EVALUATION-Who would be the audience for your media product?

EVALUATION-How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Aykut plays the caretaker in our movie and is represented as mysterious and slightly creepy in comparison to the guy the in stepfather. What makes these two characters similar is that they both are mysterious characters as they both go about their business. In the opening they dont seem to be mental or anything like that but we can get that the feeling that something is not quite right in the opening.

Final Film

The final Rough Cut

Rough Cut

Rough

A taste of the opening

Preparing set and actors

Whilst preparing the set, we had to think carefully about the mis-en-scene and what sort of props we should use to make the scene look as realistic as possible.  We used different props to go with what the character does and who it is. For example one of the main characters is the janitor, through this we tried to make him look as 'legit' as possible. We got cleaning products for the janitor to use which played a big part in our film. The clothes that the janitor wore matched what we were expecting.

With setting the group members a set character we struggled slightly, throughout the filming of our sequence we kept on changing on who would do which part. As our idea kept changing so did the characters so when it came to setting a set character we struggled.

The mis-en-scene I think was used good. The location was good as it matched our plot. We used a basement which was dark, creepy and messy. The rest of the props we got ourselves to make it look more of a storage room were a janitor would put their equipment.

Lighting

For our film we used LED lights to help make the film look more realistic and and effect. The lights helped massively as you could tell the difference from having the light off in the shot and having it on in the shot. The shots we took with the light on generally looked better and this gave an advantage in how our film looks.

The ups and downs of working in a group

Working in a group has some advantages and some disadvantages. For example, some of the advantages are that we all can put positive input into making out film, we have many ideas to try out and tasks such as editing and filming can be done easier and quicker. Some downsides of working in a group is that some may not agree with a particular idea and this could cause the group to not work well with eachother. Also too many ideas may spoil the making of our movie as there would be no fluency. Sometimes you get disagreements and negative input which sets the group back. All together I think that working in a group has made it easier for us to make this film.

Creative differences

In our group we had some disagreements of how the film will be shot. As there is four of us we implemented many ideas as we coul to vary our ideas. Each of us had different ideas of how we were going to film, thankfully we came to a final decision which we all agreed on. Throughout our filming we each all still had different visions of how the film would be. This works to our advantage as we have many ideas to try out and see which one suits our film most.

Finding our location

In our sequence we have a couple of different locations, there is a football scene so we decided to use a small football area to shot that part. Also, we are using the basement of the college which we had to get permission for from the school keeper. At first we thought we would'nt get the location but luckily we did in the end. We look to get the best out of these two locations to make our film look the best as it can be

The making of our film

During the last few weeks our group has started to film the opening of our sequence. We have fount the perfect location to film and this will help us in making the film look as realistic as possible. In the making of the opening we will look to use everything we've learned in lessons throughout the the year. Different camera shots, we'll take into consideration what mis-en-scene is used and the sound is going to be very important. Once all the filming is done, we're going to start editing and putting all our footage together. Also the sound we use is going to be our own as we will make our own soundtracks.

Putting the film together

Firstly, we had to put the pictures from our storyboard into final cut pro. We made a short movie with out any effects to show how we thought our actual film would come out.  

We chose specific shots to make the short movie. This we our outline/plan for the movie we were planning to make. This helped us in filming the film as we knew what shots to take and where we was going to shoot the movie. 

Storyboarding pictures

Practise Film Screen Grabs and stuff

FINAL PREM FILM

Making a animatic

In our media lesson, we were asked to make a story board. We were suprised when we were asked to make a story board with 'Jelly Babies'. The plot of the story was for two characters to be sitting in a room and having a converstaion. In our group we decided that we had to make the plot interesting, and something different we decided to do a film of a bag swap. The interesting thing was that there is a bomb in the bag so this adds to the twist. In our next lesson we are going to actually film this plot and carry out what we planned.  

PRELIM ANIMATIC Take 1

Analysis of title sequences

In class we looked at many different title sequences. The film 'Seven' was one of the opening sequences we looked at. This is a very good opening to a thriller as the music is very good and suits the film. Also the font looks like it is hand written, which signifies that this film is trying to be as realistic as possible.




We also looked at the opening sequence of 'The taking of Phelam 123'. I found this one the best as it was appealing to me through the use of sound. The sound hits you straight away and gets into the film. Also the credits at the beginning relate to the film. The text come into the sequence like a train which relates to the film then goes off like a train.