Evaluation Task 1

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

This is the title card to our opening sequence. The sketched,chalk effect behind the bold words indicate that the title is on a blackboard. It being on a blackboard relates as to the killings in the school to come.
As opposed to having a full opening title sequence, we concerntrated on the conventions of the character Kate.The Title gives a big impact to the audience and states that it is not about the actaul event itself, it is about what happends afterwards.

Here we are indicating the production company that would realistically represent our film, which is Vertigo Films. Vertigo films, as i have previously discussed in a past blog post, is a Brittish film company that has a small budget and produces independent films. The classic font is juxtaposed to the way the letters are unevenly floating, this implies a sense of mystery. Different from the opening title, which is chaotic and messy, it is consise and ordered. This challenges the audiences expectatione because it is different from the beginning opening title. The third screengrab entitled, 'A Jim Clarke Film' shows the director of the production because he is important and rightly deserves an appearence in the opening title sequence. distributer goes first because they have the money,then producer or production company because they find the money, then the director because its his film made from the distributers money, so the director can play around with how he wants to present his vision of the film. conventions we expect .



                                                                   This is our establishing shot which does not have any titles because it leads us straight into the story. The lighting of the computer screen shows the shadows in his face, implying he has a dark nature. His black t-shirt that we picked out for him was a key chose in mes-en-scene in highlighting his disposition.

Here we have constructed 'over the shoulder shots' to indicate the characters response. Kate, in clip is shot slightly lower down showing us the top of her shoulder to suggest the attack being made on her from the detective. The angle is made higher on the detective to show superiority and hierachy withing the room.

This tracking shot around the from Kate to the camera is a shot that i created. I wanted to lead away from the tenis match shots we previously had and wanted to incorperate a shot suggesting that the something in the story is about to change. At the moment of the tracking shot Kate is about to reveal key information about the event, this creates suspision and points the cameras quite literally back at her.



Evaluation Task 2

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

Our opening sequence relates to middle/upper class conventions. The boy shooting up the school in our opening sequence, shows his rebellion towards the conventions of middle/upper class. Society is the reason for his sublininal thoughts. He is consumed by the disgusting acts of the human race and how social groups are dictated by money or power. He makes a statement, shunning the world and its corruption.
My opening sequence would relate well to teenage emo/gothic boys who are in morn of the worlds decay in society and how death is something that comes in the end anyway.

The character 'Alex' that Seb playes in our horror sequence, is a negative portrayle of a young teenage boy. He is a non-steryotypical character because he does not have rippling pectorals or anything sexual suggestive that would intice the typical highschool prom queen to watch it. The character 'Kate' playes by Sabrina is a steryotypical portrayle because of her attractivness and attitude when playing her character.

 
above is a group of careless young men smoking, i think that this care-free socail group would relate to 'alex'. This group seems to have a 'reckless, non-caring' oulook on life and would find it comedic to blow up a school. The way this girl (below) is rolling her eyes is suggestive of her superfisial lifestyle. She would be likely to watch another attractive blond girl.

Evaluation Task 3

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

Because this film is inspired by different university shootings that has happened, many people will be interested to see it. There would be no special effects which would make it reasonably inexpensive, but if the production company wanted to seek further interest in the films viewing success rate, they would employ a famous actor to seal the deal, which will bring in a bigger audience.

Vertigo would be a good company to produce our film because of the type of films they have released before that would attract the same type of young audience. Vertigo has produced films such as Street Dance, which relates to a younger generation. Streeet Dance was in 3D, which is what gave the film a boost and is what should be taken into consideration when making other films. We would need something along the lines of virtual effects or compensate by having a relatively known actor/actress.

This is Vertigo films logo. Below is a film produced by Vertigo that is similar to our film called 'Outlaw'. Since outlaw is a similar film and got a good income our film is liable to do well also. This gives us verification that our film is likely to do well.

Evaluation Task 4

The ideal target audience would be consisted of a younger generation because of the current events taking place involving knife crime, ect.

Young men would be attracted to the violence, as a lot of men tend to be. They would probably be uneducated, seeing as the diolgue is not extravegent. Also the film would be slating the middle/upper class more so than the lower class, the young, uneducated, poor male would relate well.  Sadly there are very many underpaid workers  in society worldwide, which is why a predominatly the film would be a success over a film based around the stock market. A film about the stock market would sell to only a small region of people.  There are very many emos and goths in world which would have a greater effinty to our killer character Alex in the film because they have hatred of the world.

Evaluation Task 5

Task 5

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Evaluation Task 6

Evaluation Task 7

Evaluation Task 7

I have felt enormous progression from our preliminary task to our main task, our continuity and precision of shot as you can see by the comparative sequences of each of them above. The planning and preparation of our basic prelim task was relatively simple because every shot was printed and given to us in correct order. For our main task we had to create our own scenes with our own shots which made it harder. The differences in choices of shot from our basic prelim task and our main task, was that we decided not to use an extreme close up in our main task where we did in the prelim task, but we used a tracking shot in our main task where we did not in our prelim task.

In our prelim task we used wide-medium-close shots to cover the basic shots we needed. We got very creative with our main task in making the story show through the shots that we took. We took different angled shots to show superiority within status and a diminishing in status. Instead of using straight cuts in our sequence, we used a cross-fade to show the passing of time in the interview room.

As I said in Evaluation Task 1, this tracking shot was created to show a change. The character is about to enlighten the detective and the audience about something that was not previously stated before.

In our basic prelim task we constantly crossed the 180 degree line and had to re-shoot different shots because of our failure of framing the eye line of our two characters to match. We became very attentive because of our mistakes in our prelim tasks and shot the main task with no problem. Smooth. We have a Genie lift and a tracking shot which are the greatest examples of how our skills have progressed from the simple shots in our prelim task. We have constructed our shots so that they are tighter to show the intensity between the characters.

In our prelim task we used a basic raw boom mike through out for each shot, however in our final task we went through each shot individually to find the best sound for each clip. We used the sound effects of a faint screaming and gun shots, piano music, heavy breathing and rain to create a dramatic emphasis. We bridged all non-diegetic sound which had to be levelled. Also what we did not do in our prelim task which we did in our final task was including music and ambient sound effects in Soundtrack Pro.

Pre-Production Planning-Storyboarding and Script

Throughout the planning, I drew out the layouts for each shot and how it would take place. We all contributed to how the script would be presented, but my prime focus was to figure out how each shot would be carried out by storyboarding.

Audience and Institutions

The general age category for the viewers of our horror clip would be 16-25 year olds. It would make an impact on the audience because lately the outbreake of violence within the younger generation has grown with the kife crimes, murders, ect. We were inspired by the true events that took place at the Vigina Tech university on April 16th, 2007. In this event, a single student killed 32 people and is among one of the most serious gunman attacks ever accounted in teh USA, by a single man.

Final ideas pitch

My group consisted of four members. We each discussed our ideas and then came to completly different ideas for our thriller. We presented three ideas to our teachers and narrowed our ideas down to one. Our idea was surrounding around a phycopathic teenage boy who shot up the schools pupils and teachers. The majority of the filming would be in an interview room with the killers girlfriend and her interegation of the account as to why she was not killed aswell.