This is our final title sequence and opening scene for 'Love Triangle'.
Friday, 7 March 2014
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Evaluation 1:In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Within my film 'Love Triangle' I used as many teenage angst conventions as possible. Shot one is a high angle mid angle shot of the title of our film, 'Love Triangle', our title is in pink and purple colours as these are stereotypical favourite colours of a teenage girl. The font of the title is serif curly style, which connotes teenage writing with all the curls and joining up the letters. My film was called 'Love Triangle' because Yasmin and Blake are together and are known as the 'popular' couple, however, Charlotte likes Blake and Yasmin hates Charlotte, therefore this creates a triangle between the three of them. Putting the word 'Love' into the title will attract a mass audience of female as teenage girls like romantic films.The title was placed in the bottom left corner, similar to the teenage angst 'Dear John', the title is simply added into the sea of the film, we did a similar style. We added it into the scene to make it look natural.
Shot two is the costume of Charlotte, she is wearing her pjs which is stereotypical of a teenage girl, these connotes that it is the morning and she is getting out of bed. The Disney characters of her pj top can represent her age group, which can represent her as still being immature as she is only 15.Charlotte's bedroom showing the purple. pink and green girly duvet connotes a teenage bedroom with the mise-en-scene of perfumes and sprays represents Charlotte's happy and bubbly personality.This is stereotypical for teenage angst film to do a bedroom scene of the teenager waking up which is normally for school, such as in Wildchild, the very first scene is Poppy in bed waking up and getting up as she realises she slept through her alarm and is now late. This shot also suggest the setting of Charlotte's bedroom showing the purple. pink and green girly duvet which connotes a teenage bedroom. The mise-en-scene of perfumes and sprays represents Charlotte's personality and how she cares about how she smells.
Shot three presents the font, throughout my film 'Love Triangle', each credit that was included used a different style, colour and size of font. The fonts were used different depending on the scene of filming it was being put into. This was because the font style and colour had to look suitable on top of the filming to ensure the font was naturally in the filming and not just added in to look like another layer. This is stereotypical of a teenage angst films such as; Easy A edits their credits and titles in within the scene to make them look naturally involved, this is what I was suggesting with my titles/credits. The colours were for each credit were bring colours that suggest teenagers, such as, blues, pinks, purple and green which represent teenage colours.
Shot four represents the camera work used props that were used. Shot four presents a close up of the prop used of a glass with orange juice being poured into it, this is a stereotypical breakfast drink for teenagers. The shot also presents a title that was added 'Music by' in the colour blue to represent a happy and calm mood.This is stereotypical for a teenage angst film, such as Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Georgia, gets up for school and there is a scene after she is ready in the kitchen at the table eating her breakfast as its stereotypically known that teenagers eat breakfast before going to school.
Shot five shows the genre of 'Teenage Angst' and how my film 'Love Triangle' suggest the genre. Shot five, shows Charlotte doing her hair ready for school, which is stereotypical of a teenage girl, the convention of teenage angst of using teenage characters is also within in this shot of Charlotte being 15. This is stereotypical of a teenage angst as the audience are able to relate to it. This stereotypically shows that teenagers care about the way the look and take pride in what they look like, therefore this suggest the genre is Teenage Angst.Such as; in Mean girls the girls known as 'the Plastics' are constantly worried about how they look, they take time and pride of how they look and to make sure they are following the 'codes' of fashion throughout the week. These worries are stereotypically linked with teenagers as most teenagers worry about keeping up to date with the fashion and spend their time to look their best.
Shot six presents how the characters are introduced in my film and the editing. The characters are introduced within my film, but using a scribble circle, this directly points out the character clearly and makes it effective alongside with Charlotte's voice over. The scribble circle is stereotypical of a teenage girl as girls scribble round the books and paper, the colour blue was used to indicate which best friend was who as blue suggests calm and happy which for a teenage girl its stereotypical for their best friends to make them happy. The colour pink was used to circle Blake, as its a girly girl and used is common colour used for flirty personalities, therefore, this suggests the crush Charlotte has on Blake. The edited the lighting within this scene, to make the lighting more high-key to suggest a positive atmosphere that Charlotte has with her best friends. The scene after this, when Yasmin is introduced and within the flashback with Yasmin, the lighting was edited to make it low-key which suggests a negative atmosphere and connotes the unfriendly relationship between Yasmin and Charlotte.
