(First draft) Evaluation

Question 1 of the evaluation

Our movie clip is fairly stereyotypical of its genre, we have tried to catch similarites from the huge box office film adulthood, we had a very young cast as we inteneded to bring across our point without making it very obvious, as we have selected the thriller genre, we had to have charactors which could help us acheive this to the fullest extent, we set our film in a familiar setting to which we thought would reflect not only the movie adulthood but also the momentum we are trying to capture, we have also kept sound to a very minimal, as thier isn't going to be much conversation in a scene where somebody is gettin beaten up and robbed for thier mobile phone, which also helped us inhance the realism.
In our clip their arn't many significant objects, which reflect on the actual scene or what we are actualy trying to acheive, which we actually need to work on, because it will allow us to make our point more obvious and allow us to focus on objects which could be significant to different charactors.
One of our main conventions used in our clip was the sudden attack, which turned into a mugging, this shows a very common occuring in a thriller, as events like these make the thriller what they are.

Question 2 of the evaluation

In our clip, teenagers where represented in a negative and stereyotypical manner, our main male group was targetted between between the age of 16-20.
As in our clip you can see that they are young polish lads, whom are commiting pain and murder amongst themselves, the polish boys in our clip where represented very negatively as they showed hate and anger towards one another, which developed into someones death.
How these charactors was represented was negatively, and this was mianly through mise-en-scene as they where walking around with their hoods on, swearing and talking highly aggresivly not only towards one another but towards anyone whom made eye contact with them.
Through these few opening scenes it makes us one to concentrate on the charactors more as we know that most of their dialougue is in their mother toungue, which also makes us wary about what is actually going on here.

Question 3 of the evaluation

The media institution most likely to promote and actually release our movie would be a company such as cipher, as our movie targets a niche market, as we are making a very basic low budget movie, our promotional campaign would cost us at a very minial price, rough based at about £10,000 which would make a whole promotional campaign, as our movie would be based within the United Kingdom, in certain urban areas, where we could get our main target audience to be attaracted and in ways be hyped to watch our movie.
We have seen how succesful Adulthood was in the industry with its target audience, however we belive if we acheive the targets that we have made, we could be on of the United kingdoms biggest every urban youth video ever.
The main purpose we intend to go with companies such as cipher is that, our cast will be local youngsters same as Adulthood, which will obviously be low budget charactors trying to earn themselves a name, location shall not be a problem because we are trying to get a fell of life within the streets for youngsters whcih also saves us money, that is why we need a company like cipher who can help us promote our movie and make us maximum profit.

Question 4 of the evaluation

Our main target audience is for youngsters from the age of 15-28 mainly because our movie rating is going to be an 15 and many people in their late 20's will be able to relate to these situation which will be highly emphasised in the movie.
We are mainly targettitng our movie at the male gender as it is more of a manly movie, however we are going to have girl charactors which will be able to express views of girls, not only in a negative manner, but in a manner which gives a two sided view of the situation being exposed.
The main areas we intend to promote our movie is where we think this movie will be the biggest hits, such as urban areas in London such as Kilburn where movies such as adulthood where a great success, these are the type of areas we intend to promote our movie in the United Kingdom.

Question 5 of the evaluation

As we are making a small UK based movie, it is important that we attarct as much audience as possible, the main way of doing this could be through getting small time artist based in the UK which have a great influence on our target market age, we considered many atrist such as Sway, Giggs & Bashy these where some of the artist which we could of considered to do for our soundtrack of the movie, the most important ones for these where the pre production and the post production as we will need charactors which can relate to the audience which we need to get to attract our main target audience.

Question 6 of the evaluation

In the process I have learned of how to use such software such as first cut express, which we did all of our editing by & also has been a good experience of using garage band, which helped us to create the scene & atmosphere by adding the different peices of music at different tempos.
Using a digital still camera is more complexed than it seems as thier is more to do when you are creating a peice of coursework which you cannot allow the camera to tilt, move freely by swaying from left to right, their is several things which we had to consider to make this as perfect as possible.
The main advantage from this was that I didnt know how to use garage band of final cut express at all, now I have a good idea of how to use both, which could help me in further production I may have to do for Media Studies.

Question & of the evaluation

Since our preliminary task, we have made vast improvements, as we have focused alot more on our filiming techniques and on rules such as the 180 degree rule, which we actually broke in the preliminary task, we also used a better location, which actually gave us more space instead of cramming a majority of our shots in one area.
We also planned our shots more carefully and executed them more accuratly, we also had many more continuity errors, which we have none in this one, i,e we had several problems with costume, as that was our main continuity error & also with several different shots which would start at a completly different angle which would make the 1st and 2nd shot completly different & also in this one after our preliminary task we have used several different shots and different camera angle views which made it better for us and allowed us to explore into the media world abit more.