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Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Evaluation of Immorality.
Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When doing our Preliminary task we were divided into groups, these groups contained people we didn’t really know as we hand not been at school for long. I was placed into a group with 3 other people. We immediately began working on our storyline. But each time someone came up with a idea it got pushed aside. In the end we had a rough idea of what we were going to do in the scene. We planned out the camera movement and how we were going to include the 180 degree angle and the walking through a door.
When it came to shooting it we hadn’t done much else. The script was a last minute make the night before and we had no idea about what we were going to do for the camera angles. In the end we improvised most of the shots causing the group to argue about how we wanted the shots done.
The editing of the task was difficult as we had no teaching previously about how to use Adobe Premier. After being taught the basic stuff we hurried through the editing as fast as we could. This caused it to be shabby and not as good quality as it should have been.
We learned a lot from that experience not to edit in big groups as arguments will happen and then the work doesn’t get done. When coming to the thriller opening we found it a lot easier we were put into groups of 4 again but instead we did a plan for everything that we were going to do. We mapped out our idea in the beginning and worked our way around that. The filming took place on different days but all 4 of us turned up and put I views in. We used loads of different shots according to people’s ideas because they might have been good. When it came to editing the film we were taught how to do different things when we wanted them. For example we wanted one of our scenes tinted once we were taught how to do this we were able to. This aloud us to use different techniques which made the thriller better. We learned how to add different text types and use them, this made our thriller stand out more as we didn’t have a typical text that everyone else would be using.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
When doing our Preliminary task we were divided into groups, these groups contained people we didn’t really know as we hand not been at school for long. I was placed into a group with 3 other people. We immediately began working on our storyline. But each time someone came up with a idea it got pushed aside. In the end we had a rough idea of what we were going to do in the scene. We planned out the camera movement and how we were going to include the 180 degree angle and the walking through a door.
When it came to shooting it we hadn’t done much else. The script was a last minute make the night before and we had no idea about what we were going to do for the camera angles. In the end we improvised most of the shots causing the group to argue about how we wanted the shots done.
The editing of the task was difficult as we had no teaching previously about how to use Adobe Premier. After being taught the basic stuff we hurried through the editing as fast as we could. This caused it to be shabby and not as good quality as it should have been.
We learned a lot from that experience not to edit in big groups as arguments will happen and then the work doesn’t get done. When coming to the thriller opening we found it a lot easier we were put into groups of 4 again but instead we did a plan for everything that we were going to do. We mapped out our idea in the beginning and worked our way around that. The filming took place on different days but all 4 of us turned up and put I views in. We used loads of different shots according to people’s ideas because they might have been good. When it came to editing the film we were taught how to do different things when we wanted them. For example we wanted one of our scenes tinted once we were taught how to do this we were able to. This aloud us to use different techniques which made the thriller better. We learned how to add different text types and use them, this made our thriller stand out more as we didn’t have a typical text that everyone else would be using.
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Evaluation of Immorality.
Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our thriller, immorality we decided to not have a woman as the main character or during the opening because like in Sin City, The Third Man, Essex Boys and Layer Cake the openings, of these films mainly focus on the Males in the shot. We followed the stereo typical of Thriller films only being about men and their hierarchy. Males seem to have more power in thrillers due to them being the lead role and the storyline being based around them and their lives. Women are commonly used in Thrillers as Femme Fatale's because of their sexual appeal. We did not want this in the opening because we wanted the audience to question why he had lost everything then thinking it was because of women and assuming he was pulled into sex, drugs and gambling. This was not the affect we wanted the audience to have in the beginning of the opening. In society it is more commonly publicised about men loosing everything they have lived and worked for then women. So following this we stuck with having a male as the lead character.