Shot seven represents the special effects used within my film, this shot presents the 'blur' transition used on a close up of Charlotte's face. This special effect was used to connote to the audience that it is a flash back, this transition connotes the feeling of going back in time and with it after a close up of Charlotte suggests that Charlotte is thinking about it.This is used stereotypically in teenage angst genre, such as; mean girls Regina says she liked Kady's bracelet at the start of the film, later on in the film, Regina says to a girl she likes her skirt and then turns round to Kady and says its the worst skirt shes ever seen. A flashback is used of Regina saying to Kady she likes her bracelet, the flashback is used to suggest to the audience, that Regina didn't actually like her bracelet, therefore, it suggests Regina's personality but also Cady's and Regina's friendship.
Shot eight is the setting of Charlotte's school, where she feels most uncomfortable having to see Yasmin and Blake together. The Shot shows the audience just after Yasmin's group which aren't in a uniform, this shot shows Charlotte in uniform, therefore, this connotes she is younger than the 'popular' group and that she has less power than them. Although, in most teenage angst films, they are all wearing uniform, such as; Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, in the film it is obvious who is the 'popular' girl and who holds the power. To develop this, we used the same socialising groups of popular and least popular, but to develop from the original teenage angst films, we put the popular group in no uniform and there own style of clothes to suggest their power.
Shot nine is a close up of Charlotte after the flashback was shown. This shot is after the title sequence and half way through the opening scene, the title sequence suggest how happy Charlotte is when she's at home and that she stereotypically cares how she looks. At the start of the opening scene, it also suggest how Charlotte is happy and has a lively personality when with her friends. However, half way through the opening scene, Yasmin is introduced who is known as the 'popular' girl and is with the guy that Charlotte likes, a flashback is used to suggest the relationship between Charlotte and Yasmin which is how the story is set up and easily understandable.This is similar to the film 16 Wishes, Abby is the least popular girl and is invisible to everyone when Kristia is the popular girl. Everyone copies and wants to be Krista's friend, and Abby is pushed to side invisible and close ups are used throughout the film to suggest this to the audience and to stereotypically let the audience connect to Abby.
Evaluation 2:How does you media product represent particular social groups?
Yasmin is pretty, long haired girl who wears designer clothes and jewellery, therefore she is seen as the 'popular' girl. With Yasmin wearing designer and fashioned clothes gives Yasmin every reason to go round thinking everyone loves her. With Yasmin wearing fashionable and expensive jewellery gives Yasmin the power and 'popularity' she wants. She wears make up and is always smiling as she has everything she needs, this is stereotypically of someone in this social group. The use of camera angle is a close up used, this connotes the importance of Yasmin as within the image shes in the central of it. Therefore, this connotes in the film that Yasmin is the center of everyone's lives, well tries to be anyway. The angle is a straight forward angle which is set right in front of her, this angle also makes her the center of attention which shows her personality of 'popular' and 'bitchy' character. Throughout film, Love Triangle, Yasmin is always the center of attention, to when it suggests she is in a relationship to Blake and to explain why her and Charlotte don't get on. This is stereotypical of the genre teenage angst, as the 'popular' and 'bitchy' girl is always center of attention within the film. Yasmin walks around in my film being center of attention this connotes that she is the popular girl and that she thinks everyone likes her. However, Yasmin is actually only with Blake for the popularity and doesn't really like him. Whereas, Blake is to blind to see it as he thinks being in a relationship with the most 'popular' girl is the best thing to do.
This is Regina George from the film Mean Girls. Regina is the popular girl in the film mean girls, she has her two best friends who are all known as the plastics in the film. Within my film 'Love Triangle' Yasmin has two best friends, Gemma and Lucy, which is similar to Mean Girls. Yasmin, Gemma and Lucy are known as the 'popular' and 'bitchy' group within the school, who think everyone likes them when actually they are just bullies and everyone is scared of them. Every girl, has pretty, long hair, designer clothes, jewellery and wear make up which is stereotypical for people in the 'popular group'. Therefore, Yasmin is played by Leah as she has the stereotypical long hair which is commonly known either blonde or brown, with the hair mostly being curly. Yasmin has the designer and fashionable clothes and jewellery which connotes she is the popular group. Yasmin having these characteristics, instantly suggests she is the 'popular' character as they are stereotypical.
