Costume design comparision

Costume design comparison 

Evaluation Q2

Evaluation Q2 

Directional inspiration for my film, biography profile

Directional inspiration for my film, biography profile

 

 

Date of Birth: 1972

Director Joe Wright was born in London, where his father (who was 65 years old when Joe was born) and mother founded The Little Angel Theatre, a puppet theatre in the borough of Islington. Wright was always interested in the arts, spending his time painting, making Super 8 films and performing in a drama club. He is dyslexic and left school with no GCSEs (qualification awards for specified subjects) but still managed to be successful. He took improv workshops at the Anna Scher Theatre, and with his portfolio of paintings and Super 8 films, was accepted into Camberwell School of the Arts.

Steve McQueen is a British artist, director and screenwriter best known for his films Hunger, Shame and 12 Years a Slave, which won the Academy Award for best picture. Born in 1969, Steve McQueen is a British artist, director, and screenwriter who has garnered many awards for his art exhibitions and film work. He broke through into the mainstream film industry with his 2008 film, Hunger. His 2011 film, Shame, earned many accolades. McQueen's 2013 film, 12 Years a Slave, won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival as well as the 2014 Academy Award for best picture.

•      Oscar-winning director James Cameron is best known for the highly acclaimed, box-office hits Aliens (1986), Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2009).

      •James Cameron is a critically acclaimed film director known for some of the biggest box-office hits of all time. A science fiction fan as a child, he went on to produce and direct films including The Terminator, Aliens and Avatar. He has received numerous Academy Awards and nominations for his often large-scale, expensive productions. His most noted work, 1997's Titanic, became the first film to earn more than $1 billion, and landed 14 Academy Award nominations. Cameron took home three Oscars himself for the project, including for best director, best film editing and best picture.

Film opening analysis

Film opening analysis 

Make us feel emotionally involved as well as connected towards the two protagonists on screen by showing this through a close up gives us a much better visual .

Panning shot: used to show people or an object. Panning by turning horizontally on a vertical axis, but the effect may be enhanced by adding other techniques, such as rails to move the whole camera platform.

Lighting:

Natural lighting - (Notan), Lamps and candles are also used in this shot

My radio analysis

Radio analysis  

camera movement

Camera movement 

specific genre audience research

Specific genre audience research 

opening scene conventions

Opening scene conventions 

Match on action

Match on action 

Evaluation Q7 part 2

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

By, my teacher setting me preliminary task, in to the lead up for the media product final, I have learnt sound control is extremely important. For example, to the lead up to my media product I have learnt that the added background noise to the partying scene added to the atmosphere. However there were, continuous background noise that was not needed for the scenes. Thus I decided to us the sound adjuster, which I have learnt to use over the past months. This helped me to take away the noise and replace it with a musical soundtrack that again added great effectiveness to the film.

My editing skills have develop over the process of this year, as now I am more efficient in the way I use the premier programme as I am now able to re-order different clips and to move them into different areas of the film or video clip. For example I am now able to increase sound and lighting to the scenes so that I will add effect to the following footage so that it looks prefect. This was visible as the media product is a montage of images that reflects the highs and lows of teenage life. the lighting that I have used in the video where neon lighting and washing lightening so that I was able to create the partying atmosphere of the scenes within the film product. Also I felt  that choosing the soundtrack for my overall product was a hard decision as  I wanted the music to help reflect the dangers of taking drugs and alcohol, this was apparent when I start after school for one week choosing music that would cater to my target audience, of young adults; the reason I looked at different party house music was that I needed to make sure it cater to the audience; so I decided that an upbeat soundtrack was key to making the media product succeed so that it gave the partying look to of the rebellious teenagers.

