MAIN Post 12.7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

In this section of my evaluation i have been asked to look back on my preliminary task and compare it to my final opening sequence and comment on what i have learnt or improved on.

Compared to our preliminary task our idea this time was a lot more complex

I used a better variety of shot sizes a including low angle shot which I didn't use in my preliminary task. One of the main points to our preliminary task was developing our skills on continuity, we did find some problems with continuity in our opening sequence as we had quite a few jump cuts but likely its conventional of romantic comedies to have jump cuts so when it came to editing we were able to add titles and edit out all of the continuity problems and replace them with jump cuts.

I also developed my skills further on the editing suite and learnt how to edit the lightening of the shot by making it darker or lighter. Because a lot of our shots were quite dark we had to learn how to lightening them the picture above shows us using the software to lighten the clip we wanted.

 

    

In our preliminary we didnt have any opening credits with music, so in this task it was a new experience learning about what music we were allowed and what we weren't. I learnt that all music that artist sing are copy-righted unless they are on a website. You can also buy cd's with uncopy-righted music on them but we had a problem when we thought the music from the cd was un-copyrighted but we found out it was already owned, so from that experience i now know to double check and be extra carefull wether the music is copy-righted or not.

MAIN Post 12.6:What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We had to learn how to use the camera and tripod safety as once we had the equipment we had full responsibility and learning the skills with how to use it would minimise the equipment breaking. I had some previous knowledge of how to use the tripod and camera, I had a little knowledge on how to use the editing suite but I developed my skills I learnt how to add a soundtrack, change the lighting make it brighter and how to cut sound and replace it with other sound. I also learnt her to take pictures of the whole room and put them together to make it look like you can see around the whole thing. And finally how to use a flip camera.

We also used internet technologies these have been highly helpful such as Youtube, without the use of youtube we wouldn't of been able to do research for romantic comedies and we wouldnt have been able to but our finished products and focus groups on our blog as we need youtube to upload them too. We also used Divx to upload the opening sequence to first to make it small enough to fit on to youtube as they are a big file. An also very important technology is Blogger it self this has been where we have put up all of our work, at times some things havent worked on her but it has been helpful to use as our work will also be on here and you cant lose it. Google has also been used a lot for research and finding pictures for the blog and just genrel information. I used unsigned band web to find music that isn't copy-righted, it allowed you to pick genres and that helpped so you can find exactly what you want. I used microsoft word to write all of my blog and to save pictures, in also used powerpoint to make mood boards and to save pictures to a jpg file so i can upload it which is a skill i have learnt.

MAIN Post 12.5:How did you attract/address your audience?

This part of our opening sequence attracts our audience as it is an enigma they want to know what happens with the love interest and whether the boss says anything about the text and what will happen in the film and rest of the opening sequence




Throughout the opening sequence we have our main character getting ready and this will also attract the audience as they will want to know what is she getting ready for.

Our titles are also good for attracting the audience as they are bright and colourful and will interest the audience




Our music also helped to attract the audience as it is catching and makes the opening sequence seem fun and quirky it also helps on adding suspense to see where the rest of the opening sequence is going.




To get audience feedback on our film we went around school too find people that were free at the time which fitted to our target audience. We found 3 girls who were either 16 or 17 which was the youngest band of our age range. Also whilst editing we showed some students who happened to be around to give some feedback 1 was and 18 year old girl and the other 19 year old boy.

From analysing the guidelines on the http://www.bbfc.co.uk/download/guidelines/BBFC%20Classification%20Guidelines%202009.pdf website and comparing them to our opening sequence I have decided that our opening sequence is a 12a this is because of the swearing in the title sequence, because it has moderate swearing it wouldn't be suitable for children under 12 unless the adult with them thinks its suitable for them to watch, our opening sequence has no violence,drug use, nudity,sexual scenes, violence, horror or imitable behaviour.
                                                                     

MAIN Post 12.4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our Romantic Comedy involve a young women, as the main character is a young women this immediately targets women of the same age about young teens to mid 20's maybe 30's. Romantic Comedies are a lot more popular with women then men you do get a small percent of men watching them due to them being the partner of the girl watching it. Our target audience would be interested in fashion as the main character has a job at a fashion magazine so there would be a lot about her job in the film. Also people who enjoy love stories would be among our target audience and people who enjoy funny things and laughing.






This girl is 19 for example she looks after her looks and obviously cares about her image, she will be at university, college or may even have a job and would have friends mixture of girls and boys the same age she might have a boyfriend the same age or a bit older this would help he related to the romantic parts of the film. She'll probably live with her parents or at university. 

MAIN POST 12.3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The production company always are responsible for the physical production on the film this means they will make the film, sometimes the production company help with raising or funding the money for the production.


There are ways that you can fund for the making of a film the first way is to make an application for a fund from funding production scheme like the UK Film Council they will give you money as they want to keep a wide variety of British films New Cinema have helped them to make funding possible. Another way is looking at charities many charities fund films as well. And once your film is made you can receive further funding from you film appearing in Film Festivals.


I would want SONY to distribute my film. This is because SONY is a massive company who have had many other companies converge with them for instance coca-cola, due to them having many other companies joined with them it would be easier to have my film advertised so SONY could ask to include information about our film on the coca-cola products this would boost our audience widely. SONY also has SONY games and music so it could also include information about our films in their games or on music products. SONY have distributed many popular romantic comedies such as 50 first dates, The ugly truth and made in Manhattan.

To be realistic I would like Revolution Studios to distrubuite my film. They distrubuited 13 Going on 30 so have experience with romantic comdies and the Little Black Book. Revoultion studios are also a good choice as Sony work with the films as well ensuring a more stable distrubuition as more companies will be able to give more advice and their expertese.I would hope that Revolution would pick up my film to distrubuite.

MAIN POST 12:2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Here our character is wearing a patterned top

highwaisted skirt and blazer.

The other side she is wearing her pyjamas

 

Here we have 2 different characters from film both  pictures represent our characters personality

Our character is like a young version of bridget jones, she is clumsy this is shown through her falling over and things just not going right. She lives on her own but has a boyfriend her bedroom with all her things in it and messy represents her un-organised single life she doesnt have to think about anyone else.  Both these characters are in there sleepwear this represents there care free life and lazyiness.

Our character works for a fashion magazine and she takes her job seriously, this is like the left hand image she is also wearing a high skirt and shirt like our character, the right picture the character is wearing a blazer like our character this makes them look professional and that they take their job seriously. They are also dressed quite fashionably which also our character is by them dressing fashionably and looking good you know that they enjoy fashion and look after themselves.