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Evaluation Questions

We've recorded our evaluation, which will upload asap.
Here are our answers that we developed on in our evaluation.


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

Well the main idea of our opening was to completely subvert all stereotypes. For this reason, we used a female lead in our comedy, similar to Juno where we got a lot of our inspiration from (whereas its usually played by a male); such as Superbad, Napoleon Dynamite and Year One. We chose to have her listening to a heavy rap song , which is something you would not expect from our character as she is girly, awkward and quite shy.


2. How does your film opening represent particular social groups?

It represents the younger generation and fits the recent trend of teen comedies such as superbad where the film is not your typical American pie.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your film opening and why?

We feel that our film would be distributed by a smaller independent company such as the companies supported by Film4.
Our opening doesn’t have the perfected glossy finish that most films produced by major companies such as Universal have which is why we feel it would be better suited to an independent company.

4. Who would be the audience for your film opening?

Our target audience is teenagers and young adults of both sexes, although our character is made to be very girly the comical factor appeals to males as well. Elements like the song and the genre of films it fits in to make it appeal to both sexes.

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

We think the main attraction to our audience would be the fact that it’s a comedy and that it’s similar to the recent trend we spoke about earlier. We also think the song we used would immediately grab the audience’s attention because its so well known however we’ve used it in a situation they wouldn’t expect it to be used.
Also, we feel our credits stood out massively for example the animations and the bright colours used throughout.

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this film opening?

We all learnt how to use iMovie to the best of our ability, the new Mac computers, the Flip and Sony Cameras and how to construct successful blogs online.

7. Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final film opening?

We learnt to have fun with this course and not take ourselves too seriously. It was about getting on and achieving the best final piece we could. Obviously, we learnt how to use iMovie a lot better (rather than throwing an effect at any possible moment). We have learnt that A LOT of research and planning must be put in to our film.


Here's the video:

Fast and Furious 5

Fast Five (also known as Fast & Furious 5 and Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist) is a 2011 street racing action film written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin. The film stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster and Dwayne Johnson and was first released in Australia on April 20, 2011 followed by a domestic release on April 29, 2011 as the fifth film in the The Fast and the Furious franchise. Fast Five follows Brian O'Conner (Walker), Dom Toretto (Diesel) and Mia Toretto (Brewster) as they plan a heist to steal $100 million from corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida) while being pursued for arrest by DSS agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson). Though it is the fifth entry in the series, the events of the film take place between those of Fast & Furious (2009) and The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)

Jumper

Jumper is a 2008 American science fiction film, loosely based on the 1992 science fiction novel of the same name by Steven Gould. The film is directed by Doug Liman and stars Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Max Thieriot, Annasophia Robb, and Diane Lane. The film follows a young man capable of teleporting as he is chased by a secret society intent on killing him.

I personally enjoyed the film jumper. I believe it was a very creative storyline and the special effects really stood out in my opinion.

Last Night's "Premiere"

Last night was the "premiere" of our films. We all gathered in the hall with family and friends to watch the AS and A2 final pieces of coursework.

Everyone seemed to laugh in the right places and loved the soundtrack!
We've read through the audience feedback sheets and everyone really seemed to enjoy our film. The comments were all positive and it was our credits that seemed to get mentioned the most. Although it would be my best friend's sister that writes "um..you've spilt jelly beans everywhere?!?" :(

Here is our final film.

Audience Feedback

As our films will be shown on the 7th of April to other media students, parents and students, we would like to get an idea of what they thought of our coursework.
The media teachers have put together an audience feedback sheet for people to fill out. This will include questions like "what was your favourite shot?" and so on.
Will post a copy of one, once we have our hands on it!

Evaluation Sheets - AS and A2

Submarine

Really want to see this! But reading the book first - films are never the same as the book.