Our evaluation

Oumie&Jordan

Question1:In what ways does your media product use,

develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

• For the starting of the coursework, I was working by myself and I didn’t know what to choose so i started working with Jordan. But first I was looking at two genres to do (comedy&Drama), this is because I enjoyed watching comedy movies, but I was interested in drama, but I made sure I did my research on each one. If you look at my blog, you will see all the research I did on comedy. I found out a lot of things on drama films, so I decided to choose it for my coursework. Then after that me and my partner started working on what our movie is going to be about.

Drama as a genre

Why you went for this genreWe went for this genre because is very realistic and characters are also there's a lot of emotional shots. Also because they are a lot of different sub genre's too such as romantic drama, sport films, period drama, courtroom drama and crime, just like we choose to study ‘kidulthood’.

What conventions you needed to useI think that our film is a good example of our genre because it matches with some films like precious, this is because its an emotional film just like our film. We made sure that our script was just like one of the drama films.

This movie inspirited us to make a DRAMA film because the main character went through a lot just like our character from ‘Time To Go’. Their mums are similar especially they drink a lot and smokes and really don’t care about their kids.

What are the forms and conventions of the genre that you working on?

Time To Go Genre: Drama

Opening credits For our opening credits we done a lot of research. We researched on different drama films such as kidult, and we looked at how long it took for the film to actually start and we timed the credits too.

Mise-en-sceneScenes with Melinda and Liana, with the props she had with her, like the costumes, that can the coat that she was wearing can tell you about her personality. She also had a bad with her, showing that she's running away from her house. The mother in the film was holding a bottle of vodka because she's an alcoholic.

Camera WorkWe used close ups to see the character’s face and especially when Melinda went to her friends house. Establishing shot was used at the ending of our film when Melinda was walking off. Loose frame was used in the scene with Melinda and her mother, when they had an argument.

Editing We used Action match when we was editing, we used it because it allows the audience to see a smooth action despite a cut in a shot. Cross-cutting was used a lot in our film, this was because we wanted the audience to see what was really happening. Credits was added in a style that would fit with drama theme. Soundtrack was added to fit with scene.

SoundSoundtrack was added to build and create tension during the shots.

FontThe title we used were in a simple font with white writing which may suggest happiness, because Melinda is going to live a better life with her dad.

Opening credits

This is an opening credits, that I was talking about on the slide before this one.

Mise-en-scene This is the coat I was talking about…..

Close ups

This is one of the angles we used in the film..

Question2: How does your media product represent particular social

groups?

Melinda16FemaleStudents Working class

She represents the main character that’s in all of the scenes. She's a working class and lives in an estate flat with her mum, which might be a stereotype for black people. In the first scene she's wearing an uniform and the colour of it is purple, it represents a mystery from research I made and also Melinda acts like she’s hiding something from her mum which affects their relationship. The stereotype of teenagers as being aggressive, moody, lazy criminals and hate school, and it connects with how Melinda acts because she's very rude to her mum, even though she thinks that she's not being rude, she really is, especially when she was rolling her eyes at her mum. The type of audience that we like Melinda's character is people that’s the same age as her. This might be because 16 year olds feel like they are always ‘right’. We was trying to create a character that wasn’t around and even though there's a lot of teenagers who have a story. The technical skills that we used was mise-en-scene especially with the costume and props that was around them.

Second Character

Liana16FemaleStudentsWorking class

She represents the main characters best friend. She's working class too but she lives in a flat and has a better life at home then Melinda and Melinda always goes to liana for food and shelter when her mum kicks her out of the house, liana is the type of teenager who might change the stereotype of teenagers because she cares for her friends and she's a nice girl. Young black people are none for being exotic, strange, tribal, criminal and poor.

Third Character

Mum36FemaleSingle-motherIn the film she is a working class mother who is on benefit and who lives in a deprived area in hackney. So she is always drunk and miserable which effects her daughter’s life. This is a negative representation because its stereotyping that working class mothers are always drunk. She's a stereotype of 20-30 year olds because she's always drunk and never awake. But there's a story behind why she's like that, is because her husband left her and Melinda at the age of 10 and she blames her self for it.

