Question 6.

Through the process of constructing this movie I have learnt many things in terms of technologies.

Technologies may include the camera work. There is great detail needed in order to gain great focus, clarity but also convey meaning. There are different shots needed in order to convey meaning for example the establishing shots establish the location but for the audience, it also established the type of genre conveyed and also builds up conventions in the genre. Not only cinematography was learnt but also the actual camera.  We used a JVC pro camera,  it is not the same as big blockbuster movies however it was good enough especially with the budget,  there is great difference between the types of cameras used which is one thing I learnt the most when constructing our final product.

Internet based technologies include Safari which was mainly used for research and planning stages building up to our final product. We also used Blogger which was almost our log book for all research,  planning, and final pieces that was an ongoing updated technology to the final product, it can be seen as a record of our progress.

Other technologies may include the post production,  editing stage of the product. This stage we used editing programmes such as Final Cut Pro on Mac. Here we not only merged all clips together,  adding fades and our credits but we also learnt techniques with music and also building the clarity of the clips.

Question 3.

As a low budget film, this film will more than likely not be mafe into a blockbuster and be supported by conglomerates such Marvel. However, this will most likely be categorised as a British Independent film, one that will most likely gain support to be published by film frstivals such as Sundance or FilmFest. Companies involved in the film may include Big Talks productions or Film 4.

However we have had the support from the production company "Silverscreen productions" and the distribution company.

We used these as our own, these are companies who support independent British films and mainly target those of student making or small projects. This was perfect for us as this was exactly how our project was revolved around. These companies are much more realistic for us and are based around our level of the film industry, that being not too advanced.

Question 1.

Conventions are elemnts in the filn that the audience will expect to see in the film, this is usuakly based of the genre of the film.

In the case of my film being an urban british movie dealing with the struggles of a young adult; the audience have a mental schema set up in accordance to the genre. Conventions may include family struggles, ambitions, drugs/violence/alcohol, they make expect Grime, rapping, urban music, stereotypes of young adults to be fulfilled, etc.

However, my film does support these conventions but may also challenge these conventions building something new for the audience.

Conventions that are fulfilled not only for the genre of my film but general teen movies will be compared to the movie Fish Tank

Distribution idents, violence between characters,  establishing shots of the location but also establishing the main character of the movie, etc. Here some comparisons

Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task. what do you del you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 1

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

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?




For our main character we wanted to have her represent the urban side of London. We included many shots of her outfit including closeups of  her shoes and earrings and a wide shot that showed her backpack as she was walking into her house. We felt that tracksuits, trainers and gold hoop earrings were stereotypically worn by characters who were dealing with troubles but were tough, not in a negative aspect as in they cause fights, but are tough in the sense of even though they are the victim they don't let their troubles affect them because they still wake up everyday and get on with life.

We wanted to use a binary opposition for the bullies our main character encounters. While our main character looked more urban we wanted the bullies to look more casual in clothing that looked more expensive. Bullies stereotypically act like they are better than everybody because they are more fortunate than others, even though most of the time they are also dealing with problems behind closed doors. The close ups of the bullies are shown in slightly low angles to make them look like they are looking down on our main character.

We wanted to portray the sister in a negative aspect, as a rebel, because she is the main bully in our teen film. It is stereotypically accepted that if a young adult is wearing a hoody then it means that they are bad so we applied that statement to our film. We also used mise en scene to create her as a rebel by adding a close up of her doing weed in her bedroom and also half empty bottles of alcohol on the window sill to imply to the audience that she had been drinking alcohol.