Film Premiere And Feedback From The Audience

The video below is our film premiere and the last two video's are some feedback we received from the audience letting us know what they thought of our film, if they would go to see it at the cinema and if it fits the target audience we were aiming for.

Evaluation Question 1

Convention: The way in which things are usually done.

IN COMPARISON

I have chosen to compare my movie to 'My Brother The Devil'.

CAMERAWORK:
The film My Brother The Devil have used a couple of establishing shots at the beginning to show the gritty surroundings and the ghetto environment. This is what most teen drama's do. However, we went against this convention as we haven't used any establishing shots and this is because I wanted the audience to feel closer to the character.

Editing:
The editing on 'My Brother The Devil' is at a quite slow paste. However, it does speed up when the action scenes get involved and because most of my film is based around action, the editing paste is fast throughout.

Mise-en-scene: 
Our mise-en-scene is un conventional for a teen drama. However, My Brother The Devil has conventional mise-en-scene because they have used props such as knives, guns and drugs.

Sound:
Our music is much smoother and more mainstream to what typical teen drama's use. For example in 'My Brother The Devil', they have used a rap song whereas we have used a theatrical instrumental. This draws a larger target audience to our movie as our music isn't selected and aimed at a certain set of people. I did this because I wanted to make my teen drama different to what you would normally see in a teen drama.

Evaluation Question 2

Representation: Is the action of speaking or acting on behalf or the state of being so represented.

The social group that my film is focusing on is urban teenagers. However, my main character, and the concept of my movie does not follow the urban, gritty teenager stereotype. We have our main character who was born and raised in a ghetto area and has been in many difficult situations throughout his life. A person with his mindset, in movies anyway, would be a corrupted drug addict who intends to severely injure or even kill his enemies or that who stands in his way. Our main character however, is a calm white male who has chosen to go down the path of boxing. He intends to make his way up the ladder and become the greatest due to all of the incidents he has been in the past. He takes his anger out in the ring rather than outside.

My brother the devil is similar to our movie to a certain point. The film then starts to change a little and it start's to steer away from stereotypes a little. Like the older brother in the film, he finds what he truly desires the most and sticks with it. The same with our character, whereas our character loves a sport and so he sticks with it and leaves what his behind him in the past. The older brother in My Brother The Devil also leaves his past behind and basically starts a new life. His younger brother on the other hand, carries on the stereotype of a teenager movie to a certain point as well. This is because he follows his older brothers footsteps as he was before because he realises that his brother has left his old ways.

Evaluation Question 3

We invented our own distribution and production companies. However, if another media institution was to distribute my movie, it would be a media company such as 'Legendary Pictures' because our film suits the sort of films they distribute.

The companies we created were 'Kino Films' and 'Bearded Pigeon'. They are both small independent companies like our movie itself and that is the reason why they have distributed our movie. They would be the best at distributing our movie because they can reach our audience better than any other company. This is because they know how to get to our audience, and because they are a small independent company, most teenagers watch movies from companies like this as it reaches out to them and it is what they're looking for.

Evaluation Question 4

The audience for my media product would be teenagers. However, my film could easily attract a wider range of people. I would say the target for my movie is 16-30 year old's simply because everyone loves boxing and occasionally it doesn't target a certain group or race of people. In fact, I would go even higher with the age group of the target audience for my film if I could. My film is suitable for both males and females and of different colours and races. My film isn't targeted at a certain group or set of people.

I believe older people would actually enjoy my movie more than the younger people because of the actual storyline, but on the other hand, the violence and the teenager actors are the reason why teenagers would really like my film and go to watch it. Teenagers can really relate to my movie and i did this on purpose because I love it when I can relate to a movie and put my feet in the main actors shoes! 

The unique selling point of my movie is that I have a young teenager living in the ghetto who does boxing but has had a very hard past. Normally, boxers in fighting/boxing films tend to be older people from the ghetto trying to make it out. In my film however, I give some hope for the younger generation and attempt to motivate them more than the older people.

