Last post!

Just a closing post to say how much I've actually enjoyed the first year of media! hopefully everyone will do well enough to get through to A2.. Big thankyou to Miss Foster and Mr Saunders for all their support and time. Maybe not a thanks to Miss Foster for embarrassing me majourly in assembly, but here's the last bit of work she put together for the assembly, last use of iMovie for the year!

Media Presentation

Today everyone got together in the media department and we all saw each others videos, all of year 12 and 13. A load of others from the school also viewed them.. After the embarrassing speech Millie and I pulled off and the horrific embarrassed giggling the whole way through our film, we all got through it and it's sad to say that the film is finished for this year! After watching all of the year 13 music video's I'm looking forward to what we'll get up to next year.. Well done to everyone for getting their films done and they actually all looked really good.

Evaluation

Here's the final piece of footage we filmed as a group for AS media.  Here's the questions we answered
1. In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your film opening represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your film opening and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your film opening?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this film opening?

7. Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final film opening?


It was extremely hard to keep a straight face, and the amount of outtakes we had were ridiculous, but we finally pulled it off, and Millies great editing skills topped it off. Thanks to my group for putting up with me for the last year!

Evaluation's

Some point this week we're hoping to create our evaluation to finish off AS course of media! After watching a few others it may be a challenge for our group as we're not the type to sit there and be serious. We'll have to answer some questions and record ourselves discussing them in detail.



Here's an evaluation that will be similar to the one we will film. Hopefully we will edit parts and sounds of our film in to the evaluation, and hoping it will be just as much of a success.

Prey For Her

'Prey for her' was chosen by us all. It's a bit of play on words as we have a religious meaning with the bible quote at the start of our film although it's about a young girl being 'preyed' on. So we did not make a spelling mistake as a couple of people mentioned! It was simply a play on words that we thought would be effective.

Final draft

2 lessons to go and less than a week until the deadline.. I cannot believe how fast that has gone and how the number of days have dropped at rapid pace on Ms Foster's 'countdown' on her blog.. So after thinking the video was not uploaded, it is! so here's our final draft.. I personally thought we should have some sort of sound of the title but I've been voted against and it is true that the silence creates an eery theme and tense atmosphere... the silence definitely puts me at unease. I think we're finally done now, no more tweeks to be made.

Questionnaire

 A while ago I carried out a questionnaire through facebook messaging and other social networking sites on the subject of film and genre to ten people. I asked people who was within the suitable age group of around 15-30 (our film's target audience) to get a correct perspective. I asked 15 questions in regards to genre and films etc in order to create a successful film opening. I made sure to ask a mix of female and male to keep a fair balance of gender.

  These are the questions I asked:

1. Male/Female?
2. Age?
3. Favourite movie genre?
4. How often do you watch films?
5. Least favourite movie genre?
6. Do the actors in a film influence you to watch a film?
7. Which age certificate do you mostly watch?
8. Name three elements you think a film must ideally contain:
9. Where do you tend to watch most films?
10. Does the advertisement of a film matter before you watch it?
11. How important is the first 2 minutes of a film to you?
12. Who do you watch films with?
13. What is your favourite film?
14. Why is it your favourite film?
15. If you could go behind the scenes of any film, which would it be?

Here are the least favourite Genre's I found most common, mainly being sci-fi, which also balances out the reflection of the Favoured genres.

Here's the favourite Genre's. As shown, Comedy and horror were the most favoured and Sci Fi rarely was used as a favourite.

Here I've used two pie charts to reflect the Least and Most favoured genre's throughout the ten people I questioned. The majority were split between horror and comedy for their most favourite but also were split between action and Sci-Fi for their least favourite between the genders. The majority of males seemed to choose Horror or Action as their most favourite. 

 The majority said they watched a film around 1-3 times a week of which was their favourite Genre with mainly an age restriction of 15. All of them agreed that the opening to a film is the most important part as "otherwise I will fall asleep" and "It's what attracts me to carry on watching".

 A huge mixture of responses on the advertising side of things. Most of the younger people I interviewed agreed it is important but doesn't change their opinion on the film, although some said "It doesn't make a difference, although it gives me a bit of a background information to the plot".

  It seemed as though the majority of the interviewees found the first 2 minutes very important to their overall opinion of the film. Also a good looking man (Robert Pattinson came up twice) enhances their choice of movie.

The favourite films were a big bundle of different ones; The Hole, Saw 3, Superbad, The Hangover, Mean Girls, Fast and Furious 2, Green Street, Lord of the Rings, The witches and Kickass.

After reviewing the answers and pie charts to my questionnaire, I think it's safe to say we chose a genre that was based around the genre that people generally like to see. As our film would be rated a 15, the right aged audience would be able to see our film.