Evaluation 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

 

Evaluation question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


The different technologies that I used for the title sequence would be Final Cut Pro, Motion, Gargeband, camera, video drive and memory card. Although we used so many technologies for the process of constructing the media product, we believe that there were only several technologies that were very important, that would be the camera, Final Cut Pro, Motion and Gargeband.

Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software. Garageband is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts. Motion is a software application produced by Apple for their Mac OS X operating system. It is used to create and edit motion graphics, titling for video production and film production, and 2D and 3D compositing for visual effects.

Final Cut Pro was the technology that was used to edit the title sequence merging the different videos we shot to form the title sequence. From Final Cut Pro, we also edited the title sequence making some of them being able to fade adding effect to the film opening. Motion was the technology that we used to make the title sequence credits. This was then added to the Final Cut Pro to build everything together to make the film opening. Gargeband was the technology that was used to make the foley sounds for the film opening which added the effects of cars driving past and clothes being put on as well, we also used it to make the voice over at the beginning of our film opening. Camera was the technology that was used to shoot the whole of the film opening making the different scenes.

All the technologies that was used were very useful but the most useful one would have to be the camera and Final Cut Pro. This is because without the camera, we wouldn't be able to film the whole film opening. Final Cut pro is also very important because without Final Cut Pro, we wouldn't be able to edit the whole videos that we had shot for the film opening. The most creative would be Motion because using Motion, you can make your film opening credits look like anything especially with making the distribution company and production company. The least useful would have to be Gargeband, this is because what we done on Gargeband, we could have used youtube to find cars driving by and clothes being put on.

Evaluation question 5. How did you attract/address your audience?

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The  role of the feedback was very helpful. It helped us to improve our film in order to make a better appeal to the intended audience as no soundtrack wouldn't have appealed to our target audience would would of got bored.

How we reached our audience would be by making an active website for them to use and get to know the film more as well as the characters too. This helped attract audience as they get to see who's starring in it and can spread the word on about it to friends and tell them the sub genre too as it would have appealed to them.

The website for Street Love that was active for the audience was
" http://ab05835.wix.com/streetlove ".

Another way that we have reached our audience would be by putting the film opening up onto Vimeo for our target audience to see, this helped us to address the audience.



 
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Another way that we attracted our audience would be by creating a film poster for the audience to see. This would then help to attract more audience as we addressed the audience.

This film poster helped to attract the audience because it shows who's starring in Street Love, it also has a background that would help to pull audience in to watch and lastly it has a tagline which helps to attract the right audience to come and watch Street Love.

Evaluation question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product?


The wider audience for teen movies in general would be both genders from the ages of 11-25. The reason for this is because pre-teens would want to know what the life of a teenager would be once they reach teenage years and what they could possibly expect. Why teenagers would be the audience for teen movies would be because they would want to see how the life of a teenager is from someones life that is also a teenager. Why young adults might be the target audience for teen movies would be because they can reflect on how teenage life was as they won't be able to experience it again and it is the moment they will have the most fun.

Teen movies were made for teenagers I believe but the audience for teen movies have expanded other time making younger and old people above teenage years watching it now. The target audience for Street Love would be people of the ages 15-19, both genders.

The audience for the sub genre crime is likely to be people from early teens to late teens such as     14-19. Why I think this is because the audience could watch it and then it could help them with life decisions on joining gangs and that gangs are not what it may seems. This would help this sort of audience because it can help them make better decisions on things that probably go through their heads. The target audience for Kidulthood and Attack The Block which are similar media texts to ours would be teenagers as well.

Evaluation question 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation question3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

(Canva presentation located at the bottom)

The distribution company and production company that we created in our titles of our own teen movie was Urban Fix Films and Cherry White Production.

Urban Fix Films and Cherry White Productions are two small independent companies that have distributed/produced Street Love. Some examples of media institutions from teen films that are youth drama that would distribute/produce our media product would be HanWay Films. Why HanWay Films would be best distributing our media product is because HanWay Films is also an independent distribution company, they helped distribute Kidulthood which is an inspiration to our media product.

