AS MEDIA STUDIES

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: