Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt from the progression from it to the full product ?
Looking at your preliminary task,what do you feeel you have learnt from the progression from it to the full product? - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Saturday, 15 April 2017
Friday, 14 April 2017
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product ?
Camera
Even though I was in charge of sound in our group I still gained some knowledge on how to operate a cannon camera when we were filming, as when we were filming, I picked up techniques when Macy would start to film and we used a camera which I had used before because it is my dads but I had only used it to take pictures. The camera was easy to use and made it easy for us to frame our shots and to try and get level 4 shots.
Tripod
Going along with the camera although I wasn't strictly in charge of the tripod but after helping set it up a few times I started to get more familiar with using it having never really used one before this year. We were fortunate the Macy could provide the tripod to use which fitted the camera correctly. Using the tripod made it easier for us to film steady shots when Eleanor was cycling through the village.
Editing
Jasmine was in charge of editing but once again like with the camera you all pick up the same skill after watching and helping each other and editing skills came in handy when I had to edit sound for our piece. When editing both the film and the sound that goes into the film we used the software premier pro. This was a new technique I learnt.
I feel that my skills have improved vastly since the start of the year when I couldn't edit and hardy work the camera. I think this shows in the improvement from our preliminary too our final piece.
Camera
Even though I was in charge of sound in our group I still gained some knowledge on how to operate a cannon camera when we were filming, as when we were filming, I picked up techniques when Macy would start to film and we used a camera which I had used before because it is my dads but I had only used it to take pictures. The camera was easy to use and made it easy for us to frame our shots and to try and get level 4 shots.
Tripod
Going along with the camera although I wasn't strictly in charge of the tripod but after helping set it up a few times I started to get more familiar with using it having never really used one before this year. We were fortunate the Macy could provide the tripod to use which fitted the camera correctly. Using the tripod made it easier for us to film steady shots when Eleanor was cycling through the village.
Jasmine was in charge of editing but once again like with the camera you all pick up the same skill after watching and helping each other and editing skills came in handy when I had to edit sound for our piece. When editing both the film and the sound that goes into the film we used the software premier pro. This was a new technique I learnt.
I feel that my skills have improved vastly since the start of the year when I couldn't edit and hardy work the camera. I think this shows in the improvement from our preliminary too our final piece.
Thursday, 13 April 2017
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
Evaluation Question 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
I think that for our film the majority of our target audience would be families based in the United Kingdom. This would be because the film is based in Devon in the South West of England so for some countries abroad it would be of no appeal because they may not understand the regional identity. I think our film is appealing too both me and women. Our film you could compare with the British television programme Broadchurch because they both involve a select part of the country and are both crime dramas. Because of this I feel that our film opening and Broadchurch would have very similar audiences.
We feel that the genre of crime appeals more to older
teenagers and adults but that having the main character being a young girl will draw a more younger generation. Obviously though the story is sad and may not make huge amounts of sense to an audience that is very young which is why we are catering more towards families with older children. I thought this was a nice broad audience so that we didn't limit ourselves with what we could film. I feel that our film can be appealing too teenagers because of the audience research I did when I asked what people our age thought of drama films.
I feel that we have suited to our target audience of teenagers and families because we have made our film a modern interpretation of the events that happened, so we feel that this will appeal to a younger audience. However because it is based on a true story set in the 70s it may attract an older generation of audiences who will either of heard about it or are just interested because they were alive when it happened.
I think that for our film the majority of our target audience would be families based in the United Kingdom. This would be because the film is based in Devon in the South West of England so for some countries abroad it would be of no appeal because they may not understand the regional identity. I think our film is appealing too both me and women. Our film you could compare with the British television programme Broadchurch because they both involve a select part of the country and are both crime dramas. Because of this I feel that our film opening and Broadchurch would have very similar audiences.We feel that the genre of crime appeals more to older
teenagers and adults but that having the main character being a young girl will draw a more younger generation. Obviously though the story is sad and may not make huge amounts of sense to an audience that is very young which is why we are catering more towards families with older children. I thought this was a nice broad audience so that we didn't limit ourselves with what we could film. I feel that our film can be appealing too teenagers because of the audience research I did when I asked what people our age thought of drama films.
I feel that we have suited to our target audience of teenagers and families because we have made our film a modern interpretation of the events that happened, so we feel that this will appeal to a younger audience. However because it is based on a true story set in the 70s it may attract an older generation of audiences who will either of heard about it or are just interested because they were alive when it happened.
Monday, 10 April 2017
Thursday, 6 April 2017
Evaluation Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups ?
Our opening presents two different social groups
1.Teenagers
2. Middle aged men
The first social group we are presenting are teenagers. Stereotypically teenagers are seen as lazy and disorganised we have averted that stereotype and have represented the teenagers in our piece as active (as all three are outside) and orgainsed as Genette has a job. Teenagers are given a negative stereotype due to media coverage over small minorities of teenagers and then society thinks this is how all teenagers behave.
I asked some people what they thought the stereotype of a teenager was these are what they said
Grumpy towards everyone
Ignores people
They don't care for others
Lazy
They are up to no good
Sulky
The second social group is middle aged men. Their stereotype is that they are seen as
Boring
Grumpy
Mid life crisis
Spends all his money
In films the middle aged man normally plays the dad and he stereotypically will be grumpy but in a crime drama he may play the killer for instance Moriarty in Sherlock and Joe Miller in Broadchurch. We did follow this stereotype with our character because of Robert Black the supposed kidnapper fitting into that category.
Our opening presents two different social groups
1.Teenagers
2. Middle aged men
The first social group we are presenting are teenagers. Stereotypically teenagers are seen as lazy and disorganised we have averted that stereotype and have represented the teenagers in our piece as active (as all three are outside) and orgainsed as Genette has a job. Teenagers are given a negative stereotype due to media coverage over small minorities of teenagers and then society thinks this is how all teenagers behave.
I asked some people what they thought the stereotype of a teenager was these are what they said
Grumpy towards everyone
Ignores people
They don't care for others
Lazy
They are up to no good
Sulky
The second social group is middle aged men. Their stereotype is that they are seen as
Boring
Grumpy
Mid life crisis
Spends all his money
In films the middle aged man normally plays the dad and he stereotypically will be grumpy but in a crime drama he may play the killer for instance Moriarty in Sherlock and Joe Miller in Broadchurch. We did follow this stereotype with our character because of Robert Black the supposed kidnapper fitting into that category.
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