Who would be the audience for your media product?
We decided that the audience for our film would be females between 12 & 24 years old. We chose this age range because after doing some research and looking into other films of the same genre we found that most of these films were watched by teenagers aged from 13 to 24, so we thought the most accurate way to set a target audience for our film would be to go off of what films within the same genre had set theirs as.
Another reason we chose this age range is because they are the people who are most likely to have money to spend and time to actually go out and see a film. 12/13 is usually the age where you are just starting to get pocket money for doing household chores, so people around that age will have money to spare as they don't need to spend their money on things like bills, food and clothes as they are still young enough for their parents to do that. 16/17 is the age where you are likely to be having a first job so you will have money to spend on more leisure activities like going to the cinema. Lastly 18-24 year olds are most likely to be in stable jobs and will have a fair amount of spare money to use on leisure activities
The reason we decided females would be the main target audience is because they are the most likely to see teen drama/chick flicks and as thats what our films genre falls under we decided that females would most likely watch it.
Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Evaluation question two.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our title sequence represents social groups such as teenagers in a fairly negative way. Throughout the entire sequence you can clearly see the different stages of the social ladder. You have the outsiders/unpopular kids, the cool/popular kids, the bullies and those inbetween. Although we have mainly stuck to the typical popluar girl trend we have slightly altered it. We didn't really want our main character to be as stereotypical as the rest and chose to make the main character; the popular girl, quite alternative. She enjoys listening to rock bands and wears something stereotypically an 'outsider' would wear. I like this idea because it changes things a bit and shows that typically unpopular people can be one of the popular kids if they tried.
However with the rest of the characters we have stuck to the stereotypes. A main boy being tall and awkward and clearly not having many friends as he walks alone, and the background characters (the bullies, the inbetweeners) just as you would imagine them to be.
Our title sequence represents social groups such as teenagers in a fairly negative way. Throughout the entire sequence you can clearly see the different stages of the social ladder. You have the outsiders/unpopular kids, the cool/popular kids, the bullies and those inbetween. Although we have mainly stuck to the typical popluar girl trend we have slightly altered it. We didn't really want our main character to be as stereotypical as the rest and chose to make the main character; the popular girl, quite alternative. She enjoys listening to rock bands and wears something stereotypically an 'outsider' would wear. I like this idea because it changes things a bit and shows that typically unpopular people can be one of the popular kids if they tried.
However with the rest of the characters we have stuck to the stereotypes. A main boy being tall and awkward and clearly not having many friends as he walks alone, and the background characters (the bullies, the inbetweeners) just as you would imagine them to be.
Evaluation question one.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
After discussing in our group and coming up with some initial ideas for films we decided a teen drama was most suited to us. Our title sequence is like a short film in itself as it outlines the main plot of the film in a short amount of time and without all the details.
After analysing and watching many title sequences based around this genre I found that telling a story or the title sequence being part of the story was very popular and we found as a group that is what we all wanted to do with our own sequence. We also found from analysing teen drama and chick flick title sequences that a very popular choice of music was an acoustic guitar or something that was fairly upbeat and seemed happy. We also found that some of them had the main characters voice as a voice over narrating the story, but we thought this would be difficult to do as we were only making the title sequence and not the whole film, however it is something I would like to try if I were to do this project again.
After discussing in our group and coming up with some initial ideas for films we decided a teen drama was most suited to us. Our title sequence is like a short film in itself as it outlines the main plot of the film in a short amount of time and without all the details.
After analysing and watching many title sequences based around this genre I found that telling a story or the title sequence being part of the story was very popular and we found as a group that is what we all wanted to do with our own sequence. We also found from analysing teen drama and chick flick title sequences that a very popular choice of music was an acoustic guitar or something that was fairly upbeat and seemed happy. We also found that some of them had the main characters voice as a voice over narrating the story, but we thought this would be difficult to do as we were only making the title sequence and not the whole film, however it is something I would like to try if I were to do this project again.
Friday, 4 April 2014
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Things to be improved.
After the classes feedback we discovered a few issues with our title sequence. We found the main comment that appeared on all of the feedback sheets was the fonts and the colour of the fonts. This is something that can easily be changed and can be fixed pretty easily. We also discovered that a few people were confused by what the narrative was, this can be fixed by changing the order of the clips.
The thing I personally disliked about the sequence was the trasitions. I don't think they worked very well and made the narrative confusing and hard to follow.
The thing I personally disliked about the sequence was the trasitions. I don't think they worked very well and made the narrative confusing and hard to follow.
Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Journal: Feedback
In today's lesson we all watched each others title sequences, this was a really great experience as it gave us all the chance to see how creative everyone else was and to see what their interpretation of the task was. There are some really amazing pieces of work that the class has produced and after watching theirs and comparing it to ours, I think we have noticed a few problems with ours that we can hopefully fix by the deadline.
These are the feedback sheets we got from the class:
These are the feedback sheets we got from the class:
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