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Q2.) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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EVALUATION: 1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

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EVALUATION: 3) What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

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EVALUATION: 2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION: 4) Who would be the audience for your media project?

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EVALUATION: 5) How did you attract/address your audience?

I asked my audience what they thought of the film and this is what they said:

EVALUATION: 6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this project?

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EVALUATION: 7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q1. In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Typically, film openings contain: 

•   the title
• the names of the director, cast etc
•  music  (which often sets the mood)
• the institutional identity/logo for the production + distribution company
•  the setting/location
•  an introduction to at least 1 main character
• diegetic + non diegetic sound combination

We have followed the conventions of a title sequence as we have included most features found typically in title sequences. Here I compare the title sequence from The Stepfather to Las Drogas del Amor.

The Distribution Company

Main Actors

The Title

The costume designer, and other people working behind the scenes

The Editor(s)

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation means how a particular social group has been portrayed. Examples of some social groups are: age, ethnicity, gender, class etc.  These representations are often stereotypical views, based on the actions of the minority. For example, the youth of today are stereotyped for being very violent, lazy and destructive because of the London Riots and knife crime increase.

In our Thriller, I believe we have both challenged and played into stereotypes.

STEREOTYPE: MEN CAN’T COOK/ WOMEN BELONG IN THE KITCHEN

We have challenged this stereotype by having our male protagonist cooking a romantic meal for his partner, as it contrasts the norm. Usually women are expected to be the ones cooking, which come from old-fashioned views. Through the Mise En Scene, we show that he has put a lot of effort into this meal by scattering flower petals and lighting candles.

STEREOTYPE: WOMEN ARE WEAK & ARE ALWAYS THE VICTIM.

 Typically in Hollywood films, it is noticeable that women are the victims. We have played into this stereotype by having our female protagonist poisoned by the male. Since we wanted to the gender roles balanced at the beginning of the Thriller, we did not use high and low camera angles. However, towards the middle of the opening, we used a slight high angle on the female protagonist (shown here) to pre-empt the events that are to come.

Here is an animation I made discussing Representation in my Thriller further.


Media Film
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Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who would be the audience for your media project? on Prezi

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Q5 How did you attract/address your audience? on Prezi

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies form the process of constructing this product?

During this project, we were introduced to many different types of technology.

While we were doing our research for our thriller opening, I used websites like Youtube and Google to get inspiration. For example, I watched videos on Youtube of chefs preparing food as we would be creating a similar looking sequence in our opening. One video I found to be inspiring is “The Foodie Chef makes Ratatouille” because the video was edited in a way that made it look very dynamic and interesting. I then blogged about this on Blogger. Doing this research was very helpful as I had visual references to base the opening off of. While I was editing, I could look back on the videos and images I found and draw from the inspiration I’d first had when I saw them for the first time. 

When we were filming the actual opening, we used a professional JVC camcorder, which would produce high quality clips. To capture the filming process, I used a Flipcam and a Still Camera. This was so that people could see what went on behind the camera.

Finally, we began editing the opening with Soundtrack Pro and Final Cut Pro; programmes found on Apple Mac computers. I found both these programmes to be very useful as it enabled me to get creative. As there are thousands of different sounds and music tracks on Soundtrack Pro, I had a wide range to choose from.  Therefore, I could create a soundtrack totally different and original from the other groups.

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what did you feel you have learnt in the progression form it to the full product?

Here is a video blog explaining what I have learned through doing the PRILIM and Thriller task.

The first titles were at the start of the PRELIM which looked weird and out of place. We changed this to the end in our Thriller which followed the norm.

In the first picture, you can see that our setting is in a school, which doesn't suit the storyline. We took this in mind, and found an appropriate setting for the Thriller.

Here, you can see a severe lighting mistake we had made. We made sure we didn't repeat this in our 

Thriller.

This is an example of a shot with good lighting from our Thriller.

Las Drogas Del Amor

This is our finished movie we are so pleased with the outcome.

