Evaluation Part 7

Evaluation Question 7

Question: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?This is the last of our evaluation of our title sequence project, in this audio we discuss what we believe we have learnt from filming our preliminary task to now finishing our final task.

Evaluation Part 6

Evaluation Question 6

In this video we discuss which different media technologies we used in the process of creating our title sequence as well as what we have learnt whilst using them.

Evaluation Part 5

Evaluation Part 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Firstly, I believe that we attracted and addressed our audience by creating a character that appealed to many males of different ages as the different problems that he faces are some that most boys will have to face and what men have most probably already encountered. In The Journey we see our protagonist Jack portrayed at two different ages one when he is 12-13 and the other 17-18, this helps us attract a wider audience as it will appeal to boys aged between 10-20 as the younger audience will want to see what they can become if they work hard and the older audience can see what they could have done differently. All of this could be related to real life issues, the common interest of football or having dreams of being successful. In addition to this our media product could also attract an older audience as the story line may bring a nostalgic feel of following dreams and aspirations they had when they were younger.



Furthermore, the star power that we have in the movie, with Tom Holland, (who plays our protagonist) who is due to play Peter Parker in the upcoming Spider Man film and Jacob Tremblay, (who plays younger Jack) who featured in Smurfs 2. We felt that these two up and coming, young actors would be perfect for or film as they will relish at the chance to be in an independent and niche film such as ours. We do believe that have these actors featuring in our media product we will attract a wider audience as they are not only young but well known and well received actors to.

On top of this we also asked the groups in our class to watch our title sequence and give us feedback on what they thought went well and what we could improve on. As a whole the feedback was not very positive as most people didn't understand the narrative. We found the feedback beneficial as we knew what we had to improve on and what will help attract and address our audience.

Evaluation Part 4

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3 from kallum kafesci

Evaluation Part 3

Evaluation Question 3

In this Youtube video we discuss the fact the our film is an independent film and as a result this will limit our options on distribution. This is because we haven't got a big enough budget in order for us to advertise and release our film to a mass audience.

Evaluation Part 2

Evaluation Question 2

How Does Your Media Product Represent a Particular Social Group?

My media product can represent a few different social groups, but the main one has to be the working class.

This is because the main focus of our film is to show how Jack can go from a single parent household with the one source of income which is clearly not enough to support the family to a successful rich footballer that can support his mother and still afford many expensive luxuries for the both of them. Once Jack became the famous and wealthy football star his personality had a drastic change for the worse he went from being very humble, caring and passionate young man to a egoistic, arrogant and very boastful of his talent which shows how much fame can change someone.

In addition to this, working class individuals usually seek immediate gratification thus our protagonist being deeply passionate about football however he did have a begin to doubt his ability in the sport which was furthered by the hostility of his "friends". As a result of this, similarly to young working class kids today, it is likely that Jack would've given up on his football dream in order to pursue an average 9-5 job. However due to the support of his coach who was a father figure in Jacks life, he was able to guide Jack in the direction of his dreams and keep him motivated and passionate which essentially led him to his success. This is also a great example of the elderly social group that is seen as very wise and inspirational.

Despite Jack letting fame get to his head he continues to posses both traits from working class and upper class man. Although he becomes quite conceited, everything he's revisited by his past he becomes very humble and emotional. An example of this is where in one scene he's looking at his football top from his childhood team and he is very sentimental and deep in thought. This shows that he still remembers where we came from and the struggles he faced to get there.

Evaluation Part 1

Evaluation Question 1

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

Firstly, I believe that our media product, The Journey, definitely uses forms and conventions of real media products. For example all the equipment we used throughout the process of filming our media product, such as: cameras, tripods, dolly cams, steady cams and lights that were all provided by the school. we used equipment such as the steady cam so we can get a steady shot of an over the shoulder shot of Jack admiring his football shirt. Also the software that we used also uses forms and conventions of real media products, The software that we mainly used includes programmes Final Cut Pro X and Motion. Our main editor was the one person who spent the most amount of time using these programmes. We used these programmes to edit or footage, Final Cut Pro X was used to actually edit the footage, so cut it up and add the soundtrack etc. As for Motion, we attempted to use this programme to add moving and just overall better looking titles. Unfortunately, due to time we were unable to spend much time on this and adding interesting titles. All of these things are used in both Independent and Hollywood film companies in order to produce their film, without these programmes and equipment companies would not be able to make their media products.

Furthermore, our media product does use some forms and conventions of real media products. This is because film companies that produce Drama/Sport genre films and most of the time going to be independent film companies, such as Channel 4 and BabyCow productions which is our film company, this follows this convention because our film is an independent film. It would not make sense if our film was a big Hollywood film as it is rarely seen that a sport drama film is produced and funded by a Hollywood company, which would certainly goo against the forms and conventions of real media products.

However, I do also believe that our media product goes against the forms and conventions of real media products because our media product is a drama with a sub genre of sport which is very rare in the film industry because there is very few films that have a main genre of drama and a sub genre of sport the few that I know of is Bend it Like Beckham and the Goal! Trilogy.

Evaluation

Evaluation Questions

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

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

3.What kind of media institutions might distribute your product and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your media product

5. How did you attract/address your audience

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

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