AS media film opening Quantum

preliminary task

Evaluation question 1

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

From the opening scene you can see that we have used a range of camera angles to show the boy as nothing special and to make him look just like a normal boy. This was to insure that our audience could relate to him and so relate to our film. We also didn’t want the audience to think that he was already a superhero and so made sure that he just looked like a normal guy in a normal setting. This is a very conventional opening to many superhero movies as they are often just normal people who become superheros much like Peter Parker from Spiderman and are set in none extraordinary locations like in towns and cities. Our first location is outside in the middle of nowhere which is quite different to many superhero movies as they are normally set in crowded areas although like most superhero movies the character is by themselves when they get their power. We also don’t include any background music so it just make you think he is living a normal life and just had the Digetic sound in the background but through the voice over and the word my name is “John Walker and this is my story”.The audience instantly know that this is from his past and something important will happen. The voice over goes on throughout the video opening and we got this idea from the iron man 3 second trailer.

By watching this clip we got a lot of good ideas and decided to have short voice overs on all of our scenes just like the iron man 3 trailer. Instantly after the first voice over ends in our film you hear a bang which is the meteor breaking through the atmosphere and is then seen shooting through the sky. This will get the audience thinking what is going to happen and keep them entertained. This is quite unlike most opening scene as they normally tell you more about the person before a big event in the move happens however not many open talking about the past which makes ours different and unique to many other superhero movies.  

In our scene where we find part of the meteor in the ditch created by the  crash from the meteor we do quick cuts between camera angels before stopping on Eyeline of the character as he picks up the meteor. We got this idea from the film chronicle which is filmed partly through a camera one of the guys is holding and thought we could take the idea behind some of their scenes and use it in our own when picking up part of the meteor this idea we felt would be good as it would relate more to our audience as most teenagers and young adults all have their smart phones with them and so would likely film something like a meteor with their phones and so we tried to make it look like this. We also used the camera through my eyeline when I wake up the next morning and switch camera angels when running home to make it look more professional.

It is when I’m running home that you first see my powers and you can see that my power is to go through walls. This is a power which isn’t a popular one and so is quite new and unique and hasn’t been featured as a power in many movies. It is featured slightly in the xmen 2 movie but the character isn't a main character but is quite popular in the comic books. 

We also used lighting to show moods in our film and in the very last scene you see that we had a dark room with the voice over on top before a bright light is shined on my face with a slight sinister smile on my face showing I could be a villain this is similar to interrogation scenes that are normally set in dark rooms where a bright light is shined on the face of someone being interrogated and so our audience may think my character has done something wrong or is in trouble. The idea of a hero becoming a villain is something never seen in movies and hasn't been featured in many comic books and so we thought it would be a good idea as its new and unique to our film.
The trailer are also going on throughout the film and the opening trailer is portal production which is in a comic book style of writing and shows that the film is going to be a superhero movie. this is quite similar to how marvel open their movies with the comic book strip followed by marvel in a comic book font.
We also have credits going on throughout and the font of those credits is different to our starting font as it looks rocky and so foreshadows the meteor coming down in the movie and also has a slight glow which make it look like it has some sort of chemical on the meteor which may be what gave me the powers. This is quite similar to many superhero movies as the credits normally are similar to powers in the movie. 
Special effect are used throughout or film as it was needed in our film to help make the story run and to create the effect of our superhero. This is conventional to all superhero movies as all rely on special effect to give their superheros their powers as the movie wouldn't work without them. 
There are also a range of things we could have done differently for example we could have chose to do a superpower that people are more familiar with and one that had been scene in movies before. if we had done this we would of had to show the use of his power as much and could have got straight into a fight scene that people may have found more interesting. We could have also done less about him getting the powers from the meteor and showed more about him with his powers to make it more entertaining and also show the audience more things he could do with his powers.            

Evaluation Question 2

Evalutaion Question 2 How does your media product represent social groups?

 

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evaluiation question 6

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We decided the best software to edit on for use was videopad video editpro professional as this we thought was the best and one of the easy ones to use. We also found that it was the best for adding lots of special effect to our film and this was very worth wile as it made our film look very good and the superhero power looked better than I thought it would have been.  

Evaluation question 7

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 have learnt lots more since doing my preliminary task and most of these stills I have learnt since have helped massively to finish my finally piece.

Mise en scene is one thing I have improved on since my preliminary task which was set in a school location without much thought. For my film opening I have learned that it is massively important to have the character dressed correctly for their role and to have a great location that suits what is happening in the scene. We took lots of time to find a perfect location for our film opening and had to find an area that looked like a meteor had hit and we found a forest that had a great opening which had a ditch that looked perfect for our meteor crash site. We also made sure that the character looked the part and like a normal teenage guy where clothes similar to what teens today wear and is wearing the common high street brands often seen worn by teenagers.

We also put a lot more care into the camera angels we used and made sure we used detailed angles to keep the movie looking fresh and interesting and so included camera angles from the characters point of view. We did this when picking up the meteor and also filmed a dark scene which led to a bright light on my face to add mystery to the character.

Editing was probably the thing improved on the most in our film opening. In our preliminary task we had some little cuts and added music. However our film opening had lots of clever fades and cuts to make our character look like he had the superpowers. It took us a long time to finish all the editing but it was defiantly worth it.

We also did a lot more detail on the titles as we felt that it needed to match the quality of our whole video and we also made sure we added each role people played in the film and had to do research that we didn’t do in the preliminary task to find out what order the credits should go in.

Planning was another big thing that we did much more of in our final piece than we did with or preliminary task as we felt it was much more important to make sure we had everything planned out to try to make sure no mistakes would be made and to also all have an idea of what it was we would be doing.