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32. Remello Daley, Javayl Primus, Emadul Rahman, Umar Sheikh from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation - Question 1

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

A conventional film opening will start with the production companys ident then the distribution ident, if there are any famous actors in the film then they will come up before the film title as the film producers use this as an additional marketing strategy, the film title will come up next after this all the other actors taking part in the film will show next, then after this the rest of the crews tites will show for example, casting, costume design and music. the last people to show are the executive producer and the producer.

The titles in films are usually plain in either black or white in a plain font that is easy to read. The conventions of a film opening can change depending on the type of film opening it is, for example a narrative film opening will differ from a discrete opening because a narrative opening will give the audience insight to the caharacters whereas a discrete opening will keep as much as it can from the audience. Mainly, film openings consist of special effects, titles, music and a narrative that introduces the main characters to the audience.

This GIF shows the conventions we followed when adding our titles to our opening sequence. Our font size is quite small in relation to the whole frame, the font is white and a relatively plain type. I have also used our production companys ident.






This GIF is from a film that has already been made andit shows how i have followed the conventons of film openings as you compare the two.

Evaluation - Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation refers to the construction of a social groups in media, stereotypes are used to help represent characters in films to help the audience connect with and understand the characters more clearly. In our opening we represented middle aged men that are gang members, we portrayed this stereotype negatively because we showed them as aggressive and violent and involved in organised crime. This follows the conventions of normal media because the media in the real world will present middle aged gang members in a similar way.

This is a mood board for the stereotypes of gang members

This is me dressed up as a mob leader, this goes with the stereotypes because i am
dressed smart with a shirt and tie.

This is also stereotypical because he is using a gun.

Evaluation - Question 3

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

Evaluation - Question 4

Who would be the Audience of your media product?

Thriller films are usually aimed at young men  in particular, our thriller has gone with the usual conventions of thriller films and has two main characters in our film and they are both male. Our thriller is a crime thriller and the main target audience for this type of thriller is also male. Our audience is males from ages 16 to 26, as social media is used by people in that age range I have decided to make a Facebook page seeing that the people that our film is aimed at will be the people that will be most likely to see the page. I think our thriller is aimed mostly aimed mostly at this age range because of the setting of our film 

Evaluation - Question 5

How did you attract/address your target audience?

Evaluation - Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies fro the process of constructing the product

Here is a wordle of all the different technology that we used in making our thriller opening

Evaluation - Question 7

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

Question 7 is asking me to look at how i have improved my skills throughout 
this whole process. 

Importance of planning and research 

Planning is very time - consuming and for our prelim we didnt have that much time to plan or planning for our prelim consisted of a storyboard but it wasn't as detailed as it could have been because of the time limit, on the other hand our planning for our opening title sequence was much longer with around one to two weeks to plan we had more than enough time to plan our title sequence, our storyboard was much more detailed than our prelim, we brainstormed ideas and threw ideas back and forth while coming up with the main concept of our opening, whereas when planning our prelim we just had an idea and went and filmed it in one lesson. When planning our prelim we didnt worry about costume and/or mise en scene , we just got the filming equipment and filmed. But for filming our opening sequence we spent time thinking and planning our costume choices, we also went to our main filming location before hand to do a risk assesment as to what could go wrong while filming. This wasnt necessary when filming our prelim because it was all done inside the building. Lighting for our prelim was just a LED light but in our opening we didnt have to worry about lighting because it was outside.

How much better was your camerawork/framing

For our prelim and our film we used the CandI ident

Looking at our prelim our shots weren't up to scratch but we were in the process of learning the 180° and the rule of thirds. My skills have improved since the prelim because i have learnt about the focus in the camera and the 180°  and not breaking it.

Our filming wasnt as clear as it was in the film

How much better is your editing

Throughout this process my skills in final cut and editing footage have vastly improved, learning how to make titles on final cut and adding transitions to my film and titles, I also improved my skills on using Soundtrack Pro and choosing the correct sounds to go with my film, putting them on a timeine and the moving them back to final cut. In my prelim sound wasnt very important so i just chose the firstgood sound that i heard on soundtrack rather than scanning through the sounds and chosing them according to the theme 

Establishing shot where we filmed outside for our title sequence

How has your teamwork improved?

Teamwork has improved since the prelim because we learnt how to communicate with eachother, getting eachother to do work, making group posts on the blog and dividing our workload making the process of making our film easier on all of us.

Filming ouside the barbican a busy area and framing is much clearer

We used titles in both our prelim and our opening

Our meetingscene in our prelim is different to our meeting scene in our title sequence

Audio

For the talking in the meeting scene we decided to use mickey for the person talking as his voice is more mature and would have a better effect.

Mickey

We also finished editing our sound in soundtrack.

Filming - Week 2

In week 2 of filming we decided to use the monday lesson to film more shots of the meeting scene again because we realised that you could see the tissue that the Envelope had been stuffed with. We did that on the monday lesson and the wednesday lunchtime. On the thursday we went to the barbican again but we had to make major changes to our film as our main character (Umar) had broken his hip and couldnt film, he was the main character so we had to change his character to Emadul we did all this filming in thursdays three hour lesson.

After this week we started editing and as we prepared our rough cut and showed it to our teacher and she told us that we had to re shoot our meeting scene again we did this and continued editing.

