Evaluation Task 7

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

Looking back at our preliminary task, i feel that i have progressed from it and learnt a lot more skills. However i also realised how much the mise en scene means and really helps set the scene in the shot. In our thriller we had one tracking shot the whole way through and with the use of our new skills and knowledge we managed to create a back stage effect with the mise en scene. I have also improved on my editing skills, this was helpful in our thriller because we had to use a lot of extra audio to create the effect that there was a large stage very near by. We layered a sound of a crowd cheering to make it sound like there were thousands of people there. We than also added reverb to the sounds to make it sound like he was playing on a huge stage. And if we compared this editing to the one in our prelim task we did hardly anything to the prelim and absolutely nothing to the audio in it. Also with the camerawork the camera ran smoothly and with the improvement of our camera handling we managed to get everything in the shot as well as making it run smoothly.

This is  is one of the opening shots in our prelim task, it is a tracking shot of his feet walking into the room. I am comparing this to the opening shot of the final product that we have made because the are quite similar shots, and this shows how we have improved because of the more controlled and flowing movement.

With regards to the planning an preparing the prelim task, there wasn't much involved however in the main task we knew that to get a really good shot an understanding of how everything is going to work we had to plan a routine for all the actors to know when their cue was to walk across the screen etc. We also needed to rehearse how the camera was going to work around the actors and to get everything in. We had to rehearse this through around eleven times, then we had to have about seven takes of this to make sure that there was a good and decent shot. Also before all of this we made a story board to plan ahead of what we were going to shoot. Our story board was quite tricky at first because we could get our images down on the paper because we weren't good at drawing. But in the end we found someone in our group who was good at art. However in our prelim task we didn't rehearse it once and we only took one shot of everything.

The camerawork between the two tasks are very different in terms of controll and meaning. In the prelim task some of the shot are pointless and meaningless, for example there is a shot where the camera is place up high looking down on the two actors, when we thought of this shot there was no need for this shot to be placed there. We did this because we were playing with the camera and we wern't thinking of what this was for or what it would look like on the the screen. Also for the prelim there is a lot of unnecessary cuts which made the whole scene look very random and out of controll. However in the main task there was a lot more controll and thought behind the one shot which we managed to capture everything in. It ran more smoothly and to capture everything in it was very good.

Overall I am now think about the type of shots which I could start to use and where shots would look good in other places. However I now know that alot of information can be given out in a tracking shot aswell as using sound, editing, camerawork, mise en scene to get your point across. Also by using sound, especially in our thriller you can get a poin across really easily by getting the rigtht sounds and by putting the right effects on the sound.

This is the tracking shot in our prelim task and the one below is the tracking shot in the opening scene of our thriller.






This is the tracking shot in our thriller and you can see that the flow look almost natural coming off from the flight case.

Evaluation Task 6

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

This is our final product with annotations

Evaluation task 5

How did we attract your audience

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Evaluation Task 4

Who would be the audience for our media product?

Our media product is aimed at 15-30 year old's, and targeted at a wide mainstream mixed market. This is based on the action thriller genre. It would be release in the cinemas because we have aimed it at people who go to the cinema which are 15-25, however we also have a secondary audience which is aimed older people  because we thought it would catch their attention as we were inspired by the death of John Lenon when planning our film.

We chose our main actor to represent of an older more established rockstar. We decided to use a more established rockstar because we thought it would work better with the idea of our film. We decided not to have a young actor because it would decrease the amount of people who would come and watch our film, because if we did this this would also bring down the age of people who would watch it. We have decided to have our actor looking like a typical rockstar that a wider range of ages would familiarise.

Evaluation Task 3

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

We decided to use the Vertigo as our institution because of the type of films they have made. The type of film we have made is a low budget film which show reality of backstage at a gig. This is similar to some of Vertigo's films because they show a lot reality. Films such as ‘The Business’, ‘Football Factory‘ and ‘The Firm’ all prove this. Also they are targeted at a male audience as of which are Vertigo films. However our story line is a mystery and is therefore is similar to an american film called 'the Ghost Writer'. This is because it has a similar story line and they are both very thriller like.

 

Evaluation Task 2

How does your product represent particular social groups?

Our final product is influenced by the lifestyle of a rock star because it is very much based around musicians. Therefore this means that we are going to aim it at people who are indugled and really intrested in rock music. Everyone in our thriller you can see that they are into rock music and especially the reporter because she is the main charichter. You can see she is a music lover because of the way she dresses, andthe style of clothing.

Evaluation Task 1

In what way does our product conform to a real media product

This credit is very creative because we have placed it within the scene of our  thriller  and this is an idea of what a real film company would use.

This shot is very good because it captures the two main character just before the incident happens.

Here we have put a credit on top of the clip to show who the music was by. You would see this in a proper film production.

 As you can see from these screen grabs, our product shows a setting of a typical backstage area, because of the props, alcohole bottles, flight cases, clothing, furniture and lots of people creating chaos and commotion. The lighting is quite dark and dingy to set the mood and atmosphere of being back stage at a gig. All of this upholds our expectations of what we would expect a back stage area to be like. You would expect the backstage area to be very neat and tidy and very quite for the rock stars to relax, however in some you would see what we have in our thriller.

Account of shoot day...

We filmed our thriller on Wednesday 26th January. The thing we did first was setting up the set to make it look like what we wanted and most importantly make it look suitable for are thriller. After doing this we then thought about where the tracks for the tracking shot were going to be place so it would look good in the best possible way. After doing this we ran through the shot a couple of times to see if it would work.

The set ended up looking very similar to our original ideas and matched our drawings of the set, in our storyboard and other plans. We tried to make it look like there was a stage coming off from the main stage and that it was quite chaotic backstage with sound engineers and lighting crew moving equipment backstage. Also costume designers there choosing which outfits for the stars to wear. We scattered a lot of random props everywhere to make the scene look realistic and to create an atmosphere, thing such as guitars, flight cases, monitors, drinks and a seating area for the rockers to relax after performing. All of these props together reinforce the fact that it is a typical backstage area where the rock stars are off guard and relaxing.

Our plan was to use about 10 actors, to create chaos and disorder that you expect to see backstage at a gig. On the day of filming we used 12 actors who all had specific parts to create the setting and atmosphere. We had lingerers, groupies, managers, sound engineers, lighting crew, drunken people, costume designers, photographers and journalists.

After all of this was done we then had to make sure that the dolly was fitted properly and that it all ran smoothly and that there were no collisions. There was only one problem which was that one of the areas in the scene on camera was too dark and you couldn’t see what was going on. This was sorted by adding an extra light.

We had to do eight shots to try and capture the perfect secne. We smashed a glass bottle without anyone knowing at the end of the shot where we were going to put the non-digetic sound of the gun shot. We did this so we would get a more realistic reaction for when we put the gun shot in.