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

Our media product is a thriller film which use conventions of existing films by having the camera look like he is being followed and being seen on CCTV. This uses is a bit similar to films like in firewall where we follow the character and the slow motion of the character being shot is similar to face off. Our media product also challenges conventions because it’s quite different to the usual thriller because it has got a bit of action in it as well. I think we challenged it well because it is different to any typical thriller. It makes you think it’s a thriller background but partly action half way through.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

It represents particular groups like young people who are from rich families because that is who are character is and it shows it by what he wears when he is being followed. It shows that he is being put in danger by someone following him. It shows he is rich by having photos of his dad in a suit as a picture on the wall. It also shows that the killer is trying to get at the man in the picture by killing a young man. this plot shows that the killer is after the man for some reason that is revealed further in the film.

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

Our media product might be distributed by an independent film company rather than a Hollywood company because our film is low budget and doesn’t look like a Hollywood film and if it did it would need lots of money invested by outsiders.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our product is aimed at young men aged between 15 and 30 years old. We aimed it at this age because young men are into watching thriller films that have a twist round every corner.

How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted the audience by having the opening film suspenseful and you want to keep watching because you want to know why he was killed and who killed him.

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

In the beginning of this project I didn’t know much about the editing programme. I only knew how to cut the shots down. I knew that is was going to be a challenge but with help from my partners we managed to struggle through it because we were not familiar with the shots we used and couldn’t describe them. We also struggled to find suspense places to film and when we found a place it was raining and we didn’t want that to happen. Now the product is finished I thought we done well for not knowing much about editing. We are proud of our product because I learnt how to use a programme now with ease and I think if we had to make a new film we would make it look better and plan our plot better including every shot.

Film Opening Final

At the start of our film it starts with an establishing shot of a street and the name of it which in the long run is the name of our film.This is what our shot at the start would look like as it pans around the neighbourhood giving us an idea of where we are.

Most of the shots we had were all long shots of the actor and we did this so we can show the effect of him being followed.A great shot in my opinion in the film is the one when we put four different shots together to make the CCTV cameras and put the time underneath to give it more effect. it has worked quite well with the concept of the film.

Editing

Editing has been a bit of a struggle for us. We've been using a lot of innovative things to our film and some of those being; slow motion, dissolving credits, darkened effects and so on. Our editing has been good for the genre we are planning on portraying.Today's the deadline and we're developing and making changes to our film opening which is now looking a lot better than it did before. Our main form of editing in this film is continuity as we are following one person throughout the film.What I think we need to make a bit better is the way we show the shots, i think some of the shots will need to be a bit more gritty and dark and some shots might need a little less time and some need more time its just the judgement of when and what we edit at the right time.

Music

In most or every film opening music is always needed. Music tells you the story, it captures the audience and shows them the genre they will be watching. for example, romantic films will consit of songs sung to make the audience feel happy and in musical term, they would play only in major keys, whereas horror movies use very discorded keys and ones that dont make sense which give the audience an insight on what the genre is straight from the start.In this we have decided to make music ourselves, because i felt that i can make it to what it should be easier than looking on the internet, even though it would be easier, it would be harder to find the exact one to put in our video.our decision to make it ourselves i think is paying off because it goes very well with the thriller genre we are trying to portray and in the music we have used a lot of high octaved notes which i think fit very well with the genre as i found out from other films like "Enemy of the state" and "The Net".

25th feb

Last week we started to edit out footage on Adobe Premiere Pro. We have now got the clips in order with some editing. Next time we will try to create a CCTV effect and cut down some shots. We are also working on the music for our film opening in the music department computers.

this is us walking through the lane to look for possible locations for making our film look better
Joab ( the actor) Luke bowden (Director) Sam Whitcombe (the cameraman)

This is a picture of Matt( the cameraman) and Sam (also another Cameraman) filming Joab walking through the lane.

This is a picture of the camera filming with Joab in the background (Joab- the actor)!

This is a picture of Joab (the actor) walking through a lane as part of our filming!

Today we finally started our filming and we have kept to our plan and done most of the shots from where we took the pictures of locations and put on our storyboards.we found some of the filming quite hard because some of the time the camera would wobble and then the next time it would zoom in too much and lose focus, but overall our ldeas have potential to be better and can be better but this means that we need to put in more effort.Today as planned, Joab did the acting, Sam did the filming assisted by Matt, Luke directed it and Matt also did the editing. this is good to know our roles because then know one is confused with each other and Ideas would come better and more organised.We have now decided to start to get together at weekends to get the work done and this will help us to get better grades and is relevant for the quality we want to show in all areas of our project whether it be filming or the quality of song choice.

todays lesson 25th feb 2010

Today we have been thinking about filming but the rain has kept us at a holt. we have been going through some Ideas we can use for the filming and some of the new ldeas we came up with were:- grittiness- tension- clear genre- music to be slow- opening will be a bit dark- camera sound to create more tension- we need the right font at the start to establish the genreAll these ldeas are so we can show that we do have clear understanding of the concept of our film opening. lt is so we can show that we know what we would be doing and normally when people dont plan, they end up with a bad result and planning this is a good way to get a good mark and still understand our task.

My Intentions

I understand the conventions of a thriller genre to be simple to do which doesnt look amatuer. It will maily start with either a video clip of what the storyline is eg: drugs etc. this happens while the credits are being shown. it might just be a musical background while the credits are beign shown it shows a describing the setting eg: shots of a war scene.
Through the my target audience research i have found that most people we asked prefer to watch thriller movies. i also found out that most people go to the cinema under 10 times a year and the target audience would mainly be 14-18 years.
therefore i plan to mee the conventions of a thriller film by making it simple to make, but not looking poor and having a short clip of setting the scene while the credits are being shown.
however i plan to challenge the conventions by making it diffenent to a typical thriller film because it would look good to keep the same genre but doing something different with it.

the hangover is all about a stag do for a mans wedding. they go to las vegas for the stag do but get incredibly drunk and cant remember anything. but they loose doug ( the groom). they search las vagus for him and for clues of finding him.

the opening is slow music with pictures of a wedding day. the credits are in the corner. the credits slowly fade in and out to go with the music. it then cuts to a close up of
a woman on the phone. it then cuts to a man replying to the call with a cut mouth in the desert.
this shows that something bad has happend and you are going to find out.

district 13 is all about the place distict 13. the place is like a ghetto of a population of just under 2,000,000 people. the police are unable to control the police because everyone has guns so the authorities put a fence round the place to make everyone try and survive with no education and proper utilities. a few years later its full of drugs and run by gangsters. the man who supplies them with drugs lives outside of district 13. they send in 2 undercover guys to see what life is like. it then is

the opening to the film is ganster slow music showing the audience what district 13 is like and how many people live there. the credits also are showing in the corner. it shows how district 13 are rebels and scare police away and don't let people in unless they are allowed. this film then cuts to one of the undercover guys.

my questionaire

1) How often do you go to the cinema?
1-3 per week
1-5 per month
1-10 per year
Other
2)What’s your favorite type of film?
Thriller
Comedy
Action
Horror
Drama
Romance
3)What is your age?
12
13
14
15
16
17
18 or over
4)Do you watch low budget films or just big budget films?
Low budget
High budget
Both
5)What is your gender?
Male
Female

welcome

in my media project i am doing film, this blog will be all about analysing and making films