The reason HanWay Films would be best to distribute our media product is because they have distributed a teen movie to an audience that would appeal to Street Love's target audience and they have also distributed a teen movie to a target audience that has the same sub genre as Street Love, the sub genre being crime where Street Love has some similarities to Kidulthood. This also means that HanWay Films would also want to distribute Street Love.

A movie that HanWays Films have distributed in the past would be An Education. An Education happens to be a teen movie as well as Street Love, this makes HanWay Films even more best to distribute our own teen movie.

The type of release that Street Love would expect would be a local release in London. Street Love is also likely to be a theatrical release. Street Love was released in the cinema on 16th March 2015 in TheScreen On The Green.

These are images from Canva...

Link for the Canva presentation...

https://www.canva.com/design/DABMLybGEH8/AbvhUEMjJRTeeSNDA0RTYA/view?&utm_content=DABMLybGEH8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton&cc_from_uid=UABK9kHZnMk

Evaluation question 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation question 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?



Representation is the stereotypical things that we would assume that are usually happen in films which often involve gender, age, race etc. Some films that include representation would be Kidulthood where we see black teenagers involved with gangs. This representation would be race where black people are represented as villains.




The types of social groups that we expect to see in title sequences of teen dramas depend on whether it's high school or youth drama. High school would have social groups of squad in their title sequence. A squad is a small group of 3-15 people who work as a team to achieve their goals.
Youth drama would have social groups of gangs in their title sequence. Gangs would usually be an urban group that gathers in a particular area and also have a negative influence.

The title sequence we made for Street Love involved teenage stereotypes that we have seen in other films. The stereotypes that we included of teenagers would be how we see a teenage black boy with the costume of a hoody and also with the props of a bike. This brings out the stereotype of black teenage boys being in gangs and always being in trouble. The other films that we have seen this in would be the youth dramas Kidulthood and as well as Attack The Block. We thought this should be included in the title sequences because it's representation of black teenagers and the audience would understand the main character more if we put him in the costume we did. We thought this would act as a short cut to communicate meaning to our character to the audience.

The title sequence for Street Love.

 The title sequence for Kidulthood.

 The title sequence for Attack The Block.

In the representation of our main character, we decided to show him to the audience as a negative representation. In our title sequence we support the general stereotypes with the main character rather than challenge the general stereotype.

Another way we have supported common stereotypes would be by how the main character is getting his hair done by his girlfriend. This shows the common stereotype of that women are there to take care of the man.

Yes, lighting affected the way we have represented the main character. During the title sequence, you see the main character who is representing the stereotype of young black teenagers being dressed up as a thug and during the title sequence you see him when there is natural lighting which tells the audience about his character falsely. If I could go back to film again, I would make the lighting of the scene more darker like in Attack The Block title sequence (above) as it gives more information to the audience about the character.

Evaluation question 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation question 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?





The purpose of a title sequence is to introduce the story to the audience and to let them get an understanding of who the main characters are from the beginning letting them know what they're like and for us to see how they develop over the film. The title sequence is also used to let us know whether we will like the film or not as it can be used to connote the genre as well as information to help attract us as the audience to watch it.

What a good title sequence should do is is should involve conventions of the film genre. Conventions are very important to any film. Conventions are involved in films so that the audience have a brief understanding of what they can expect, this really helps because it helps grab their attention to the film. Some conventions of title sequences would be to introduce the protagonist during the film opening, this is so that the audience are introduced to him or her. Some examples of this would be how during the Kidulthood film opening we're introduced to the protagonist that being Trevor.





During Kidulthood we see convention s of title sequences by being introduced to protagonist Trevor. This helps the audience because they get to see the protagonist develop throughout the film which we get to see Trevor do so.

Another example of conventions of title sequence would be from the title sequence we made. From our title sequence for Street Love we decided to introduce the protagonist Kai given him the majority of screen time.

