Question 6 Gemma

Film 4 distributes films that are English, I think that this would be a good company to produce our film because it is such a large company and the films would be produced on such a widened scale. Our film would be good associated with Film 4 as other films such as  Final destination have been shown on there and that is from a similar genre to our film- physocolocial genre theme.

                                             

Final destination movie clip represents our genre 

The media institution that would possibly distribute our media product would be media that is not mass media, as it is a lower scaled prduction. It could also be independant because it shows they have produced it all themselves, whearas with the BBC or ITV they are on a much wider scale and they have a company working for and with them. An institution  might want to work with a smaller scaled film production as they can get involved more as the people who they would be working with, would be a good target audience for method research for planning their film. It will be useful to see how they make their films and how they reasearch with their panning, how it compares with larger and smaller companies.

Question Nine Gemma

My contributions towards the making of the media film included the process of planning, production and post production.

          In preparation to making the horror we had to plan, for this I made my own share of the storyboard sheets along with the other relevant planning material such as the script etc. Then I did the recce shots along with Sophie, preparing Marie the star of the film, for makeup and design.

Also sorting out the location of the filming took quite some time, we did parts of it at all three of our houses, the majority was at my house as one of the group members dropped out, we had to change the location and film at my house, obviously we had to do the best we could about the continuity of the filming, as we tried to make it look as real as possible. The planning of the all the mis-en scene was all contributed as a group as we all shared our ideas for the party layout. Also I contributed towards the sheets on where we got our information from, for instance researching for the target audience which we wanted.
          For the production part of the film, I shooted most of the film, taking into account that Sophie was acting in the film we both took equal roles. Some of the filming was quite challenging, but we helped each other as a group. The low angle shot of Marie coming down the stairs was difficult to film as the door was in the way, but we both worked together to move out any objects that were obstructing us from filming.










In addition it was difficult filming the titles as   
 we used a flame and it kept going out but we 
both helped one and other to work as quickly 
as possible to use the time we had efficiently.









Before filming I positioned the camera and white balanced and focused, hoping then the camera quality would be as good as possible. I also helped with the lighting when filming the party scene adjusting and flicking the light switches to make the scary effect when singing to Jane. With regards to the children I got my sister's and her friends to be in the film, which took quite a lot of responsibility as I had to ask their parents for permission, then Sophie asked Marie to be in the film.  I also directed the children to what they had to do which took a lot of effort and became quite tiring, but they were quite well behaved.
   
When it came to editing the film, Rubel was helping to do the music, although we did in the end decide that we wouldn't use his as we thought it wasn't as suitable.  I then edited along with Sophie, cutting and splitting the footage to put our film together. Then we both worked on sound and merged them together. We changed the sound levels, and then both recorded some digetic sound of happy birthday to go over the top of the sound.

 I feel that I made a good contribution to the film, considering two of our group members dropped out I think  me and Sophie coped well together.

Gemma Evaluation Question Four

The media product represents particular social groups, as within the film we have representations from two different social groups. There is the Mother figure who is from an older generation, and then the other group is the children are at Jane's birthday party. The main group we focus on is the children; they are portrayed as innocent in the opening of the film, apart from Jane as it appears as though she has been taken to the dark side from the possession of her doll. She seems to be 'different' from her friends and not the stereotypical child as she has been possessed. As Jane has no control over her possession of the doll she continues to act in her unusual character. The other children are very 'normal' as they are singing sweetly and being happy at what they think is a normal friend's birthday party. The other children represent stereotypical children of their age as their behaviour is very regular. The children's facial expressions and gestures that they display, tell the audience that they are having a fun time and are completely unaware to Jane’s transformation in character.

Through the use of mis-en scene with typical party house location with balloons and soft lighting, we thought a good atmosphere was created for the location. Also we thought the layout of the room was good as the camera could capture all the action from various angles. The typical party food and clothing was also desired for the film, I think that this added to the whole party scene and make it look ideal.

It was quite challenging getting the children together, and managing them was quite difficult, within the film the children look quite chaotic anyway, I feel that they represent their social group well as their characteristics were shown to be very loud and excited. We showed their behaviour through close ups and over the shoulder shots to try and capture the children's true qualities, as children at their particular age group act natural when having fun.