Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Feedback of the Feedback
I’d like to thank my classmates and I appreciate the feedback on my film. Looking back on it now, and having watched it on the bigger screen with different speakers I realise that my friends are correct and the music is much louder than it could have been. However I am satisfied with the resulting film that I made.
Friday, 5 March 2010
Tuesday, 2 March 2010
The Seven Questions
1)In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2)How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3)What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4)Who would be the audience for your media product?
5)How did you attract and address your audience?
6)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
1) My media product uses conventions that are used in Horror Films in that Andy and Conall are both representing young people, they are having a party at Conall’s place and Andy in particular is thinking about getting with a girl that night. My film challenges traditional media conventions in that Andy, who is quite well built is running scared from Tizian who plays the murderer and who is very skinny and not very threatening in his appearance. It also has in the beginning of the video a “New Line Cinema” logo which appears at the start of most films by that production company in order that the company can increase its fame and also so people know that if the film was good it was made by this company on the chance that they might make other films. The film follows the basic conventions of a horror based film, where there is a basic equilibrium which is swiftly disrupted by a murder. It is different in that for this film I have only planned the first two minutes in great detail whereas the rest of the film is simply a rough storyline. I had my actors speaking without other things going on in the background so that the camera would only focus on what they were saying and doing. The weather somewhat helped my setting for the film because it had started snowing by the time we had finished the outdoor shots, which conveyed a sombre mood and set us up for the feeling that something bad was going to happen to Andy. At the start of my film it’s genre is quite hard to ascertain, it is a horror although it could appear to be a hybrid of horror, action or thriller. Something I could work on in this film is making the film’s genre more clear straight away.
2) My media product presents the young, cool, good looking people as the good guys who are just going out and getting on with life as the good guys, I represented this through mise-en-scene by having them wearing loose, colourful clothes, listening to cool music, taking care of their appearances. Elements of cinematography that represent Andy and Conall well are that they are that they are both shown with mid shots and brightly lit shots so that you can clearly see their faces, they also have much more active movement within their shots which makes them appear more relaxed and more chilled. Sound represents them as the good guys because they have a friendly conversation, and there is also some chilled, beats music which is also represents them as the good guys because it is fun party music. The editing which represents Andy and Connal is both fast paced which shows them as active characters and also their acting and the things that they do display normality, Conall is sitting on his bed reading and Andy is drying and straightening his hair and they have a conversation between their two characters. And it also represents the evil loner type person who would wait in the woods for someone to murder for an unknown reason as the bad people, he wears all dark clothes, big heavy looking boots and he has a hood up and pulled down over his face so no one can see who he is. The cinematography represents him as a bad guy because all of the shots of him are taken from a low angle in order to represent inferiority and also give the audience a feeling of fear of him. When the evil character comes along the music changes from a club drum ‘n bass into dark sounding heavy metal and this persists when he is in the shot. The editing with Tizian’s evil character to begin with is quite slow, it portrays a dark sense of purpose from this character as he stalks after the happy and jovial Andy, once Andy has noticed him and the chase ensues the editing becomes quite swift, Andy is running for his life and also Tizian has lost his purposeful movement because Andy has caught sight of him and his plan has gone wrong
3) The product I have made would hopefully be distributed by a film/television company, possibly Channel Four or Film Four, also maybe the BBC channels or ITV if the film was good enough because they are more likely to show a lot of British based films in order to keep up the economy of the British film industry.
4) The audience for this product would be older teenagers up to adults in their mid thirties because the film is of the horror genre; which of course reduces the audience range and of course it would also have to be shown after the watershed and this would also be a cause for reduction of viewing, also the film would probably appeal more to a male audience than a female one.
5) The audience would be attracted with trailers, the broadcasting of this two minute opening, advertising posters in magazines and at Cinemas. Hopefully the trailer would be exciting enough that the audience would think that they should go and see the film. The characters are young so the audience would be more able to associate with them and hopefully this would also attract in a wider audience.
6) Yes. I have learnt to use the downgraded and not so complex version of Adobe Premier Elements, which has disappointingly fewer options than the version that I was using last year. I also learnt that there is more than making a film which is easy, but making a piece of good entertainment and making it good enough for people to watch is much harder. I had to take a lot of time to put it into the filming, I also had to film at times that made continuity awkward because of my actor’s conflicting timetables, which conflicted so much to the point that I had to make a last minute amendment to my cast and include Tizian as the murderer rather than Alex. For my next film I will try to get actors with more compatible timetables as well as being a bit more adventurous with my shots; but other than that there was really no problem with the issue of editing my film and getting all the shots I needed for this piece of coursework.
7) I used some interesting shots in my film that I got from a series of videos on filming techniques that Mrs Black sent to us. The preliminary task that I did with Sonja and Masie was also a good learning curve, it wasn’t taken very seriously and it was also more difficult for us to use the programme because we were not so familiar with this downgraded material.
2)How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3)What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4)Who would be the audience for your media product?
5)How did you attract and address your audience?
