AS MEDIA STUDIES

7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from  it to your final production?  The time management of both of my tasks were very difficult to master. In my preliminary task I spent so much time trying to make sure everything was perfect.  I spent the same amount of time in my two tasks even though my final media product was harder to produce. I have learnt a lot of new things over the course of this task but I think the main thing learned was how to use After effects and premier pro.  Without the skills I have learned from using After effects or Premier pro I would not be able to construct my media product to a high quality standard. Research and planning were essential stages of the construction of my media product and the development of my preliminary task. For my preliminary task research I looked at videos on YouTube and different film genres on google to help me construct my media product, I personally found i...

6. What have you learn about technologies from the process of contracting this product?  Throughout the production of my media product, I have come across a lot of new softwares and technology which I have never used before. I have expanded my knowledge on other programmes I have used before such as Photoshop, I have learnt about lots of new editing skills using premier pro and after effects.  Video editing was one of the most helpful as I can take those skills and use it to future reference when I need it.  A very interesting programme was the Adobe colour wheel, this programme helped me expand my ideas of the different colour schemes, which I could use once I started editing my media product, which helped me gain inspiration for themes.  Blogger is also a website I have never used before, it's associated with Google which allows me to publish my own personal profile. Blogger is hugely important regarding me media studies work as it contains my whole foundation po...

5. How did you attract/address your target audience? Firstly, once I began to research about different genres before I began making my film. I researched different genres and the relatable audiences to specific genres. I also looked up at websites that would help me see which films were most seen last year and what the target audience was. Researching different genres and looking at different audiences and how they match different films really helped me to decide which genre I was going for. I also watched trailers of popular horror films done in 2016; Don't breathe, The forest and The Darkness. All of this films inspired me to create a horror drama film, because of the intense shots and the adrenaline of not knowing what is going to happen next. As a teenager, I fit into my target audience, this means that I could use my initial thoughts and ideas about Horror films to attract the audience. After deciding what genre I was going for, i needed to research what other people my a...

2. How did you represent social groups?  The protagonist in my media product is a middle class female age 16, Black. This is all shown through her clothes and the objects on the floor. She is portrayed as innocent and weak through the use of close ups which help showing the context of my media product. The close ups also allowed me to make the audience feel sympathy towards the main character which that was my intended purpose.  She is the only character that appears in my media product so the shots had to create pressure within the audience, in order for the audience to identify themselves with the protagonist. This character is supposed to be a stereotypical teenage girl, so through the use of costume and props I was able to represent a particular social group. However, she subverts this stereotype because she appears dead in the film opening, so it gets tricky for the audience to identify wether she is a teenager or not, but the props are ...

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?   I have researched before, for my secondary research, various media institutions that I thought were ideal for the genre I was going for. One of the media institutions is the Warner Bros. Time Warner Inc. is an American multinational media corporation headquartered in the Time warner centre in new York. I also thought Time Warner Inc. would be ideal to distribute my media product because it is the second largest media and entertainment conglomerate.  My media product has the features that would fit perfectly into a Warner Bros Inc. film, the mysterious genre and the horror. Warner Bros might distribute my media product because the context of the narrative is original and unique. Warner Bros have distributed  many horror films and has collaborated with other institutions such as Some of the most popular films created by Warner Bros are: Harry Potter, The dark knight and Slumdog Millionaire. War...

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?  Once I started planning and researching to develop my media product, I decided to represent young teenage girls, going through bullying.  My intended audience overall are teenage girls because the main character in my media product is also a teenage girl, so I thought it would be convenient to represent teenage girl thought the main character and her story.  The gender of the main character was very hard to decide, as girl suffer bullying much more than boys, so if I wanted to get my message across, I had to make my intended audience want to watch the movie. So gender really helped me to represent my chosen social group. The context of my media product overall, had to match my audiences thoughts and i also intended to make the audience identify themselves with the main character in my media product. The main character was one of the ways to represent teenage girls, but I also used...

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?     In my media product it as essential to me to achieve a really good quality product that interested the audience.  My media product challenges other films that use horror and drama as a genre, personally, I developed my media product through the genre research and learning about the features of the genres I was then using for my own work. My film challenges real media products, as I used music and certain shots that I knew would leave the audience with question and create major suspense. Leaving the location unknown was one of my biggest challenges, as I went for Horror as my main genre, the location of my film opening was vital to create a sense of fear, and then with drama as my sub-genre I incorporated music and dramatic mise-en-scene to create panic. The setting and shooting location complimented the conventions of my media work, the typical ...

Date Shot number/ description Time Code (in) Time Code (out) Location Crew & cast Equipment Props/ Costume/ Make up, etc. Editing Decisions 22 nd /12 First shot Woods Me Camera and microphone Makeup and costume 27 th /12 Second and third shot Woods Me Camera and microphone Costume and props 2 nd /01 Last 2 shots Woods Me Camera and microphone None Production  name:   Endless Pain Student name(s): Nayma Araujo First day of filming, 22nd of December -  On the first day of shooting, I began by exploring more the location as it was a forest. The process of looking for the right place to shoot was hard but it was all worth it as we found the right place. As it was a rainy day, the only thing I achieved was taking a couple pictures of the locati...

