Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
As a thriller theme there is general generics conventions, this include those such as a protagonist and an antagonist among many more. Our thriller does in actual fact challenge this, especially as shown in our opening you see our main character of who is diagnosed with. Prior of which is not shown however you see he is most certainly not a protagonist, we chose something like this as we felt that the movie would be simply generic and we wanted something different. This links in well with todorovs theory, we do use some certain conventions however it proved effective by puttin or own spin on the film.
We did develop conventions such as the locations used. Should we have had more access to further afield we would have developed our location even more however the places we chose were still effective for us. Sadly generically our locations would have been used elsewhere for example there are certainly films based in the woods/forest and also a mental hospital. However we were successful upon gaining permission which proves organisation.
Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Due to the nature of our film using a mentally ill main character who has ......... This meant we had to be very careful about how we portrayed him, the last thing we would want is anyone been offended, however we are certain we portrayed him in a way offence would be non Existent.
Here is an example of someone with this illness.
In terms of racial groups and stereotypes we didn't use these, we specifically chose to stay away from stereotypes due to the generical effect that most thrillers have.
We could also have gone with companies such as paramount or lionsgate, these have slightly different target audiences however would be very beneficial as we could promote our film with a large company dragging their audience with them, also going through a company such as them they could provide points of which could benefit or movie and produce an even better product.
Alongside with this we could have used highly used apps such as Netflix, and also YouTube. Millions of people use these everyday and for a newly starting thriller, this could be perfect.
4.
who would be the audience for your media product?
Our age ratings for noose would be 15, this is due to violence and suicidle reference, this would affect the age rating due to the vulnerability of the younger generation is the current times.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Equipment-
Digital camera
Tri-pod
Spotlight
Lapel Microphone
Apple MAC (software, final cut pro, Garageband)
What have you learnt - cameras?
During the task we have learnt more and more about cameras. White balance is one of the most important things to do as soon as you set up, when we arrived at our location we realised we didn't have anything white, before realising I actually a pure white jumper, we ended up taking the white balance on this and it worked very well. Our shots came out clear and the colours 100% distinguishable.
Depth of field actually plays a large part of our movie. One of our main shots is one of a noose hanging on a tree and our character is looking at this, we managed to achieve in to the extent when you originally cannot quite make out what the noose is and then it focus' this is all depth of field because it is an over the shoulder shot it is focused on him at the beginning.
We also had a problem with the framing in one shot, whilst we panned around someone got caught in the shot and tried to duck out however was caught in the shot, this caused problems in the editing suite, we then had to reframe the shot, we zoomed in and pulled it across, this meant the character was now in a different position to our storyboard however we did manage to use trial and error to get the best out of this bad situation.
We used to tripod for all but one shot, this was because it was a tracking shot whilst he was running. We used the handle for the panning shots and the tripod came to very good use. This also helped with zooming shots. This is because we could control the pan whilst zooming. It proved difficult and we did do a number of takes on the shot of which we used both of these however it did end up as a success.
What have you learnt about image editing?
Prior to this coursework we had basic knowledge of editing and through the preliminary task and also practise we have actually become reasonably experienced in the editing process. We planned all our durations for our shots however as they are hard to stick to it wasn't 100% accurate however we only extended shots we felt would be more effective. We used our title as a transition to the next scene, it feeds us through from the night of the escape to the next day in the woods. This was actually something we planned to bring from our preliminary task, it was an idea we had where the lighting would fade into the title. We also edited it to make it so that if there was a pov/over the shoulder it'd look like what comes through
Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?
For the preliminary task our group was not the same as it is to the current date. For the preliminary task it was Dan and I working alone. This proved a task as we had a lot of work to split 50/50 rather than other groups of which could split 4 ways. However due to the large responsibility we had upon the both of us it meant we learnt a lot about the process. This means in many ways we actually benefited from having just the two of us as we learnt how to do everything needed for the final task. We then merged our group with Sophie and Neve, and now we could bring what we had learnt to the newly formed group.
Moreover, we can analyse the actual production of our preliminary task, we overall had a largely successful setup. We used externally recorded sound, of which we used a lapel microphone to record, this proved a success. Our camerawork in general was good, we had few problems throughout. However whilst saying that we did have a shot of which we later realised was un-usable. This was due to the 180° rule. We originally had visions of the shot being a POV (point of view) shot. We done a first take and watched it over. We almost right away concluded that it was too close for comfort on breaking the rule, so we re-took the shot slight angled differently. We were originally happy with the way the second take came out, it was only however when in the editing suite we really realised the shot still compromised the rule. We then removed the shot completely from the film and archived it. Fortunately for us the shot was not particularly important and without it still worked as it was purely a perspective job. Our general editing was fairly decent, as stated above we did analyse and drop in and out certain shots which all adds to the success. We find the editing rather generic as we both had had some previous experience with different types of editing. During our preliminary task we were limited in some ways, for example we had to remain on the college premises, this meant the location and general mise-en-scene was limited in many ways. This in terms on limitations did not hold us back, it also meant finding actors was actually very easy as there are always plenty of people with the spare time to film whilst at college. Other than the location being limited we used lighting, props and were generally ambitious with our work, it most certainly taught us a lot going to the main task and as directors we had twice as much confidence, we realised that all we really had to do was to take what we had learnt and enhance it.