This example is a close up which I used in my film with Yasmin, the angle is also straight in front of Regina, which connotes Regina is the center of attention. The mise-en-scene of jewellery and the designer clothes are also used within Mean Girls which is similar to our film Love Triangle. Regina also likes happy and pleased with herself, as in Mean Girls although she is seen as the 'popular' and 'bitchy' character everyone does look up to her. However, this is only because everyone is intimidated by her as she is a bully.
This is the popular guy in our film Love Triangle, he is called Blake. Blake has short, blonde hair, good looking, popular, sporty, ladies man, always smiling which is stereotypical for a popular guy in a film. With these characteristics alone indicate that Blake is the popular guy because he stereotypically has the correct characteristics. Blake has the fashionable style that all boys look up to and therefore is seen as a role model within the school. Blake's popularity is based on being in a relationship with Yasmin, he thinks this is the most important feature in his life to ensure popularity. However, Blake is a kind, caring, loving and respectable lad that he would be 'popular' and still have his friends even if he wasn't with Yasmin. Blake's best friend Joe, isn't a fan of Yasmin and does see her for her true colours, however he does things for her and is nice to her and he does believe that Blake likes her. However, Blake is the only one that knows he has feelings for her, but is only with her because he knows it looks good on him. Everyone knows who the popular guy is even if their not part of their social group. Blake is always smiling and happy because he is known within the 'popular' group and it hasn't always been that way, therefore being with Yasmin makes him happy because of being called part of the 'popular' group. However, throughout the film, Blake does reseal this isn't as important as he thought and he realised that it is not what he wanted. He realises, that he doesn't need to be in the popular group to be liked because if Joe was his real friend that wouldn't matter. Blake realises that he does has feelings for Charlotte and despite what anyone thinks he goes through with his feelings.
This is less popular girl, known as no body, Charlotte. Charlotte is quiet, overlooked, good in school, sinks into the background, keeps herself to herself and friends, good person and not recognised. Charlotte just interacts with her friend group and that it, she's invisible to everyone, she's a lovely girl who cares very much about her friends, this is stereotypical for a less popular girl.Charlotte wishes she was part of the 'popular' group which is stereotypical for a girl with less popularity. Charlotte likes the popular guy, Blake however he's with the 'popular' girl, which is similar in Teenage Angst films A Cinderella Story as well, when Austin is with the popular girl and the less popular girl 'Sam' likes him and in the end he realises he doesn't want to be with the popular girl and does like Sam.
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Evaluation 3:What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
What does a production company do?
Production company is the company that is liable for physical production of either a new media, performing arts, film, radio or television program. The production company is involved in budgeting, scripting, casting and other aspects within the film making process. The production company are responsible, to finding the director for film, the costume designer and the whole cast as well as the stands ins and stunt doubles if anything does go wrong when filming or off set.
Distributor and who?
Distributors are either an individual or an organisation that will represent our film at festivals and markets around the world to attract a global audience. For our film we chose Film4, we choose these because they are well-known company that have produced worldwide film such as; The Selfish Giant. Distributors will attempt to sell it to the television, airlines and other companies that show short films.
Where has funding come from?
With our film being low budget, local and an independent film, our option was fundraising for raising money to make the film which could be done with events such as car boots sales or wider range of events. There are also film companies that give money to independent films in order for the funding or it to be made to be covered, however, when it comes to fundraising for the making of the film, it involves determination and commitment with the right links for the fundraising to be successful. Also around are grants, sponsorships and loans available for films to fund their film making, although film companies have to work hard to get one of these as they are competitive and aren't that easy to get for the film.
Why has various people been names in our titles and why?
Names in our film include:
Directed by: Faye Prout and Jared Taylor-My name along with Jared was shown first within our titles, as the directors over see the whole film and has the most responsibilities throughout the film making process.
