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.

Evaluation Question 3

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

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 6

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

Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the profession from it to the full product?

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The social groups my film relates to is typical teenagers who are left lonely and whom are having to be facing life's struggles on their own. Mostly though, my film will attract more fe-males rather than males because of the characters produced by fe-males in my group. As well as the stereotypes in my film; princess, casual, sporty and the girl getting bullied. For this reason, we may be loosing some viewers and prevent males from wanting to watch our film.

we've specifically proven that our film is aimed at fe-male teens whom have problems with their siblings, lonely people that are having to deal with depression without the support of nobody. This has been presented through the stereotypes to the audience through; camera work, editing, sound and mis-en-scene.


Comparison to my prelim


 

33. PRELIM - Kaay, Gizem, Sophie, Sammy from 283goswell on Vimeo.


In my prelim, we've represented different social groups and stereotypes as; the higher class, the stupid worker and the sneaky receptionist. The way we've achieved this is mainly by the Mis-en-scene relating to the type of costumes and props we've used. For example, We've used the card to represent authority, we've used the blazer for Kay to make her appear like a receptionist.  The types of camera angles we've used aren't quite interesting here as we've created this clip way long ago.

Evaluation Question 3

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

Media, Question 3 from gizkidagli

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?
Here is the Powtoon I've created.

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Here is the link to the Slide.es

Evaluation Question 6

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

This is the Prezi I've created.

Evaluation Question 7

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

Evaluation: Question 1

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

Convention is something that you expect to find within a film from a specific genre. 


Comparisons between my film and Kidulthood and Fishtank: Fishtank and Kidulthood are both teen movies and they are set in Britain, like mine. They are both also drama genres and but Fishtank has a female main character like my movie but on the other had Kidulthood had a male main character. Both these films still follow the same conventions for all teen movies, in relation to camera work, sound, editing and miss-en-scene, which is demonstrated in the comparisons below.

Distribution Company Idents: These come first in title sequences and this is conventional in teen movies: 

My film

Kidulthood

Fishtank

Production Company Identsmconventionally, comes next in title sequences

The title of the film come right before the movie starts, in my film and both Kidulthood and Fishtank:

My Film

Kidulthood

Fishtank

There is a shot that establishes the main character and show their costume (Mid/Long shots):

My Film

Kidulthood

Fishtank

There are shots that show muse-en-scene, and this establishes the setting, which London (Long/Wide shot):

My film: the red bus and buildings shows its London

Kidulthood

There are also shots that show that there are some themes like bullying/conflict with friends and family (Mid-close up shots):

My film (Conflict with family/Bullying)

Kidulthood (Conflict with social groups/Bullying)

Fishtank (Conflict with family/Bullying)

Shots that show an unhealthy and rebellious location. The miss-en-sence includes drink and drugs (Mid and Long shots):

My film

Kidulthood

Fishtank

The music used is also similar to the one in my film, it suggests and urban, British feeling and this is a convention of teen urban movies in London. I used Camtasia to cut and edit my film and Kidulthood, into small clips that show the urban music the clearest:

 

This is my film, showing the urban sound and below is Kidulthood, showing the same thing:

Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation: Question 3

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

Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be in the audience for your media product?

Evaluation: Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

I filmed someone that is in my target audience and she told me how my film appealed to her:

Then I done an interview telling how my rough cut feedback helped my attract my audience more and how my film has been viewed so far, and how it will be viewed in the future: 

Evaluation: Question 6

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

Evaluation: Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?

Pre-production was very different because it took much longer firstly, and much more thought and effort was but in to in. From doing the prelim, we noticed that the more you plan, the smoother and cleaner the production part is. We done multiple storyboards for our final film, improving each time, which helped the filming be as easy as it could be. Production was much not quicker for the final that the prelim, but it was simpler. Since we had learnt how to use the camera, chose angle and shots and use different techniques, it was smoother as we knew what we were doing. The editing process was longer, simply because the actual clip was longer, it was easy as I was familiar with the software, and this left room for us to add extra things to the product, like Foley sounds - these are sounds that exaggerate diegetic sounds making them clearer. During editing we had to make sure that the match cutting were consistent and did not look like jump cuts, also the 180 degree rule was not really used in my film and the thirds rule was used in our film and any shots that weren't like this, were not used.

I used Glogster how the difference in camera work, mise-en-scene, sound and editing, between my prelim and my final product:

Overall, I have learnt how to better myself as I taught myself how to get used to things like the camera and software, that contributed to the success of my film opening.

Reflective Blog On Progress

Unfortunately, it's nearly the end of editing, blogging, filming etc. It has certainly been a great experience getting to know media in depth and all the fun that came with it during the filming process which I could absoluetly say was the most enjoyable part of Media. There were things like editing and all the blogging that I never liked at first but now, I look back and just laugh. I love blogging ! It urges me to be creative and allow me to express what I've learnt from class and the environment to share it with you. To be honest though, I never liked editng and nor will I now, I don't dislike it as much but I can't say that I 'don't 'love' it because it's just technically complicated.

Talking about our film, I believe we actually did a great job despite all the hard working during editing which had exhausted us, we still managed to end it with great success! It took me rather long time to accept the fact that other members of the Media classes will be seeing me at the Cinema which is honestly quite embarrassing. This is also one aspect that I didn't really enjoy during my AS Media year but I hope that all this hard work will be paying off soon.

