Evaluation

By Rahul Chaudhary

MY media product sequence has the similarities of Robocop a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and Kick Ass a film directed by Matthew Vaughn in 2010. The way my product matches Robocop is in its story line. Our storyline is based on a nerdy kid who is bullied and basically lives a life of a nobody but then due to a severe beating turns into a Cyborg a half human half machine being in the way that Robocop was a robotic policeman. My sequence relates to the film kick ass because in Kick Ass the main character is a nobody a person who isn’t popular and wishes for a change my sequence matches that in the way that the main character in my piece is a nobody who wants to be a somebody.

My Sequence is different to other films because we have a different concept to other films. Films that include police do not normally aim for a teenage audience range unless they are comedic. My film is more of a serious side but with a little hint of comedy so in this way it is different. Another way it is different is the story, the cyborg being the thing that’s the hero instead of an actual human character. This is similar to Robocop but it hasn’t been done since 1987.

My media product represents a teenage

social group very well. As we show a character of a lower stature to other students which is very common in school life. It shows the popularity of a character and also groups of individuals who are bullies. The Product shows off a general school and what happens on day to day bases. My film also eliminates that stereotype of all super heroes being of a white ethnic background. We have changed to a character of Indian origin. This is something new because not many films that include superheroes have many people of an Indian origin. This could work for me as this could promote for a wider audience range and for more people watching it. this audience could be people from the Indian/Asian community.

I would say that due to my media product

being only a small time fill a small distribution company would be good. The film Colin was distributed by a company called Kaleidoscope Entertainment. Which is UK based this would be a good idea to only distribute our product in the UK only as all of the Actors are British and have that British accent and also it would be a good because of the size of our product it is not as large as other films out now so by it only being released in British cinema it has a chance of making it and hopefully then making DVD distributions all making profit and a potential lead in to more films. So that’s why I believe that by having Kaleidoscope Entertainment as our distribution company would be a very good thing.

I believe the target audience would be teenagers. This is

because the story of the main character and the settings all happen in school so most teenagers can relate to it. This makes it easier for the audience to understand what is happening. I would say that this film is more a male targeted film. Due to the nature of some content in the film and also how the male character is the more dominant in this film and we see a lot of the male character. Also the from the feedback we got from posting our Media product on the social networking site Facebook suggests that by having our Media product shot in a school makes it the more understandable and relatable. We also have a bit of comedic scenes which make it that more appealing to the teenage audience and make it less serious which makes it fun to watch and keeps the audience wanting more.

By looking at the feedback we got. The starting of the whole sequence made it more attractive because it started differently to most films. It made the audience member want to know more of the character and what happens. The use of mise-en-scene helped in the making because this is what we based the film around. Production design: The setting was in a school and the props and costumes where all to do with a school environment. This made it all the more believable and more real when it came to shooting because everything that is in a school is already there making it easier to shoot. Actors performance: it helped the fact that the actors were all in there teens so playing that teenage roll was not difficult at all it was just the actors being themselves this again made it more believable and real.

In making the Media product I have harnessed a lot of camera skill. By using the cameras and tripods I have been able to use the different shots and angles learnt in class e.g. Close ups, medium shots, pans and slow zooms. So rather than just learning about them by actually using them for my self I have really developed on them camera skills. Also we had to edit the work so by using different editing programmes I had to learn how to edit properly and learnt how to edit because before this coursework piece was made I had no clue on how to edit so. So by me editing some work on the Mac it gives me the skill on to carry on using those skills further on in the course and how to use the programme iMovie properly and more effectively.

Looking back at the Preliminary task I feel I have learnt that the end product is not necessarily the same as what you came up with at the beginning . I have learned that making changes and big ones at that are all part of making the end product e.g. The original script has no resemblance to the final one also the story board also has little resemblance . Planning and preparation are all key but it could all change at the click of a finger so by being in the correct mind frame all the time makes it much easier but if the planning and preparation is made before hand then just working of that makes it that little bit easier. Another thing I have learned is that by using simple things like tripods makes things a little easier and better because all though it steadies shots it also gives you a better range of angles and shots and makes them easier than what you would produce by having the camera free hand.