Task 4 (Evaluation)

The film that my group created was a short opening sequence, we were given no budget to create our film, which immediately challenged us to match any of the real media products because nearly every film created had a budget of some sort, weather it be 20,000 or millions. For example an action film will have a lot of special effects to create the generic conventions, such as explosions, gun fights and car chases whereas our film did not use any special effect to that degree, the only special effect used was slow motion and fade.

Our film sequence I think is aimed towards the target audience of the teenage social group as it is based on two teenagers lives of which are played by teenage actors. One of the teenagers thinks he is the "man" and the cool kid which most people look up yo around school, he believes he is better than anyone else, this can represent some of the boys or girls that think in this way when they are teenager. The other teenager is classed at the other end of the social spectrum because he doesn't do things everyone else does and look the way everyone else does, this can represent some teenagers very easily because in schools it is seen very often people being bullied because of being this way, like the teenager does in our film.

In order to attract the audience to our film, we felt that we had to portray the characters in real life experience to relate to the audience. This was easier than expected as the actors we used were really effective. If I was to give my film a certificate I would probably class it as a 12A as it is mostly aimed at a teenage audience.

Throughout the process of creating our film i have learnnt about the different technologies that we used and the limitations their are on making a film with no budget. As our genre was Fantasy the group decided we wanted to include some special affects otherwise it may be harder to distinguish that it is of that genre. However the technology we had did not allow us to do that and we had to use slow motion effects and different types of music to show any magical scenes.

During the creation of the piece there were two major continuity errors. The first being the change of character and the second was a change of glasses on the other. The first error was due to the original character not be able to film so we chose some one with the same colour hair and had roughly the same build so the difference wasn't as noticeable. The second error was our fault as we didn't have the correct props on the second day of the filming, so we had to use different glasses.

After reflecting on our preliminary task we cane to the conclusion that we have learnt alot from the process about the different shot types and how to use the technology building up to the full product. One of the main things we have learnt was how to use the camera and to use it effectively, for example we learnt how to frame the shot better so there is no big waste of space.