Evaluation - Jodie Rider

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

9 Frame for my film

Our film was inspired by The Sixth Sense. If you look at our other 9 frames you can see what we have wrote about that film. We have chose The Sixth Sense to be our inspired film because they have similar story lines so we decided to make our film similar with the titles. In the Sixth Sense, the film starts off with a Production, so we have started ours off with Apple & Lion Productions, I made a picture to go with this to give it more of a effect. The next shot was off the Production and Pictures, so we done Apple & Lion Productions and Kuva Pictures Presents. The titles come down the page quick and then drop and slide down.  We done this bit different to the Sixth Sense because there titles just come in slowly with nothing going on with them. We done a different so our film would have some unique to it. The next shot was the actors, it started off we the main actors. So first was Joe Morgan who was our main man in our film, next was the therapist which was Amanda Lacey. Then there's 3 more actors that come in separately because they are the other main actors of the film. This is how the Sixth Sense does it. After the main actors have gone through we start to see two actors come together in one shot. This is because these actors are not that important to how the main actors are. These titles still drop down quick and then slowly go down. This happens to all the titles until the last one which is the title of our film which is The Remembrance, this comes in different to the rest of the titles as it is the title of the film we wanted it to stand out to our audience. We make he titles take a while to come in and go through them all but this is because this is how the Sixth Sense was and we wanted to get the same effect with the titles taking a while, this made it tense because you didn't know what to expect, also the music playing made it more mysterious to what was going to happen. In the Sixth Sense they had music playing when the titles came in which we realized made it more tense. We also made the size of the title bigger to show its more important to the rest of the title. From an over all comparison i think we have done well with making our film similar to The Sixth Sense. Our film has its similar points and its differences.


This is a scene from Fifty First dates. Lucy Whitmore which is the girl in this scene and the man who is Marlin Whitmore is the father of this girl. In this scene you get to see what happened in the girls car crash that made her loose her memory, this is why she repeats the same thing everyday because she forgot her memory. This relates to the film we are creating because the man in our film has an car crash and loose his memory also. So i thought this would be good to look at and see what ideas we can get from this, it will be good to see what camera angles and shots are used in this so we know what would be the best for our film.


Because when this scene is happening, it is the past so we are seeing it as someone is telling it. At the start where Marlin looks at Lucy it is silent, they are looking at each other and smiling, showing that they are happy and everything is ok. The third shot you can see above is of Marlin extreme close up on his eyes, we can see that something bad is about to happen because of the shock we see in his eyes and terror. The next shot we see is of a cow. This shot is very quick, 1-2 seconds of seeing this image, from his eyes then straight to this and then straight to the next shot, this shot is a point of view shot. We see what Marlin would be seeing while driving the car, this will put the audience is terror because there is cow in front of his car which he will drive into. Then next shot we see is off Marlin's foot on the foot brake, this shot is very quick, you only see this for 1-2 seconds. Also with this shot we heard skidding to start from the car wheels, which shows the audience that the car is about skid and makes tension happen, makes the audience think what is going to happen next. The next shot you see is Marlin stirring the wheel really fast, as if he as lost control which he is because of the cow in the road. You can see the shock and how scared his by the emotions used. This shot is a median shot view looking at him outside of the car, this shot is good because you can see the character from another point of view, this would be seen as the cows point of view. The next shot is also a quick shot of Lucy looking very gobsmacked with her mouth open, looking surprised as what is about to happen, this shot is at the side would be where her dad would be sitting. This shot was very quick as so were the ones before, this scene happened very quickly because of the car accident you only saw the quick movements that happened.  The shot after that is off he wheel skidding on the floor, you hear this as it happens, this is now starting to build up the tension in the scene. The shot of this is a low shot know as the worms eye view, this looks up to the wheel at the side skidding, this is a good shot because it makes it seem like the wheel is very over powering about what is happening. Then the next shot is where you see the car crashed into a tree, this is a long distance shot so you can see the whole scene and what else is going on, you can see that the car has been smashed and see that the cow is okay and didn't get hit which makes the viewers feel relieved. The scene happened very quick and most of the shots are close up, so you can see every little detail that was going on, there wasn't really any sound because we was watching this from the past as someone was explaining it. I have got ideas from looking at this scene and will use some of the shots used.



What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?




Media Technology

YouTube - YouTube wasn't something we use that much to do with our film. We used YouTube to research about other films for more research. We used YouTube to see what the Sixth Sense film was like. We used YouTube to upload our film and audience feedback to our blog.We did also use YouTube to find music for our film but we ended up using a copy right free website,
Photoshop - We used Photoshop for our Production Company image. We had a picture of an apple and lion, we put them together on Photoshop as this was the best software to use.
Blogger - We used our blogger a lot through this project. We started off using the blogger for our preliminary task and then our main task. Our blogger is what has everything on it, this is where all our written work goes and our videos. We also used the blogger to look at the other students bloggers in our class so we could get feedback and also get advise from other bloggers. We also used he blogger to look at our teachers blogger for guidance and help.
Nikon Cool-pix Camera - This Nikon Cool-pix camera is Ruhelas. We used this to film our whole film, it was very easy to work and understand. We used this camera as it was high quality and gave as a good picture. We decided not use some from school because if we needed to use outside of school then it would be an issue to get them, it was easier having our own camera. The camera was a big part of our project as it filmed our film. It also filmed our feedback from our class.
Sony Vegas pro 11 - We used Sony Vegas to put our film together. At first we use Windows Movie-Maker, but this software wasn't that good, it didn't have as much technology as Sony Vegas did. Using Sony Vegas was very helpful as it high tech and has many elements that we could use. At first we found it a bit hard to understand how to work the software but then we got use to it.
Computer - We used the computer for mostly everything. The computer is what has all the software's on it, it has the blogger on it too. The computer has all our written work on it that we done on Word Documents, Power points etc. We then would put our work on the blogger which is also on the computer. The computer had the USB plug for us to connect the camera too, which let us put on photos and our video clips.
Speakers - The speakers that were connected to the computer we used to listen to the music we were going to use in our film. The speakers were very handy because we could listen to the music louder so we could understand it better.
PowerPoint/Word Document/Paint - We used PowerPoint, Word Document and Paint for our written work and pictures. I wrote some of my work up on Word Document and then pasted it over onto the blogger. I used the PowerPoint for pictures put together for example the pictures above, i would then save them as a Paint document because it was easier to post as a picture on here.


