In class we were required to evaluate our contribution to the group and blog based on our blog posts and our evaluation. This is how I evaluated my role:
Sophie
In this evaluation question, I will discuss how we have progressed since our preliminary task by each media technique such as; Camerawork, sound, editing and mise-en-scene. I feel that since our preliminary task, a lot of improvements have been made when comparing it to our final media product (Film opening sequence).
Here are the two videos so that it is easier to make comparisons.
Our preliminary task:
Our final media product:
Camerawork:
In terms of camerawork, we have certainly used a much more variety of camera shots in our final media product in comparison to our preliminary task created at the beginning of year 12.
For example, we have :
Mise-en-scene
Mise-en-scene is also another major media area of which we have improved a lot since our preliminary task.
For example:
Sound
Editing
Software
Sophie
Sophie
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The first thing our group did before thinking of random ideas is agree on a genre type for our film opening. to do this we carried out surveys to find out certain preferences from out further viewers. since they are out audience it is essential we find out what particular aspects that like most about films in order for us to be able to attract them to watch our film opening or we may end up making a film no body finds interesting/wants to watch.
After finding out the preferred film genre for our future viewers to enjoy we then carried out another survey asking them out of the options given, what is ur favourite crime films. The options were: The dark knight, Prisoners, 21 jump street, Jack Reacher, The God father and Shawshank.
Amber
Sophie
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Amber
http://http://www.slideshare.net/NiyiAdeaga/evaluation-questionpptx
Niyi
http:/https://prezi.com/embed/ktrnhmbyiefr/?bgcolor=ffffff&lock_to_path=0&autoplay=0&autohide_ctrls=0#
An improved version of question 2 that I completed:
In this evaluation question, I decided to compare the representation of race, gender, class and age in our media product with the race, gender, class and age of the film ‘8 mile’ as it is fairly similar to our own film.
Sophie
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Kidulthood in comparison to The Innocent:
The innocent
Age: Our media product is within the crime genre and presents a teenage boy in the opening there for the social group we are aiming to attract is between young teens to early 20’s. Adults and present teenagers obviously know what it’s like growing up and experiencing crazy things which is what makes our media product so relatable, because we have made it realistic, also as teenagers are younger than adults they are looked at as weaker meaning the viewers will worry more for their wellbeing in the film.
Ethnicity: The race of the social group we have focused on in out media product is black and the stereotype of black teenagers as in the way they are sometimes dressed and talk like gangsters, therefore we used this stereotype to our advantage to incorporate it into our opening sequence. As niyi is holding a bloody knife in the first scene this automatically tells the audience he has used that knife to cause some kind of harm to someone again due to his ethnicity stereotype.
Gender: In our opening we have used a boy as the main role to represent the strong and powerful stereotype of males. An example of this in the film opening is the bit of him holding the knife as it makes him seem more aggressive and violent causing people to be scared of him. The stereo of athletic/sporty males is also showing within this media product as he is seen running down the road away from the police very quickly.
Class: we have represented the boy in our film opening as lower middle class, this is shown through the use of mis en scene with the shot of the middle sized house is shown with the boy sitting outside it. The reason that he shown as lower class to the audience is because it is made up of not well educated people, this is proved by the language used in the voiceover, supporting the stereotype of lower class people being less educated.
similarities: both male, black, teenagers wearing hoodies with looks of confusion/anger on their face and they seem as if they’re middle class.
differences: ones in school during the day, ones on the streets during the night, one is alone, one is with a group of people, one is wearing a navy hoodie, one is wearing a black hoodie, one is the strong dominant leader that scares people weaker than them and the other is an average scared boy being dominated by something/someone.
Amber
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Age -> Our final opening sequence was in the genre of crime and it starrs a teenage boy who goes directly with the stereotype of young black boys, with this in mind the social group we are trying to attract are the young black teens aged early 20s. Our finished opening tries to relate and sympathesie with youung black boys that are wrongfully sterotyped as” gang bangers” and thugs
Ethnicity -> our opening is mainly faced at the Black ethnicity, the the sterotypes around black people espeically. we have promotes this through the mis-en-scene we have used throughout the opening sequence for instance a knife with blood smeared on the blade and the dark setting in which our opening is based. Having this mis-en-scene forshadows what is later revealed in the rest if our stiry line – a murder.
Gender -> in our opening sequence we have reprsented the charatcer as intimidating and strong. This is connoted by the clothes the character in our opening has chosen to wear – all black.
Our charatcer has very similar characteristics to the main charatcer within the movie attack the block. This is mainly due to the fact that they both speak abit of slang. this bring out the sterotype built against black boys. also both boys dress sense are similar in the sense that they both constantly have there hoods up.
By Niyi Adeaga