Evalation question 1

I created a timetoast timeline on the order of my groups conventions.  Following the strict sequence of the titles made it easier for the audience to identifty who took part in the film opening even though majorioty of the names were made up. 

We slightly made some changes in our film opwening due to the sequence we were told to follow. Although most popular films tend to go with their own sequence which is a little altered.

The purpose of having conventions such as the production and distreibution company makes the audience aware of what companys created the film and to gain popularity as the audience many not be familiar with the specific one chosen. 

Evaluation question 2

Stereotypes


Here are a few common stereotypes identified in our teem film opening. Technical aspects such as mise en scene reflects back on the characters appearance and behaviour. Correctly playing the role of that stereotype wasn't as difficult as we expected as we were easily able to play them due to some of our teen friends being like that. The characters stated in our teen movie are clearly shown. Although the character of Jerome is portrayed in both positive and negative way.

Evaluation question 3

Evaluation question 4

 

A way i tried to reach to the target audience asked, i created a tumblr page instead of a Facebook or twitter page due to reasons such as identity therft. I had used my iPad as i found it more easier to use as there were technical issues wrong with my laptop. This was a great way for me to explore using different digital technologies .

The tumblr page consists of a teenage girl who (not me) uploads images of things relating to the film.The idea came as it was a teen movie in which targets teens aged 15+ due to the choice in language used and inappropriate images which could effect those who are below 15.

There is no specific sex in which could access this; either girls or boys are welcomed onto the page as what has been reposted can be seen by both.This is a much wider audience span as this website consists of millions of teenagers all across the world who access this site.


Here's a link to the site seriousantics.tumblr.com 

Evaluation question 5

This was an interview constructed with Amra with the actress Marie Jones. Topics such as the development of the film, PR schedule's and about the film were talked about.

Evaluation question 6

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

Type of music used in teen openings

In teen movies the music and sound used usually reflects on the genre of the film and the atmosphere in that specific scene. For instance in films such Mean girls, Clueless , Shes all that usually include pop songs to relate to audience as they would feel that they could personally relate to it.

Although some teen movies use a variety of sound and music due to the combination of genres in the film .

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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Janet's costume for character ALISHA

ALISHA

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

Alisha represents the balance in Jerome s life, we thought that we would go with a rather simple look; as she is the complete opposite of Omar, we decided that she was going to be a simple, lovable character. This is shown through her smile, and you can just see her bubbly energy oozing from the picture. She is seen wearing, nike ait max, black jeans, and a parka jacket.

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.