Friday, 20 March 2015
Evaluation - Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and convections of real media products?
Conventions
- Convention are recognized ways of doing things within a particular genre
- Conventions give the audience a better understanding of a film and help the audience relate to it better
Film Openings
Film openings are used to establish the storyline of a film, this helps the audience develop a better understanding of what's happening. The credits in film openings tend to go in a specific order, so that people who participated towards the film get regonition.
The order the title credits tend to go in is:
- Production Company Ident
- Distribution Company Ident
- Distribution Company in Title Sequence
- Production Comapany in Tile Sequence
- High Budget Actors/Actresses
- Film Tile
- Actors/Actresses
- Casting
- Custome By
- Music By
- Editded By
- Written By
- Director
Examples
Here are some examples of teen films opening credits
Mean girls (high school film) - Mainstream film
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Ident ‘Paramount’
‘Paramount’ Title
Producer
Main cast
Title
Cast
Casting by
Based on book
Music supervisor
Music
composed and conducted by
Co-producer
Costume
designer
Editor
Production
designer
Director
of photography
Executive
Producer
Producer
Screenplay
by
Director
My Brother The Devil (youth drama) - Independent film
Ident
Film company
Ident
Title of film company
In association with…
Cast
Executive producer
Producers
Written and Directed By
Title
Even though 'Kidulthood' wasn't our main inpiration, its still very similar to our film as they both are urban film. Here is the comparison between our title sequence and 'Kidulthoods' Title sequence.
Jus' Another Day
Kidulthood
Evaluation - question 5
Feedback from an audience member.
Allowing students to view the film for free first allows us to gain feedback before the actual release. This makes way for improvements.
As we have a small budget we will depend on the students who watch the preview to spread the word about Jus' Another Day generate more awareness and curiosity about the film.
Having a free screening allows us to be direct with our main target audience, youth. Cinemas are popular when it comes to teenagers therefore the screening was a major part of us attracting our audience.
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Advertising poster we used to appeal to our audience.
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Evaluation - Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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Evaluation - Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
AUDIENCE
Teen films generally have a wide target audience; they are
generally targeted at teenagers and young adults. Who the film is specifically
targeted on depends on the story line of the film or the sub-genre.
The main groups that watch teen films are:
Young Adults - These are adults who were teenagers not so long ago. They tend to watch teen films in order to reminisce about their teenage years.
Teenagers - This group is the main audience as they can relate to the story line and protagonist of teen films
Children who are about to enter teenage years - They tend to watch teen films as it gives them a glance of what to expect when you go though teenage years
Our film’s sub- genre is a youth crime drama. It is targeted
at the ages between 16-25 as the audience will be able to relate to the social
groups and language that is represented.
Some of the target audience we researched into
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| Demographic For Kidulthood |
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| Demographic For Mean Girls |
Example of a demographic for our film
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Evaluation - question 1
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Our film opening is above we chose to do a kind of similar idea to the youth drama Anuvahood.
Sunday, 8 March 2015
Reflection On Editing
Editing Reflection
What went well during the editing process?
During the editing process i think what went well was that we were able to work with all the shots we had, therefore we didn't need to go out and film extra shots. We were also able to put all the shots in order so that we can show the whats happening to the audience as well as the binary oppositions.
What didn't go right during the editing process?
One thing that didn't go according to our plans was that we had bad time management. Due to this we didn't have time to edit in the text messages and we weren't able to edit in all the Foley sounds that we wanted. Therefore, our film doesn't have to right type of flow that we wanted to achieve.
What we could have done next time?
What we could of done next time is have a schedule. This schedule will include planning out the amount of time we can spend on each stage of the editing process and which people will do it.
Friday, 6 March 2015
Thursday, 5 March 2015
Advertising poster
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This is one of the posters made by our editor Rishard Howard to advertise our films.
Blogdesign
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This is the design we chose for our blog.
We wanted to brighten up the page and choose a neutral colour that would be open for all different kinds of audiences, so we went for the colour Red as our blog theme colour.
We put the background image of the advertisement we made for our film:
Extension Activity 1
Extension Activity
What does Thomas
Sutcliffe mean when he says “films need to seduce their audience into long term
commitment. While there are many types of seduction, the temptation to go for
instant arousal is almost irresistible”
What Thomas Sutcliffe means is that filmmakers must grab the
audience’s attention within the first few minutes of a film, so that they are
interested and watch the film right till the end.
According to director
jean Jacques Beineix, what are the risks of ‘instant arousal’?
The risk of ‘instant arousal’ is that there is an
expectation the rest of the film to match the quality of the opening sequence
otherwise the audience wont entertain an expectation.
Explain what “a good
beginning must make the audience feel that it doesn’t know nearly enough yet,
and at the same time make sure that it doesn’t know too little” means
This is when the opening of the film gives away enough of
the storyline but not too much in order to keep the audience interested in what
more to expect.
What does critic
Stanley Kauffmann describe as the classic opening? Why does this work?
It’s when the opening scene starts of with an establishing
shot. This sets the setting for the film. It gives the audience an idea of
where it is and a taste of what to expect.
Why is Kyle Cooper’s
title sequence to the film Seven so effective?
It was so effective because it told a story, it introduced
you to the obsessive nature of the main character and forecasted a lot of the
events that were to take place later on in the film. Also, the opening title
was more influential than the film itself.
What did Orson Welles
want to achieve with his opening to the film A Touch of Evil? What did
Universal Studios do to it? Why?
He wanted it not to include any credits and title music to
plunge the audience into the story without giving them time to prepare
themselves. However, the studio were a bit more cautious and ended up putting
in the credits and music. This resulting in the originality of the sharp idea
being lost.
What is meant by “a
favourite trick of Film Noir”? What is the trick?
It’s when you put the ending scene at the beginning of the
film, it’s more like a destination point rather that a departure.
How does the opening
to the film The Shining create suspense?
The opening sequence is so effective as you can see that the
screen is full of omens and the camera pursues the car like a predator from
high up. This suggests that this car is heading towards the wrong direction.
costumes - devontae
Costume
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For Devontae we decided on him wearing black nike trainers, dark jeans, a dark coat, a black branded hat and then a Red branded tshirt. This showed that he had a bit of money as he had multiple piece of branded clothing, so it may have the audience questioning where a teenage boy is getting this kind of money from?
costumes - renee
Costumes
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The costume used for Renee is Ripped Jeans, Black coat, a beige scarf, Nike trainers, a rucksack and hoop earrings.
This costume shows a stereotypical urban teenage girl, we hope that our female teenage audience will relate to her.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Sound Planning
Sound Planning
What Sounds should be used for our film opening?As a group when this question came up we took 3 things into consideration.
- In youth drama's what kind of music is usually used?
- What kind of music relates to what is going on in our film opening?
- What music will draw in our audience from the minuet they hear it?
As the idea behind our film opening came from the BBC film "Murdered by my boyfriend", we watched the film opening to listen to the music and SFX that was used.
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We felt that the calm music with narration over would not work for our style of Film opening.
We decided to explore into Urban music which is popular amongst the type of youth that is in our Film Opening.
We chose a urban song by a popular artist named stormzy, as our inspiration.
We hope to use this as inspiration and then make our own edited version.
We also hope to add in Foley sounds such as Police sirens, pigeons flapping, moving cars and text message notifications.
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