Hebdige Theory

This theory is about youth subcultures challenging the hegemony. This theory states that youths have a very limited representation, that youths are either trouble or fun. This means that the media doesn't represent a reality of youth culture. this means that the only youths we are shown are the youth getting into trouble or just having fun never the youths who work hard and are well behaved.    

Wheatley Park School- film festival

We went to Wheatley Park school as a part of the film festival. During this festival we were able to watch other people short films. This help u to see what they did differently so that we could reflect on our own pieces and think about what we would have done differently if we were to redo it. Additionally it allowed us to think about our current project to see if anyone else had done something in their films that we could try to incorporate. Our year 12 short story The Visitor was up for an aware which we won.

Film Clip Practice

these are some of the clips that we got when we were doing practice shots so we could see what shot work and the other shot that needed to be improved

Hypodermic Needle Theory

This theory proposes that the mass media could influence a very large group of people directly by ‘injecting’ them with appropriate messages designed to trigger a desired response.Both images used to express this theory (a bullet and a needle) suggest a direct flow of information from the sender to the receiver. the media injecting  us with opinions and we cant do anything too as a source of information will eventually get to us even if its though different sources.  

Moral Panic

Moral Panic is a feeling of fear spread among a large number of people when an issues threatens the well-being of society". We watched Quadrophenia to see how moral panic is represent in the media. Cohen explains that the media takes one situation and overacts making society think that their way of life is being challenged. The media then takes it even further which encouraged the youths to rebel. 

(The picture to the left is an article from the Mod vs Rocker battle).  

Characteristic of youth culture films

• Struggles with parents 
• Bad/slang language
• Love 
• Sex 
• Partying (drugs/alcohol) 
• Violence 
• Gangs (stereotype groups)
• Anger 

Some youth culture movies that represent the characteristics of youth films are

• The Wild Ones
• Rebel Without a Cause 
• Grease 
• Live Fast, Die Young 

Giroux Theory

Giroux theory developed in 1997 
The media represent the youth as an empty category. this explain that the adults don't understand what it is like to be a youth of this generation, so they "plonk" their own ideas into this space about what they believe the representation of youths is. The adult generation don't want to look bad so they blame the younger generation for not understanding. They use the younger generation as a scapegoat. we can see that the beliefs of all the adults molded together leads to an uprising of stereotypes causing moral panic. However we can see the media pushes their ideas on the adults and what they should now believe.

Gramsci Theory

Gramsci, hegemony
Gramsci developed the concept of hegemony.
Hegemony is what is considered the norm of society.
This then means that certain values are accepted as normal, such as low classes will been shown in a negative was as they are unable to have the hegemony way of life. this means that lower classes feel down on and they cant afford to be middle class. This theory shows hat the media is always within the hegemony of higher classes and are seen as acceptable.

Cohen Theory

Cohen discovered in 1972 

• The study of mods and rockers riots. 
• Reflect he anxieties at the time which caused moral panic to occur. 

Moral panic reinforces hegemony, this is done by the media showing what is and isn't acceptable. So when youths try to express themselves in an unusual way that has not been seen before by adults they try to stop it  by being negative towards it. This shows that youths not allowed to express themselves differently within society as it seen as unacceptable. The media places the blame of the youth as they see them as an easy target, this then causes moral panic to happen to try and remove the behavior that isn't considered to be in the norm. 

Gerbner's Theory

Gerbner created the cultivation theory. This is the effect of television and the perception of crime. this theory shows the youth are always the victims for being involved in crime. The media represents youths as the ones that commit all crimes which creates a negative image of youths.

Philo's theory

Philo's theory is about hoodie cinema. Hoodie cinema reflex middle class anxiety of the working class. This shows anyone under middle class is inserted in to this "hoodie class" which suggests anyone below middle class is a thug. This means that people in a higher class see them as threatening and thugs. This theory suggests that media links the social classes with the strong stereotypes, such as middle class being ideal person with anyone lower than them being a hooligan.

In Worlds We Create

This films has many ideas that we want to incorporate into our own short film. I thought it was very intriguing with the lack of speech this is not common in most films as it can be hard to keep the audience interested, we also plan on using minimal script because our two characters don't come together therefore they don't have people to talk to to create speech with. They had some good scene when the boy is running to create the idea of urgency, which we will need to be able to do when we are filming our chasing scene.
This scene is very effective as it really connects with the audience as we can see the emotion in their eyes.

back to the future day

Back to the future day. The 21st of October is when Marty Mcfly traveled to the future in the second movie. It is interesting to compare what the reality of their future is to what they thought it would be. when they arrived in the future Marty was shocked by the advanced technology such as flying cars and self tying sneaker, hover boards.

Hover boards are real however they not as commonly used as the movie makes out they are still in laboratories being perfected for use. we have yet to design a flying car so that is still for the future to create although more and more movies and using flying car to help the audience to know that movie is set in the future. 

storyboard

this the detailed storyboard that we made to help use with our production 

script

SCRIPT 

She could hear the crunching of the gravel underneath her feet as she walked home from wok in the twilight. She began to feel the cold splatter of raindrops on her face and felt her long brunette hair dampen. quickening her pace, she continued on her journey home.

