Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The Evaluation Part Four - "Who will be your target audience?"
This is the video of our evaluation part 4:
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
The Evaluation Part Two - 'In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products'
Our media product uses, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products in a variety of ways.
Narrative/Performance
Throughout the film the protagonist (Tate) is shown to not even talk at all; this shows how much he wants to keep away from society and the people around him. He is a very quiet and introverted person, with the only person he did talk with and opened up to was his ex-girlfriend. We got this idea from the British social realism (BSR) film Fish Tank, as the main character from Fish Tank is also shown to be very secluded from her surroundings and doesn't even attempt to open up into the paths of social interaction and happiness. As our opening sequence progresses, as Tate finds out his girlfriend cheated on him, he tries to escape this awful reality by heavily drinking and getting himself into trouble outside. His movement after this becomes very inconsistent and gingerly; to show how much he is trying to soothe the pain of his betrayal by drinking to the extent of unable to be control his actions. We also got this inspiration from Fish Tank as the main character is seen to drink a lot of alcohol to escape from her troubles and pain. We have shown the solitude and isolation of Tate from society by excluding the use of close up shots on him. This will be able to emphasise and give an idea of how far away Tate likes to keep him self from others around him, as he dislikes being close to people.
Settings/Location:
We have decided to set our location in the streets of Vauxhall and Stockwell. Originally we filmed a majority of our opening sequence near the River Thames in a very quiet and rather posh location. We believed that since the number of people who walks through this path is rather low, it will make filming some of our scenes here rather efficient and worthwhile. However, from editing and watching the scenes we have filmed in this area, and from the advice from our teacher the location was deemed too posh and "attractive" to be used in a BSR (Shown below). As a result of this, my group decided to film these scenes near a dirty and gritty area, which goes along with the conventions of a BSR. The location of the protagonist is also a council estate, which connotes to the financial and lifestyle troubles Tate may have. We got this inspiration from Kidulthood as in the movie, many council estates are seen to convey the lower class and people who may have social status troubles.
Effects/Transitions:
The transitions we have used includes: fade to black, fade in, fade out, cross dissolve and parallel editing. Fade to black was used to show the transition of the opening credits and the current life of Tate. His life is seen as rather dark and dull, which is connoted by the fade to black transition and this impacts the video; the target audience will be able to assume that the life of protagonist is worth heavily sympathizing for. Fade in and fade out both respectively show the transitions between the protagonist's actions and decisions he makes when he finds out about his girlfriend is pregnant. Furthermore the use of parallel editing was used at the end of the the 2 minute opening sequence. It showed the regretful and sorrowful face of the girlfriend of Tate, who is now pregnant, contrasting to the hateful and drunken protagonist.
Lighting:
The lighting we have used only consists of natural lighting because natural lighting is usually one of the conventions that is found in a BSR. We believed that having natural lighting, which was dark at the beginning - showed the audience how dull and mundane the life of Tate and how there is nearly no "light" in it. My group decided to only use natural lighting, not ambient and/or artificial lighting; adding from the point earlier, natural lighting is able to convey the audience the realistic life of someone who is going through an extremely tough situation.
Conventional editing pace/Narrative originality
The editing pace of our movie my group agreed, is a bit too fast of what you would usually see in a BSR. This is because we had to fit many things into the 2 minute clip: opening credits, Tate finding out his girlfriend is pregnant and venting his aggression outside. In addition to this, our narrative is generally original because our main character, Tate who's is Asian, is suffering from depression. You generally don't find Asians being the main character in BSR movies so you could say he is a counter type.
Narrative/Performance
Throughout the film the protagonist (Tate) is shown to not even talk at all; this shows how much he wants to keep away from society and the people around him. He is a very quiet and introverted person, with the only person he did talk with and opened up to was his ex-girlfriend. We got this idea from the British social realism (BSR) film Fish Tank, as the main character from Fish Tank is also shown to be very secluded from her surroundings and doesn't even attempt to open up into the paths of social interaction and happiness. As our opening sequence progresses, as Tate finds out his girlfriend cheated on him, he tries to escape this awful reality by heavily drinking and getting himself into trouble outside. His movement after this becomes very inconsistent and gingerly; to show how much he is trying to soothe the pain of his betrayal by drinking to the extent of unable to be control his actions. We also got this inspiration from Fish Tank as the main character is seen to drink a lot of alcohol to escape from her troubles and pain. We have shown the solitude and isolation of Tate from society by excluding the use of close up shots on him. This will be able to emphasise and give an idea of how far away Tate likes to keep him self from others around him, as he dislikes being close to people.
