OUR EVALUATION

By Oumie & Jordan

I N W H AT WAY S D O E S Y O U R M E D I A P R O D U C T U S E , D E V E L O P O R C H A L L E N G E

F O R M S A N D C O N V E N T I O N S O F R E A L M E D I A p r o d u c t s ?

For the starting of the coursework, I was working by myself and I didn’t know what to choose

so i started working with Jordan. We first I began looking at two genres to do

(Comedy&Drama), this is because we enjoyed watching comedy movies, but we were

interested in drama, but we made sure we did research on each one. If you look at our blogs,

you will see all the research I did on comedy, on drama films, so I decided to choose it for my

coursework. Then after that me and my partner started working on what our movie is going

to be about.

DRAMA AS A GENRE

Why you went for this genre ?

We went for this genre because is very realistic and characters are also

there's a lot potential emotional shots. There also are a lot of complex sub

genre's too such as romantic drama, sport films, period drama, courtroom

drama and crime, just like we choose to study ‘kidulthood’.

What conventions you needed to use

I think that our film is a good example of drama genre because it matches with

some films like Precious, this is because its an emotional film just like our film.

We made sure that our script was just like one of the drama films.

This movie inspirited us to do a DRAMA film because the main character went through

a lot just like our character from ‘Time To Go’. Their mums are similar especially as

they drink a lot and smoke and really don’t care about their kids.

We have also been looking at these other films, we believe that its to do with childhood

and the relationship teenagers have with adults.

WHAT ARE THE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF THE GENRE THAT

YOU WORKING ON? Time To Go Genre: Drama

Opening credits For our opening credits we done a lot of research. We researched on different drama films such as kidulthood, and we looked at how long it took for the film to actually start and we timed the credits too. From when it starts there are 9 credits before the film actually start.

Mise-en-sceneScenes with Melinda and Liana, with the props she had with her, like the costumes, that can the coat that she was wearing can tell you about her personality. She also had a bad with her, showing that she's running away from her house. The mother in the film was holding a bottle of vodka because she's an alcoholic.

Camera WorkWe used close ups to see the character’s face and especially when Melinda went to her friends house. Establishing shot was used at the ending of our film when Melinda was walking off. A lot of handheld was used in the scene with Melinda and her mother, when they had an argument.

Editing We used match on action when we were editing, we used it because it allows the audience to see a smooth action despite a cut in a shot. Cross-cutting was used a lot in our film, this was because we wanted the audience to see what was really happening. Credits is added in a style that would fit with drama theme. Soundtrack was added to fit with scene.

SoundSoundtrack was added to build and create tension during the shots. We got our music of YouTube and downloaded them and cut some bits that we didn’t use. We used some instrumental and music before p.diddy – coming home.

FontThe title we used were in a simple font with white writing which may suggest happiness, because Melinda is going to live a better life with her dad.

OPENING CREDITS

This is an opening credits, that I was

talking about on the slide before this one.

MISE-EN-SCENE

This is the coat I was talking

about on the table. Both scene

show that they are opening the

door which shows a similarity

This one of the shots that we had to re-shot

again and it’s a close up of the main

character.

This is close up of one of the main character in kidulthood .

CLOSE UPS

This is one of the angles we used in the film.

This is from our first film, when Melinda was pressing the bell.

We could not find any scenes with them ringing the bell so we changed it into a knack out the door because its more better.

H O W D O E S Y O U R M E D I A P R O D U C T R E P R E S E N T PA R T I C U L A R S O C I A L G R O U P S ?

She represents the main character that’s in all of the scenes. She's a working class and lives in an estate flat

with her mum, which might be a stereotype for black people. In the first scene she's wearing an uniform

and the colour of it is purple, it represents a mystery from research I made and also Melinda acts like she’s

hiding something from her mum which affects their relationship. The stereotype of teenagers as being

aggressive, moody, lazy criminals and hate school, and it connects with how Melinda acts because she's very

rude to her mum, even though she thinks that she's not being rude, she really is, especially when she was

rolling her eyes at her mum. The type of audience that we like Melinda's character is people that’s the same

age as her. This might be because 16 year olds feel like they are always ‘right’. We was trying to create a

character that wasn’t around and even though there's a lot of teenagers who have a story. The technical

skills that we used was mise-en-scene especially with the costume and props that was around them.