The improvements that have been made include general confidence, the editing was most certainly a smoother process the second time around. Also for our preliminary we externally recorded the sounds and inserted them straight on final cut pro, this did work however a much more effective way for producing the sound comes on Garageband. This enhanced our sound production and generally I believe the sound came out much better this time. Moreover, the quality and camera angles we used were more ambitious, we did it in a way of such to show effects of the psychological problems our main character had, this meant for a variety in camera angles.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
As a thriller theme there is general generics conventions, this include those such as a protagonist and an antagonist among many more. Our thriller does in actual fact challenge this, especially as shown in our opening you see our main character of who is diagnosed with. Prior of which is not shown however you see he is most certainly not a protagonist, we chose something like this as we felt that the movie would be simply generic and we wanted something different. This links in well with todorovs theory, we do use some certain conventions however it proved effective by puttin or own spin on the film.
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Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Due to the nature of our film using a mentally ill main character who has ......... This meant we had to be very careful about how we portrayed him, the last thing we would want is anyone been offended, however we are certain we portrayed him in a way offence would be non Existent.
Here is an example of someone with this illness.
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3. what akind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? Production companies such as Warner brothers could distribute products such as ours. Warner bros do many genres of film and would be a great way to get your film out to the public. Upon research this would benefit our film due to the target audience of our thriller films.
We could also have gone with companies such as paramount or lionsgate, these have slightly different target audiences however would be very beneficial as we could promote our film with a large company dragging their audience with them, also going through a company such as them they could provide points of which could benefit or movie and produce an even better product.
4.
who would be the audience for your media product?
Our age ratings for noose would be 15, this is due to violence and suicidle reference, this would affect the age rating due to the vulnerability of the younger generation is the current times.
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Equipment-
Digital camera
Tri-pod
Spotlight
Lapel Microphone
Apple MAC (software, final cut pro, Garageband)
What have you learnt - cameras?
During the task we have learnt more and more about cameras. White balance is one of the most important things to do as soon as you set up, when we arrived at our location we realised we didn't have anything white, before realising I actually a pure white jumper, we ended up taking the white balance on this and it worked very well. Our shots came out clear and the colours 100% distinguishable.
Depth of field actually plays a large part of our movie. One of our main shots is one of a noose hanging on a tree and our character is looking at this, we managed to achieve in to the extent when you originally cannot quite make out what the noose is and then it focus' this is all depth of field because it is an over the shoulder shot it is focused on him at the beginning.
We also had a problem with the framing in one shot, whilst we panned around someone got caught in the shot and tried to duck out however was caught in the shot, this caused problems in the editing suite, we then had to reframe the shot, we zoomed in and pulled it across, this meant the character was now in a different position to our storyboard however we did manage to use trial and error to get the best out of this bad situation.
We used to tripod for all but one shot, this was because it was a tracking shot whilst he was running. We used the handle for the panning shots and the tripod came to very good use. This also helped with zooming shots. This is because we could control the pan whilst zooming. It proved difficult and we did do a number of takes on the shot of which we used both of these however it did end up as a success.
What have you learnt about image editing?
Prior to this coursework we had basic knowledge of editing and through the preliminary task and also practise we have actually become reasonably experienced in the editing process. We planned all our durations for our shots however as they are hard to stick to it wasn't 100% accurate however we only extended shots we felt would be more effective. We used our title as a transition to the next scene, it feeds us through from the night of the escape to the next day in the woods. This was actually something we planned to bring from our preliminary task, it was an idea we had where the lighting would fade into the title. We also edited it to make it so that if there was a pov/over the shoulder it'd look like what comes through
Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?
For the preliminary task our group was not the same as it is to the current date. For the preliminary task it was Dan and I working alone. This proved a task as we had a lot of work to split 50/50 rather than other groups of which could split 4 ways. However due to the large responsibility we had upon the both of us it meant we learnt a lot about the process. This means in many ways we actually benefited from having just the two of us as we learnt how to do everything needed for the final task. We then merged our group with Sophie and Neve, and now we could bring what we had learnt to the newly formed group.
Moreover, we can analyse the actual production of our preliminary task, we overall had a largely successful setup. We used externally recorded sound, of which we used a lapel microphone to record, this proved a success. Our camerawork in general was good, we had few problems throughout. However whilst saying that we did have a shot of which we later realised was un-usable. This was due to the 180° rule. We originally had visions of the shot being a POV (point of view) shot. We done a first take and watched it over. We almost right away concluded that it was too close for comfort on breaking the rule, so we re-took the shot slight angled differently. We were originally happy with the way the second take came out, it was only however when in the editing suite we really realised the shot still compromised the rule. We then removed the shot completely from the film and archived it. Fortunately for us the shot was not particularly important and without it still worked as it was purely a perspective job. Our general editing was fairly decent, as stated above we did analyse and drop in and out certain shots which all adds to the success. We find the editing rather generic as we both had had some previous experience with different types of editing. During our preliminary task we were limited in some ways, for example we had to remain on the college premises, this meant the location and general mise-en-scene was limited in many ways. This in terms on limitations did not hold us back, it also meant finding actors was actually very easy as there are always plenty of people with the spare time to film whilst at college. Other than the location being limited we used lighting, props and were generally ambitious with our work, it most certainly taught us a lot going to the main task and as directors we had twice as much confidence, we realised that all we really had to do was to take what we had learnt and enhance it.
The improvements that have been made include general confidence, the editing was most certainly a smoother process the second time around. Also for our preliminary we externally recorded the sounds and inserted them straight on final cut pro, this did work however a much more effective way for producing the sound comes on Garageband. This enhanced our sound production and generally I believe the sound came out much better this time. Moreover, the quality and camera angles we used were more ambitious, we did it in a way of such to show effects of the psychological problems our main character had, this meant for a variety in camera angles.
