Thursday 3 May 2012
Monday 30 April 2012
Question 5: How did you address/ attract your audience?
We produced a survey and handed it out to a variety of different ages, genders, ethnicities and from that created pie charts to easily display who are audience is and what they like in thriller movies. For example their favorite genre of music was Indie rock which we supplemented into our opening by creating our own so as to completely control the style to fit our audience's preferences. While the favorite genre of tv programme were drama and documentary which lead us to making our opening symbolic, and from a narrative's point of view to help build the drama and tension for our thriller's plot line. As our movie is certificate 15 it allowed us to be able to include alchohol and cigarretes, which we believe will intice ages 15 and up as it will either help them relate and feel connected to the main character or through their interest in rebellious drug use. Monday 16 April 2012
Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?
We produced a survey to find out who our audience would be, that likes and watches thriller movies. From that we were able to see what age and gender to target and suit our opening around, such as music and theme. Overall we settled on certificate 15, after realizing that no one below that age watched much of the thriller genre and leaving us able to follow the guidelines of this in terms of alcohol, drugs, mention of death. It was more fitting with our movie idea, and left us open and able to include certain props to add detail to our character's narrative voice. Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our opening represents or shows the social group of policemen, we stereotypically picked middle aged men as they are used most commonly in old movies. We present policemen in a negative way, as enemies because they killed the narrator's brother. 'Vice Vendetta' is all set around police, as the main character tracks them all down and kills them one by one, we purposely picked pictures of men dressed plainly in shirts and ties, which creates the image of ordinary work-a-day men but as they are burnt it introduces the violent nature of the film. Policemen are the only 'social' group' represented in our opening but the main character is shown to be the complete opposite (antisocial) ; through his clothes, alcohol, living conditions and his day-time activity showing he has no job, or family.
Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We had to make a psychological thriller which is produced mainstream meaning we had to make it attractive to a wider audience.
1. The title of the film- 'Vice Vendetta' we chose to have it in white over black background to make it more extinguished and represent the police as the hope or light in a dark world. The colours suit the style and time period of our film's setting.
2. Setting/location- We wanted somewhere dark and secluded, preferably quiet, after searching we came upon a spot in the main hall under the stairs. There was already a table and cupboard set up and a curtain to block any light making it easier for us to alter the space for our needs.
3. Costumes and Props- As we had decided to go the symbolic route, props were essential to our opening and the first thing we prepared before filming. Going for a period look we seeked out aged blankets, glass, bottle, ash tray etc to help create the effect we were going for.
4. Camerawork and Editing- It took a while for us to get the look we wanted, as we had no dialogue or acting it all relied on our props being shot in the right way to create the narrative voice we wanted for our character. We used constant movement across the table with the use of panning and tracking, to display everything slowly and smooth. Although in editing we mixed it all up to create confusion for the audience, in representation of the unpredictable life the main character has.
5. Title Font and Style- We chose eroded type writer font which we downloaded from Dafont, we believed it again reflected the period style of our thriller, and matched our props in the idea of documents about police for him to track them down.
6. Story and how the opening sets it up- The narrative of our main character's hatred of police is shown clearly in our opening, it helps and prepares the audience to understand the story line's background and history of what is to come. Also our props help visually to show and introduce the plot; pictures of men hung up, documents, maps.
7. Genre and how the opening suggests it- The props help suggest the mysterious plot line and the dark lighting and setting create a tense atmosphere.
8. How characters are introduced- With the symbolic route we used only one actor to play our main character, and emphasize the narrative voice of our opening. He is introduced with a mid shot, throughout most of the opening we only see parts of his body in the corner of the frame; pouring drinks, burning cigarettes etc to present him in a dark light.
9. Special effects- As i mentioned earlier we edited our film by mixing around the shots to create confusion, we put certain clips quicker than others and in different lights, sometimes going backwards to disorient the audience and represent the narrator's unstable state of mind; how he is living in the past by avenging his brother's death.
1. The title of the film- 'Vice Vendetta' we chose to have it in white over black background to make it more extinguished and represent the police as the hope or light in a dark world. The colours suit the style and time period of our film's setting.
2. Setting/location- We wanted somewhere dark and secluded, preferably quiet, after searching we came upon a spot in the main hall under the stairs. There was already a table and cupboard set up and a curtain to block any light making it easier for us to alter the space for our needs.
3. Costumes and Props- As we had decided to go the symbolic route, props were essential to our opening and the first thing we prepared before filming. Going for a period look we seeked out aged blankets, glass, bottle, ash tray etc to help create the effect we were going for.
