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Evaluation - Question 7 - Jennifer Tate

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

From the preliminary task I was learned a great deal about the camera as I did all the filming for ours. Filming took around 15 minutes as I'd never used a camera like that before so I have to learnt all about it. Also as we wanted to try and do the best possible job we could, we did about 3 shots of every scene. However when it came to editing this I found it surprisingly easy and enjoyed it a lot more compared to filming. I learnt how to cut clips down, render the film, add text, add music etc. We didn't have to use a lot of editing skills in the preliminary though as it was very simple compared to our finished film.

I feel ii have progressed form the preliminary task throughout the time we've been making our finial project. Me and Jess talked it through as we knew that her stronger point was filming and mine was editing, so therefore we both wanted to do a little bit of both; but Jess did more filming and I did more editing. Through editing our finial film I've learned out to add text on the screen, add music, adjust sound levels and volume for speech or music or any particular type of sound, I learnt how to spilt a screen in two; we had to do this as we had a spilt phone conversation. I think using all of these skills has helped me understand the film business a lot more and made our film more interesting to watch, which will hopefully get our target audiences attention. 

Evaluation - Question 4 Jenny Tate.

Our target audience is from an age range of 15-21 and of both genders, this is because I feel that they will be able to relate and understand the film a lot more easily than someone who is say, in their mid thirties. The social group that we would be aiming for would be a 'party animal' type, they get excited by the idea of going out, drinking, seeing friends and having a good time, they typically would also be around the age of 15-21. We know that under the age of 18 is illegal to drink but its a known fact the under-age drinking happens so they would enjoy watching this film as they would be able to relate to it. 

When thinking about the audience for our media product, we thought up two hypothetical teenagers as I thought it would then be easy to think of the types of people who would watch our film.  

Mischa: She is a 17 year old college student of black British ethnicity, that lives with her Dad in Bristol, that enjoying going to concerts, hanging out with her friends, going to parties, going to town, drinking and following fashion. At parties and in her spare time she tends to listen to music that is in the charts, dubstep and drum and bass. She generally watches e4 as it appeals to her age group, some of the shows that are shown are; Skins, The Inbetweeners, The Big Bang Therory, Shipwrecked, Misfits etc, this all falls under the 'Teen' genre. 

Aaron: He is a 16 year old school drop out of white British ethnicity, who is unemployed and lives with his parents in Liverpool. In his spare time he likes to go down the skatepark with his friends, he also likes to play xbox and occasionally smokes cannabis. He listens to alternative rock and indie music. He doesn't tend to watch much t.v except for Skins and the occasional episode of Friends, but he mainly watches films such as Kidulthood and other 'Teen' films. 

We came up with these two people as although they are both different in they own ways they would both still be interested in our film because if their age and their interests. These would be the type of people who would most likely watch skins as it has aspects of their own life in it. Also according to the BFI, the gender spilt of films with a similar genre to skins in 2011 was 53% girls and 47% boys, really not that much of a difference, this is why we thought of two people as both genders would hopefully be interested in our film.

Evaluation - Question 2 - Jennifer Tate

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents our social group as rebellious. We thought of our social group as soon as we started to think our our initial ideas. We knew from the start that we wanted our film to be about teenagers, teenage life and how they rebel against what society wants them to be.

We wanted to show that I had had a rough night out, possibly got myself into trouble, drank and possibly even taken other substances. The way in which I am dressed, my make up and my hair all connotes this. We got our inspiration for the make up from 'Effy' a character in 'Skins'. As she has she has make up down her face as if she's been crying, has messy hair and is smoking a spliff. however we to advertising drug taking so we made me smoke cigarettes in our film. 

We used cigarettes as a prop in our film so to suggest that she needs them if she's stressed, tired, hungover, and smoking is just a normal thing for her. It's typical behaviour for her, she's a 'difficult' teenager so smoking in an alley way outside college is classed as a general thing for her, and we wanted to follow the stereotype of a rebellious teenager, so thats the reason we dressed her in this way, used cigarettes and hopefully made her come across with an 'I don't care attitude'.