Thursday, 28 June 2012
Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux visits the WBC for the first time after four years, during this visit he analyses the change of the people he documented the last time he visited. He concentrated on their strong beliefs about God and homosexuality. A particular family that he visited had lost a family member who disagreed with their beliefs and went her own way. Throughout the documentary Theroux tries to discover why these different families believe what they do, and why they feel so strongly.
In the documentary, we follow Louis Theroux who tries to discover why the followers strongly believe that what they are doing is right.
8 minutes into the video Louis visits a family who shows him a video of them mocking jews, and making a complete joke out of them. With the same family Louis speaks to the father about how he feels about his daughter leaving the family, Louis apologies about them loosing a family member, during this interview the father questions Louis and asks 'why are you sorry.' Which gives off the impression that he isn't effected about his daughters absence, this is a clear example of how his beliefs takes over his family values. As Louis walks around the house he notices that all the daughters pictures have been taken down. His wife later states how they no longer talk to their parents because they see their parents as rebellious.
At 20minutes we see a family singing a cover of one of Lady Gaga's popular songs, doing this may have an influence on others, since the song is well known.
Friday, 20 April 2012
Opening film: UPDATED
After our teacher went through our blogs, he suggested that we could improve our film by making minor changes. Our film ran a little bit over time, so we had to cut some scenes short and to make our transitions abit more cleaner.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Question 7: Comparison of Tasks
Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Looking back at my preliminary task I have learnt a lot since then, and coming up to this task. Our preliminary task was mostly about concentrating on how to get the right shots, and getting used to the normal equipment; it was also about getting to know how we'd work with each other as we'd never done so before. It also gave us a chance to learn about how to edit our films using iMovie, which became useful for our most recent task. The different shots we learnt to use were; match on action, 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot, having to edit our films taught us how to show the continuity in our film, and make our audience drawn into it.
With this particular task we took a lot more time in planning the opening of our film, we concentrated on what would be the right the genre, and once we had chosen we done a lot of research into it and came across that our genre 'ROMCOM' was highly popular. Once that was dealt with we began planning on what our film would be based on and came up with initial ideas, when we were comfortable with our initial ideas we then came up with a brief summary. Afterwards we then created storyboards and shotlist was created by one of our cameramen, the script was also written for our film. For this task we made sure that everything was organised and everyone in our group new what their role was, we also made sure that we had the right equipment for each shot and we came well prepared whereas in our previous pleminary task we'd sometimes forget certain pieces of equipment. During this task I also learnt how to use a software called 'Celtx' which is what we used to create our script, and production schedule.
In the preliminary task we learnt a lot on time management we had a sheet which helped us schedule our timing, and the different times that we'll be filming; we also worked out how long it'll take us to set up and pack away the equipment, also how long it would take to film each shot. Learning about keeping time management became useful for us in our AS task since we planned what we needed to shoot, when and where and also how long it may take us which seemed more professional compared to our previous task. This made our film seen more professional since we planned enough time to spend on our film, and we took the effort into editing it.
Also the planning for our film was a lot different to the planning we done for our recent task. We weren't given enough time do plan and research on initial ideas, we did draw up storyboards and floorplans to give us an idea of how our equipment would be laid out, and how our storyline would flow. On the other hand with our AS film we went into more depth with both planning and research, which became an advantage to our film.
Learning from our previous mistakes gave us a major advantage for our film opening, since we had a clear idea on what to do and what not to do.
Looking back at my preliminary task I have learnt a lot since then, and coming up to this task. Our preliminary task was mostly about concentrating on how to get the right shots, and getting used to the normal equipment; it was also about getting to know how we'd work with each other as we'd never done so before. It also gave us a chance to learn about how to edit our films using iMovie, which became useful for our most recent task. The different shots we learnt to use were; match on action, 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot, having to edit our films taught us how to show the continuity in our film, and make our audience drawn into it.