Notably I have learnt a lot about camera angles and how to film, in a much better way now as I am able to establish different shots and to tell you the meaning and the purpose of certain camera angles and shots that are used in the making of films by directors. To be specific, I now know that a close up shot, is a shot that is use to help heighten a scene object, or feature of somebody’s facial features or outer body, this is present in my film where you have an actor that is in the drinking scene at the night clubs, where the camera does a close up that leads to an extreme close up to the drink she is holding in her hand as well as her face, so that the audience can see that outcome of the drinking having on the actor on screen. Also it is a good way for the audience to see that the actors “ being teenagers” are having fun in the film, making this particular close up have a much better purpose where as if a close up was at a particular church, this would not have any sort of significant to the scene as the film is based around alcohol and drub usage thus this would not be useful in the film; as it is out of content.

I felt that the learning the camera angles gave me a better understanding of how I could express emotion and character from these camera angles. for example one of the actors can be seen dancing proactively by using hand gestures touching her face this links to Berger theory 'ways of seeing' as he believes that women appear and men act this is apparent when Emily wears the use of red lipstick also helps to show the sexual nature of herself . These applies to Laura Murvey theory as the dominate point of view is masculine, as the female body of Emily is being displayed for the male gaze in order to provide erotic pleasure for the male. women are therefore objectified by the camera lens this shown though the use of close ups and extreme close up of Emily the actors lips and face to provide this pleasure also whatever the audience is position to accept the masculine point of view. Furthermore at the beginning of the film the female actress is again holding a spoon which I think we conveyed this to the audience clearly and visually seeing as the audience are able to decode a symbolic meaning out of the spoon, this is expressed through the use of white and purple lighting to suggest that she is at a club as well as the canted angles expressing the emotion of the female girl being on a illegal high therefore the audience are able to witness this at the being, this ties in to Tovor theory of equilibrium when the protagonists life is viewed as normal and everyone is happy, where as in my film is not apparent as it is not a fixed structure seeing at the film starts of with an disequilibrium where the audience are already witness the action of the of teenagers and young people taking drugs. I started it this way as it did not want the  audience to lose sense of the reality of the dangers, therefore the audience will experience many teenagers doing harm to themselves ion stead of starting with seeing the actors getting ready etc. therefore the use of juxtaposing the characters and moving images helped to create a chaotic montage of rebellious teenagers

moreover I am also proud of the footage that I have recorded of the

I have also learn the values of each camera techniques as in the film I understand that by using different shots in the film will help add character as well as good structure to the scene as the audience would not be left bored as they would be excited and willing to know what will happen in the next upcoming scenes. In equal importance I have also learnt about when “lighting” is useful in a film, for example I know that my using chiaroscuro in a particular scene in my film will add as well as heighten the audience’s anticipation for the films outcome, this to be helps establish a nice and very broad outcome for the film as there is a range of different structural scene that intertwine beautifully between each other that helps creates a graceful and musical flair in the scene , with the help of natural lighting and as well bight and colourful lighting that helps add effect to the footage. This will then allow the audience to visualise what it would and will be like to be at the clubs and the partying atmosphere as, the film creates a sense of wildness around the actors on the screen.
 

 

 All in all I think  that I have done the main and axillary task to the best of my ability as I have covered the main possible aspects:

 

• I have covered the main research tasks to the best of my ability.
• I done call sheets that cater to each scene of the media product, main task as well as creating an ident for the film product that I am proud of as it gives my film a unique quality and originality for my media footage that are also found in films.
• However if I had more time to plan for my main task,  I would have made and produce my own sound tract material  in the music studio so that I had my very own original track for my media product.

Story board before film

Year 12 Film proposal

Year 12 Film proposal

•Film plot

•What is the story about? what happens in the film? Genre?

•The genre of this film is drama based as it follows the youths of today’s society’s highs and lows. The story is about teenagers and young adults of this generation that are both wild and reckless simply because they party, go clubbing and take illegal drug substances. Hence the audience will get to see the actors, enjoying the “high” of drinking alcohol and taking drugs. Due to the explicit content of the film the target audience will be aimed at the age 15 and over, the reason for this is that the audience would be able to understand as well as sympathises with the characters and actors on screen.

•Location: Filmed at public clubs and pubs as well as local train stations. We done this to keep the feel of teenage behaviour are around everywhere.

