In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Friday 21 March 2014
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.
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 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?
Wednesday 19 March 2014
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.
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 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
Here is the Powtoon I've created.
Here is the Powtoon I've created.
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
This is the Prezi I've created.
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?
Tuesday 18 March 2014
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.
Production Company Identsmconventionally, comes next in title sequences
There are also shots that show that there are some themes like bullying/conflict with friends and family (Mid-close up shots):
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:
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| My film |
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| Kidulthood |
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| Fishtank |
The title of the film come right before the movie starts, in my film and both Kidulthood and Fishtank:
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| My Film |
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| Kidulthood |
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| Fishtank |
There is a shot that establishes the main character and show their costume (Mid/Long shots):
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| My Film |
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| Kidulthood |
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| Fishtank |
There are shots that show muse-en-scene, and this establishes the setting, which London (Long/Wide shot):
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| My film: the red bus and buildings shows its London |
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| Kidulthood |
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| My film (Conflict with family/Bullying) |
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| Kidulthood (Conflict with social groups/Bullying) |
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| 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):
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| My film |
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| Kidulthood |
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| 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:
Monday 17 March 2014
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.
Tuesday 11 March 2014
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.
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
Thursday 6 March 2014
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
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.
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:
Monday 3 March 2014
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
Saturday 1 March 2014
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.
The clips were filmed on a Panasonic HC-V110 and edited on Magix movie editor.
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