1) In what ways does your media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
3) How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research & planning & evaluation stages?
Our media project uses the forms and conventions of our
chosen genre (Comedy). We researched into the genre of comedy because that was
the film we wanted to create. Our short film consist of four
charachters. Our aim was to try to show it close to the reality . We used
many mid-shots and mid close-ups in our film. We shot our scenes in an elevator
which later in the film could be a social meeting point for the characters.
Many members of the audience can relate to this. In our piece we have shot our
first scene which is on a main road and we have used natural daylight.
The first scene which is an establishing shot starts with a pan
as the car is coming towards the building. In terms of sound, the
opening has no dialogue. And as the car stops outside the building, we used a
high angle shot, which gives a whole view of the location. Moreover, as we shot
our film in the elevator we used the low key lighting. The costumes that we
chose for our actors were according to their role and profession. The business
man wears a suit, the secretary wears a check shirt with galous. The gardener
wears a kurta and a dhoti (villagers dress) holding a waste bin and a
pot. Also, the waiter is holding a tray and wearing a waistcoat . The props
gives a clear view of the role of the charachters.
2) What have you learned from your
audience feedback?
For our five and a half minute comedy film,
as we researched we knew what our target audience would be. So, are target
group was above 18 as this age group would grasp the idea more easily,
therefore we will be successful in conveying our message to the audience. So
with this age group we have tried to maximize the outcome of the entire
production. We have had mixed feedback.
There did seem to be a confusion with a few scenes as we missed one shot when
the gardener had to stop the elevator by putting his arm between the
door. His entry seemed too abrupt Re-shooting was going to take a lot of time
and the actors were only available for one day,so we couldn't manage to cover
that up.
3) How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research & planning & evaluation stages?
Throughout this coursework we developed
a number of technical skills. We were taught about different programs and
technologies. We got to know about commonly used camera shots and angles,
lighting, cinematography, mise-se-scene etc.We started our advance portfolio
from Blogging, every task that we performed had to be posted on our blogs.
While we started to work on our project we faced too many problems as we could
not arrange the actors for our film, so we had to modify our script and due to
part fault of our own we ended up filming quite late. Our planning and
pre-production took a lot longer than it would for others and our workload
trebled in size. So we were bit behind others . As we had to do research on our
genre, and film we had to open up proxies as Youtube had banned in our country.
We shot our film from one DSLR, which was a big issue. Moreover, the
location that was available had a very small elevator in which we had to shoot.
So, it became quite difficult for us to shoot in a very congested place with
four actors.
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