How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My group and I agreed that we would make out media video a very stereotypical representation for British teenagers. Drink, Drugs, being rude and taking part in anti-social behaviour, etc. Although some teenagers do live this life style it’s a very small amount that do and this stereotype couldn’t be more wrong, but I believe this is the way most Brit teens would like this live and having fun opposed to spend their life doing school work and in competition for a job and university places. I believe the stereotype of teens applies more to children who have brought up by lower class families; again this is another way that this film breaks the stereotype, ad all these girls come from middle and higher class families, which would be shown later on in the film. Our film is based on one particular social group and we have tried to do everything we can to emphasis this social group, with the characters used, music played, costumes used and also the mise-en-scene that has been used, but we also used a variations of styles to represent the different types of cliques today, from chavs, to the indie kids but this just shows that they are all very similar despite the way they dress and there beliefs.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

My media film has conventions of real media products by having the party scenes which are frequently used in the Coming of Age genre, and often match with the typical stereotype. This would immediately establish what genre of film we have decide to go with, the type of party will also establish the age of the characters. When we were producing our music, we researched music that is commonly used in Coming of Age films, and based our ideas around them, wanting to recreate something similar. The type of music we made was upbeat and fast. The genre of music we used was mainly Grime and Rap, we combined the tracks together to finalise our music. The music we made was on GarageBand, this music was a mix of male and female vocals beat boxing and various other beats created with all kinds of instruments. This would also help the conventions of real media as the music would set the scene, and we tried to use the music to hype up our audience so that when the scene and music changed, it would act as a cliff hanger, the audience are going to want to carry on watching to see what happens next. This is a convention often used in real life coming of ages films as something good is followed by something bad.  

Changes!

Many changes have had to been made throughout filming and editing our video for many reasons. We decided to change a few original ideas, for example we had the original idea to have the tittle as ‘PRINCESS EZ’ to add the EZ in with spray paint effect, however as we have a target audience of 15- 25, but as a group we didn’t think that this slang was appropriate as at the age of the target audience because at this age people have usually got over the stage of using slang writing and talking in slang and use real proper English, we also though that if we did this it would be comical and a way to mock teenagers, which wasn’t our intentions.

editing!

All of my group and I have taken part in editing our video, we all took part, yet Eva did most of the editing of clips while I used garage band to create soundtracks, that have had to be edited throughout due to timing and also I’ve had to add on to my sound tracks due to the length of our videos changing.

I didn’t enjoying editing as I have found it hard to use the apple macs throughout the course, due to my lack of knowledge I believe if we had had training before creating our video it would have made a big difference, as there is only one teacher helping several different groups use the computers so we’ve spent a lot of time waiting for a teacher to help us, and a lot of the time the teacher didn’t know how to work the macs. Yet Eva managed to improve her skills on the apple macs throughout so we’ve always used each member and their strengths to make our video the best it can be.

Uploading!

As we have filmed most of our filming on our mobiles as we want the videos to have a clear steady cam effect, we struggled when trying to convert our footage onto the apple macs as the computer wouldn’t pick up anything we plugged in, so we had no other choice but to email all our videos over to the computer, which proved to be very time consuming. As all the videos have been filmed in different settings they all have different lighting, characters and different mise-en-scene, we hope that as we edit and cut all these videos together it will be clear that we wanted out videos to be like this and we haven’t just viewed using low quality cameras, with poor shots but we wanted it to be as poor quality as possible, as we believed this would make it more realistic and different, not like your usual film opening.

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.