Final Film

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

Looking back at our preliminary task I feel that I have learnt many different skills that i have been able to develop into this project. For a start in my preliminary task I only worked with one other person whereas with our main task there was four of us I therefore had to adapt to work with more ideas and opinions that i had to take into consideration. I have also learnt how to improve aspects such as lighting. In our preliminary task we had the issue of too much light coming from behind our two characters when we tried to do a long shot. It made it hard to focus on the two characters because of the glare from the sun. Therefore during our main task we avoided placing the characters infront of windows or glass doors to prevent any unwanted ambient light. A key aspect of the progression was the time management, it was more convenient to film the preliminary task as we would film in school during lessons so we could equally plan how long we would spend doing both filming and editing, however in the main task we had to organise finding a house to film in and a day in which all of the cast and crew could make it to the location. Finally there was the issue with the sound in our preliminary task, because it was filmed in the school canteen there was a result in unwanted diagetic background noise to conquer this problem we used the detachable microphone to focus on the sound that we wanted. Overall I think that our preliminary task helped us to improve our skills so that our main task can be portrayed to our full potential.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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Who would be the audience for your media product?

How did you attract/address your audience?

The audience for our media product would be for teens and adults. This is because we brought together our idea in the planning progress and felt that this would be the target audience that we would most be able to relate to and apply our skills of representation affectively. The ways in which we did this was to have a group of characters that all represent different stereotypes by the costumes they were wearing.

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

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How does your media product represent particular social groups?

  

The ways in which our product represents particular social groups are that we have classed each of the main characters into their own individual stereotype. we did this by giving the characters a stereotypical appearance. for example the 'Goth' style character we dressed in all black with heavy make up and a tight chain around their neck. the colour black in clothing classically connotes a quite dark gothic character which is one of the main reasons as to why we chose this. Also that our target audience was aimed at teenagers we felt that it was convenient to have the actors as teenagers to create a stronger connection with the audience and help them to relate more to the film and set characters within the film. 

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

7 Questions That Must Be Included In My Evaluation

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How does your media product represent particular social groups?
• what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Who would be the audience for your media product?
• How did you attract/address your audience?
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Final Editing

In the final editing sessions after sorting out the issue with the music we have all of our titles including the characters names and the crew members we have also put the music onto the footage aswell as the flashes and camera snapshot sound with an even balance so that the main soundtrack did not drown out the sound of the camera shutter. We also added some transitions such as cross fade so that the footage would have a smoother transition rather than being jerky. Finally we exported the footage as a quicktime movie so that it is now ready to be uploaded to youtube and our blogs.

Music

When we were trying to upload our music we came across some technical difficulties when we could no longer access the music either on itunes or youtube. However we managed to contact the manager and have him send us a copy of the MP3 file.

Hi there my mate sent you a email and this is want you sent back.

I am Christina Novelli's manager. Thank-you for your request to use "Our Way" in your

video project.

I am pleased to confirm that you can use the track for your project.

Best wishes,

Rob King.  

They were very pleased with this but however they are unable to get the song on iTunes or YouTube anymore. Is there any possibility that you could email the mp3 file, or know anywhere else they could get the music from.

Thank you for taking your time to read this, many thanks.

Zoe Tandy

Hi Zoe,

I have attached the MP3 of 'Our Way' by Christina Novelli, for you, to this email.

I am happy to let you use the track for your project as mentioned in the previous e-mail. However, you must not upload, use or give the track to anyone else, for any other reason than the agreed project. I hope this helps, and i would love to see your finished project!

Good luck,

Best wishes,

Rob.

Still Images For Our Film

These are the images that we are using in our film, because we took these images before it became dark we then as a result had to edit them in photoshop to give the atmosphere that it was the night before. We learnt how to create a camera flash combined with sound on a video we found on youtube, we did this by selecting 'dip to colour dissolve' changed the colour from black to white and the duration to 3 seconds. To get the sound effect we went into finder, music and typed in camera, it then came up with camera sound effects and we chose camera shutter. We then dragged it onto our time line under the footage where we had previously inserted the flash.

Editing - Sessions 3 and 4

For these two sessions we focused on continuity. The beginning of our film was most important to perfect continuity as there are lots of short clips that need to come together to make the film run smoothly. The rest of the film was mainly in longer chunks but we had to cut them to enable us to insert the images to link with the title 'Flashback Friday'. 

Editing - Sessions 1 and 2

The first day we spent editing, the main priority was to upload all the footage from the camera onto the mac. Then between these two sessions we would remove the footage that we decided we were not going to use and cut down the sections that we were.

Filming

The first shoot we went on, the whole of our group went to make sure that the storyboard was followed as precisely as possible. We also took advantage of this opportunity for all group members to experiment with filming. I felt the filming went really well even though we did not have sufficient time to film all the sections and so we require someone to go back and re-shoot some sections to complete the continuity aspect which we struggled with completing in this first stage of filming.

