Evaluation : What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the full production

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

What have you learnt about technologies from the product (2)

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Evaluation Who would be the audience for your media product? and How did you attract/address your audience?

we have combined the two questions  to create this vlog (see end of clip for directors cut).

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

Evaluation: How does your media product represent social groups

My Media product represents the 3 following social groups:
Class and status
Disability
Gender

Class and status is represented between the therapist and are main character Sophie. We tried to show the therapist to have higher status then Sophie as she is a working woman as where Sophie is a stay at home mum. We tried to creat this by having a slightly higher angle looking up at the therapist to show she had more power over Sophie. We also tried to show a light behind the therapists head to show she is the voice of reason, therefore the back ground behind Sophie is darker.

Disability is shown by Sophie's mental compared to the therapist who seams to be mentally stable (which isn't the case) this is shown by the therapist giving Sophie pills to take. This disability is not a physical disability this shows the audience that disability are not always physical .

Gender : we plan to show gender later in in the movie where the roles are reversed for the husband of Sophie. This will be shown with Steve ( husband) caring for Sophie. This is completely different from the male stereo type of where the male don't look after the children but go out and work. This is kinda shown in the first section of where Sophie's children run in and give her a hug.

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

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Research Frist Cut

This is are frist cut of our opening. This rough cut which we showed to people and asked for their coments on the movie opening. They all noticed that one of a charecters script which we couldnt seen on camra whilst filming. but this snow shows us. they also commented on how many pills Sam takes in the opening which could show that she is taking an over do's. So with these coments we have decied to re film these parts.

Research Shooting Schedule

Date	Shot no	Location	Actors	Props	Things to ask for.
12 /2/12	13,14,15,16,17,18	Dads Office, Barkham (Inda's house)	Cat, Carly	Case File, Documents inside case file, Newspaper, Pills, Notepad.	-Camera - Lighting - Boom/ Microphone -Tripod - Dolly wheels
12/2/12	19,20,21,22	Bathroom,  Barkham (Inda's house)	Carly	Pills, glass of water,	-Camera - Lighting - Boom/ Microphone -Tripod - Dolly wheels
/2/12	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,	Sams garden	Carly, Cherish, Honey	Ball/skipping rope, plates, washing up stuff in sink, drawings on fridge, magnets, postcards	-Camera - Lighting - Boom/ Microphone -Tripod - Dolly wheels
/2/12	11	My house (Inda's house)	-	car	-Camera - Lighting - Boom/ Microphone -Tripod - Dolly wheels

Research Script

Script

Scene 1:

(Children laughing)

Sophie Harding: (walks from kitchen, out door to garden)

Charlotte: Mummy come here!

Sophie:  (getting closer to Charlotte, nearly picking her up) I’m coming!

(Fades to white, car screech, then fades to black)

Scene 2:

Dr Campbell: (spreads out case file on table, showing newspaper article of children in the car crash) How are you feeling Mrs Harding?

Sophie: (hesitate) I’m confused, why am I here? I’m fine.

Dr Campbell : That’s not what your husband told me, Sophie.

Sophie: Why what has he told you? Why have he been speaking to you about me?! And I’d prefer it if you called me Mrs Harding.

Dr Campbell: I think you’re very confused, and are not in a good place at the moment, the loss of your children is a very traumatic experience –

Sophie: (cuts her off) - my children aren’t dead, why would you say that?

Dr Campbell: (continues) what do you mean? Soph- Mrs Harding, you’re children died in the car accident.

Sophie: no, they didn’t, they’re alive, I know they are.

Dr Campbell: here, take these, they will make you feel more like yourself until our next session. (hands her pills)

Sophie: why do are you giving me pills? I’m not ill; I know my children are alive.

Dr Campbell: Mrs Harding, these are just precautionary, they will help you see things more clearly. You will feel better soon, I promise.

Sophie: (takes pills from her) (sarcasm) I can guarantee you, nothing is going to make me feel better, Dr Campbell.

Scene 3:

(brushing teeth, looks over at pills on shelf of mirror, continues brushing teeth, looks again at pills, stops brushing teeth, takes pills from shelf, looks in mirror, takes pills with water, puts pills down and looks again in mirror)

END.

Research StoryBoard

The story board will be used whilst filming and editing the movie to make sure we get all the shots needed. The story board will give us a rough idea of what we need to shot and what angles we to capture to put in the movie opening

Research Locations

For our media piece, we decided to use three locations that would suit our scenes:

The first location is the main characters kitchen, for this scene we used my friend Sam's kitchen  we thought this would be a good location as the window is placed facing the garden, so the character is able to look out onto the garden, the garden is also south facing, meaning that there will be good sunlight as we film.

