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How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?
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Who would be the audience for your media product?
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How did you attract/address your audience?
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What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
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1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3)What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?
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4)Who would be the audience for your media product?
Our audience targeted would have been
teenagers (13-17). This is because we are around the 16-17-age range and it was
easier to delegate a plot line to our age range, as we would know what they
would of expected. It is easier to guess what our target audience would be than
guessing something that someone older or younger would of wanted.
So we also gave the film a rating of 15 as
we saw that content of the film and further content if we had wished to
continue filming the film, would be too explicit for younger viewer such as 12.
A female protagonist is shown which was our
intention as it highlighted every girl’s scary dream. We have all dreamt about
that person that has/was haunting us so we wanted to make it alive by using
that theme and emotion into a film. We also put her in a white dress to show
the complications/juxtaposition and irony of her and the white dress. As she is
wearing an innocent looking dress that classes as pure, her intentions are very
much the opposite and challenged the audience.
The audience is very much a typical US
story, which shows the mass audience that we could have appealed if we
published the whole film sequence.
We used a survey to test our audiences and
see what they would want in a film and any films they had recently seen, we
distributed online. It showed that the most common age group that would watch a
thriller/horror genre film would be 13-25 and therefore that was our chosen
audience for our media product.
5)How did you attract/address your audience?
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6)What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7)Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel like I have definitely learnt a lot
from this process/transition between the preliminary tasks to the real opening
sequence. It has allowed me to explore technology and software that wouldn’t of
considered touching before and pushed me to try something new.
In pre-production (as we have said before),
the location, actors/actresses, clothing and make-up have always been provided
for us or we had gone to the simplest measures and take what has been provided
by the school. Location was done in the drama studio at school, we used
actors/actresses in our group, clothing was what we had one and no one used
much make up apart from the fake blood we had made and we had never considered
the budget in at all. For our official opening sequence, we had to do recces to
check if the location was necessarily ok to film and make sure that the health
and safety and risk assessment was filled out so in case of emergency we would
know what to do. We researched profiles upon the perfect character image then
we searched locally for our actress. Clothing was a dilemma as well as we had
to search at charity shops for a white dress but eventually used one that we
had. Overall, we had to go great lengths and write every detail upon how we
were going to create the film exactly, which in the preliminary task we didn’t
consider. It gave me a feel for what conglomerate or independent film companies
had to do when creating a film. It is very stressful and distressing to
complete deadlines and do constant research with juggling other subjects/homework’s
but showed that I needed to put enthusiasm and energy to create something
great.
In the production process, we had only done
one 2nd unit for the preliminary task for further close-ups etc.…
But for the actual opening sequence, we had two 2nd units (4th
units if that is possible) that helped to create the film which was a pain but
taught me that shot listing and storyboard is ESSENTIAL as that is what you
need to make an audience feel empathy like we do in films. In addition,
close-ups are essential to a film as when we had filmed for the first time, we
only completed a limited amount of close-ups and we didn’t consider putting it
down on the shot list. But after trying to edit it, we found that it was very
difficult to make a narrative or a flow between each shots and it didn’t purse
the edgy film we were looking for. In addition, working with actresses was
something that I had never fully done and my friend that helped us out, didn’t
want to do constant re-shooting so therefore was harder to complete the shoots.
But I learnt that everyone needs an incentive to do something, for Saffron
(actress) it was the chocolate but for us it was the final product that we
didn’t need a big budgeted amount to create a great opening sequence.
In the post-production process, was a bit
easier in terms of editing compared to the post-production task but the
constant re-shooting and advice was the set back that I particularly didn’t
like but was still apart of the whole process. The preliminary task was very
much an editing process that wasn’t emphasized enough and that is why it was
very hard to watch even now whereas the official opening sequence helped me to
understand how important this part was to allow the audience to give empathy
and sympathy to the protagonist. I can now and have developed my skills to
create an extremely great opening sequence, which is a key skill as in the
future if I will use final cut pro, I can actually create a film. But the
advice and critic part that was given by my teachers and peers was the worst
part that I did not like because it was hard to know that something that I was
so proud of needed more tweaks. Eventually, I learnt that the advice and critic
had helped me learn that all film products probably have a few edits that they
hated and wanted to change and that any advice that I can collect in the post-production
process would be a good as I can make my film better.
In conclusion, from the preliminary task to
the opening sequence, I have and had to learn so many ideas and techniques that
I may have not been comfortable with but still helped me to understand what
they would have to do in the future and if I wanted to join and have a career
in the film industry, it would be a good idea that I absorb the advice and
techniques now.
