Uploading and editing!

Today Eva and I spent our double period, email and uploading all the various videos we have filmed throughout the last week, we have all filmed at my house, and also at Eva's too, we filmed our friends pretending to be drunk and drinking alcohol, we have also filmed a few party's that we have been too and we've been deciding into what order we are going to place our party scenes, and cutting them in the correct places.

Music!

My group and I had planned to used to M.I.A song paper planes and Tempa T next hype but as we now know we can't use these sound tracks due to copy write issues so as a group we have been using Garage band too create our own track to play, similar to these two tracks.

We liked the sound track 'Next Hype' by Tempa T as it was a very fast, loud song and fitted in very well with the image we wanted to create with the party scene, the lyrics talk of a house being trashed which was we wanted to create a stereotypical out of control house party with everything being destroyed.

As a group we then decided that we wanted Paper planes by M.I.A playing as it was very different song, very mellow and calm, and we wanted to skip from a really dark fast scene, to the next morning, a very quiet, calm scene to create a very different picture which could possibly confuse the audience, making them want to watch on to find out what has happened and the relevance it is going to have on the rest of the film.

These are also two popular songs that will be well known particularly within our target audience, they are both very catchy.

The music we have all made together as a group on garage band has been inspired by both these songs, the song playing throughout the party scene is very upbeat, whereas the song being played when the characters wake up is very calm and soft.

Story board!

The storyboard animation above is for our film PrincessEZ. This is a very basic story board outlining the opening  of our opening. Unfortunately there are a few spelling errors which we only realised when we finished editing, also the length of time we would like the music to play for isn't shown.We have decided to also experiment with footage of parties to decide how we want that scene to look, we want to use steady cam during as it will create the effect and suits the coming of age genre.

Ideal actors!

We are wanting to aim this to males and females with in the age group of 16-25 year olds and this is our desired Target audience. The Film will be called 'PRINCEZZ' a modern, urban twist on the lives of three young adult girls living on an estate in peckham in london. The genre of the film will be Coming of age, comedy. Influences was films like anauvahood, Harry Brown, St Trianis and Skins.
The actors we would ideally like to play these rolls would be-
Main:
 Kaya Scodelario as SKY
Hannah Tointon as MOLLY
Kimberley Nixton as GRACE
Jack O'connell as DAZ
Aaron Johnson as Brandon
Robert Michael Sheehan as JAYDEN
Supporting:
Vicky Mcclure as LOUISE
Jacob Anderson as BILLY
Ben Drew as HARRY
Alison Steadman as DAWN
Stephan Graham as DAVE
Russle Brand as RUSSEL
James Corden as LIAM
Micheal Caine as GREG
Tina Malome as LUCY
Adam Decon as TINY

Princezz the movie!

Name of film: Princezz

Genre: Coming of age/comdey

Targert audience: 16-25

Camera:

Steady cam used during party scene

Music used:
Clint Mansell- The nursery(Moon O.S.T)
Tempa T- Next Hype
M.I.A PAPER PLANES

Instatution:

 Revolver entertainment

GUNSLINGER

GATEWAY FILMS

Clothing!

On the lead up to filming our 2 minuets opening one of my jobs was too be in control of costumes and mis-en-scene. If this was a major production I would have a very particular way of how we would like the characters to be dresses.  Stereotypical lower/middle class teenager. Dark colours, hoodies, fur, leather and studs, big hair and also a lot of dark eye make up. 

 The mis-en-scene will be very basic, things such as rubbish, drink, food and people everywhere. As very stereotypical teen party. When we get the shot of Sky leaving the party as a teenager she will walk out of a tower block with rubbish on the floor, and leaves blowing. Shell be wearing a long grey top, black hoodie, black leather jacket with tights and boots, with messy hair and smudged make up. She will be alone when leaving the tower block but other people may be around.  

Target audience!

