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?

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.

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.

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

Pitch feedback from our audience.

We used flip video cameras to film our interviews for feedback regarding our pitch.

Shot Practice Storyboard

This is our storyboard where we practiced different shots types and angle to help us with our final piece. There are some things that we done well and some things that we could improve on. In some of our shots, there is too much background shown and the subjects aren't always in the centre. Apart from that we have some interesting shots that have good angle, shot distances and shot types, such as, low angle, POV shots an wide shots.

Criticism on the shots helped us learn from our mistakes when we start filming our teen film. Criticism included too much space around the subject and lots of space within the shot that wasn't necessary.