Evaluation activity 7

Looking back at our preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel have learnt from the progression from it to full product.

Here is our preliminary task.




Frame 1 comparison

 This foot shot is from our preliminary task and is a high angled shot showing the intensity of the walk. By adding intensity it allows the viewers to feel the the dramatic atmosphere. The walk was slow as it needed to put the hesitation of the character across.

On the other hand this foot shot is at a different angle because the character of the film was shown better through the close up of her shoes. By showing the audience that she wears socks and sandals gives the viewers an insight on the character as well as showing a comedic view.








Frame 2 comparison

This is an over the shoulder shot in our preliminary task. It gives the viewers an insight on the background of the character's life without giving away too much of the story. In this shot the character is shown to be entering the counselling office which gives the audience the idea that she may have issues within her life. It allows the audience to question what is going to happen and therefore intrigues them to watch the rest of the film.


This is an over the shoulder shot in our final opening sequence. It shows the character locked within a locker which gives the idea that she is being bullied. This allows the audience to watch it further they want to know how she escapes the situation. The lighting is shown as dark as it creates an upset mood for the character as she is struggling.





This is a video of us, Jessica and Megan, discussing what we learnt from the preliminary task.

Evaluation Activity 6

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


This is our prezi staring Jessica in most of our pictures :) We learnt many things from how to use a camera to exporting our movie on imovie.  At first we found iMovie and iMovie HD challenging to use but we eventually got the hang of it! We were able to use garage band well, as Jessica has experience with it and we were able to use iTunes as all of us use it on a regular basis!

Evaluation activity 5 (part 2

This is our opening sequence annotated showing our unique selling point, similarities to other films and our views on our music.

Our opening sequence is very similar to the film 'Mean Girls' and in some ways similar to 'St Trinians'.  This is shown with in the annotations.

Interviews for activity 5 (part 1)

How did you attract/address your audience?

Here is a video of Megan interviewing 16/17 year olds. We interviewed this age group as it was our target audience for our opening sequence. From the interviews we learnt that our target audience would suit our film well as they enjoy the 'Inbetweeners' as it is similar to our opening sequence.




We also interviewed our teacher, Mr N Go.  From this interview we learnt that our film would not be suited to Mr Go's age group.  We can tell this because of his comments about the 'Inbetweeners'.   He said that he didn't understand all of the jokes as they are related more to teenagers and that he felt that the film wasn't aimed for him.

Evaluation Activity 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

This is Lucy Johnson she is 15 going on sixteen soon and is currently in yr 11 living in West London. She enjoys hanging out with her friends, shopping and all the other typical things that a teenager enjoys doing. She is very family orientated and enjoys spending time with her younger sibling and her younger cousins. She enjoys watching teen comedies as when she is with her family or even friends she takes her younger siblings and cousins to the cinemas to watch teen comedies such as, when the Inbetweeners movie came out. She currently has a boyfriend called Connor who enjoys the same things as her. They spend most nights together watching there favourite TV programmes or watching a DVD.

Her favourite television programmes includes: 90210 on E4 which she can relate to as they are a group of young people currently in education with boyfriends/girlfriends. She also enjoys watching the  Inbetweeners also on E4 which is a comedy about a group of young teens who are outcasts which Lucy finds very funny as she says: ' I find this show absolutely hilarious as the fact that it is based on a group of outsiders emphasises the comedy factor.' As well as the BBC1 soap EastEnders. She enjoys various types of music, ranging from pop music to rock music. Lucy loves listening to music a lot, so much that most of the time she is either listening to her iPod or blasting  out the radio as it  playing her favourite song, her favourite stations include: Capital, Choice FM and sometimes XFM.

Lucy tells us: " I really like teen comedies especially with a range of different social groups like the popular group as I find that I can relate to this as it is set in a school and some of the things the characters go through I mostly go through on a daily basis at school. Some of the jokes can be quite cheesy sometimes but nevertheless I still enjoy it. I love films that make you laugh but not in a typical way like telling a joke but a different way like a silly gesture that you don't see coming." Her favourite films include: She's the Man, Easy A and Angus, thongs and perfect snogging.  She mostly enjoys watching them at the cinema as she gets that ' big screen experience' but she also likes to buy the DVD and watch it at home usually with her friends or family members.

I think our opening sequence would appeal to teens like Lucy because it is a teen comedy which teens can also relate to as their includes different social groups, and is set in a school. Our film is one that she can watch with her friends, younger family members or even her boyfriend as he can also relate to it in the same way that she does. It is for those teens who enjoy having a laugh at the typical kind of humour portrayed in most comedies. I think that this is definitely a film that Lucy can go to watch in the cinema to get the 'big screen experience' with her friends.

Evaluation, activity 3

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

Firstly, what is a distributor?

