Final video of 'Group 39'

39. Aamir, Dazhane, Ken, Chyna from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation question 6

52. Final Goodbyes

The end of my blog.

This is the end of our blog! I hope you have thoroughly enjoyed looking at all our planning and research blogs and I hope that you enjoy our final finished product! It has been a long, but fulfilling journey that I have enjoyed and I have learnt so much along the way. There has been some ups and downs but I have enjoyed working with my group and working through any problems. I'm very proud that we made it to the end and have produced something that we all worked hard on and is of good quality. Thank you to all of the support from teachers and fellow classmates and I hope everyone does well.



Evaluation question 3

Evaluation Question 3 from chynadempster04

Evaluation question 4

Evaluation question 7 Prelim vs Final

Q. 5 How did you attract/address your target audience?

Evaluation 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our title sequence we wanted to represent different social groups but also conform or criticise different stereotypes within our society today. For example one stereotype that can abe argued is present in our society is that black males are all associated with crime and illegal activity. We wanted to go agaisnt this stereotype and so we decided to use black female instead of male to reject the negative perspective of black youths. Dahzane was the actress who took on the role of being involved in the wrong activity.

Here it shows Dazhane's image in comparison to a male teenager. Her clothing shows her to be young and vulnerable and lets the audience know that she is still at school. She has her iphone and earphones in which is very typical of teenagers to do. So this suggests that her phone and social media is a part of her life. This again allows the audience to relate to this.

Throughout the title sequence, we wanted to show to the representation of social groups as well as conform and criticise various stereotypes within our society. Unfortunately the mass media perpetuate and emphasise these stereotypes by broadcasting information to the general public making it seem like social groups have particular have a fixed image/idea.

 Another stereotype that we wanted to challenege was that only males are involved in criminal activity and gangs. This is a gender stereoype and this is another reason why we decided to use a female protagonist instead of a male. Although the audience doesn't know exactly what the female is involved with, there is the idea that is is something wrong as she ends up being chased. 

In society today there are many young teens that are involved with crime and gangs. And there are an increasing amount of very young teenagers even from the age of 12 who are becoming involved in crime. So we thought by using a young teenager to be the main character and worked welll. So we have conformed to the stereotpe that young people are criminals as Dahzane is a young teenager.

Evaluation question 1

Q. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Conventions are very important to a film as they help the the audience to understand and relate to the film and give them an idea of how to film will be. One of the films that inspired our sequence was 'The Chase' which inspired our titles and music. 

The first part of any teen drama films are the title credits. They first open up the film and there is a conventional way in which they are shown. For example production, distribution, actors, casting, costume, music supervisors, photography, editor, director. The position in where the title comes can differ from film to film, although typically it come after the names of the main actors/actresses or at the end after director.

Independent title sequence:
Ident ( a couple depending on how many sponsered the film)
production companies
Distribution Companies
Movie Title
Main Actor/actress
Other ( less know) actors
Casting by
Edited by


This is the order of our titles in our title sequence:

Some of our titles follow the typical convention order, however not all of them do.


This is the title sequence for Kidulthood which was one of the inspirations for our film.

One of the differences between our title sequence and Kidulthood is that our title name comes near the beginning after 'Henry Trek Presents' but Kildulthoods title comes at the end. We decided to position our title here because it adds to the mystery of what the garage is about and gives the audience the chance to figure out what the film could possibly be about. I also think it just establishes the film and works really well at the beginning.

Co-Camera man and Assistant

As co-camera man i had to film scenes with another colleague of mine Chyna to film the actor when he was in scene and i also had to carry equipment and look after belongings as well helping the actress/actor get ready for film.

My role in the production.

During the production of our film 'garage 32b' I took part in a few different roles however I would say I mainly contributed to the filming. As two of my colleagues were the main character it was my job along with Ken to film the shots that they were in and direct them as to what to do. I also took some photos along the way to show our journey.
As a group we all contributed towards our ideas for the film and when filming we all gave our opinions on what was good and what needed to improve.

FINISHED

We've finished everything and will be uploading our final film soon!

Title Fonts

We ended up using Heiti SC light as our font, this was because we had shortlisted this in our research & decided it would be similar to how my brother the devil's titles were.

47. Rough cut 2 feedback

We were told that the colour of the titles were not correct as it didn't fit our theme so we went back to our research and saw heiti sc light which was similar, we changes the colour so the titles could be visible and we also re framed them as they were too close to the edge of the screen

46.Rough Cut Feedback

The feedback from our rough cut was that we needed an opening establishing shot to open the scene. At the moment the opening scene doesn't really establish the location and just jumps to the actual film.
Also we haven't included enough shots that show different angles and some of the shots we have are too long from just one angle. From this feedback we have decided to go back to our location and film some more shots to fill in the missing gaps and make each scene more interesting.

44. Our Website

The Website

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This is the website we have created for Garage 32b you can view it:

(here)

or click the link below

http://asset92014.wix.com/candigroup39

43. Reflection

 Reflection
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      After our first session on sunday in the half term we reviewed our footage, and realised that our choice of location affected how well we could get the shots that we wanted too. We chose to film at camden lock which ended up getting really busy. This affected our filming because before every shot we had to make sure it was safe and convininet and that we werent going to get in anyones way.  So overall our choice of location was bad and we knew that we would have to change it, in order to be able to get the shots we wanted. We decided that we would return to Camden in a couple days and try to find much more quiet place that would also work with our chase scene.

We found that the school girl costume worked really well as we thought we were able to get the vunerability of her age across. However Aamir originally wore a big jacket but found it was hard and inconvinient to run with. So he decided he would wear something lighter such as a tracksuit.

This was our original location

42. Photos of the filming day & why we decided to change location

43. Revision of what went well & what didn't 2

REFLECTION





We found that the school girl costume worked really well as we thought we were able to get the vunerability of her age 
across. However Aamir originally wore a big jacket but found it was hard and inconvinient to run with. So he decided he would wear something lighter such as a tracksuit.

42. Filming pics 2