Our Media studies opening sequence `12 weeks to heaven` uses, develops, and challenges real forms and conventions of real media products in the way in which it is produced and in the way in which it represents real life situations.
1) Our product uses real conventions such as the 'universal' logo which comes up and this happens in every film and then it gets straight into the movie. It also follows the forms of real media products as it follows the conventions of a real life film in the way in which the camera is very focused on the main character and the style is micro themed in which the planning was done in a very serious tone as the subject is of death which is not seen as a joke unless it’s a humour based film. It challenges the way in which real life media products are done as it is not a whole based plan as we only planned the first two minutes of the film not the whole film so we do not know everything that is going to happen in the film but only the first two minutes. The way in which the film has been developed has been based on real life as our film is about a man facing death in 12 weeks and to develop this in a serious way we had to copy the ways in which real media products do this.
So we had to film the actor speaking without in other noises there had to be a lot of silence as far as diegetic sounds went, however this did not include the sad music which increased the mood; the setting had to look dull and almost sad and we had to make sure we got a miserable impression of the characters life which we did in how we filmed it.
2) Our media product represents no particular social group as a whole as there are only two people in our opening film but they represent two kinds of different social groups. The nurse represents someone who is caring and kind as she is devlerving news that no one wishes to hear which is death to represent that she is kind we showed her as a nurse and nurses are seen as kind as they are there to help so she was in her nursing clothes she also had a gentle voice which we made sure off as the volume is lower. She also represents concern as she has to make a painful phone call which will change our main character Ryan’s life forever and she speaks to him kindly and with a voice of concern even though he is rude towards her. We show this by zooming in her after he is rude and it show her facial expression has not changed despite him being rude. Ryan is represented as a bum as we film his room which is a tip and we film his kitchen which is also a mess and we zoom in on his fly to show its un done and this act represents no hygiene and is viewed as disgusting we also zoom in on his rent bill which has expired which represents he is poor and out of money.
3) The type of media institution that would show our product would be one that usually shows serious film topics so possibly BBC films of Film Four films as they show a lot of British based films which are serious life drama. We would say it would be one of these two as in the past they have distributed films similar to ours and also because it is based in Britain; British people might be keen on watching it as they maybe be able to relate to it for personal reasons.
4) Our audience without a doubt would be both sexes preferably males who are ages 20-30 as it is about a 30 year old man however teenagers could be targeted as well as the topic choice could appeal to them . The age group would be targeted as Ryan is 30 years old and people between the ages of 20-30 might be interested as this kind of thing could happen to them and males particularly as the percentage of young death is male more than female.
5) Our product attracted our audience by making our film about a topic that affects more or less everyone but by making it attract the age group we have chosen we made our Character in his 30s so people would know they were similar of age to him. Also in the way we filmed the surrounding setting of a normal flat that anyone could live in but also messing it up as it is a stereotype that men are messy.
Here are some screen shots which we took from films which we employed in our own
6) We have learnt that filming is not so easy as it is not all it’s made out to be which is getting a camera filming people and then putting it on YouTube. Indeed it’s much more you have to upload your film on to a USB stick then upload it on premiere adobe film programme and edit it cut and add sound to your film. The technology is also very advanced as there is so much that you are able to do on it like cut fast track edit there is allot of variety available to you. It took us a while to do it as we had to get use to it but overall it took us just over four hours to do it all and to finalise it all.
We have learnt that making a film is not as easy as people may think as there is far more work and effort that goes in to making a film but not just making but making it good entertainment and good for people to watch. You have to devote allot of time and energy into this product and you have to make sure you aim your goal by putting in the effort we have also learnt the obvious such as how to film edit and have improved my knowledge of media technology.
7) Our preliminary task was a good learning point compared to this task as it was not as serious as this and we did not how to use the programme as well then however it helped us get it used to it and make this final project a success. We have learned new techniques of filming as well as the rather obvious and embarassing fact that not actually putting ourselves in the film ensures that we get more of what we want once we are done filming.
8) Feedback we got for our video said; Good one. The music and the setting perfectly match together. You achieved to construct tension and you make interested audiences want to see more of your stories.The colours are rather dark, but that's good because it represents the sadness. By the way - Good title for your project. and Patrick and Jamie's video was very good. The story line was great and the cross cutting between each character during the phone conversation is very good. :) Tolu
From our feedback we decided we could work on making the shots better and using more of a varietey when taking shots, I'd try also to make sure that my shots were not as shaky. I'd also spend more time working on the sound so that the music isn't quite so loud and the dialogue and other diegetic sounds are louder so there is more of a balance like in a real film, whereas in our film it is really loud with the music and then it goes quieter at the dialogue which makes it sound a lot louder compared to the rest of the video. We also origionally had a different shot of Mori waking up in a room up in Altyre House where the previous shots were filmed, however Mrs Downes pointed out as we were watching it that the light which came straight through the window and shone on the camera made the image look "furry" as she put it. So we quickly went to Round Square House to film a replacement shot, which is why if you look closely you will notice quite easily in fact that Mori wakes up in a different room that he is later filmed in taking the call telling him he is going to die.
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