Wednesday 14 April 2010

EVALUATION ACTIVITY 1

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

these shots are from Kidulthood.

1. in the first shot you see that the production company is established, it uses the colours blue and black which makes the blue stand out. this production company is known as it makes a lot of films like Kidulthood and adulthood which have the same target audience as us.

2.the next shot is of the film title, the audience get to know what the film is called. the font and the name signifies that the film is aimed at youths as the title starts with KID which shows that it at it is about kids, also the hood shows that it is about gangs of youth and that protecting your area has something to do with the film.

3. in this shot you see a gang of youths with hoodies so they are represented to be the bad people like they are in a gang, also they look like they are looking to pick on somebody from their facial expressions. the girl is in the middle, is the girl that they are picking on so you know that this film has something to do about bulling and standing up for yourself.

4. the boy and girl kissing in school signifies that in this film, one of the aspects will be how got the better looking girlfriend, also that youth are represented to have underage sex and that they just go kissing anyone they want to showing that you cannot control the youths in London.

5.this shot shows all of the bully's together looking for how will be their next victim which signifies that in the schools of London that there are a lot of bullies in London schools and that everyone is scared of the these days.

6.in this shot we see that something is been hidden which could be a weapon or it could be drugs which signifies that drugs and weapons are being taken into schools, which depicts that London schools are dangerous and that teenagers are involved all types of crime.

7.in this shot we see two teenagers smoking drugs in school is depicts that you cannot control students, that they can do anything that they want. it also depicts that teenagers can get anyway with anything that they want to. it also shows that this school at the students go to is a dad school, that properly gets bad grades.

8.in this shot there is an confrontation with the teacher and the student and from the facial expression you see that he got more of the authority. so the teachers cannot stand up to the students so the students can do what they want so if they don't class nothing much will happen to them so they are losing out on their education.

9. this shot is an extreme close up of a students lashing out of on somebody, this signifies that if you try to tell the students to do something they don't want to do they will get angry at you. this representation is what all youths are seen to do in London schools.

this is shots from my film opening

1. the first shot is of one of the titles, the background is clouds that are red and grey. the red symbolizes the danger and blood that is going to happen in the film. it foreshadows that someone is going to die but leaves the audiences questioning who is going to be the victim.

2. the second shot is an establishing shot of London, it shows where the film is set and also we wanted it in the dark to show that when the sun goes down the the crime begins, this foreshadows that something bad is going to happen.

3.this shot is a shot of three shot classes having vodka being poured into it but instead of the drink increasing we reversed it on Adobe After Effects so the drinks gets less as more is being poured out.we also made it black and white to give it more of an effect. the effect on the audience is that it gives off an enigma so the audience don't know what is happening. this draws the audience more in to watch the film and see how everything ties up.

4.in this shot you have a CCTV of terry walking which depicts where ever you go you are being watched and that the area that Terry is in is a bad area because police are monitoring it with the CCTV cameras. it effects the audience because they begin to think that something is going to happen because terry is being watched, like he is going to caught in a trap.

5. in this shot, there is a confrontation with Terry and Myrin which signifies that in the film there is going to be a battle between characters for who is the most supervisor person. because of this the genre becomes a more clearer. this shot shows the tension between these to characters.

6. in youth slag this is a shot of youth jamming which is when teenagers come together and drink and take drugs . an effect is put on the shot to show that they are so high that they are no more aware of what they are doing. this shot is an introduction to Josephine. this is the representation that is given to the youth of London.

7.this is a shot of the cocaine, showing that youth enjoy taking drugs. we put ma red filter on the drugs tom show the danger of drugs and to make the drugs be noticed by the audience. even though the drugs are dangerous the teenagers are seen not to care.

8. this is a shot of a split screen of the three main characters, this shot connects all three characters together so it shows the audience who are the main characters. as Terry has the biggest section shows that terry is the main attention. we put some effects on the shot to that they are not happy the way everything is going. like they do not know how they are anymore.

9.last shot is of the main title the background is red to foreshadow that there will be a death in the film and it attracts the audience to watch on to find out who is going to be killed.

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