Wednesday, 22 February 2017
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
Evaluation 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
The most common use of media technology that we used was computers, all of the clips and audio we used was all stored on here. This is also how we put together and edited our film.
We used Premier Pro to edit all of our footage and put it all together with the use of transitions, titles/text and added our non-diegetic music. We used premier pro because its a easy to use computer programme and allowed us to do make any changed we needed to, this included slowing and speeding up our footage, also rewinding and creating split screens which made our opening the best it possibly could be. As I was more confident with using these types of computer software I was the one that was in control of the mouse but the whole group was involved in the choices we made.
The computers we used had lot of different software's that we were able to use to create things such as the production company logo. We tried lots of different computer programmes to try to create the company logo to see which one would work to create the exact one we wanted and the one we ended up using was Photoshop. The reason for this was because we wanted to add a crown on top of the 'Q' in 'Queendom' and when we tried this on word and power point but it wouldn't work out the way we wanted.
The cameras we used helped us out a lot as it helped us import the footage from the camera straight to the computer. Everything that we recorded was kept on the camera this meant we could just store all of our footage on the camera until we were happy with it then could quickly and easily be uploaded on the computer to edit straight away, this really helped to speed up the process.
I used PowerPoint and word a lot through out the process to put together the information for my research and initial ideas. I used power point because it was an easy way to turn any document into a JPEG so I could easily upload it to my blogger. I used word to create the script so we could just copy and pasted it onto blogger. By doing all of this on t he computer it meant that all work that was done was all kept together and didn't mean that it would be easy to lose any loose bits of paper that were important.
We used Premier Pro to edit all of our footage and put it all together with the use of transitions, titles/text and added our non-diegetic music. We used premier pro because its a easy to use computer programme and allowed us to do make any changed we needed to, this included slowing and speeding up our footage, also rewinding and creating split screens which made our opening the best it possibly could be. As I was more confident with using these types of computer software I was the one that was in control of the mouse but the whole group was involved in the choices we made.
The computers we used had lot of different software's that we were able to use to create things such as the production company logo. We tried lots of different computer programmes to try to create the company logo to see which one would work to create the exact one we wanted and the one we ended up using was Photoshop. The reason for this was because we wanted to add a crown on top of the 'Q' in 'Queendom' and when we tried this on word and power point but it wouldn't work out the way we wanted.
The cameras we used helped us out a lot as it helped us import the footage from the camera straight to the computer. Everything that we recorded was kept on the camera this meant we could just store all of our footage on the camera until we were happy with it then could quickly and easily be uploaded on the computer to edit straight away, this really helped to speed up the process.
I used PowerPoint and word a lot through out the process to put together the information for my research and initial ideas. I used power point because it was an easy way to turn any document into a JPEG so I could easily upload it to my blogger. I used word to create the script so we could just copy and pasted it onto blogger. By doing all of this on t he computer it meant that all work that was done was all kept together and didn't mean that it would be easy to lose any loose bits of paper that were important.
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Sunday, 5 February 2017
Evaluation 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?
Age: The age of our target audience is for teenagers, but more specifically ages 13-19.
Gender: Both females and males are able to watch it but our opening is more aimed at females because they will be able to relate to it more as there aren't many male characters in it.
Class: Mostly will be aimed at working/middle class people as the settings and lifestyle of our opening and the characters in it is more similar to that class. This will make it more relatable overall.
Race: Our opening is more aimed at white British because this is the only race in the opening.
So overall, our film is aimed at teenagers aged from 13-19 that are mostly white British females that are working/middle class because we feel as though they would be the people who would relate to our opening the best as most of our characters are the same.
Psychographics
Interests: Teenagers usually spend their free time going to parties and spending time with their friends, as they are very sociable similar to the party in our opening they like being around good friends. So this way, the teenagers that watch our opening will be able to relate because they will be doing the same in their everyday lives.
Teenagers also have a lot of interest in music and the music we have in our opening is very similar to music teenagers listen to, so by having that in our opening it will make them want to carry on watching.
Beliefs: Our opening is very relatable as lots of teenagers knows how it feels to fall out with friends and make mistakes that they massively regret. This allows them to be able to put themselves in the characters shoes and know what's going on in each of their heads.
Saturday, 4 February 2017
Friday, 3 February 2017
Evaluation 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Mean girls
These are the 'mean girls' from our film opening and can be compared to 'The plastics' from mean girls and they are both stereotypical but also challenge the stereotype. The postures of both of the groups of girls are very similar, they show that they think they are more superior to everyone else. The looks on their faces show that they are moody and 'mean', also both of their outfits are very fashionable and also have long, well looked after hair and you can tell that they take care of their appearance. The lighting in both photos is very bright and there is a light directly on them. They also challenge the stereotype for mean girls because all of the mean girls in our opening have ginger hair, and the main mean girl also has ginger hair, usually they have blonde hair as people associate blondes with being ditzy, pretty and just overall usually the mean girl. In our opening our main mean girl is ginger which are usually shown to be the nerd/unpopular girl like in mean girls and easy a for example, so by challenging this stereotype it makes the overall film more interesting.
