In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We based our media piece on a family comedy/thriller with a sports theme, to gain an understanding on what this entailed we looked to a couple of films for inspiration, firstly we studied the opening sequence of Donnie Darko, this scene is set on a High peak in a forest area, this exudes a mysterious atmosphere that we tried to mirror with our chosen location also atop a Hill, the dense trees in the area helped provide a heavy shade which we incorporated into the chosen shots.
The other film was Cool Runnings. The basic premise for this film includes a sport focused plotline which after studying, encouraged us to do the same, aside from the basic influence of plot and location on these two pieces of media, we chose largely to develop our piece without outside influence and therefore it doesn’t use many other forms and conventions previously featured in works of media.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our media piece features only members of our group and others of the same age group and thus only represents the youth in this sense. We attempted to represent the youth group by dressing our characters in a typical young attire, even going into detail by dressing our antagonist in a hoody to realistically reflect the social groups of society today.
The effect of the seriousness that is placed on the idea of a simple child’s bike race is used to exemplify their age group in the way that the characters are all determined to win the race and go to extreme lengths to ensure they do so. This can be related to by teenagers and children who place an unrealistic amount of focus on trivial matters in everyday life in this way.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The intended audience for our media piece was the teenage and youth age groups of the 10 – 18 age bracket. We thought our piece would appeal mostly to this group in relation to the ages of our characters, in this way our viewers could relate to the characters featured in the piece itself.
Although intended to appeal largely just to that younger age group, it is not exclusive in doing so. We kept in mind while making our product that we should include material which could also be understood and enjoyed by our more mature adult audience.
How did you attract/address your audience?
Apart from establishing and attracting our audience through using characters of a similar age group and average social class we also utilised sound and editing to appeal to our young target audience. For example, the musical score of our piece consists of just two songs. One of them is used to establish the film in the opening scenes along with the credits, this song adds a good natured vibe to the beginning of the film before the second piece kicks in. The second and main musical piece we used is a lively, fast paced song which fits in well with the bike race scenes as well as adding exciting, action packed feeling to the scenes which provides the raw mindless entertainment that appeals to our target age group.
We also thought carefully about our editing before proceeding with it. We used primarily fast paced, short shots throughout the bike race, with very few static shots, it helps to maintain the excitement throughout the race which also keeps the attention of our less vigilant viewers, I.e. the younger audience members.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We used several programs in creating our media product. To film our footage we used a digital camera, for editing we used the Adobe Premiere pro 1.5 and to present our findings we used www.blogger.com.
The editing software – Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, has given me valuable experience on editing software in general, cutting clips together accurately, transition effects, timing and credits are all more clear since constructing our product.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
In many senses, the preliminary task did serve as a stepping stone to our full piece, I feel it has familiarised me with the equipment and programs that are essential to understand in order to create a professional media piece such as our final product.
I have discovered the importance of planning accurately as our preliminary task was produced with a poor amount of planning and the final cut suffered because of it. When it came to our final piece we planned meticulously before beginning the production to ensure this did not happen again.
We based our media piece on a family comedy/thriller with a sports theme, to gain an understanding on what this entailed we looked to a couple of films for inspiration, firstly we studied the opening sequence of Donnie Darko, this scene is set on a High peak in a forest area, this exudes a mysterious atmosphere that we tried to mirror with our chosen location also atop a Hill, the dense trees in the area helped provide a heavy shade which we incorporated into the chosen shots.
The other film was Cool Runnings. The basic premise for this film includes a sport focused plotline which after studying, encouraged us to do the same, aside from the basic influence of plot and location on these two pieces of media, we chose largely to develop our piece without outside influence and therefore it doesn’t use many other forms and conventions previously featured in works of media.
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Our media piece features only members of our group and others of the same age group and thus only represents the youth in this sense. We attempted to represent the youth group by dressing our characters in a typical young attire, even going into detail by dressing our antagonist in a hoody to realistically reflect the social groups of society today.
The effect of the seriousness that is placed on the idea of a simple child’s bike race is used to exemplify their age group in the way that the characters are all determined to win the race and go to extreme lengths to ensure they do so. This can be related to by teenagers and children who place an unrealistic amount of focus on trivial matters in everyday life in this way.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The intended audience for our media piece was the teenage and youth age groups of the 10 – 18 age bracket. We thought our piece would appeal mostly to this group in relation to the ages of our characters, in this way our viewers could relate to the characters featured in the piece itself.
Although intended to appeal largely just to that younger age group, it is not exclusive in doing so. We kept in mind while making our product that we should include material which could also be understood and enjoyed by our more mature adult audience.
How did you attract/address your audience?
Apart from establishing and attracting our audience through using characters of a similar age group and average social class we also utilised sound and editing to appeal to our young target audience. For example, the musical score of our piece consists of just two songs. One of them is used to establish the film in the opening scenes along with the credits, this song adds a good natured vibe to the beginning of the film before the second piece kicks in. The second and main musical piece we used is a lively, fast paced song which fits in well with the bike race scenes as well as adding exciting, action packed feeling to the scenes which provides the raw mindless entertainment that appeals to our target age group.
We also thought carefully about our editing before proceeding with it. We used primarily fast paced, short shots throughout the bike race, with very few static shots, it helps to maintain the excitement throughout the race which also keeps the attention of our less vigilant viewers, I.e. the younger audience members.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We used several programs in creating our media product. To film our footage we used a digital camera, for editing we used the Adobe Premiere pro 1.5 and to present our findings we used www.blogger.com.
The editing software – Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, has given me valuable experience on editing software in general, cutting clips together accurately, transition effects, timing and credits are all more clear since constructing our product.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
In many senses, the preliminary task did serve as a stepping stone to our full piece, I feel it has familiarised me with the equipment and programs that are essential to understand in order to create a professional media piece such as our final product.
I have discovered the importance of planning accurately as our preliminary task was produced with a poor amount of planning and the final cut suffered because of it. When it came to our final piece we planned meticulously before beginning the production to ensure this did not happen again.
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