Melinda16

FemaleStudents

Working class

SECOND CHARACTER

She represents the main characters best friend. She's working class too but she lives in a flat and has a

better life at home then Melinda and Melinda always goes to liana for food and shelter when her mum kicks

her out of the house, liana is the type of teenager who might change the stereotype of teenagers because

she cares for her friends and she's a nice girl. Young black people are none for being exotic, strange, tribal,

criminal and poor. We then took this character out of the film because we believed that there was no point of

having her there because Melinda did a scene of saying that she's going to move to her dads, so they was no

point of having her say it to her friend and the acting skills spoiled the genre, liana was meant to be more

sad that her friend was leaving but it didn’t seem that she wasn’t sad to see her friend leave.

Liana16

FemaleStudents

Working class

THIRD CHARACTER

In the film she is a working class mother who is on benefit and who lives in a deprived area in

hackney. So she is always drunk and miserable which effects her daughter’s life. This is a negative

representation because its stereotyping that working class mothers are always drunk. She's a

stereotype of 20-30 year olds because she's always drunk and never awake. But there's a story

behind why she's like that, is because her husband left her and Melinda at the age of 10 and she

blames her self for it. We have changed our character if you see our new film, this is because we had

technique issues and we could not use the other actor.

Mum30

FemaleSingle-mother

RIGHT PEOPLE THAT MIGHT L INK TO OUR CHARACTERS…

I think that our first character might match someone like ‘Tracy Beaker’, this might

because they both have issues of staying in the same house as someone who don’t

understand them well. They have both been in care, social workers find out about

Melinda's Mum drinking issues and took her away from her mum, but then she

stopped drinking just to get Melinda back, but afterward started of again.

I think that Emma Watson would be a prefect actress for our film because she's a good actress and she has starred

in drama films in the past.

The actress that best fits the mums character is Julia Roberts, this is because she's a great

actress and she's acted in films such as “My Best Friend's Wedding” and I think she would do

a good job in acting in this film because she's acted as a alcoholic in some films and she was

really good in them.

W H AT K I N D O F I N S T I T U T I O N M I G H T D I S T R I B U T E Y O U R M E D I A

P R O D U C T & W H Y ?

We done are research on Universal and Columbia. This is because the films that is

been made are really intrusting, especially ‘Grown Ups’, that’s the movie I

researched on, this is because we enjoy watching funny films, but then we decided

to do drama because is more eye opening.

We also done research on how the opening of productions have changed into

something different, the link at the bottom shows the video of what I am talking

about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E98iTbFqRuM

I did some research on Columbia because they produce a lot of movies such as

Skyfall and Hope Springs.

http://youtu.be/b5XAVws0UsE

SOURCES WE USED.

In our film we made our own logo because its being more

creative with our film. We went on http://www.flixpress.com/ to

make a logo. But we could not get it on to our film even though

it was on YouTube, it was to hard find how to copyright it into

the final cut.

QUESTION4:WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE

FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

On our blog we wrote about what age group would be able to watch our film.

12a will be able to watch this film because they will understand the story.

Describe your target audience?

We decided to aim our target audience at a mixed gender aged between 15-25; its for people

who enjoy watching drama films.

Link to your genre?

Are target genre is DRAMA. By watching and researching drama films we were able to use

similar techniques (Shot reverse shot) and camera shots (point of view, establishing shots,

close ups) in our film to create a more successful film.

Evidence for this?

We carried out a questionnaire to find out specifically what our target audience wanted. We

also showed a few people a selection of drama films and asked them what their favourite was.

Demographic

Overview

Student

Age 15-18

Bursary £500 per

year

Rock

Kidulthood

Psychographic

Overview

Girl

Goes to Bridge

Academy

Spends most of her

time on social network

Lives near her dads

Two views of the same user.

QUESTION 5: HOW DID YOU

ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

What research did you do to find what your target audience wanted?

We did a questionnaire asking them their age, gender and favourite drama films

and also what sub-genre they prefer to watch.

What decisions and revision did you make about form and content based on

these findings?

We watched other dramas such as kidulthood and Adulthood, in these films the

opening credits helps us to make our credits. Our questionnaire allowed us to

know what drama our target audience likes and we knew what are film should

be based on.

Were you successful in attracting your audience?

After finishing our film we showed it to a selection of our target audience and got them

to talk about it and we also filmed them talking about what they thought about our

film. We got a lot of feedback from our target audience and from the feedback we

know what to do for our final finishing of the film. However, they thought that some

shots needed some work.

