Evaluation Question 1

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

I used Camtasia to answer Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social

The film HIDDEN shows 3 teenagers who do not have any jobs and are trying to get their lives on track. They are shown as being 'alienated' from the society that they live in and find it hard to fit in.

The feedback that I have received from people who have seen my film is mostly positive. We targeted an audience which is mostly teens and young adults. The teens believe that all 3 characters are stereotyped in a correct way as their actions allow students to relate to their actual lives. However, some liked the way that I wasn't sterotyped to be the criminal and I was the one who was into my books and Lukas was the one shown as the guy who stole money from others. This is because in today's day and age a lot of young black boys are stereotyped into being in gangs and stealing whilst white guys are more sensible and seen to be the ones into their books.

Lukas- The one who was the 'bad guy' and was tempeted to get his things by stealing.

Barnabas-The one who had ambitions to be a Basketballer but knew he had to get his education first to be 'safe'.



Kay- The girl who was a dropout and had to start looking for a job at a young age.

Evaluation Question 3

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

I used slid.es to answer this question.

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

 

The audience for my film would be aimed at 15-21 year olds because our film is based on 3 teenagers which are struggling to live their lives. A lot of teens in london have stuggles of living their life in and out of school so many would be able to relate to the story that me and my group have put across. One character is unemployed, one is trying to get to university and the other is shop lifting. The audience that we have targeted our film at even though some may not live the life the 3 character live would be able to relate in one way or another.

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

My film starts of with me running and throwing a basketball. From this the audience can immediately see the misé en scene which is an estate with a basketball court. Many teens in London can already be attracted to my film as this is what they are surrounded by in and around London. We are then led into the two other characters who is a boy and a girl, the boy being the thief and the girl being the one who is looking for a job whilst being addicted to smoke at a young age. Teens would be attracted to this as they are faced with the challenges that all three characters whether it being ambitious like my character, falling into temptation like Lukas' character or being lazy like Kay's character.

The audience could also relate as the areas we filmed in is very much like any London estate and even kids who do not live in estates can relate as we film in streets also. The sound also makes our film relatable to more teens than we would expect as we use an American soundtrack rather than English.

This is our poster for our film and we have also put ratings on the poster so it attracts more people to it.

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I used FinalCutPro to show technology used.

Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progresion from it to the full product?

Coursework Evaluation Question 1

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

Q1 In What Ways Does You Media Product Use, Develope Or Challenge Forms And Conventions, Of Real Media Products?

Coursework Evaluation Question 2

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

Coursework Evaluation Question 3

Q3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q2 How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

Coursework Evaluation Question 4

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

The audience for my film would be aimed at 15-21 year olds because my film is based on 3 teenagers who are struggling to live their lives. One character is unemployed, one is trying to get to university and the other is shop lifting. The targeted audience is appropriate as London is stereotyped of having those 3 characters.

Target Audience

• 17 years old
• Male & Female
• Enjoys British films and episodes such as Anuvahood and Misfits.
• Enjoys sports, hanging out with friends and going out
• Listens to hip hop and grime

A Teen film would include negative stereotypes of teenagers, I believe this would attract my target audience teenagers as they would like to see how society has stereotyped them in films, however not all teens are like how films tend to stereotype them. Also the Mise en scene engages the audience as the clothing which is worn by the three characters can relate to the stereotypes of teenagers in London. 

Q3 What Kind Of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product?

Coursework Evaluation Question 5

Q5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

I believe our opening to our film attracts an audience of teenagers as you see a young black person playing basketball, you can also see urban estates which allows the audience to relate to their lifestyle. The opening shot allows us to see that the film is based in an urban area which would be most likely in London and the film is called HIDDEN so this would immediately allow the audience to think that is this character hiding from someone or something which would then engage the audience towards the film.

The opening scene also allows us to understand that the character is probably in a street basketball court, this would then allow the audience to believe that he a street person. 

You can also see that he is wearing a plan white t-shirt, this would then reflect on his lifestyle as he isn't wearing any designer clothes. 

