Evaluation 2

How does you media product represent particular social groups?

The product that my groups and I have produced represents particular social groups because we have chosen an audience that is the same ages the girl in the film, so they can relate to her. It also addresses some of the problems that teenagers have nowadays. We got our target audience from a questionnaire that we carried out before we did our filming to see what age group was most likely to watch films. We then used the information from that to get idea for our film. We found out that it was young adults and teenagers that are most likely to watch films. Our product meets this genre because of the type of movie we have done. We also had a look at other films with s similar story line as ours to get the age range.

Evaluation 1

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

In my groups media product it has titles of the cast, custom designer, music designer and director at the begging which is used in other film openings and we have also got a title at the end like most films to show what the film is called. We have also got music and a voice over, in the voice over you can kind of get a hint of what the film is about after that it just goes in to a normal music and this adds to the effect that my group and I was trying to get across, the music also showed the mood of the film. The final product shows a message that there is a lot of emotion when someone goes missing it also gets the audience think of ‘what happens next?’ ‘do they find her in time?’ and all sorts of questions. With the music and titles that we have used it shows emotion. Our final product draws people in by the voice over because they have to listen to get the message and the other music because it is quit emotional and makes the audience want to carry on watching. Our film opening has everything that a normal film opening would have; it has titles, music and we even have a film institutions.

Change of Plan

Change of Plan...

Our group has decided to change our film-opening scene but keep the same story line. As we thought it would be better to have it in a different location as it fitted in with the story line. We have decided to do it down Chatham, so she gets a text from the person that kidnaps her saying that they need to meet. We changed it in the early stages of filming so that we could fit all the clips that we needed to get. We decided to change the location of our film, we was originally filming at Rainham School for Girl but we are now filming down in Chatham as it fitted in better with our story line.

As a group we also decided to change the ending; it did start off of the girl walking down the road and she slowly starts to fade away. We have changed it to her walking off and then it cuts to the title with a sound effect of a gun.

We have also changed the people in the film. We started off with three girls and one gets kidnapped but now there is just one girl and she goes missing because she gets a text from the kidnapper saying they need to meet. She is walking by herself down Chatham and she feels as though someone is following her. Some of the clips that we going to use have been slowed down to give it more effect in the film.

We changed the film opening because we had looked at some of the ones down around school and they didn’t look every professional and we wanted our to look professional and try and get higher marks for it. We decided as a group where we would film? What time of day? And who would be in it? So once we had all this information we filmed it all in one day so it would be easier for us to edit it together.

The film now is about a young girl that is walking out of the shopping mall in to chatham high street and she gets a text from the kidnapper saying that thet they need to meet. She carries on walking in the high street to the cash machine, she gets some money out and after she has done that she walks off down the high street and a lady walking into the path of see her in the camera so that you don’t see her and it cuts to the title with the gun shot. 

Final Film Opening

Final Film Opening...

This is my groups final film opening;-

This is our other flm opening with a member of our group doing a voice over of the first part;-

Feed Back

Feed back for our film titles

This is the feedback that we got from people on facebook. We asked them what title would best suit the film about someone gettting kidnapped. their feedback was: no one said about titles 2, 6, 7, 9 and 10, one person said about title 1, two people said about title 3, three people said about title 4, five people said about title 5 and nine people said about title 8.

Our Film Title Idaes

Film titles
These are some of our ideas for the film title for our film opening. We have come up with these and we have posted them on facebook to see what people thing of them. Also to see what one they thing is best for our film. Starting from the top and going down they go 1-10.

Questionnaire