We used the stereotypical British business man for the main protagonist, where as the debt collector the antagonist is dressed like a typical man on the hunt. We gave the impression that both characters are from a background with money. The audience will assume the debt collector got this money from doing peoples dirty work because the antagonist is a typical stereotype of a debt collector. Where as the audience doesn't know alot about the protagonist this cause the audience to be drawn deeper in as they would wonder why his job was so bad that he lost everything.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
In our thriller, immorality we decided to not have a woman as the main character or during the opening because like in Sin City, The Third Man, Essex Boys and Layer Cake the openings, of these films mainly focus on the Males in the shot. We followed the stereo typical of Thriller films only being about men and their hierarchy. Males seem to have more power in thrillers due to them being the lead role and the storyline being based around them and their lives. Women are commonly used in Thrillers as Femme Fatale's because of their sexual appeal. We did not want this in the opening because we wanted the audience to question why he had lost everything then thinking it was because of women and assuming he was pulled into sex, drugs and gambling. This was not the affect we wanted the audience to have in the beginning of the opening. In society it is more commonly publicised about men loosing everything they have lived and worked for then women. So following this we stuck with having a male as the lead character.
We used the stereotypical British business man for the main protagonist, where as the debt collector the antagonist is dressed like a typical man on the hunt. We gave the impression that both characters are from a background with money. The audience will assume the debt collector got this money from doing peoples dirty work because the antagonist is a typical stereotype of a debt collector. Where as the audience doesn't know alot about the protagonist this cause the audience to be drawn deeper in as they would wonder why his job was so bad that he lost everything.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
Evaluation of Immorality
Question 1
In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Many different types of thriller films influenced our thriller 'Immorality'. Essex boys influenced our thriller because Essex boys like Immorality is a gangster film. We thought that doing a British Gangster film would be the most possible choice as to the location of the opening being in Britain. The bleakness and greyness of Essex boys helped towards coming up with our second location for the opening. The reason that this shot helped us create the shot from our thriller is because we wanted the same dead end work house feel that the Essex Boys opening had. We had to make the scene darker to fit in with the impression we wanted to have so we used a grey filter to make the sky and scene seem more depressing.
We tried to like the debt collector to have many similarities as the main character in Sin City for example he had a packet of cigarettes. So we had the debt collector smoke a cigarette in the opening this would help
him seem more mysterious.
The wild track in Immorality was also inspired by the wild track in Sin City. We thought using the sounds of cars passing by would help the audience to understand that even though this one thing is happening other things are going on as well.
Layer Cake inspired the soundtrack genre in Immorality this was because we wanted a soundtrack that was smooth but mysterious and that would flow with the editing of the thriller opening. The main character in Layer Cake inspired the main character in Immortality he inspired us to make him more business man like who had seemed to have taken a wrong turn in his life to make a living. We thought that the use of a nice neighbourhood in Layer Cake would be a great effect to have in Immorality because it would show that the main character was from a well rounded community and had a respectable job.
In Essex Boys, Layer Cake, Sin City and The Third Man all contain voice overs this helped to influence having a voice over in our thriller opening. We thought we should have a voice over to describe what was happening and to make the time laps more obvious.
In what ways does your media products use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Many different types of thriller films influenced our thriller 'Immorality'. Essex boys influenced our thriller because Essex boys like Immorality is a gangster film. We thought that doing a British Gangster film would be the most possible choice as to the location of the opening being in Britain. The bleakness and greyness of Essex boys helped towards coming up with our second location for the opening. The reason that this shot helped us create the shot from our thriller is because we wanted the same dead end work house feel that the Essex Boys opening had. We had to make the scene darker to fit in with the impression we wanted to have so we used a grey filter to make the sky and scene seem more depressing.
We tried to like the debt collector to have many similarities as the main character in Sin City for example he had a packet of cigarettes. So we had the debt collector smoke a cigarette in the opening this would help
him seem more mysterious. 
The wild track in Immorality was also inspired by the wild track in Sin City. We thought using the sounds of cars passing by would help the audience to understand that even though this one thing is happening other things are going on as well.Layer Cake inspired the soundtrack genre in Immorality this was because we wanted a soundtrack that was smooth but mysterious and that would flow with the editing of the thriller opening. The main character in Layer Cake inspired the main character in Immortality he inspired us to make him more business man like who had seemed to have taken a wrong turn in his life to make a living. We thought that the use of a nice neighbourhood in Layer Cake would be a great effect to have in Immorality because it would show that the main character was from a well rounded community and had a respectable job.
In Essex Boys, Layer Cake, Sin City and The Third Man all contain voice overs this helped to influence having a voice over in our thriller opening. We thought we should have a voice over to describe what was happening and to make the time laps more obvious.
Thursday, 24 September 2009
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