Ellie Grainger 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?

In our perliminary it was very rough compared to our final peice. We had many problems for example the sound was very low, there was aslo irelevant things within the show like our bags. In our perliminary task we shot alot of footage to choose for the best of our footage to then edit. However, what worked really well in our perlminary task was our match on action, so as it was a skill we was confident with we also added similar match on action to our final thriller opening 'Broken Beauty'.

This is our Preliminary Task, in which we have experimented with the use of continuity editing. The techniques of match on action is used to create a sense of continuity as the action in  shot is completed in the following shot. Match on action is used to generate a smooth transition between two shot when an action is taken. This is what we found worked very well in preliminary task and wanted to also use it in our final peice.

By our final peice I learnt how to use the equipment properly inorder to achieve a smoother camera shot and link different shots into one another without it being shakey or distorted in any way, like in the perliminary when we didnt have a tripod to turn the camera we put the camera on a bin to see if it would help but was still very shakey. By our final peice we knew what we had to do to get it right so we used a tripod, tracks and a crane to acheieve much smoother shots.

 

When we learnt how to edit our perliminary helped us have more skills in order to make our final peice to the best of our abilities we was able to make smoother cuts from different scenes and make it smooth for when we produced our match on action. Istead of our final peice being really long we was able to cut it down  to make it look much better and have things go from one shot to another to keep our audience intrested.  However there was some shots that we didnt cut down to much to our narrative would be hinted to our audience and our main characters was introduced.

A big problem in our perliminary task was the sound we had trouble with as we couldnt hear our characters very well as they was both was talking quietly and there was other digetic sounds within the footage. In order to improve this in our final peice we made sure our characters where louder and we eliminated all digetic sounds that were not needed on i-movie. We also added in some non-digetic sounds such as music so there would not be no empty spaces of sound throughout some parts of our final peice, as it was a thriller the music was used as a build up and to create tension.

 

 

 

I think that our perliminary task was useful in helping us learn how to use all the equipment and learning how to do the editing. It was also useful so we could see what skills we was good at in order to use them in ur final peice and what skills we had trouble with in order to build on them or not use them at all. Also by doing our perliminary task we learnt the rules of filiming for example the 180 degree rule. Our perliminary task made us learn from the mistake we made in our perliminary task, such as by our final peice we moved everything that was irelevant for our film out of the shots so we didnt have to reshot again after we relised. 

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Ellie Grainger Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product and why ?

The audience for our media product would be teenagers from the age of 15-18 as they can relate to the characters within the film as they are at a similar age and could have similar lifestyles. Our audience may also be some young adults looking for a fright, mystery and a sense of realiztion.

 

 

 

The girl within our film wears make-up this shows us she wants to make herself  look glamorous as many young women want to do and the boy is very hidden and wants to keep himself away as many boys can relate to this as they may have multipul personalities. The satorial codes of our main character is a young girl who is shown with little clothing making her vunerable and seen to some in a sexual nature. This may relate to many young girls as they like to wear skirts and show some flesh. Our main male character wears baggy clothes mostly dark, this can compare to many boys now days.

 

Ellie Grainger Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Our production company name is ‘Smashed Mirror production' this links in with the title of our film 'Broken Beauty'. We also used a smashed type of text to show how the characters emotions are she is broken emotionally and to get this forward to our audience we used bold smashed text. Also our logo is a smashed mirror which relates to the production company name.

 

A production company is a company responsible for physical production of new media , performing arts, film, radio or a television programme.

are 'Walt Disney Pictures', 'Columbia Pictures', '20th Century Fox', 'Taran Pictures' and many more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our movie is independent film which would mean the money to fund our product would be ours, Burntwood School or external companies if we was to send our treatment and plans for the film to agencies which we would have to wait if they like it they my consider it and help pay for some funds.

In titles they generally go in order of their importance. For example, in films, the first is usually the motion picture company, followed by the producer. Next, depending on his or her postion, the director may be granted an extra, outstanding credit. The major starring actors would come next, then the title of the movie and the rest of the principal cast.

 

Here the same man has directed and produced, he has been mentioned in the titles this may show he has a good status.

Distribution is one of the four elements of the marketing. An organization or set of organizations involved in the process of making a product. A distributor is a company or individual  for releasing films to the public either theatrically or for home viewing. Some of these distributio.n companies are 'Walt Disney Pictures', 'Columbia Pictures', '20th Century Fox', 'Taran Pictures' and many more

Ellie Grainger Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product would attract typical teenage girls from the age of 15-18 as they can relate to the main girl as they could have a silimar life styles.

The girl within our film wears make-up this shows us she wants to make herself look glamorous as many young women want to do. The satorial codes of our main character is a young girl who is shown with little clothing making her vunerable and seen to some in a sexual nature. In this image we have of our character shows the audience that she is confident and in control as many teenage girls feel as they reach the teen stage they feel a sense of freedom, we have tried to show this in our film but by showing young teens this shows them that by having to much freedom could end them in trouble. Our character looks like a typical popular girl very glamorous and confident, similar to a popular girl of the same age from the horror 'Tormented'.

               

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Alicia Mack- Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?





This is our preliminary task, this allowed us to demonstrate our basic knowledge and understanding of continuity editing and develop skills on how to use editing techniques such as match on action , shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule; through developing these skills we were able to make decisions as what techniques to include in our final piece, compared to our final piece the preliminary task was very rough which allowed us to not make the same mistakes in the final piece.

Lighting in our preliminary task was dim and inconsistent which was distracting and showed that we needed to improve our continuity editing, also the sound was low and was very difficult to to hear what the characters were saying from these mistakes we were able to improve the final piece, editing was also a problem as we needed to learn how to edit and some shots were not in a smooth transition.

The preliminary task allowed us to learn how to use the filming equipment and use camera shots such as close up and mid-shots as well as panning and tilting, which we used in both the final piece and preliminary.

The preliminary task was helpful and useful as we learnt how to use filming equipment and how to use the editing software, we were able learn and use to editing techniques that were incorporated in the final piece; in conclusion I think that the progression from preliminary was successful as our final piece was not like our preliminary with less mistakes.

Alicia Mack- Evaluation Question 6

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Alicia Mack- Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Our audience research allowed us to include ideas and conventions in our product that would attract our audience, this allowed us to create our final product so our audience would like it.

Alicia Mack- Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for you media product?

From our audience research we are able to tell that our audience are teenagers between the ages of 15-18, they would be in school/college and deal with issues such as exams and friends, they would enjoy going our with their friends, texting and watching films; knowing this we were able to create characters that our audience would believe and be able to relate to i.e the popular girl.

our audience also enjoys independant thriller movies meaning our product would appeal to them

Alicia Mack- Evaluation Question 3

Q3 what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

A film production company is responsible for physical production of films.

Distributors release the films to the public; 20th Century Fox Film Co. Ltd, Buena Vista International and Columbia Pictures are all examples of Distribution Companies

Because our movie is independent the money to fund our product would be ours, our school or external companies such as the Young film fund.

Our production company name is ‘Smashed Mirror production’ this ties in with the title of our film and the logo (a smashed mirror) relates to the company name

Alicia Mack- Evaluation Question 2

Q2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product portrays typical representations of popular teenage girls; the red lipstick connotes to our character being sexual and the boldness of her lips and pose show the audience that she is confident., she looks like a typical popular girl(looks as if she would be similar a ‘mean girl’).

This wordle shows all the stereotypical views of popular girls.

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Q1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

Title of the film- ‘broken beauty’ we thought that our title related to our story as well as hints to the fact that our movie is a thriller, the typography is cracked to connote to the title and theme of our thriller.

Setting/location- we were limited to keeping our location on school site, but this worked in our favour as our story was focused on her being stalked at school, also the school had the facilities which we needed onsite which may have been difficult to get permission to film in off-site i.e. dance studio and darkroom.

Our choice of location uses typical conventions of thrillers; the stalker developing pictures in a darkroom, our main character dancing in a studio.

Costumes/props- the sartorial codes that we implemented also challenge typical conventions of complex female characters in thrillers, usually show these characters are shown as obsessive and delusional (image 2), we decided to show our main character as a shadow of former herself (image 1) which is not always typically shown.

We also depict our character as the popular girl (image 3), which shows the audience her fall from grace as the audience see her at her worst at the beginning of our thriller.

Camerawork/editing- we used typical editing techniques such as dissolves to show the link between scenes these are typical of the thriller genre. We used the crane to create an over the shoulder shot to create a questionable atmosphere with our stalker developing pictures of our main character.