Q7. Looking back at your preliminay task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from this process of constructing this product?

Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/ address your audience?

We used certain advertising points such as:

Vimeo

Instagram

Posters

We have used different advertising techniques to advertise the film and to get people interested in seeing our film.  By putting the film on social networks we are broadening our horizons for teenagers to see the movie and to share what they have found with friends.

MISE EN SCENE:

our mise en scene I believe attracted our audience an example of this would be her cool, fashionable young clothing, and her modern girly  bedroom.

ACTORS:

The actors are all teenagers which makes an automatic connection between the characters in the film and the audience which is targeted at teenagers

LOCATION:

The locations are the teenage girls bedroom and her school, it makes the audience relate even so more to the character.

ACTION:

The fact that the girl commits suicide lots of young people can sympathise and understand what it is like to be in that situation, and it being the easy time period in ones life to be influenced and pressured. Also her obvious interest in boys, which the audience can also relate to since attraction is a normal time in a teenagers life.

SOUND:

The sound in which we used in our film were voice overs of the other teenagers which are bullying her at school. 

FILM NAME:

The name also attracts the target audience since, rumours and gossip is a popular occurrence in a teenagers lifetime.

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

Most teen movies are aged between the ages 13 upwards, depending what the main topic of the film is about,but I would say that our target audience is teenagers, mostly girls from the ages 15+  but also boys since they could see it from a girls perspective and stereotypically is different since most of the time its the boy playing lots of girls in my film its the other way round where the girl is playing the boys. Due to the fact that there is suicide in our film and some subconscious intimacy, also some swear words. I specifically chose this age because I feel as if 15 is the age were people are normally most influenced and pressured. 

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

DISTRIBUTION AND PRODUCTION

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Here I have gathered opinions and reflectional comments about my film 'Rumour has it.' in one of the video it clearly relates to the stereotypes and how our film is different since our film doesn't really fit into any stereotypes.

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge of real media products

Glogster in which I made which talks about Forms and Conventions.

WE FINISHED!!!

WE HAVE FINISHED!!!!

This is Marleyah Writing finished on the finished wall (should have used a darker pen colour... orange wasn't the best choice)!!!

Instagram Update

We as a group have been overwhelmed with the response of our instagram page set up for media specifically.We have gained 14 followers and we regularly get likes from these followers.

We even get people liking our photos!!!

This photo received 6 likes!!!

But we aren't complaining!!!

We put the link of our blog in the bio and i believe that this has helped us to get more page views!!

Motion

We used motion to make our production title, which we named "Ocean Productions". This process involved changing the text type, choosing colour schemes and a background to fit with the name we created. After this, i slowed down the particle emitter.

How We Improved Our Movie

When we began editing initially, we discovered that some of our shots were too bright or not long enough, or in some cases, too dark. We then re-shot everything to improve, but there were obviously still things that had to be edited in order to be made use-able. 

For some of the bedroom scenes, when shooting, we didn't want to risk making the shots too dark, so we used a top light to brighten them up, then in order to make it fitting with the scene, we made some of the shots darker. We also used effects such as slow motion and fades. This was due to the fact that we did not have enough footage for specific areas, so had to use slow motion to fill time and make it more effective, and use a fade to represent a jump in time. 

One piece of advise a teacher gave us that we did not do anything about was when we were told that our movie could be potentially woman hating due to the storyline of a girl sleeping with several boys and being hated for it. We did take this comment on board, but could not change or improve it as it would have ruined the storyline and meant we could no longer use this idea for a film. 

MUSIC

In our film 'Rumour has it,' we only used two pieces of music. The first piece of music used to emphaises the emotion in this scene, which is where she is swallowing pills to commit suicide, it is a sad depressing song but over the top of the music we have voice overs which can still be distinguished over the music.

The second piece of music is ment to be happy, which creates a comparison between the scenes, and shows that there also has been a change of scene and type of atmosphere. this is the part of our film when shes walking into college and she sees the boys which she is 'invested in.'

The first piece of music i use is called 'Transferring back to,' one of the both songs that i got off sound cloud which are not copyrighted and alright to use in our in our film this is the for the sad section of our film.

The second song is a remixed version of Nicki Minaj 'Star Ships' which has a really happy feel for this part of our film and which I also got from sound cloud.

What We Have Learnt from Editing

During our time editing, we have learnt that continuity is extremely important. In regards to our shots, this is important as in some shots the background was busy, whereas in a similar shot/place, the background was completely empty. This was beyond our control, but is definitely an aspect that should be considered for future reference as it makes editing shots a lot more difficult. We have also learnt to use different types of software and to make our own production title for the movie. Finally, we have realised that editing is generally a long process that requires a huge level of patience, and making shots look professional takes a lot of hard work and use of effects.

To add to the point of continuity, mise en scene was also an important factor in making shots believable. This meant we would have to wear the same costume for certain scenes, and have hair and make up and props the same when filming shots for the same part.
The weather was also something to consider. When filming outside, we had to try and film on days where the weather was similar, which meant filming would be tricky some days when the weather would suddenly change.

Evidence Of Editing

We begun editing this week and deciding what music to use and the most appropriate effects for our shots. Below is a number of pictures we took during the editing process so far.

Rough Cut

Filming day 6:Journey to college

Today we filmed the girls journey to school as after looking at all our clips and the ones we can use we realised that they are all very short and we needed more footage.We thought that the journey to college would be a good idea as our previous shots have been close-ups and by filming her traveling into college gave us an opportunity to shoot some long shots and pans.Today was a successful day of filming as we have become aware that we only have one more part to film which is the girl walking away from the first guy.And then, we can begin editing!!!

Evidence:

Filming Day 5:Owens fields

Today we decided that we would film our final boy in owens fields (next to college) so that not all the boys were very close together as this could be confusing to our audience.This by far was the easiest part to film as we were outside there was lots of natural light and also because it was not a very busy area, which meant we therefore had no disruptions.

Evidence:

Filming Day 4:canteen again

Today we decided to re-film the canteen footage and we recruited two new boys to be in our film opening.We re-filmed the scenes exactly as we had done before more or less but used a toplight this time to overcome the problem of dark footage that we had been having before.Todays filming was stressful as for no apparent reason the canteen was super busy and we therefore had to do lots of takes due to people disrupting our takes.

Evidence:

Filming day 3: Bedroom scene (AGAIN!!!)

After reviewing all of our footage we realised that the majority of it was just two dark to film with so we made the decision to re-film the majority of what we had already filmed again as a result of this.During lesson we went to Elizabeths house to try and film these scenes for last time with ideas and improvement techniques from our teachers and through watching back footage ourselves.We felt that this footage was alot more successful after watching it back and included more technical shots in it.We filmed all of the pill jump-shots again and the extreme close-ups just before the girl takes the pills.

Evidence:

Review of Footage

Initially the first footage we shot on college grounds was too dark, meaning we had to re-shoot everything we already had using a top light. We then decided to re-shoot the bedroom footage too in order to improve some of our shots. So far we still haven't finished filming, but the footage we now have is a huge improvement compared to what we previously had. We will meet up in our spare time to try and complete the rest of our footage as soon as possible.