Feedback from Mary about the rough cut editing

We aren't certain whether the video importing is working or not however, Mary has just very kindly suggested our group a few tips on how to improve our final editing process. Firstly, Mary was amazed over the music we'd chosen! She said how it sounds extremely strong and punchy which captures the audience in very well. She's also was quite impressed with the character organization, the sporty, casual and the princess which comes across very strongly. Mary also suggested that the 'opening the door part' could be on slow motion as well as the 'throwing the phone' scene because the audience could struggle spotting whatever is going on. Finally, we definitely  need to have a fade out at the end of the last shot to end everything.

Title Sequence

These are names that we made up to go in our title sequence:

Production: Silver Screen Production
Distributor: Motion Four Films
(Production in Titile Sequence)
(Distribution in Title Sequence)
Film Title: Bullied

Actor One: Titilope Quadri

Actor Two: Brandy Mongoy

Actor Three: Hayley Culverhouse

Actor Four: Gizem Kirdagli

Casting: Holly Black

Costume: Bailey Lux

Music by: Chuck Bass

Editing by: Harry Cooper

Production Designer: Lara Ward

Photographer: Dean Small

Executive Producer: Leila Sales

Written by: Alex Bold

Director: Ezra Fitz

Titile Change

The title of our film has been Bully, and this is because firstly the main character was meant to be a tough girl going around bullying people including her family and those in the community.

As we developed our film we decided to make her the victim of bullying from those around her rather than the one who is bullying others. We decided to do this as for a teenage audience, it is much easier to relate to and it creates a character that the audience will favour and have sympathy for, this is then keeping our target audience in mind. 

For this reason we have changed the title of our film to Bullied.

Rough Cut of Final Film and Feedback with Improvements

This is the rough cut of our final film:

Feedback:

Firstly, the scene where the main character is opening her front door with a key and the scene where the same character also goes onto the laptop to check an email, telling her that she needs to send a video of her self dancing, to get into a dancing college that she wants to get into. Both these scenes need to be improved. 

Our teacher gave feedback telling us that the key scene is too long ands this is not necessary because it is no an essential part of the film. Also, she told us that the scene where the character is on the laptop, needs to be made clearer because it is quite blurry.

Improvements:

To make these problems better, we will cut down the scene where the main character is opening the door, and we may add another charter walking to fill in the space.

For the other scene that needs to be improved we will call a technician to help us make it look clearer. 

Editing

These are some images of one of our group members editing our filming:

 She is editing in the editing suite.

She also talked about her experiences while edition the film and what is king well swell as what had gone wrong:

Editing Process

Right now, we are up to the stage in editing where we are adding music.

The editing process was difficult because deciding what scenes and shots to use was hard and time consuming. Also, we noticed some mistakes in our work but this didn't really effect our film because we filmed most of our scenes many times so there was always alternatives. 

This is a video hat we done to add and edit our music

Behind The Scenes vlog

Here is a compilation of clips we filmed behind the scenes to show the filming of our opening.

The clips were filmed on a Panasonic HC-V110 and edited on Magix movie editor.

After Filming Progress

This is a GoAnimate video of how filming went for me and my group...

After Filming by Teequadri on GoAnimate

Go Animate

Titilope and Gizem's Cchat about their film

Interviewing the stars of our film

Interviews with the cast

This is Gizem, who plays a mean girl in the film who does not like the main character and she talks about her character and her worries abou the filming day.

This is Titilope, who plays the main character and she talks about her inspirations on how she will be playing her character and what she thinks about the groups film plot.

Progression Blog

We are going to start filing on the weekend before the half term and, if we need to, we will have to continue filming a couple days into the half term week.

We could not film today because, unfortunatley our group was incomplete as half of the members couon thursday the 13th due to them being unwell.

Now our plan is:

Thursday 13 February: We will finish all oyr extra planning on this day and make sure we know everything we will be doing on our filming day.

Firday 14th February: We will meet up at our location and begin our filimg process and at this stage all memebers of the group will be together plus an extra character. We will try to finish most of our film on this day.

Sunday 16th February: We will continue filming on this day finishing up if we are not already filming.

Monday 17th February: We will add finishing touches on this day, although we hoping that we would be finished before this day.

The weather on our filming days:

This is the weather on the days tha we will be filming iur movie

Most of our filming days do not seem like it will allow us to film outside on these days, the scenes outside may have to be left to sunday to film it, as it is not really raining on this day.

Presentaation Feedback

Our Teacher gave us important tips that we had to consider to make out Pitch Presentation better:

The slide that we had to improve on

Improvements:

We should improve our 'audience details' slide by adding more specific  information such as, the audience of our film would be teenagers who live in London and most likley girls because they go through more harder times with their siblings and peers so they can relate to our film.

We have preiviously learnt some themes that are used in teen movies and we tried to apply some of them to out film. Conflict with family/adults and conflict with friends are both common in teen movies and we explore these themes in our movie. We think that this will attract teenagers and help the audience to undrstand that our film is targeted to teenagers.

Our main character is a girl so our film is likely to atract female teens. However, our film may also atract older people because they may be going through similar problems with families etc, like our main character is. 

Presenting Film Pitch

First Film Pitch