Thursday, 7 April 2011

Evaluation question 2

I believe my group represented the young black male in a very typical sense with him the culprit, but the church scene shows him to be more than a regular young black male criminal and it is deeper than the typical view of a black male from our generation.

Ryan Cameron was an ideal suitor to play the main  protagonist in our film he ticked all the boxes of the kind of person we needed in our film. he looked a regular teenage black male which meant he could represent the social groups we were targeting. The picture below shows his appearance in the movie, it is very similar to the dress code of the characters in a movie such as 'adulthood'.


Ryan Cameron plays a very similar role as Nole Clarke in 'Adulthood' The traking shots of Noel Clarke and the religous references are all similar to what we contained in our film.


The similarities are there too see in the above images the dress code, walking style and the fact they are in a park are all important factors. The teenage group we are representing is very typical in many aspects but has a huge twist on the characters deeper feelings and mental state.

Evaluation question 1





Our movie was directed by Sayf Ahmed, was recorded by Zak Chennane, music was by Ryan Cameron, edited by Viet Pham and starred Ryan Cameron and Viet Pham.

In our group we tried to keep the simple plain white text that appears in Days of Heavens 
in our opening. Above is a shot showing one of the titles in our opening which is very similar to the titles of  Days of heaven.
Here are some of the shots we tried to mimic from other movies as intertextuality:
This shot of jesus' face is similar to the shot from romeo and juliet.
Our establishing shot is very similar to the shot from stepfather as can be seen above
Finnaly our fight shot is very similar to a shot from kidulthood.

Evaluation Question 8 - looking back at the preliminary task, what i feel i have progressed on.







Evaluation Question 7

Videos below show the main things that I have learnt throughout this media academic year...








Tuesday, 5 April 2011

Evaluation Question 6 - Audience Feedback & Comment



OVERALL! VIEWERS THOUGHT THAT MY THRILLER OPENING WAS "VERY GOOD".
VIDEOS BELOW SHOWED WHAT THEY LIKED ABOUT MY THRILLER...



other feedback i had collected from other viewers shown in this wordle:

Evaluation Question 4 & 5 - What kind of media institution might distribute my media product and why? How will I attract/address my audience?

I have decided to use group 30's brilliant student media work as my example as they have had a successful amount of hits using the internet making their media thriller opening very popular locally.

the use of facebook - a very popular social network site that can help anyone to advertise products or new forms of media such as music, films, articles etc.





Also putting their video on other video sites such as Youtube & even Vimeo is very helpful to gain popularity and reputation.






Cinema we will view everyones thriller movies on the 5th of April, is below at 'the screen.' Other cinemas at which our thriller can be presented in:





I have envisioned a particular style of marketing for our thriller. As well as using social networking sites to promote it, campaigns, leaflets and magazines [Print Advertising] or using other websites as banners and tv adverts [Broadcast Advertising] would also help raise awarness of it. Premiere, film, empire [all magazines], similarly TV adverts, adverts before highly rated youtube videos and adverts on the side of facebook all can boost ratings.


One of the main film magazines is Total Film, which advertises new films and stars, also information and advertising for the film. Most of the front covers like the one shown above have a large image which shows the main characters in a certain film. They range from headshots to a longshot all of which make the film completly clear which is being advertised.They also like to cover some of the magazine title with the image this adds another dimesnsion to the page and it also look more professional, an example of this is this front page where he is looking directly into the camera as a figure of power, and on a shelf would gain eye contact and intrest the target audience. Also by the main characters being easily recognisable it will make people want to read a review and see what the film is like befire they watch it.

EVALUATION - Who would be the audience for your media product?

A typical teenage boy in London
He would carry:
His name is Nathan and he attends college, he lives in East London and works at a near by retail shop.