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Monday, 30 January 2012
Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt from it in the process?
From looking back at my preliminary task I learnt a lot about technical, acting and team skills.
Here are the things i have learnt from each category:
Technical skills:
In my preliminary task we had to film a conversation between two people. We did the howl filming in one day. I did not realize that aspects like the weather would be so important. I had to plan filming on days that where of similar weather and as most of the filming was done outide it couldn’t have been wet the day before either because the ground will have been too wet and would have looked different.
My time management increased great during this project because I had to plan filming on days were my whole team could be present and the weather conditions were right.
All these small aspects i never thought of at the beginning of this course would make a diffrent.
I improved also my editing skills while doing my film, in the preliminary task the cuts were slightly off and sometimes did not look as if they worked well in the task. Looking at my finished film, my cuts are very well placed and make a smooth passing from clip to clip. Other technical skills are the addeting of titel, when I did my preliminary task me and my team not even thought about to add titles. I had some problems to add the titel in a good looking place. But at the end we learnt various techniques into adding titles and inserted them into a well chosen position.
Team and acting skills:
I learnt from doing the preliminary task that it is sometimes very stressfull to act after the arrangements of others and without a storybord. So i decided to take other ideas first and incorporate my own ideas afterwards. After this I drew a storybored by my self. Before starting with the filming i thought about how i could play my role as realistic as posible. Catherine (the second main actress) and Me used to practice some scenes in the drama-room in our spare time. We filmed some exercises to look them later on on the computer. This helped us to improve our acting skills and team skills as well.
The Finished Product is a great succsess how I think. It was the first film i produced in my life. Me and my team have worked and cooperated very well together and created a well made and good looking opening to a Crime and Ganster film.
Here are the things i have learnt from each category:
Technical skills:
In my preliminary task we had to film a conversation between two people. We did the howl filming in one day. I did not realize that aspects like the weather would be so important. I had to plan filming on days that where of similar weather and as most of the filming was done outide it couldn’t have been wet the day before either because the ground will have been too wet and would have looked different.
My time management increased great during this project because I had to plan filming on days were my whole team could be present and the weather conditions were right.
All these small aspects i never thought of at the beginning of this course would make a diffrent.
I improved also my editing skills while doing my film, in the preliminary task the cuts were slightly off and sometimes did not look as if they worked well in the task. Looking at my finished film, my cuts are very well placed and make a smooth passing from clip to clip. Other technical skills are the addeting of titel, when I did my preliminary task me and my team not even thought about to add titles. I had some problems to add the titel in a good looking place. But at the end we learnt various techniques into adding titles and inserted them into a well chosen position.
Team and acting skills:
I learnt from doing the preliminary task that it is sometimes very stressfull to act after the arrangements of others and without a storybord. So i decided to take other ideas first and incorporate my own ideas afterwards. After this I drew a storybored by my self. Before starting with the filming i thought about how i could play my role as realistic as posible. Catherine (the second main actress) and Me used to practice some scenes in the drama-room in our spare time. We filmed some exercises to look them later on on the computer. This helped us to improve our acting skills and team skills as well.
The Finished Product is a great succsess how I think. It was the first film i produced in my life. Me and my team have worked and cooperated very well together and created a well made and good looking opening to a Crime and Ganster film.
Question Six: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of making this product?
I learnt a lot by making my final film, this include:
1.)Working with a cam corder and tripod:
When using the camcorder and tripod I have learnt the best ways to keep a sequence interesting by moving the camera a lot and having different angles of shots to keep the audience entertained. Shoots like the over the shoulder shot gives our film more dimetion and make it more understadable for the audience. Also we used different angel shoots . The high-angle shot and the low-angle shot helped us a lot to represnt the dominance of the dealer over the girl. I have also learnt the importance of close-ups in film. The tripod helped us to hold the focus on somthing easier. We did some shoots with out the tripod for example we filmed our two main character walking by having the camera in front of the character as they walk. We tried to hold the camcorder still and do not shake lot around but the footage looked still tacky and wobbly.
2.)Editing:
Editing is the process where the film come to gether. Becaue I never done a film before everything was a new experience for me. We used a program called Corel Video Studio Pro x3 to edit my film. Also we edit titels, special effects, music and sounds to our film with the programm.
3.) Problems during the filming:
We had a couple of problems while starting with our first footage. Wheather problems prevent us to beginn the filming. Wind and rain had bad effects on the audio quality.
Trough this fact we learned to check the weather before filming.
Also walkers and cyklers became sometimes a small problem when they walked or ride through our camera image. We learned that it is better to work on a derelict space to work without being disturbed.
