Evaluation: Question 6 and 7

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of construction this product? (Q6)
Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from t to the final product? (Q7)

Evaluation: Question 5

How did you address and attract your audience?

Evaluation: Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who would be the audience for your media product from Rosiejayne

Evaluation: Question 3

What kind of media institutions much distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation: Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation: Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop. and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Media SHow Case Speech/ Synopsis

Hello, we are Mac 3. We decided to make our two minuet film opening a psychological thriller. This is because we found out that out age group and above preferred the thriller genre as a whole compared to others. Our narrative is based on two girls who cyber bullied their classmate whose father then aims to get his revenge. As a result on girl is killed, the other is left alive with nothing but a fragmented and broken memory of the incident. If this were a full feature length film, the main character would go on to try and regain her lost memory and find her friends killer. We have been inspired by films such as 'Donnie Darko', 'Shutter Island' and 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'.

Vlog: Show case!

Age certificate

Due to the criteria of the Bffc, we have decided to give our film an age certificate of 15 mainly because it has the possibility for drug use, strong language and threat to the audience and it involves violence and imitable behaviour such as cyber bullying.


We wanted to aim out two minuet opening at young adults and teenagers so the certificate  goes well with the audience we want to target.

Bffc criteria

15 – Suitable only for 15 years

and over

No one younger than 15 may see a

15 film in a cinema. No one younger

than 15 may rent or buy a 15 rated

video work.

Discrimination

The work as a whole must not endorse

discriminatory language or behaviour, although

there may be racist, homophobic or other

discriminatory themes and language.

Drugs

Drug taking may be shown but the work as a whole

must not promote or encourage drug misuse

(for example, through instructional detail). The

misuse of easily accessible and highly dangerous

substances (for example, aerosols or solvents) is

unlikely to be acceptable.

Imitable behaviour

Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide

and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which

could be copied. Whether the depiction of easily

accessible weapons is acceptable will depend on

factors such as realism, context and setting.

Language

There may be strong language. Very strong language

may be permitted, depending on the manner in

which it is used, who is using the language, its

frequency within the work as a whole and any special

contextual justification.

Nudity

There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or

educational context. There may be nudity in a sexual

context but usually without strong detail.

Sex

Sexual activity may be portrayed, but usually without

strong detail. There may be strong verbal references

to sexual behaviour, but the strongest references are

unlikely to be acceptable unless justified by context.

Works whose primary purpose is sexual arousal or

stimulation are unlikely to be acceptable.

Threat

There may be strong threat and horror. A sustained

focus on sadistic or sexual threat is unlikely to

be acceptable.

Violence

Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the

infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images

are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic violence

is also unlikely to be acceptable.

There may be detailed verbal references to sexual

violence but the depiction of sexual violence must be

discreet and justified by context.

Poster

This is the screen shot from out two minuet opening  that we are going to use for the poster for our media show case that will be held on the 16th March. We decided to use this because it is part of the catalyst that causes our main character to lose her memory and it doesn't give to much away about our film.

Fragment Mac 3 Final

Evaluation Criteria

Representaion Of Age in the Media

Youth:
















Elderly:

BFI vlog

Draft 2

This is the second draft of our two minuet opening. We still need to work on the sound and make sure that the Foley matches up with the footage. However, we think it works much better than what we have done before.

The Ambulance footage

In our first draft of our two minuet opening, we wanted to use this footage we filmed for part of the montage sequence but we just couldn't get it to work and made the sequence anti-climatic. However, in our new version of the film opening it does work due to the rearrangement of the shots and makes it look much better than it did before.

LUCY opening credits

The opening credits for this new film 'LUCY' is very similar to what we want to do in our credits, by having the names come up on a black screen. Here it lets the audience focus on both the film and the credit separately. Unfortunately i could not find a video of these opening credits on youtube. 

Title sequence inspiration

Troubles with editing

One of the troubles we have come across when we were re-editing our film opening was that we have found it difficult to fit in the credits with our footage, so we decided to go to a black screen for our credits as it doesn't take any attention away from our footage that way and the audience can focus more on the footage.



Examples of cutting to a black screen in credits:

Editing...

This media lesson we  were given some feed back from the year above us about our two minuet film opening and realised that our two minuet opening wasn't working and something just seemed missing so we decided to rearrange the whole thing.

This time we placed the montage scene shots between the shots form the medical room. we only just started editing it all together but its already looking twice as good as it did before.

more sound that could be used in out opening

This could also be used in our opening for the shots in the alley scene. This 'fuzzy' sound could represent the state of the character's memories as being disjointed, fragmented and broken.

Costume

For our film opening, we decided in the alley scene that we should wear more casual clothes (as you can see in the screen shot below)  as if walking home one night from a friends house or school.

We also used a little fake blood and ketchup for the blood of one of the girls as it was the easiest to get a hold of. the weapon we wanted one of the girls to be killed with was a claw hammer because it is a very common item that most people with have in their garages and we wanted to let the audience know that the murderer was just an ordinary person and not just a cruel killer.




