Steph's AS Media: Presentation

presentation

Audience feedback

Thankfully we had no negative feedback so far and people seemed to really enjoy our product, we displayed out product on facebook and the media blog to friends and class members. we posted our media product on the blog about a month ago and around 3 weeks on facebook, certain people who commented were infact media students and commented on the range of effects we used. 

Daniel Robson Carr :source - face book

 Daniel Robson-carr This is great.... the intro is quite mysterious... the strange camera angles are really effective, the out of focus look when the person is talking adds to that whole mystery thing, the sepia look on some shots are really good. giving snap shots of the clips are god leaves the audience wanting to watch more. the music really works. Gives it a whole personality and charcter to it.

Nathan Johnson : source - face book 

Nathan Johnston music and sound affects comploments the gray scale amazingly, like the clash of gray scale to coloure near the end, amazing peice of senari footage. 

Manny Varraich ( media student in year 12) - source - facebook

Its awesome. I think the colour works really well with the music and effects. Love to seee th rest of the film :-DD

Stephanie AS Media: Presentation

Written commentary

Written commentary

Our media product is around 3 minutes including titles and the logo. Our titles were planned to be all white but some showed up very poorly against certain clips, so we had a range of black and white, so the audience could see them clearly. Especially when we were watching them in front of the class on a big screen. A lot of the titles were supposed to be over the clip, but visibility was very poor so we used a fade from the clip to black and then used our titles, which really helped it to enhance it better.

Our logo, we had to include some sound affects over the top of the logo. Lucky, the people who produced our soundtrack already had a known logo and we had permission to be able to use that in our project thanks to Imogen’s brother. As the logo, was Fyreon, it seemed appropriate to include a fire image to make the logo seem more attractive.

Alex Lang, the second female actor, helped us with the voiceover, which was recorded on a basic audio recorded as some of the cameras were not available, but we think it fits in well.  We put this into our project because there was a lot of background noise and it gave the story a clearly plot. Alex Lang is the classical teenager in horror films for being in the age limited of 16-20 and having bright blonde hair. This also gives in to another stereotype of blonde people; it is also a physical trait often associated with "bimbos," attractive but unintelligent or uneducated women.

The Detective scene wasn’t added until the very end and was purely because of film didn’t make a lot of sense. Just using a small 30-40 second long interview with the detective really help use to build up the basic storyline for the audience to understand it better.  Also, adding this clip in, using a male lead, made the younger female characters looks even more vulnerable.

First clips from field to horse saddle, these clips were played with some of the detectives voiceover played to keep the audience having to listen and concentrate on the storyline. The Horse riding down the sand was a very long clip, so we used fade ins and fade outs to make the clip seem faster and have a better flow so the audience didn’t become bored.  We did however, want to reshoot some of this clip, but it was so hard to keep the continuity the same and the horse was becoming very agitated and wary of the camera.  Also, most horses are kept in countryside, which is also in the middle of nowhere, where people are more likely to go missing.

When Sam (the first actor) looks in the bushes, this is where our soundtrack beginnings to play into the movie, the killer seems to be able to get her very easily, suggesting teenagers are very vulnerable and to young really to be trusted by themselves. The social group it is generally based around youth, it is generally a negative connotations.

The clip were the murdered attacks Alex, it didn’t look very realistic so, we played this certain clip in slow motion. When Alex was in the bushes, a few of our shots we hand held, because the tripod could not balance in the woods, so we had to be careful to keep it steady and not shaky. I really like the ending of our film, with the music quietly playing the background and the victim’s phone ringing creates a really good vibe for the film. We then used a variation of zooms. 

Media commentary

Bloopers of our movie

1 - more detailed

1. How does your media project:

Use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

I think our media project looks much more professional since we have added the studio logo and soundtrack. It creates a much more expert feel about the overall movie. We added in our own design of music and title credits, we also studied real movies to see how they set out there titles and the font, colour they used for there examples.  The titles really gave our movie a much more expertise experience. If the movie did not have titles, it would be hard to notice if it was a movie rather than just a clip.

The majority of media products are created in established and repeated ways. Film products are governed by certain predictable narrative features, what was very important is the dress and props in a film.

In ours, one of the actors is clearly riding a horse and we were considering not making the actor wear a hat because teenagers never really seem that concerned about safety. But for health and safety reasons it was necessary. The other actor “Alex”, however is wearing a much more casual dress sense which hopefully the audience will see as fitting in with their age range. 

Represent particular social groups?

It represents teenagers are being very vulnerable and weak, which is generally the stereotype from most films.

The interview at the beginning our film is a strong male lead, which shows males as being either stronger or more dominant. As he is more dominant and older, it makes the teenagers look more like children and they still need taking care off.

The social group it is generally based around youth, however, it is generally a negative connotation of teenagers being unintelligent and not really thinking about the consequences of danger – for example, going looking for a missing friends by themselves. 

However, the main characters being so young and vulnerable may restrict parents from wanting to watch in cause there child could end up in that situation.

Also, as it is to be rated at least a 15, the elderly may be put of it will include foul language and maybe gory scenes.