The spanish music and the name we think works really well. we have said this before but we are so pleased that everything worked to how we planned more or less.

Editing

This is us editing, We found it hard to get started and get the hang of used to Final Cut Pro but we got the hang of it. We was very happy that we had a lot of footage, more that we thought we would have. The editing was fun it was great for us to see all our hard work come together. we finished pretty quickly but the fine editing had to be done.

When we finished the fine editing we decided to change the name from la cene which means the supper to Las Drogas Del Amor which means The drugs of love. We though it went better with the improvised Spanish music. we made some of the actors names hispanic also to try and be consistant with the hispanic theme.

La Cene - ROUGH CUT

We're really happy with how this rough cut has come out. At first, we were worried that we wouldn't have enough shots to make the Thriller look proffesional. But it turns out that we had more than enough.
We got some really good shots, and some bad ones too. We realised that we should have taken shots from different angles to make it look more interesting and dynamic. However, there are a lot of Match cuts so overall, we think it came out good. We're pleased that it came out the way we intended.

Thoughts on filming - Day 2 (Kitchen scene)

One of our major problems was keeping the dog out of our shots. he was very playful so he soon got bored of us because we were focusing on filming.

We didn't do a detailed enough shot by shot, so we struggled to remember with what we needed to do next at timed. None of us took lead and that sometimes was a problem as we couldn't make up our minds about small disagreements.

We did try and stick to the ratatouille example but we didn't look at it enough or because if we did we wouldn't have only used the same angle throughout. We are still happy with how all our shots turned out however and he are extremely happy we ended with more than enough footage.

As time went by we all got tired, so filming started to drag slightly Josh was tired of repeating the sat movements. We had to keep reshooting shots and thinking outside the box of how to make it better. By the end we were very please with what we had filmed and were really eager to start editing.

Videos from the second day

Everything we bought cam to £15 so we all put in a fiver. We were happy we found the flower petals especially because we didn't have a table cloth. We were all really excited to start, this is a video of us setting up. 

Here we were setting up the table. we were pleased with the texture of the table we though it looked really sophisticated, the wine glasses and the flower petals all turned out to go well, it looks very romantic just as we planned it to look. We got all the props from Tesco.  

This was an half an hour before we finished. we were all tired and really wanted to go home. We realised that we should have brought our shot list with us and there wasn't a leader between us so were were al sometimes unsure of to do next. Hanna's dog Archi was keeping our spirits up as we had been filming for about 4-5 hours. We all really enjoyed the experience though we are happy that he pulled though and managed to achieve when we set out tot do.

This was the last shot we were all so happy to finish filming. Josh is drugging Hanna's drink and we was trying to get across to him how he should do it. In the end it went very well ans fits in perfectly with our opening.

Pictures from the second day

These are just some picture of us filming on the day, everything we bought at Tescos. Everything we bout was useful and as the main food was the prop in our opening we are happy with the turn out.

Thoughts on filming - Day 1 (Bedroom Scene)

On our first day of filming, we had a few problems with lighting as the room was quite dark. Therefore, we had to get a lamp so that we could improve the lighting. It turned out to look really good because it suited the atmosphere of the film.

We also had a problem with spacing. We didn't realise how little space we had in the room therefore, we had to squeeze into corners in order to get a good shot. This didn't bother us too much us because it made us feel like real directors.

At first, our spirits weren't too high. But as we got going and filmed the different shots, we started getting more excited to edit the shots we had taken. It took us three hours and our first battery had nearly run out, which was a bit shocking. So we decided to be more conservative with our time the next day.

Overall, the day was pretty tiring, but we felt as if we'd gotten enough shots for our Thriller so we were pretty pleased. We got some of our best and most interesting shots in the bedroom.

Videos from the first day

Photos from 24th of February - first day of filming

These are pictures from the first day, bedroom shot. we thought that this shot went very well and we are very pleased with the results and hope that it all looks google.