Evaluation- Question 2

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social group?

Dom is one of the four boys in our film opening; he seems to take the role of the leader in the group as he is in the middle of all the action and drama in the film opening. His appearance is a casual look which a typical schoolboy would wear. He wears beige chinos and a casual hoody. His character seems to be the most rebellious of the four boys as he is seen littering and jumping over gates. His character takes the role as the leader of the group in some sense as he seems to be in the centre of all the action because he is the one who catches the murder on camera and therefore automatically becomes the character where the audience will know that all the action and drama will evolve around him. Although Dom is the leader of the four boys when they spontaneously run into the murder the boys are in shock and are now scared, and they are all seen in the end running home. Dom runs home a different way to the other boys and in the end he is shown looking scared. Not the brave leader anymore!

Bradley cooper is an American film, theatre and television actor. He is well known all around the world. He has been in films such as, the A team, wedding crashers, limitless and the hangover. Although he has been in all of these films his character in the hangover (Phil Wenneck) is very much like Dom the character in our film opening. His appearance is often smart wearing trousers but also like Dom he is very causal wearing a shirt and his hair often scruffy. The reason why his character is so similar to Dom is because in the hangover he takes the role of the leader of the four boys this is because he seems to make all the decisions and also is the more dominant character. Although the four characters in are film are in most of the shots Dom takes the leader because like Bradley cooper in the hangover he is centre of all the drama, he catches the murder, he loses his wallet which contains personal information, he runs home a different way to the other boys so is on his own and finally at the end he is in his room, home alone and there’s a knock on the door and he sees a flash back of the incident he caught on camera and it leaves it on a cliff hanger to show that it could be the murderer after him.

Bradley coopers character in the hangover (Phil Wenneck) is similar to are character Dom because of how they both take the lead role in their groups. However the characters are slightly different in the fact that Bradley cooper in the hangover makes all the decision in the group and becomes the more dominant because he is making orders. However, although Dom takes the leader because he is in the middle of all the drama he does not make all the decisions in the group. This is how the two characters differ.      

Answered by Adam Lomas and Roberto Pinto.

Evaluation- Question 1

Q1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

The title of our film is called ‘On The Run’ the reason why we chose to call it this was because during the film opening the boys are often seen running away from things such as, school and the murder they find! Our setting and location for our film was in school and in Cookoo’s hollow, the reason why we filmed here was because it helped set the scene at the start and helped relate to our audience, especially in the school clips. Also the woody background to the location was perfect for our murder scene as it was dark and gloomy which is a great place in a film for a murder. Costumes which were used were everyday teenage boy clothes; the boys wore chinos or skinny jeans and a causal top and hoodys. This also helped relate to our audience. The props used was a football and a knife, the football helped relate to our audience because it is something they would like to do. The knife was used for the murder weapon which helped imply the horror side to the film.  The main part of the film opening was the finding of the body and the camera work used for this was hand held to create a more realistic feature. We used different editing techniques such as jump cuts and fade in and out edits. The overall story for the film would have been, after the boys capture the murder on tape then the person who was caught over the body would try and track down the boy’s this is why the boy’s are on the run hence the title. The genre is Action/Horror and our film opening suggests this because they are running away from things suggesting the action side to it and the finding of the murder suggests the horror side to it. The characters are introduced at the start when they are in the school playing football.    



The speakers in this video are Roberto Pinto and Adam Lomas.

Kung Fu Panda nine frame

I added this to my blog a while back but it was saved as a draft so it has only just been published.

Final Film Opening

Story board

 This is our new storyboard, it describes the basic story of our film opening. It has the main scene's in it aswell.

 However, due to the fact we have recently finished our film the storyboard does not completly match our film but it is almost identical. There are just a few differences because the storyboard was drawn up a while back, whereas the film opening has only recently been finished.

Filming pictures

This is one of the main parts in our film opening. Its the murder scene where we dont know whether the man kneeling be hind the dead body has actually done it. This is why the film is on edge and has a cliffhanger. This makes it very dramatic.

Survey

                                              

This is a survey what we asked our classmates to see what film they would most likely to see. Action and thriller was what the majorty said.