The feedback which was given to my group from the rough cut was very helpful as we were able to introduce new props such as a gym bag, university book and newspaper. These props help strengthen my film as each prop reflects onto their personality and background. The feedback given also allowed us to look at our footage and reshoot several scenes for example the lift scene, our rough cut was really dark so the feedback allowed us to understand what was wrong. To overcome this problem we used lights to brighten up the lift scene however even with all the lights used the place was still quite dark. The lift scene was a major part of our film as the lift opens doors for each character in a very unusual way. 

To reach our targeted audience we went to cinema to view our film. To attract an audience of teenagers, cinema would be ideal as many teenagers enjoy going to the cinema to watch films. 

We also received feedback from students at the cinema which allowed us to understand what parts were good and what may of needed a little tweaking but overall the feedback was mostly positive.

Our film was posted on Vimeo, this is also an ideal way to attract an audience of teenagers as many of them go on Vimeo to watch videos.  We also posted a page on Facebook about our film, Facebook is a major part in the advertising of our film and attracting our audience as huge numbers of teenagers use Facebook so this was a very sensible way of reaching our targeted audience.

Q4 Who Would Be The Audience For Your media Product?

Coursework Evaluation Question 6

Q6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have created a short clip on Final Cut Pro about the process of the product.

Q5 How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

Q6 What Have You Learnt About Technologies From the Process Of Contructing This Product?

Coursework Evaluation Question 7

Q7 -  Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q7 Looking Back At You Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel Like You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To The Full Product?

Question 7

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

Looking back at my preliminary film, I have realised that I have picked up a lot of different skills such as now I am able to edit using Final Cut Pro whereas before I wasn’t able to even cut up my shots and fit them together. I also picked up how to use various websites such as prezi, making slide, using motion control, also how to put my work up onto You-Tube.

When I started my preliminary film at the beginning of the year, I had to know how to storyboard my film, so it all comes together. This meant that I was to capture my film in still pictures with a still camera then be able to put each shot into a box for my storyboard, this was to create at boarder line or a basic story that I could follow when I was filming and editing putting it together.

Once that was done, we learnt about different camera angles , and the impact it made on the film whilst the audience was watching. For example; a low shot would mostly be used to give a character status or power showing the audience that specific character is higher then others. Just the same with a high angle would show the opposite and show the character to be small and low in status.

I also learnt the 180 Degree Rule; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CN-acxaFoA

Another technique that I learnt is Match Cutting.

A match cut could also be known as a ‘match on action.’ It is a type of editing that you can use to help the continuity in editing to help the film seem seamless so the audience can follow the action with out realising that an edit has taken place. This then helped to decide which angels I wanted and how they would fit together when it came to editing.

When we started planning our final film, we created a storyboard just like the first time, but this time we had a shot by shot analysis with all the types or shots and angels we would need to take. We then created a PowerPoint Presentation which we pitched and put on all our locations that we would use and extra props. Also our final schedule and plan of how we plan to make our film. This helped us to be a lot more prepared and saved a lot more time as we had planned everything ahead and knew where to be on particular days which we would be filming on.

In my opinion one of my biggest improvements would be my lighting on my film. As in my preliminary due to not having much time and not a lot of varied location the lighting provided was very limited, this meant that some of the shot had come out dark or too bright and was not able to use different lighting techniques. We starting having the same problem with our final film as the location we picked for a part of our film when we watched it back the lighting in the picture was really dark. This meant that we had to find another way to solve this. For Example with this problem I learnt to always film facing the opposite way to the light to the light could reflect onto the character.

In my preliminary I only used what I could find around my college for Mise En Scene as it was very limited this meant that I had filmed it in the college for our scenery and used what I could find. However for my final film it was much better as we had prepared all our props and found convenient locations which where close by and not complicated. This helped It become easier for the audience to relate as it wasn’t much different from where they come from or the props which were used such as; basketball or cigarettes.

Overall comparing my experience and skills from the beginning of the year to now, I can say that I have widen my range of the technology that I can use also I learnt how to edit which I never knew how to do. I also have learnt other things such as how to put sound on top of silent film by using sound cloud, putting titles and credits on to my film and how important head space is in the frame of a camera and how much it can affect your film. 