The target audience my group and I are aiming for is around 15-25.
This is because the idea of our film being based on a Coming of Age theme, it may contain some inappropriate scenes and strong languages. I think that the age group we have chosen is a suitable one because teenagers might experience some of the scenes, and can possibly relate.
Whilst researching different films that are in the same genre, we have found that the age ranges are usually a 15 or 18 depending on the scenes and whether they are graphic and mainly the language they use.
 Our idea has been heavily influenced by the drama series 'Skins' as it is something we enjoy watching, as typical teenage girls we should be able to relate to it, yet we can as it is such an extreme stereotype and none of us, or our friends are as reckless as the characters. This is the style we would like our film to be, very extreme compared to real life and extremely exaggerated.
The youth of today is very stereotyped and looked down upon as if were bad people and we care about nothing but ourselves. When this couldn't be wrong, as more than ever teens are doing better in the GCSE and A-levels, there are more people than ever applying for uni, with 50% of these people are under the age of 20 years old. Young people are often scrutinised for being unemployed but with more and more jobs being cut its so hard to compete with older people with so much more experienced and qualifications then a younger person like myself, parents/grandparents and most older people do not realise how hard young people try to get jobs. 
 The truth is these stereotypes couldn't be more wrong, and i believe these stereotypes are though of and portrayed in the media, as we know the media constantly focuses on the negative instead of the positive, meaning everybody is left with this picture in their head, creating the stereotypes. 
I believe the idea and story we have created in our film is a perfect mix of what a teen really wants, Im sure all teens wished there weekends consisted of hanging out with there friends, going to wild partys, and doing what they want when they want instead of sitting at home watching TV, babysitting there siblings, doing homework and eating. Yet although most teens desire this life im sure they would also enjoy being royalty. 

Research on openings!

In my final group for media it is Avril West and Eva Giorgini. I chose to work with Avril and Eva because they are both good friends of mine and also work as a good team, and I know that we will produce a good piece of work in the end. I also feel very comfortable around these girls, which I feel is important as I can suggest all my ideas without feeling stupid. 

As a group we have been researching different genres including Action and Adventure, Horror and Comedy. We have all decided that we are going to research one genre, to one person to make things easier. Avril will be researching Horrors. Eva has decided to do Action and Adventure. I have then decided to research Comedy.

I mainly used YouTube to research Comedy and how they are portrayed and similar in certain ways. I researched many movies, such as Superbad, Big momma’s house, Stepbrothers, The hangover, American Pie. Some films were recent others were old.

I researched a few classics including Big momma’s house and American Pie. I think researching classics will help my group think more about whether we would want to make the film opening more modern with modern techniques or going for a more classic opening. I feel that we should try and mix the classic with modern so we can make something new and interesting, and different, something not seen before.

The sound used in Comedy films are a mixture of non-diegetic and diegetic sounds. I found that often comedy films tend to open with a song playing, usually an upbeat, well known theme tune. The length it is usually played for is until something happens. Till a conversation is started or something to open the story happens.

The I found that the openings of comedy films were all very similar, they all opened with bright colours, bright clothing, backgrounds etc., often with white, large, bold font displaying the directors and actors names.

Preliminary task!

