TASK 4- WHO WOULD BE THE AUDIENCE FOR YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT?

TASK 5- How have you attracted/addressed your target audience?

Our primary target audience is girls aged 15-24.

A typical member of my target audience is a girl who loved ballet and movies(especially horror and thrillers). Her favourite programs were "Got To Dance"(for the dance) and Sherlock(she is interested in science).

Our secondary target audience is boys and men aged 15-24.

 I feel we defiantly attracted this kind of audience, escpeically for the ballet aspect. Teenage girls love beautiful clothes and elegant things. We have covered the beautiful clothes department by using the ballerina costume which we spent a long time choosing. The dance scene is very elegant and beautiful which will appeal to most girls because they love elegant things and fashion. Teenage girls can also relate to our actress at the start of the film because she is also a teenage girl and girls watching this can imagine themselves in this role.


Our film is full of suspense and the film will include a scene where a girl is kidnapped which will be on the edge on the seat entertainment. This will appeal to a huge market of people who love being in suspense and love to be caught up in action. Teenage boys will escpaially love this because normally boys love action games therefore they will like to see this scene where we have lots of action. Teenage boys will also like our actress at the beginning because boys are interested in young good looking girls and this is what we have. The boys will also look up to our two male police detectives because young boys all have people they would like to be like(superman, Rambo) and these two detectives can also be role models for the boys. We also put in a female detective to give the female audience members a role model and a character to root for. Within the film we will have guns and cars will will appeal to men/boys who love gadgets.

                                                                                                                                                                    

I feel our actress at the begging of the film will attract allot of young female teenagers even if they are not a fan of ballet because this character is a strong independent girl and I feel young teenagers will aspire to be like her. Our thriller will also appear to the older generation hence the adult cast members(dectecives). Our police detectives are young men who will appeal to women because they will  be like a sex object to lots of our female adult audiences. Men will also be attracted to them because they will be able to relate to them especially if they are working men. The office scene will also appeal to adults who are working because they are familiar to office environments therefore they can relate to these working characters.

TASK 6- WHAT HAVE LEARNT ABOUT TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THE PRODUCT?

WE ANNOTATED THE FILM TO SHOW HOW WE USED TECHNOLOGIES IN ITS CREATION. SOME ANNOTATIONS MAY NOT APPEAR IN SOME BROWSERS SUCH AS SAFARI DUE TO YOUTUBE GLITCH.

TASK 7- LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO FULL PRODUCT?

 

 

The camera work in our prelim was very basic. We only used static shots like this close up shot above except for one tilt shot which is at the start. not visually exciting, slows action done and doesn't really add much to the acting or the scene.

This shot was not thought out because the actress in this shot is off centre.

In our thriller we used a range of shots from close ups to long shots to panning shots which is a great improvement from our prelim. For the camera work in our prelim only one person operated the camera which was not working as a team. In our thriller we all took in charge of the camera and we all took in turns to film which was good because we learnt a lot more about the camera because we all used it unlike the prelim where none the actors knew anything about the camera because they did not use it. For our thriller we used a tracking shot which worked really well and made it interesting for the audience because we had a variety of shots.

We used lots of slow motion shots which lets us see how elegant the ballerina is and this is important because ballet is an elegant sport. The slow motion shots makes her seem vulnerable yet we can see her serious focused face which might put the audience on edge. We can also see her muscles straining which shows foreshadows later events- physical threat, bodies being controlled.

The mise en scene was very simple in our prelim. We used what we could find and not what we needed. If the prelim had been our thriller we would have got proper costumes and would have added make up to the actors. For our thriller we spent time looking for the right outfit and bought it on line which is a big improvement from the last time where we just threw some clothes together. Getting the right costume is key because it brings the realism to it all and gets the audience involved and into the story.
The flower which we used for the cocaine was not very well thought out. Normally the cocaine would not be carried around in a small plastic bag. All the props we used in the prelim were not realistic which meant and it breaks the suspension of disbelief. The acting was good but we should probably have a used a stereotypical gangster like two men because the actors we used did not look scary enough.
For our thriller we got a professional dancer not just any old girl.

