing you can just do at the end. Our whole group’s actual camera skills have improved greatly and the detail being shown in every shot is much better.
Our production follows many of the conventions that are typically in a Thriller such as a crime at the centre of the narrative. Furthermore, we have a antagonist and many protagonists whose lives are directly linked and are trapped in a web of intrigue by the antagonist. Also we used mise-en-scene which echoes/mirrors the protagonist’s plight to really demonstrate that we understood the genre of Thriller. Moreover, we used a convention which is typically seen in Hitchcock films which are also directly linked to the genre of Thriller. On the other hand, our production challenges the conventions of thriller with that fact that we have filmed in bright light conditions and our protagonists don’t really display a flaw that can be exploited by the antagonist as they are all confident and aren’t influenced by their peers.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our production represented 1 particular social group and that was teenagers. Our film followed the social and emotional anguish felt by many young people going through their teenage years. Many social groups were left out of our production due to our target audience. Our target audience was teenagers and upon the distribution of a questionnaire they said they would like to see: “a mixture between Crime, Horror, Psychological and Action. They are more interested in spotting clues to attempt to work out the plot of the story. However, shockers are appreciated, as are the suspense or the film.”
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product why?
I feel “Film4” would like to be evolved in the distribution of our media product as our film has a niche audience and this is what “Film4” specialise in. Furthermore, “Film4” specialise in “Art house” or “Independent amateur film” productions and this is another subject our production would fall into.
4. What would be the audience for you media product?
The audience for our media product would defiantly be teenagers. Our production only features teenagers and teenage problems so there are automatically people that the audience can identify with. Moreover, our questionnaire showed us that teenagers would be the main audience for a thriller showing psychological conflict and therefore would be the people that would go out and watch the actual production.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
We addressed our audience’s needs by producing a questionnaire that would directly show us what our audience would want to see. We attracted our audience by sticking to the conventions, brought up in our questionnaire. This meant that when the production was actually completed we almost had a guarantee that it would appeal to our audience and people would want to watch it. Furthermore, when putting the actual film together we used a combination of clever camera shots and music to maintain our audience’s attention the whole way through our production and always kept them in suspense so it kept within what they audience actually wanted to see.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I had worked with film camera’s before so I didn’t really learn much from that side of constructing our production. However, working with the iMac and the iMovie proved very difficult for me. I had never used this software before so was completely lost at the start but as I familiarised myself with the software it became easier. By the end of my production I could manipulate iMovie to such a standard to produce a well edited film production.
7. Looking back at you preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?
I have learnt that things will go wrong if you become too compliant and think that everything is covered and you won’t have to change anything. Furthermore plan, plan and plan again! Moreover, make sure you have plenty of time to do everything you want to do and so you can complete the film with ease so you can get lots of editing. Editing is THE most important process and shouldn’t be overlooked as a thing you can just do at the end. Our whole group’s actual camera skills have improved greatly and the detail being shown in every shot is much better.
Monday, 27 April 2009
Editing
Due to me coming form a different school I couldn't take part in much of the editing side of our production. It was disappointing but couldn't be helped, so it was left in the very capable hands of my fellow groups members, Carla and Shaunica. I know they will do it brilliantly so i have nothing to worry about.
Finish filming..
Today my group finished the filming for the start of a thriller. I was unfortunately unable to attend due to extremem toothache... I know sad but true... Hopefully the filming all went well and I look forward to seeing the finished product.
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Production
During the production we used a variety of camera shots, angles and distances. We used mid shots (MS), long shots (LS), close ups (CU), extreme close ups (ECU), over-the-shoulder-shots (OSS). We used shots with camera movement which was mainly pan shots. I found the production a fun experience and enjoyed being behind the camera much more than being infront of the camera.
Friday, 24 April 2009
Filming AGAIN!
Today we re-filmed our film. It went really well, yet again and this time round I starred within along with Shaunica. Many of the actors that were orginally going to take place couldn't make it. We once again filmed over a local park and the shots we got went really well.
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