Protagonist
This is the protagonist of out opening, we have kept it very stereotypical for our film in the way of the main character is liked by everyone and is seen as very innocent. Although, our character is seen as very innocent until the film goes on. The pose of both of them are very similar and also they are both smiling with shows their innocence, also their outfits are similar, they are both wearing leather jackets, tight jeans and low cut tops which is seen as very fashionable. The lighting used in both photos is bright which connotes a happy environment. One thing that challenges the usual stereotype is that the character that is playing the outcast is not usually blonde because they are normally seen as the mean girl, Jo from Mean Girls 2 is one of the only other films I have seen that uses a blonde for the protagonist.
'Heartthrob'
Generic gay character
These are the 'mean girls' from our film opening and can be compared to 'The plastics' from mean girls and they are both stereotypical but also challenge the stereotype. The postures of both of the groups of girls are very similar, they show that they think they are more superior to everyone else. The looks on their faces show that they are moody and 'mean', also both of their outfits are very fashionable and also have long, well looked after hair and you can tell that they take care of their appearance. The lighting in both photos is very bright and there is a light directly on them. They also challenge the stereotype for mean girls because all of the mean girls in our opening have ginger hair, and the main mean girl also has ginger hair, usually they have blonde hair as people associate blondes with being ditzy, pretty and just overall usually the mean girl. In our opening our main mean girl is ginger which are usually shown to be the nerd/unpopular girl like in mean girls and easy a for example, so by challenging this stereotype it makes the overall film more interesting.
Protagonist
This is the protagonist of out opening, we have kept it very stereotypical for our film in the way of the main character is liked by everyone and is seen as very innocent. Although, our character is seen as very innocent until the film goes on. The pose of both of them are very similar and also they are both smiling with shows their innocence, also their outfits are similar, they are both wearing leather jackets, tight jeans and low cut tops which is seen as very fashionable. The lighting used in both photos is bright which connotes a happy environment. One thing that challenges the usual stereotype is that the character that is playing the outcast is not usually blonde because they are normally seen as the mean girl, Jo from Mean Girls 2 is one of the only other films I have seen that uses a blonde for the protagonist.
'Heartthrob'
Generic gay character
Thursday, 2 February 2017
Evaluation 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
1st frame - Costumes and props:
The first frame shows both costumes and props, the prop we used in this scene was a selfie stick, we used this because it shows teenagers and what they do at parties. This also shows that they are young, also we used this to introduce the characters using 'selfies' which is a very modern thing to do so this shows that they are teenagers as teenagers are very up to date with the newest technologies and trends. The costumes of the characters are just casual but fashionable and are clothes that you would see in teen angst films the kind of teen angst films that you see clothes like these are ones such as wild child, mean girls as in wild child the protagonist is very up to date with the newest trends and is always wearing the nicest clothes and making sure she always looks nice, which is why she is similar to the characters in our film opening.
2nd frame - How the characters are introduced:
The second frame shows how the characters are introduced, we decided to use selfies to introduce the characters because we had never seen it done before in other teen angst films but it also shows that it is a teen angst because lots of teenagers use selfie sticks. The poses that each character does in the photo represents how the characters personalities are. For example, the character shown in this particular screenshot is Faye and she is smiling because her character is very innocent and happy throughout the opening.
3rd frame - Special effects:
We used a variety of special effects in our opening, but the main ones were called 'dip to black', 'dip to white' and dissolve we also used a forward and backwards clock effect which we used to show the fast forward and rewind of our opening.
4th frame - Editing:
The fourth frame is one type of editing we did, this is the split screen we did to make the scene of when Faye is confronted by the Triple L's this makes it look more dramatic and shows that they are walking up to each other face to face. It shows all of the characters, which shows the audience all of their emotions as they walk up to eachother. Also a split screen is used in mean girls, it is used when the 4 main charcters are all talking on the phone to each other, they use a 4 way split screen.
5th frame - Main title (font and how it appears):
The fifth frame is of our main title, this appears by each letter appearing in unison with the triple l's saying each letter, when the letters show up on the screen they come up in slow motion. We did this to make it more dramatic and to show it at the same time as when the most dramatic part of the opening happens. We chose to use 'OMG' as the title because it is short and snappy and it is an acronym for 'Oh My God' this is used by teenagers in text talk. Also it is in pink because pink is a stereotypical colour for girls, the font is 'Goudy Stout'. We used pink aswell because films such as 'Mean girls' and 'Angus, thongs and perfect snogging' and we liked how this looked on these films.
