Evaluation

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Compare and contrast your own sequence and one which you think has generically influenced you.

Our main influence for our opening sequence was 'Mean Girls' as we thought that our chosen genre, teen romcom, investigate the stereotypes within teenagers.

Mean Boys

Here is our finished product 'Mean Boys'

Rough cut

Step brothers opening

Step brothers is about two 40 year old men that still live with their parents. The brothers meet first time when they move in together where there is some hostility. The first scene is with Brennan (will Ferrell) eating cheesy nachos for breakfast the close up on the nachos lets the viewer guess how old he is then shows that it is a grown man which shows the comedy. The lighting is naturalistic which shows the realistic side of the film. The way dale ( john.c.Reily) is introduced is funny because it shows his dad going to a confrence which is where he meets brennans mum, while dale is playing guitar hero and he asks his dad for money for pizza. The editing is well done because transitions switch between the two showing them in similar situations which works well. most of the sound is non-diagetic which works well because it keeps the film at a steady flow throughout.

Test Footage

The following videos show our test footage taken around the college, this would benefit us when it comes to filming our real shots so that we don't waste time deciding the frames of the shots. We figured the best positions and distances between the actors and recording equipment and mapped them out so we could take them to the filming location. (The shots are finding positions not showing the quality of the acting so please ignore any laughter). We have slowed each shot down to 70% so we can find any problems with the filming.

Firstly, we have the eye-level full shot.
This shot is disadvantaged by the movement in the camera


Next, is the second attempt at the eye-level full shot.
This shot is disadvantaged by the character showing his feet at the beginning of the footage.
In order to match the research into full shots, the camera would need to hide the actors feet and let his head touch the top of the shot.


The following shots attempt to show characters reactions to the lead male.
In each shot the characters must be absorbed by the main character by following his movement with their eyes and face. However, we needed to use test footage to decide the distance between the camera and the lead male. We want to show him walking past without revealing too much of his looks.
This first shot has a slight distorted angle, as shown in the research, but we feel the lead male is too far away from the camera and reveals too much which doesn't match our specification; (walking past without revealing too much of his looks).


Other than the slight jolt in this footage, we feel comfortable with this layout in camera and actors.


This footage doesn't display enough movement in the characters face and eyes, we want to emphasize the importance of our lead male by showing that people stop what they're doing to watch him come into the location.


This final shot shows the reactions of characters without seeing the lead male walking past. We feel this isn't as effect as the other shots.

DEADLINES

week comencing:9th february

• week1- begins 23rd feb- rough cut dead line: end of last lesson that week.
• week2-begins 2nd march- final cut deadline: end of last lesson that week
• week3-begins 9th march -draft of evaluation of film opening to moodle by 9am on monday
  
• week4-begins 16th march-final deadline for film opening evaluation powerpoint. upload to moodle 9am monday 16th march
  

opening sequence ideas

So that our chick flick is successful we have to include generic conventions such as some sort of romance between two people with some comedy thrown in. we have a few ideas for our film opening and one of our ideas for our chick flick is similar to the opening to 50 first dates. We will have a few girls talking about how good this guy is and then we might slip in a comical character such as man saying how good looking he is to lighten things up a bit. The scene will be based in a school and the cast will be some of Shaun's Friends from out side the course which will enable us to focus on other things to do with this project.