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

This is our preliminary task which we started at the beginning of the year. From this i have learnt vastly and improved my skills in media significantly.

From the preliminary task, i have improved on a lot of skills and picked up from some crucial mistakes we made. Firstly, the major thing with a film project is the location and mise en scene. As the video above shows, it is very unrealistic and not believe able. In the film, i was meant to be playing as a women, this contributed towards the unrealistic terms as i am clearly not a women. For future reference, a female character would defiantly have to be placed in. Also, the continuity was a bit off key whilst Daryl was walking through the doors and coming into where i was based. My face actions kept on changing and nothing seemed serious. Continuity is very importantand can distinguish the quality of the film. Since then, our continuity has increased as you can see in our latest film.

In our film, there was also a very bad camera shake. This was due to the fact we were inexperienced using the tripod and we set it up wrong the first time we used it.We learnt that all the legs on the tripod have to be adjusted and secured. From then, we have learnt how to set one up confidently and there is hardly ever any camera shake unless it is intentional.

What Have You Learnt About Technologies from The Process Of Constructing This Product? Q6

These are some of the things i used so far in media, to help me with both my blog and filming that i have done.

Research And Planning Blog

During my research and blog planning i used several techniques to try and illustrate what i was representing.Most of my stuff was taken off YouTube.To get ideas, i was given a good website to help me and give me ideas which was; www.watchthetitles.com. This website was very useful and gave me a clear understanding of how opening sequences operated. Another website i used was DaFont.com. This helped me with font to put into titles to help me with my film.This gave us an idea and as a group we decided for what was best.

Opening Sequence
For my opening sequence, we tried to not duplicate a opening sequence from another film, however, got small ideas and then improvised them within our own film. Using the website www.watchthetitles.com we got most of our ideas and also saw how different genres operate using different techniques such as colour and font.

Music For My Opening Sequence

For our music we got a website called www.freesounds.com. On the website there was
lots of different types of genres of music. We searched our theme and we found a couple good clips which we included in our film. Dan, a member in my group also searched for music on garage band. Analysing other films also gave us a clear understand on what type of music was best for a thriller genre.

Titles For My Opening Sequence

Titles for our opening sequence were all chosen through choice. We went on DaFont

.com and got fonts that we edited in imovie. However we then found Live type which is another editing programme. We found this beneficial and started using it. We also watched other films and saw what types of fonts they used. We didn't mimic it but went along the lines of creating something similar.

Audience Feedback

For my audience feedback, i will upload my film onto YouTube or Facebook.This will benefit me as i will get different opinions and different ways in which i can improve my film. This will also establish what i can do better next time i film and different ways in which i can improve on actual film based techniques and editing on a computer.

How did you attract/address your audience? Q5

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Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product? Q4

Name: Tre Gibbons

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Lives: Mitcham

Watches what TV programmes:

Eastenders, prison break,balls of steel & sky sports channels

Visits what websites:

Grime daily, face book, and social networking sites

Does what when they go out:

Chills with friends, makes music, goes shopping,cinema, plays football. He also plays xbox and his favourite game is call of duty.

Listens to what other music:

Grime,rap,hip hop, reggae and other subcultural music

Wears what clothes: typical teenager clothing (hoodie, tracksuits), However, he also wears casual clothes when needed

Reads what magazines:

Doesn't find an interest in magazines

Likes/is involved with which subcultures:

Rapping/football team

Shops where:

Kingston, Wimbledon and any areas that have good shopping facilities.For example; west field,oxford street etc

Aspires to be:

Rapper Or Footballer

Has how much spare £££:

Whenever his family provides, whether its for Christmas or his birthday or randomly

Likes this particular genre because:

He gets motivated and aspired by the lyrics.

Anything else about your ‘character’:

Chilled out guy but also takes his school work seriously along with his hobby's.

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

Thriller and action films usually require a substantial budget to be produced and made therefore if a company was going to make my film, it would be someone like New line,20Th Century fox or Warner Bros. All These company's are very infamous for creating blockbusters, some examples are; X-Men, Die Hard and Blade Trilogy. All of these films are very well known and if i wanted my film to be as big as one of them it would be ideal for me to choose a major film company. I also no that they have made thrillers in the past so that would give me confidence with the go ahead also. The skill they have in creating the film would be in essence and only do well if i did pick a big indusrty to mainstream through.

How does your media product represent particular social groups? Q2

This character can represent Dan Decruz. (Ben Afleck, The Town)

Dan Decruz (Main Character)

Within our short opening sequence, in thrillers, u usually meet the main character. In ours, Dan Decruz is the main character, depending on what ethnic background he is, in a typical thriller film, he could be any ethnicity which breaks the stereotypical barrier.All 3 of the members in my group are white therefore we cant really show any ethnic stereotypical behaviour in which it concerns the role. However, we were going to introduce a gang leader of which he may of been an ethnic background with others as guards and so forth. However, we didn't lead down that route and we just picked me as the boss. Some can say that white people could be stereotyped as the 'hard men' through such things as from going to pubs or hooligans in modern day society. In addition, this could be backed up by another point that black youths of today are always involved in 'crime on our streets', but on the other hand this is not always the case.