Order of Titles

Below is the correct order our title will be presented in the film along with all the crew members names. Not all titles are included because we are not big production film, so not every title was necessary

Production Ident- Tunnel Vision Productions

Distribution Ident-  Film London

Production Name - Tunnel Vision Productions

Distribution Name - Film London

Film Title- HIDDEN

Actor 1- Barnabas Dada

Actor 2- Lukas Kliucununkas

Actor 3- Khajal Begum

Casting-

Costume-

Music by-

Edited by-

Production Designer-

Director of Photography-

Executive Producer-

Written by-

Director-

Editing/Feedback (Change of film name) Working Title

As we were doing our rough cut for our film, we got some feedback from Donna and she explained how she wasn't very keen of of our film name 'Outlaws' as our film didn't represent this as much as it could've. She then advised us to try and find another name that was more suitable for our film about three teen agers who come from a socitey that pushes us out, such as employment and crime also the difference between people;

We then decided to look at other film titles to get inspriation and we came up with a couple, for examle 'PUSHED' and 'KIDS.' But in the end we decided we should call it 'HIDDEN' because it sounded better due to teenagers and young adults such as our self and mainly our target audeince too could relate as they are away from society and not much inclued in the community give as motivation lacks and people tened to find other ways of getting thing they need the wrong way.

Heres something Barnabas though about changing the name of the film...

Motion 4

Using Motion

I learnt how to use motion today due to i had to make the production company and the distribution which would then be transferred and added to the beginning of our film.

The first one i did was the production company which as a group decided our one would be call 'Tunnel Vision Productions'  the picture i used was of a tunnel with a lady on a bike :

And then put an animation of tunnel vision running in white down the bottom of the picture. 

 

 Once we put it all together the end result was

I then did the distribution to put on after the production company this ment i had to use k=motion control again. I used a boarder of a film reel, that i got off google, such as;

 

After I looked for a suitable font that i could use to write 'Film London' in the end we decided;

Then end result was;

Editing Day 3

We are coming to the end of editing and we are putting final scenes together which consists of Kay's scene and the lift scene. We are also looking for the correct font for our order of titles as we do not want our film to have a cliche feel to it. To add to that, we want to add the correct music as the 50 Cent's 'Outlaw' track was copyright and we wasn't able to use it!

Filming (For Final Cut)

Outlaws 

On Monday 3rd Of March, we decided to go out and film again as we had realized a couple of things on our rough cut that we needed to improve. This meant that we had to make sure we had exactly everything the same as we did for our first shots such as; clothes, props, same hair styles(make-up) and location

The First Thing We Had To Change Was The Scene Of Kaay when she is gong to light the cigarette and then she steps on it and sits down on the bench to read her newspaper. to improve our shot from what we already had we used a tripod as we noticed that some of them were shaky also we had got more of a variety of angels and close ups. 

Another Thing We Had To Improve Was The Entire Lift Scene, as there was numerous faults that we had picked up as we were editing our rough cut. They were things like, the lighting being TERRIBLE because every shot was really dark and the angles being really shaky, also small details like using the same hand for Lukas's part where he hold the lift open. 

We Also thought that it would be the best idea to use the tripod more often to make sure the shots weren't shaky also picked up on little details like head spacing and not looking at the camera.

Feedback from Rough Cut

Once we had finished our rough cut the feedback we had received from Donna was that we had to reshoot the ending and add a different variety of music. We also had to look out for other disadvantages which we had to sort out. We then came to the conclusion that we had to film everything from Kay coming into the film as his was a separate day so we didn't carry out the same skills we did as the first. We also understood that we have to keep the same standard throughout the whole film so for these reasons we are deciding to film these scenes again.

We noticed that we didn't follow the thirds rule and there was so many films where there was too much head space. Lastly, the lift scene was too dark so we will film it in the same flat but a different lift where it has more natural light. 

Outlaws 'Rough Cut'

Outlaws

Rough Cut

Editing day 2

As we have been working on our film we have used Final Cut Pro, this was because we were able to trim or cut our shots and fit them together.

On Final Cut Pro we have fitted our shots together so they flow smoothly without it looking jerky, this was by doing match cutting and cross cutting. We also had to cut out our natural sounds that were picked up whilst we were filming and add Foley sound so that it would be more enhanced. For example, the Basketball scene's and normal outside scenes.  

We also added a soundtrack so the audience can feel the full effect of the surroundings that our characters are in. This music plays throughout the scenes and we hope to find one more track to suit Kay's character as we would't one our scene to be full of just one soundtrack. Lastly, we hope to quieten down our music in scenes where Lukas' character may take his headphones off or other scenes where we may need to put emphasis on the scene rather than the music.  

