Evaluation- Stuart Wallace

Task 1- 9 Shot Grid

Shot 1- First shot is graphic text of the title which is a generic convention of a film
Shot 2- Establishing shot of the type of area and the mise en scene
Shot 3-Mid shot of the main character, this allows the audience to relate to the character
Shot 4-Long shot and use of jump cut effect
Shot 5- Close up and use of 'ghosting' effect
Shot 6- Passing sgot, with gate closing causing enigma codes
Shot 7- Low angle, fade out
Shot 8-Close up, layered ghosting effect
Shot 9- Mid shot, low angle, over shoulder


Task 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The main character within the text is very similar to other characters in other texts, such as Spiderman where the main character has a overshoulder shot towards a mirror, we have olso used this and the way the both check their glasses. We have also taken the stereotypical unpopular boy in the school who then encounters an unexplainable event which will turn his life around, this will represent change that people can do, so the audience will be able to relate to the character.
Task 3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?



Task 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?
 believe that the perfect audience would be mainstream, due to a number of reasons. They tend to be in their teens, and exploring new experiences such as alcohol, women and many more. It is also the largest market segment, meaning that the film will be targeted at the mass market, which is why the film has to appeal to a wide range of people. This segment interacts the media through internet, TV as well as magazines, it is more likely that they are affected by opinion leader from their peers to reviews on TV or a magazine.
We have attracted this audience in a large number of ways, such as having Twisted Pictures as a company used, the films by this company tend to be teen mainstream such as SAW and other films which also suited our Thriller genre. There has also been a large trend of supernatural films doing well in this market such as Twilight and a lot of horror films. This would of meant that we had followed a trend which helped us attract out audience and to affect opinion leaders which would improve the popularity of the film.


Task 5- How did you attract/address your audience?



Task 6-What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
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Task 7-  Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?





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Evaluation of progress since Prelim Task

9 shot Grid Task 1 Stuart Wallace

Shot 1- First shot is graphic text of the title which is a generic convention of a film
Shot 2- Establishing shot of the type of area and the mise en scene
Shot 3-Mid shot of the main character, this allows the audience to relate to the character
Shot 4-Long shot and use of jump cut effect
Shot 5- Close up and use of 'ghosting' effect
Shot 6- Passing sgot, with gate closing causing enigma codes
Shot 7- Low angle, fade out
Shot 8-Close up, layered ghosting effect
Shot 9- Mid shot, low angle, over shoulder

evaluation task 1-2 pietro papadimitriou

TASK 2 EVALUATION

The person in the first picture is our media studies film protagonists,

He is in a library focused on his studies. The person on the second picture is the protagonists of the film “ Kick Ass” , which had important cast such as Nicholas Cage and was distributed by Universal Pictures.

Both of the two protagonists have many similarities, in fact they are both not popular within their society, they have few friends ( our protagonist has some even if they are not shown),  they are dressed in similar way, in fact they both wear glasses and a colored shirt, they hair is not brusche and they both go trough some sort of exciting and scarying adventure in the movie. 

1.The title of the film “ The Gate”. We chose to write this title in this way for various reasons. The title is white on a back bag round, the font is simple and smart, we decided to do it so simple because it looks professional and we didn’t have the skills to produce CGI titles, therefore this is one of the best titles we could get. I also believe that this title refelcts the genre of our film, which is a PG rated thriller.

2. The setting is mainly in the forest or in closed areas, we chose these settings because they reflect our movie, which is based on a ghost story and we also triied to make them look as close as possible to films such as the haunted mansion and casper, which are our genre.

We also chose to shoot a scene in fornt of an old chucrch because it looks creepy ( which is what a ghost story trie sto achieve) and makes the film look more real.

3. We didn’t have a complicate choice of clothing for our protagonist, in fact he is just a school boy, not really popular and devoted to his studies, we decided to make him wear a simply colored shirt and a jeans, this cloche are typical for any teen ager.

I believe that our protagonist can be compared to the protagonist of the movie Kick-ass or Spiderman.

4.  We did a lot of editing for our film, we used premier elements and we tried to include professional cuts and angles, for example we used low angles, match on action, fade in and fade out ( for the titles) and the most complicate effect we used was the gosting effect  ( when the protagonist gets possesed). This effect could be compared to the effect that occurs in the tv series “Misfits” when one of the protagonists uses his power.

5/6 The story is quite linear and well structured, we include elements of a typical PG rated movie, such as ghots, school,  casual clothes and students. The protagonist s a normal school boy.

In mosto of our movie we take ispiration mainly from 3 films : The haunted mansion, Casper and Kick-ass.

The Gate- Tagged

Who would be the audience for your media product? Stuart Wallace

I believe that the perfect audience would be mainstream, due to a number of reasons. They tend to be in their teens, and exploring new experiences such as alcohol, women and many more. It is also the largest market segment, meaning that the film will be targeted at the mass market, which is why the film has to appeal to a wide range of people. This segment interacts the media through internet, TV as well as magazines, it is more likely that they are affected by opinion leader from their peers to reviews on TV or a magazine.
We have attracted this audience in a large number of ways, such as having Twisted Pictures as a company used, the films by this company tend to be teen mainstream such as SAW and other films which also suited our Thriller genre. There has also been a large trend of supernatural films doing well in this market such as Twilight and a lot of horror films. This would of meant that we had followed a trend which helped us attract out audience and to affect opinion leaders which would improve the popularity of the film.

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