Evaluation Question 1

Here is our film opening in which we have stuck to the title order which is:

1. Production ident
2. Distribution ident
3. Actor 1
4. Actor 2
5. Actor 3
6. Actor 4
7. Film title
8. Casting by
9. Costume by
10. Music supervisor 
11. Music by
12. Edited by
13. Production designer
14. Director of photography
15. Executive producers
16. Written by
17. Director

However, not all films stick the exact same order but you will be introduced to these titles in the opening credits. 

Evaluation Question 2

I decided to interview members of the audience that had watched my film and asked them whether or not they could pick out typical stereotypes and whether they had a negative or positive label.

I then recorded myself and answered the question on video. 

Evaluation Question 3

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? from Amra-Jargal

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The general audience for teen movies are...teenagers. These may include the age range from as low as 13 to as high as 21 no matter what country or background so long as it relates to them. 

Specific audience to our sub-genre

Our teen film fits into the sub genre of crime, gangs, money, friendship, violence, 'hood', youth culture and drama. We aim at teens who can relate with these categories and/or have friends/family who have been in similar situations. Teenagers specifically who have had a rough time growing up in diverse post codes and making wrong choices due to society and peers and result in consequences. These teens may have already thought about making the right choices or teens that are still involved in crime etc and this film may appeal to them as they know about the character's lives and allow it to be more closer to home. The age range we chose is 15-21 both males and females, however mainly males.

I chose to make a Facebook profile of a typical person who may be interested in watching our teen film. He is a stereotypical black boy living in London who is involved in drugs, music and making money. He is in an ant-school subculture who believes school is wasting his time. He is at the age of 16 attending college.  

Here are a few pictures of his Facebook profile in a GIF

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Evaluation Question 7

How Binary Oppositions are established in teen films- Romeo & Juliet

How Binary Oppositions are established in teen films- Romeo & Juliet

Binary Oppositions

+Montague and Capulet
+Good and Bad
+Light and Dark
+Wrong and Right

Mise en scene-Binary Oppositions 

 +COSTUME: Montague's wear light clothes and the Capulet's wear dark.
 +MAKEUP: The Capulet have their hair slicked back and they are well tamed whilst          the montages have messy hair.
 +BODY LANGUAGE: The montagues are clumsy whilst the Capulets are slick
 +PROPS: The Montague's have a modern car and the Capulet's have a classic car

Editing- Binary Oppositions

+Slow and Fast.
+Close

Sound-Binary Oppositions 

+Loud and quite
+Upbeat/rap music and instrumentals

Alisha's Blood Stained T-Shirt

This is the blood stained t shirt Alisha was wearing . As you can see the colour has faded but was originally a deep red colour. With the combination of of flour,water and red food coloring we poured it onto the top and also made a hole to indicate that she had been shot .

Change in Sound

In our film opening we decided to only use two soundtracks as it was more appropriate for the scenes. Music such as Stay with me -DJ ironic and Pow - Lethal Bizzle was used in the beginning and at the end .

Our reason for only using two is because we also had a voice over which made it less complicated to include a variety of soundtracks to the opening than keeping it as simple as possible.

Ups and Downs - Filming and Editing

During our process of filming, we found it difficult to stick with our original ideas as we had many challenges that came our way. For instance, we weren't allowed to use the toy gun anywhere outside as it would have been an instant disqualification for our whole group as it was see as breaking the law. So we then decided to film inside the college mimicking a warehouse in which Omar (Akbar) pull out the gun to shoot .

Our film begins with a flashback although by many it was seen as unclear due to the shots we had taken. Struggling to use all the clips we had to make our flashback was difficult as we had taken a numerous number of clips.

While editing we merged all the clips together to look like a flashback by using white fades, a black and white effect to represent the event happened in the past tense. Even though it had taken many hours during lesson,after college hours and in our spare time we managed to finish a day before the deadline .

We had learnt new things in our lessons about filming and editing , which would personally help me (Janet) in future as i would want to peruse a career involving editing skills.Timing and organisation are one of the most important things we had to keep track of as a load of work began to build up each week .

 

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Amra's costume for character SARAH

SARAH

These are the costumes we had planned on wearing, as we thought it would fit perfectly for the characters we were attempting to portray.

Amra's character (Sarah) she is seen wearing a red checked shirt, black wax jacket, black jeans and Dr Martens boots. She is more into the urban fashion, loves music and arts and no way near into gangs etc and definitely would not get along with the antagonist Omar.  

FINISHED EDITING!

We finally finished editing on the 11th one day before the actual deadline and ticked off our group!

Group photo (minus Akbar) after the completion of editing :)

Evidence of editing- Photographs

During today's lesson and lunch, we had our last chance to finish up everything. We inserted our idents, voiceover, appropriate music for the teen film opening. As a group we came up with the idea of rewinding everything back to the first scene to make it more clear that it is a flashback, however we were encouraged by our media teacher that we do not do that and so we chose not to.

Improvements

Improvements 

• Fashbacks aren't clear enough- more editing and an idea in rewinding the last scene all the way back to the first.
• Music is jumpy, in terms of it not fading away smoothly.
• Also a change in music as the one's in our rough cut are not as suitable as we thought it would be.
• Low volume whilst Akbar's character is speaking and therefore if we are unable to increase the volume on final cut pro we may have to result to doing a voiceover.
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