A distributor is in charge of releasing the film to the public. It has to control the function of budgeting, scripting and also indicating members of staff to particular areas in order to produce a film.

As a group we discussed and referred to the 3 companies that we had previously explored in class, these were Warp X, Warner bros and Working title.

-Warp X use low budget production methods to try and achieve high value films that will attract a range of people. Some of their first productions were as follows: 'a complete history o my sexual failures', 'Donkey punch' and so on. But records show that they have not been as successful as Warner Bros and Working title.

-Warner Bros is seen to be as a more Hollywood type of production company because of their materials and their values. Clearly just by mentioning Hollywood it is vivid that Warner Bros interact with diverse audiences also it can be argued that because Warner Bros is an american producer it has more value than the other two British companies.

-Working Title are another British company but who on the other hand of Warp X use well known actors to perhaps create a bigger chance of bigger numbers of individuals watching their films. For example; Rowan Atkinson who stars in 'Johnny English' is known to be very funny with out even using dialogue, it is through his gestures that the audience understand his character.

Having summarised the 3 production companies we would relate our opening sequence to working title because we are almost certain that our opening sequence would interest our target audience which are teenagers and young adults. The location and story line of our project demonstrates the day-to-day routine that the majority of our target audience go through and therefore can relate to and enjoy watching it on the big screen. We would not state that Warner bros could be a potential distributor for our film because of the standards they work at and the high budgets they invest from. Nevertheless we would not result to Warp X because of their low quality and low budget materials it would not allow us to produce a good enough project that our target audience would spend money on to watch.

Having spoken about budgets it is evident that certain things like props and costumes would have to come from our personal funds due to a certain budget being spent on things for editing or that have to do with the quality of our project. The budget could be funded by either a government grant or other things like sponsorship, donations, fund raising events and other similar methods of obtaining money.

Evaluation Activity 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

















We decided to use Megan to play the stereotypical character of a fat greasy slob,  this character is  generally in comedies; appearance wise Megan does not look like a greasy slob as she is not fat but fits other factors of being a fat greasy slob such as, being messy/scruffy with holes in her socks. We were influenced to have a range of different characters from looking at a variety of films like 'Mean girls'.
This character is not specifically given a name but her group that she is in is given the title of 'girls who eat their feelings' who fits this stereotype but like Megan she is a girl which goes against the conventional stereotype of a fat greasy slob. Though, in our film Megan portrays this character very well. They are both  in school, with their only care is for food and nothing else, both love stuffing their faces with junk. However, there are some differences such as, their costumes as Megan is in very casual clothes (which she wears everyday to school) and their body posture as Megan seems like she doesn't care and just relaxes with her food in her hand while the picture from 'Mean girls' shows her sitting in the canteen eager to eat when bringing food to her mouth. Although, there facial expressions can be related as Megan is concentrating on her food and ignoring everything else as if it is only her and her food in the room and the character from 'Mean girls' looks like shes concentrating on her food and is very eager to get it, again it looks like its only her and her food in the room at that time.
Whereas, the shot of Megan and the character from ' Mean girls' also allows the different characters to be portrayed in a certain way, for example, the character form ' Mean girls' looks like she seems to care what other people think and does have friends but friends who are losers as the shot allows there to be other people in it looking like shes known in school for the fat greasy slob she is and is therefore, secluded. Overall, both characters are portrayed similarly, allowing the audience to see where we got our influences form.

As well as in our opening sequence representing the stereotypical 'greasy slob' it also represents the social group "the geeks".

The Geek in our film was played by Ana and was the main character.  Her costume was socks and sandals, a  dress with a blue jumper and trousers underneath, big glasses and her hair tied up in bunches.  These all typical of the stereotyped geek. We got the inspiration for the geek from The 'Inbetweeners' character, Will McKenzie.



This is a picture of 'the geek' from 'The Inbetweeners'. He is wearing glasses, similar to our main character and he is smartly dressed, also similar to our character. Just by looking at this image one can tell the similarities between this character and the main character in our opening sequence.









Here is a picture of our main character, the geek, from our opening sequence.      She is similarly dressed to the person in the above picture and both people  represent a stereotypical social group, the geeks.      





Overall, we think that we represent the social group well by the costume worn and also by the way Ana speaks throughout her voice over.

Our opening sequence also represents the stereotypical 'dumb blonde' or as we called the person in our film 'the dipsy blonde'. We showed her as someone with blonde hair, highly interested in cheer leading and covering herself in make up.  We also showed her to be quite bossy.

This is a shot from the film 'St Trinians' showing 'the posh totie' putting on her makeup.  She is very similar to our character 'The dipsy blonde' as she is highly interested in make up.  The shot is also filmed in a mirror which is how we shot our character putting on her make up.

This is 'The dipsy blonde' from our opening sequence, we've shown her similarly to the character in the above picture.