Group 7: March 2014

Monday, 17 March 2014

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

In what ways des your media product use,developer challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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How does your media product represent particular social groups?

what is representation?
Representation is the way someone or something is portrayed.
Below is an example of representation.These boys are presented to look like "hood rats".this is shown by their faces covered,hoods on and them doing nothing on the streets.

Teenage social groups

The teen social groups that we have represented in our teen film opening have been inspired by the well known films mean girls,adulthood and lemonade mouth.

We have gotten the idea of the character Maya from Regina George who is the popular girl in mean girls.

the idea for Trevor from the character called Sam from adulthood

and the idea for Maya from the character called Olivia White from lemonade mouth.

Trevor is seen smoking,this is used because usually it is the bad boys who smoke and take drugs though out films.

Maya is scene wearing glasses and this was used because unpopular people tend to be wearing glasses to show they are geeks.

And Cassie is shown getting dressed this is done to show she really cares about her appearance

I would say we have portrayed characters negatively as we portray Trevor as a smoker however not all bad boys are smokers.

EVALUATION QUESTION 3

PLEASE VIEW IN FULL SCREEN what kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

Who would be the audience for your media products?

Usually it is teenagers who watch teen films as they can relate to them and they understand what is happening better than adults.It is an inspiration to them as they think they can learn from it.
For our teen film the target audience is teenagers from a lower class background both male and female.we chose this because they will be able to relate to it best as it may be what they experience.
We have created a Facebook page targeted at our target audience.

Click open Mural

Click open Mural

EVALUATION QUESTION 5

Feedback
The feedback we received was positive!

Sound effects gave away feelings
editing looks professional
Title with font and style suited opening
Gave enough insight which makes the audience want to watch more of it
Theme was popular within the audience
Straightforward and the audience understood what was happening
introducing the characters was clear
Mise en scene was displayed well
Storyline in 2 min didn't give too much information which made the audience want to watch more..
Location - went well with what we were trying to portray
Ident's suited with the soundtrack

To attract our target audience we uploaded our opening to youtube!

We used WhatsApp to share our video around so our friends and family can see our video.

EVALUATION QUESTION 6

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EVALUATION QUESTION 7

please view in full screen

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

Here I have used slideshare to present my slideshow of the conventions of teen films. I have shown what films we borrowed ideas from and an overall comment on how we tackled the conventions and how we used and challenged them.

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Question 1 - Conventions of teen films from Nadia_796

EVALUATION QUESTION 2

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

I have created a video using an iphone app called 'Cute Cut' to present this question. I have used drawings and also a voiceover to show how our media product has used stereotypes to represent our characters.

EVALUATION QUESTION 3

What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?

Please open the Glog in Full Screen

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

EVALUATION QUESTION 5

How Did You Attract / Address Your Audience?

Here I am showing an interview on a chat show I have created called 'Teen Talk with Tom Cat'. This Chat show is suppose to be a television programme where a cartoon character interacts with teens all over the UK about general topics relating to adolescents.

This interview is based on the latest films that teens enjoy watching:
I used an IPhone app called 'Cute Cut' to edit this video:

How we used our rough cut feedback to help us make our opening sequence of Trapped more effective and appeal more to our targeted audience.

I used a website called Stupeflix to edit this video

Our final opening sequence:

We uploaded our video to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as these were all social networking sites where we can filter people of our age group to see our personal posts.

We also watched our film opening in the cinema which was aimed exclusively to students. It was really exciting to see our project on the big screen! Here is a video we took during our two minutes of fame!

Here is some of the feedback we got from our teens!

Here is a poster I have also created for our film 'Trapped'. I have made Jakir's photo bigger than the two girls and also have placed him in the middle as he is good looking and an attraction to teenage girls who might want to watch the film. Also, Thahmina is also a pretty girl in the film which could also bring in female viewers as they could potentially see her as their celebrity idol in the future. Finally, I have added in a quote to show that someone has enjoyed watching it along with 4 stars to show it's ratings.

I edited this poster on an android app called 'PicsArt - Photo Studio'

EVALUATION QUESTION 6

What Have You Learnt About The New Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

I used a website called Stupeflix to present this slideshow

EVALUATION QUESTION 7

Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To The Final Product?

Below, I have created a 'Prezi' to present the final question of the evaluation.

Note: Please click anywhere on the presentation where there are images and videos to enlarge them for a clearer view. Also, you can move the slides with the buttons at the bottom and you can also use the screen to travel around the presentation.

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE, DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

We decided that these forms and coventations will contribute to make our opening of "Trapped" really good.

For example:

EVALUATION QUESTION 2

HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

EVALUATION QUESTION 3

WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUITE YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND WHY?

EVALUATION QUESTION 4

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

EVALUATION QUESTION 5

HOW DID YOU ATTRACT/ ADDRESS YOUR AUDIENCE?

Made on: http://pixlr.com/

I chose to make the poster purposly dark and quite faded to give a sense of mysteriousness, and to create climax upon the audience to try figure out what this film would be about giving it the end for them wanting to know more. I didn't want to give alot of information away therefore I limited of what I wanted to show. Giving it quotes and slogans making it appear more realistic and gave it a review from a well known source.

HOW WE GOT IT AROUND TO OUR AUDIENCE:

VIA YOUTUBE:

With the youtube link we sent it around on different social websites to friends who passed it around to other people. From this we got our feedback on ways to improve and what people enjoyed about our opening.

VIA WHATSAPP

VIA INSTAGRAM:

EVALUATION QUESTION 6

WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONDUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

I had to screenshot all of the slides as the video wouldn't upload!

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?

Friday, 14 March 2014

Cast for Trapped

The casting for our film 'Trapped':

Actor 1 - Nadia Alam
Actor 2 - Jakir Ali
Actor 3 - Thahmina Ali
Costume - Thahmina Ali
Music supervisor - Jakir Ali
Music by - Nadia Alam
Edited by - Thahmina Ali,Nadia Alam,Jakir Ali
Production designer - Thahmina Ali
Director of Photography - Akbar Miah
Executive producers -Chenny Bau
Written by - Jakir Ali
Director - Nadia Alam

my use of ICT skills

I used many different applications to make my blog posts more interesting and make sure they are not boring.

Our group

THAHMINA JAKIR NADIA

At the start, we decided we want to be in a group together as we work well together and get along with each other well,we didnt know each other very well before this project however we still got on really well and made sure we were organised with our blog and got the work done as well as have fun at the same time.
We all contributed to the making of trapped equally and had really good ideas.

Since the beginning we have always worked as a team helping each other every step of the way.

examples:

At first i was having difficulties setting up the camera.luckily Nadia came to my rescue and taught me how to set it up.
Nadia didnt know how to make clips longer while she was editing,Thahmina helped her.
Thahmina didnt know how to upload the footage from the cards to the video drive.I helped her:D