Setting: The location of the film takes place in a club and pub, to help give the  we also made reference to a train scene as the audience are aware that the teenagers have to get to their desired destination by public transport, this again sticks to the social class of C2DE as they are not fortunate enough to have cars. The film is a montage of moving images, of teenagers in a  night club and pub that are highlighted with flashing lights layered over it with a boy taking illegal drugs. This can suggest the cycle in which the teenagers are on, as to the ending of the young boy lighting up a cigarette.

 

Chiaroscuro in art is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, which was evident in the film. To be specific, chiaroscuro is present when the actor (in a close up and extreme close up) is rolling up the illegal substance. Contrast to the other scenes in the film where natural lighting is present as well as the bright vibrant light.

Canted angles- used at that start of the film, where the girl is with the metal spoon enticing the audience in my attracting there focus

Low angles and high angle shot used to create different levels in the movie , effective way, so that the audience does not lose focus from what they are watching.

Medium shots- used a lot in the film to see the  characters facial expressions and the background

Establishing shots- helped set the scene, as the audience instantly knows the general theme of the film and the location it is set in.

The “costume” in the film is modern as it is set in the 21st century, based around today’s generation of teenager’s thus casual day-to-day wear. The costume consists of basic tops, trousers, jeans as well as limited prop usage of spoons, lighters and drink.

•Characters and cast

•Taja Morgan

•Hayley Mills

•Harry Becker

•Emily Bate-Fox

•Jesse Brown

•George Suilaman

•Imaan Ksara

•Jake Smart

Filming: camera angles /Shots/effects/editing/sound/music

Canted angles- used at that start of the film, where the girl is with the metal spoon enticing the audience in my attracting there focus

Low angles and high angle shot used to create different levels in the movie , effective way, so that the audience does not lose focus from what they are watching.

Medium shots- used a lot in the film to see the  characters facial expressions and the background

Establishing shots- helped set the scene, as the audience instantly knows the general theme of the film and the location it is set in.

•Costumes and props

•Modern, historic, casual, uniform

The “costume” in the film is modern as it is set in the 21st century, based around today’s generation of teenager’s thus casual day-to-day wear. The costume consists of basic tops, trousers, jeans as well as limited prop usage of spoons, lighters and drink.

Camera Techniques: Fade in and out will be used as a transition of each scene moving to the next one. Handheld camera at different location such as Greenford  but it is only shown for a short time this adds to the audience confusion as to what is going on. A slow zoom in is used to highlight the drugs in the first scene of the opening footage, this is highlighted with house music layered on top of the footage to create the crazy partying lifestyle. The song also makes reference to ‘fire burning’ which is also shown when the teenager boy is lighting up a cigarette.  Lighting is another element that is highly used in the film opening as it helps to make the footage realistic and the surroundings colourful. For example the Pub and club.

My final film media product

Question 4: Who would be the media audience for your media product?

Question 4: Who would be the media audience for your media product?

My films media audience would be aimed at teenagers and young adults as as it is my target audience. Ages any younger than 15 years  would not be permitted to watch our film opening  as it has some sexual content, bad language, drugs and alcohol abuse which would make it seem as if it’s persuading the younger ages to follow.   The reason for this decision Is that my group thought that  this specific audience would understand the story behind the film and sympathise with how the characters feel, especially as the location is mostly set in a club and at that, age teenagers and young adults are normally seen there. My group and I made a questionnaire and gave it to people in our school from age 16-19, to ask what they would like to see in a Teen drama film. After receiving the results we discovered that males would prefer to see drug and alcohol abuse or Violence and females prefer to see crime and sex which relates to Audience behaviour as men are interested in action while females are interested in love. I gave options for the location to be set in a park, estate, school, or club/pub. Majority of the audience chose for the location to be set on an estate or park, which relates to John Hartley’s theory of socially grouped audiences, from the specific locations that they chose, I’ve realised that the audience are from a C2DE class as they chose an estate and park where teenagers are normally seen smoking and drinking as it’s a communal area. I created a specific audience profile where I included the specific target audience I want to watch the film (which I have mentioned before) and the conventions I used from a real film to advertise my target audience to watch this as it is relatable to this targeted social class.

