EVALUATION QUESTION 1

IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

EVALUATION QUESTION 2

HOW DOES OUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

Representation is the way certain social groups are portrayed in the media, a stereotype becomes apparent after years of representation in media and can be positive or negative. Above is a video made on camtasia that shows a breakdown of the footage in our film, it also displays the stereotypes and themes that you would find in our film.

EVALUATION QUESTION 3

WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?




As our sub-genre very specific/ uncommon we felt that in order to ensure our film was successful we felt it was important to identify the specific target audience that we believed our film opening would appeal to, through the plot, characters, music etc. After careful consideration we believed that the main demographic that our film attract would be young black girls aged 16-21 living in deprived areas. Although the opening created in order to uplift black girls and raise awareness of the issues they face in everyday life, in this way it may be susceptible to a wider audience as we address themes of poverty and single parenthood of which can be relatable to those older or younger than the perceived audience.  

I believe our target audience is represented by the three main characters in the film opening; the hoodrat, the teen mum and the young carer. All of which are stereotypes of young black working-class girls and so relate to our target demographic. In addition to this, all three of the main characters are female and so means that the film 
is much more likely to be more popular amongst the male gender as they are all bound to identify with at least one of the three main characters. 

 This is the opening of our film. The fact that it starts with a shot of a very tall flat building kind of tells us what kind of film this is going to be an then I think automatically targets our audience.

The soundtrack to our film would also appeal to this demographic as it is a rap song with r'n'b type singing on the track.This will appeal to our chosen demographic as it is something that they would be interested in and would listen to regularly. We believe by adding the song "All Falls Down" it sums up the message of our film as it conveys struggle. I found the music after searching for copyright free music on creative commons and then soundcloud.

EVALUATION QUESTION 5

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

Promotional Poster for film

So far we have reached our audience with twitter and facebook creating accounts on both, also we have recently released our film opening at a local cinema exclusive to students.

Our film opening has also been uploaded onto vimeo and youtube so our audience can view it easily, and our film will also be given out tostudents in DVD format so they can watch it at home. 

EVALUATION QUESTION 6

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?



 BLOGGER: WE USED BLOG AS THE BASE OF OUR PROJECT, THIS IS WHERE ALL OUR BLOGS WERE POSTED FROM THE START. ALL THE PICTURES, VLOGS OR OTHER TYPES OF MEDIA WERE EMBEDDED OR IMPORTED ON TO BLOGGER.

VIMEO: THIS IS WHERE WE UPLOADED ALL OF THE TYPES OF FILMS WE MADE (PRELIM, SWEDE & FINL PROJECT). THIS ENABLED OTHER PEOPLE TO VIEW THEM.

YOUTUBE: JUST LIKE VIMEO, YOURUBE WAS WHERE WE UPLOADED OR FILMS. HOWEVER, YOUTUBE ALO SERVED AS A SOURCE FOR ANY TRAILERS WE NEEDED FOR FILMS WE WERE EVALUATED, WHICH WE THEN UPLODED ON BLOGGER.

CAMTASIA: WE FIRST USED CAMTASIA WHEN RESEARCHING WHAT KIND OF TEEN FILMS THE STUDENT S AROUND THE COLLEGE LIKED. WE TOOK PARTS OF WHAT WE FILMED EDITED WITH TEXT TO MAKE A SIMPLE RESEARCH MORE INTERESTING. I THEN USED CAMTASIA WHENI ANSWERED QUESTION 2, I TOOK  PARTS OF OUR FINAL PROJECT FILM TO PORTRAY THE CONVENTIONS, STEREOTYPES ETC.

TUMBLR: FOR ME PERSONALLY, TUMBLR IS THE PLACE WHERE I GOT MOST OF MY GIFS, ESPACIALLY FOR MY EVALUATION OF THE TEEN FILM 'BRING IT ON'.

PREZI: PREZI WAS VERY USEFUL WHEN TRYING TO AVOID THE BORING OLD POWERPOINT. IT MADE A SIMPLE PRESENTATION MORE INTERESTING TO LOOK AT. PREZI WAS VERY USEFUL WHEN MAKING AND PRESENTING THE OUR PITCH FOR OUR FINAL PROJECT, IT ENABLED OUR AUDIENCE TO BE ENGAGED AND EVERY ASPECT TO BE INTERESTING. I ALSO USED PREZI FOR ONE OF MY POSTS INVOLVING THE BREAKFAST CLUB.

TIMETOAST: THIS IS PROBABLY THE ONE I USED THE LEAST (TWICE) I HAVE USED FOR MY POST ABOUT THE ORDER OF TITLE SEQUENCE AND TO ANSWER THIS PARTICULAR QUESTIONS. TIMETOASTS ALLOWS YOU TO ORGANISE VARIOUS ASPECTS IN AN ORDERLY WAY.

JVC PRO CAMERA: THIS PROFESSIONAL WAS GIVEN TO US BY THE COLLEGE. IT ENABLED US TO FILM VERY CLEAR FOOTAGE AS WE WERE ABLE TO FOCUS IF NEEDED, THIS HELPED THE END RESULT TO A SUCCESS.

FINAL CUT PRO: WE HAD USED FINAL CUT PRO QUITE A FEW TIMES BEFORE MAKING OUR FINAL PROJECT; ONCE AS PRACTISE, ANOTHER FOR OUR PRELIM, AND THEN AGAIN FOR OUR SWEDE. IT WAS A GREAT HELP WHEN CREATING OUR FINAL PROJECT, IT ALLOWED US TO EDIT OUR FOOTAGE IN A PROFESSIONAL LOOKING WAY WHICH WOULD BE APPEALING TO THE EYE. THIS ALSO HELPED MAKING THE END RESULT A SUCESS.

