Question 5 (How did you attract your audience?)

Question 5: How did you attract your audience?

Question 4- Who would be the audience from our finished Piece

Historically, Teen and youth drama audiences were typically young people and anyone who was into that type of movie genre, such as avid movie goers.

Our wider audience however mainly just young people. As this was a student film we collectively decided to aim it at young people such as ourselves. This also allowed us to enforce social stereotypes as we felt it would simplify the overall view of  groups of people.

when we started off on this blog we investigated the typical target audience of a youth drama such as the one we were about to make and we found...

This was extremely helpful to find early on as it guided us on how we should construct the overall ambience of our film.

It was at that point we decided to create a Twitter as well as a Facebook page to attract this type of audience to see if anybody was interested.

This was very successful as it allowed us to experience very low level marketing of of a low budget film.

Question 2- The representation of Social Groups

Question 7- What have I learnt

Question 3

My group would have chose to use gateway productions to promote and distribute our film. we have done some research into independent production companies and major production companies, and we feel that it would be more beneficial for our film to be produced by a small independent company such as gateway. Gateway Productions is a British independent film production company, that are behind the creation of a number successful British teen drama's including as 'shank And Anuvahood' both of which everyone in my group has watched. Through watching the title sequence of Anuvahood we were led to Gateway productions and went on to do some research about the company. After reading up about Gateway, my group then came to the conclusion that this would be the perfect company to produce our film. The Reason for this is that Gateway unlike Many major companies work with newly established / Un-established British talent to create these extremely successful films.


Due to the fact Our group had no budget for the creation of our film, it would be unrealistic for us to try to persuade a major production company to work with us for no money. The Gateway Website states "  to make good quality films alongside some of the World’s biggest film studio’s on sensible budgets with new and established talent." this has us led to believing that small independent companies are more suitable for this project.


Research on major production companies consolidated our decision to use a small independent company. information taken from page 140 of the Ocr Media Studies Guide, states in the uk there are five major production companies that dominate the Uk film industry, Including Sony and century Fox, It also States that these companies work directly with Hollywood production companies and in some cases Hollywood is preferred over British talent for profitable reasons. we came to an agreement that this was not suitable for our project.

Question 7 (what have you learnt in the progression from it to the full product)

Q7. from lalalalalaalaaallaala1

Question 6 (what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?)

Used my friends account hence 'Liam Hughes'.

Question 4 (Who would be the audience for the media product?)

Question 3( What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?)

Kizoa Presentation.

Our film is an independent film and with inspiration from films like honey trap and sket we could make our title sequence typical to this. Gateway productions distributed anuvahood and would be a great company to distribute ours. Due to our film being independent our title sequence is short and sweet involving little cast and crew. We used attack the block as our inspiration for the title sequence.

Question 1 (In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?)

Question 2 (How does your media product represent particular social groups?)

Heather Simpson's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow


Representation is when the media represents particular groups, communities and ideas through particular perspectives.

In our title sequence the main social group that is seen is the 'gang'. You see them as rough, violent and mysterious in our clip and the wardrobe helps to represent this stereotypical view of gang culture  through hoodies, dark clothing and balaclavas. We got the ida to copy this costume style through films like attack the block and sket. These are two youth dramas involving gangs that wear similar attire to what we chose for our actors. We support the social stereotype relating to gang culture and connotating with violence and crime, so the idea of gangs is portrayed in a negative light.


ATTACK THE BLOCK.
SKET.

How I found the whole experience.

MY VIEWS:


To be able to film, act and edit my OWN creation was a feeling noone else could give me. The experience was exhausting yet exhilarating and i will never forget it.

From makeup:

To Amazing camera work:

To cold weather:

                                :

To stressful editing:  

To teamwork and friendship:

To Great actors and costumes:

I have developed so many great skills whilst becoming closer to some really great people. Our film is the outcome of every little detail we had going for us. It was so amazing and i really hope it all pays off. Thank you Matt and Kieron,  Group 25 did their best :)

Photobucket:

I used photo bucket to post up all our pictures and videos to promote our film to our potential viewers. It was quick and easy to use and required little to no effort. Really effevtive and handy when out and about!

http://s284.photobucket.com/

Login details:

ab06403@student.candi.ac.uk

kieronlikeswaffles

Template for our title sequence (Rough)

If we could improve..(quick update)

If we had more time to work, re film and edit the things i would change would be...

Get to know the equipment better, maybe we could of still shot in the  if we had known about the ND filter and the dedo lights.

Changed the reversed death shot, add moving images in the backdrop so the piece looked reversed.

Some shots were the tiniest bit shaky, e could of gone back and made sure they were perfect.

Change the storyline for depth and drama.

Risk assessment

RISK ASSESSMENT:

Whilst filming in Coppetts Wood we had to be aware of all risks before shooting. 

There were lots of thorns and nettles that could of injured us so e had to take extra care whilst walking and make sure we didn't trip over the shrubs.

The mud was swamp-like in some areas and that was problem due to slipping and getting stuck. We had to go around the swampy areas to avoid getting dirty and damaging the cameras.