Evaluation Q4 and 5

AS Evaluation 1 2 and 3

Evaluation
Q1:  what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My film “#Generation.com” genre is drama based which speaks volumes about teenagers of today’s generation as they are all generalised in a negative light, we portray this in the film opening. Thus I challenged the form of conventions of my film product as; an ordinary film would normally begin in a linear way, with camera angles such as an establishing shot of the films location as well as long angle shots throughout. Considering, my film begins with an extreme close up of the girl in the night club with the help of special effects that help give the audience the illusion of us being there as well as playing with the audiences’ vision as the camera angle is slightly canted and disfigured at the beginning of the shot hence allowing the audience to feel uneasy, disorientation and frantic. I used this technique to show the intoxication and madness of the footage thus used for dramatic effect to help convey my ideas on scenes.  This continues in to various different shots right through the film, that helps stimulates the use of flair and layers of the montage to introduce the characters : the montage of images and footage used in the making if this film helped created a party feel atmosphere that helps give the film a much better picture. Furthermore, I used a lot of canted angles and handheld camera work a lot thought-out the making of this film to give a much better and clear representation of the stereotypical behaviour of young teenagers in today’s society. Hence making the camera angles symbolic as they are used in order to reveal the reaction and usage of drugs and alcohol abuse on our generation, alongside the representation the experimental lifestyle of teenagers today. Considering the canted angles also insinuate the extreme and out of control behaviour of the characters as the skewed angle represents their erratic state mentally and physically. Moreover, the content of this film consist of camera angles, that range from medium shots, high/low angles as well as the editing ranging from jump cuts to the transitions differing from fade in and out to black and blackouts. Reason for this decision is that all the techniques above , highlight specific areas in the footage that help gather the different aspect of the film making the film more up to date as well as fresh and glitzy. Additionally, I do believe that I challenge the issues of today’s teenagers. As I have looked at the negative and the positive views on this generations teenagers. Thus I thought it was important for me to make this film, to show the audience teenagers different values and beliefs on life as a whole. To do this I decided to look at other films to give me inspiration for my film which was related to the general topic of drugs and alcohol. “Project X” and the movie “This is the End (2013)”and “Savages (2012)” The reason why I looked upon these three films was because the both gave very different outlooks on drinking alcohol and drug taking. To be specific, “project X”(2012) and Savages (2012) allowed me to really grasp the feel of teenagers and young adults having fun, living in the moment. Later on I went on to be adventurous with the drinking scene as it was all about them allowing themselves to let go, not have any responsibilities. My intentions were to see if the audience would have the same reaction to today’s youth. However, on the other hand I also wanted to make the audience think about the youths of today, as I wanted to raise awareness of the issues and concerns regarding teenagers intake of alcohol and drugs thus by me getting that message out there through the film was an easier way for the public to listen as the footage spoke volumes, as it helped reinforce the message of youths abusing their selves. Hence, hopefully allowing the audience to reinforce this message around to the youths of today. “Project X” helped me with my transitions used in the making of my film, to be specific there was a lot of jump cuts used to help keep the high spirited momentum up at all time , so that the audience did not lack focus from this element of the film. Thus I wanted the same for my film, as I did not want to disengage the viewers from the content of the media product. Furthermore, “Savages” gave me inspirational ideas for my montage concept. For example I used montage throughout the film as I wanted the audience to feel the fast pace reality that the young generation are living in this current momentum time, to reinforce the idea of the youths always being on a high. As in “savages” the director used allot of layering to establish each shot, I done this similar technique to pin point each idea that came to mind. As an added task I decided to look at extra research in to film genre so that I could get a better understanding of what codes and conventions will fall in to my media product category so therefore I looked at specific genre research where I looked at the generally sales and marketing aspects of each film so that I would understand what target audience will cater for an C2DE social class. this helped as I achieved a better understanding as it to who I will cater to, for my film opening.

