Evaluation question 1

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

There are many different conventions of a teen film opening which we have conveyed in our opening of our teen film 'Trials and tribulations.' We have used a number of conventions to show our teen film is similar to a typical conventional teen film. we have used all key conventional aspects such as mise en scene, camerawork, editing and sound and compared it typical teen films that have been released in the past and found out that our teen film is similar:

camerawork- for this shot, we decide to use and over the shoulder shot, but at a slightly high angle. This is to show that the main character Jerome has a lower status than Omar who plays the "thug" type character.

In comparison, the thug is shown looking down on his victim at a slightly high angle over the shoulder shot.  This represents his incredibly high status.

Mise en scene- for mise en scene we used a few of the aspects like setting, costume and make up, and staging in order to really let the audience into our film opening. 

Setting: we decided to set our film opening around the Highbury and Islington area as we were trying to create a gritty type of teen movie and we thought Islington would be a great place to do so. 

 Costume and make up: as our characters were not too different from who we are in reality (with the exception of Akbar "Omar") finding costumes were not too hard to do.

Here are our costumes with a bit of insight into the characters: http://prezi.com/5otallupurfm/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Staging (movement and performance): we used quite a lot of action in our piece so staging was very important, as it allowed our characters to express feelings and thoughts through the use of body language and facial expressions.

As for the sound, normally in a conventional teen film opening there a numerous amounts of sounds used to either represent the specific character or there is a suitable soundtrack that goes under the film. in our teen film we used quite a few sounds, such as: a gunshot, hype music and calming music.

Editing: in conventional teen films there are normally fine cut edits used in the opening to switch between the characters so that the audience do not get bored of watching one character simultaneously. 

There are also many other conventions besides the main four which occur in the opening of a teen film such as:

• Travelling and arriving 
• Titles
• Introduction of main characters 
• Sets topic
• Sets genre 

Evaluation question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

What is representation?
The definition of representation is the portrayal of something or someone in a particular way. E.g. a gangster being represent with black clothes , broken English etc. Representation can be different depending on the specific conventions which are changed or altered. The main four components that define representation in films are:

• Sound 
• Editing 
• Mis-en-scene 
• Camera work

Evaluation question 3

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

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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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David's costume for character JEROME

JEROME AKA JAY SQUEEZE

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

Jerome played by David is shown wearing a Nike windrunner, Zara jeans, converses and a beanie that says "Comme des fuckdown." Although he is involved in gangs and drugs, he has always been different to the stereotypical "hood man" this is shown through his simple clothing.

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.

Rough cut- Film opening

This is our rough cut of our teen movie opening called 'Trials and Tribulations' we have been given our feedback from our teachers in ways in which we can improve our rough cut.