one day an evaluation presentation by ieuan james

8/9/2019 One Day an Evaluation Presentation by Ieuan James

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One Day...An Evaluation

by Ieuan James


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So, in what ways does

your media product use,

develop or challenge

forms and conventions

if real media products?


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Establishing ShotThe establishing shot of our film is very typical to most films. The majority of films begins with

an establishing shot, allowing for the audience to know where the film is set. It also introduces

the audience to the main environment that the film focuses around. A more common establishing

shot is looking over a landscape, and panning. We challenged this convention by having an

stationary extreme long shot with a slow zoom in, it is also a low angle shot looking up at the

house, making it seem intimidating. This is altered by the sound that is playing over the top (a

radio presenter talking about the morning in a cheery way) making it not seem intimidating, but

inviting. The audience are invited into the house and the story continues. In the film Iron Man the

film opens with an extreme long shot of a desert landscape, with some trucks driving on a roadand it slowly pans to the left, following these trucks. Then suddenly cuts to the

next shot with the music coming in as the instant

transition happens. The shot in Iron Man follows

the conventions of an average film, whereas our

establishing shot slightly subverts the

conventions.


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Scene 1In a drama film, the main character is very quickly

established, the same happens with our film, in the secondshot the character is introduced and it hints that she is the lead,firstly because she is the first character that is introduced andalso the conversation involves her, hinting that theconversation will be followed with actions by her. This

technique of introducing the character very early is evident ina lot of dramas, such as in the PursuitofHappyness.Christopher is seen first, quickly followed by his father, they

both play the role of lead in this movie.


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CarSceneFor this scene we use a stationary over the shoulder shot showing

Lydias point of view when she is driving, allowing for the

audience to feel as though they are in the car with Lydia. This is

often used in films, to allow the audience to connect with the film and the characters and feel involved

with the actions that are taking place on screen. We slightly subverted the conventions for a car scene ina film. The conventions feature the point of view/over the shoulder shots, making the audience feel

involved which we included. Although it does feature various other shots from out side the car,

showing the surroundings that the car is driving through showing the car drive across the shot . This

shows how fast the car is going and it also shows the directions that the car travels in. For action films

it helps to present the intensity of the chase or whatever the reason is that they are driving. For drama

films it often shows the calm and peacefulness of the drive. InDriving Miss Daisy there are a lot of

scenes in the car. They show point of view and over the shoulder shots, just like in our film, but theyalso show shots from outside of the car, even though not loads (due to the fact that the conversation

occurs in the car, so it would be pointless to show too many shots from outside of the car). The shots

from outside of the car show how their journey is progressing, which is what ours shows, because the

audience doesnt know where Lydia is going, they are justenjoying the ride, and taking in the environment. Our film

uses natural lighting to create a realistic feel to the film,

whereas the scenery seen through the windows of the carare not real, they use artificial lighting. One film that does

use similar conventions to the ones that we use -natural

lighting and in car camera angles- is Children ofMen. In

which a scene is shot from a 360 degree camera positioned

in the centre of the ceiling of the car, allowing for all the

people in the car to be seen. This shows how we stuck to

some conventions but subverted others for drama films.


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Use of natural lighting as seen in a

lot of films, giving them a

naturalistic feel

There is no

music at this

point, instead

the sound of

talking,giving the

film a

naturalistic

feel. In Reign

OverMe

there are a lot

of scenes in

the street, in

all of these

scenes there

is diegetic

sound of the

street, e.g.Cars and

people.

Showing how

we followed

the

conventionsin this case.

Mise en-

scene in thisscene is of a

school,

giving the

story a

naturalistic

feel. Inliterally all

films, Mise-

en-scene is

used to

make the

scene (and

film) seemmore

realistic.

The camera shot that has been used here (a medium long shot) allows for the

actors to show their emotions because a lot of their bodies are visible,

allowing for a natural conversation to take place. This is seen a lot in most

films when characters are conversing.

Scene 4


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This is Lydia, shes our lead character. For a feature length movie there is time where you can

establish characters and allow for the audience to connect with them fully. Our aim was to do this

in 5 minutes. So what we had to do was not focus on connecting the audience with our character,

but connecting the audience with the experience that our character is going through. We did thisby making the character the same age as our target audience, and featuring things in the story

which people in our target audience will have experienced like passing a driving test. characters

story is established throughout a film, in the Reign OverMe Don Cheadles character slowly

allows the audience to understand him, making his character become more clear throughout.