Produced by: Naomi Page and Faye Prout- This was the next title within our film, as producers work along with the directors such as myself, Jared and Naomi worked together to produce the film to the standards of the directors. Therefore, I teamed up with Naomi Page to ensure Mine and Jared's standards were met when producing our film 'Love Triangle'.
Filmed by: Faye Prout, Naomi Page and Jared Taylor- The next title was filmed by, which was completed by myself, Naomi and Jared, with working alongside each other to direct and produce the film, we worked together to film all the scenes and shots we wanted to meet the standards of our planning.
Music by: Jared Taylor and Ollie Aveling- The music we used for our film was found by Jared and Ollie, with specific music in mind to fit the storyline, they went looking all over the internet to find the perfect song for our film. The first song which is upbeat and happy was called Cut and Dry and with a slow song for the effect of the relationship between Charlotte and Yasmin.
Edited by: Faye Prout, Naomi Page, Jared Taylor and Ollie Aveling- For editing, all four of us took part to edit the film so all of us are happy with the final outcome. Without editing, it wouldn't be flowing and the storyline wouldn't have made sense. With editing, it enabled us to make the film shorter as it would have been to long, it allowed us to add music which is important for a film and allowed us to add transitions and sound effects such as the alarm clock which makes huge difference in the overall outcome of our film.
How is your film similar to other films in terms of institutionally?
Our film will be released locally for teenagers all over Cambridgeshire, and then our film will be distributed around the UK. Our aim was to attract a global audience with our film, but we think it will be more successful with being distributed nationally which is similar to 'The Selfish Giant which is a british film that is released all over the UK.
Monday, 3 March 2014
Evaluation 4:Who would be the audience for your media product?
Target Audience Profile
For my target audience research I created a questionnaire of 14 questions which were based on film, genre and their overall personality. My survey (below) was given to the girl and boy I used to create a target audience profile on, Amy and Lewis.
For further information, I also got a group of 13-14 years old and a group of 17-18 year old to fill in the same survey; this enabled to me get realistic and accurate results.
From the 13-14 year old who took my questionnaire, 83% were female and 17% were male. Out of the females; 67% live in Eynesbury, 16% live in Loves Farm and 17% live in St Neots. Throughout this survey it told me they enjoy Rom com 40%, comedy 20%, romantic 20% and horror 20%. In their spare time watching TV or completing their hobby Dance were both 40% each with running being 20%. Although they were the age of 13-14 80% of them had a part time job with 100% of them wearing tops and jeans, from either Topshop, Newlook or river island. The survey told me 80% enjoy Hollywood Blockbuster film compared to the 20% who like British films. Their favourite subjects within school are maths and art of 40% and media of 20%, however, with media only being 20%, I asked them what they wanted to be when they are older, 60% said media based which is odd in the result of their favourite subjects, 20% had no idea and 20% said hair and beauty. My overall survey told me they all have busy social life, all like the same kind of music which was Pop and to all them the most important thing to them are their friends, family or music.
With the 17% of boy results, were similar but in a way very different to the female results. His results said he also lives in Eynesbury, his favourite genre of film is adventure which is different to the female results and in his spare time he likes to read. The results of male also show they wear the casual clothing of jeans and tops and the results show 100% prefer British films with their favourite subject as being German. The results shows that 100% males want to become an author when they are older and similar to females also have a busy social life.
With the results from the age group 17-18 years old 67% were females and 33% were males. The results showed the 67% lived in St. Neots, 17% in Eynesbury and 16% in Eaton Socon. The genre of film choice was comedy and action were the same at 33% and romance and horror were the same with 17% which is different to the younger age group. From my results 67% had a part time job compared to the 44% who didn’t which is a lower result than the younger age group, however, you would have thought the older age group was a higher percentage of having a part time job as they have more of a choice. The results showed that 100% of them wore jeans, tops and hoodies all from either, Newlook, Topshop, JD, Boohoo or Superdry. The results showed that 100% of them liked Hollywood blockbusters which were also different to the younger age group as there was a variety. Their favourite subjects results were sport and business as 34% each and 32% for media with their careers in all different paths as they are older and are certain on what they want to do in the future. The music results showed that pop and R and B were 33% and 17% for both Indie and a variety. The most important thing to 83% of them were there phone with 17% their family meant the most to them. The results also showed they have busy social lives similar to the younger age group.
