Group 11: 2013

Friday, 24 May 2013

Final Film Opening

11. Masuma Khanom, Jaleesa Braithwaite from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Thursday, 28 March 2013

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation is ......

The social group are thriller represents is teenagers. The main character is a young teenage girl.

Are social group relates back to gender, female. Also age, young girl, 16-18. The main aspect would be disability as our main character suffers from schizophrenia, mental issues.

Through camera work we have shown are character mental issue using various different shots and angles. Firstly, we have used a spinning shot using a dolly, where the camera is going around the character. This is to show her disturbed mental state, and how she is going mad. It gives audiences an almost physical, visual insight of what she is going through. Also we have used close ups, of props such as pills, blade to show their importance as these objects can cause death. Close ups of facial features such as eyes shows distress in them.

Editing has also played a major role to portray the characters metal health. Firstly, when the camera was going around her head, and the bedroom scene we made these parts faster to emphasise her acceeding into madness. We made the whole end part faster with quick shots so that it is more triggering, and again portrays the characters unstable mental health, she's unable to focus, too much going on in her head. Similarly we had made certain parts slower, like the running scene to .......

Lighting we had mix of lighting, certain scenes for example when she is going crazy, we have a dark gloomy lighting in order to represent the dark
Flickering lamp whats going on in her head, stereo typical teenagers, schizophrenia patient, just showing she needs help, medium long shots in forest to show she is vulnerabe
Stereo typical in a sense as woemn are mainly choosen as a victem, a weakling in a sense but this isn't what we wanted to represent

Question 1

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

All films openings include titles of actors, film distributor, producer, director and the film name. They can either come up on a black background or can be cut into the film sequence. As you can see from the screenshots above our thriller Mortuus has followed the typical title sequence.

Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

What aspects of your thriller appeal to the target audience?
Our film name is Mortuus which means death in Latin. Although audiences may not know the exact meaning of the name I believe this creates more curious of what it means. It is a psychological thriller and so audiences who are interested in movies which consist of blood, murder will be attracted to our film as it includes these elements. Our storyline is discrete throughout our opening however gives a hint of what it is about. We can see the main character is mentally disturbed and has a connection with a girl named, Jade. Through the pictures audiences can see that they were close but an incident has occurred. And the pictures are burnt, character descends into madness and at the end she doesn't pick up her call. All these aspects make the audience drawn to the story plot as they'll begin to question themselves, why she is doing that what happens and create eagerness.

Rough cut feedback
The rough cut feed back helped improve our film in order to better appeal to the intended audience as they told that we were giving too much away, and that our initial idea for the opening was way to long. So we were told to not include the murder scene as this will give too much away and make the opening too cliche. Audiences may lose interest watching a boring long opening. Also if it is something that they have watched before it doesn't make our film unique and original.

Explain how you have reached you audience so far
We have had a cinema screening at the Screen on the Green, a local cinema where all college students went to view our film. So 16 year olds which fits in with our target range. Also we have had our opening uploaded to Vimeo where other students as well as students can view it. We have also promoted our film by creating twitter page where a larger audience outside the college can access it. Mostly teens use twitter so this is a great way to attract our target audience. Moreover, we have a dvd coming out which will be available to all students an this can then we recommended to friends and family and this will gradually gain more audiences.

Question 3

Question 7

Question 4

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

Representation is how something or someone is shown to the audience.

The thriller that we had made represents more of a disability aspect rather than the other categories, i will explain more in the following vlog and pictures.

This is an example of a camera shot, it is a close up of the character and as you can see it is a shot of the camera spinning around the character which fits with the characters representation of a mental health issues as it conveys that her head is not clear and that it is like there are voices spinning around her.

This is shows the dark lighting that we had used to create quite a dark mood and to fulfil suspense with the audience as they want to indulge into the film wanting to know what will happen next and why it is such a dark setting.

The mise en scene in this clip is at a canal, where the area itself looks quite gloomy and is the perfect setting for a thriller as it can get the audience to trigger thoughts of usual thriller films being placed in scary, dark areas such as the canal.