Question3:What kind of institution might distribute your media

product & why?

We done are research on Universal and Columbia. This is because the films that is been made are really intrusting, especially ‘Grown Ups’, that’s the movie I researched on, this is because we enjoy watching funny films, but then we decided to do drama because is more eye opening. We also done research on how the opening of productions have changed into something different, the link at the bottom shows the video of what I am talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E98iTbFqRuMI did some research on Columbia because they produce a lot of movies such as Skyfall and Hope Springs.

http://youtu.be/b5XAVws0UsE

Sources we used..

In our film we made our own logo because its being more creative with our film and also to get a better grade from my teacher. We went on http://www.flixpress.com/ to make a logo.

Question4:Who would be the audience for your

media product?On our blog we wrote about what age group would be able to watch our film.

12a will be able to watch this film because they will understand the story.

This website helped us to figure out what we want for our film.

Describe your target audience?We decided to aim our target audience at a mixed gender aged between 15-25; its for people who enjoy watching drama films.Link to your genre? Are target genre is DRAMA. By watching and researching drama films we were able to use similar techniques (Shot reverse shot) and camera shots (point of view, establishing shots, close ups) in our film to create a more successful film.Evidence for this?We carried out a questionnaire to find out specifically what our target audience wanted. We also showed a few people a selection of drama films and asked them what their favourite was.

Psychographic Overview• Girl• Goes to Bridge Academy• Spends most of her time

on social network• Lives near her dads

Demographic Overview • Student• Age 15-18• Bursary £500 per year

Two views of the same user.

Question 5: how did you attract/address your audience?

What research did you do to find what your target audience wanted?We did a questionnaire asking them their age, gender and favourite drama films

and also what sub-genre they prefer to watch.What decisions and revision did you make about form and content based on

these findings? We watched other dramas such as kidulthood and Adulthood, in these films the

opening credits helps us to make our credits. Our questionnaire allowed us to know what drama our target audience likes and we knew what are film should

be based on.Were you successful in attracting your audience?

After finishing our film we showed it to a selection of our target audience and got them to talk about it and we also filmed them talking about what they thought about our film. We got a lot of feedback from our target audience and from the feedback we know what to do for our final finishing of the film. However, they thought that some shots needed

some work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ZRSq8T53A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3haLXvU3k

What could be improved? We watched the review again to see what we could have took from the review and what we can be changed in our finally film.

Question 6: what have you learnt about technologies from process of constructing this product?

Using the camera Using the editing software

We learnt all the camera shots (close up, wide shots, point of view shots etc.)

We learnt some of the shortcuts to allow us to speed up the editing process.

Camera techniques How to add and cut sound clips to get them in time with the rest of the movie.

Camera Angles How to overly texts and titles onto the movie to give information like credits.

Using the tripod to steady the camera; keeping the camera straight on uneven ground and for panning.

How to cut and trim the clips with the correct timings, so that it runs smoothly.

Shooting lots of versions of the scene to help the continuity in the post production.

Using transition effects to soften a switch from one location to another so it does not look so subtle.

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This voki explains everything..

Question 7:looking back at your prelim task, what have you learnt in the progression from that to

the final product?

Preliminary task• Looking back at our first preliminary we have improved a lot. • We used our ipad to film.• Different camera angles and shots. • We learned how to use pre and post production skills like; storyboarding

our ideas and creating scripts for our characters.• We also needed to learn technical skills and how to use certain

equipment. • Using the tripod for the first time.

Evaluation• It was really difficult for us to do, because we didn’t know what was what

in the film.

Main Task

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Main task • Most of our skills have improved from when we started. • We studied more on camera shots and what affects they might give to the

audience. • We also learned about mise-en-scene.Evaluation• I think that we successfully improved on the areas that we needed help

on. • We made sure that are scenes were on time with everything.• We also used music in the background which is what we was missing in

our preliminary. • In the future we used a wider range of camera skills. • We also would try and learn how to get more interesting effects to make it

more exciting for the viewer.

If we could do it all again, what would you do differently?

If we was going to do this all over again we would do things early because its important to get things done on time so that you don’t have to be behind in some things like complete our evaluation and coursework.

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