Whereas in our film, our character is established at the beginning, but we dont learn anything

more about her in the film, challenging the generic conventions featured in Reign OverMe.

Characterization


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Ancillary Tasks The Poster-There are no shotsfrom the film

featured, only themes

featured in the film.-Simple, one main

image that stands outSimple tagline,

less than 9 words

Childish image,

connotating

the childish

theme of

dreaming and

everything

coming true

Intimidating

image,

connotating

death, war

and playful

humour

-Very simple plain

backgrounds

Childish

colours,

linking to

the childish

themes.

Bright, also

eye

catching.

Mono tone

colours, all

grey,

linking to

the ideas of

death, andnot very

eye

catching in

colour, but

the image

itself is.

Minimal textA lot of

text

Bleeding image


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Ancillary Tasks The review article

A lot of white space

A large main

picture

Smaller

picture/s

Two features

on one page Single feature

spreading over

more than one

page

Block quote

A Large

Bold titleSimple boarder

Still shot from

the film

A behind the scenes

shot/ publicity shot/

photo shoot

Clear

paragraphing

Paragraphing

is not so clear

A Clear rating


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Now, how effective is

the combination of your

main product and

ancillary texts?


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The Magazine Review ArticleFor this I researched into a lot of different film review magazines, buying various different issues of

different magazines, and comparing the different types of articles available in the different magazines. For

my article I aimed to create a genuine looking article that would be featured in the likes ofEmpire and Total

Film. There was an special edition issue ofEmpire in which the best directors of our generation wereinterviewed and featured throughout the magazine. This inspired me and made me know that I wanted to do

an article about and interview with the director, but I also wanted to feature a review of the film, and I

thought that they would go nicely together. Lydia and I decided that we wanted to put behind the scenes

images on our articles. We took them with natural lighting while we were in-action creating the sense of

us being in the moment. We also aimed to fill the frame making a busy composition so the feeling of action

was exaggerated. I liked a lot of these pictures, so I wanted to use a few, but the research told me that film

magazine articles have few pictures in them. I chose a large one that showed us fully in action with theactors, and positioned it so that where the crease was would allow for 2 people to be either side. Research

also told me that the main picture needs to fill most of the double page spread, possibly due to the cinema

being larger than everything else. I also chose a smaller picture of us directing, and I decided to put in a still

from the film, so that the audience could relate to the film when reading the article because there is a

familiar scene featured in it. I aimed to use a heavy dialogue narrative from the director, so that all that was

featured in the article was precise and exactly what the director wants to say. The similar idea was used in

the special of empire, it was just the directors speech and nothing else. I used simple colours, because afterresearch I found a lot of the colours were whites, blacks, greys, reds and blues. I challenged these

conventions slightly by making my main colour a brown, although it is of a simple dull colour, it was not

similar to something seen in one of the magazines. I wanted to use a nice rounded font that was very easy to

read while being simple, but not something every day such as Times New Roman, so I used a mixture of

Calibri (featured here) and Californian FB. The article links well to the film because the pictures relate

directly to what is featured in the film, as well as the simplicity that surrounds the film is mirrored in the

article. The same themes of success are featured in the article, similar to the success in which Lydia finds

herself in, in the film.


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And what would I change?

Well, if I had the chance to do another article, I would possiblespan it out to 3 or four pages, due to the fact, some of themain featured articles in the magazine were of 3 or morepages and I think that this is a lot more effective, than just a

double page spread.I would also experiment with other types of photos, not just

stills and behind the scenes shots, such as production shotsand photo shoots.

Another thing that I may change is that I would challenge a lotmore of the conventions of a movie magazine.Experimenting with this would be interesting, such ascompletely changing the colour schemes and layouts just toexperience the different conventions available.