The weather was risky as it was very cold and the protagonist had to lie on the muddy ground some time. We had to make sure she was warm and that we took essential breaks between shots. Also it began to rain at one point so covering the equipment was key!

Height risk of filming high up in case of dropping the camera, we had to insure that the camera was stable at all times.

As it got dark we had to be more wary of the equipment and our surroudings.

DON'S FEEDBACK ON MOTION

- Change the sizeof your font it is unreadable on the fast moving clips

-Make the names more realistic, its not a parody movie

-Change the font from white to black

-Put the font in bold to make it more noticeable

-Change the placement of your opening credits, some are more clear than others

-Change the title

-Put the title in white for effect

Quotes from people after watching our film:

'It was really good, wish it was a full film' - Alix.

' I cried four times, every time Heather died the music got to me!' - Liam.

' The reverse shot was brilliant, i wish i'd of thought of that' - Lily.

'Wow it after adding contrast the whole thing looks brought to life'- Georgia

' After acting in it and now seeing it im really glad i was apart of the process, nice job'- Nathan

' That music! oh my god it really is emotional'- Eric

' That's Make up right? Looks so real!'- Fergus


The positive feedback really helped us to finish the editing right at the end. It was really motivational to know people thought our film was well made. We put so much work into it and it all paid off.

Some Of Our Shots:

Scene Description: Dramatic scene, Nathan hitting the bat against the concrete cylinder as Heather hides from him.

Scene description: Close up of heather's bruised eye, death scene.

Scene description: Flashback of  Kieron and Heather fighting to create tension.

Scene description: mid action shot of the fight scene. 

Scene description; sympathectic, emotive ending.

Personal Feedback(Matthew)

After so many days shooting and so many days of endless filming we really did pull through. The film looks great, the motion now as best as we can do, the music is emotive and dramatic and sets the scene perfectly and the editing is good as far as i can see. I learnt so much about final cut pro during my time in the editing suite and really enjoyed the entire experience. If i could change one thing it would be the death scene as my camera work was a little shaky which unnerved me... if only we had a track. All and all it was amazing and worthwhile!

Personal Feedback (Heather)

Looking over our finished product i am proud to be able to say i am super happy with how it all worked out. We have had so many problems along the way:
Motion, dedo lights, ND filters the LOT! but we pushed through and made something great. Our friends helped us so much with the acting and makeup and they really deserve a massive thank you for waiting out with us through the long dark weather we came across during filming. Matthew was so amazing with the camera work and all the crazy editing he did, he was so dedicated he spent eight hours int the suite just working on our film. Motion was really fun to use and have learnt so much from using it seven or eight times to get our motions perfect. Over all the film looks great and we really put our all into it. If i could change anything it would all be to have some movement in the reversed death scene as you cant tell it is reversed due to the stillness of that shot,

Personal Feedback (Kieron Bartley)

I have watched the edited version of my groups film and i am very happy with the progress Matthew and Heather have made with the editing.The music floes nicely with the opening sequence and creates an emotive feel. The letter placed on the bed really adds a connection with the main character. The reversed death scene worked really well. Really proud of the result.

Editing

I took some footage of Matt to show what happens when we edit.

Pictures from our editing session:

Kieron blogging

Soundtrack

whilst Heather and Matthew started the editing process of our film, I went down to the music studio to begin creating the sound track to our teen title. Using logic pro 9 I created a short track that we intended to use within our film. Matthew suggested that I use the soundtrack to the trailer for Dead Island as a template for the creation of our track. It was quite difficult and the chord progressions were hard to learn but i fought through it to create a short sequence. After feedback from peers we decided to use the actually trailer instead of my rendered version as it was more emotive and set the scene and sympathy for the protagonist better than my version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPda4CVExK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms

Feedback from peers:

FEEDBACK:

Our friend and classmate, Liam, gave us feedback on our film so that we work on the constructive feedback.

Editing (Problems with Motion)

Motion Problems:

Whilst creating our opening credits for our youth drama we encountered a few problems with the motions. 

BASICALLY:

We used the template that fades in and out as the motion plays over a moving image. The text ended up being too small so was very hard to see. Also, when the protagonist and antagonist's were running the text was not visible at all.

SO:

We went back onto motions (seven times actually). We changed the font colour to black to make it more visible, enlarged it so it was clear and changed where we put it on our title sequence so that it was clear even over the moving images.

Half Term Filming.

THE OUTCOME.

Over the Half term we filmed throughout two days to better our shots and include more angles. We got together our trustworthy group of actors and crew and shot in Coppett woods, this time during the day as we took into consideration our disastrous affairs with the dedo light of numerous occasions previously.

The weather was perfect for us to get every shot done with little rain or wind. It was cold but our actors pushed through it. 

Poppy exceeded her amazing make up skills once again on Heather for the death and beating up scene.

MAKE UP FROM THE FIRST SHOOT

MAKE UP FROM THE SECOND SHOOT

We uses are sparse knowledge of stage fighting to safely carry out small 'violent' shots for the film.

Overall we got everything that we needed to, in the small amount of time we had to do it.

Kizoa on filming during halfterm

Video on our half term production

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SLIDESHOW FOR HALF TERM FILMING