6)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
1) My media product uses conventions that are used in Horror Films in that Andy and Conall are both representing young people, they are having a party at Conall’s place and Andy in particular is thinking about getting with a girl that night. My film challenges traditional media conventions in that Andy, who is quite well built is running scared from Tizian who plays the murderer and who is very skinny and not very threatening in his appearance. It also has in the beginning of the video a “New Line Cinema” logo which appears at the start of most films by that production company in order that the company can increase its fame and also so people know that if the film was good it was made by this company on the chance that they might make other films. The film follows the basic conventions of a horror based film, where there is a basic equilibrium which is swiftly disrupted by a murder. It is different in that for this film I have only planned the first two minutes in great detail whereas the rest of the film is simply a rough storyline. I had my actors speaking without other things going on in the background so that the camera would only focus on what they were saying and doing. The weather somewhat helped my setting for the film because it had started snowing by the time we had finished the outdoor shots, which conveyed a sombre mood and set us up for the feeling that something bad was going to happen to Andy. At the start of my film it’s genre is quite hard to ascertain, it is a horror although it could appear to be a hybrid of horror, action or thriller. Something I could work on in this film is making the film’s genre more clear straight away.
2) My media product presents the young, cool, good looking people as the good guys who are just going out and getting on with life as the good guys, I represented this through mise-en-scene by having them wearing loose, colourful clothes, listening to cool music, taking care of their appearances. Elements of cinematography that represent Andy and Conall well are that they are that they are both shown with mid shots and brightly lit shots so that you can clearly see their faces, they also have much more active movement within their shots which makes them appear more relaxed and more chilled. Sound represents them as the good guys because they have a friendly conversation, and there is also some chilled, beats music which is also represents them as the good guys because it is fun party music. The editing which represents Andy and Connal is both fast paced which shows them as active characters and also their acting and the things that they do display normality, Conall is sitting on his bed reading and Andy is drying and straightening his hair and they have a conversation between their two characters. And it also represents the evil loner type person who would wait in the woods for someone to murder for an unknown reason as the bad people, he wears all dark clothes, big heavy looking boots and he has a hood up and pulled down over his face so no one can see who he is. The cinematography represents him as a bad guy because all of the shots of him are taken from a low angle in order to represent inferiority and also give the audience a feeling of fear of him. When the evil character comes along the music changes from a club drum ‘n bass into dark sounding heavy metal and this persists when he is in the shot. The editing with Tizian’s evil character to begin with is quite slow, it portrays a dark sense of purpose from this character as he stalks after the happy and jovial Andy, once Andy has noticed him and the chase ensues the editing becomes quite swift, Andy is running for his life and also Tizian has lost his purposeful movement because Andy has caught sight of him and his plan has gone wrong
3) The product I have made would hopefully be distributed by a film/television company, possibly Channel Four or Film Four, also maybe the BBC channels or ITV if the film was good enough because they are more likely to show a lot of British based films in order to keep up the economy of the British film industry.
4) The audience for this product would be older teenagers up to adults in their mid thirties because the film is of the horror genre; which of course reduces the audience range and of course it would also have to be shown after the watershed and this would also be a cause for reduction of viewing, also the film would probably appeal more to a male audience than a female one.
5) The audience would be attracted with trailers, the broadcasting of this two minute opening, advertising posters in magazines and at Cinemas. Hopefully the trailer would be exciting enough that the audience would think that they should go and see the film. The characters are young so the audience would be more able to associate with them and hopefully this would also attract in a wider audience.
6) Yes. I have learnt to use the downgraded and not so complex version of Adobe Premier Elements, which has disappointingly fewer options than the version that I was using last year. I also learnt that there is more than making a film which is easy, but making a piece of good entertainment and making it good enough for people to watch is much harder. I had to take a lot of time to put it into the filming, I also had to film at times that made continuity awkward because of my actor’s conflicting timetables, which conflicted so much to the point that I had to make a last minute amendment to my cast and include Tizian as the murderer rather than Alex. For my next film I will try to get actors with more compatible timetables as well as being a bit more adventurous with my shots; but other than that there was really no problem with the issue of editing my film and getting all the shots I needed for this piece of coursework.
7) I used some interesting shots in my film that I got from a series of videos on filming techniques that Mrs Black sent to us. The preliminary task that I did with Sonja and Masie was also a good learning curve, it wasn’t taken very seriously and it was also more difficult for us to use the programme because we were not so familiar with this downgraded material.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Monday, 22 February 2010
First Comment In a While
I've been away for a while and not been keeping up with my blog because my coursework was temporarily done and we were doing other work in class.
Lsat week I got a summary of my film curtosey of the class. Mrs Black asked me to sort out some editing with Conall answering his phone, because apparently it looked like he got up to answer the phone before it started ringing. So I deleted a couple of second clip. I also used the scene of Andy turning on the music to make the music go a bit quieter so you can hear the Andy/Conall conversation a bit more clearly. I also paritally edited the titles saying "Don't Scream" so that the two words were closer together; I had recieved criticisms because they were too far apart.
Lsat week I got a summary of my film curtosey of the class. Mrs Black asked me to sort out some editing with Conall answering his phone, because apparently it looked like he got up to answer the phone before it started ringing. So I deleted a couple of second clip. I also used the scene of Andy turning on the music to make the music go a bit quieter so you can hear the Andy/Conall conversation a bit more clearly. I also paritally edited the titles saying "Don't Scream" so that the two words were closer together; I had recieved criticisms because they were too far apart.
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