Also, finding out that all three films, young adults were close together at all times, what I could see from this was that it was easy for them to make friends and to get along with everyone at the party, thus relating to my research of social media being the source where teenagers browse the web to communicate and to connect to other young adults from all other the world. It was an atmosphere that was lively as well as chaotic. Additionally, I do believe that I challenge the issues of today’s teenagers. As I have looked at the negative and the positive views on this generations teenagers. Thus I thought it was important for me to make this film, to show the audience teenagers different values and beliefs on life as a whole. To do this I decided to look at other films to give me inspiration for my film which was related to the general topic of drugs and alcohol. “Project X” and the movie “This is the End (2013)”and “Savages (2012)” The reason why I looked upon these three films was because the both gave very different outlooks on drinking alcohol and drug taking. To be specific, “project X”(2012) and Savages (2012) allowed me to really grasp the feel of teenagers and young adults having fun, living in the moment. Later on I went on to be adventurous with the drinking scene as it was all about them allowing themselves to let go, not have any responsibilities. My intentions were to see if the audience would have the same reaction to today’s youth. However, on the other hand I also wanted to make the audience think about the youths of today, as I wanted to raise awareness of the issues and concerns regarding teenagers intake of alcohol and drugs thus by me getting that message out there through the film was an easier way for the public to listen as the footage spoke volumes, as it helped reinforce the message of youths abusing their selves. Hence, hopefully allowing the audience to reinforce this message around to the youths of today. “Project X” helped me with my transitions used in the making of my film, to be specific there was a lot of jump cuts used to help keep the high spirited momentum up at all time , so that the audience did not lack focus from this element of the film. Thus I wanted the same for my film, as i did not want to disengage the viewers from the content of the media product. Furthermore, “Savages” gave me inspirational ideas for my montage concept. For example i used montage throughout the film as I wanted the audience to feel the fast pace reality that the young generation are living in this current momentum time, to reinforce the idea of the youths always being on a high. As in “savages” the director used allot of layering to establish each shot, i done this similar technique to pin point each idea that came to mind. Also, finding out that all three films, young adults were close together at all times, what I could see from this was that it was easy for them to make friends and to get along with everyone at the party, thus relating to my research of social media being the source where teenagers browse the web to communicate and to connect to other young adults from all other the world. It was an atmosphere that was lively as well as chaotic.

Q2:How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film #Generation.com target audiences are based around “C2DE’ audience members of the public, hence the reason for the film being set in night clubs and dirty dilapidated areas. The reason for my film targeting this particular social group. Hence the film reflects what happens in there everyday’s life as people can identify this with similar issues and concerns. Notably the audience will be able to understand the values if the film, as they would not second guess our decisions on the making of the scenes but rather get the concept better as they will grasp the whole momentum of the film. The social groups are the people that are often, judge for the way they live their life, in a colourful way, thus seen negatively as other social class ABC1, view this as poor behaviour on society that is making the country unliveable. By also adding the equal importance here about the films characteristics of #Generation.com are depend of social media, it is a generation that is situated by media communication, images and videos, whereas, on the other hand are film looks at what are young people and teenagers do behind closed doors. As notably I wanted to really grasp the whole concept of the generations partying and drug use ways. In equal importance, I looked at social media sites to really help me understand how it works and what make teenagers and young people are so dependent on such sites. By doing this i have leant that it is a way form them to almost escape reality, not having to face the big world but to be about to hide behind a character profile and blog things that varies from everyday things to superstars. Conversely, Networking sites can be negative and also a horrible way for teenagers and young people to get lost in. The reason for this reaction is that it can become very nasty and scary from the opposite person; this is why I wanted to make a film that reflected both values of teenage youth by catching different elements these points by adding it in the film. also looked at how social networking sites can be negative and also a horrible way for teenagers and young people to get lost in. The reason for this reaction is that it can become very nasty and scary from the opposite person; this is why I wanted to make a film that reflected both values of teenage youth by catching different elements these points by adding it in the film. However I do think that teenagers and young adult benefits for teens engaged in social media include increased social confidence, more social support and heightened media literacy. Social media diversifies teens' social skills, which will help them navigate through a technologically astute society. Social media also allows teens to cultivate new friendships, which brings them access to wider networks and provides even greater learning and social opportunities for today’s youths. I reinforce this idea of teenagers letting lose in my movie footage at the beginning of the film, but however is still viewed as badly behaved to the public eye. Conclusions by setting the film to a high rating stimulate the meaning of our film being worthy to watch.  Moreover, the social dived on class shows the relation ratio between the social classes of ABC1 and C2DE. I think that if this film was broadcast to the ABC1 public audience we would be looked down upon as they would regard are social behaviour unliveable and unclosed as they do not believe that they way we go about our lives is natural. Whereas by showing this film #Generation,com to the audience of C2DE, they would not give us the benefit , simply because they would not judge are antics or the way we chose to live our life’s , but they would simple only question the why’s and how we chose the way we behave. I also believe that they would have a much better understanding as to why we would raise such a high issue and concern awareness of the youths of today. As they would understand that people living in the classes of, unemployment and working class public people know that it is hard to go around in high regarded place and not be judge as we are frowned upon by the upper class social media group.

