Who would be the audience for your media product?

4. The audience for our media product was decided to be aimed at people aged between 15 to 25 year olds. We decided this because our story line is to complex and violent for some one younger than 15 to take in and understand. We also believed that any one older than 25 would not be that interested in our media product as the film relates to a younger teenage audience.
After receiving our feedback we realised that our media product predominately attracted young men. Our film is set in dark alleys and back roads like kidulthood and adulthood. Both those films had a huge response from young adults as they know what life on the streets are and they also get the humour and slang which our script has.
We recieved the feedback from our questionaires and facebook pages we created. We used the feedback to improve our product. Once we finished the film we kept the feedback it recieved so we could use it improve our next pruject that we will undertake.

Number 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

2. Whilst creating our media product we decided to go against stereotypes therefore we used a young black man to chase a college student and once he has caught her he gives the girl her media textbook and then leaves her in peace. Whilst watching it you are thinking the black boy is going to mug or rape the girl, however he goes against what you think and plays the good guy buy giving her the book back.
Whilst filming we wanted to make the boy look like a gangster and a thug, we done this by putting his hood up, only revealing half his face, and making him walk and talk like a thug. We wanted to make the college girl the, protagonist, look innocent, young and vulnerable, so we made her dress in colourful clothes and told her to smile alot. Also the camera shots we got of her are long and slow to show that she is peaceful and no one is bothering her, however when we cut to the black boy the camera shots change and get faster to show his anxiety to get to her and to give the impression he wants her for something.
When the college girls leaves the thug she walks to the end of the alley where she bumps into another girl. We made this second college girl look just as innocent so that the viewers believe there is no trouble or that she has no relevance to the film. We wanted to put the audience on the edge of their seat as they are waiting for something to happen they just do not know when. So to surprise the audience we decided to make the second college girl, the antagonist, to knock out the protagonist and surprise every one.
Going against the stereotypes that people have is a good way to surprise and keep the audience interested.

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

7. After we created our Preliminary task my confidence was low as the footage we shot was of a very poor standard. We had to film twice because once we started editing we realized how many mistakes we had made. Our second filming was a lot better and easier because we had a good idea how to use the camera and what shots we wanted and had to include.

Whilst filming the second the time we realized that we should shoot a lot of different shots, even though we may not need them. The more footage you shoot the more the editor has to work with. If you filmed your whole sequence perfectly but then right at the end you forgot a shot or you realized you could of done with another one you would be very annoyed.

We used the method trial and error, we would try out a shot then watch it back and see if it went how we wanted it to or not. Though this took long we believed it was the most efficient way to get the filming done first time.

We experimented with many shots when we filmed our final media product that we wouldn’t have even dreamt of doing when we shot our preliminary task. The best shot I believed we got was the punch scene. We made our actor throw a punch directed just to the side of the camera so she would punch some ones hand, at the sound of contact we tilted the camera to one side and let it drop onto a bag. We tried several different techniques and shots to make it unique and exciting.

Once the filming was finished the editor took the tape and started editing. The editing was done quick and of a good standard because we had to edit our preliminary task twice and also other footage we had practiced filming.

Overall our final media product was a lot better than our preliminary task due to practice and learning from our mistakes. By the end of the coursework I can comfortably use all the equipment well and with confidence and so can the other people in our group.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

4. The audience for our media product was decided to be aimed at people aged between 15 to 25 year olds. We decided this because our story line is to complex and violent for some one younger than 15 to take in and understand. We also believed that any one older than 25 would not be that interested in our media product as the film relates to a younger teenage audience.
After receiving our feedback we realised that our media product predominately attracted young men. Our film is set in dark alleys and back roads like kidulthood and adulthood. Both those films had a huge response from young adults as they know what life on the streets are and they also get the humour and slang which our script has.

This is my final product that me and my group created, it took 3 weeks to film and edit. We also we worked with six different actors until we finally fount the right actors for the roles. I am very happy with the final out come of our product and the work i put towards it.

Target Audience

Whilst creating our media product we were trying to relate to our target audience. After receiving feed back about our production we decided as a group that our target audience would be aimed at people aged between 16-25.We decided this because we received a lot of positive and constructive feedback from that age group. Our production attracts a high percentage of male audience as well, this is probably because the story line is quite violent and graphic. We got our feed back from our blogs questionnaire and also our face book page.

Filming Journal

5th March 2010
On the Friday we started filming our thriller, our original 2 main characters could not make it and as the deadline was approaching on us we had to ask a class member to do it.
Our Filming started midday at havering college, we had no problems filming how ever our actor was not up to scratch for the part we needed her to play. We also fount out after that we had not shot enough footage so a re-shoot was inevitable.
Our location then changed to an alley in Hornchurch where our snatch scene was to be filmed. The director ordered many shots such as long shot, establishing shot and close ups. The acting was of a poor standard so i had to shoot the scene in away that the poor standard of the acting would not be to obvious.
Whilst filming the director and I observed some horizontal grey line going across the screen, thus being the reason why we lost half our footage whilst editing.

15th March 2010
We had to re-shoot our film as the footage we shot was not of a standard we had hoped for. We purchased a new tape and also got two new actors that had some experience in the past . Learning from our mistakes from the last shooting we decided to shoot more shots at the college and explore different angles.
Once at Hornchurch we more or less did use the same techniques as before however I didn’t have to hide the poor acting as the actors were of a better standard than before.
One of the main problems of the day was the cars driving past infront of the video camera and pedestrians wanting to get past. However the main problem of the day was shooting the dialogue as one of the actors kept laughing and smiling, and this did not fit in with their part.
Our best bit of footage that day was the punch scene, we got somebody to stand behing the camera with their hand to the side of it to give the actor a good target to punch at and also created a good sound effect for the punch. Once she had punched the hand we tilted the camera sideways to give the audience the impression that the girl had been knocked out.

18th March 2010
On Wednesday night we were in the middle of editing when we realised the dialogue scene was not to the quality we had hoped for. Therefore we decided to shoot one last time to get it right. Emmanuel Filmed 50% of the shots including the punch scene, Sophie being dragged and also the sequence were Sophie leaves college
We skipped to the scene where the pursuer catches our protagonist, instead of using a over the shoulder shot we decided to use a point of view shot where I would run along side the pursuer catching the moment where he grabs and pulls back our protagonist. We tried this many times as at first it did not work but with practise it looked better and better. It worked well and looked good when we looked back on our footage. We then re-filmed the dialogue scene, but we did this in a different way and different order. For the dialogue scene we first used a point of view shot, and then cut to an over the shoulder shot. Finally we changed the last scene of the thriller. Instead of a car scene we filmed our protagonist being dragged using a cut in. we filmed her legs moving as if she was getting dragged away. Moreover we got our antagonist to go on the phone as if she was on the phone to “the boss.” We did this by having a close up of the phone; we got a contact the ring the phone as changed the name of that contact to “the boss.” We had a problem of the cameras refection on the phone but finally we managed to get the camera at an appropriate angle and did the shot.