Saturday, 14 May 2011

Evaluation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

9 Frame Analysis


Evaluation Question 2


How does your media product represent particular social groups?






In our opening sequence we do not actually show the main character but use point of shots to show the location that the character is looking at. In our media product we tried to represent the lower social class people. We did this by showing abandoned areas which looked deprived and segregated from the rest of the world. The clothes and cations of the filmed also helped us to do this as most of the people we filmed looked very un-glamorous wearing baggy and cheap looking clothes.





Evaluation Question 3

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


I think that my media product would be distributed by independent distrubution companies such as 'Optimum Releasing' who work with other production companies to distributed films. The reason I think that nonindependent distrubtion companies would distribute my media product is because they normally work with a low budget because the films that they distribute have a limited audience.Optimum Releasing has also worked to distribute film such as ' This is England' which also focuses on raising awareness of social issues. Because of this i would say that independent dirtubutors would be the most ideal institutions to work with. 

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?
Straight away I think that our targeted audience has been limited, this is because if the opening sequence was to actually be part of real film it would be certified as  a working  class film. This means that the budget that they would get for making and distributing the film would be really low because the distribution company would not expecting the film to make a lot of revenue in return as they would expect to market the film to limited audience. For example only marketing the film in the UK and not anywhere else because this is where distribution comapny will make their money from. for our media product  I also think it would be limited in the areas that it is distributed to so i would say that it would mainly be distributed in the UK. This would make out audience British audiences. More specifically i think that this film would relate more to females because it talks about real events and experiences that some woman are put through. the media product I think would be appreciated by lower class social people who can directly / indirectly relate to the story and atmosphere as awareness is made about how people in those environment live. Male audiences would also be able to relate to how the media product is trying to show a deprived society that they can come from. 



Evaluation Question 6

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




I was already quite familiar with the technologies I used and so it was easier for me to understand what needed to be done . From using the Adobe Premiere programme though i learnt more editing skills such as continuity editing. I also learnt how to create title sequence which was something i did not know how to do before.

Evaluation Question 7

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


Its important to remember that with our media class we had difficulties with the first year of doing media A-level because we had no clear directions and help from our teacher. From the preliminary task to the full product , I do not  think that I learn much between them , this is because with our class we had did the A2 work first and then followed it up with the AS work meaning when it came to doing the AS work we had already gained the skills and tecniques to do our AS work properly which I am sure are visible in the media product that we created.


What I did learn though was about the 180 degree rule , match on action and shot/reverse shot. 


The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other


Match on action is a cut made on action or movement between two shots in which the action has been overlapped either by repetition of the action or by the use of more than one camera. 

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?


Our Video was posted on the Vimeo.com website and we are also trying to the YouTube website which is a more popular site for viewing and uploading video. We decided to use internet and specially websites such as YouTube due to an increase in the number of people who use the internet. A large percentage of people now use the internet and a very high number of users use YouTube to view media products which vary in genre. Using these sites made it easier for us to gain feedback from viewers which would be helpful  in finding out if the video was successful in meeting the expectation and interest of targeted audience.  Seeing as we had only posted the video on Vimeo for a short period of time we had not managed to get much views or comments but that is only because it was early days