For my preliminary task we had to group together with no more then 4 people, however I chose to go into a group of three with two of my peers.  I chose to go with two of my friends that I know well and feel confident around so I was able to voice all of my ideas and opinions confidently.My group and I came up with a multiple of ideas for genres, so that we could include the three rules; shot reverse shot, 180 degrees and match on action.  Once we come up with all the ideas it was hard to pick one pacific idea, one that we would find do-able and include all the rules that we had to follow.We originally decided to go with the idea of a thriller, we planned to have one of us running away from some one out of a woods, but we then though how unoriginal the idea was and it will be hard to follow the rule of match on action.So as a group we then decided to settle with the idea of just having a general conversation and using a door. This was the 180-degree rule, Shot Reverse Shot, Match on Action. The Match on Action is when Avril is opening and coming out of the door. The Shot Reverse Shot is when Avril is having a conversation with Temi. Lastly the 180 Degree Rule is when Avril and Temi hug. I was a simple idea but it showed we understood and knew how to follow all of these three rules.Once we had sat down and all discussed who was doing what and where we were going to film it, filming it was easy, we knew what shots we were going to do well and communicated well as a team, altogether we did around 7 shots on the flip cameras, and then uploaded them to the macs, although we didn’t use them all but we didn’t use them all.  We then edited it on Final Cut Express to put it all the videos together in the correct order. Once we did that it all ran really well and one part flowed onto another. Although it looked well, we had to cut out one part, which involved Avril walking towards Temi to talk. We had to get cut it out because Avril looked at the camera and it ruined the whole idea of coming out of the door because Avril looked awkwardly at the camera. After we had cut this out, the short film looked good enough for the preliminary task, and it was complete.I think that the preliminary task worked well for our starter film because we managed to accomplish completing all of the angles that were needed the short film. If I was to improve this film I would make the conversation longer and use other, better actors instead of myself.The video is appropriate for the preliminary task as it is very simple and easy. We will be sure to make the main task a lot better than this.

Does the media Influence or Reflect society?

I personally believe that the media in does influence society in many ways but the media does also reflect what it sees, but many times the media has taken facts and has a way of twisting them.

Recently in the newspaper I read that ‘Official statistics show that 7,464 girls under the age of 16 – some as young as 13 — fell pregnant in England in 2005, a rise of 283 on 2004.’ So does the media influence or reflect society? As a young person reading this I begin to think underage pregnancies are now becoming a way of life, rather than a big shock, I don’t personally know any one of an extremely young like 13 to become pregnant but I know now days under age pregnancies are not a rarity. So reading this paper I think that if I was to get pregnant now it wouldn’t be such a big deal as 7,464 other girls in the country are doing it. Which means that this piece of media has influenced me and changed me attitude towards underage pregnancies, not that I always agree with them, so weather this article was intentional written it influenced me or not is has, and possible many other people over the country.

Whereas if I read an article based on a subject I’m not very bothered on for example ‘Scottish public sector workers to get first pay rise in three years.’ this doesn’t influence me in anyway, I had no thoughts or feeling towards the subject before I read the article neither do I now, so in this situation the media is just reflecting society, but I assume that someone of an older age, who has interest in subjects such as politics, opinion on the Scottish public sector workers to get first pay rise in three years may have been influenced by reading this article, some facts may of caused the reader to change their mind about certain things.

I believe the media will always be influencing somebody weather it was their intentions or not, but not always everyone as some peoples beliefs may be different to begin with and some people couldn’t care less about some of the things the media write about, whereas others feel very strongly about it. ‘Ashley Cole and Cheryl back together’ many may read this and be unaffected at all, if a teen boy was to read it I would imagine they wouldn’t give it much thought where as some middle age women may be in a similar situation therefor may read this and possible use it as a way of advice, if a young strong independent women like Cheryl Cole took him beck maybe I should too?

I think the media is reflecting society all the time, mainly the negatives. I believe the media only influences certain people with certain stories, a person may or may not be influenced for many reasons, whether it is their age, gender, social class or even something such as income.

I think the media is affecting our lives constantly without us even being aware of it.

Why I chose Media?

I chose Media because I took it as GCSE and it was a lesson I enjoyed going to and always felt I learnt something at the end of a lesson and media is something that ‘I’ve always been interested.

The media plays such a big part in everybody’s life’s, especially people of my age group as at a young age, which is a reason why I am so interested in it.  I think we can be easily lead and blinded by celebrities and expensive things that we see in the media but also the bed things we see in the media and forget about reality. This is the main reason I enjoy media, how they do such simple things that yet have such a big impact on our life’s, and make them so much money.

I personally take a lot of notice of the media as I love music, therefore I idolise certain musicians and like to keep update with their life’s and certain things they do, I do this mostly by social media, for example I follow them on twitter, this way I know everything I read is true as it’s a primary source.