Evaluation part 5 - how does your media product represent a particular social group?

Our media product represents particular social group, which is the typical teenage boy. We have used Facebook and Facebook profiles for the protagonists to show that they are typical teenage boys that our hooked into the world of social media. We have put pictures of the protagonists messing around and at parties with girls to show that they like to just have a laugh and go out with girls and drink like any other normal teenager would do. Some are the pictures of the protagonists are embarrassing but are what you call 'mug shots'. That is what most teenagers do is to catch their mates off guard and take embarrassing photos of them for a laugh. This makes the audience laugh at the protagonists a bit. On the profiles we have included what sort of music they would like, what sort of films they would watch and what sort of stuff they are genuinely are interested in. The things that they would like are different for each protagonist but do have things that they all enjoy so that they will have things that they are in common with. The clothing the protagonists wear is what everyday teenage boys would wear for example jeans, hoddie, nice shirt and trainers. They wear fashionable cloths; expensive and top make clothes to parties. Throughout then title sequence the editing is fast paced this could connote that the life styles of the three protagonists are quick and live a very fast life style e.g. partying all the time. The protagonists cloths are bright as well and not that dark. The sound track suits the social group because it is pop and most teenagers are into pop and music with a good beat to it.

Evaluation part 4 - In what ways does your media product use, develope or challange form of conventions of real media products?

We looked into dawn of the dead as a group and started to look at the conventions for it. We saw that it used a lot of low key lighting to create a mood throughout the film. There was a lot of connotations of weapons and blood to emphases what’s going to happen later on. The writing was written in blood and was all red which connotes danger/death and could connote blood shed later on. Through the sequence there were connotations of zombies so we knew that the film was a zombie film. We looked at some more zombie title sequence and some of them used natural lighting which i found gave it a better effect.

After looking at quite a few title sequences we got the hang of what to include in our title sequence. Our title sequence uses a lot of natural lighting due to the fact that its an urban area. Our title sequence is very modern due to the fact that we have used  social media to create our title sequence with. We have used Facebook which is a huge social media website. In some bits of the title sequence we have used hand held camera e.g. a phone because technologies now days have changed and more teenagers have all these smart phone and are easy to take photos and film on instead of buying something expensive like a DSLR. We did start to shot on a DSLR but we found a much easier way to film the Facebook bits and that was to use quick time pro which filmed the Facebook parts on the mac so all we had to do was load up Facebook and that instead of trying to hold a camera and try and film where its all shaky. The sound track that we have used fits in with the idea of social media and the protagonists but isn't what you would normally find on a zombie title sequence. Throughout the title sequence there is iconography of zombie games and films and zombies them selves. It shows what the protagonists like and what they are into and also gives a bit away about the film.

I think our title sequenced challenged the conventions of zombie films/horror because the way we have set our title sequence if different to what the others are like. Our title sequence doesn't give a lot away about zombies but shows who the main protagonists are and what their lifestyles are like. Whereas most zombie films in the title sequence they are straight into action with zombies killing so straight away you can tell that the film is to do with zombies. As well as that we have put the title at the end of the films instead of right at the begging like other films. The way the title is at the end and the way u have to pay attention to see the connotations of zombies makes the audience confused and creates the sense that they want to carry on watching the film to find out what is about and the title give it away right at the end.

Conventions

-Low key lighting 

-Faint images

-Foreshadowing of death/bloodshed

-Isolation

-Scenery - rural/urban

-Foreshadowing

-Psychopath/killer - glimpse of character

-Sets Equilibrium

-Knife (other weapon types) -Medical imagery - experiments

-Dark clothing 

-Handheld footage - intensifies the particular area for the audience

-General slow paced editing - longer duration of time for the audience to observe specific characteristics

-Orchestral music or heavy rock

- Dissonant sounds

-Words scraped - engraved into materials

-Connotations of weapons

-Connotations of blood   

-Hand held - shaky  -Close ups - close ups of weapons, characters -Tracking shot

-Point of view shot

-High and low angles 

-Birds eye view

-Worm eye

-Pan movement 

-Establishing shot

Evaluation part 3 - What kind of instituion might distribute your media product and why?

