Evaluation Question 1

For Question 1, I decided to create a time toast timeline of the order of my group conventions.  By following strict and precise order of titles it makes it much more easier for the audiences identify who was part of the film and took part in the film opening even though majority of the names were made up. 

However we did make small changes in our film opening. This was required of us; this was because we were told on what order the sequence should run. Although a majority of the popular films do use the same sequence of the order of titles.

The purpose of having conventions such as the production and distribution company is to make the audience aware of who has created the film and also to gain popularity. Also it helps to promote the company as a certain audience may not be familiar with these companies.

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Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 3

The opening ident

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for you media product?

The group of people that would be watching our media product would be majority young teens. The rough age is between 12-30. The type of audience that would be drawn to our film would be normally those who are urban based. Also our films is also based around Urban music so those whole are attracted to urban music would be a fan of our film. In addition, those who enjoy watching coming of age thriller would be drawn into our media product. I believe that the USP for our specific audience is that we have a mixture of different ethnic minorities and each character in our film are relatable this is why we think this film would be a success with it target audience.

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Poster

This poster has been created to it will promote the film and the public can go and watch the film. These poster will allow the target audience to go and watch the film because what the actors are wearing it will be relating back to them therefore going out seeing the film. 

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 7

Both of the prelims and the film opening were presented differently. In the opening scene the prelim was filmed with a still tripod and the film opening was filmed with a fig rig this is why the film opening scene seems a bit wobbly. One of the differences in the prelim and film opening is that we used conventions.

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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Akbar's costume for character OMAR

OMAR

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

The first picture is of Akbar's character Omar; he is seen sporting what is known as typical "road man attire." He is wearing Air force one's, which are very popular amongst our inner city youth, baggy Stone Island jeans, a hoody and a parka jacket. This is because he plays the role of the antagonist and represents the main "trial and tribulation" of Jerome.

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.

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