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OUR EVALUATION
Oumie&Jordan
QUESTION1:IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND
CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA
PRODUCTS?
For the starting of the coursework, I was working by myself and I
didn’t know what to choose so i started working with Jordan. But first
I was looking at two genres to do (Comedy&Drama), this is because I
enjoyed watching comedy movies, but I was interested in drama, but I
made sure I did my research on each one. If you look at my blog, you
will see all the research I did on comedy. I found out a lot of things on
drama films, so I decided to choose it for my coursework. Then after
that me and my partner started working on what our movie is going to
be about.
DRAMA AS A GENRE
Why you went for this genre
We went for this genre because is very realistic and characters are also
there's a lot of emotional shots. Also because they are a lot of different
sub genre's too such as romantic drama, sport films, period drama,
courtroom drama and crime, just like we choose to study ‘kidulthood’.
What conventions you needed to use
I think that our film is a good example of our genre because it matches
with some films like precious, this is because its an emotional film just
like our film. We made sure that our script was just like one of the
drama films.
This movie inspirited us to make a DRAMA film because
the main character went through a lot just like our
character from ‘Time To Go’. Their mums are similar
especially they drink a lot and smokes and really don’t
care about their kids.
WHAT ARE THE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF THE GENRE THAT YOU WORKING ON?
Time To Go Genre: Drama
Opening credits For our opening credits we done a lot of research. We researched on different drama films such as kidult, and we looked at how long it took for the film to actually start and we timed the credits too.
Mise-en-sceneScenes with Melinda and Liana, with the props she had with her, like the costumes, that can the coat that she was wearing can tell you about her personality. She also had a bad with her, showing that she's running away from her house. The mother in the film was holding a bottle of vodka because she's an alcoholic.
Camera WorkWe used close ups to see the character’s face and especially when Melinda went to her friends house. Establishing shot was used at the ending of our film when Melinda was walking off. Loose frame was used in the scene with Melinda and her mother,
when they had an argument.
Editing We used Action match when we was editing, we used it because it allows the audience to see a smooth action despite a cut in a shot. Cross-cutting was used a lot in our film, this was because we wanted the audience to see what was really happening. Credits was added in a style that would fit with drama theme. Soundtrack was added to fit with scene.
SoundSoundtrack was added to build and create tension during the shots.
FontThe title we used were in a simple font with white writing which may suggest happiness, because Melinda is going to live a better life with her dad.
OPENING CREDITS
This is an opening credits, that I was
talking about on the slide before this
one.
MISE-EN-SCENE
This is the coat I was talking
about…..
CLOSE UPS
This is one of the angles we used in the film..
QUESTION2: HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT
REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?
Melinda
16
Female
Students
Working class
She represents the main character that’s in all of the scenes. She's a working class and lives in an estate flat with her mum, which might
be a stereotype for black people. In the first scene she's wearing an uniform and the colour of it is purple, it represents a mystery from
research I made and also Melinda acts like she’s hiding something from her mum which affects their relationship. The stereotype of
teenagers as being aggressive, moody, lazy criminals and hate school, and it connects with how Melinda acts because she's very rude to
her mum, even though she thinks that she's not being rude, she really is, especially when she was rolling her eyes at her mum. The type of
audience that we like Melinda's character is people that’s the same age as her. This might be because 16 year olds feel like they are
always ‘right’. We was trying to create a character that wasn’t around and even though there's a lot of teenagers who have a story. The
technical skills that we used was mise-en-scene especially with the costume and props that was around them.
SECOND CHARACTER
Liana
16
Female
Students
Working class
She represents the main characters best friend. She's working class too but she lives in a flat and has a better life at home then Melinda and
Melinda always goes to liana for food and shelter when her mum kicks her out of the house, liana is the type of teenager who might change
the stereotype of teenagers because she cares for her friends and she's a nice girl. Young black people are none for being exotic, strange,
tribal, criminal and poor. We then took this character out of the film because we believed that there was no point of having her there because
Melinda did a scene of saying that she's going to move to her dads, so they was no point of having her say it to her friend and the acting skills
spoiled the genre, liana was meant to be more sad that her friend was leaving but it didn’t seem that she wasn’t sad to see her friend leave.
THIRD CHARACTER
Mum
36
Female
Single-mother
In the film she is a working class mother who is on benefit and who lives in a deprived area in hackney. So she is always drunk
and miserable which effects her daughter’s life. This is a negative representation because its stereotyping that working class
mothers are always drunk. She's a stereotype of 20-30 year olds because she's always drunk and never awake. But there's a
story behind why she's like that, is because her husband left her and Melinda at the age of 10 and she blames her self for it.
RIGHT PEOPLE THAT MIGHT L INK TO OUR CHARACTERS…
I think that our first character might match someone like ‘Tracy Beaker’, this
might because they both have issues of staying in the same house as someone who
don’t understand them well. They have both been in care, social workers find out
about Melinda's Mum drinking issues and took her away from her mum, but then
she stopped drinking just to get Melinda back, but afterward started of again.
I think that Emma Watson would be a prefect actress for our film because she's a good actress and she has starredin drama films in the past.
