Main Task - First Born - Final Film

Main Task - Evaluation - Question 1

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

The link below will take you to my video answer for this question.


Media Evaluation - Question 1.

Main Task - Evaluation - Question 2

How does your media product prepresent particular social groups?

The main way our film represents a particular social group is by the main antagonist being a teenage girl. She represents a moody and unsociable teenager which is a stereotype to how teenagers are portrayed. The female antagonist looking after the baby can represent gender than females are more associated with babies than men. In the interview scenes the girl seems very disconnected from what is happening and very much in her own world and not facing the reality to what she has done, this could represent people who have had a mental disability and how they might act under mistakes and stressful situations they are put under. We liked the fact that the young girl babysitting was an antagonist, as in most popular thrillers you see a girl babysitter is normally represented as vulnerable and the one in danger, that you wouldn’t expect it to be the opposite with the babysitter being the dangerous suspect in our film. We haven’t represented a typical teenage girl as seen in most films to be happy, hyper and sociable, instead we have gone for the opposite to have the girl being disconnected to the real world and not looking as though she fits in. You see when she is babysitting that she looks like a normal girl just maybe more moody. The clothes she wears and her make-up all done are what you’d expect to see a girl of 18 to wear when just relaxing to babysit, however you see in the interview room she is completely different, as if she has changed suddenly from that one night. She seems run down and has no make-up on and looks tired, whilst only wearing a plan top with tracksuit bottoms on.

I think our opening is similar to the deconstruction our group did of ‘Girl, Interrupted’ as both main characters are teenage girls which both seem to have psychological problems. Both girls seem to be detached from real life and don’t like how there life has turned out.

Main Task - Evaluation - Question 3

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

The type of institutions that might distribute our film would most likely distribute other horror and thriller films. I researched the two deconstructions our group did, ‘Girl, Interrupted’ and ‘Don’t Say a Word’ to find out what institutions distributed these films. Girl, Interrupted was distributed by Columbia Pictures and Don’t Say a Word was distributed by Village Roadshow Pictures, both these institutions are major American film and distribution production companies which produce many different genres of film such as The Grudge, 50 First Dates, House of Wax and Sherlock Holmes. The production company we did was Fear Driven Films. This is an independent film company which produces thriller/horror/drama films. This would be a good institution to distribute our film as it distributes other films in the same genre as us and it is also a British production company which it good as our film is British. I think our film could be distributed in cinemas, on DVD or on Blu-Ray. The audience feedback we got for our film opening agreed that they think they could see our film in cinemas as the suspense of our film would be good to be seen on a big screen to get a better thrill. I also think as our film could be shown in cinemas once released on DVD it would be good to be able to show on TV Box Office.

Fear Driven Films Link      

                                                                            













 Columbia Pictures Link

Village Roadshow Pictures Link

Main Task - Evaluation - Question 4 & 5

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

The audience we thought our film would be for would be for teenagers and adults who enjoyed thriller/horror films. We gave the certification for our film a rating of 15 as some of the scenes throughout our entire film could be disturbing and not suitable for young ages, however as there wouldn’t be much gore, sex, sweating a violence in the film we couldn’t give the rating of our film an 18. The audience feedback we got for our film for the question ‘What audience do you think this film attracts? ’ we got a number of responses were mainly agreeing with what we targeted at which was teenagers/adults or anyone who enjoys thriller films. We thought about what audience might relate to our film the most and we thought that teenagers, mostly female and young mothers would relate most to our film as the main character being a female teenager, who had recently lost her own baby. How we attracted our audience would be by advertising and social networking. Advertising is the best way to attract a wide variety or people to create a much bigger audience. Advertising such as trailers and posters around towns and cities would be a really fast way of attracting an audience. We created a survey for our film to get audience feedback and sent it over Facebook along with our film, this would have had attracted a lot of people as social networking is very popular now that many people would be able to forward our film to other people for them to watch. This would make people become more aware of our film.

Classification for Films – British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)

Classification 'U'

Classification 'PG'

Classification '12A/12'

Classification '15'

Classification '18'

Main Task - Evaluation - Question 6

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

Main Task - Evaluation - Question 7

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

I feel since the preliminary task we have learnt a lot more about the different technologies used in making a film that we have become a lot more confident in doing so. I think as none of us were acting in the main task, unlike the preliminary task, we all had a chance to film and decide on the different shots and angles used. This made use more confident in using the camera and knowing how to work it. In the preliminary task we didn’t use the camera very well and it seemed more like a homemade video, where as our main task actually looked like the opening of a film. It was much better having Sophie Todd acting in our main product as she is an A-Level drama student so she knew how we wanted the character to act and behave and she played the character very well to how we wanted her to come across to the audience, whereas in the preliminary task two of us out of our group, me and Hayley, acted in the film, whilst Rosie filmed, this wasn’t so successful as this was the first time we had acted and weren’t used to trying to act like another person. Because of this our preliminary task wasn’t filmed as we pictured it in our heads. We wanted to create a horror film for the preliminary task but as we couldn’t act it changed to more of a comedy.

The Following - Preliminary Task Link

The biggest improvement I think we could make was our time management as we left our filming to very late on which meant us having to put in a lot of work to get the editing done really well, as we had a lot of time for the editing our film did end up a success.

The shots and angles in our main task compared to our preliminary task show a much wider variety. I think this is down to the research we did for our main task. As we had much more time to plan and research for our main task than we did for our preliminary task, this meant we had a clear understanding or what shots our film would consist of and were able to plan ahead to make sure we had this variety. I’ve learnt that you need a lot of time for planning and research if you want your film to be successful so then when you come to filming it can be done much quicker and smoothly.

First Born - Main Task Link

We spent a lot more time on Final Cut Pro for our main task than we did for our preliminary task so we also learnt the amount of time you need to spend on this software to make the editing in the film perfect and to be able to use all the different effects it has to offer to created more of an interesting film.

Overall I feel I have learnt a lot since our preliminary task as our film was a much bigger success than our preliminary task and the different technologies I have learn in helping to make this happen with my group.