1.)Working with a cam corder and tripod:
When using the camcorder and tripod I have learnt the best ways to keep a sequence interesting by moving the camera a lot and having different angles of shots to keep the audience entertained. Shoots like the over the shoulder shot gives our film more dimetion and make it more understadable for the audience. Also we used different angel shoots . The high-angle shot and the low-angle shot helped us a lot to represnt the dominance of the dealer over the girl. I have also learnt the importance of close-ups in film. The tripod helped us to hold the focus on somthing easier. We did some shoots with out the tripod for example we filmed our two main character walking by having the camera in front of the character as they walk. We tried to hold the camcorder still and do not shake lot around but the footage looked still tacky and wobbly.
2.)Editing:
Editing is the process where the film come to gether. Becaue I never done a film before everything was a new experience for me. We used a program called Corel Video Studio Pro x3 to edit my film. Also we edit titels, special effects, music and sounds to our film with the programm.
3.) Problems during the filming:
We had a couple of problems while starting with our first footage. Wheather problems prevent us to beginn the filming. Wind and rain had bad effects on the audio quality.
Trough this fact we learned to check the weather before filming.
Also walkers and cyklers became sometimes a small problem when they walked or ride through our camera image. We learned that it is better to work on a derelict space to work without being disturbed.
Question Five: What elements of your text would attract your target audience?
There are many elements of which I considered and to attract my target audience. The first element i considered was the language. The dialogue are extremely simple and clear, this is important because my target audience would become uninterested during the duration of the film if the dialogue was any more complex, for example if there was an increased use of words of a more advanced vocabulary. I think it is more important in a crime/gangter movie to show predominantly action.
A nother thing would be that we used teenager as protagonist, this is as they will be able to relate to the character. We have also given our characters costumes to adapt to the Crime and Gangster genre to add to the authenticity of the film. We have both of our main characters wearing modern but 'chavvy' with jeans and hoodies. A main element to attract my target audience was the place settig. The first location give the illusion as if we are in a hidden place or in a backstreet full of graffity. This help the audience as well to getting more into the story and the mood of the situation. The second location was in the apartment of the dealer, it is a small dirty room with 2 chairs in it. You can see that he is in a social lower class. The third location, where we filmed the ending of my film, was in a dark tunnel in this location were graffitys as well. It is quite important that we choosed places full of graffity because it let the location look more "city like". I think it is also attract the target audience more because the places look not so boring, more apealing for the audience and much more dangerous through the graffity.
A nother thing would be that we used teenager as protagonist, this is as they will be able to relate to the character. We have also given our characters costumes to adapt to the Crime and Gangster genre to add to the authenticity of the film. We have both of our main characters wearing modern but 'chavvy' with jeans and hoodies. A main element to attract my target audience was the place settig. The first location give the illusion as if we are in a hidden place or in a backstreet full of graffity. This help the audience as well to getting more into the story and the mood of the situation. The second location was in the apartment of the dealer, it is a small dirty room with 2 chairs in it. You can see that he is in a social lower class. The third location, where we filmed the ending of my film, was in a dark tunnel in this location were graffitys as well. It is quite important that we choosed places full of graffity because it let the location look more "city like". I think it is also attract the target audience more because the places look not so boring, more apealing for the audience and much more dangerous through the graffity.
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Question Four: Who would be the audience for your media product?
The main target audience for my film will be :
Gender:
Male and Teenager
Age:
Over 15 to under 60
Male :
The audience will probably be male because my genre is crime and gangster. Even female could like it but in general it is more fitting to males. I say this beause i have aked arund my shool which genre of film they would mot wanted to watch and the only people that chooe crime and gangster were male. Reasons for this are for example that those movies are often about drug deals, violence play a mayor roll and boys are usually interested in guns which are always preent in crime and gangter films.
Teenager :
Teenager :
Teenagers are my second audience mainly because the film will be about teenagers. Also because i can identify myself with my age group. I know that much teenager are inter rested in films about drugs violence and the dirty sides of our society because this genre of film is full of action.
Over 15 :
I have chosen the gender over 15 because in the genre of a crime and gangster film are rude dialogues
a normality.There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’). The strongest terms (for example, ‘cunt’) may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable.Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. Also it is typical in crime that drugs are a mayor roll. Drug taking may be shown but the film as a whole must not promote or encourage drug misuse. The misuse of easily accessible and highly dangerous substances and ex specially this is not suitable for Young people.
Under 60 :I choose to gender under 60 for my film because people in this age can not identify really with the actors . The drug movement changed in the last years. Now these days people who take drugs are young. People who are 60 might know the drugs and there effects but don't know the reasons why teenageres take them so early.
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