Settings/Location:
We have decided to set our location in the streets of Vauxhall and Stockwell. Originally we filmed a majority of our opening sequence near the River Thames in a very quiet and rather posh location. We believed that since the number of people who walks through this path is rather low, it will make filming some of our scenes here rather efficient and worthwhile. However, from editing and watching the scenes we have filmed in this area, and from the advice from our teacher the location was deemed too posh and "attractive" to be used in a BSR (Shown below). As a result of this, my group decided to film these scenes near a dirty and gritty area, which goes along with the conventions of a BSR. The location of the protagonist is also a council estate, which connotes to the financial and lifestyle troubles Tate may have. We got this inspiration from Kidulthood as in the movie, many council estates are seen to convey the lower class and people who may have social status troubles.
Effects/Transitions:
The transitions we have used includes: fade to black, fade in, fade out, cross dissolve and parallel editing. Fade to black was used to show the transition of the opening credits and the current life of Tate. His life is seen as rather dark and dull, which is connoted by the fade to black transition and this impacts the video; the target audience will be able to assume that the life of protagonist is worth heavily sympathizing for. Fade in and fade out both respectively show the transitions between the protagonist's actions and decisions he makes when he finds out about his girlfriend is pregnant. Furthermore the use of parallel editing was used at the end of the the 2 minute opening sequence. It showed the regretful and sorrowful face of the girlfriend of Tate, who is now pregnant, contrasting to the hateful and drunken protagonist.
Lighting:
The lighting we have used only consists of natural lighting because natural lighting is usually one of the conventions that is found in a BSR. We believed that having natural lighting, which was dark at the beginning - showed the audience how dull and mundane the life of Tate and how there is nearly no "light" in it. My group decided to only use natural lighting, not ambient and/or artificial lighting; adding from the point earlier, natural lighting is able to convey the audience the realistic life of someone who is going through an extremely tough situation.
Conventional editing pace/Narrative originality
The editing pace of our movie my group agreed, is a bit too fast of what you would usually see in a BSR. This is because we had to fit many things into the 2 minute clip: opening credits, Tate finding out his girlfriend is pregnant and venting his aggression outside. In addition to this, our narrative is generally original because our main character, Tate who's is Asian, is suffering from depression. You generally don't find Asians being the main character in BSR movies so you could say he is a counter type.
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
Week 11 Production Log
After finally filming, editing and thus completing our opening sequence, I had to start the 8 part evaluation, which covers from the start of my AS media year to now. Or you could say the 8 part evaluation will clearly show the progress (in detail) from the production of my preliminary task to the completion of the 2 minute opening sequence.
So the: "Evaluation part 1 - The Brief" is the start of the evaluation and what I simply talk about here is explain what I was required to do - produce a new British social realism film. I talked about which film institution would be the best choice in distributing our movie "Devil May Care" and a couple of famous movies they have shown in as examples. Furthermore, I also was given a speficic target audience of 16-24 year olds and explained what themes are included in our opening sequence/movie and the reasons behind them.
To finish off part 1, I gave a brief list of movies where me and my group were able to get inspiration from and use them as building blocks to produce our opening sequence. For example, we would get the idea of our location from one movie and get the background/charactersitcs of the protagonist from another movie, so they are combined all into one opening sequence.
So the: "Evaluation part 1 - The Brief" is the start of the evaluation and what I simply talk about here is explain what I was required to do - produce a new British social realism film. I talked about which film institution would be the best choice in distributing our movie "Devil May Care" and a couple of famous movies they have shown in as examples. Furthermore, I also was given a speficic target audience of 16-24 year olds and explained what themes are included in our opening sequence/movie and the reasons behind them.
To finish off part 1, I gave a brief list of movies where me and my group were able to get inspiration from and use them as building blocks to produce our opening sequence. For example, we would get the idea of our location from one movie and get the background/charactersitcs of the protagonist from another movie, so they are combined all into one opening sequence.
Thursday, 12 February 2015
The Evaluation Part One - "The Brief"
What has the brief asked of you?
The brief has asked us to produce a new British Social Realist film, which have been requested by Film4 - one of the great leaders in British cinema. To give a real feeling of how my movie will be like, Film4 has asked us to produce the first two minutes of the film, in order to convey the graphical, editing and musical style the movie will include. The brief has also made it clear that our movie must include the conventions and themes that are usually found in the Social Realist genre. To conclude the brief, we have to be aware that we cannot use any copyrighted audio and visual material, apart from stock sound effect. This means that we have to find all audio and visual materials that are "entirely original", which will also able to keep overheads and costs within a limited budget.
Film 4 - the production company
Film4 is seen as the best candidate to be working with us and assisting in the distribution of our movie: "Devil May Care". They are a British digital company, founded in 1982 by Stephen Frears.Their themes include those to which are heavily linked and related to themes of British Social Realism movies. Some of the movies they have distributed to cinemas have received worldwide recognition and fame and they include:
This British Social Realist film is aimed at 16-24 years old. In order to appeal to this target audience the themes that we included are: teenage pregnancy, violence and alcoholism. Our group believed that the target audience will be able to personally identify themselves with these themes, as they may have been linked to one of these themes in the past or even present. The target audience will be mostly male-oriented, however there will also be some female viewers due to the inclusion of teenage pregnancy. They will be able to have an insight of the troubles and consequences that unfold, if a teenage girl like themselves were to get pregnant, drawing their attention to the movie too, not just males.
