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

What are the social groups represented in terms of gender, age, class, race, etc?

Pick a key character from your opening. Think of one or more characters from other films with some similarity to them (but maybe some differences too!). Write about the similarities and differences in terms of appearance, costume, role in film etc.

So for example if you have a lone cop type character, look for other lone cops to compare him with...

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

Would this be something that could be produced by a major Hollywood studio, if yes then why? Is it similar to existing products?

Would it be a TV movie?

Would it be an arthouse film?

Would it be an internet only release?

Why would it be released? Does it offer opportunities for franchises and/or merchandising?

Where might the money come from for a film such as yours?

What films are similar 'institutionally'?
(Name some films which would be released in a similar way.)

Link your conclusions to a discussion of the mise-en-scene (visual style) of your opening sequence.

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

Consider the age and gender of your target audience.
(Link this to the narrative and style of your film.)

What kinds of taste might your target audience have : Where would they shop? What music would they listen to? What would their favourite TV programmes be? etc.

What other films are similar to yours? Who do they appeal to?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Link this into your audience profile (I.e. what age and gender they are)

Are there particular points in your film that would appeal to a certain age or gender? If yes then explain them in detail.

You should refer to genre conventions, use of music, similarities with other movies and what you have identified as the Unique Selling Point of your imaginary film.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

Talk about the filming process. Were there problems you faced? How did you resolve these issues?

Did you get to use new equipment that enhances your opening sequence? I.e. the dolly.

Editing software - Final Cut Express. What have you learnt about editing?

Photoshop - What have you learnt about using the software?

Garageband - was it a useful programme for creating a soundtrack? What challenges did you face during this process?

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

Concentrate on editing and camerawork.

Show what you know about shot types, edit terms and techniques.

Discuss the planning stage, storyboarding, and explain how this helped you to produce your opening sequence.

Make sure you mention the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot

Has your use of specific shot types improved? I.e. match on action, point of view?

Do you feel more confident with the equipment?

How successful do you feel your end product is as fulfilling the task?

FINAL OPENING SEQUENCE / PEER FEEDBACK

T2-58 CHILDREN'S FILM OPENING FINAL from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

This is the sheet containing the feedback from our peers. It says that our strengths within the sequence are:

-Good mise-en-scene

-Indie Film

-Funny

-Good camera angles

-Good music- catchy

-Good titles- very well thought out and planned

-Good choice of font 

-Good story line/idea- portrayed very well

Our improvements that need to be made are:

-The reflection in the window

-Portraying bullying

-Not to laugh as much

-Toilet door stationary would have looked better

-Ambiant sound

Monday 19th October: We went out filming our shots in the chosen locations, however we were unable to shoot our first scene on the 0bus as we had no time and decided to do it during next lesson. We got back to class and uploaded our film to the Mac.

We change scene 5.

Wednesday 21st October: We shot our scene on the bus. We got the bus from the college stop and filmed on our way to the hospital stop. While three out of four of us were filming, one of us was in the class room practicing making music for the opening sequence.

Thursday 22nd October: Today we filmed an extra two scenes as we realised our sequence was not long enough. We shot both scenes outside.

We did realise that one of the shots we could see the camera in the reflection.

Monday 2nd November: Two of us focused on the editing on Final Cut and the titles on Photoshop. For the titles we looked on websites for a scribbly handwriting type font, and finally chose KidsTypeFont. The other two in the group progressed on with the music, increasing the length and adding in more instrumental sounds.

We then had out teacher watch what we had so far and gave us feed back.

Wednesday 4th November: After getting out feedback front our teacher on the Monday, we then used it to improve our sequence. We cut the lengths of some of our shots and zooming into the main character's face.

We then started adding our titles into the sequence by saving them from Photoshop into our folder and opening then onto Final Cut.

We also made our soundtrack for the sequence longer to fit the whole of the sequence.

Thursday 5th November: We added extra tricks to how we have our titles on screen, and sorted out the background music.

Titles: Tom made two of our titles look like they are coming out of automatic doors by using the 'swiping' font technique to make the font appear and disappear when the doors are opening and closing. This makes the titles in this shot stand out to add atmosphere to the scene.

Plan- 12th of October 2009

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Name Of The Film:
Albert And The Magic Lunchbox

Genre:
Comedy, Fantasy

Plot:
Lonely child who is seen as a 'geek' by all in his sixth form college. He has never had a girlfriend, never even had a conversation with one. He has only ever had one friend, at the start of secondary school who left the country a year later. Ever since year 8, Alfred has been known as the 'lonely geek' in his classes. The film opens with Alfred getting on his school bus on a bright Monday morning to get bullied and pushed around whilst he is trying to find an empty seat.
- Finds something (Cool/popular guy's magic lunchbox)
- Cool guy helps Alfred out, to become cool
- He finally becomes happy.

Characters:
Albert- Will Hall

Cool Guy- Tom Edwads

Bullies- Jez Eden and Rebecca Chivers

Props:
Bus, Paper, Sandwich, milkshake, lunch box- lunch

Costumes:
Albert- white shirt, tie, hat, glasses

location: bus, class room, cafe, toilet, long road.

Analysis Of Film Opening- This Is England

When watching the opening sequence of This Is England we straightaway realised the era and location of which the film is set. We acknowledge the fact the film is set in England, not only because of the name of the film, but we see many patriotic happenings that accured in England. We acknowledge the fact that the film is set in the 80's as the happening also all accured in that era.

We noticed many certain occasions and social habits of which we associate with England such as the riots, polital occasions, youngsters way of dancing and the music that they danced to, the culture of original England and the multiculturalism. We felt that perhaps these clips of filming could show the viewer an insight as to the personality of the characters in the film. For example we see hooligans within the riots, and a few clips of which consist of skinheads. We also saw a lot of pride, e.g a perade with the British flag flying. There were also a couple of clips showing racism, which is a main part of the film. The clips within the opening sequence and that we had mentioned above give us an idea of what is to happen in the film.

The music that plays over the opening sequence is by Toots and The Maytals, a ska band. For people who are knowledgeable of skinhead culture and habits, will know that it was mainly ska music of which they listened/listen to. We think this gives the right feel to the sequence and gives us an idea of what the film could consist of.

Preliminary Task T2-58

T2-58 PRELIMINARY TASK - YR12_2009 from SATMEDIASTUDIES on Vimeo.

What is continuity editing?

To show continuity editing, we used three simple rules of cinematography. These are: the 180 degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot.

This is the 180 degree rule, where there is only 180 degrees in which a camera can stay, making it so the characters are always on the same side of the screen. It is most frequently used to show conversation.

Match on action is is the term applied to an action jumping across several cuts. For example, someone is shown opening a door handle from the outside of a room. The shot is then carried over to the opposite side of the door where the action is completed and the man walks through the door. In our video, We changed this to walking round a corner instead of walking through a door.

The final rule we had to use was shot/reverse shot. This is usually used with the 180 degree rule in mid conversation, so it can skip from person to person depending on which person is talking. For our video we found it worked well but the conversation was a bit short on each side, so it was quickly changing shot.