Thursday, 26 April 2012

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1


EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

From the image above I'm trying to show proof of how our media product challenging and are conventions of real media products. i will now go into more detail through each image. 

1: The first image shows the very first opening sequence in which it displays the different main characters names.

2: The seconded image shows the first main character anyone sees. The shot has some sense of enigma to it as we yet don't know anything what's happening.

3: The third shot shows a form of a media product used as we have created a back-bored very similar to the ones shown in sporting press conferences. This makes the opening sequence a better real media product because its lifelike to a one broadcasting stations such as sky would use in interviews and conferences.

4: This shot is important because it shows an important character which is the scout. who plays an important role in the film. we also see a pair of boxing gloves being put on which indicates there could be a fight coming up.

5:This is the title of the film. 'Gloves up' is title which comes in half way through our opening sequence to give more information into what the film is and what to expect a little later on as a small hint.

6:This frame is chosen because its another important shot because it shows the production company which is another use of real media products. 

7:In this shot its split into 4 small screens to show the different kinds of traning both fighters are going for in preparation for there fights.

8:In this shot is another important information as it shows the producer as titles are still going throughout the opening scene.  

9:In the last frame it shows a single shot of a character running on a street as  another training scene
Setting/Location - The location of the opening sequence was mostly in school. A few of the training scenes were shot in lions gym and the running scene at then end was a street on the side of the school. so everything was near by and within a 1 mile radius so we didn't have to travel far to shoot.  
Costume/props - The costumes and props for the press conference scenes we used smart clothing such as shirts and ties while in the gym we used sportswear to make it perfect to work out in. The props we used in the press conference are a microphone,water bottle and a table. we used the presentation bored for the advertisement and  camera with flash for the extra touch. And then we used the equipment at the gym for that scene.
Camerawork/editing - We used a camera and tripod to get the best scenes possible and the best camera work when filming. For editing when we had to cut scenes and edit them we used Adope premier pro to make sure we had the best available technology to give us the best editing we could to ensure we only got in what we needed. 


Title Font and style - The font used is Bell Gothic Std. This is the same for the titles throughout the opening sequence also for the GLOVES UP print screen.
Genre - The genre of our film is action/drama. The reason being for this is there is a lot of action in the film, with the fighting scenes however the majority of the film is drama. The story of the film suggests that there is going to be a lot of emotion in the film therefore drama is the appropriate genre of our film.

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 5


EVALUATION ACTIVITY 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
We attracted and addressed our audience to get across our film trailer by using Youtube. Youtube is a powerful video-sharing website were which users can upload, share, and view videos. This is one of the best ways to get across our trailer because of how massive the site is used worldwide and how it can attract millions of potential users to watch our trailer.  A method in which we used to share it across this video uploading site was to have tags in the listing of the video.

The tags on Youtube allow a video simply easier to find. When a user using the site is trying to find a specific or most narrow search they would search into Youtube any keywords. For example if someone wanted to find a music video they have a range of searches to search from that relate to that video. As long as it somehow relates the search can be easier to find. This is because the user who uploaded the video would have also including specific tags which relate to the videos making it easier to find from the rest.

The tags we used on Youtube are shown below:

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 3

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 3
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?


MGM/UA Entertainment
MGM/UA Entertainment  is a possible distribution company that could potentially distribute our product  because of how our film storyline plot has some similarities to Rocky. MGM are famous for producing all the Rocky films. So for them to produce our media product would be challenging as it would be reaching out to customers who loved rocky and also to new customers as it has a different spin off at the same time which means it will be quite fresh so for MGM to produce the film it can work as they have produced similar work in the past. 

Another film company that could produce our film could be.. 

Touchstone picturesTouchstone pictures is another film company who could produce our film because of them recently producing the film 'Real Steel'. This film is slightly different to our film but again has kind of the same storyline in a way. Real Steel is about fighting except with robots instead of humans. The storyline of the two films have some similarities which both contain struggle and a upcoming. For touchstone to produce our film after producing real steel would be a sensible move as it can attract the same audience and more. 



EVALUATION ACTIVITY 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

In the process of making and constructing the finished product as  a group we have used various of po grammes and software to make the best product we can. some of the programmes, websites and software's we used are: 
Adobe Photoshop 
Adobe Premiere Pro 
Youtube 
Google 
Blogger 
Prezie

The software,websites and programmes we used are to help us make our product to the best of our ability. This is because of the technology we used is a good standard technology so that can help us construct our project better giving us more of a advantage to make a better film because of how good the technology is. For example without Adobe Photoshop we would not of been able to make a professional looking back-bored for our interview clip. Without the website Google and Youtube we wouldn't of been  able to make great research into existing products and similar genres. This shows how with the technology we used has helped us produce a better product.