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

Looking back at my preliminary task, it shows that there was hardly any editing put into it except cutting scenes and adding a title. The main thing i have had to work with while creating my final product, is working with titling and editing. In my final product there is also alot more advanced camera work, in the preliminary prject we mainly only used close up shots as in our opening title sequence we used a variation such as long shots, mid shots, and close ups. in the final product i personaly worked more with the editing, i cut almost all of the scenes and added most of the titles and placed different effects and transitions, and also chose and added the music. In the preliminary task there is no music which i think makes it obvious that something is missing. It also includes dialogue which we dont have in our full product. We have a very short voice over which was imporvised just to tie together what happened at the end. I think that my use of technology has greatly improved from the preliminary task 'Do I Look Bothered' to our final product 'Narcissist'.

Animatic Storyboard

For our Animatic Storyboard we took stills of the drawings that were created before we started filming. We then uploaded the stills onto iMovie and set them to a certain speed and added the other peice of music that we had as an option for using as our final product.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

While making this product the main focus was to work with iMovie. Using Imovie alot before, i already knew hot to cut clips and add transitions and the main basics. When it came to adding titles, it got quite complicating due to the small selection of fonts and positions. There were a few problems because we had a certain idea of where we wanted our titles places but couldnt due to the fact that they werent so flecible. We overcame this problem the best we could which was by being flexible and using the closest positions, to what we origionally wanted, that fit each cut from the choice that we had.

In our opening sequence there was a part where we wanted a slideshow of still photographs, like the how i met your mother opening theme.


iMovie didnt have a way in which we could do that so we dicided to try using iDVD.
On iDVD there is opening title themes where you add in images to make it like a mini opening title, but it could also be used to create a slideshow for our matter. Each one could only have 7 images and we wanted more so we created 2. We learned how to do this. The problem was when it was complete transferring it to iMovie where we needed it to be, Due to the fact that iMovie and iDVD are two different formats, importing it was difficult. We had to burn it to a disk and import it from there in a different format. Once it was in iMovie it couldnt be edited so we had to make it perfect first and have the title how we wanted it.
We used a friend to create music to fit to our product because none of us could do it ourselves. When we had our opening title sequence almost complete we burnt it to a disk and gave it to him with the idea of music that we wanted, and explained to him what we thought would fit best.
We over-estimated iMovie at first and thoguht that we would be able to change the text from tube cuts into titles, but we never managed to learn how to do so. ANother thing we had to learn about technologies before we got to editing was how to use the camera and tripod. I wasnt filming so i didnt need to learn too much about the camera but i helped with the tripod at times. I had to learn how to adjust the tripod to get the camera in certain positions, etc. I knew alot about what we were working with while constructing this product, but i still learnt a few useful things throughout the process.

how did you attract/address your audience?

One way How i met your mother attracts an audience is through a facebook group which contains, videos, images, and news on the tv show itself. I think this is a good way to attract an audience especially for a 'young adult rom-com.' Most young adults use social networking and a main one is facebook. This could really attract a good audience for our product.
From looking at different ways that films and tv shows had used to attract/address their audience as a group we decided to creat a facebook group that we would add videos to and update posts on our film. I think this is an effective way to attract the right audience you are looking for to veiw your film. I think that social networking was the best way for us because our target audience is both genders aged 17-25 and those are usually the people using social networking.
I think our chosen music also helps attract and audience due to the type of music we had selected.

What would be the audience for your media product?

I think that our media product would appeal mainly to girls and boys from the age of 15-25. The media product should be rated 15 because it contains strong language and mild sex refrences and the use of alcohol.



It would probably be better for british people. My product is about some mates going for a night out. The opening sequence flashes between the clubs and bars they go to and them getting ready. The audience would have to be interested in the whole 'club scene' for them to enjoy it.





The reason i think it could be directed towards both genders is because the group of friends is both girls and guys. There is a tube sequence in the opening which takes a relatively big role so viewers would have to understand what the underground is and the way it works.



Our film might also attract an audience similar to the audience that the tv drama 'Skins' attracts. It is the same sort of thing. Although we didnt look at skins while creating our product now comparing them they have a number of similarities, such as the actors/actresses and the whole 'young adult scene'.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

I think the best way to distribute our product would be mainly through social networking, and audience involvement. Our product could be promoted through parties for cast and crew at different featured clubs and bars in our title sequence. Different clips from our product could be shown on these nights, and they could be advertised through social networking such as facebook, myspace, twitter, etc. The reason for club promotions would be because our product is revolved around a night out in London, and about the nightlife of a certain age group. We could distribute our music online, and in bars and clubs which might attract a certain audience. Our product could also be distributed to our target audience through mini trailors on places such as facebook which would be where most of our target audience would be linked to.





we created a facebook group to help distribute our product.


One of my mates is a DJ so i contacted him and asked him to create a mix that would fit well to our opening sequence. He came up with a couple ideas to choose from. As a group we chose the 30min mix and i cut it to the parts that we liked and mixed different parts of the mix together to get the perfect piece for our film opening. The music would help distribute our product because it is the type of music that our target age group would listen to. As our music is a big part of our product another medium of distribution could be itunes.
Here is the link to his website where his music is uploaded to: http://soundcloud.com/joshlake

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents the 17-25 age group. You see 18/19 year olds getting ready at the beginning of our product while getting different shots of the club scene mixed in. In the first shot you see a girl putting on her make up in the mirror then it jumps to a shot of the name of a club, then it cuts to a girl putting her shoe on then goes to a guy sending a text to a mate about going out, and so on. This goes on for the first part of our opening sequence then it goes to the tube part of our opening titles. At the end there is a little dialogue part of 2 guys saying bye to 2 girls the next morning and basically kicking them out before they even had a chance to get dressed. The end part just shows the personalities of those guys through the ways they were acting and the things that they were saying. Our music also helps us represent the particular social group that we aimed to attract. With the whole mise en scene, filming clubs etc, the music helps tie everything together to create a general feel of the particular 17-25 age social group that enjoys partying and having fun.
Our product has similarities to the tv drama 'Skins'. 'Skins' is a British teen drama that is about a group of teenagers in Bristol throughout their two sixth form years. The plotline explores issues including dysfunctional families, personality and eating disorders, substance abuse, sexuality, teenage pregnancy, mental illness and death. Our product may not include all the same issues but it does include a few.