Q6 Evaluation - Technologies

This Prezi explains the technologies we used in order to create our film.

Q1 Evaluation - Conventions

This is a prezi which explains how our product develops, challenges or conforms to our to our genre:
 

Conventions:

|This is some research into different conventions of indie films. We also watched some similar films and looked at the types of things they included. Then we compared research with watching films and compared the six main conventions. 

Narrative:

The picture is from 'The Double' which we based a lot of out film opening on as it involves split personalities and the cloning effect. There is also an explanation of the Torodov's Narrative Theory and in-depth explanation of our 'equilibrium'.

This is the Torodov's Narrative Theory using The Double and our film Parallel. This shows the similarities between the 2 films and also gives a good idea where our film could go after the opening sequence.

This is applying Levi-Strauss's Binary Opposition Narrative Theory and Barthes Enigma Code Narrative Theory to our media project.

Characters:

Zac: 

Zac is a teenager who has the mind and personality of a young adult and suffers heavily from mental illness. However, the way he is introduced at the beginning of the film, reading a book with a very neat suit on, the audience wont expect him to have mental issues. This conforms to the indie film genre as the main protagonist is not usually predictable. This is similar to the film Shallow Grave as it is tricky to figure out how the characters are going to act.

Zabel:

Zabel is more like the stereotypical character of his age as alter-ego's are rarely portrayed as helpful or even angelic like. This challenges the genre, the characters are not supposed to be stereotypical.

This is applying our characters to the Vladamir Propp Character Theory. As we only made the opening to our movie, many characters were not yet introduced, so we were unable to apply the rest of the characters into the theory.

Q2 Evaluation - Representation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We focused on various representations in our media product such as age and gender, revolving mainly around our main character, Zac. We have compared him to other characters similar to him but also explain how Zac doesn't act like the typical boy of his age.

Gender:

This is our character profile of Zac to explain the typical representation of gender. It also explains why he goes against the typical representation of his gender:

Age:

This is a typical representation of a boy of Zacs age:

Many boys of this age would be stereo typically going out to parties and go out with their friends regularly, getting up to immature things and mixing with the wrong crouds.

Zac goes against this representation of age as he doesn't appear to have many friends. At the beginning of the film you see him sitting on a bench in a quiet park, reading a book which is completely contradicting a typical boy of his age. He is shown to be isolated, liking being by him self which could be the influence of his second personality (Zabel).  

Characters represented in similar ways as Zac from other films/TV programmes:

This is Lucas from a television series 'Pretty Little Liars'. A television series isn't the same as a film, but Lucas's character is still similar to Zac as he is portrayed to be very geeky and shy, and often takes part in extra-curricular activities such as yearbook club etc. He is shy and quite awkward around people which makes him different to a stereo-typical boy of his age. 

This is very similar to Zac as they are both shy and awkward around people, this could show that they both have the personality of a young adult but they're stuck around teen people.

Q4 Evaluation - Audience

This is the audience of our media film presented on E-Maze. We decided to go for an indie 18 year old as our ideal target audience as the music and the storyline would appeal to them. In this presentation we take a look into the lifestyle of our target audience.

Q3 Evaluation - Media Institutions

This slidshow explains our thinking behind choosing our film institution.

Q5 Evaluation - Customer Feedback

Below is the link to our Questionnaire for our film Parallel, feel free to give some constructive feedback.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MSLNJZ2



We got a lot of interesting, constructive feedback from our focus group and from people who answered our questionnaire. This helps us determine the good and bad parts about our film, making our evaluation better.

We got a lot of helpful feedback.

A lot of people said that they would pay to watch our film in a cinema which is ultimately the most important feature of a film as at the end of the day it is a business. This also makes us confident that we have created a film that can realistically be made into a real movie.

Most people felt the film kept their interest going. Although some people said no which we think could be down to the walking scene as it did go on for a while.

A lot of people liked the cloning effect in the editing as it was different and more complex than most other media projects. This seems to be a popular advantage to our film.

Q7 Evaluation

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?


Because we had less experience with our preliminary exercise, there were some things that we struggled with for example the acting, as you can see above was very poor. This made our prelim look quite unrealistic and very amateur. Also we didn't get many interesting camera angles for example close ups, panning shots, tilting shots. The dialogue in our prelim was very quiet because the camera wasn't very close to us therefore there was a lot of interruption with wind and background noise.
Although, the editing and the music went quite well. I felt the western music matched the stand off quite well as you would associate stand offs with western films. Also it gave the prelim a bit of a comedy element which is helpful for the entertainment factor of the prelim.
0:05 - 0:23 - Long panning shot
0:40 - 0:48 - 180 shot filmed incorrectly
0:55 - 1:06 - Missing film


My 2 minute film opening (Parallel) demonstrates a progression in the standards of filming from my preliminary short film. There are professional looking titles in Parallel which did interesting things such as being pushed away by cars in intricately lining themselves up with benches which was missing completely in my prelim. The camera work in Parallel was much more professional and complicated as we added in camera techniques such as 180 shots, high shots, mid shots, low shots, panning shots, tilting shots etc. we only used a couple of interesting camera shots in the prelim. The editing was much more complex than the editing on the prelim as we used techniques such as cloning, cutting, audio gain etc. whether as in the prelim we only really used cutting. The music choices in Parallel were much less dramatic than the music choices in the prelim, which suites the idea of the film being an independent film.

Overall I feel I have learnt a lot about the film industry, how they advertise films, make films, distribute films,

Media Institution

My Film Poster Idea

This is my poster idea for our film Parallel. Zac and Zabel (the 2 main characters) are highlighted with white and black to emphasise that they are opposites, Zabel is highlighted in black to show he is the darker, more dangerous personality and Zac is highlighted in white to show he is the lighter, calmer character. The colours are mainly black and white because in our poster and opening sequence research, black and white came up quite often. The only colour in the poster is the tie which again shows the difference between the 2 characters.