Title sequences are always seen in a strict order when we see film openings. This is for specific reasons. They are constructed to look the way they are because of importance. Production companies and also distribution companies will consistently come first so they gain the recognition that they deserve for the film. The conventional way that we see title credits would be:

• Distribution company
• Production company
• Actors
• Casting
• Costume
• Music
• Photography
• Edited by
• Producer
• Director

In title credits, it's conventional that we will constantly see the director closing the title credits. The function of title credits is that the audience see who has made an input into the making of the film. There are severe punishments for not including people into title credits. George Lucas was fined $250,000 by the directors from Guild of America for not putting the directors name in the opening title credits.

Order of my title sequence, Street Love



1. Distribution company

2. Production company

3. Actor 1

4. Actor 2

5. Actor 3

6. Name of the film

7. Edited by

  


 8. Music by


  

9. Directed by

Order of Kidulthood title sequence

1. Distribution company

     




2. Production company

3. Name of the film

3 Similarities

1. Distribution company came first.
2. Production Company came first.
3. They both included the name of the film in the film opening.

3 differences

1. Name of the film came last for Kidulthood and directed by came last for Street Love
2. The had more than one distribution company and production company and Street Love had one of each.
3. They didn't include any actors names and Street Love included actors names

FINAL EDIT

Order of the title sequence

This is how the order of the titles on our title sequence will appear. We made it that order as it's an independent production film and also because of the conventions of how the titles are meant to appear.

Soundtrack for the title sequence

This is the new and more improved version of the soundtrack we're going to include in our title sequence.

Film poster

This is the film poster we created for our title sequence. We involved our main characters in the title sequence and also the release date for Street Love. This is for the audience to be more informed about the title sequence and to also get hyped up by the film poster.

Website

As a group, we made a website for our title sequence for the audience to view and make their voice heard to us and to also get to know the cast more. The website is called http://ab05835.wix.com/streetlove .

Voice over

In our title sequence we have included a voice over at the beginning of the title sequence, this is because so that the audience can understand the story of the main character as it's one of the ways to show the main character's story by using a voice over at the beginning of the title sequence. The idea of using a voice over came from the inspiration of La Haine. La Haine is a teen movie which is also a youth drama. This was a major inspiration as Street Love is also a teen movie and also a youth drama. This is the voice over we'll be using...

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MEMORY CARDS/SD CARDS;
The memory & SD cards have allowed us to be able to save all our film footage we have filmed. the memory cards & SD cards have enough memory to allow us to film loads and loads of scenes for our title sequence.



Video Drive -
Each group was given a video drive with the group number on it . this video drive allowed us to save all our filming work that we have done. its very handy because if we lost any footage on the  This is the video drive and allows you to also save any work or filming you have done. it is like a memory card but this is built into the camera and nothing is added. The bigger the drive the more footage that can be filmed so this was useful because it helped us develop our project by allowing us to film more.

Editing Pictures

 

 

Location

We will use a location that will help set the mood of a "shady" character selling illegal items without wanting to be spotted.
So we have chosen a park in Islington which is ideal because it is very spacious and has loads of trees which adds a mysterious feel.

Foley sounds

The foley sounds we're going to use for our title sequence are coming for gargeband. We are using foley sounds to capture the sounds we would normally hear when in that environments. The foley sounds that we are going to include in the title sequence are going to be cars going past as well as clothes getting put on. This is because we want to emphasis the surroundings as the camera wasn't able to pick up the sounds.

These are the foley sounds that we will be using. Both will be used separately, none overlapping.

Rough copy of our soundtrack

This is our rough copy of our soundtrack that we made from Garageband. We're still developing a new soundtrack that will be further developed for our title sequence.

We asked a bunch of our target audience what they thought of our soundtrack and the reviews we got were that it was it was good but it could do with some improvements to it.

Rough cut

This is our rough cut to our title sequence we are currently making. There are still improvements we are going to make, this includes still adding more clips to the title sequence. We showed the rough cut to our teacher and her comments were "It actually feels like a movie.". We are very happy with the comments we have received. The improvements also include adding a soundtrack to the title sequence.

Clip

This is a short clip explaining the changes we have made to our teen film and why we have made these changes.