This is the questionnaire we gave out topeople and asking them what they like about drama and what they favourite movieis we got a lot of feedback from people and it gave us an idea of what are film should be about, but we always had an idea of what are film was going to be about.

We then planned this mind map after all the feedback we got from people which helped us a lot to think about what people like about drama films and what we can do from them to like our film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ZRSq8T53A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko3haLXvU3k

What could be improved? We watched the review again to see what could have been different in our film and what we could have changed in our final draft.

We recorded our classmate looking at our film and to

tell us what he liked about our film and what was bad

about it. The quality of this film is not perfect but I

hope you can hear what he is saying about the film

because he said a lot about the film.

http://youtu.be/YsKMgawPx2g

W H A T H A V E Y O U L E A R N T A B O U T T E C H N O L O G I E S F R O M P R O C E S S O F C O N S T R U C T I N G T H I S P R O D U C T ?

Using the camera Using the editing software

We learnt all the camera shots (close up, wide shots, point of view shots etc.)

We learnt some of the shortcuts to allow us to speed up the editing process.

Camera techniques How to add and cut sound clips to get them in time with the rest of the movie.

Camera Angles How to overly texts and titles onto the movie to give information like credits.

Using the tripod to steady the camera; keeping the camera straight on uneven ground and for panning.

How to cut and trim the clips with the correct timings, so that it runs smoothly.

Shooting lots of versions of the scene to help the continuity in the post production.

Using transition effects to soften a switch from one location to another so it does not look so subtle.

This picture was taking when I was learning how to take shots and it was very hard to work the camera but at the ending I worked it out and this is the camera “the canon” that we was meant to use but didn’t use it at the end of us filming.

We then used this camera becausethere was no more cannons left but it was a good quality but the video we recorded then turned blue when it got on to the computer.

We had to film again because the camera angle wasn’t good enough

and then we realised that the camera wasn’t focused at all; so we will

need to film it again, I think it was because I have never used a cannon

to film so as a result I didn’t know how to function the camera. However

I wasn’t the only one to do the mistakes because I had asked my partner

to check and she quoted ‘its all good’ but in reality it wasn’t good.

http://

www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=9633112&height=267&width=200

This voki explains everything about question 5 and all the camera techniques that we learnt at the beginning of the course.

LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIM TASK, WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT IN THE

PROGRESSION FROM THAT TO THE F INAL PRODUCT?

PRELIMINARY TASK

Looking back at our first preliminary we have improved all the mistakes that we made

in the past.

We used our ipad to film.

Different camera angles and shots.

We learned how to use pre and post production skills like; storyboarding our ideas and

creating scripts for our characters.

We also needed to learn technical skills and how to use certain equipment.

Using the tripod for the first time.

Evaluation

It was really difficult for us to do, because we didn’t know what was what in the film.

MAIN TASK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bvb4RLt-o8

MAIN TASK

Most of our skills have improved from when we started.

We studied more on camera shots and what affects they might give to the audience.

We also learned about mise-en-scene.

Evaluation

I think that we successfully improved on the areas that we needed help on.

We made sure that are scenes were on time with everything.

We also used music in the background which is what we was missing in our preliminary.

In the future we used a wider range of camera skills.

We also would try and learn how to get more interesting effects to make it more exciting

for the viewer.

The camera in one of the shots wasn’t really good and we might have to film it again.

CHANGES

We have made a massive progress with our film because we had to redo a lot of

the scenes, this is because we didn’t get good angles and also it was out of focus.

A lot of the times we felt like giving up but we kept strong and we were always

encouraging each other. We have had bad moments such as the character’s not

having the same hair or clothing or the dates we have organised to film was not

suitable for the actresses. Which meant that the camera women (Oumie) was

frustrated.

We had to re film at least four times because some of the scene was not

focused or the angles where not good enough. The last time we had to film

we had to changes the mother in the film because she wasn’t available so

we had to change to someone else, however the new actress we got wasn’t

better than the old actress but we have to go along with it. But in the end

we realised the acting wasn’t what we need, all we need is good angles,

and focused scenes.

IF WE COULD DO IT ALL AGAIN, WHAT WOULD YOU DO

DIFFERENTLY?

If we was going to do this all over again we would do things early

because its important to get things done on time so that you don’t

have to be behind in some things like complete our evaluation and

coursework.

THANKS FOR WATCHING!