Demographics
Age: The age of my target group is age 13-18 but my film is specifically aimed at teenagers.
Gender: My film is aimed at both genders, but as the character who is bullying is played by a female, females may be able to relate to it more.
Class: My film will be aimed at the E class because it involves students who are aged 13-15 who preferably won’t have part time jobs and will be unemployed and are students. Also the class could be in the D class with students of 16-18 who may have part time jobs but could also fall within the E class as their part time job could be classed as casual workers.
Race: My film is aimed at all races
Geographical Location: Our film will be aimed at teenagers around Cambridgeshire but could also have a worldwide audience.
We feel aiming our film at the target audience of 13-18 year old will be the most successful audience to watch our film. This is reasonable because our film contains two story lines that teenagers can relate to; bullying and relationships. Our film has the target audience of both genders, however, I feel that it will attract more of a female audience that most our characters are females therefore they can relate to it more as they can be put into the characters shoes themselves. However, with the story lines of bullying and relationships does relate to male audience as well.
We feel aiming our film at the target audience of 13-18 year old will be the most successful audience to watch our film. This is reasonable because our film contains two story lines that teenagers can relate to; bullying and relationships. Our film has the target audience of both genders, however, I feel that it will attract more of a female audience that most our characters are females therefore they can relate to it more as they can be put into the characters shoes themselves. However, with the story lines of bullying and relationships does relate to male audience as well.
Psychographics
Interests: Teenagers often like to go out and socialise with their friends, my results showed that most 13-14 years old are mostly out with their friends socialising. However, the age group of 17-18 year olds do have busy social lives but also focus on their a levels and their part time jobs more. The results also suggests that although 13-14 year old are sociable by going out with friends 60% of them said that they enjoy socialising over the internet via; Facebook or twitter. I feel the genre of teenage angst will be effective to our target audience as they are most likely to relate to the storyline and will also be effective as the characters are similar ages therefore can reflect on the storyline the most.
Beliefs: With our film, we want our target audience to believe in the storyline, therefore, doing a story line based on bullying is the realistic situation that occurs within teenagers. The storyline of the love triangle is also very believable for our target audience as the 'least' popular group stereotypically likes the 'popular' guy in school who is generally always with the 'popular' girl in school. Therefore, with two story lines, we thought there would be more of a chance that our target audience will be able to relate to our film, either by the bullying story or by liking the 'popular' guy.
Values: Our title sequence and opening scene importantly needs to introduce the characters effectively throughout their personalities. Therefore, Charlotte the 'least' popular girl was presented as stereotypically caring about what she looked like and what she wore, with only her few best friends.The 'popular' group was presented with the fashionable clothes, in cars and are good looking. The music we added needed to be effective to the storyline, therefore with Charlotte at home and with her friends, an up beat music was used to represent shes happy at home and with her friends. However, a sad and slow song was used when the two groups were seen together, this was to stereotypically suggest to the audience they don't get on and that Charlotte isn't happy with that part of her life.
Beliefs: With our film, we want our target audience to believe in the storyline, therefore, doing a story line based on bullying is the realistic situation that occurs within teenagers. The storyline of the love triangle is also very believable for our target audience as the 'least' popular group stereotypically likes the 'popular' guy in school who is generally always with the 'popular' girl in school. Therefore, with two story lines, we thought there would be more of a chance that our target audience will be able to relate to our film, either by the bullying story or by liking the 'popular' guy.
Values: Our title sequence and opening scene importantly needs to introduce the characters effectively throughout their personalities. Therefore, Charlotte the 'least' popular girl was presented as stereotypically caring about what she looked like and what she wore, with only her few best friends.The 'popular' group was presented with the fashionable clothes, in cars and are good looking. The music we added needed to be effective to the storyline, therefore with Charlotte at home and with her friends, an up beat music was used to represent shes happy at home and with her friends. However, a sad and slow song was used when the two groups were seen together, this was to stereotypically suggest to the audience they don't get on and that Charlotte isn't happy with that part of her life.
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