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These are the ideas that me and josh came up with when we looked back at our preliminary task, and what we feel that we have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Who would be the audience for your media product?/How did you attract/address your audience?
The target audience that we will have aimed our product at would be people aged between 13-19 this is because we feel that people of these ages will be able to relate to the story line the best and will be able to understand the true meaning of the film because the plot of the story happens in day to day life maybe not as sever as mugging someone in a ally but there is a lot of bullying that happens at school these days so people that may have gone through it some point in their life we feel will be able to relate to the plot of the story they best.
Also I feel the our product might appeal to people between the ages of 20-29 because I feel people of these ages will like the crime genre the best so they will look at the trailer and because they know it is a film involving crime and this in my opinion will make people of these ages want to watch it because they are at the ages that like the crime genre the best as an overall age group.
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Within the film industry there are many different distributers that can show and promote your film that you made. A few examples of the big major companies are Disney or 21st Century Fox, but you can also have you film shown on TV on channels like channel 4 which shows repeats on the film once it has been released on DVD.
Having said all of it this it is extremely unlikely that any of these companies will want to distribute our product because we are not big enough in the film industry for any of the ‘big dogs’ to show our film on the big screen.
The kind of place we should look to distribute our product is on a fairly successful YouTube channel, with hopefully a couple thousand subscribers, this will ensure our film will get seen by people and it will allow us to get feedback because YouTube has a comments section at the bottom of the videos that have been posted, and I think we will be able to use this as a stepping stone so that hopefully the next films made will be seen by more and more people.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The technology that was used in order to research ways which will feel will help create the best piece that we possibly could, was the internet, this was used in order to gain research of the genre of film that we intended to create in order to try and make our film the best we best we could and we felt if we had a good understanding of the genre then this would aid us in creating our piece.
I feel I have learnt a lot about technology during this process of making our own film, I have learnt a lot about camera’s and how to use them during making this film, I have also learnt how to use them in a way to create that shots that make the character look vulnerable or powerful and have learnt many more.
I have also learnt how to do basic editing on a computer, I wasn’t the main editor but I edited certain clips in this process and I helped during the final edit of our piece and I learnt a range of skills to use while editing in order to create tension in a certain part of the film or create a sense of confusing and i didn't realise that you could do this all with editing, so even though I didn't use very many of these skills that i learnt mainly in creating my preliminary piece I still learnt how to use them and i didn't realise how important editing can be in a film.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
This is the final edit that me and my group have produced for our film Trojan.
Progress on our filming
We have been unable to film due to various reason, but in the time that we havent been filming we have successfully planned out our pratical task and will be finished filming in the coming weeks.
this is our group discussion task for our film opening. I had to do a little editing but this is us talking through our main ideas for the piece.
The storyboard for our project showing the range of shots we are looking to use.
The storyboard for the piece.
The story board for our Media Project
“Trojan” The Screenplay
“Trojan”
Screenplay by
Josh Waldman
Scene 1.
Scene 1.
Scene starts in a police car, unnamed criminal sitting in the back, darkened face wearing a black hoodie. Establishing that the character shown is a criminal.
All that can be heard is diegetic car sounds and radio music. The music being suspenseful and quiet, helping set the mood for the film.
The unknown criminal is then shown from behind before a POV shot looking down at his hands bearing handcuffs. The radio is turned down to hear the criminal narrate.
TYLER
How has this happened, it was all thought out?
He clenches his fists, adjusting the handcuffs and lets out a sigh.
Camera goes to a high angle shot of the car.
TYLER
I did my part; all I had to do was dump the knife and run. How could I get that wrong? It was such an easy score, A.B’s Minimarket. We should have looked for that bloody alarm, such a dumb mistake.
Fades into a flashback of the robbery, with a close-up of Tyler and the music stops. An establishing shot of the shop with Tyler and Jordan.
Tyler and Jordan enter the shop and up to the counter.
Tyler points to the till whilst Jordan looks around the shop looking for cameras, alarms and exits.
TYLER
How much cash you got in there?
JORDAN
(Shouting) There’s a camera over there, and the door we came out of.
SHOP OWNER
Get out of my shop!!!
The shop owner reaches his hand towards the phone. Tyler ruffles his hands out of his pockets holding a knife.
TYLER
I’d keep my hands were I can see them if I were you!
The shop owner opens the till that only has £20 in.
JORDAN
Hand it over.
Tyler points the knife at the shop owner who nervously takes the money out of the till and puts it on the counter.
TYLER
Grab it Jordan!
Jordan reaches over to the money, grabs it and walks away. Tyler stays for a couple of seconds holding the knife.
JORDAN
Run Ty!
Jordan backs away and the two leave the shop. Behind the two you can see the shop owner pick up the phone.
Jordan and Tyler walk to the corner of the street.
TYLER
You take the money; go to the alley by yours. I’ll take the knife and get rid of it. Just don’t get caught.
JORDAN
I know what I’m doing! You’re the rookie here.
Sirens can be heard
JORDAN
Run the cops are coming!
Tyler drops the knife on the corner and Jordan runs off in one direction leaving Tyler.
TYLER
Shit!
Tyler then runs off leaving the knife on the floor. Chase scenes of both Tyler and Jordan on the way to their hideout with intense music in the background.