With this particular task we took a lot more time in planning the opening of our film, we concentrated on what would be the right the genre, and once we had chosen we done a lot of research into it and came across that our genre 'ROMCOM' was highly popular. Once that was dealt with we began planning on what our film would be based on and came up with initial ideas, when we were comfortable with our initial ideas we then came up with a brief summary. Afterwards we then created storyboards and shotlist was created by one of our cameramen, the script was also written for our film. For this task we made sure that everything was organised and everyone in our group new what their role was, we also made sure that we had the right equipment for each shot and we came well prepared whereas in our previous pleminary task we'd sometimes forget certain pieces of equipment. During this task I also learnt how to use a software called 'Celtx' which is what we used to create our script, and production schedule.
In the preliminary task we learnt a lot on time management we had a sheet which helped us schedule our timing, and the different times that we'll be filming; we also worked out how long it'll take us to set up and pack away the equipment, also how long it would take to film each shot. Learning about keeping time management became useful for us in our AS task since we planned what we needed to shoot, when and where and also how long it may take us which seemed more professional compared to our previous task. This made our film seen more professional since we planned enough time to spend on our film, and we took the effort into editing it.
Also the planning for our film was a lot different to the planning we done for our recent task. We weren't given enough time do plan and research on initial ideas, we did draw up storyboards and floorplans to give us an idea of how our equipment would be laid out, and how our storyline would flow. On the other hand with our AS film we went into more depth with both planning and research, which became an advantage to our film.
Learning from our previous mistakes gave us a major advantage for our film opening, since we had a clear idea on what to do and what not to do.
Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience ?
Audiences
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Marketing
Since our target audience are teens I think the best way to market our film would be, by putting posters up in areas where we could catch their attention such as, busstops, buses and colleges/secondary schools. Tv trailers might also be a good strategy to use advertise our film, and to distribute our product could be from the use of promotion and publicity. The promotion could be useful since we could get involved with other companies who could create competitions for people to win a chance to see our film, this could be an advantage because if they enjoy other people may be intrigued to view it as well. On the other hand publicity may also be a good idea since we could attract media attention, our cast could make appearances talking about the film.
Marketing
Since our target audience are teens I think the best way to market our film would be, by putting posters up in areas where we could catch their attention such as, busstops, buses and colleges/secondary schools. Tv trailers might also be a good strategy to use advertise our film, and to distribute our product could be from the use of promotion and publicity. The promotion could be useful since we could get involved with other companies who could create competitions for people to win a chance to see our film, this could be an advantage because if they enjoy other people may be intrigued to view it as well. On the other hand publicity may also be a good idea since we could attract media attention, our cast could make appearances talking about the film.
Monday, 27 February 2012
Question 4: Audience Profile Photo
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The target audience for our media product would be teenagers aged 16-18 years old, which what the pciture above shows. They'll be casual teen agers, each with different personalities which would be suitable for our film, since they'll be able to relate to most of the different characters. For example some may be able to relate to Ned Flames, they may have troubles fitting in at school/college and some may be on the same boat as Rick Flames, very popular and outgoing. I also think that my film would appeal to my audience is because of the genre which is a ROMCOM, these type of genres make the film very funny, and enjoyable. i believe that the film would also be encouraging to some teens and influencing in a positive, as some teens may find it difficult to be themselves, and our film gives off the message that there isn't a problem being comfortable with who you are.
The target audience for our media product would be teenagers aged 16-18 years old, which what the pciture above shows. They'll be casual teen agers, each with different personalities which would be suitable for our film, since they'll be able to relate to most of the different characters. For example some may be able to relate to Ned Flames, they may have troubles fitting in at school/college and some may be on the same boat as Rick Flames, very popular and outgoing. I also think that my film would appeal to my audience is because of the genre which is a ROMCOM, these type of genres make the film very funny, and enjoyable. i believe that the film would also be encouraging to some teens and influencing in a positive, as some teens may find it difficult to be themselves, and our film gives off the message that there isn't a problem being comfortable with who you are.
Question 3: Directors Commentary
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
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