In what whays does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

To make our opening sequence look more effective to the audience, we added some special effects. One of the effects was to add a red tone into certain scenes. These were designed to create an image of flash back, so viewers would realise the difference of each scene understanding the moral of the film.

The effect used below was to put emphasis on the main story line for the film. It was designed to fade into the screen then out transparently, whilst still playing the main character, Emily, in the background. The newspaper is designed to show the viewers why Emily is acting emotionally, and what she is thinking about, giving it a more powerful effect.

Another effect added onto the film, were the titles of each individual character. As they appeard on the screen, their real names would appear on screen giving the knowledge to the audience of who was who. The titles came in and out using the fading tool giving it a special effect.

What Kind of Media Institution might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?

The funding of the film would come from the budget we have personally, a funding from Kings Langley Production, UK Film Council, or even the BBC. This would help significantly as it would help broaden the distribution of the film, as well as help greatly to film it without the disrupt of money worries.

For more success, it would be best to distribute this film worldwide.

There are many distribtuion companies such as Sony, Film 4, and Warner Bro's. Personally, i believe Sony would be best for this film as it has worldwide knowledge, therefore it would help into where to distribute e.t.c.

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

Our characters are mainly dressed in smart yet representable way. Lucy, the auntie in the film, is dressed in smart casual clothes. Emily, the main character, dresses also in casual clothes, whereas Kelly, the social worker wears smart clothes representing her highly respected role. Whereas in other shows, characters in the same genre dress in a more stylish, stereotypical way. They are more likely to dress in hoodies, skirts e.t.c as they believe this is the stereotype for them, whereas we have gone for the more smart suitable clothing, as we do not believe that is the correct way to represent these specific genders.

As you can see from the above pictures, it confirms what is written above

Evaluation

Evaluation For our preliminary task, we filmed it twice due to unnecessary scenes being put in the first one. the first time we filmed the video, we had three extra people sitting in the room: this caused distraction as well as un-agreements with our storyboards and all other preparations to do with the filming. therefore we decided to re-do the filming rather than we-write everything else, this time with just the people needed.
The first time we filmed, it took a lot longer than the second time. this was due to the distractions the other people caused, by playing music and/or laughing meaning we had to re-do many scenes in order to get the right one.
Here we had three friends join us in the room not participating jsut observing, this caused a lot of distraction and the need to do many of the takes. if we had thought about the additional people, before allowing them in this would have made this task a lot easier, and done with a lot quicker. It affected us as we had to re-do mos of our planning to add these three poeple to the scene, causing a waste of time, putting us back on what we had to do further on in the task. After evaluating what we had done so far: whether our scenes were actred well enough or not; whether the scenes were shot according to the script; whether we could have improved the whole task or not, we came to a decision that it would be for our best benefits to re-do the filming. this would help us t concentrate more, and make the clip a possible whole lot better.
The second filming was done a lot quicker due to no distractions, and everyone being a lot more focused, confident and willing to finish this task with their best performance. We did re-do a few scenes purely to the fact that we wanted it to be the best, rather than under performing what could be done better. We also made sure the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot, continuity, and match on action were all abided by, in order to save from re-filming due to us not abiding by these well known performances. This time, we made sure no one was to distract us in any way by; not allowing others to observe what we were doing; being more confident in front of the camera rather than laughing at unappropriate things; and making the filming better by making the shot sizes perfect and according to what we had planned.
Once we finished the filming part of the task, we went to the editing suite to edit the clips we had taken. Shortening clips that needed to be, adding titles and adjusting the volume for each take. we then had to update our blogger. However, as we had filmed twice, we also editied twice; once after the first filming; the next being after the second time we filmed.
The first time we edited, we were taught by our teacher as it was completely new to my group. we easily understood what was expected of us, and set off to log and edit our clip. Although it did take a long time due to all the distractions and unappropriate scenes. As we were logging the cluips, we came to a decision that it would take to long to finish and that we would benefit more if we had re-done the whole filming, where the teacher agreed therefore we abandoned what we had done already and set off on our filming second time round.
During the duration of the filming and editing, we changed many aspects of the film. This was due to many reasons; to give more of an effect and understanding.