Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our two Continuity pieces and opening main piece represents a "teenager peer group".

Whilst filming we knew exactly what social group we wanted to represent and by doing so we took into consideration the Mis-en-Scene, by us filming the two continuity's in the location;Sixth form Social room, it added that affected of reality to our scenes, the decor in the social room also contribute to the scenes, such as the notice board with events,updates around school and the whiteboard in the social room, the space in which we filmed in also represented a social group, the social room we used was a small room it is a accurate representation of Sixth form common rooms-cramped.

The costume is also a true representation of peer groups we made sure in order to create the feel of sixth form that we had all the cast in casual wear-jeans,jogging bottoms,t-shirt, in the main piece we had Bobbie in a white top, this was to signify her as different and to let the audience know that she was the main character.

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

I have learnt that team work is a vital piece to play when creating a film and co operation.

Initially I thought creating a film was a novice task but I have seen from my own eyes it is not as easy as it seems, there are many background components that are carefully considered in order to produce films let alone a 2min opening.

I have also learnt editing is not a simple as it seems,the amount of editing that goes into the opening of a 2minute film is incredible, editing can be a tedious job ensuring that each and every shot is superb is difficult, fixing jump cuts with smooth transitions etc, we had the opportunity to use I Movie whilst editing which was a slight benefit for those familiar with the software, initially i had no knowledge of I Movie at all, so getting to grips with the editing was a difficult and stressful process

Overall this course has been a great learning curve for myself, I feel I have learnt the techniques producers go through to ensure that credits are incorporated into the beginning of their film to the best of the ability and how effective it is,the stressful job of editing a 2minute clip can take days and days of re filming and how to use I movie more efficiently in order to add transitions to give the impression the scene has moved on to a different location,change effects e.g black and white to give a more scary effect to the piece and to add credits to the scene to make them more effective (e.g in the opening of Spider man 2)