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In what way does your media product use, develop
or challenges forms and conventions of real media products?
The title of my film is called ‘DIFFERENCES’.
I chose this title because it is inspired from my everyday life, my film falls
under the genre of teenage romance/drama.
The under laying theme is acceptance,
people should accept others for who they are, and put behind their differences
without allowing it to stop them from socializing with others. The main prop in
my opening sequence is the basketball, because it reflects on my male
characters lifestyle and their interest in sports.
I decided that my female character should have a bit of Rihanna style as
a result of Rihanna has becoming the new
fashion icon, young adults/ teenagers tend to follow her fashion, so linking to
my target audience it could help me gain more audience than expected. As for my
male character I decided that he should be top less with black trousers and his
boxers in display, because it reflects on his character role which is a young
adult from a poor city, as I would like to call it from the ‘ghetto’. As we see
in Ghetto basketball films, most players tend to play top less with their
trousers below their knee displaying their boxers. The music I chose to use for
my background emphases on my theme perfectly, it narrates my opening sequence
by emphasising on the fact that people should be accepted know matter where
they re from or know matter the status they may find themselves in.
Camera
shots used:
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Close up shot : male character bouncing the
basketball, which gives the audience an idea of the interest he is in
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Medium shot : male character playing a one on
one game with his friend, this shot help the audience notice the passion the
two characters have for basketball
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Long shot : sowing the female character having a
conversation with her friend whiles the
male character walks up to her, this shot kind of gets the audience into having
questions at the back of their minds as to who the girl may be to the male
character
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Mid shot/Over the shoulder shot: male tries to indulge himself in a
conversation with the female character but she ends up walking of every time he
calls her, this shot clearly shows the audience that the female character is
not interested in him due to the attitude shown by her, it also gives the audience
an idea of how their attitude will be like in the film.
I hope that people will watch my short film and
start accepting people that are lower/higher status than them, just like the
way the film ‘FREESTYLE’ was able to give hope on young adults that thought
that they didn’t have a chance to go back to college.
2. How does your
media product represent particular social groups?
These days’ teenagers/ young adults tend to follow everything they see on TV, therefore I decided to link my media product with what I see on TV, the way my characters are costumed are exactly the same way most of my target audience probably dress. Also you may find boys trying to indulge themselves in a conversation with a girl by approaching her in an aggressive manner just like the way my male character approached my female character in my opening sequence, we also have people not socializing with others due to their different backgrounds or status, just like the way my female character rejected my male character due to their different statuses. I basically linked my film with the everyday life situations we go through as young adults/ teenagers, comparing to the movie ‘ FREESTYLE’ which was also targeted at young adults, and confront the same stereotypes as mine, so this helps us understand that most teenagers/ young adults seems to go through the same problems.
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My target audience will definitely feel
connected were ever my film may be displayed, it being YouTube, tv,cinema or
social networks, by reason of my film being based on the life situations they
go through as young adults and teenagers. Also I believe that my film was
supposed to be distributed on social networks or displayed on YouTube it would
be more successful , from looking on how technology has been able to make stuff
easier for us, which gives us the opportunity
to spend half of our time to navigate on the various social networking sites
such as ( Facebook,Bebo,Myspace,Hi 5, Netlog etc.), people also tend to spend
most of their time navigating on YouTube and other movie sites which permits
them to get hands on the movie easily without them having to wait for it to be
displayed in cinemas/TV. Just like the media product we studied in class ‘THE
INBETWEENERS’ movie was able to successfully distribute on similar media institutions.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product? Give a
profile of a target audience individual ( think of one of your friends when writing
this and include a picture).
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I have personally rated my film as a 15 because
my target focus is on teenagers/young adults and also it is easier to get their
attention than getting the attention of the older age group.
This is my friend Nifemi he is 16 years old and he is intimidated by
girls he claims to be of a higher class than him, as he would address them ‘STCUCK
UP’ girls, meaning girls that are too proud of themselves, caused by a problem
he went across with few of them, he lost hope in ever being able to approach
them. I am pretty sure that when he watches this film, he will be able to get a clear idea on how to deal with his situation,
and also he will feel much connected to my film not only because it has to do with his situation but
because it is targeted to people of his age group.
5. How did you attract/ address your
audience?
I was able to get reach out to my audience by doing couple
of researches such as:
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Survey Monkeys
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Asking people couple of questions
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Watching various movies
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Creating a story board
Few months ago I created a survey monkey to find out the
kind of films people like to watch, and I was able to find out that half of the
people that filled out my survey questions liked to watch comedy/drama/romance
films. I also decided to ask around to
find out which movie is the most talked about of the year and I had most people
mentioning Twilight which is predominantly targeted at young adults, I also
found did a test on myself to see the kind of films I like to watch and my
results was comedy/romance films. I went on to create a storyboard and posted
it on my facebook and other social networking sites to the total views I will
be able to achieve, over night I was able to attain 632 views and it was mostly
views by teenagers. This helped me to get a mind set on the target audience I
want to focus for my film, and I ended up rating my film as a 15, targeted at
both age groups young adults/ teenagers. After the research I did on the media
product that we studied in class ‘ THE INBETWEENERS’ movie and finding out the
#y were able to successfully promote the movie on social networks and other
media institutions, I am also looking forward to promote my film in the various
media institutions, in particular social
networks.
6. Looking back at your preliminary task,what have you learnt in the progression from it to full product.
Looking back at my preliminary task, I have come to a conclusion that I have made big progress in developing skills in camera work, I remember I didn’t know how tow or or hold a camera but by reason of my media teacher helping in progressing in every work I do, I have been able to learn how to structure my essays and build my essay up from point to point, in additional to my learning I have progressed in sequencing and the making of films. I must say that I am really proud of myself and hope to achieve the grade I have aimed for.
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