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Evaluation 6 and 7

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

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

Evaluation 4 and 5

Evaluation 4- Who would your audience be for your media product?
Evaluation 5- How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation 3

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

Evaluation 2

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

Evaluation 1

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

Costume

We picked muted colours in our costume because we wanted a very drab feel to the opening- that is, bright colours would have conveyed a positive emotion, which wasn't the statement we wanted to make at the beggining of the film- the muted colours set the atmosphere of the rest of the film.

Ripped jeans were a choice we made to make it abundantly clear that this is a normal teenager, not an agent or a spy, as ripped jeans are an item of clothing stereotypically worn exclusively by teenagers.

The coat was to accentuate the drab colours, and also because the setting of our film is late November, early December.

The attacker is wearing black to highlight his anonymity, and the gloves were a stereotypically villainous symbol to convey quickly who was the protagonist and who was the antagonist.

Props

We only had two props, the phone that the protagonist uses and the metal bar the attacker uses to knock her out. we were considering having the phone crack after it drops,  but decided that it would be too hard to read the completed downloading bar. We also briefly considered having the metal rod swapped out with a baseball bat, but realised that a hint metal rod was more realistic, as it is more easily concealed.

Actors

We were always going to have a teenage girl cast as the protagonist, but we had a few different ideas before we settled on Kira. But we finally felt that Kira had the right look of panic on her face when she shot the scenes that lent itself towards realism.

Originally the attacker was gong to be seen, before we decided to include POV shots in our opening, and we were going to cast a teenage boy as the attacker (at that point in planning it was an age appropriate casting decision). Unfortunately, those plans fell through and we then reworked the antagonists age, and included POV shots for effect, making it unnecessary to find a middle aged man to cast in the role, as the face of the attacker is not seen in our film.

Questionnaire

The questionnaire planned doesn't seem necessary anymore as all the pertinent questions were answered in the response to the showcase

Showcase and response

          



         


These are some of the reaction we captured after our opening was screened to parents and peers at the media showcase. The overwhelming consensus was that the female protagonist was a large draw for young female audiences. The only criticism we received was in regards to acting- something that is subjective, and the complaint wasn't consistent throughout the comments we received.

Similar products and target audience

Products similar to ours are:



'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' produced by Skydance Productions














'Ocean's Eleven' produced by Marv Films



'The Man From U.N.C.L.E'  produced by RatPac Productions



These products are marketed towards people the same age as the protagonist- namely males in their mid-thirties, but research shows that they wouldn't be interested in a film with a young female protagonist- and that young girls are interested in spy films with a female protagonist.

A single man

Title                        
A single man

Director            
Tom Ford

Writer         

• Tom Ford

• David Scearce

Distributed by     
The Weinstein Company


Production Company
Lawrence Bender Productions

Plot 

George Falconer is depressed and struggling to cope a year after his partner of 16 years, Jim, died in a car accident. He plans to commit suicide that night, but people that he meets that day change his mind, especially one of his students, Kenny Potter.

My review
This was an interesting film. Colin Firth's acting was phenomenal, and his portrayal was both touching and realistic. I, personally, loved the non-linear story. The flashbacks really added a richness to the emotions and events, that wouldn't have been there otherwise. The cinematography was also extremely well done, in my opinion. The saturation added a nice tone to the shots; it reflected George's mood. It was mainly grey-ish and washed out, except during certain conversations when his mood peaked, when red tones were heightened. However, I can see how the slightly surrealist impression that the style and soundtrack give could turn people off the film, but I really enjoyed it.

Evaluation Plan

These are our evaluation questions, and I have finished planning my responses- I have yet to film them, but videos should be appearing in the near future. This is the final stretch!

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

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

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

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

5) How did you attract/address your audience? 

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

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

Finished film!

We finally finished editing our film! We fixed the issues brought up in the review, and are happy enough to post the final version. So here it is.... Classified!

Good Will Hunting

Title                        
Good Will Hunting

Director            
Gus Van Sant  

Writer         
Matt Damon
Ben Affleck           

Production Company
Lawrence Bender Productions

Distributed by     
Miramax films  

Plot 

"the film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor. Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend and himself, facing the significant task of confronting his past and thinking about his future."                       
                                     
My review
I really loved this film, the character and the plot were amazing, None of the conflict felt forced or unnatural. The long on the characters faces worked amazingly well and the emotions were palpable. The soundtrack was one of the best I've heard. I would definitely recommend this film to anyone.

Our filming experience

Meet the rest of my group. Although we've never made a vlog together, they do exist! This is them talking about our filming experience, and some of the compromises and changes we decided to make during filming, and post-production.

 

Trouble with the credits

During the reaction it came to my attention that there was a repeated name in the credits that had to be changed. Unfortunately, the new title kept dropping in quality half way through the typewriter effect, and it would not go away, no matter how many times we started from scratch. Eventually we figured out the problem and managed to change the title so that it did not turn pixelated.

Long shots

One of the problems brought up in the response was that some of the scenes were too long, and became somewhat boring and lowered the tension, so we added in some more reaction shots of Kira looking panicked, which hopefully solved the problem.

Music

This was a point of contention between members of our group, as each of us had a clear vision of the sound that we wanted to use. The beginning was decided before filming, as the music was exactly what we wanted, so that wasn't the problem. The problem was that during the running shots we couldn't find the right music, we knew what we wanted, but we couldn't find one that fit, or decide on which one was the most similar to our vision. We eventually decided, but after it had been added we realized that our choice didn't work in the slightest, and we scrapped the sound. We finally found the right music, which was a mix of tracks, and the opening came together.