Question 2-

How does your media product represent particular social groups?


My media product mainly represents the vulnerability of young teenagers/adults, because it is based on a group of teenage friends who go on a camping trip together, but then everything takes a turn for the worst!


I think that because me and my group are of a teen age we found that this is an easy group to target because we are aware of what teenagers want nowadays.

Props

The props we used were a mask similar to this one:

The Music

The music used was music we found on Freeplaymusic.com

Music we used:

• Demented Dreams - this is the music used at the start, at scene number 1
• Domestic Disturbance - this was used from numbers 5 - 7

Samples of these tracks can be found on the links below:

http://freeplaymusic.com/search/keyword_search.php (Demented Dreams)
http://freeplaymusic.com/search/keyword_search.php (Domestic Disturbance)

This is an image of our Story board for our film opening:

There wasnt really much of a script in our story board because there are no dialogue parts.

Technology

The video camera we used:

This is a Panasonic NV GS500 mini-DV video camera

An example of the tripod we used:

This is a Sony VCTR640.

We also used mobile phone to communicate to each other throughout the film making process:

For example:

We have also used Adobe CS3, specifically Photoshop and Premier Pro to edit our film opening.


The computers used were Apple iMac:

Typical Audience Member

This is Harry. Harry is 17 years old and lives at home with his Mum, Dad, Little sister Charlotte and his little puppy called Bruce. Harry is your average teenage boy, he likes to go out with his friends. His favourite hobbies include hanging out with his band mates, going bowling, shopping and especially going to the cinema to catch the latest releases! Harry enjoys movies that captivate the audience soon into the movie, he enjoys movies that keep the audience guessing and take a turn at the end for example Fight Club and Inception are a couple of his favourites.

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Previous research on film openings:
One film opening that inspired me and my group to make a horror/thriller type movie as Wrong Turn



This inspired us for the theme of our movie, because it has eary music which creates a sense of mystery and danger, it also has an establishing shot over woods which makes the audience aware that this movie is set in a forest.

All the forms and conventions that are in this film include the titles, like the actors and the directors and producers. Most of these are featured in our film 'INVIDIA' in our film opening we make the audience aware that someone is in danger by the fast paced camera shots of a person running away from something.

Construction Issues

The filming issues, problems and solutions we had are as follows:

The first filming issue we came across was that with the first part of our film opening being in Wickenby woods we had to try and gather all the cast and crew members there, but this was not possible so to solve this issue we had to finish the filming in Willingham Woods, but when we got to willingham woods we lost some filming time because we realised that we had to get permission from the forestry commissioners office which we did get in the end. This means that we had to send off all footage that we got that day.

Location skills, featuring camera, tripod, actors ect:
Finding the best location for our filming wasn't difficult because we live in the countryside, therefore we knew we would have a wide access to forests so we decided to produce a film in a wood would be suitable.

Editing issues and solutions:

During the editing stages of our film making we noticed there were some clicking noises created by the tripod at one point. So we told our teacher and he told us how to remove the clicking noises so that problem was easily solved. 

Music issues:

Becuase we used two different types of music we had to think of a way to make a smooth change between the two without a massive jump we did this by fading out one and a zoom in to the villains face with a quick scene change:

Titling issues:

The main issues with the titles was getting the whispering in the background to match with the words at the right times.

Timing issues:

The main timing issue was finding the right days to film where everyone was available to shoot the different parts. For instance at the beginning pan of the movie during the title scene me and Gemma filmed that part because Megan was unavailable. The weather was also a big issue as far as timing was concerned because with it being the middle of winter and in England, the weather was very unpredictable.

Weather/ illness ect, and solutions:

The weather was the main issue we had with regards to shooting, because it was so unpredictable because we would make plans to shoot on a day but then we were unable to because the weather would be different.

Illness wasnt really a major issue really.

All in all i think we were able to fix or cover up any issues that were put in front of us.