Tyler falls over a crack on the floor, the scene goes silent and the screen goes black.
Jordan is standing in the alleyway waiting for Tyler. He pulls out his phone to check the time.
JORDAN
This is the place, isn’t it? He surely didn’t get caught.
The scene fades into a close-up of Jordan narrating. Slow quiet music to accompany the narrating.
JORDAN
I’m sorry Ty, I did my part, and you just couldn’t get away.
Tyler walks up to the police station with a police station. Slow music builds up.
JORDAN
It all happened too quickly.
Jordan looks at the money in his hand.
JORDAN
Was it worth it? 20 quid and now you’re locked up.
Jordan stops narrating and the music stops.
JORDAN
I’ll get you out Ty!
Screen blacks out and goes to the credits of ‘TROJAN’.
Our script for our A-Level Media project
Analysing Shawshank Redemption Opening
· Establishing shot of the house
· Camera pans across to the car
· Steady cam moves around in a 182 degree motion focusing on the protagonist-Andy
· Starts with credits
· Mood music-depressing/ non diegetic sound of clinking of the bullets and bottles
· Focus is instantly on the protagonist
· Close up of the gun, bullets and the alcohol set enigmas for the audience
· Clearly an old song that is on the radio and this places the film into historical context
· Mise en scene, cars and costumes also places the film into historical context
· Close up of Andy drinking with a disturbed look on his face
· Sound breech where the court room scene starts and you can hear the lawyer speaking but you can still scene the other scene
· Another close up of his face and there is an American flag in the background and you now start to realise they are in a court room
· The music is still building tension
· Then there is shot reverse shot
· Flash back of Andy with the lawyer still talking over it
· Slow zoom in on Andy when he is talking about what happened that night
· Another flash back of him holding the gun
· Close up of his foot which makes another enigma
· But then he drops the bullets on the floor
· The slow zoom in on Andy makes you think he is guilty
· Close up on the judges face with a slow zoom out and then a slow zoom in on Andy’s face follows so you can see his reaction
· The screen then goes black and then that’s that
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A sample of our responses to our questionnaire
Once looking at our feedback, we have decided that we wanted to change the genre of our piece to crime. This was a group decision made as we felt that despite the fact that we enjoy the exhilarating factor of action films, we felt that a crime film suited our ability.
Our updated questionnaire
Media Paper Questionnaire
Please circle the correct answer
How old are you? 0-10 11-15 16-20 21-30 31-50 50+
Gender? Male Female
What level of education are you currently at? Primary School Secondary School College/6th form University Post Graduate
How far do you commute to work-school? 0-30 mins 30mins-1hr 1-2hrs
How high is your current income/What do your parents currently do? Low Average High N/A / _____________________________
How do you like to spend your leisure times? Going to the library Going to the cinema Socialising Shopping Video gaming Watching TV
Where do you live? ______________________________
Who are some of your favourite actors/actresses? __________________________________________________________________________________
What type of shots do you expect to see in a crime film? __________________________________________________________________________________
What style of credits do you like in a crime film? _________________________________________
What type of soundtrack do you like in a crime film? _______________________________________
What enigmas should be set in the first four minutes? ______________________________________
Media Paper Questionnaire (Crime)
This is an example of my media questionnaire.
This is an updated verson of the first media questionnaire. Based on further feedback we have decided to change to a crime genre for our final piece.
Please type where appropraite:
Who are some of your favourite actors/actresses within the crime genre?
__________________________________________________________________________________
For a crime related film, what style of credit would you like/expect to see?
__________________________________________________________________________________
For a crime related film would you expect the beggining to be mid way through an enquiry or possibly in the midst of the crime. ______________________________________________________________
If the beggining of the film was mid way through an enquiry what type of soundtrack would you expect to play? (Fast, slow and the sound building up for example).
____________________________________________________________
If the beggining of the film was in the midst of the crime what type of soundtrack would you expect to play? (Fast, slow and the sound building up for example).
______________________________________________________________
Do you believe that an investigator is required (such as Sherlock Holmes) in a crime related film? If so what type of charecteristics should they have?
______________________________________________________________
If yes to the above do you think introducing the character in the opening scene is a good idea?
______________________________________________________________
Are there any steriotypical things that are in crime films that would not be needed in your view?
______________________________________________________________
How many characters do you expect to see in the opening and do you expect to see the protagonist and/or the antagonist?
______________________________________________________________
Are there any other things that you would expect to be in a crime film?
______________________________________________________________
Shooting Schedule
Tuesday 24th November: 10:00-1:00_Shots 1-3
Wednesday 25th November: 11:00-1:00_Shots 4-5
Thursday 26th November: 1:30-4:30_Shots 6-9
Friday 27th November: 11:30-1:00_Shots 10-11
Tuesday 1st December: 10:00-1:00_Shots 12-13
Thursday 3rd December: 1:30-4:30_Shots 14-15
Friday 4th December: 11:30-1:00_Shots 16-17
Tuesday 8th December: 10:00-1:00_Shots 18
Thursday 10th December:1:30-4:30_Shots 19
We asked two fellow students, Alfie and Oliver to give us some feedback on our preliminary task.
I felt the feedback was great to hear and that we take on board the fact that we needed some sounds to accompany it. This would be something we would do to improve our piece if we were to go back to it.