Q8

Our film turned out to be hugely different to our prelim film. We put time in and received a great result an outstanding first film. I think we improved on all section especially editing.


M.E.S

Editing

Sound

Camera work

Plaining

EVALUATION Q7

Q4+5 How will you attract audience

The way we will attract our audiences to consider our different audience interest for example majority of teens these days join a social networking site, our older audience we would suggests large events.
We have to think BIG there is no point struggling making the film and aim for example only a site called vimeo however we would also think of using vimeo as we would try to catch every ones attention.




Social Networking sites:

Social networking sites are very affective towards publishing, so this was also our first idea because everyone in our age group has joined some what a social networking site. The large audience means more support which would lead to larger audience. Site like YouTube are also very affective as you can make a partnership with YouTube to promote your film and lead to a greater audience also in YouTube you can choose to create your own channel and allow viewers to watch your trailer or promotion video.

In class we found in YouTube a channel dedicated to an independent film called "My name is Jerry". The film had more attention then expected even though it was made by university students.





EVENTS:

Events like film festival's which we also discoverd in class has a big role for the independent films.
What we could is get a whole lot of students with their films and make a big event that would benefit a lot of people including the students. This would help a lot in advertisement sector which we can include in magazines newspapers bus stops etc. The film festival have a lot of attention so this great enjoyment also for the people who are interested in independent films.

Question 2

Real actors was not an option i don't think it was either suggested, so instead we had to use of what we were given we are media students selected randomly put together. We had fill the shoes of an adult and a married couple i wouldn't say it was hard but we lacked the experience. The way we played this roles are through our stereotypes of the gender of each adult.

so for example it would suit married men as the would fantasize there wife would be a normal housewife. This is seen in Black widow wheres the wife is at home doing the cleaning, choking and washing. The story could relate to olden films that stereotype wife's being at home with their clothes (uniform) apron slippers and dress also the husband comment when he gets home "honey I'm home" also fits the stereotype. This is from a movie called perfect housewife (i think it is also an independent film).

 The shots taken from Black widow is the character (widow) looking out the window as if she is trapped this can be compared to the film above stereotype wise that the wife's stay at home seems like prison. The M.E.S also can be compared to the film where the widow has an apron, slippers and dress.

Question 6

We had a lesson were the whole class watched each groups film and we had to comment give them feedback on the positive of there film. We had a positive feedback and reaction while watching the film.
Bernard give everyone paper to write the comments to give to each group.

Bernard suggested we use wordle to insert each feedback to wordle and this what your results would be.
The way wordle works is that the most common word is the biggest and bold.
I am happy to see that words like "GREAT", "WELL" and "GOOD" this suggest that our film is liked by the rest of the class.

Also, i am a happy to see that the most important parts like the M.E.S "POISON" which was very eye catching.

Q1: In what ways dies your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

For this question it would be reasonable to compare our film with THE STEPFATHER.

        

 Black Widow - The Stepfather

                     
                           

   First comparison

The first comparison i would make would be the production of each. Black widow on the left is set on the husbands work place where's the stepfather is set at the house which he caused all of the murders. We can see similarities on both scenes we see that the both are establishing shots and first shots off the both film.

Second comparison

The stepfather starts with pan of the items you would expect to see as they are men's item we are not surprised at first as we know these item are related to the title stepfather. However, the slow music that suggest that its not what its seems we later find out these are tools that are associate with the crime. This is similar to the "HARMFUL" poison on Black the Widow because the poison is associated with the crime that might happen.

Third comparison

Extra close up on the widow in Black Widow is seems she can see through us which is scary as it looks like its interactive similar to The stepfather where the character off the stepfather looks straight at the camera as it seems he knows we are there. The similarities of this shots also shows the two criminals which cause harm to there love ones.   