Media as evaluation part 3 from Hotrod97

Evaluation part 2 - Who would be your target audience for your product

We decided that our target audience would be 18- 25 year olds. We decided this age because these our the people that would watch zombie films more and have more money to waste on products. Its only because they are mostly students and they would be more into films and have enough time to watch them. We chose 18 to 25 because of our feed back from the questionnaires that we gave out. We also chose the age rating 18 because most horror films are aged 18 and above.

Feed back

For our feed back people said that the age of the protagonist should be from 15 to 30 this is from the lowest people said to the highest. The answers we got was 19+, 17-24, 20-30, 18-26 and 15+. We looked at these and decided that it would be suitable for the protagonists to be the same age as the audience. So our age rating is 18 to 25 so our protagonists our with in that age bracket.

We made moods boards based on what our audience would be interested in and what they would be like. We done a male and a female version.

Evaluation part 1 - Brief

Our brief for this project was to create a title sequence of a film of our choice. We could either work on our own or get into groups, so i got in to a group that involved me, Terry, Lauren and Aiden. We come up with our own ideas and genres of films so we could pick what we was going to do. I really wanted to do action, thriller but as a group we all decided to go with horror because we enjoy those types of films. We finally settled on a zombie movie so as a group we started to watch zombie film titles to see what was in common. Lozzie came up with the idea of making the title sequence online. Where we would use social media for example Facebook because our three main protagonists where teenage boys. We thought that this idea was good because we don't think anyone else has tried it before. We had trouble of thinking of a name for the film but because or sub genres are horror, thriller and comedy we decided to call our film a Zombie movie. We thought it would be better if our zombie movie was a bit of a parody. Our title sequence shows a lot of the three main protagonists because it is Facebook based so it shows the protagonists profiles. The photographs we have used show that the teenagers are friends and like to have a good joke around. There isn't that much images of zombies because we wanted to make it so that it is before the zombie apocalypse and the way that the teenage boys dent know about the apocalypse. Even tho there isn't much images of zombies there are some connotations to show that zombies are in our film. Throughout the title sequence we have put things that teenage boys would like for example xbox that has left for dead with it, walking dead, zombie land. This all shows what the typical teenage boys like but also what could be in the film. The title sequence doesn't have the typical conventions for a zombie film so this starts to confuse the audience and makes them think what the film is about so it forces them to watch the film to find out.

5th Draft

This is our 5th Draft. We have included more zombies and connotations of zombies. The title are mixed in with Facebook so there is no titles over lapping the clip.  

Class feed back from 4th draft

Our feed back wasn't what we quite expected. Most people complained about that there wasn't enough zombies or connotations of zombies. So we will have to put in more connotations of zombies. Another issue was that some people didn't like the soundtrack. Lastly people liked the Facebook but thought it would be better if we put the titles in with the Facebook so it was all linked.

4th Draft

This is our 4th draft. We have added the credits and titles on to the title sequence. The title is at the end of the title sequence so that through out the title sequence. The audience will not notice throughout the sequence is to do with zombies till right at the end of the sequence and they will see the title and know what it is about. 

Common opening credits order

3rd Draft

This is our 3rd draft. We have edited it more and lozzie has used better software which is Hypercam to recored the Facebook parts. Lozzie used foley sounds of clicking and typing but they cant be heard clearly and are too quite. 

2nd Draft

This is our second draft. The sequence is very jittery and blurry so it is hard to see what is being typed. We played around with scale on final cut pro but it didn't work that well.

Feed back from our first draft

During tuesdays lesson we had to present our title sequence to Shaun. He said that it seemed a bit gay because there was mostly pictures of just the protagonists so he suggested for us to add in pictures of the protagonists with girls. He said that we should record the Facebook parts on a mac so it would seem  more professional. Lastly he said that we should cut down on the pictures and stop repeating them.

Soundtrack research

We have got more music because we thought that our original soundtrack was to popish.

First draft

This is the first draft of our title sequence. As you can see some of the scenes are a bit to dark and jittery   and out of focus. So we will have to reshot some of the sense plus someone said that it would be better if we filmed the Facebook on the computer so it was at a better quality. We also needed terry to upload a the video.