Evaluation - unfinished

The task in hand was to choose a genre and produce the beginning two minutes of a film including titles, production logo and appropriate music, dialogue and editing. My chosen genre was Romance. My reason for choosing this genre was because i believed i could succeed more as i could relate to romance and it interested me.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
We decided to start our piece with the two main characters meeting. This usually happens in romance films as it creates irony for future events. We wanted to make it easy to establish who the main characters were right at the beginning of the film. We used camera angles and shots to show the diversity of the two characters. By using more of high angled shot on Sean (jack) it showed how he was the more dominant of the two. In the film we see Roxie as a younger girl being bullied by the other main character Sean. As they step outside he cruelly trips her over in front of a group of girls, who all laugh hysterically. Once again Roxie is shown on the floor and the other students are stood up looking down at her. This also shows that she is lower than them, not as popular or powerful. This is a form of bullying and many people experience bullying in their lives or in fact are bully’s themselves. We thought the audience would be able to relate to this.

We did a lot of research on our film genre and this enabled to use different media conventions. We did a lot of editing after our filming to make sure our film looked realistic and professional. Using techniques such as fade in and fade out on the titles made the film run smoothly and gave us the effect we wanted. We also added sub titles such as the one that said 'six years later' this was so the film was clear to audience as we went from past to present. Non diegetic music also helped the understanding from past to present. Non diegetic music was also used so that we could create a feel good lively vibe as the character Roxie was just waking for work. We thought this music would reflect our chosen genre. We also used a slow motion part when Roxie fell. This was to exagerate the emotion and impact of the fall so the audience would feel sympathy for her. This was very effective although we could of done with editing the audio out on this part of the film. When introducing the actors name we again used fade in and fade out. The texts came above when the characters were shown on screen this is used alot in other movies so i thought it gave our film great success.

My chosen audience for this film was teenagers and young adults. I felt i could use my knowledge more as i'm a teenager myself, to give the audience what they wanted. I acheived this by using appropiate conventions in my film. By using young actors i was able to create a connection from the characters to the audience. I wanted the characters to appeal to the audience more otherwise the plot wouldn't have been as effective.

After looking back at my preliminary task i feel i have excelled more. My editing has increasingly improved as i now understand how to achieve the effects i want and how to do it. I also believe the shots are more thought out this time and give the film more meaning and continuity. Also in the preliminary task i was involved in the acting where as this time i wasnt. This helped me give more authority in what i wanted the actors to do and helped me focus on what i wanted to be seen on the screen. I was very happy with my filming of the main character waking from her sleep as i did the zoom out perfectly and the shots cut exactly where needed be.

Our plot line is similar to that off thirteen going on thirty and thats why i think many people would find it enjoyable.

Next time i would think more carefully i would think more about the plot line as we had alot of slip ups that we had change. This prevented us from being able to concentrate on fully on the filming as we was short on time. Lacking actors we had to change the plot from a party scence at the beggining to the sixth form centre. Although this did work out just as effective.