Tuesday 13 March 2012

Evaluation Q.1-In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?


The Title of The Film
Our title is shown in the middle ‘Rosses are red’. This selected title is the in fact the name of our film, We have used a red paint and we painted it over the mirror. We really liked this because we added a special effect like its typing on a mirror by it self, we also used this effect in our film production. This idea came from research and personal preference.

Setting
The setting for our movie is shown in the middle of our movie few and the last minutes. It is shown in the first and last pictures. It is shot at long shot allowing the location to be revealed. The fact that our setting is inside our character room and outside the house area and in the morning relates to the stereotypical genre we have been aiming for.

Costumes
The first walking shot and the second sock shot shown when the girl is shot a long distance walking from the camera and the second shot shows the costume editor its represents costume choice with in our film. Our actor is clothed in a school uniform a black top, black skirt, black tights, jacket on top, socks and normal shoes. Also in the morning when she wakes up she wears a pyjamas. The main choice for this costume was inspiration from the romantic comedy films. I found her costume to be effective, because its bright and shows that she is a clumsy girl and it doesn’t really bother her what to wear.



  • Camera work and editing
The screen shot representing our camera work/editing is the shot of the girl walking toward the door, the camera shows only her feet moving. This is shot using a hand held technique. We chose to use this technique as it proved to be more effective as the camera wasn’t still as she was walking fast, which is effective as it shows the camera following walking.

Font
One of the still shots below shows font we have chosen. We tried to keep it simple and easy to read as if we had tried to make it look nice and bright and with an interesting writing. Simple texts with an interesting editing of colours and curves seem to be the most effective as they leave little trail as to where the storyline will lead.

Story/ Narrative
The screen shot representing our story/narrative is the final shot of the teenage girl walking out and she has her skirt stuck up. Its started with a normal morning. In the first 2 shots shows that the girl is clumsy doesn’t want to wake up. By going around her room with a camera shows that she is an art person that she has a best friend boy. Also that she is not seen by everyone. In the last shot we wanted to give the movie a contrast and that this movie will have some funny scenes so we decided to make her skirt stuck up. However by props you can see a lot and find out about girl because all the props more artistic and drew by our selfs.

Genre
The shot below shows our genre. It does this through the bright writing and pink colours. It manages to focus on the writing and you can see it clear. Everything within our film we have tried to keep to a stereotypical genre, such as the location, costume, actors and so on.

Characters
The screen shot of the girl shot at mid shot represents our costume choice. We chose this style of costume as through research of other movies with our genre in mind we found it to be the most effective and most complimentary to what we had aimed for.

Special FX
The screen shot showing our use of special FX is the shot of the title of our film production ‘Rubia Production’. This shot has been created by an editing technique where we took pictures and put all them together and added it into our video. We chose to do it because it shows her artistic work and we did in her art book.


Evaluation Q.2-How does your media product represent particular social groups?



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


The main character in our film Yaroslava Migur (Me) represents that of the main character in ‘Cinderella Story', the  girl played by Hillary Duff. Both of these characters are similar as they both play the female, clumsy girls with a happy ending.

Personally i find they compliment one another due to their similar stereotypical features such as the comparison in mise-en-scene.

For example the costumes used in both our film and ‘Cinderella Story' are normal cloths, more like old fashion ‘jeans or skirts’. The settings used for our film is again similar to that of ‘Cinderella Story' as its in her bedroom  but in our movie main character is more artistic. We chose to use a room location because it shows girls how they live and what they like. We tried to use certain stereotypical features when it came to the mise-en-scene of our film such as the costumes, lighting, settings and cinematography.


Hillary Duff









   Yaroslava Migur


Evaluation Q.3-What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

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

Evaluation Q.4-Who would be the audience for your media product?


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


I explored the website, www.findyourtribe.co.uk at which I took the quiz to find out which tribe I was from with my ideal audience in mind. The result was:


Townie! Job might be a bit boring but it brings home the bacon and helps you save up for those two weeks away to Spain. Weekends are set in stone – trip to the shops in town, buy yourself something nice, head to the All Bar One with friends, have a laugh, maybe go for a club, as long as there’s none of the indie weirdo music.


This audience suits our movie very well, because for example boys they would watch comedies but girls more like Townies will watch girly stuff kind of sad, happy and romantic. Even me I am one of that girls so I think it is a perfect audience.

We tried to attract our perfect audience member by creating our film with our audience solely in mind. We tried to create a character that would be familiar to the audience, in the way they look, or just that they can relate to her through other films/ books they have read. The audience we would refer to was categorised as a Townie, known for their stylish cloths more like socialising people. Keeping this mind we tried to create a theme and setting which would suit our audiences expectations. Our setting was a bright colourful room and all around our room were warm pinkish colours.

Evaluation Q.5-How did you attract/address your audience?

How did you attract/address your audience?


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Evaluation Q.6-What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


Thursday 1 March 2012

Moving Photos

An idea that we had was to have photos stuck around the mirror of Maya and her best friend to introduce the relationship which is vital to the plot in the opening sequence while the main characters names come up as titles. 


To do this we filmed the characters posing for photos which we could then select sections of to insert into the photo space. We wanted to show their playful attitude with one another aswel as how comfortable they are in each other's company.




When filming in the bedroom we used cut out green squares where these clips of them posing could be inserted which act effectively as a green screen.




However we were not positive whether we were going to be able to edit these videos in in the time space that we have been given to complete this video therefore we also did a back-up using real photos. But I feel these photos still convey the playful relationship and closeness of the two characters.


Tuesday 28 February 2012

No.29-Rough Edit



Here is our first draft. There are still a few things that we need to add and edit such as the start of the voice over at the end of the clip and a close up of her clicking on 'Music By Highway Five' on Itunes to replace the one that we have currently because you cannot see the text clearly.

Casting Change

Due to some very busy schedules and clashes we have had to change the character Maya to be played by Yaroslava Migur. She plays the part well showing someone who does not like getting up in the mornings at all as well as a playful friendly attitude with her best friend in the photo shots.

Tuesday 24 January 2012

No.27-Props and Costumes


Props

Clothes – pyjamas  + uniform
Posters
Duvet + pillow
Sketchbook  + Artwork
Make-up – eye shadow, mascara, compact mirror, eyeliner and lipstick
Photos round mirror
Perfume + bottle etc.  - for around mirror
Newspaper – make our own
Mug – paint on title
Magazines print of page with titles
Socks + label – sew label
Door sign – make in art with titles on

No.26-Casting Shots

For our casting we chose Sasha Norris to be a main character "Maya". We chose her because she is clumsy, cute and really nice like our character.


For our other characters we thought that the perfect best friend for "Maya" will be Robbie Mitchell as a "Paul" which she going to fell in love with at the end. Also we still thinking who is going to be our next character "Harold", and the last one is Kaylin who is playing the hot girl.


We don't have the pictures of all of ours characters yet, but we will try to have it tomorrow.

No.25-Risk Assessment


No. 25 - Risk Assessm




Who might be harmed?
How severe could the harm be?
   A
What controls are in place?

     B
How likely is an accident?
Risk Rating

AxB
What extra controls are needed?
Slips/trips/falls
Noise
Electricity
Stress
Dust/fumes
Weather

Students
 (actors)
More than  2 days off


Training
Safe system
Housekeeping
Information
Unlikely
1-2
Ok
It is nothing we can do to stop the weather









What is a Risk Assessment?



A Risk Assessment is a systematic method of looking at work activities, considering what could go wrong, and deciding on suitable control measures to prevent loss, damage or injury in the workplace. The Assessment should include the controls required to eliminate, reduce or minimise the risks.