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30. Korrie Powell, Devon Muller, Lorita Abazi from 283goswell on Vimeo.
Friday, 23 May 2014
Thursday, 20 March 2014
EVALUATION Q4 (COMPLETED)
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If you follow the link above it will take you to a fan page of teen movies where some really wonderful people have written some really lovely stuff about teen movies.
EVALUATION Q1 (COMPLETED)
A Convention is something that you expect to find in a film, in this case a teen film. this can be anything to do with camerawork, mise en scene, editing and sound.
This high angle camera shot shows Reggie lying on the ground. This shows him as an inferior character as he is at a low angle. This would be a typical camera angle for a nerd character.
This use of editing may not be typical of a teen film however street fighter, video game element about it could be used as a reference to the nerd characters love for video games. I think this was a clever way to represent Reggie's brutal beating by his brother.
This mise en scene is a classic example of a teen film convention. The jacked up trousers, checked shirt and tie are all items of clothing you would expect to find this character wearing in a typical teen film.
For sound, i think the voice of Reggie is a good example from our film as a typical convention for sound. i used a well spoken, sometimes stuttering voice to portray this nerd character. i think that i probably considered the stereotypical voice of a nerd.
Overall, i think we stuck to the conventions of a teen film. The area where we excelled in this was probably mise en scene, specifically the costume as i feel if a complete stranger glanced at that charater on the street they would instantly think they are a nerd. the area where i think we could have improved the conventions was probably the camerawork. i think we could have incorporated more high and low angle shots to show how inferior the nerd character is.
This high angle camera shot shows Reggie lying on the ground. This shows him as an inferior character as he is at a low angle. This would be a typical camera angle for a nerd character.
This use of editing may not be typical of a teen film however street fighter, video game element about it could be used as a reference to the nerd characters love for video games. I think this was a clever way to represent Reggie's brutal beating by his brother.
This mise en scene is a classic example of a teen film convention. The jacked up trousers, checked shirt and tie are all items of clothing you would expect to find this character wearing in a typical teen film.
For sound, i think the voice of Reggie is a good example from our film as a typical convention for sound. i used a well spoken, sometimes stuttering voice to portray this nerd character. i think that i probably considered the stereotypical voice of a nerd.
Overall, i think we stuck to the conventions of a teen film. The area where we excelled in this was probably mise en scene, specifically the costume as i feel if a complete stranger glanced at that charater on the street they would instantly think they are a nerd. the area where i think we could have improved the conventions was probably the camerawork. i think we could have incorporated more high and low angle shots to show how inferior the nerd character is.
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Evaluation Q7
Prelim: When I had started my prelim we where giving no research to study about our characters this was the most important thing I realized about the filming industry that in order to make a successful film you need to do research as it allows you to gain a better and wider knowledge of what you are filming. With this being said it caused major problems when I was filming as my characters didn't know how to act on the camera and mainly consisted them on not fitting in their role correctly. I often came across many mistakes when filming as it was my first time getting used to using the camera and equipment, these mistakes consisted of 'shaky cam' , dark lighting and terrible match cutting etc.
Final: My final project was very different from my prelim as many things where changed such as I grew a greater knowledge of filming and became comfortable when using the camera and equipment so my scenes where much better and looked more professional. A lot more research was done for my final project as I had to study the Teenager inside out even though I am one myself but it has taught be to always start with research as it benefits your film as you are able to direct your characters into their roles so they can represent each character and stereotype and also helps to develop a better understanding of your film. Editing was very easy this time as I had gotten used to it by attend countless workshops to develop my skill using final cut pro,with this being said it allowed me to make a successful film as I was able to use animations and add effects to make my film interesting and enjoyable for the viewer to watch.
Final: My final project was very different from my prelim as many things where changed such as I grew a greater knowledge of filming and became comfortable when using the camera and equipment so my scenes where much better and looked more professional. A lot more research was done for my final project as I had to study the Teenager inside out even though I am one myself but it has taught be to always start with research as it benefits your film as you are able to direct your characters into their roles so they can represent each character and stereotype and also helps to develop a better understanding of your film. Editing was very easy this time as I had gotten used to it by attend countless workshops to develop my skill using final cut pro,with this being said it allowed me to make a successful film as I was able to use animations and add effects to make my film interesting and enjoyable for the viewer to watch.