Production Action Plan Name: Nayma Araujo          Brief: Film Opening  Group: A2-Me-……….         Start date: 22/12/2016            Deadline(s): 4th/01/2017 Action By when Problems / comments / further action Evidence in blog  Further location  research, starting to shoot and working on rough cuts.    22/12/16  Shooting the main shots and beginning to explore more the location.   27/12/16   Finishing the last shots and reflecting over the shots done.  02/01/17

Due to the struggle of finding the right people to collaborate on my film opening, i have changed my idea slightly. I decided to just have the main character on my film opening instead of various characters, this is because I personally think its better to keep the audience interested in the main event, if i decide to have various characters i my film opening the audience could lose the focus on the main event and become distracted. I also decided to do this because by having only the main character in the film opening, it will make the context much more dramatic and the audience will not loose the focus.  I am going to keep my idea of the main character getting bullied, but instead of having to show the girl getting bullied at school, i am going to show the girl dead in the woods, i decided to do the because it will create suspense and it will be attention grabbing. 

"Bully" I decided to research deeper into the theme of bullying to show my understanding of the context and to have more ideas for my own film opening. I looked at various films online, I used google and film websites to help me find the best bullying films and instead of a film i found a very interesting documentary that helped me with my own ideas and gave me inspiration about different shots and camera angles.  The colours and font used in this image are very attention grabbing, the yellow and red combined create an alarming image, as if it is a warning.  The connotations behind this image is what really matters and what it conveys to the viewer.  This image captures the audience's attention straight away, it helps to convey the warning of the situation.  This additional research has really helped me to develop my ideas even further and to understand the context of different films. Once I start shooting my film opening, the ideas and the inspi...

Due to the changing of the weather, the filming had to be re scheduled for christmas holidays , also because some of the people participating in the filming process will not be available due to school and work, so the filming will start during the christmas holidays because it is accessible to everyone.   My main idea slightly changed, firstly i was going to do a film opening where i had different characters on it, but i thought that by just having the main character in and not revealing the other characters would keep the audience more interested. I also decided to change the setting, props and costume to fit around the new context of my film opening . In this video above I explain all the details and further ideas and updates:

The first and most significant prop of my film opening is the main characters Diary , here are all her secrets. This diary represents who she is , and when is taking away from her, it affects her in many ways.  Diaries have the connotation of a book in which one keeps daily record of events and experiences , it is to be kept a secret. This prop symbolizes very much to the film opening because it is one of the main reasons that causes conflict between the characters on the film opening. The phone symbolizes the bullying in my film opening so it is really important to show the impact that it creates on all of the characters to then be able  to convey the  main idea of what my interpretation  of what bullying is . The phone also represents   my  intended audience because, mobile phones are mainly used by teenagers that are constantly texting each other, and using their phones to do different things throughout ...

One of the first and important locations is a school , as the main character in my film is bullied I need to show where it starts and why. Most bullying situations occur firstly at a school so my idea was to have my first shot be at a school and then build into the climax to keep my intended audience interesting on what was happening. This is also a good way to show mise en scene and the impact of it.  This location was supposed to be for my other idea, of my media product. As my idea changed, I changed the location in order to be able to create another context for my media product.  This is the updated version of my new chosen location. I thought it would be better to change the location to a more urban setting, to highlight my context and the story line.  Changing the locations has been affected by the change of weather yet I have chosen carefully dates and times to be able to shoot my media product.

Animatic are animated storyboards. They are used for various purposes depending on the medium for which they are being produced. Animatics are used every day in the advertising industry to test commercials. They're used to preview scenes of live-action films before they are show. You'll also find animatics in the pre-production stages of animation and in the video game industry.  Once I tried to create my own Animatics, I had so much fun with working with different tools and just watching is as a real film opening. The music that I added to it, it the music that I will be using for my own film opening so I thought it would be good to just dd the music to make it seem more like the real thing. 

Once I looked at Production logos from other film companies, I began to work with after effects and photoshop to experiment the different features and explore the best options for my production logo. I wanted my production logo to be very simple but to also reflect my film genre through the use of after effects. Working with photoshop for the first time was very complicated, not knowing what tools to use and which ones are the best to be used was very challenging but once I became to watch tutorials on YouTube helping me how to use photoshop; was really helpful and it helped me improve my editing skills.  After effects is  much easier programme because there is many different tools, for example making the text move or making the back round itself move and creating illusion. After various attempts, I then decided to use after effects because the content of the programme was much easier to use and the end result was much more satisfying then when I used photoshop. Explori...

Diegetic Sound Sound whose source is visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film: Voices of characters  Sounds made by objects in the story  Music represented as coming from instruments in the story Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the film's world, Diegetic sound can be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever is source is within the frame or outside the frame. Another term for diegetic sound is actual sound.  Non-diegetic Sound Sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action: narrator's commentary  sound effects which is for the dramatic effect mood music           Non diegetic is represented as coming from the source outside the space. The distinction between diegetic and non-diegetic sound depends on our understanding of the conventions of the film viewing and listen...

Before I even start my own personalised company logo for my film opening, I decided to do a little bit of research to understand more the use of a logo and what they resemble.  A Production logo is a logo used by movie studios and television production companies to brand what they produce, production logos are normally seen at the beginning of a theatrical movie.  Logos are either purely graphic or composed of the name of the organisation.  A logo is the visual identity of a company, so the design is a very important area. The design of a company logo, will represent the company as a whole, so the colours used, the font, the name has to be carefully chosen by the company funders to represent them. Colour is a also a key element in logo design and plays and important part role in brand differentiation, colours tend to have connotations and associations so when choosing the colour for the logo, it has to be very well evaluated to fit in with what they are trying to conv...