4. Camerawork and Editing- It took a while for us to get the look we wanted, as we had no dialogue or acting it all relied on our props being shot in the right way to create the narrative voice we wanted for our character. We used constant movement across the table with the use of panning and tracking, to display everything slowly and smooth. Although in editing we mixed it all up to create confusion for the audience, in representation of the unpredictable life the main character has.
5. Title Font and Style- We chose eroded type writer font which we downloaded from Dafont, we believed it again reflected the period style of our thriller, and matched our props in the idea of documents about police for him to track them down.
6. Story and how the opening sets it up- The narrative of our main character's hatred of police is shown clearly in our opening, it helps and prepares the audience to understand the story line's background and history of what is to come. Also our props help visually to show and introduce the plot; pictures of men hung up, documents, maps.
7. Genre and how the opening suggests it- The props help suggest the mysterious plot line and the dark lighting and setting create a tense atmosphere.
8. How characters are introduced- With the symbolic route we used only one actor to play our main character, and emphasize the narrative voice of our opening. He is introduced with a mid shot, throughout most of the opening we only see parts of his body in the corner of the frame; pouring drinks, burning cigarettes etc to present him in a dark light.
9. Special effects- As i mentioned earlier we edited our film by mixing around the shots to create confusion, we put certain clips quicker than others and in different lights, sometimes going backwards to disorient the audience and represent the narrator's unstable state of mind; how he is living in the past by avenging his brother's death.
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Huda Hashi- Question7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
MIS-EN-SCENE
In our preliminary we made many mistakes, for example our film was set in the 50's and our film was also set in an office, however, we didn't manage to cover all the objects around that made it obvious that it was set in a school. At the time of filming we did not realise these errors but we knew that the task was mainly focusing on our camera skills. In our final product we knew the mistakes we made in the preliminary therefore made sure that we prevented it from happening again. In our final piece we didnt focus as much on continuity as the preliminary task, it was more of a montage and just tried to get the audience to get a sense of what genre we're trying to convey. Once we got on to our final product we were aware that the location would be a very important aspect, this was after seeing our preliminary finished. When we spotted out the setting errors we started looking for our perfect location for our opening squence. This took us a while as we had different options but we had to be sure our choice would suit our story well. These pictures to the right show the difference of our preliminary task and final product. The areas highlighted help to illustrate the errors I have mentioned above. The final product print screen demonstrates how we overcame this problem and this was simply but using close up shots instead of mid-shots as used in the preliminary task.CAMERA
I feel like my camera skills improved drastically once we had got to our final task, with help from the preliminary task and practice shots we carried out ourselves as we wanted to be sure that we knew how to use a camera to the best of our ability. In the preliminary task we hand-held the camera. When we were filming our final product we used a tripod and tracks. This was to prevent the camera from shaking, we wanted to make sure we had steady shots. When we did our preliminary we had very little experience with the camera but was very pleased with the outcome of the product, I believed it to be quite impressive for a first mini-task. These print screens show the difference on how well we got the camera to focus by using a tripod. In the preliminary task print-screen the camera does not focus well on the pile of money which I believed caused a bit of distraction to the viewer, by picking up these difficulties it was essential to overcome them in the future. Also in the preliminary task we used the Canon camera which is larger than the Sony Camcorder, we discovered that as we are all rather small it would be much more suitable for us to use the smaller camcorder to prevent from shaking as the larger camera happened to be heavy. This helped us improve drastically from our preliminary task as we did not face these problems during our final product. 
EDITING
I found editing a very interesting part of the process, we used iMovie. I found it straight forward to use as I had used it previously. We had a conversation in our preliminary task, this was somehow difficult as we had to make sure we had every line in. Editing made our product more intrguing to the viewers as we added effects on the colour and the voice of the actress. Once we got on to our final task we were more fimiliar with the Apple computers and iMovie. Our skills developed drastically in our final product. We discovers effects we had not been aware of previously, this was the over lapping effect. I believe that this effect had a major impact on the audiences interest towards the opening squence.
PLANNING
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Planning was a major point in producing our products as we worked as a team we had to keep in contact in order to meet up to work on our project. Both our final and preliminary needed a lot of planning as we had to collect our props and we all had to make sure we had the right props. Planning did not only include meeting up with each-other but also the storyboard, we took pride in planning our narrative for our preliminary task and our final product. However we spent a longer period working on our storyboard for our final task.
This (on the right) is our storyboard for our preliminary task, as you can see we did create a storyboard, however, compared to our final task storyboard this is quite brief. We discovered that a detailed storyboard will help up in producing an outstanding product.
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