 The location for the prelim was a quick and stubborn decision because we should not have filmed outside because we had all sorts of sound problems where as when it came to our thriller we made the decision to not film outside because of all the sound and continuity problems. We ended up shooting inside the studio and a classroom which was much better than outside because we had more control. We had to keep stop and starting whilst filming the prelim because cars and planes came by which meant we had to keep stopping whereas in the studio we did not have this problem.

The editing in the prelim was very basic and slow unlike the thriller where we used lots of techniques. The slowness of the editing  in our prelim makes us as the audience bored. To create excitement  we needed the editing to be quick and pacey to keep the audience on the edge of their feet. In our thriller we did slow editing and used cross dissolves  which made the whole thing seem very elegant and dream like.  At the start of our prelim we have a gap between two shots where all we can see is a black screen which is very bad and unprofessional and takes the audience awary from the story. In our thriller we checked over it hundreds of times to make sure there were no mistakes otherwise it could ruin the action.

In this lesson we added ambient sound effects to the police scene to make it more believable for example we added a police siren to set the scene. We modified the sound levels so that they were not over powering. We felt the police scene went on for too long but we liked the bit when Abi walks over the Jason so we faded to black as she gets to Jason. This looks better nothing much happened when she got to Jason so it keeps the audience from not being bored.

Today we started to edit our thriller which is going very well. We have made 2 copies of the thriller-one is for experimenting and the other is the real thing. This means also means we can practice diffierent shots without getting confused with which shot goes where. We have had a few comments from pepole regarding our thriler. We have made the first 5 shots slowmotion close ups to ease the viewers in and some people like this but others get bored. For this thriller to work we need a mixture of slomotion shots and normal pased full body shots!

The day before the shoot day me and my group spent nearly 3 hours turning our media classroom into a police office. We went round collecting our props like chairs, computers, phones etc and getting them ready. We took down all the films posters and books and put them in a box. We piled the media chairs up in the room next door and we moved our props in. The I.T department provided us with the computers and phones but the rest we bought in or found round the school. My task was to print of pictures for the wall which I found challenging because I was not entirely sure what posters were needed. I printed our fire warning posters and health and safety posters but I was not sure if we should have any fun posters in the room. In the end I went just went for classic safety posters and a notice board.
This is what the room looked like before.

This is what the room looked liked after we had dressed it up.

When I woke up I was very excited to start shooting because we had been planning this for ages so it was nice to put our planning into action. We had set up the room the night before therefore I was fairly calm. When we looked at the set again we thought maybe we should add a few things so we found a huge map to put up on the wall which was a nice touch. Elina was in charge of make-up so she took our actress off to do that. When we got to the studio the floor was very dirty due other thriller groups using it. Me and Camilla went off and found a broom and swept the floor so that it looked clean. Because of the cleaning and small touches the office set were a little behind on schedule.
I feel the office looked very good and that map was a nice touch because it made it feel more like a police office because we circled some areas on the map which could be locations of crime.





This how our actress looked. We put glitter on her face which looked amazing camera and gave her a innocent look.

We took in turns to film but at the begging me, elina and bex directed while camilla filmed then I filmed etc. We were all ways making sure our actress was ok and asking her if she wanted something because we wanted her to feel comfortable.



The camera was wired up to the TV so that we could playback what we filmed on a large screen which was good because it gave us a feel of what it will look like. The playback all so meant we could look for mistakes therefore re shoot. The TV was not facing our actress because otherwise she might have got self concise.
I went up in the crain to film the birds eye view shots. I felt I did a good job on this because it was very hard to film when your high up and in a small cage therefore I had very little movement space. I enjoyed this part of filming the most because I the teachers were not up there with me therefore could not help me much if I got stuck with the camera therefore I felt very independent up there and I got to know the camera better because I was forced to work the camera out by my self.

The only problem we had was variety of shot. We got loads of shots of the ballerina twisting but our teacher reminded us the audience needs variety otherwise they would get board. Our actress did do some other things for us so we did get some very good shot but unfortunately this was close to lunch therefore we had to stop so if I could redo the shoot again I would make sure we had time to do other shots(managing time better). I think the best part of the shoot was getting the slow motion shots because it looked very graceful and elegant which is what we wanted. I felt our production team all worked well together. We all listened to each other and took advice and I cant wait get the editing part and piece the film together.
I have learnt the best work needs teamwork because if you don't work together then you wont produce good material. I have also learnt to keep your actors happy because if they are happy then they will delivery very well!