Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Preliminary Task



My preliminary exercise.

Evaluation 1

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

I have created a Prezi to answer this question.

Evaluation 2




Below, I have chosen two characters from other romantic comedies that share similarities and differences to our main male character. I’ve annotated screengrabs taken from the films and our film opening, to illustrate how our main character fits into and also goes against the stereotypes within a RomCom.
 

Representation of social groups through mise en scene and camerawork:


 

She isn’t in the centre of the frame, displays she isn’t a main character but also suggests that her gender has some part to her positioning.
 
 

As here, and throughout the majority of the opening, the male is in the centre of the frame.
 
 

Evaluation 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
 
We decided that if we were to actually make our film opening into a professional full feature product, we would like to choose Universal Pictures to distribute it. The Slideshow below explains why.

Evaluation 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?



This Glogster (below) goes into detail about our target audience - their favourite things, gender and age etc.. The factfile relatesto our film opening as we used things our target audience will be interested in and related these to our opening.



On the Glogster below I created a moodboard of all the interests and likes of our target audience.

Evaluation 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

I created a Slideshow to evaluate how we attracted our target audience.



 

Evaluation 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

For this question I again produced a short video, the reason for this is because I felt this formatt was the best way to answer this evaluation question. It explains what I learnt from using various technolgies and how these helped me to create and plan out the film opening.


Evaluation 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

For this evaluation I produced a video evaluating what I thought I had learnt in the few months between the preliminary task and the full product. How I'd progressed, what I'd learnt and how I put all this into practice when planning, filming and editing the film opening.