Evaluation questions

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation:

1  In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2  How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

3  What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

4  Who would be the audience for your media product? 

5  How did you attract/address your audience? 

6  What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

7  Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

The deadline for Evaluations AND for Blogs to be completed and closed is:

Friday 28 April - 3:30pm

Titles

As a group we felt it was vital to have our film opening look as professional as possible, one way we felt we could achieve this is by correctly using titles. I went on http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/21-jump-street/ then as a group we decided to list our titles as such:

• Directed by Serine Houadef 
• Starring George Wilson and Ellie Childs 
• Cinematography by Mya Chopra-McFarlane
• Written and Edited by Ellie Childs, Mya Chopra-McFarlane, Serine Houadef, George Wilson
  
  
  (this is similar to how '21 Jump Street' (2012) set out their titles)
  
  
  We are still in the process of deciding whether to include: Music by... , Screenplay by... and Produced by... 
  
  
  
  

Vlog 2

Our second vlog shows our group in the process of re-recording the scene which shows me being attacked. This extra footage was vital for our film opening as we significantly improved the footage we had previously. In this blog you can see Mya put the bag over my head, i then proceed to react more dramatically and for a longer of period of time whereas previously i only struggled for half of the time and my reaction was less lively.

Re-shoot

After around 5 trips to Bush Hill Park to film our film opening we thought we had finished. However when editing and playing through the footage we had, as a group, we noticed numerous continuity errors, for example people in the back in one shot then not in the other. In addition, our story line shows a person suffocating me with a plastic bag however when gaining approval of some of our classmates we realised we should of filmed it differently. As a result of this we re-visited the estate we filmed in and recorded an improved version which looked a lot more authentic.

First Vlog

Our first vlog, as a group, we discuss the names for our film. I thought of the name 'Made In The Estate' as we researched UK crime dramas and found a film with the similar name 'Made In Britain'. When looking into the story line of this film, i felt adapting the name of their film to suit our film opening would be suitable as the crime themes are similar.

Font & Research

As the title sequence is undoubtably a vital part of the film opening, making ours look as professional will be important. Researching fonts was the first part in ensuring a good title sequence so i researched similar film genres and the fonts they used.

Kidulthood, a film based with a similar story line used a very simple font, very similar to 'Avenir Book'.

 'The Intent', a UK crime Drama, used a less basic font, giving it an up to date look which corresponds with the storyline which was set in the present day. The font used was "Din Compressed"

After this we researched other similar fonts.

Location

After more group discussions and research of tv series and films in this genre, we decided to change our location as we felt it would look more realistic, we used google street view to search estates across the borough of Enfield. Overall we looked at places in Edmonton, Albany Park and Bush Hill Park. We concluded that Hadrians Ride in Bush Hill Park looked most similar to the setting of related tv series Gangland and 'Top Boy'. I believe it is necassary to ensure the setting we use looks ideal as it will give our film opening a sense of realism.