In the medical room scene, I wore my pyjamas since when people are in hospital or in institutions they usually wear comfy and baggy clothing such as pyjamas. Furthermore, my character had just woken from one of her night terrors so it was only appropriate to be wearing pyjamas, and we wanted to make it as realistic as possible.

The Epidemic Sound Player

The non-diegetic sound used in out clip came from a website called The Epidemic Sound Player, where you can download short pieces of music that has no copy-write. The two tracks my group used was Restless Night and Residunn 3.

https://player.epidemicsound.com/?_us=adwords&_usx=uk&gclid=CjwKEAiAjNemBRCgp_vymcvVym0SJACRp_UZpqQmK7mGHhtATadH_KjgIeK3sC9_KBnGxiXX2tO0KRoCV5Dw_wcB

Foley

Foley effects are sound effects added to the film during post production (after the shooting stops). They include sounds such as footsteps, clothes rustling, crockery clinking, paper folding, doors opening and slamming, punches hitting, glass breaking, etc. etc. In other words, many of the sounds that the sound recordists on set did their best to avoid recording during the shoot.

Without Foley, a film sounds empty and hollow - the actors seem to be talking in a vacuum. The sound recordist, if they did a good job, has given us the dialogue and excluded everything else, but our films needs more than this for the picture to come alive. We need to hear the little sounds of clothes, furniture, etc - but we need to control those sound effects so they don't obscure any of the dialogue.

Another common use for Foley sound replacement is adding it to documentary footage. Old historical film seems lifeless when it is screened without sound, and adding foley to it helps bring those long dead images to life. Next time you watch a history documentary that uses silent archival footage, listen closely and you should hear at least minimal Foley sound fx, mostly footsteps, behind the narration.

Foley can also be used to enhance comedy or action scenes. Watch most comedy films and you'll notice that many of the sounds are enhanced for comic effect, and sometimes the Foley sound is the joke. As for action, most fist fights do not involve the actors really hitting each other, and even if they did we would not be able to record a satisfying punch sound. By punching and variously molesting such objects as cabbages, celery and sides of beef, Foley artists can record unique and much more 'realistic' action sounds.

We decided to use foley to make our film opening a lot more realistic and of better quality.

First draft

This is the first draft of our two minuet opening and the deadline to hand it in is next week! we still have a few more things to do to improve and touch it up just a little more such as the sound.

Vlog: Location

Re-shooting...again....

After we spent two hours in a dark alley shooting the montage, and a hour and half after school shooting  the medical room scene, we tried to upload all our footage only to find out our camera had been in the wrong mode the whole time and couldn't upload it to iMovie. So we had to re-shoot everything again. Luckily, this time the camera wasn't in the wrong mode and everything turned out really well! I think that we had gotten much better at filing different angles with all the practice (from the previous filming) and this time our filming was a lot quicker and better than before.

Inspiration from Before I Go To Sleep

Before I Go To Sleep is a psychological thriller and fits into out chosen genre. In this film, the main character suffers with amnesia and brain due to a traumatic event but slowly recovers her memory and the reason she lost it which also makes it a mystery and crime thriller. This theme and story line is very similar to our plot for our film due to theme of memory loss and crime. It also involves many flash backs as the character slowly regains her memory which has inspired our two minuet opening.

Before I Go To Sleep

Forty-year-old Christine Lucas wakes up in bed with a man she does not know, in an unfamiliar house. The man explains that he is her husband, Ben, and that she suffered brain damage from a car accident ten years earlier. Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life from her early twenties onwards.

The Bourne Trilogy

The Bourne films are a series of action/thriller spy films based on the character Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), a CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss who must figure out who he is, created by author Robert Ludlum. The Bourne Legacy introduces a new character, Aaron Cross (Jeremy Renner), a Department of Defense operative who runs for his life because of Bourne's actions in Ultimatum.

Re-shooting the alley scenes

On Sunday, we went back to the alley scene to re-shoot because we found that we couldn't create the night-time look that we wanted through editing so we went to film in the dark. we also felt that the shoots that we had done were not the best either when we watched them all back so we decided to re-shoot. we waited around almost an hour in the alley way for the sun to go down, but in that time we were also able to practice the scenes and angles that we wanted and played around with them a bit more.






However, we found the it hard to film in the dark because of the lighting made it a little difficult so we had to use a torch app on Nicole's phone so we could see better and make the shots a little clearer.








Despite a few problems with the lighting, people staring at us weirdly and my dad jumping out at us in the dark, we all had fun re-shooting this part of our two minuet opening.

Filming Vlog

Troubles with editing...

Recently, while my group and I was editing, we came across a problem with one of our transitions  and couldn't get it to work. We spent almost an entire hour trying to figure out what was wrong but we just couldn't work it out and so we had to Google it to see if there was a solution. Eventually we found out that the text we had on the screen overlapped with the transition and stopped it from working. Now we've got it working we can crack on with the editing!

production company titles

Our Group decided to keep the production company titles very simple because we didn't want to over complicate it and makes it look much nicer, in our opinion, compared to one with a bit more going on.