The second location is the therapists office, for this scene we used my dads office, we thought this would look believable as a therapists office and would look professional and convincing. We found that the room had the lighting that we wanted; gloomy and not very bright.

The third scene is the bathroom, we decided to use my bathroom for this, as it looks like it would belong to a middle class family and suits the type of characters. The bathroom is also spacious enough for us to film with ease.

Research Characters

List of Characters:




Sam in her costume for the

first scene, which is a flashback .

We chose this coustume as it suggests to the reader

that she is a middle class, suburban housewife.

The 1950's style dress and brightly

coloured clothing shows that in the first scene

her flashback is a happy and cheerful time that she is remembering.

 

-          1.The mother Sophie Harding (30)

Married Steve when she was 19 and was desperate for children, she was overjoyed when she had Maisy and Charlotte. Has history of depression and anxiety, she is very happy in the marriage, but always has a fear of Steve leaving her. After her children are supposedly killed in a car crash, she frequently claims that they are not dead, and is referred to a therapist (Dr Campbell) by her husband.

Sam before...

Sam in costume for the second scene. This costume is when the
character is in the therapists office. Her dark costume and
ageing make up mirrors the ominous atmosphere in the second
scene and shows the characters state of depression.

                   

                                                         

-          2.The husband Jack Harding (35)

             Wants to leave his wife after 11 years of marriage, but feels trapped in the relationship because of the children, has been having an affair with Dr Campbell for 5 years, and refers his wife to her so she can be declared insane. Plans to leave Sophie for the therapist, and take the children with him; however Sophie is unaware of this. The husband is not in the opening of this film, so we do not have any before or after photos.

-          3.A therapist/physiatrist/ social worker Dr. Karen Campbell (32)

Can’t have children, and is having an affair with Steve. Steve refers his wife to her so that she can declare Sophie insane, and leave with Steve and Sophie’s children. She has a history of schizophrenia, however no other characters know this. 

Kat before...

Kat after in her costume for the second scene.
We chose this costume because we thought it showed that the
character would look professional and smart in a pencil skirt and blouse.

                                                 

-          4.Child 1 Girl Maisy Harding (10)

               Is closer with Sophie than she is with Steve.

-          5.Child 2 Girl Charlotte Harding (7)

               Is closer with Sophie than she is with Steve

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Research Genral Opening to Any Film Genre.

Bedtime Stories: The opening starts are a mere 52 seconds where stories line is set. It starts with the min production companies opening sequence which is Disney’s opening a look round there magic kingdom. This is shown for 30 seconds out of the 52.

It then leads on to other production names that were included in making the movie. With the name of the movie called Bedtime Stories the titles are made to look like a pop-up book fitting in with the title of the movie and shows the audience that it is a family friendly movie. The other production names are shown for around about 3-4 seconds. For a new production name the page is turned also linking to the movie name. The characters on that page also hints what type of stories are going to be in the movie. E.g. Behind A Happy Madison there is two knights fighting which  shows that there is a scene where knights are involved.

In Bedtime Stories we have a voice over at 30 seconds sounding like a narrator which goes in hand in hand with the background of the opening which looks like a book. The narrator goes on to address the audience making them question who is the person talking. The dialog also has a joke in so the audience feel at easy and the character is show to be a bit of a joker. This also shows the genre of the movie to be comedy.

In class we all  drew out the opening of the movie we watched and discussed what the openings show and if they have any thing in common or did differently.

 Here is mine:

We then all said how are openings were common some people found that their opening sequence had the intuitional openings at the start of the movie but some found they had them at the end of the opening sequence. People also found that the title of the movie was revealed first and then gave production names where as other people found this the other way round.

In all I think titles are all shown differently due to the genre of the movie and the atmosphere the director want to create with the movie.  

Research 180 Degree Rule

The the 180° rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line.

If you can imagine an actor walking or running in a direction then you can picture the path they are following as a line. If two actors are talking to each other then draw a line to connect the two places where they are standing and extend the line in each direction to the edges of the set. Even if there are many actors in the scene you can still draw a line connecting the two opposing sides of the action.

Research Introduction

Hello Readers
This is the First Blog of our media coursework therefore we thought we had better introduced our self's with our strengths and weaknesses explained and how this shall effect are work. (Well we hope not).

I am Angharad Norris and my strengths are Technology. This shall help in editing shots that we take whilst filming as i find this the most interesting part of the course. My weakness is the analysing of any type of media and writing about it.

India's is completely opposite to me as she hate photoshop and editing programs but her strengths are her organisations skill this will help us stick to a filming schedule and make sure that we finish filming on time.

Nathalie is taking photography which will be handy behind the camera as she knows how to work the camera and understand how the shot will look on screen. Her weakness is that she hates being with in the production and watching herself back after filming.