6th frame - Story and how the opening sets it up:
The opening sets up the story because it shows you what the whole film would be about without giving too much away. The sixth frame shows just before when the Triple L's go and find Faye in bed, this is when the main story line of the opening happens and the way it is set up is that each charcter is introduced by a voice over from Faye and then the writing appears on the screen with a little bit more information saying "lucky i'm friends with them" which indicates that something is about to happen.
7th frame - Setting/location:
The seventh frame shows the setting of the school, this shows that it is a teen angst opening as you see this a lot in teen angst films such as Easy A as the opening scene shows the protagonist walking through a school with lots of people around and things such as a school bell/books/lockers around to emphasis this setting, as teenagers go to school so they will be able to relate to it. Also the beginning of the opening scene is set in a party which also shows the teen angst genre as lots of teenagers go to parties and it relates to them.
8th frame - Camera shots:
Frame eight shows an over the shoulder shot, we used this during this conversation because it shows the emotion on each of the characters faces. We also used camera shots such as tracking, when the characters walk into school and into the party. As well as a lot of mid-shots and long shots to show all of the characters in one place at once and it also shows the setting.
9th frame - Genre and how the opening suggests it:
The genre is shown in the opening during the party scene because in lots of teen angst films there are often parties where there are lots of teenagers drinking and having a good time, during the party the props show the genre as they are props that are used are used by teenagers. The clothed that they wear throughout the opening also connotes the type of genre it is, as they are all wearing typical teenage clothes.
Wednesday, 1 February 2017
Other changes - OMG Teen Angst
We had completed our 4th draft and we were happy with it, but we got more feedback just to be certain and we got ideas of putting in some music whilst our protagonist character wakes up just to make sure it isn't boring as it was silent and wasn't very interesting.
The music we added is music that you would typically hear during the openings of other teen angst films like Easy A for example as we liked that it brought the whole opening together and makes it more exciting and will make people want to watch on.
Another section that we managed to change was the part where the Triple L's find Faye in bed, as they open the door we slowed it down so there is more of a build up of anticipation when they open it and it is more of a shock when Faye gets revealed in Lucy's bed, we did this because it will make the audience want to know what had happened and how it will be resolved between Lucy and Faye as they were meant to be friends so they will want to carry on watching.
The music we added is music that you would typically hear during the openings of other teen angst films like Easy A for example as we liked that it brought the whole opening together and makes it more exciting and will make people want to watch on.
Another section that we managed to change was the part where the Triple L's find Faye in bed, as they open the door we slowed it down so there is more of a build up of anticipation when they open it and it is more of a shock when Faye gets revealed in Lucy's bed, we did this because it will make the audience want to know what had happened and how it will be resolved between Lucy and Faye as they were meant to be friends so they will want to carry on watching.
Changes for 3rd draft
Changes that we made to make the 3rd draft include differernt fonts for all of our voice overs and titles because once we had got feedback from friends and family members lots of people said they were hard to read because of the font and they weren't up for long enough. So we went back and changed all of the fonts, even for the photos of the main characters when they are introduced.
We changed the fonts for these because before there was a white border around each letter and by taking that away it makes the words stand out more, and makes it easier to read in the time you have to read it.
We changed the font for the title of the Triple L's because we found this font to be more appropriate for the teen angst genre as it looks like more of a font that we have seen in other teen angst films. This one is also alot clearer and easier to read, we have put it in pink because it fits in with the girly type of opening that we are focusing on. Also this photo is the one of the 'mean girls' so we found that pink was the most suitable for them.
We changed all of these parts when the voice overs come on becaue the font wasn't clear enough and they went too quickly and no one could read them in time. Also we wanted to change the font to the one that we used for the titles so it all links in and looks the same. We used pink again because it is a running theme throughtout our whole opening.
We have already noticed changes that we want to some of this draft, where the scene where the Triple L's find Faye in bed, when there is a side angle of them about to see Faye we put a slow motion effect so it makes the whole shock from the Triple L's more dramatic and builds up the anticipation for the reveal.
We changed the fonts for these because before there was a white border around each letter and by taking that away it makes the words stand out more, and makes it easier to read in the time you have to read it.
We changed the font for the title of the Triple L's because we found this font to be more appropriate for the teen angst genre as it looks like more of a font that we have seen in other teen angst films. This one is also alot clearer and easier to read, we have put it in pink because it fits in with the girly type of opening that we are focusing on. Also this photo is the one of the 'mean girls' so we found that pink was the most suitable for them.
We changed all of these parts when the voice overs come on becaue the font wasn't clear enough and they went too quickly and no one could read them in time. Also we wanted to change the font to the one that we used for the titles so it all links in and looks the same. We used pink again because it is a running theme throughtout our whole opening.
We have already noticed changes that we want to some of this draft, where the scene where the Triple L's find Faye in bed, when there is a side angle of them about to see Faye we put a slow motion effect so it makes the whole shock from the Triple L's more dramatic and builds up the anticipation for the reveal.
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