In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products?
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Thursday, 24 April 2014
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Preliminary Task
We apologise for the characters sudden change of appearance however we were told this would not matter as the task was to see our camera work skills.
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Supernatural Vs Natural
We did research into whether our target audience was more interested in supernatural or natural films. With 19/30 agreeing that natural is better.
We will now choose actors and develop our plot . We want our characters to be believable to that of teenagers in society. We also want our killer to be able to look like the average teen with a tough edge
Gang crime
One study for the Home Office found thatup to 6% of 10-19-year-olds belonged to a gang in England and Wales.
In 2008 Strathclyde Police estimated there were 170 gangs in Glasgow, with 3,500 gang members aged from 11 to 23. The previous year, the Metropolitan Police said there were 171 gangs in London.
Gang expert Prof John Pitts estimates some 600 to 700 young people are part of gangs in the London borough of Waltham Forest alone.
At least half of the 27 murders of teenagers in London in 2007 were gang-related, according to the Metropolitan Police. Officers in Liverpool and Manchester have said in the past that 60% of shootings are linked to gangs.
The majority of Britons will have little or no direct experience of gangs but they are still frightened and fascinated by them in equal measure.
This is why we feel it is an excellent area to link into our film
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
VLOG
video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog (pronounced 'vlog' or 'v-log') is a form of blog for which the medium is video, and is a form of web television. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. The vlog category is popular on YouTube.
Video logs (vlogs) also often take advantage of web syndication to allow for the distribution of video over the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication formats, for automatic aggregation and playback on mobile devices and personal computers
I made a VLOG mashing together footage from Grace's,Milly's and my phone to show our journey through this film opening.
This helps people get to know us and therefore be more willing to look at or buy our film after production
I used this app named Magisto. I used online tutorials like the following to help create the best vlog I could
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9z5OKqOzp0
I used this app named Magisto. I used online tutorials like the following to help create the best vlog I could
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9z5OKqOzp0
Promotion
It was essential to promote our film to raise awareness and deliver our film to a wider audience. We did this through Social Media.
Due to our film being of a low budget we used free ways of spreading our film online.
However if we were a high budget film we would use ideas including bus advertisements, TV adverts, trailers before Youtube clips and Newspapers
This is an example from Youtube of advertisement
Due to our film being of a low budget we used free ways of spreading our film online.
However if we were a high budget film we would use ideas including bus advertisements, TV adverts, trailers before Youtube clips and Newspapers
This is an example from Youtube of advertisement
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Development of Storyboard
This is our final storyboard that we are going to use to help create the image that we want to make a reality during the filming process.
Above shows the difference from our initial story board and the final.
We went into a lot more detail and used it a lot throughout our filming process.
Filming schedule
It was essential for us to stick to a tight filming schedule as to meet the deadlines and have time to make relevant changes
We met Monday before school to plan for the week ahead and discuss any new ideas .
After editing on a Thursday (which gave us time for nighttime to commence so we had the darkness needed in our opening) , we would film . Our lesson on Friday we would analyse footage and plan what else we needed
Sunday we went back to our location of Calverly Park to film the additions
Our timetable is a key feature on all of our bedroom walls!
Monday, 21 April 2014
Feedback from Audience
http://animoto.com/play/DYwtBEnVgDfGipZbjYVlRg
This is a video that displays the various audience feedback sessions we had over the time of making our film opening! This was a massive help as it allowed us to get the opinions of our target market.
Friday, 18 April 2014
Technologies used
These are the technologies we used during our process of create our film opening and evaluating it.
Our answer to evaluation question 6 helps to explain what technologies we used throughout our process and what we learnt from them...take a look :
Scripting
Scripting. Or not scripting in our case. We have no lines in our film opening as we felt the lack of dialogue kept suspense and played to simplistic fears, The fear of the unknown.
During our evaluation however we did script. We created a film of our answers and the majority of these were scripted, in order to ensure precision and profesionalism.
Sunday, 13 April 2014
Further posts on Facebook
This has been a key aspect of our development as there must be an aspect of target market influence throughout. This is why we as Polaroid Productions felt so strongly about being on the social media sites to fully reach our target market
You Tube
We have officially uploaded 'Bellgrave Park' on to You Tube!
Take a look...
Polaroid Productions Bellgrave Park
Health and Safety
We felt it was important to look at Health and Safety to ensure the smooth running of our film
Actors
Not putting them under physical/ psychological strain
Rests between running scenes
Making sure our location was close to public areas (not isolated)
Make sure the area was a safe one
Location
Carpark was empty (as possible)
Had high visibility clothing between shots and if filming
Equipment
Car turned off so it couldn't move
Title
As a group we have finally decided on our films name ...
BELLGRAVE PARK
We drew inspiration from the tv series 'Broadchurch'. We liked the idea of using a location as a name as it makes it more personal and therefore more intimidating to the veiwer. We also wanted the location to mean something sinister eg) grave. We researched into haunted and crime filled areas in the UK and Bellgrave came up. We used the 'park' due to our filming in the Calvery Car park.
IT'S A WRAP!
Well an exciting journey has come to an end! We have finished filming officially for Bellgrave Park! We have more interesting blogs to come so please carry on veiwing!
Please carry on following,liking and sharing our film opening!
Our editing process
Many hours have been spent in this editing sweet.
Many strenuous hours but it's all worth it as we now have our final cut.
This memory stick has aided all of our editing, also showing how we have used multiple different media devises such as iPhones, memory sticks and iMac computers.
Final cut story line
The innocent girl makes it into her car and there is a moment of relief, however quickly followed by a jump moment when we see that the other girl chasing her is now in the car behind her. She then runs out of the car and runs down the stairwell, but this time the other girl has caught up with her and there is another jump moment when that girl goes to strangle the innocent one. She then strangles her to end the film opening.
This leaves suspense and the un answered questions such as 'why is she being chased?' 'Do these girls know each other?'
By us challenging the representation and having two girls of similar age, this makes it scarier as it makes people think that anyone could be their killer. Even the person sitting next to you now.
We hope you enjoyed, if you have any feedback please leave a comment on our blog or alternatively on our you tube channel, facebook, twitter or Instagram pages
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