Evaluation Q4
Instagram played a big part when we trying to represent our target audience it. I thought it would be the best way to represent my target audience as instgram is used by most teenagers to upload pictures. recently I thought the best way to target my target audience teenage boys was by competion so I recently uploaded two pictures with one representing the jock and the other ther nerd and used hastag to spread it around instagram hopefully attracing more boys to represent which binary oppsition they thought was better.
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Evaluation Question 1
Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Evaluation Question 3
Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Production & Distribution Company Ident:
Production company: Lionhall Productions
Distribution company: LMA Company
LionHall Productions:
Our production company is an independent company which is not backed up by a congolomerate. This company is run on a low budget, which limits our access to high quality and expensive equipment, like cameras, tripods, figrigs, etc. Low budget also restricts the high post-production values as we cannot afford appealing CGI. Our company cannot afford to hire big named stars as we don't have the funding to pay them off so we will have a much smaller crew, in front and behind the camera. Our unknown, local cast leads to the lack of an inherited audience. The hybridity within the genre of the teen film (Rom-Com) will appeal to a wider audience as it attracts fans of both, comedy and romance genres. Our settings will remain local as we cannot afford to travel to other countries or areas due to our lack of money. However, using independent production companies has many advantages. For example, we have more artistic freedom, meaning our original ideas will not be altered by our conglomerate which provides us with financial backing if our film were a mainstream film. Indepedent films also allow uprising actors to gain a little more popularity and represents the talent that goes on even outside the official acting industry.
On our Prezi, we claimed we would use a mainstream company like Lionsgate which is the most commercially successful independent company. However, we concluded that we would make our companies as realistic and accessible as possible so that our film portrayed our low budget. Therefore, we chose to use an independent company due to our lack of fundings.
LMA Company:
Our distribution company is also an idependent company with no financial backing, meaning we run on a low budget. This restricts our release to a national audience in the UK, rather than international. Merchandising, synergy and cross-media convergence won't be methods of our marketing and advertising as we don't have the money to do so. Instead, we will use the internet to reach out to our target audience as it is the only free method of advertising. Free saturation of online marketing will be used rather than more traditional methods of OOH distribution due to our low budget. We will make a free facebook page and twitter page as a way to reach to our teenage target audience as social networking is merely made up of teenagers and young adults, both of whom would, ideally, watch our film. We will not have a big, red carpet premier for our film with lots of press as our film won't be distributed to that extent as we lack funding. Our low budget distriution company based the main marketing strategies online, through Instagram, Facebook and Twitter profiles.
Our indendent company could be related to independent distribution companies like Revolver which distribute teen films around the UK. Companies like Revolver have no big conglomerate that provide them with financial packing. Therefore, they base their marketing strategies through the internet and through social networking sites which is the ideal way of reaching a teen target audience.
Fox Searchlight Pictures is the company we claimed we would use on our Prezi which is a mainstream distribution company that has distributed teen films like 'Juno' and '(500) Days Of Summer' which are films that have the same target audience as my teen film opening. However, our film was produced through a low budget which means our film opening failed to present elements of high budget, for example, advanced editing through CGI.
Evaluation Question 4
Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
Here is a Facebook profile of our ideal primary target audience for our film opening, portraying their interests and values:
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As you can see here, he has liked Eminem's page, suggesting he listens to rap music as a way to privately unleash his gangster alter ego when he is alone. He has also posted a photo of his classmates in chemistry class who are all focused on something else but him, suggesting he doesn't receive a lot of attention from others and is quite antisocial. The photo also suggests he likes chemistry and is interested in sciences.
Here is a Facebook profile of our ideal primary target audience for our film opening, portraying their interests and values:
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This image portrays his interests as you can see by his profile picture that he is a nerd. He finds excitement in "revising for biology" which again reinforces his 'nerdy' portrayal. We thought our primary audience would be people who are very similar to Reggie Bernard as they can relate to his characteristics and how he deals with situations.
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As you can see, our primary target audience, are quite comedic characters, like Reggie and find comedy within funny sci-fi shows likes The Big Bang Theory.
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As you can see here, he has liked Eminem's page, suggesting he listens to rap music as a way to privately unleash his gangster alter ego when he is alone. He has also posted a photo of his classmates in chemistry class who are all focused on something else but him, suggesting he doesn't receive a lot of attention from others and is quite antisocial. The photo also suggests he likes chemistry and is interested in sciences.
Evaluation Question 6
Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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