What other BSR films inspired you?
The British social realism films that inspired me are Kidulthood, Fish Tank, Wild Bill, Starred up and more.In Kidulthood, the unattractive and rather run down buildings and area gave us a foundation of where our locations/setting of our movie would be. By having a location/settings that are ugly or ones where the audience will assume are council flats, this will assist the audience in how it will feel to live the life of a lower class person and/or suffering from financial troubles. From Fish Tank we based our protagonist's (Tate) personality from the main character from Fish Tank: Mia Williams. She is seen as someone isolated from society, suffering from depression, alcoholic and an aggressive person. Our group thought that our protagonist should include most of the traits that Mia has and this will be able to strongly portray a good idea to the audience of what Tate's life is like: dull, mundane and sad. Our camera shots and angles were inspired from films such as Wild Bill and Starred up; both have many shots of the protagonist, varying in angles and distance, each connoting to different things.
The brief has asked us to produce a new British Social Realist film, which have been requested by Film4 - one of the great leaders in British cinema. To give a real feeling of how my movie will be like, Film4 has asked us to produce the first two minutes of the film, in order to convey the graphical, editing and musical style the movie will include. The brief has also made it clear that our movie must include the conventions and themes that are usually found in the Social Realist genre. To conclude the brief, we have to be aware that we cannot use any copyrighted audio and visual material, apart from stock sound effect. This means that we have to find all audio and visual materials that are "entirely original", which will also able to keep overheads and costs within a limited budget.
Film 4 - the production company
Film4 is seen as the best candidate to be working with us and assisting in the distribution of our movie: "Devil May Care". They are a British digital company, founded in 1982 by Stephen Frears.Their themes include those to which are heavily linked and related to themes of British Social Realism movies. Some of the movies they have distributed to cinemas have received worldwide recognition and fame and they include:
- Slum Dog Millionaire
- Trainspotting
- 12 Years a Slave
- This is England
This British Social Realist film is aimed at 16-24 years old. In order to appeal to this target audience the themes that we included are: teenage pregnancy, violence and alcoholism. Our group believed that the target audience will be able to personally identify themselves with these themes, as they may have been linked to one of these themes in the past or even present. The target audience will be mostly male-oriented, however there will also be some female viewers due to the inclusion of teenage pregnancy. They will be able to have an insight of the troubles and consequences that unfold, if a teenage girl like themselves were to get pregnant, drawing their attention to the movie too, not just males.
What other BSR films inspired you?
The British social realism films that inspired me are Kidulthood, Fish Tank, Wild Bill, Starred up and more.In Kidulthood, the unattractive and rather run down buildings and area gave us a foundation of where our locations/setting of our movie would be. By having a location/settings that are ugly or ones where the audience will assume are council flats, this will assist the audience in how it will feel to live the life of a lower class person and/or suffering from financial troubles. From Fish Tank we based our protagonist's (Tate) personality from the main character from Fish Tank: Mia Williams. She is seen as someone isolated from society, suffering from depression, alcoholic and an aggressive person. Our group thought that our protagonist should include most of the traits that Mia has and this will be able to strongly portray a good idea to the audience of what Tate's life is like: dull, mundane and sad. Our camera shots and angles were inspired from films such as Wild Bill and Starred up; both have many shots of the protagonist, varying in angles and distance, each connoting to different things.
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Week 10 Production Log
At the start of week 10 I had to produce a treatment for my group's movie. In the treatment I had to talk about the following: narrative, target audience, themes, settings/location, style and iconograpghy, representation, conventions, technology and the production institution. This will be able to assist me in fully understanding my movie in depth and how the opening sequence will be produced.
I also had to take pictures of the location where my group intend to film for our opening sequence., for the "Location Recce". There are around 10 clear shots that me and my group have taken and they are located in: Vauxhall and Stockwell . Me and my group decided to base the locations in these two places because they all conform to the conventions and visuals of a British Social Realism movie location. In other words this means somewhere where it is: gritty, rather dirty and unattractive. Most of the target audience of 16-24 year olds will be able to personally identify themselves with the location that is set in our opening sequence, so they would be more interested in watching our movie.
I also had to take pictures of the location where my group intend to film for our opening sequence., for the "Location Recce". There are around 10 clear shots that me and my group have taken and they are located in: Vauxhall and Stockwell . Me and my group decided to base the locations in these two places because they all conform to the conventions and visuals of a British Social Realism movie location. In other words this means somewhere where it is: gritty, rather dirty and unattractive. Most of the target audience of 16-24 year olds will be able to personally identify themselves with the location that is set in our opening sequence, so they would be more interested in watching our movie.
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