Behind the Scenes-Day 2

Day 2

'Outlaws' Filming Update (2)

Monday 24th February 2014 

On Saturday 22nd of February we finally finished filming. We had managed to get our final shots in for Kay and Barnabas' characters and most importantly our lift scene consisting of all 3 of us. As we had filmed most of our shots we were able to complete our filming in a short amount of time. The last scenes that we filmed consisted of Barnabas' character looking at his University book, Kay's character looking for jobs and smoking and all 3 of us getting into the lift.

Barnabas with Book

Barnabas Filming Kay at the flat

Kay at the flat

Kay Smoking






Lift scene

  



21 & Over

21 & Over

21 & Over is a 2013 American comedy film, it was written by and served as the directorial début of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. 

This film is about a straight A student called Jeff Chang, he is a character who always does what he is supposed to do, however when his two best friends take him out for his 21st birthday on the night before an important medical school interview. Jeff snaps and decides to risk it and do everything he wants to do. What was meant to be a quick drink turns into a night of humiliation, over indulgence and utter debauchery in this outrageous comedy about a rite of passage gone absolutely wrong. From the writers of 'The Hangover' about living youth to the fullest.

This relates to young teens as is about the normal things a young adults wants to do get drunk and have a night of fun, they can relate to this as the characters are young adults themselves who have to go through hard work just like other young adults around the world. Also any young adult can not wait to hit the age of 21 as then they are finally classed a a full time adult and are allowed to do what they want and when they want with out having others question their action. 

This will attract an audience of young adults as well as normal adults as it is a transformation from a teen to finally growing up and being able to party and 'run the world' in their own vision without having any trouble of what others may say and who may try and stop them. Another attraction would be the genre of comedy to this film, it is funny and out going just like young adults who are just about to step out to the world and have a hole load of fun.

ROTTEN TOMATOES 

TOMATOMETER

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Average Rating: 4.1/10
Reviews Counted: 98
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 71

Though it strives to mimic The Hangover, 21 and Over is too predictable, too unabashedly profane, and too inconsistently funny to carry the torch.

AUDIENCE

49

liked it
Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 56,406

Ender's Game

Ender's Game 

Over the weekend I decided to watch the new film called 'Ender's Game' which was released on October 25th 2013. 

It is about a hostile alien race called the Formics which have attacked Earth, to beat these aliens the International Military are training only the best young minds to find the future Commander of an army which they intend to build to beat the aliens. A young boy called Ender Wiggin, who is portrayed as a shy but strategically brilliant boy,who is unusually gifted and is sentto an advanced military academy in outer space to prepare for a future alien invasion. Arriving at Battle School, he quickly learns and masters increasingly challenges and simulations, distinguishing himself and earning respect amongst his peers. 

Ender is soon ordained by the General Commander as the military's next great hope resulting in his promotion to Command School, once he is there he is trained by the Mazer Rackham himself to lead his fellow soldiers into epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.

Ender's Game is a 2013 American film based on the military science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, directed by Gavin Hood. The Genre to this film is Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi. This shows to be portrayed to young teens, as it is imaged as a video game, this makes it interesting as children in the 21st century are crazy about games, this is known by all the games which are played online, social networks, on iPhone's, androids and all the other gaming gadgets which are sold in shops around the world. Also there is some sort of violence in the context however it is shown to be fun and put in as a world of practice(Battle school)

Ender's Game Partnered with Audi to bring the Audi fleet shuttle quattro in to the motion pictures, they used many ways to market the film such as the partnership with ICEE included releasing two limited time flavours; Battle School Blastberry and Orbital Orange, along with a 'Train Like An Astronaut' sweepstakes. they also have may other ways they marketed it such as giving away t-shirts and offered holidays also things like private screening and photo booth backgrounds from Ender's Game.

Editing Day 1

Editing

The first day editing, we realised that certain shots  was better to go before shots that we had put on our story board. For these reasons, our movie may not go along with our storyboard but we are sure that the audience will get the same message we are trying to present. We also noticed that during the lift scene we didn't get enough light and we looked quiet dark so this may have to be filmed again. Another shot we forgot to put in our storyboard was Kay stepping on her cigarrette. This is another significant scene that we haver to thing about filming again or leaving it out.