Rocky

Fighter
















Raging Bull

Here Comes the Boom

They are all movies that involve fighting and they all have a target audience for a wide range of people. However, like I said, the characters involve older/middle aged people and most of them fight and make a living out of it to make some money. My character on the other hand is fighting because he loves it and because he is taking his anger out in the ring from all the things that has happened to him in the past.

Evaluation Question 5

The violence is what appeals to my audience and this is what attracts them as soon as the movie starts. The opening scene involves a young teenager punching a boxing bag. Straight away this attracts the teenagers because most male teenagers like boxing and violence overall. The mise-en-esene that attracts my target audience are the boxing bags and the grey hoodie. I dressed the main character with a grey hoodie because this brings the stereotypical teenage feel in to it. This attracts my audience because teenagers can relate to what he is doing and what he is wearing.

The location is clearly at a boxing environment. You can't tell exactly where the character is. However, you are able to tell yourself that he is most probably near a boxing ring due to the amount of punchbags that you could see in the first shot. You could see a bit of the ropes on the left of the frame but the audience does not focus on this at the time because it is covering a tiny bit of the frame and it is not in focus. 

The sound does not attract or address my target audience. In a teen movie you would expect to hear some sort of a rap song coming up. In my movie, it is an instrumental that involves soft instruments which is against teenagers completely. The song is not aggressive at all. The sounds of the punching however, impact against the instrumental and it makes the sound feel slightly violent rather than soft. The instrumental has a urban/ hip hop feel to it but this comes in when the camera shot changes and we get closer to the main character. 

My films name definitely addresses to my audience because it just feels urban and gritty. It's the type of name you would get in a fighting or a prison type film. 

Link for the presentation:
http://app.emaze.com/268305/evaluation-question-5

Evaluation Question 6

I have learnt many things about technologies from the process of constructing this product. I have learnt more about teen movies and how they are made to reach the target audience. I ave also learnt how to make my teen movie effective and powerful.

Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at my preliminary task, I feel that I have learnt a lot and I have progressed from it to the full product. I have fixed my lighting, camera shots/angles and simply the way I tell the story visually.

For the preliminary, I didn't bother planning at all because we already had the storyline and I had a brief view of what I wanted. However, we did storyboard but we didn't put much effort into it. On the other hand, we planned very well for our final film. We put maximum effort into the storyboarding as well as group conversation on what we wanted. We decided on the props and clothing we were going to use along with the mise-en-scene way before the stage of pre-production. 

I used my own camera for my final movie instead of using the college’s camera's because my camera has a higher quality and more options when it comes to selecting the frames per second. We spent much more time on set and we filmed a scene more than 10 times if I thought it wasn't successful or if I simply didn't like the look of it so we could pick shots out in the editing process. I used my directing skills to lead the actors and got them to act to the best of their ability even though we are all media students and none of them have studied drama before or have no experience with acting in front of a camera what so ever. 

There were so many mistakes in the post production of the preliminary compared to the final movie. The main problem was that the editing was unprofessional and there were several mistakes. Whereas, I spent days on editing my final movie and looked for any tiny mistakes.

Production Complete!

Our production process is now fully completed, here is a short of us ticking it off

We will be evaluating our performance as filmmakers soon but the filming, is done as well as all that crazy editing.

But no celebratory images yet, we still need to evaluate!

Health and safety

Health and safety issues when filming the second flashback

The first and most obvious issue that came to our attention was the huge amount of broken glass on the ground which was a massive problem since one of us had to be falling on the floor.

So we found an area which was relatively free of glass or other hazards present in the alley such as vomit and syringes, and did our best to clear it even further by kicking away all glass and rubbish.

now we could roll all over the ground without any harm coming to us, however we will definitely be washing ourselves thoroughly after.

Photos from filming the second flashback