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Friday, 7 January 2011
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
1) Once we had decided on our storyline we set about thinking of a suitable name. As the main feature of our film is all about lies and deceiving, we eventually decided on ‘Deception’. I believe that this develops on our genre of ‘romantic mystery’ as you subconsciously learn the genre without realising.
2) We used 4 main setting and locations to create out short film; the protagonists house, a swimming pool, Smith’s restaurant and Ongar high street. I believe that only smiths restaurant uses and develops the genre code and conventions. So therefore the other 3 locations all challenge the genre codes and conventions. Firstly as part of the sub-genre is romance you would straight away presume the couple to be out as a ‘couple’ in romantic and expensive places, however what you find is part of the ‘couple’ stealing the protagonists cars, killing/pushing him into his own pool, and him doing the exact same thing with two different girls, music was crucial to complete all these effectively as in romantic films music plays a huge part. We used this to our advantage by having no dialect between characters to help manipulate the deceit between them.
3) The protagonist is a young well-off business man; he dresses continually smart throughout the film, even when wearing ‘casual’ clothing. The protagonist does eventually die in these ‘smart’ clothes. The two girls in the film both dress up to ‘impress’ the protagonist, and they often wear black; the colour often seem of symbolizing death. I believe the costumes all use and develop both of the genres romantic and mystery/thriller.
4) Camera work and editing has to be completed to a high standard to create a definitive thriller genre. In our film we cleverly used fades and cuts to an effective standard. We also used dark and bright lighting at the correct times. Rapid editing is also regularly used for thriller genres as to speed up the tempo, as a group we decided to do this with a wide a variety of fades to gradually show the passing of time. Angles are another important code and convention in which we tried to develop by using a variety of wide, mid, low and high angle shots to help narrate the story.
5)For our title we as a group decided we wanted to stand out bright and bold, therefore what better then a black background with white Georgia font typing. To help develop the genre codes and convention we decided to keep it simple, but striking. Although this does in some ways challenge the genre as it is not specific to either one.
6)The opening shot of a body falling into water with the white flash develops the genre of thrillers, however entirely goes against the romantic genre. These shots help to set the scene and sets the tone for the rest of the film as continually a surprise/shock/enigma occurs.
7)Through the opening shots the genre is unknown and is unidentifiable, so therefore challenges all genres. We as a group thought of this as a clever idea as it captivates the audience and hopefully intrigues them into watching more of the film to find out what type of film it turns out to be.
8)The protagonist is introduced straight away to help make sure the audience know that he is the main character. However we decided that the two girl characters should be introduced in a more interesting way; involving a 360ᵒ spin. This meant before the spin you see girl 1 with the protagonist and after the spin you see girl 2 now in girl 1’s position. This camera movement goes against and challenges all genres.
1) Once we had decided on our storyline we set about thinking of a suitable name. As the main feature of our film is all about lies and deceiving, we eventually decided on ‘Deception’. I believe that this develops on our genre of ‘romantic mystery’ as you subconsciously learn the genre without realising.
2) We used 4 main setting and locations to create out short film; the protagonists house, a swimming pool, Smith’s restaurant and Ongar high street. I believe that only smiths restaurant uses and develops the genre code and conventions. So therefore the other 3 locations all challenge the genre codes and conventions. Firstly as part of the sub-genre is romance you would straight away presume the couple to be out as a ‘couple’ in romantic and expensive places, however what you find is part of the ‘couple’ stealing the protagonists cars, killing/pushing him into his own pool, and him doing the exact same thing with two different girls, music was crucial to complete all these effectively as in romantic films music plays a huge part. We used this to our advantage by having no dialect between characters to help manipulate the deceit between them.
3) The protagonist is a young well-off business man; he dresses continually smart throughout the film, even when wearing ‘casual’ clothing. The protagonist does eventually die in these ‘smart’ clothes. The two girls in the film both dress up to ‘impress’ the protagonist, and they often wear black; the colour often seem of symbolizing death. I believe the costumes all use and develop both of the genres romantic and mystery/thriller.
4) Camera work and editing has to be completed to a high standard to create a definitive thriller genre. In our film we cleverly used fades and cuts to an effective standard. We also used dark and bright lighting at the correct times. Rapid editing is also regularly used for thriller genres as to speed up the tempo, as a group we decided to do this with a wide a variety of fades to gradually show the passing of time. Angles are another important code and convention in which we tried to develop by using a variety of wide, mid, low and high angle shots to help narrate the story.
5)For our title we as a group decided we wanted to stand out bright and bold, therefore what better then a black background with white Georgia font typing. To help develop the genre codes and convention we decided to keep it simple, but striking. Although this does in some ways challenge the genre as it is not specific to either one.
6)The opening shot of a body falling into water with the white flash develops the genre of thrillers, however entirely goes against the romantic genre. These shots help to set the scene and sets the tone for the rest of the film as continually a surprise/shock/enigma occurs.
7)Through the opening shots the genre is unknown and is unidentifiable, so therefore challenges all genres. We as a group thought of this as a clever idea as it captivates the audience and hopefully intrigues them into watching more of the film to find out what type of film it turns out to be.
8)The protagonist is introduced straight away to help make sure the audience know that he is the main character. However we decided that the two girl characters should be introduced in a more interesting way; involving a 360ᵒ spin. This meant before the spin you see girl 1 with the protagonist and after the spin you see girl 2 now in girl 1’s position. This camera movement goes against and challenges all genres.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Monday, 3 January 2011
Ancillary Task - Magazine Review Chosen Layout
In the end we decided to choose this layout, however instead of one full page picture we decided to use several.
Sunday, 2 January 2011
New Ending Idea
As a group we decided that our ending idea would not leave a strong enough impact, so therefore whilst we were filming we set about thinking of a new, better idea.
This new idea was to have the protagonist and girl 1 walk up the protagonist drive way, however whilst this was being filmed girl 2 would walk in to the shot behind them, this would make the audience presume that girl 2 has been watching and following them. This new ending helps to get both protagonist and the two killers at the scene of the death. The rest of the ending will then continue as first planned.
This new idea was to have the protagonist and girl 1 walk up the protagonist drive way, however whilst this was being filmed girl 2 would walk in to the shot behind them, this would make the audience presume that girl 2 has been watching and following them. This new ending helps to get both protagonist and the two killers at the scene of the death. The rest of the ending will then continue as first planned.
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