During editing we also realised that certain scenes wasn't focused such as Lukas in the shop where he is looking at the money in his hand. However, becuase using the shop was a one-off we wasn't able to film this again. Lastly, certain scenes the camera was shakey as it was filmes by hand so we need to find time in our schedule to see if we can film all of these shots again and make it better. If we can't do this then we have to take it on the chin and use it as motivation to try and better our filming skills in the near future.

Behind The Scenes-Day 1

During our process of our filming time we decided to make a couple of back stage videos about how the filming is going.

As you can see that the filming didn't go too bad and we enjoyed ourself even though it was very cold and it did start raining.

Filming Outlaws (Day 1)

What We Have Been Doing In The Filming Process...

Saturday 8th February 2014 we met up for the first day of filming at 12:30pm at Angel. We went to our first location which was the basketball pitch for Barnabas's Character. We took loads of great shots and had lots of fun using the camera outside, we had a couple of drawbacks as the weather wasn't perfect and had backfired in the end as it started raining. However luckily we had enough time to take loads of great shots in the shop for Lukas's character.

Lukas Brings Money From Pocket

Lukas Walking into shop

Lukas sees he doesn't have enough money

Monday 10th February 2014 was our second day of filming at 1:25pm, we decided to use our hour and a half lesson as a chance to get more shots and work our way through our storyboard. we got loads more shots on the basketball scene also other shots which we are thinking to match cut, we had took many close ups and point of view shots which we thought we needed.

Close-Up of Basketball bouncing

Barnabas playing Basketball

Barnabas having shots

We are hoping to be filming on the Thursday 13th February 2014 at 9am in our three hour lesson and hopefully collect the last shots and retake any other shots, for example from the basketball scene or the shop scene or even the block scene which may need to be done again, however if this is not completed by the end of our three hour lesson, then we may need to film in the half term. So once we are back from the holidays we can get straight into editing.

As a group we have had ups and downs, such as disagreements and dislikes but that was only natural due to the stress of working on a film, making sure that is perfect. although in the end we always end up doing well and having loads of fun. So far along the process of our filming everything we have planned has gone well apart from the weather but we are able to overcome that. 

Hopefully everything still goes according to planned !

FINGERS CROSSED :D

Our PITCH for our film

This is the Pitch we presented to the class.

This is the feedback that our group had received from our class and our teacher.

Overal we think we did well in our presentation and how we had made our viewers understand our trail of thought about our opening scene.



TWO VIEWS ON OUR PRESETATION

Shotlist- of our film 'Outlaws'

Planning Final Project Ideas

Planning ideas for our film

We were looking at various films such as Kidulthood, Bulletboy and Higher Learning. We are inspired most by the film, "Higher Learning" as our group only consists of three people and we came to a conclusion with our teacher that we will be able to use this film in the best way possible as a template for our own film. As we are using the film "Higher Learning" as a template, we decided that the plot of our film would be based on three teenagers with powers they was unaware of.

We have decided to use the structure of 'Higher Learning as a structure for our own final film. We have discussed as a group about the location and some of the props we may need such as a lift that we are able to film in for the lift scene and the room which each teenager is based in for their scene.  However we decided to add an idea that something would happen in the lift (lights flicker, someone gets stuck between the doors).


The props we will use for our film would be; a cans of beer, basketball, headphones, lighter, cigarette, books, newspaper.

The costumes we will need for our film would be; Lukas who loves rock music and drinks a lot of alcohol, this person would wear jeans, trainers and has a headset around his head. Barnabas will wear tracksuit bottoms with a t-shirt and carries a backpack, this will reflect on his background as an alcoholic and not really caring about his surroundings. This will also show a positive background for him as he is trying to get into university which shows that he wants to be successful. Khajal will wear jeans, top and a jacket, this will reflect on her background as she is looking for a job and smokes cigarettes.

We will have rock music for lukas, hip hop music for Barnabas and for Khajal we will have pop girly music.

The locations we will be filming in;


The estate where we will be mostly filming.

 

The basketball court where we will also be filming.

Fine Foods is the shop where we will also be filming.

OUR STORYBOARD PLAN