How did you attract/address your audience?

i believe that our genre of film we are producing will attract a range of audiences even though it is aimed at ages 12+ i think our film could be open to all ages as it could interest a lot of people know matter their age, the way we have shown the characters as well people can relate to them in the way that they mite be able to relate to them or have an understanding of how you would normally see them, the characters are not exaggerated as well they are your ordinary teenagers who all have their own personalities which makes each of them unique, the audience will be able to connect with each character as they are able to learn more about them, the way that the footage is to be shown bright and colorful as the characters walk around you are able to also get a feeling that it will be a bright film that wouldn't contain any depressing parts as each scene contains bright weather, you are just able to establish this is a younger film that girls can watch and be influenced by how the girls are or could act which they could go on to become like in a sense with their personality. our film could also relate to a girls issue that they could be having at school and could relate to the film becoming more interested into how the films presses it and puting that knowledge t into a real life experience. 

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Our target audiences are aged between 12+, and gender female. They are our target audience because its a chick-flick, and has been created for girls as a comedic, realism of types of people, especially female. Boys could also be interested in watching our film but we wanted to base it towards the girls as it was mostly aimed towards the girls in the way that they can possible relate towards the friends group or just the particular social groups that you would see around school or even interested into how the girl are friends with there all unique stories and personalities that have towards each other as well as other people. 

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

whiles creating my preliminary task i wasent fulley able to learn how to eddit to the extent of making it look a profecinal film, i was not able to structure my perlimenary the same as i did for my final, for m final i was able to create a script as well as a story bored which we where able to look at as we film of piece for media, for my perlimanrly it wasnet as struktured as my final as well as wasent to shown to be a professional standard of work. From the time i have had to create my perlimanry to creating my final piece i was able to learn a range of teqneques with the camara as well as editting skils that i was able to use whiles creating our 2 minute media film opening, being that i have learnt the new skills i was able to put them to use whiles filming i learnt that having a tripod was able to keep the camara steady so that i was able to film in a more clearer motion, i was also able to realize the effect that having props or items in our film that where irrelevant to the final piece it could have an effect on how you see the footage so i was able to remove any object that where irrelevant befor hand. 

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

whilst creating our media pice i was able to learn the editing side of the process where i was able to learn how to use Adobe premier pro to both edit our 2 minute beginning of our film as well as placing the effect on the film that where essential to showing how genoa is established. while filming i was also able to gain more of an insight into how to frame a shot so that any inappropriate element share to to be shown within our filming area for example a prop that may be irrelevant to our film or didn't suit the tone of mood the begging of the film was aiming to be. while working on our film i was able to learn about the blog, how i had to upload and post pictures, this was all relevant to our film making as i was able to learn how to upload it all to a internet source. our sound track that was chosen had a beat to it that was what we where looking for in or film opening so we used it, we where able to learn to making it parallel to our footage that was shown so that it fitted to the right tone of at the right time. 

Evaluation - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

My group have decided to choose Universal  Pictures as our distributor. We have chosen this because Universal Pictures are an American film company who are popular for distributing large budget films. They are also known for they’re influence on British cinema and partnership between Universal Vivendi and Working Title, to form a synergy. Overall They have produced box office hits like: 'Bridget Jones’ Dairy‘ and 'Bridesmaids' . We have aimed to achieved this level of quality in the film opening we have created by using the best quality equipment that were available to us with little to no budget. and with both independent companies joining together, viral advertisement is important, due to little to no budget. 

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

We wanted to show our film opening similar to the film St Tinian's. Because, that chick-flick, comedy, has the same target audience’s as what we were going to apply ourselves for.  similar because of the stereotypes, just like St Tinian's, and its different, because its just the four of us. and its not into separate social groups, but just stereotypes. The shot types we have chosen to do, are often designed in order for the audience to follow the film through the eyes of the main characters. Typical chick flick shot types includes two shots to show personal relationships between characters, Close up to get the detail and the emotion on there faces, And tilts, common when you have an attractive character on there, so the audience can be the eyes of the camera. And it also has a wide shot of the whole group, in this case, the four of us. this allows the viewer to see all of the characters, for there convection's and mise en scene. We aimed to uses as many of these shot types as possible in order to make the genre of our film opening clear.

With most Chick-flick, the age range is 12A, just for the fact that it is opened to a more widened audiences, films like, St Trinians, Wild Child and John tucker must die.

Evaluation - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We, as a group, chose to do different types of stereotypes, which is clear from the beginning, where we have used our mise en scene, and has took four different types of teenagers, and became it. Our make-up and costume suits with our stereotype, and our different social groups. we have the Goth, which is dressed in black, with heavy make-up. The nerd, which is dressed in tucked in clothes, glasses and books. The Chav, which is dressed in loose clothes, hair up to the side and is shown to be a rebel, by taking some guys hat, and runs away with it. And the Posh Totty, dressed nicely, short everything, with the flirty quality.
I think that having the right costume, make-up and props are a necessary towards describing what social groups they are in. By this, we can then locate what type of social group, or stereotype they are under. 
Through-out the film, it is shown how the mise en scene, points out what type of group they both fit in, but it is both realized at the end that they are friends. 

Evaluation - How does your media product represent gender?

Our product represents gender by using different stereotypes, which both represents different emotions and qualities for each girl in our group. And with our main four characters, all being girls, and the editing techniques done with pink text, and pink colours, shows that its a feminism colour and a connotation of girly.

Also, we have represented gender by producing a chick-flick, with the costumes meeting the stereotype standard, with; Goth, Nerd, Chav and Posh totty. 

 with the Opening credits, shows the connotation of the girl element, with the text and how it has been edited onto the sketchbook/diary.  This techniques goes through the whole 2 minutes, by introducing the characters, both with the same kind of colour, relating to the gender of the four main characters. 

certification

The certificate for the film will be 12A because of our genre and target audience age we don't need the certificate to be any higher. Most chick flicks like 'Wild Child' and 'John Tucker Must Die' are both 12A's. Films that are genre's like action and horror have older target audiences so we would like all of the people we aim our film at to be able to watch it. By the certificate being so low it also means that more people in general will be able to enjoy the film.


-Written by Jade delaney
-Decided and thought about by the Whole Group

Our preliminary footage

Our final Piece!

Opening Scene: the book opening

For the first seconds of our opening, we are going to have an over the shoulder shot of a girl, preferably jade, so it suits the voice overs when we start to film, going  through a A3 black and pink sketch book with images of the main characters and the opening credits. Much like the opening for St Trinians but it will not be animation. In these pictures, we have asked a model to sit holding an A3 sketch book which is the same size, shape and colour as the one we shall be using. This experiments the different angles we can shoot in, and which one has the greatest effect, and suits the film.
So we filmed the model flicking the pages, and next i will show you how we did. 

Sound and Music - Suchy la

For our film opening, my group and I need a up-beat and light song- ideally a British artist with female vocals. Our group are also considering having a narrator speaking over the music about 30 seconds in to the opening. After our opening credits (scrap book scene).
This is suchy LA, a British artist, known for her song, Addicted. This song will be played in the 2 minute clips.
She was Born & raised in Bristol, UK, Suchy La has grown up in a city known for its diverse culture and vibrant music scene, home to groups such as Massive Attack, Roni Size,as well as a huge underground dance scene.
her Myspace account is:
http://www.myspace.com/suchyla