Final Production "Birdlime"

This is the finished production of our opening sequence. Hope you enjoy

              

Question 1: In what ways does your media product product use, developor challenge forms and conventions in real media products?

I decided the best way to answer question 1 is by doing a directors commentary. This has allowed to explain what convetions we decided to use and what conventions we decided to challenge. I also have mentioned a few things we thought through that a viewer would subconciously notice (i.e music choice).  

                    

Question 2 How does your media represent particular social groups?

We try to represent mature teenagers and adults. To do this we made the business mans appearance humble which allowed the audience to see themselves as that character. We also gave the business man props that gave him an innocent side so the audience found it easier to relate.

                  

                                                                           

We thought that we would try to represent peoples light and dark side. The business is meant to represent the light side of a persons personality as he has an innocent side to him. The Hitman represents the dark side as he has a cold personality. This concept has also been used in the film piggy. In this film they portray it differently as the main character has split personality disorder.   

   

The reason we decided to do this was to try to evoke some emotion and thought from the audience as they can look back on moments they regret doing.

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

For this question we had to explain why we thought film 4 was the best choice of media institution. To show this we got together to demonstrate what our pitch would be to a film 4 executive. In the following film we explain why we wanted this institution and why it is best suited.

Question 4 Who were the audience for your media product?

The audience we decided to target was people between the age of 16 and 25 as we believe this the prime age range for gritty thrillers. We took inspiration from a few films and this was the target auidence for them aswell. The two main films we took inspiration from was snatch and layer cake.
 

We wanted to make our film relateable to the target audience. To make our opening sequence relatible we tried to accomplish a down to earth atmostphere. This ment we were not allowed to use flash cars, surreal secnarios (for example multiple huge explosions)  or unique enviroments (mount everest). We achieved this downto earth atomostphere by using familer enviroments like towns and villages. We assumed that most of our audience would live in a town or village similer to what we filmed. We also tried to make the buisness man seem somewhat relatible so they would be more effect on the death, to do this we chose an average looking car; a modest looking house and subtle things like the key ring attachements which were there to show his more innocent side. We toyed with the idea of making the hitman relatible through humorous lines in the voice over but it didnt suit the mood of the film so we decided on giving him a cold personality.

Question 5 How did you attract/address your audience?

I felt the best way to deal with question 5 was to use a prezi presentation this is because I found it easier to present my ideas into this presentation. Sorry if your not a fan of blues but I just wanted to give you a relaxing groove to help with all your marking.

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

I decide to use a slide show to answer this question as it was easier to display what I have learnt in text. The slide show is seen below.

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

As you can see above this was the preliminary task I did. Looking back now I can see a lot of mistakes I made during the filming. There are some breaks in continuity the most obvious break is when the student gets up from his chair to leave a you can see that when the angle changes the actor has moved place and has started walking again. I put this down to not trim the clip at the right times. I also use too many cross fades during the conversation which takes away from the "captivating" dialogue which definitely wasn't improvised. Another error is the execution of the 180 degree rule the main problem being I didn't go 180 degrees.

When I went on to doing the final production I was not expecting the length of time the filming and editing took to complete. I also wasn't expecting the sheer amount of shots we took that didn't make it in to the final cut. I do feel that the mistakes I made in the preliminary helped me to improve my vision of continuity when filming this is because I realized that even though I got a nice range of different angles and shots it didn't always work with the movement of the actors in the scene, as some placements of the camera obstructed the actor; in this case was when the actor goes to leave I have the camera set at the door which means the actor had to stop and go back to where they started mirroring what they did as close as they possibly which in Heinz sight could have been corrected with common sense. Also it taught me to film many different shots and angles for each clip otherwise you can end up with a terrible clip with no alternative. I am very confident in saying that comparing my preliminary task to my opening sequence there is a huge improvement in editing, camera shots and continuity.