Evaluation Questions

Q2:

2. 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The main representations in our film are that of young people. Our research included the way in which the charcter are already conventionally seen. The imagery used in the scenes of the skateboarders are quite steryotypical but at the same time the challenge the conventional teenager by being serene and calm. The mise-en-scene of the 'skaters' is that of mystery, there is no clear shot of the characters so as to keep their identity secret and to show the solitarity of the characters. The characters are shown to be unknown, we see no interaction between them which goes against that of the convcentions of teenagers who are always seen to be together in groups. This also adds to the emotion of the film as the characters on their own are seen to be more intimidating. The other character in out film is me (the young woman) for this scene we have used make up and hair styling as a representation. The use of long hair is a show of innocence and purity that once again evokes sympathy in the audience however in contrast to this the use of heavy make up suggests that the character is covering something up and is prehaps pretending to be someone she is not or trying to take on a different persona to that of which we would expect of the character. This once again adding to the mystrery of the character and leaving the audeince with questions.


4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience that our film would be aimed at is those of 15 an above. This would mainly be due to the film classification laws that would surround our film. The use of violence or sever psychological distress both are included in the regulations that say our viewers would have to be fifteen or over. More over this would also be due to the themes in the film, a younger generation would prehaps find it harder to condone and understand the themes in the film and the use of psycological tricks within the film would prehaps be missed by a younger audience. A good example of this is 'Paranormal Activity' the themes in this are very reliant on the mature imagination to create tension and to 'thrill' the audience.
From research we became fully aware that there would be a market for our film as other thriller films such as the above mentioned 'Paranormal Activity' have ranked in ciniema charts.

Feedback

Most shots were used with what looked like a tripod and were very steady and well done.

Shots were well framed, we liked the shots through the car windows and the shot of the sun through the railing and down into the water.

There wasn't much shot distance variety as they were all long or long/mid shots.

The lighting changed from day to night throughout which was good because there was more variety of things happening and not just consistent throughout. The location was good as they were everyday places that people go everyday so the audience can relate well.

feedback

music composed well.
lack of variety of shots.
titles used well.
transitions not tacky, mainly fade in and fade out.
baffled by the skateboarding.
the music suited the atmosphere giving a thriller impression twined with the camerawork.

final final final editing...

Today we have done our final editing including changing the sequences of the titles and shortening some of the scenes that were too long. We have added motion to the text and we will have to reconstruct the production logo as well as our previous effort was corrupted.

Response to comments on rough cut -

We are aware that we will need to do alot mroe editing in order for the film to get to where we want it to be. This will mainly consist of cutting the project down to shorter time as one of the min comments was that it was too long. We also intend to change the music as we have recorded our own track and this will replace the rough cut that is currently the soundtrack. Furthermore we intend to use more filters and make the titles simultanious with the action that happens in the film.

comments on rought cut....

Editing:
- A flick between shots while driving
- Blatent Suts
- Camera darkened
- TOO LONG
- when in the car when the light shine brightly its effective
- Shots didn't link too smoothly together
- each shot should be shorter makes the cuts less effective

Camera Work:
- Varied camera shots, to show different views, over the shoulder, point of view
- shot lengths in car too long

Sound:
- Stays in sync with the thriller genre, doesnt change though
- promiscuity needed
Sound of skateboard
- Sound at beginning very effective
-no sound at teh beginning good use of tension but a bit long

Mise en Scen
-lighting - dark
Location flicked between a park and driving on a road
costume, not much

Rough Cut - Longue A Venir

A Poster I made for the film!

Soundtrack!

After emailing the teacher in charge of recording tracks at college we found that we would be unable to create our own track in the studio and instead we have created a sequence on garageband that we think compliments the film. we used classical paino and a simple bassline to create a relaxed but edgy feel.

Editing in Progress

This week we have started editing but we have found that we need to get a frame for production such as the title sequence and which order they come in. Here is our final plan for titles after research of other thrillers and are listed in the order we intend to present them:

Production company - rocket productions

Actors…
main character 1st - Rhian Nicholls

Title of Film – Lange a venir

other producers – all our names

other significant actors and there characters – made up

Music production comp

– made up company

Editors – oli, jack, phil and rhian
Make up and costume design – Rhian

WRITTEN BY Group T1 30

Director Group T1 30

today was our first editing session after filming on monday we took it in 15 minute turns each to do filming. acomplished cuting all our needed scenes and deleted unneaded footage also we messed around with the colour saturation trying to acheive a cinimatic effect.

To Do...

1. Research into title sequence title trends (e.g. Director first, Producer second)
2. Finish Prop and costume representation analysis
3. Research into film ratings in UK cinema and which should apply our piece and why

In this blog i will be analysing and evaluating the use of props ad costumes how they are used to represent and symbolize different things. Such as the skateboard which we thought would be good to represent the freedom of the memory/flashback the main character is having. Also the use of make up on the close up of the main character is good because it shows femininity which links dicectly to female objectification because we going to cut slits out of the close up like the eyes, mouth and nose. To be continued...

avant garde film inpiration

this film isn't a thriller but is relevant to our project with its jitteryness of the editing this is what we would like to incorporate this into our project.



Analysis- We liked to use of editing such as the contrast of the shots because it gave a sense of mystery and simpleness. We also really enjoyed the way the individual shots were slowed down and sped up to make the jolty connections. It seemed so simple but to great effect and that is the aim of our piece in which we wanted to make a great piece in the simplest way because we recognized all those great thrillers were simple with great editing and sound track and we aimed use this inspiration to our advantage.

Extra Footage

Even though it was raining heavily on Sunday and the set date for filming was postponed I was still able to get some good and intersting footage. I was able to get a car and filmed some simple shots looking out of the traveling car at dusk which is what we planned for the taxi ride. I was also able to use the rain because it left some large puddles which i got the car to go through and get some great footage. The footage is good and hopefully will be put into the final product.

Filming delay SOULTION!!!

As a solution to our filming we are now going to film at the end of today. As some of our filming has already been done by Oli we will not be needing the use of a car. Most of our filming can now be done at Jesus green!

Filming Delay

Due to the poor weather over they weekend with the rain coming down none stop on Sunday we were unable to film resulting in filming delay and slowing our project.