Recently I've been revising for my media exam which is coming up very soon. I started looking at Pete's blog, an examiner to see if i can get any tips or important info, and found some really interesting stuff on representation of young people. This is some of what I found.

Here are some quotations people have said about young people

"Kids are out of control... They're roaming the streets. They're out late at night."

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

The language that the second one uses is much older, but it surprised everyone to find out just how old. The first was from Gordon Brown in 2008 and the second from Plato in the 4th century BC. So as we can see, complaining about the behaviour of young people is nothing new!

Here's a quite a disturbing video, from a Barnardo's campaign, all dialogue coming from what adults had written on national newspaper websites in response to stories about teenagers.

Love this advert at the moment, think it's a really good idea, it's something a little bit different where people can actually relate to what is being said..my favourite comment is when the guy says 'so many shoes..what are you a centipede?', it's definitely the kind of thing my dad would say to me. I know that it must have started up tons of debates in every household for people who has seen the advert. I think adverts like this are the best kind of advertisement as the little funny jokes stand out in people minds meaning that they'll remember what is being advertised, in this case IKEA. I hate adverts when what they are showing barely relates to what they are advertising, I think this idea of 'who's messier men or women' is a great idea that clearly shows us that it is advertising storage. Oh and also the fact that men are messier!

Today we presented our film opening to a very large audience male and female, with a range of different age groups. Everyone seemed to really enjoy watching ours which was definitely a relief. They laughed in all the right places and we had some lovely comments from friends, family and teachers who told us how much they enjoyed it. Hopefully some people left some nice comments on the flip camera and if so we will publish their responses at a later date.

Here is what me and Charlotte said when introducing our film opening..

My favourite advert at the moment is the underwater advert of Katie Price, not because it's her but just simply because I love the underwater shots with her long mermaid-like hair, the flowing pastel coloured material and sparkly bubbles. It would be amazing if we had the equipment to get underwater footage as it would definitely help to add that professional quality we have worked so hard to produce in our film opening.

Here is the feedback sheet we will give to the audience on Thursday when they come to the premier of our film opening

Evaluation Sheets - AS and A2

Here are the results that I have recieved from the questionnaire of which I carried out a while ago now done for our pre-production stage. I did my questionnaire via facebook messaging, interviewing, and giving out handouts. I focused on favourite film genres asking 50 people, half male and half female, the age group ranging between 10-65. I did this to get a more diverse response in order to help us decide which audience we are targeting.

Overall I found that around 20 people liked Comedies/Chickflicks particularly the younger females aged between 10 and 30. However there were 6 older people of the 20 who selected comedy as their favourite gengre too. This tells us that our main target audience is focused on young girls however is still open to a variety of different people. Chick flicks are a specific film genre, which generally does target young females. The main purposes of chick flicks are to entertain the young audience and inject them with ideologies. These films usually focus upon teenage girl’s lifestyles and experiences as our film opening shows, and they follow typical stereotypes such as chick flick movies like ‘Legally Blonde’, directed by Robert Luketic.


Some of people comedies/chickflicks from those who said it was their favourite genre:
The Hang Over, Toy Story 3, The kid, Mean girls, Life of Brian, Pinapple Express, Life stinks, Bridget Jones Diary, Sex and the City, Love and other Drugs.

So after adding in some final touches like adjusting the music so that it stops and starts in the right places, we have finally finished our film and will be putting it onto DVD on Monday's lesson ready for our presentation on Thursday. We watched through it a number of times in order to make sure that there was nothing else that needed changing and realised that we had forgotten to justify the way in which we had designed our credits.

We decided to have our credits appearing throughout the scenes however we felt that it was essential to have the important credits placed on a black background, some of which we already allocated for when filming, for example when the fridge closes. We placed the production name, the film title, the co producer, the editor, the producer and the director on black backgrounds. We also decided to have a slightly different colour scheme for the actors, me and Charlotte who star in our film. We decided to use black and white to make our names stand out however this was the only time we changed the font, all the other fonts are the same. We did this so that our film opening looks professional like a real high budget film would look. We have also made a concsious decision to remove the freezeframes on the clips as we felt that they disrupted the flow of our film and it just generally looked a lot more professional for the credits to appear while the acting takes place.

 

I liked how at this point it looks as though Kate is brushing the credit away.

Here is one of credits which appears throughout the opening along with credits such as costume, soundtrack, casting etc.

This is the last credit that we see, as in all films the director generally goes last. It is on a black back ground so that it is clear and easy to read. It again highlights the importance of it.