Charlie Lambourne Evaluation

Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our 2 minute storyline has been used in many different films and they all have worked out well. I believe that our piece of work challenges more developed media piece because of the special effects with have used and the different ways of changing from one scene to another is just like how many top end films or TV shows would use. We looked at different products that where based on the same genre as us. Here are some examples of the Genre we have chosen.

Final Destination this is a teen horror. In this picture they all in colour and this seems pretty harmless at the moment.









This is more of a horror scene taken from the film Saw this is more of a horror with gore and blood which will attract a wider audience as it has people being cut to pieces and people like to go and see them.
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These films though are very high end and have millions of pounds to spend whilst we don’t have much at all to spend. So we decided that we would do the same storyline of a boyfriend and girlfriend having problems but the boy feels like he is being followed by a mysterious person who is never seen.
















How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We made a 2 minute opening of a film. The film genre was teen horror. The elements are suspense and surprise. I believe that these elements have been included in our final product. An example of the suspense is when Charles is walking up the silent walk and we begin to hear very creepy.
We chose to do a teen horror film meaning that we would be opening our film out to more than one audience. We used the Teen Horror genre because it is always an interesting topic to film about. The elements of Teen Horror are Scary music, love, blood and chases. For our film we couldn’t use all this effects but we did have some great music to go with the film and our characters where both in love and we had the horror factor, with special effects of a ghostly effect and we used the technique of Steven Spielberg’s film Jaws where u don’t see the evil but you can hear it coming. We represent teens in the film as a couple who are struggling at the current moment in time and they don’t know what is going and we chose this kind of relationship with Horror because many teenage relationships are usually a bit fiery. A perfect example of our film we tried to keep too is “I know what you did last summer.” we kept to the typical teenage elements during filming Lisa was a rude but understanding 17 year old girl whilst Charles was a well dressed but shabby 18 year old boy.


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

To distribute our product we decided to use New Line Cinema, this was chosen after watching a load of YouTube clips with different production lines at the beginning. We would release the film on DVD after we had released to the cinemas as this is the most money making way of selling your product to the audiences. But our film is only amateur.






· Who would be the audience for your media product?

We have two audiences our film is aimed at because of the genre of our film. We have the teenage market as our film is about teen life and most teens will watch this because they can associate there problems to that of the film. Also we have the big following of people who love horror so this will automatically help push up viewing polls, also because of our film is based on two different genres quite a lot of people will watch it because so many films have been made on the same genre so people will watch and compare it too different films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer

· How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience by using people of the same age as them and we did this because we knew what its like to be a teen and if you see your life on DVD you can relate yourself to the problems you see.
Also the way we spoke in the film was very in formal meaning it makes the teens feel even more at home because they can feel like it is them in the film.






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

When we as a group went did our preliminary film none of us really knew how to work the camera but by the end of our main task we as group feel very confident that we can do camera work very well. Since filming began I have been able to hold the camera at a still angle to produce the best quality of shot.
We have all learnt how to do different angles; I also learned that continuation shot is highly important in filming.
Since our preliminary task ive learned how to edit on our computer and make a complete movie with transitions and fade in’s and fade out’s. This was the main ingredients of our movie to produce and successfully made it work in the end.

8. How did the Feedback you received help you to make a better film opening?

With the feedback we received the people who commented gave us some pointers towards what we should change and what we should keep.

Here is some of the response we got back from our opening scene,

Brilliant video. I commented before and told you to build the storyline up more slowly and you did that now really well. The talking to Lisa on the phone makes it more understandable and the black and white effect and the camera shaking at the silent walk is really good as well.Well done!

This comment was from Simon who was very pleased with the film but he believed the beginning was a bit too fast and that the audience wouldn’t be able to understand what was happening and what was being said between Lisa and Charlie on the phone.

Otherwise he was very complimentary on our piece

Wow guys, since you last asked for criticism comments, this has gotten so much better! Love the fact that the music starts a lot earlier. Seriously. The music is really good and works really well with your footage. Good work! :)


This comment comes from Lisa who was actually part of the film, she said this after she previously had said the music ruined the film so we went out and found more appropriate music for the film.

Hey guys,I thought your film beginning was really good! I especially like the music because it makes the atmosphere of the film really intense and compliments the genre. I also liked how the point of view shots from whatever was stalking your main character were edited differently and in black and white.WELL DONE! (:

As you can see most of the feedback we got back was very positive and this was because we went round asking people what they thought of our first version and they gave us their opinions on what to change so we did what they said and they then re watched the film and said it had improved in leaps and bounds.


Posted by Charlie Lambourne