Forth comparison

The shot were in The stepfather there is pictures of the family seems to be very close and happy as all the characters in the pictures are all smiling meaning he are happy and full of joy were are confused and see that they seem such a close family. Here is similarities in Black widow where the widow is playing with here weeding ring at this point we are thinking they are happily married but we are proved rong later.

black widow screen shots

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stepfather screen shots

Q3 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

sandra , is 23 works part time and is a mother of 2, she works part time as salesmen to big company called T-mobile TM. She regularly enjoys going out to cinema. She has a great social life as her friends think big of her and always good person to talk too. She is really into he music and drama, enjoys activities like "shopping". She is happily married wife.

Evaluation!!

After finishing our film and our planning blogs, we now started to evaluate. In bernards class he informed us that we all need to start to evaluate our films. We also watched our classes films and we had to somment on what it made us feel and what were the strong points.

Our Film

"Black Widow" an evil woman that preys on men is shown to be the most evil, veil most inhuman woman on earth, purposely attracting her pray with her flirtatious ways and poisoned mind compared to wild gruesome spider catching a fly. She, the no heart valentine hating woman has never thought to live in peace but to have goal to destroy the man-kind. With no respect to the law or civilization in any case. She stands in her Torture chamber known to every mother or wife as place that supplies life. The kitchen a man's nightmare and women's specialty. This veil woman has no limit to feel any guilt or resentment.  Neither to love her prey or let it free.

This could be a trailer..............lol could of finished it....i had to leave the reader wanting more

What was missing

At the beginning when we first finished our basic plan and getting ready for our pitch We realized that we was missing a couple of things.

1. location and location shots
2. risk assessment
3. sound
4. props, costumes (Mise en Scene)
5. title
6. storyboard 

Planning.....(after movie)

I know this blog is late because we have already filmed but this was our plan. We made a big decision on choosing what to do about but after some wise comments from teacher, we all agreed to drop the non interesting teen chase. We tried to come up with different ideas but we found some faults in each one from stressing out thinking our movie is going to be terrible our teacher then again gave us a few ideas which were perfect to our limited group of three we then also changed a few parts to suit our location.

we found out we were changing to many things and risking on wasting precious time so we started from scratch used our primary idea and added scenes that wold be appropriate to our film.

FINAL!!!!

Today thank god we finished our film we had our ups and downs but mostly ups but we finally put our heads together and finished our final cut. Thanks to the 3hour lesson we had a lot done even though we didn't finish it in that lesson i had to give up economic lesson to try and finish before my psychology lesson you see my determination to helping our group master piece. We have finished using live type first then went on soundtrack and tweak a little of the edit work.
Here are some pics Fahmida took of me and Ada:

Production

I had to with an agreement of my group to add my production because of my "HARD WORK" and determination. My made up production " DZ PRODUCTION" (international known ofcourse) was an idea to add at the beginning of the film when i start were there is a pan.

2ND day filming

This time it was harder as we used the BUSY streets of Angel. We used the tube station at first a bit quite and our silly idea to film during lunch break made it even worse in couple of shots you wouldn't be able to see where i was or even who i was that is why in editing we used a shot also in angel in the business blocks. The addition of help from Shahmin was fun company as she was at first in our film then we decided to cut a lot of stuff of the film as we went over the 2min mark. After the long stressing day we were all happy to finishing my scene. 

THE QUICK RE-FILM

Not really quick.

During our first editing we looked at a couple shots and they didn't work out either a bit dark or the wrong shots. We had to arrange another day with Ada to see when the house was free. Fahmida wrote down all the scenes or shots we had to redo after repeating of the film we came with a conclusion to film on Thursday 17th. Even though we all had a lesson that day we confirmed with Annabel that we will not attend the lesson so we can go straight to Ada's house to film. the day before Ada and fahmida got the camera tripod and informed me of it. Fahmida asked to me to meet her in Finsbury Park and then head to Ada's house. We started filming all the shots and we discovered some problems : we found that we haven't got the milk bottle from before so i had to run to the store with Fahmida to get the milk. After shooting everything, me and Fahmida went to back to college to return the equipment back.