Filming - Week 1

We didn't get any filming done as the first few days we were very unorganised. On the first wednesday of filming we began to shoot the meeting room scene as it was the easiest scene to shoot. Myself Remello and Emadul went to the meeting room and took a few shots for the film.

The next day we had a three hour lesson so we went down to the barbican to start to shoot our initial shots, we finished the whole film in that three hour session and also got the shots from Jurys inn but when we looked at our clips on the macs we realised that the shots weren't very good quality and we was breaking the rule of thirds in many of the shots so we decides to go back again the next week to  to film the remainder of our shots.

Practice - Vlog

Pitch

     

EDITING - CHANGES & OPTIONS

 CHANGES AND OPTIONS (during editing)

TITLES
During the filming we had to decide on the titles and if we are sticking to the same style at first we decided to do on screen titles and then wanted titles on a black screen. However we realised out filming and scenes where too much of a time waste because we had to keep it as an OPENING and try not to drag it on too much. so doing titles on a black screen would make it longer and over the limit of a 2minute opening which is our aim.

SOUND
We searched for different sounds and music for most part of our film however this took alot of time because we didnt really consider the music and sounds at first we knew the foley sounds but not the actual music so this took up loads of time than nessasary to find however the end result we found suitable sounds and mixed it in "SOUNDTRACK".

* These are the two main problems we had on the editing stage while trying to rush into it too much. but after putting it all together we think that we finally achieved a good and satisfying edit that we was proud of. We added the effects - motions and transactions and we think its going well so far.

FILMING - SHOOT 2

This is the Location we filmed at: The Barbican centre. We wanted an urban scenery that has a little bit of mysery along with it and so we chose this mostly for the fact there are so many ways in which we can take different shots of a follwoing scene.

This is where we shot the scene where i am being followed down the stairs and we realised we had to put the camera at a low angle by moving the tripod to its lowest by using the handles.

This is where we check all shots for focus, angle and the way the scene is set and we must consider the mise en scene and lighting to make sure it flows throughout all our clips this is why we had to make sure that we try to film all of the scenes in one day to get the timing right and create a realistic feel.

This is the scene where we decide to take a high angle shot of me walking and the follower/hitman is watching me and making decisions on where my next move is... this is when it slightly goes wrong because right here he is behind me a bit more than the beginning so the last shot tells the timing that he is late and lost track of the victim.

this picture illustrates the fact it was windy and cold and we had to try set up equipment where there was no wind because even our hands got a bit too cold to handle the equipment. we learned that we had to be quick because the second time we done it we were running behind on time. also had to re-shoot all the scenes again. explained below.

 

 

 

 

* SHOOT 2 was where we had to re-do all the scenes because the main characters was injured at home so 'Emadul' had to step in and play the part of the person being followed. Even though we had to re-do everything we were more confident in this because we knew what shots we needed and had a rough idea of what we needed to do to make the shots more better... including making sure the camera is level and isnt really shakey when we had to do tracking and in this new shoot we rememberd to have a variety of shots.

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FILMING - Behind the Scenes (SHOOT1)

With our story board, plot and ideas put together, our group were now able to start setting up filming in the barbican (the main location). The weather was fine according to the plan. The pictures shown beneath are behind the scenes, starting from the collection of equipment to the located spot where we processed our filming.

Picking up equipment
The equipment we used were picked up from the media department. The lighting equipment is one of which were used, as well as cameras, tripods and the camera itself that pictures were taken with. This picture was taken in the classroom before we set of for our journey to the barbican.

The bus journey from angel to the barbican. 
Although there was traffic that consumed a bit of time, we were still able to make it to the barbican at the time we planned to reach the destination, as we left earlier to avoid the traffic from cutting valuable time. Equipment was put in the luggage section to prevent damage.

Reaching the Barbican and setting up the first shots.
We reached the location (Barbican Station). the first shots began from just outside the station, as the picture shows people going in and out of the entrance. Our group was aware of the amount of people that would be in the area, so we had to be sure that we used the equipment in the safest place to avoid any collision of equipment and actors.

This picture was taken at the same spot. We discussed exactly how we will take the shots including angles, to perfect how and what would be seen on the screen.



 

Moving up through the barbican.
After the first couple shots were complete, we moved from outside the station, up the stairs of the station and to the long bridge pathway as shown below. The pathway was empty at the time of filming, giving us a better chance to use more space around us. the picture shows members of the group once again discussing how we could use the space and what shots would be used.

Once we discussed our plan for shot types in this location, we set of filming. the two main characters are shown in the picture, one behind another, carrying out the routine of someone being followed.

deeper in the barbican, this picture was taken of Emadul in the filming process.  Here he is shown doing the camera work.

The first shooting got the group familiar with the area and gained more confidence the group as to what we were doing. More filming was done, but as a group we decided that we would have to make another journey to the barbican to complete the filming and to retake a few faulty shots.

FEEDBACK by Class

POSITIVE FEEDBACK

"Great Location shots"

"Good"

"Use the Natural sounds of surroundings" 

NEED FOR IMPROVEMENT FEEDBACK 

'Too many Transitions" 

"Use some foley sound"

"Re-do Meeting scene" 

"Blurry camerashots"

OVERALL FEEDBACK

"Try to constantly GRAB AUDIENCE"

*Tightening some of the scenes - 'Tight Editing', Must think about scheduling a time to re-shoot the meeting scene after the first scene.

Rough Cut

Planning - Story Board

Story board #1

Story board #2

Story board #3