The Musketeers Opening Titles BBC

Although this doesn't really relate to what my group is doing, I really enjoy this opening sequence and the editing used, for example the number of different transitions. The colour pallet and music used also really set the atmosphere for the show and is really interesting so it makes me want watch more and see what the show is really about.

Ethnicity representation in media

Vlog: Filming Progress

location shots

 This is our schools welfare room and where we plan to do a lot of out filming.

Flashbacks in Film

The creator of the flashback technique in cinema was D.W. Griffith.
Flashbacks were first employed during the sound era in Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 film City Streets, but were rare until about 1939 when, in William Wyler's Wuthering Heights as in Emily Brontë's original novel, the housekeeper Ellen narrates the main story to overnight visitor Mr. Lockwood, who has witnessed Heathcliff's frantic pursuit of what is apparently a ghost. More famously, also in 1939, Marcel Carne's movie Le jour se lève is told almost entirely through flashback: the story starts with the murder of a man in a hotel. While the murderer, played by Jean Gabin, is surrounded by the police, several flashbacks tell the story of why he killed the man at the beginning of the movie.
One of the most famous examples of non-chronological flashback is in the Orson Welles' film Citize Kane (1941). The protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, dies at the beginning, uttering the word Rosebud. The remainder of the film is framed by a reporter's interviewing Kane's friends and associates, in a futile effort to discover what the word meant to Kane. As the interviews proceed, pieces of Kane's life unfold in flashback, but not always chronologically. Welles' use of such unconventional flashbacks was thought to have been influenced by William K. Howard's The Power and the Glory, written by Preston Sturges and released in 1933.


Though usually used to clarify plot or backstory, flashbacks can also act as an unreliable narrator. Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright from 1950 notoriously featured a flashback that did not tell the truth but dramatized a lie from a witness. The multiple and contradictory staged reconstructions of a crime in Errol Morris's 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line are presented as flashbacks based on divergent testimony. Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Rashomon does this in the most celebrated fictional use of contested multiple testimonies.


Sometimes a flashback is inserted into a film even though there was none in the original source from which the film was adapted. The 1956 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's stage musical Carousel used a flashback device which somewhat takes the impact away from a very dramatic plot development later in the film. This was done because the plot of Carousel was then considered unusually strong for a film musical. In film version of Camelot (1967), according to Alan Jay Lerner, a flashback was added not to soften the blow of a later plot development but because the stage show had been criticized for shifting too abruptly in tone from near-comedy to tragedy.
A good example of both flashback and flashforward is the first scene of La jetée (1962). As we learn a few minutes later, what we are seeing in that scene is a flashback to the past, since the present of the film's diegesis is a time directly following World War III. However, as we learn at the very end of the film, that scene also doubles as a prolepsis, since the dying man the boy is seeing is, in fact, himself. In other words, he is proleptically seeing his own death. We thus have an analepsis and prolepsis in the very same scene.


Occasionally, a story may contain a flashback within a flashback, with the earliest known example appearing in Jacques Feyder's L'Atlantide. In John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), the main action of the film is told in flashback, with the scene of Liberty Valance's murder occurring as a flashback within that flashback. Other examples that contains flashbacks within flashbacks are the 1968 Japanese film Lone Wolf Isazo and 2004's The Phantom of the Opera, where almost the entire film (set in 1870) is told as a flashback from 1919 (in black-and-white) and contains other flashbacks; for example, Madame Giry rescuing the Phantom from a freak show. An extremely convoluted story may contain flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks, as in Six Degrees of Separation, Passage to Marseille, and The Locket. This technique is a hallmark of Kannada movie director Upendra whose futuristic flick Super (2010) is set in 2030 and contains multiple flashbacks ranging from 2010 to 2015 depicting a utopian India.


Satyajit Ray experimented with flashbacks in The Adversary (1972), pioneering the technique of photo-negative flashbacks

Christmas blog

The Christmas holidays have given me lots of opportunities to watch films and television programmes that could help with my groups two minuet film opening. I watched the the TV show 'Miranda' and noticed that she breaks the fourth wall quite a often and addresses the audience which takes away the some of the verisimilitude of the show, but this also creates comedic effect.although this is interesting and effective, this is not what my group are after in our opening, so we know not to do this. I also watched 'James Bond: Die another day'. There was a particular scene when the duration of the shots were very fast which made the pace of the scene increase as well as the tension as it has the audience holding their breath, this is similar to one of the Indiana Jones films I also watched over Christmas. We want to create high tension in out opening scene, as it is a psychological thriller, and make our audience hold their breath, so this could be quite useful. However, we want out audience to feel a little more disorientated and not quite know what is going on rather than just feeling high tension like with James Bond.

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