Here we added an effect to create a dark lighting to the scene to give off a chilling effect to the audience, this also adds to the characteristic of the protagonist having mental health issues as it gives off as it could be reflecting the dark thoughts of the character.

Here we have put two clips together to overlap each other showing that the clip of the pictures on fire is what is going through the characters mind and that she is constantly going through this trauma.

This setting helps add to the characteristic of the mental disability as commonly in TV Dramas or Films the character who is schizophrenic would often go to secluded dark places such as a forest, which can add to the isolation they feel in their mind.

The light in this part of the opening contrasts with the rest as the other parts are quite dark and have a dull lighting whereas this part is quite bright which can portray that the characters mood often changes and I think this was a quite strong decision that the group has made to make this part light as it shows the normality of the character in her everyday life but in the other parts it conveys her disability with the darkness and psychotic actions.

I felt that this clip was very strong as the lighting, mise en scene, and the atmosphere of the clip gave a dark eerie mood for the audience as it shows her going totally insane and the lights moving while she moves portrays the insane thoughts going through her mind and how she wants to get them out.

Evaluation Question 3

Q3 einas presentation from einasmomo

presentation on distrubition and production

Evaluation Q1

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

Conventions of a film opening includes:

The production company logo
The distribution company logo
A title sequence telling us who stars in the film
Introduces they key characters of the film
Potentially key locations established through an establishing shot
The mood and tone of the film is shown as it may make the audience frightened or interested
The music helps set the tone such as 'eerie music' or 'violins'
some of the narrative is set up
And hooks the audience into the film

Conventions of a title sequence

distribution company
production company
big stars
actors names
editor
costume and props
music by...

Our film opening

A candi media production
A sky view films production
Einas mohamed
Jaleesa braithwaite
Olamide adediran
Masuma khanom
Mariam ali
Casting by
Elaine jones
Music by
Shane nelson
Costume and design by
Terri maggs
Director of photography
Elizabeth robinson
Co-producers
David o'neill
Written by
Christina bell

Evaluation Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Q1.

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

As you can see, we followed the conventions of a typical thriller opening. Although the titles of the films, 'Mortuus' and 'Seven' came up at different times, everything else was more or less the same.

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Q3

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

this is the college's ident that we had to put on our final filming

this is our self made ident. my group and i had decided to make our own identto be creative and to make our film different from others

Evaluation Q2.

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation is how something or someone is shown to the audience.
There are 7 main areas that are focused on which are :
Gender
Age
Disability/Ability
Sexuality
Ethnicity
Social Class
Regional Identity

Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience for your product?

Evaluation Q3.

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Presentation1 from olamide123

evaluation question 1

Evaluation Q5

How did you attract/address your audience?

This is a member of my target audience, luke talking about what he thought about our film opening.

These are screenshots we used in our opening to attract our audience:

The fire scene suggests violence and our audience would be attracted to the film after seeing this because it is what attracts teenagers and young adults now a days.

This is when the camera spins around Ashley to show that there are voices in her head. This attracts our audience because it sort of explains to them what happening to her.

Makes our audience wonder why and how this person's eye is this red and why they re looking from side to side as though they are scared.

And this is an interview of our main actor from our opening. taking about how we promoted the film

Evaluation Q4.

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

evaluation question 2

Representation is shown to the audience, as the audience we would often stereotype people and make judgements through what we can see.

There are 7 main areas that are focused on which are:

Regional Identity

Sexuality

Age

Gender

Ability/Disability

Social Class

Ethnicity

evaluation question 3

Choosing our Distribution Companies:
When choosing our distribution and production companies, we knew that we wanted to use a low budget company. We chose a psychological Thriller for our opening

Evaluation Q5.

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

evaluation question 4

We decided to make the audience for our thriller opening 15+ as our opening is based on teenagers and this would be suitable for teenagers age 15+. Different sub-genres appeal to a wide range of audiences, however this depends on their social group. For example a romantic film would be most suitable for people age 25+ mainly women and a action film would be suitable for people age 15+ mainly men.

Sub-Genre for Motruus:
The sub-genre for our thriller Mortuss is psychological thriller. Throughout this thriller we see teenagers and signs of disability. Our thriller would mainly appeal to teenagers because of this.