Evaluation 3

Evaluation 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Production, Distribution and Exhibition play a big role in making a film. However, because some films are produced on a small budget they won't be able to afford Distribution such as marketing and advertising their films. This could be as in posters or on the internet. Such as Shifty was one of those films, it didn't have enough money for advertising their film so not many people knew about it; however it got more famous when it came out on DVD, and more people bought it. Also they had free screenings to attract more viewers to come and see it. We also went to watch it with our media class. I really enjoyed it even thought the film was produced on a low budget it didn't look like it.

Eran Creevy Was the director/writer of the film, he could also be a good director to manage our film, because it got similar idea, stories to it.

Slumdog Millionaire was also one of the most successful British films produced on a low budget of £8.7 Million. Although as it was released and showed up on 2,943 screens, and at the end of the UK cinema release, Slumdog made £31,000,000. 

Our Film could be supported by the UKFC it’s the government backed lead agency for film in the UK, they make sure that the economic, culture and educational aspect of the film are effectively represented. They support a group of people who come together and want to make a film; they give them an certain amount of a budget.

This could be good for ours as we are not capable for a film with a high budget.

However not all British films are produced on a low budget, and supported by well known

Institution. Such as working title is one of the biggest, most known British film companies. It works with universal studios to produce some good quality films to target a large audience America, Europe to help with funding.

Such as the film the boat that rocked was funded by this company; however in America they changed the film's name to Pirate Radio also their trailer, was changed in the US focused on the American actor even though he wasn't the main character. 

The very good thing about if this company funded our film, more people would want to watch it, as the company funded it has a reputation bigger name. So the company name also place a big role, because at the end most people also look at what company funded the film.

 The producers and directors of our film, It's me (Azza), fabienne G, and Tom T. We worked together as a team and shared our ideas.

If we had the budget to advertise it, I think my group would do it on the internet, as it shares it’s global also because our film is focused for younger people. Teenagers and they use the internet mostly which they find it easy to access.

Evaluation 1

  Evaluation 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups 

In our opening we play very much on stereotypes to represent the social group of our choice.

Class is also a very important representation of our characters, as we made them working class, as they are more related to crime and such,  a higher class person stays away from thing such as murder, crime etc. We chose working class because it is the class that is linked to crime due the urban settings and maybe the lack of morals.

Also our characters in the short intro were young; as it's the stereotypical idea of that the younger generation are the ones who are behind all of the trouble such as drugs murderer etc.

We also chose to set one of the settings, in an underpass, as higher class people wouldn’t even come near it. As it also known as a dangerous place only younger people and homeless spent time in there.

Our main Character in the short opening is Billy, even thought he gets killed at the end. He could be related to many characters such as Freddie from skins. As he wears the baggie hoodies and the baggy jeans.

Evaluation 1

In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms of conventions of real media products?

In our film we have used the idea of the young teenagers now we represent them in a good way, but also in the way teens are represented in the media, and how they use them in other films such as Adulthood, Shifty etc. The aggressiveness, danger they because we thought those types of films appealed to us so we want to make a similar one. Our film is different in a way as Billy also does some skating, which in other films most likely they just stand around in crowds in corners of the streets causing trouble, however this is the part we tried to make them look better that teens are not only about trouble. However the typical way is the stabbing, which is very common in such films, knife is tool used by the teenagers, however guns etc that is more used in thriller films, and you won't see a teenager with a gun, it’s a bit rare.

Our Title font we found on the internet which really appealed to us, its called Toy soldier. It's sort of like graffiti, which matches our Urban/gangster/crime film. As all the graffiti on the walls of the under tunnel, and the skating park. This refers back to the teenagers groups that hang around and Abuse the neighbourhoods.

The opening of our film is Billy Walking to meet Pete, and gets the package, which then already right away lets the audience know that it's a film similar to all the other crime, gangster films as it involves hoodies, and by giving the package they already get it that it’s something like drugs. Then it’s a bit of urban style all the skating also shows a good side of teenagers, they do something they are passionate about.

 

Added Music

Today

We have finally added the music to our film. Its Snoop Dogg ft Dr Dre- Still Dre.

We also have added our titles to the film today. We wrote the names of the actors down first. Billy O, Pete Slade and Tom turrel. Also we added the names of the producers. Produced by then we wrote our names down Fabienne Gould, Azza Ahmed and finally Tom Turrell. And in the end we also wrote; A film4 Production. Then Common Enemy as the film is called. Just one more thing left to do to our film, this is at the start of the clip we have the sound of the wind blowing to loudly, and we want to decrease the sound just a little so it suits the other scenes.

Final Editing

Today

Today we imported the filmed scene of yesterday onto the computer, and started editing it. It looked really good, and we discovered we really didn’t need the blood bit. We finally have finished editing the film itself, however of course we still have to add the sounds to it, and the titles and finally the name of the film.

So far we quite happy with the clips we have edited, and at the moment thinking about the sounds. We have already chosen a sort of graffiti style font of the internet and imported it to our clip, so next time we add our titles its ready.

End part of filming

Yesterday

Yesterday we finally went down after college, and filmed the end part of our film. It went pretty good; we got some good shots, and a few different angles. In this end part, we had the leader of the drug dealers, come down and meet the skater boy, then he refused to give him the money and the bad man (Tom) stabbed the skater boy (Billy) to death. This scene was taken down under the Redcliffe Hill underpass.


We included quite a few of high angles, and also some low angles. We were also going to add red ink to make it look more effective, as the blood running down from (Billy) as he dies, however the battery just ran out.

Evaluation 2

Evaluation 2
How does your media product represent particular Social Groups?

To relate our film intro theme, to a similar British TV drama, such as skins, the younger generations, which are around every corner street, causing trouble, damaging streets, people's property, taking drugs, getting murdered. However we didn't make them look as bad, we just had the boy skating enjoying his activity, handed drugs by the man, later got in trouble for getting involved an other people stabbed him. This kind of obsession is all over the media, films, news, TV drama's etc. This is the thought of the younger generations. Such as Muslims being related to terrorist, teens are blamed for all trouble.

So the major amount of people who are aimed to watch our film, are from the age of 15 up to maybe 19.      Our characters in our film, are only men which, is also typical in the main films such as green zone, woman wouldn’t want to watch a film where it involves killing and drugs etc. so most of our audience would be young men. Billy in our film is the main characters, but however at the end he doesn’t look like it he just look like the delivery boy, and then gets killed, all of this is a bit similar to the film shifty a low budget film.




Its hasn’t got the same story line however, it's similar in as the atmosphere, the drugs, the hooded bad guys. Also the streets they are out on, and getting their selves in trouble, Like ion ours Billy get stabbed because he they bad man didn’t want to give him the money, however in Shifty they are just lucky they didn’t get arrested or killed, even thought many people attempted to kill them, and they have been chased by the police quite a lot of times. Also when they go under the underpass, which we included as well which makes it look rougher.

In most crime/gangster films all the young characters wear the baggy hoody with the low jeans, this is also one of the things we kept the same, Which is also Stereotypical In the media now, that all the young teens with the hoodies are the bad people that cause the trouble around the neighbourhood.

Storyboard

This is one of our storyboards we did, however we coudn't upload the 2nd one as it didn't let us do it.

This is just some rough sketches and ideas, that we thought of. It hasn't have to stay like this, we could always make changes to it. This is just we thought of and try and see how it will look like.