• The use of Social Realism in our film has been used to target the audience in a way which also connects to them. We had achieved this by using a young cast who were drivers and including the dangers and reality of falling asleep at the wheel and cause major disruption to other drivers on the road.
• During our film we also included some thriller. We added a mysterious figure to the story so the audience is thinking about what is happening all the while the film is playing and hopefully sending them about the dangers of being tired and driving.
• Looking at some of Andrea Arnolds work and again at our own film I have noticed some differences at the different aspects of Social Realism some including dialogue, camera work and soundtrack.
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• The sounds used during our film are similar to the lines of short films “Joyride” “Eight and Slap” we mainly used non-diegetic sounds such as the soundtrack (as we used garage band to make our own music to make it feel more unique and individual) which carried through the start, middle and end of the film.
• Editing our film came to be a bit of a struggle due to have a lot of different shots and then trying to piece everything together like a jigsaw to make it all flow. The similarities to other traditional films include using dissolving transitions to show differences in date and time. We also used this for the flashbacks in the film and allowing the audience to be slightly dazed and confused about the film.
How effective is the combination of your main product and your ancillary task?
• Our poster I believe to be fairly effective as it makes the audience think what the film may be about. However it doesn't give away any of the storyline. the colours contrast each other yet they work extremely well together to give the poster a more professional feel to it. Our inspiration for the designing of the poster was "Red Road" simply because of its effect and simplicity and as soon as we saw it, it caught our eye.
Not much text on either posters makes the posters much simpler and eye catching because of the colours that have been used. The character is looking down and is silhouetted which gives the film a mysterious feeling.
• The review that was created for our film was written as though being published for "Little White Lies". We tried to be "chatty" yet formative throughout the written piece, making it personal to the reader. Also giving good reputation for both the film and magazine it was advertised it.
• We included an image in the bottom corner of the review as similarily featured in "Little White Lies" we wanted the review to be as realistic as though it would be published in the magazine, in that case we would have to include alot of detail to go into our review to make it seem enot so different from other reviews in the magazine.
• Because the target audience was aimed at males and females aged from 15 - 25, we used language that was understandable to everyone. Also "Little White Lies" do not usually include words that are challenging and want to connect with their readers in order to widen their target audience in order to boost their reputation therefore resulting in more sales of the magazine which will both give the film and magazine good media coverage.What have you learned from your audience feedback?
• Looking back at our audience feedback we had received several positive comments from our target audience as we had posted our film on YouTube, then from there we had posted a link on facebook aswell as setting up a group and asking for peoples general thoughts. We had also sent an attachment using e-mail for those who may not have facebook or various other reasons.
• Looking and discussing the comments that were made we had noticed a repeat pattern of people saying about how they were slightly confused about what the film and placement was about. We overcame this by explaining our film in full detail and also giving them the film synopsis also to read which then after being explained to they was then in understandment of what went on.
• The conventions of well known film directors: Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold. Differ in many ways in our film, these directors give out their characters lives more or less straight away. Where as we done the total opposite and chose not to show our characters lifestyles at all.
• Many positive comments were also made on the soundtrack of the film, the audience saying that was our strongest point making our film enjoyable and more effective. As the music flowed well with all of our scenes and shots.
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• Our audience was aimed at males and females aged from 15 - 25, because of the type of message we had put across to our audience including driving scenes we thought we would put it as a 15 due to the fact who we actually trying to target.
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and the evaluation stage?
• During the editing process i had learnt alot of different techniques and also using the same knowledge of the Foundation Portfolio. As other members of the group were able to use the best of their abilities with Final Cut Pro; i was able to learn from both their and my own mistakes and together we were able to produce a decent short film, If i were to any of it again i would perhaps find out more techniques that may of been successful at the editing process.
• Using garage band again i really enjoyed as i was able to play around a bit more freely and comfortably as i was made one of the "music makers" in the film. Mixing our own sounds gave us all a boost of confidence that we had definitely achieved a successful film and soundtrack, which all recieved positive feedback. During the process of making the soundtrack we did have a bit of a joke around with some of the sounds, but doing this we actually had included some sounds into our final piece as in a weird way it definitely flowed better.
• The blog allowed us to be responsible for our own posts giving us the opportunity to express our own feelings and opinion to what research we had done. And what work we had produced as a group. Being able to add videos and images to the blog gave it more character and gives people a feeling to our group personality with alot of information with doesn't overload people. Planning and research stages i felt were a lot more controlled and thorough as we all done our own individual research yet always come back as a group to discuss what we had watched, read and seen over the time we had. This also allowed us to talk about each others post explaining things others may not have of understood or recommended films that we had spoken about in our posts. We were also given freedom on our own drafts for what we would like our Ancillary Tasks to be like, Researching other posters and reviews gave us ideas of what we should include in our product.
• My part in the ancillary task definitely allowed me to show what i was good at. Having been studying Photoshop in more depth in other A2 lessons i did have a knowledge of what i was actually doing therefore being able to produce a fairly high quality professional looking poster. If i were to recreate the poster i may think about redoing the layout maybe so the figure is faced the other way and different colours and fonts on the poster itself.
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