Research and planning - Stage Directions

• Zoe is woken up by Louis the dog licking her face, sits up, starts walking round the living room.
• (FLASHBACK- of everyone partying in the living room.)
• Zoe is surprised at her memory, looks round the room and starts walking to the kitchen.
• Walks into the kitchen, sees her friend Zeba asleep on breakfast bar, with hash brownies.
• (FLASHBACK- of Zeba 'stuffing' her face with hash bownies.)
• Starts walking out of the kitchen into the corridor, turns left.
• Finds her friend Nat asleep on the toilet floor.
• (FLASHBACK- of Nat possing, drunk, in the bathroom.)
• Walks back out into the corridor, moves towards stairs.
• Sees her frind Paisley asleep on the stairs.
• Walks up the stairs, turns left to her bedroom.
• Sees her two friends Kaya and Dean asleep on the bed together.
• (FLASHBACK- of Kaya and Dean making out in the bedroom.)
• Walks out into the corridor then into the bathroom.
• Looks around, looks into the sink then up at the mirror.
• She notices the picture on the mirror, grabs picture and looks at it.
• (FLASHBACK- of the night before with the whole group partying in the living room.)

Research and Planning

An email from the manager of Christina Novelli saying that we have permission to use her song 'Our Way'

Research and Planning - Music

This is the music that we hope to use in out film. 

Research and Planning - Storyboard

Planning and Research - Pitch

Research and Planning - Location

Research and Planning - comparison

there is a clear difference between the two openings of the films, the comedy relies much more on the music and the mise-en-scene to bring together the comical value. whereas the begining of the rom-com focuses mainly on the romance side of things as the dialogue from the women is all talking about the time they spent with the one man and all the things that they have done with him. 

Research and Planning - 50 First dates

This is my analysis of 50 first dates which is a rom-com, not my chose genre as a comparison.

The opening starts with a black screen with Hawaiian music playing as the titles have sections which fade in and out in a blue font to appear like waves to echo the Hawaiian theme. This continues with the fonts as the background of the screen fades into a beach at sunset with connotes romance. There is then a pan across the beach moving over a pineapple, the pineapple stays in shot as the rest of the background fades into a kitchen scenery which I feel is good continuity. The number 50 from the titles roles with the camera in the same direction from behind the pineapple in a red font to show the love, the ‘first’ fades in and out like waves and the previous titles and the ‘dates’ slides in from the side to balance the movement of the camera out.

The music then becomes quieter as two characters come on screen as they start a convocation there is then a link between several different women speaking to different people yet all convocations link as they are all talking about the same person except for the ‘older’ woman who when they are all saying the name of the man they spent their time in Hawaii with she is the one who says “Harry, Harry Pairoftesticals” which is comical to the audience as she is the odd one out from the rest of the group as well as being the one who receives the fake humorous name. The music then stops as the final woman says to him “Henry Roth why didn’t you tell me you were a secret agent?” comical as the next shot of a close up shows a man who you would not stereotypically class as a secret agent. Also the line after running and jumping onto a moving jet ski “keep going and I’ll give you $20” shows that he was not really a secret agent and that it was just an excuse.

Main task planning and research - opening 2 mins of Dude, wheres my car?

The clip starts with a black screen and a voice over with a screeching noise to sound as though the voiceover is coming from a radio. The voice then says “The following story is based on actual events...” which is also written on the screen in a curvy, bold, white font. The music then starts as the screen fades into a bright blue almost space like background which we as an audience are carried through as the beginning titles fade in and out of the screen.

A few seconds into this we then see the title of the film, with a galaxy in the background. As we then continue to move through this ‘space’ we start to see a selection of the characters dancing to the music as the names of the actors appear around the screen. One of the groups of characters are a selection of ostriches which at the beginning of this film can confuse the audience yet also make them laugh as they appear out of place. During this sequence the movement of the camera is quite fast pace and the music is more techno and so suits the idea of travelling around space.

We are then drawn into a sphere type object as the music becomes overpowered by the sound of an alarm clock as we are then transported to the ‘real’ world as we see a mid shot of the famous actor Ashton Kutcher sit up from his bed with a card stuck to his face and a distorted expression on his face which indicates to the audience that he is a main character and that he has been drinking the night before. The shot then freezes and the name of the character strongly appears on screen in a bold blue font as at the same time a more rock style of music begins to play.

There is then a pan round the house at first slowing down on a poster outside of ‘Jesse’s’ wall saying “alien workshop” which helps the continuity of the space them whilst the titles were rolling. The next place it slows down is on the T.V where there is a chimpanzee scratching his head to show he is confused. The camera then comes to a stop and says who this character is adding to the comical value of a monkey being involved in a film.

Finally we have a fast paced pan towards the last of our main characters with a mid-shot sitting on the sofa imitating the monkey on the television by scratching his head the camera freezes and his name appears on screen in the same font as the previous two. there is then a straight cut to a long shot of the first of the characters falling out of his room and pulling up his shorts as he starts to walk down the hall way the music fades out and the dialogue between the two characters begins.