SOUNDCLOUD: WE COULD'VE GOT THE BACKGROUND MUSIC OF OUR FILM FROM ANYWHERE LIKE YOUTUBE, BUT THE MUSIC ON SOMEWHERE LIKE YOUTUBE WOULD'VE BEEN COPYRIGHT, SO WE WERE NOT ALLOWED. THE MUSIC ON SOUNDCLOUD HAS EITHER BEEN EDITED OR REMIXED SO IT IS OKAY TO USE.

MOTION APPLE: THIS IS WHAT WE USED TO MAKE THE INDENTS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION & PRODUCTION COMPANY.THIS MADE IT POSSIBLE TO MAKE OUR OPENING AS A WHOLE LOOK PROFESSIONAL AND REALISTIC AS THOUGH IT WOULD BE PLAYED IN THE CINEMA

VLOGS: IN ORDER TO KEEP OTHERS UP TO DATE WITH OUR PROGRESS WHILST FILMING,EDITING,ETC, WE MADE GROUP VLOGS EVERY TIME WE COULD, SHORT VIDEOS TO KEEP EVERYONE UP TO DATE. I ALSO MADE AN INDIVIDUAL VLOG WHEN UPDATING THE BLOG USING MY IPHONE. ALL OUR VLOGS WERE FILMED ON MY IPHONE 5, APART FROM ONE WHICH WAS FILMED ON PHOTOBOOTH ON THE MAC LAPTOP.

IPHONE 5: MY IPHONE WAS VERY USEFUL AND HELPFUL TO OUR GROUP, IT ALLOWED US TO MAKE VLOGS ON THE GO, ALL THE TIME. THANKS TO ITS GOOD QUALITY FRONT CAMERA, THE VLOGS CAME OUT CLEAR - SOUND AND IMAGE.

EVALUATION QUESTION 7

LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PROJECT?

WE DID IT!!!

 We finally finished our media project, it's been a LONG journey but we made it (Thank you Jesus).

With the help of my iPhone :D

 Nearly all of the the vlogs and pictures which we took whilst filming and then posted on the blog were taken on my iPhone5. My phone came of a great help as this allowed us to keep track of and showcase our filming experience.

One of the vlogs I made of myself whilst I was adding posts to the blog, was filmed on my iPhone aswell. However, this vlog was edited and looked a bit more fancy, I used the app called iMovie(which can be downloaded on the appstore) in orederr to add transitions and effectss. 

Fun in the editing suite!

 Grace and Bernice taking 'selfies' to liven up the mood in the editing suite.

 Once again, with Gizem...

HARD WORK IN THE EDITING SUITE!!!!

Sophie was busy editing our film on the computer whilst I used the laptop(right corner) to blog at the same time.

Editing the opening of our film.

LITTLE CHIT CHAT

ORDER OF TITLES OF OUR TITLE SEQUENCE

Below is the correct order our title will be presented in the film along with all the crew members names. Not all titles are included because we are not big production film, so not every title was necessary (like Music Supervisor). We decided to put or real names in our title sequence considering we are unknown and it is our film, but created fake names  for the crew members even though we did everything ourselves.

Production Ident- Area 51 Productions

Distribution Ident-  Big Tweet Films

(followed by names in title sequence)

Production Name - Area 51 Productions

Distribution Name - Big Tweet Films

Film Title- Sistas

Actor 1- Bernice Mulenga

Actor 2- Grace Moulongui

Actor 3- Shardonnay Hinds

Casting- Jenny Irish

Costume- Abigail Green

Music by- Mark Fuller

Edited by- Sophie Douglas

Production Designer- Bella Dela Cruz

Director of Photography- Benedicty Sukama

Executive Producer- Sheldon Roy Lee

Written by- Adeline Jonai

Director- Camille Jean-Marie

ROUGH CUT FEEDBACK

FEEDBACK :

The split screen was an idea we planned to do from the start but, having seen how our shots looked on split screen made our film look 'messy' and 'confusing, which is not what we want at all. Also one of our characters scene was too dark due to a filter accidentally being on when we were shooting and as stated on another blog post we will redo the shots, as it just makes the clip look very dysfunctional.  

WHAT WE WILL DO NEXT:

On a whole our shots are clear and have good lightning even though we have some minor troubles that will be fixed. We have decided to not have split screen throughout our film, as it was confusing and also the shots for each character were too long or short and so they would end at different times. We will not scrap the split screen idea completely, we have decided to have a split screen put with a different approach.

ROUGH CUT

EDITING PROCESS

Sophie and Shardonnay are in the editing suite finalising the rough cut.

They attempted to make the whole opening a split screen of all three characters at the same time, however we were told by our media teacher that this did not look professional and it was "messy". This means that we will have to spend more time in the media editing suite in order to change the opening to a match cut of the different characters.

EDIT SO FAR: FIRST SCENE

At this point, we have the first scene of our first character(the hood rat) almost fully edited, all that is missing is the background music. This will be added when we have completely edited the whole film. For now this is a preview of what has been done ...

BLOG UPDATE

ON THE SET - DAY 3 VLOGS

BEHIND THE SCENES

ON THE SET - DAY 3

BEHIND THE SCENES: RE TAKE OF SCENES

After reviewing our footage, we realised that some of the shots were quite dark, maybe too dark cut and edit. This meant that we had to take out the equipment (camera & tripod), but this time we had to take out an extra light, on another day in order to get better footage.

Grace at the top of the stairs, waiting to be filmed

Sophie filming Grace from the top of the stairs with the light at the top of the camera