The actress that best fits the mums character is Julia Roberts, this is because
she's a great actress and she's acted in films such as “My Best Friend's
Wedding” and I think she would do a good job in acting in this film because
she's acted as a alcoholic in some films and she was really good in them.
QUESTION3:WHAT KIND OF INSTITUTION
MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT & WHY?
We done are research on Universal and Columbia. This is because the films that is
been made are really intrusting, especially ‘Grown Ups’, that’s the movie I researched
on, this is because we enjoy watching funny films, but then we decided to do drama
because is more eye opening.
We also done research on how the opening of productions have changed into
something different, the link at the bottom shows the video of what I am talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E98iTbFqRuM
I did some research on Columbia because they produce a lot of movies such as Skyfall
and Hope Springs.
http://youtu.be/b5XAVws0UsE
In our film we made our own logo because its being
more creative with our film and also to get a better
grade from my teacher. We went on
http://www.flixpress.com/ to make a logo.
QUESTION4:WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE
FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?
On our blog we wrote about what age
group would be able to watch our film.
12a will be able to watch this film
because they will understand the story.
Describe your target audience?
We decided to aim our target audience at a mixed gender aged between 15-25; its
for people who enjoy watching drama films.
Link to your genre?
Are target genre is DRAMA. By watching and researching drama films we were able
to use similar techniques (Shot reverse shot) and camera shots (point of view,
establishing shots, close ups) in our film to create a more successful film.
Evidence for this?
We carried out a questionnaire to find out specifically what our target audience
wanted. We also showed a few people a selection of drama films and asked them
what their favourite was.
Demographic
Overview
Student
Age 15-18
Bursary £500 per
year
Psychographic
Overview
Girl
Goes to Bridge
Academy
Spends most of her
time on social network
Lives near her dads
Two views of the same user.
QUESTION 5: HOW DID YOU
ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?
What research did you do to find what your target audience wanted?
We did a questionnaire asking them their age, gender and favourite drama films and also
what sub-genre they prefer to watch.
What decisions and revision did you make about form and content based on these findings?
We watched other dramas such as kidulthood and Adulthood, in these films the opening
credits helps us to make our credits. Our questionnaire allowed us to know what drama our
target audience likes and we knew what are film should be based on.
Were you successful in attracting your audience?
After finishing our film we showed it to a selection of our target audience and got them to talk about it
and we also filmed them talking about what they thought about our film. We got a lot of feedback from
our target audience and from the feedback we know what to do for our final finishing of the film.
However, they thought that some shots needed some work.
This is the questionnaire we gave out topeople and asking them what they like about drama and what they favourite movieis we got a lot of feedback from people and it gave us an idea of what are film should be about, but we always had an idea of what are film was going to be about.
We then planned this mind map after all the feedback we got from people which helped us a lot to think about what people like about drama films and what we can do from them to like our film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ZRSq8T53A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3haLXvU3k
What could be improved? We watched the review again to see what could have been different in our film and what we could have changed in our final draft.
Q U E S T I O N 6 : W H A T H A V E Y O U L E A R N T A B O U T T E C H N O L O G I E S
F R O M P R O C E S S O F C O N S T R U C T I N G T H I S P R O D U C T ?
Using the camera Using the editing software
We learnt all the camera shots (close up, wide shots, point of view shots etc.)
We learnt some of the shortcuts to allow us to speed up the editing process.
Camera techniques How to add and cut sound clips to get them in time with the rest of the movie.
Camera Angles How to overly texts and titles onto the movie to give information like credits.
Using the tripod to steady the camera; keeping the camera straight on uneven ground and for panning.
How to cut and trim the clips with the correct timings, so that it runs smoothly.
Shooting lots of versions of the scene to help the continuity in the post production.
Using transition effects to soften a switch from one location to another so it does not look so subtle.
This picture was taking when I was learning how to take shots and it was very hard to work the camera but at the ending I worked it out and this is the camera “the canon” that we was meant to use but didn’t use it at the end of us filming.
http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=9633112&height=267&width=200
This voki explains everything..
QUESTION 7 :LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIM TASK,
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM THAT TO THE F INAL
PRODUCT?
PRELIMINARY TASK
Looking back at our first preliminary we have improved a lot.
We used our ipad to film.
Different camera angles and shots.
We learned how to use pre and post production skills like; storyboarding our ideas
and creating scripts for our characters.
We also needed to learn technical skills and how to use certain equipment.
Using the tripod for the first time.
Evaluation
It was really difficult for us to do, because we didn’t know what was what in the film.
MAIN TASK
Most of our skills have improved from when we started.
We studied more on camera shots and what affects they might give to the audience.
We also learned about mise-en-scene.
Evaluation
I think that we successfully improved on the areas that we needed help on.
We made sure that are scenes were on time with everything.
We also used music in the background which is what we was missing in our preliminary.
In the future we used a wider range of camera skills.
We also would try and learn how to get more interesting effects to make it more exciting
for the viewer.
The camera in one of the shots wasn’t really good and we might have to film it again.
IF WE COULD DO IT ALL AGAIN, WHAT WOULD YOU DO
DIFFERENTLY?
If we was going to do this all over again we would do things early
because its important to get things done on time so that you don’t
have to be behind in some things like complete our evaluation and
coursework.
THANKS FOR WATCHING.