Q3:How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our film #Generation.com target audiences are based around “C2DE’ audience members of the public, hence the reason for the film being set in night clubs and dirty dilapidated areas. The reason for my film targeting this particular social group. Hence the film reflects what happens in there everyday’s life as people can identify this with similar issues and concerns. Notably the audience will be able to understand the values if the film, as they would not second guess our decisions on the making of the scenes but rather get the concept better as they will grasp the whole momentum of the film. The social groups are the people that are often, judge for the way they live their life, in a colourful way, thus seen negatively as other social class ABC1, view this as poor behaviour on society that is making the country unliveable. By also adding the equal importance here about the films characteristics of #Generation.com are depend of social media, it is a generation that is situated by media communication, images and videos, whereas, on the other hand are film looks at what are young people and teenagers do behind closed doors. As notably I wanted to really grasp the whole concept of the generations partying and drug use ways. In equal importance, I looked at social media sites to really help me understand how it works and what make teenagers and young people are so dependent on such sites. By doing this i have leant that it is a way form them to almost escape reality, not having to face the big world but to be about to hide behind a character profile and blog things that varies from everyday things to superstars. Conversely, Networking sites can be negative and also a horrible way for teenagers and young people to get lost in. The reason for this reaction is that it can become very nasty and scary from the opposite person; this is why I wanted to make a film that reflected both values of teenage youth by catching different elements these points by adding it in the film. also looked at how social networking sites can be negative and also a horrible way for teenagers and young people to get lost in. The reason for this reaction is that it can become very nasty and scary from the opposite person; this is why I wanted to make a film that reflected both values of teenage youth by catching different elements these points by adding it in the film. However I do think that teenagers and young adult benefits for teens engaged in social media include increased social confidence, more social support and heightened media literacy. Social media diversifies teens' social skills, which will help them navigate through a technologically astute society. Social media also allows teens to cultivate new friendships, which brings them access to wider networks and provides even greater learning and social opportunities for today’s youths. I reinforce this idea of teenagers letting lose in my movie footage at the beginning of the film, but however is still viewed as badly behaved to the public eye. Conclusions by setting the film to a high rating stimulate the meaning of our film being worthy to watch.  Moreover, the social dived on class shows the relation ratio between the social classes of ABC1 and C2DE. I think that if this film was broadcast to the ABC1 public audience we would be looked down upon as they would regard are social behaviour unliveable and unclosed as they do not believe that they way we go about our lives is natural. Whereas by showing this film #Generation,com to the audience of C2DE, they would not give us the benefit , simply because they would not judge are antics or the way we chose to live our life’s , but they would simple only question the why’s and how we chose the way we behave. I also believe that they would have a much better understanding as to why we would raise such a high issue and concern awareness of the youths of today. As they would understand that people living in the classes of, unemployment and working class public people know that it is hard to go around in high regarded place and not be judge as we are frowned upon by the upper class social media group.