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The Film PosterI researched into various different film posters, and there were a lot of various different types; such as a

simple pictures with no image, and just an object or a location; a single image of an actor; a lot of single

images with shots from the film on; and a bleeding image of a still from the film. We decided that we would

go with an object, a generic house, and decided to draw it in a childish way. Because this doesnt hint aboutwhat the film is about, and only tells the audiences that there is a perfect house which does hint about the

perfect life. this leads the audience into a false sense of security, but in an obvious way. If they look at the

poster, they can almost guess that something is bound to go wrong, because the house is too perfect. The

tagline links to the perfect image, saying if everything is this perfect, then what can go wrong? When

everything goes right What can go wrong? We decided to use bright and bold colours, because they are

very eye catching, and stand out from the white background. The white background hints to the dream like

state. We used the same font as featured in the film for the title and the colour. We decided not to use anyimages, not to give away the story, and only use the childish image, suggesting the perfect life. It directly

links to the film because it suggests the themes that are evident in the film, like the dream like state, and the

perfect yet un real life. The poster is also simple, and in a way, our film is simple too. It is a short film, which

cant be too complex, so we decided to have a simple story with an average character, which is similar to our

poster, which is simple and not complex.

I would experiment with the other kinds of film

posters, and take some production shots, with the main

actress and other actors, to see if the final result could

have a better effect.


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Here are my final ancillary tasksFor my article, I like the way that it looks very genuine. I tried

to follow the conventions as closely as I could so that it would

look professional, and I believe that I achieved this. I also like

the pictures that we took, they look natural which is exactly

the feel that we wanted, and we achieved this. I like the

signatures at the start of the article, It s a bit different from

any article that I have seen. I also like the way that the

pictures indent into the main image, but still have a boarder, I

think this looks professional. I wanted for my article to look

as professional as I could so it would look genuine.

I really like the simplicity of this and it gives ofthe right intention. And I especially like the

tagline, it fits perfectly. The childish, simple,

bright and bold colours really stand our against

the plain white background which makes the

poster as a whole stand out against other

posters, that may be busy or even similar, in

terms of having a simple object on them.


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What have you

learned from your

audience feedback?!


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Our Audience FeedbackTo our delight, we received minimal negative audience feedback. The only major thing that was

worth changing was the volume of Matthew lofts voice when he is talking to Lydia. We

attempted to change this my isolating his voice and bringing up the volume of it, but thissurprisingly didnt make a difference. The feedback of our poster was positive. There were some

comments about the original draft of the poster, and how it looked too simple. So we edited it

by moving some of the text around and changing the size, and smoothing over the picture, after

this it looked a lot better, and our peers (the audience) gave it positive comments. The

comments about my article were very positive, any feedback that I had from our music

magazine article task I took on board for this ancillary task, meaning I knew what I was doingright and wrong before I initially started working on it. The feedback that we received about the

ending, the fact that people interpreted it as just a dream, didnt

bother us. This is because we think that the ending can be interpreted

in its own way by each person. So this isnt negative feedback, just

informative feedback, that is good to know. The questionnaire that we

used to receive feedback about our film really

helped us to find out weather our film workedwith our audience or not. It did, but if it didnt, it

would give us the information that we needed to

improve it.


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So, how did you use media

technologies in the

construction and research,planning and evaluation

stages?


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Different Media Technologies Microsoft PublisherI used this to create my article, it was very useful. I had used it previously when

creating the article for our music magazine. It is simple and straightforward to use, and

a lot easier to use to make a magazine article than on word.


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Different Media Technologies Microsoft WordWe used Microsoft word to edit the poster, write drafts for blog entries and creating

questionnaires. it's great for creating simple word documents, and probably the best

word processor. A lot better than note.


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Different Media Technologies Sony VegasThis took some getting used to, but once I was used to it, it was easy. It is a lot better

than windows movie maker, because you can use loads of different layers of sounds and

videos, there is also a lot of effects at your disposal.


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Different Media Technologies Corel Paint Shop ProI used this software to edit pictures for our article and the poster, there are a lot of different

effects available, which enhance the picture. Without it, I would have been fine, but with it, it

looks a lot better.


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Different Media Technologies www.vimeo.comWe used Vimeo to upload our video onto the internet. We tried to use You Tube because it is

more widely used, but due to our music being copy righted it would not upload. Vimeo is equally

as good, but does not get as many hits. It was useful because it allowed us to upload our film.


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Different Media Technologies www.blogger.com

We all used this to document our progress over our project, showing regular posts about

what weve been up to.

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