Who would be the audience for your media product?

Audience for Media Product

This is Kal Penn aged 35. He owns a house in North West London. He has a wife and has been married for 5 years with 2 children that are aged 1 and 3 years old. Kal is a very family orientated and loves his family very much. Kal likes to do a lot with his family for example going on trips and taking them to parks. Kal would always put his family first but does like doing stuff with his friends for example going to the Pub, watching football, having snooker nights. Kal's job is a desk job at Halifax. He wears a suit to work everyday when hes workings but is his own leisure time he just wears a casual top and jeans.

Kal likes a few different genres of films. He mostly likes comedy, drama and mysterious films. Kal likes the films The Hangover, Signs, Batman, Grown Ups, The Wolf of Wall Street. Kal likes film with an exciting  story to it. Kal does enjoy watching films and going to the cinema regularly.

I think that Kal fits our target audience very well. Our target audience is Males that are ages from 30-44. Because Kal enjoys films with an mysterious exciting story to it, it i think our film will target his needs and he would enjoy it. Kal Penn is an excellent example to who our film targets too. Our film targets more to males than to females because the role model in the film is a man, and is more of a layed back film which men would enjoy more.

Our film is attracted to men more than woman as it is a very doll film and women like more enthusiastic films. Our film is a mysterious, thriller/drama film. Our target audience is men ages 30-45, and also teenagers.

 How does your media product represent particular social groups?



Representation of social groups

In the Sixth Sense one of the main actors is Bruce Willis, he is known as Dr Malcolm Crowe in the film. When watching the film we can see that Dr Malcolm Crowe is very smart and does his own thing. He walks around as if he is the 'boss' but doesn't have that nasty character to him. We can see he is a wealthy character because of what he wears, he wears suits and long coats which are smart. We can see by what he is wearing that the film isn't an old film, it is a modern film because hes wearing modern clothing. So we done our main actor being Joe, to be like Dr Malcolm Crowe. We made sure that Joe was wearing smart clothing for example, blazer, shirt, and smart shoes. Because the film we made is very modern, Joe would obviously be wearing more modern smart clothing but our audience will know that he is a wealthy man because of what he is wearing. Looking at both characters we can see that the similarities are that they are both wealthy men, do their own thing, and are high class. I think we have represented Joe just how we wanted too, and matches his role model.


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

Progress from preliminary task to main task

The preliminary task we did was to do a short film that followed the brief being ‘A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character, an exchange of dialogue occurs'. We didn't really follow the brief exactly how it said. You can see in our preliminary task we filmed it in school which isn't that good because we don't have that many options to work with. We only has class rooms and the school site. We also used a school camera to film our preliminary, as you can see the quality of the pictures above aren't that clear. We had objects and chairs in the way that didn't need to be there this is why its not the best choice to film it during school. Also you can see that the actors are all wearing casual clothes, so we did not give them costumes to wear that could suit their character.

Looking at the examples above off our main film you can see the filming quality is much better, this is because we used a higher quality camera for this film. Our brief that we had to follow was 'To do an opening to a film, with credits' which we did follow too. You can see that the actors in our main film have costumes on in the film and also have props. Amanda has smart clothing on because she is a therapist, a smart skirt and heels with a blouse. You cant see what Joe is wearing in the picture but he wears a suit because he is a business, rich man. Props used is Amanda's bag. We filmed our main film at a house, with the outdoors. This was much better filming in one of our houses than filming at school because we had options on where to film and what to use and what was around us. We had the home furniture which made it show that we were filming in a home which we wanted, we got nature involved which is good because there is natural light.

Comparing the two films together too see the progress we have made is very clear and obvious. When we got given the brief to follow for the preliminary task we didn't really follow it that well but comparing this to our main film we followed the brief exactly on point. We have improved with filming, making sure its straight and the quality is much better. We have progressed with the actors, by giving them costumes so you can clearly see what kind of character they are meant to be. The location is much better because we have more options available to us. Overall i think we have improved a lot to do with filming, and everything to do with it. We have progressed a lot.

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

Looking at the film that we looked at, that inspired us when we were doing our film it was the Sixth Sense. We made our own logo off the apple and lion on Photoshop to make a production logo. We decided to do Apple and lion because we thought this would work together well. The picture we made was eye catching as it wasn't realistic. Looking at what the sixth sense opened with it was Hollywood Pictures, with the logo so that's why we decided to open it was a production company instead. Then you go on to Dreamland Pictures and Apple and lion productions, this is how the sixth sense done it so we decided to do that. We chose tro do dreamland pictures, because many films use more company's that produce the film so we did that too. Then the next shots go on to the actors.