As she turned a corner she felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up as the feeling of being watched washed over her. pushing away he feeling she carried on her trek home.

As she passed the half way point home, the feeling of being followed persisted. whilst crossing he road she peered over her shoulder only to see a man innocently entering the butcher shop. shaking her head at her paranoia she carried on her way.

Coming upon the end of her destination she spots he man from the butcher shop headed in her direction in a car mirror. a shiver travels down her spine and she quickens her pace further.

Realizing the stranger is closer than before she begins to run. noticing she has spotted him, he begins to chase her. she turns around a sharp corner in the hope f loosing him but he continues to pursue her. Panic strikes and she decides to sprint for ( a hiding place)....

Next-Office Scenes

Through the editing we were able to see what shots we need to redo and what other shots we can get;

Side angle of writer

Over shoulder shot

Yawning, Closing laptop, Leaving the room

Tapping Finger Slowly

Pause to Think 

Editing

We decided that in our media lesson that we would start editing the filming that we manged to get. this was very help because we managed to see where the shots will go and what shot we got in the filming session we need to redo and which shot that we got are going to be really effected.

First Session Filming

We did the first filming session this enable to get an idea of what we wanted and want we can do. we decided that some of the shot that we wanted would have to change we wanted to zoom in the on writer through the window however as we couldn't see her so. This lead to the choice that we would zoom on the window and fade to the write in the study. we also managed to get a few shot that we really liked that we didn't originally plan on getting such as the hand tapping, or the low angle shot.

Shot List

we have made a short list so that we have an idea of what shot we wanted to get. this will help us when we need to do some filming because it will give a starting point of what we need to do his will hep speed up the production and it might also inspire different shot that we could do.

scene 1

• dolly shot through window 
• over shoulder shot of laptop 
• close up of screen 
• medium shot of window/rain 
• long shot of side of writer/laptop 
• medium shot of dog zoom out to see women walking down street (zoom to long shot)

scene 2

• close up of feet 
• birds-eye view shot of walking 
• worms eye of facial expression  
• dutch angle of stalker around the corner (camera stays still while the actors move)
• cuts back to writer (jump cut)
• medium shot of writer 
• point of view shot of laptop typing (narration)
• woman sees stalker in car mirror (extreme close up of car mirror) 
• long shot of shop window with stalker reflection 
• low angle shot of them running 

scene 3 

• high angle of running to hide 
• point of view shot looking round from hiding place 
• close up of her hiding, stalker comes into frame 
• medium shot of side of writer 
• see writer type something 
• stalker lunges directly for the camera, close up 
• extreme close up of laptop closing 
• long shot of getting into bed 
• close up of the light switch (turning light off)

scene 4

• making breakfast, medium shot
• high angle of picking up newspaper 
• reads headline, close up of face
• drops glass, close up 
• watch glass smash 
• tight shot of headline
• black out  

Storyline

we have made a detailed list of everything that we want to happen in our short film.


scene 1:

• dolly shot through window of writer opening laptop and starting to write 
• inside the house writing 'the pitter patter of rain'
• close up up of the screen to see writing, 
• shot of the window to see the rain start. 
• another shot of writer, narrator says there "a dog barks at a tree" 
• cut to shot of dog barking at a tree in a park

scene 2:

•  zooms out to a woman walking by the park 
• (lots of different shot of the women walking)
• see a person in the background following her
• stalker walking (over shoulder shot)
• cuts back to the writer (point of view shot)
• we see the woman spot the stalker (looking in a car mirror)
• women starts to run -beginning to chase
• (lots of shot of chase)

scene 3:

• writer doesn't know what to write 
• types something (and death grips the poor innocent girl) audience unable to see what she types
• cut to killer lunging 
• back to writer going to bed

scene 4:

• next day
• getting breakfast 
• goes to grab newspaper
• sees the front page

•  THE END!

results to questionnaire

The results are on a different website to see the results you have to click on the link below
https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-5Z8WV9S2/

The questionnaire shows that the more popular age that we asked was 16-20 year olds, this is because our short story will be targeted toward this age so we are most kine to get there input. the results also show that the most commonly watch genera of film is action followed closely by adventure.  It also shows that not many people watch short film and people who do watch short films don't watch many short films.

Audience Research- Questionnaire

to gather audience research i have designed a questionnaire;

Audience research

1.      Age

0-10               11-15               16-20               21-25               26-30               31-35            36+

2.      Gender

                     Female                    male

3.      What is your preferred genre of films (you may tick more than one box)

Action
Adventure
Comedy
Crime and gangster
Drama
Historical
Horror
Musical
Science fiction
War
Western

4.      What’s your favourite film? ______________________________

5.      How often a week do you watch movies on average (time=hours)

0         0-1         1-2         2-3         3-4         5-6         6-7          7-8         8-9         9-10         10+

6.      How often do you watch short films

Never                                             I've watched a few                              watch them frequently 

2nd Idea

2nd idea

Train of Thought

We we're think about movies we liked and we thought about bedtime story. We liked the idea of the reader story coming to life. We thought was interesting as it is not not very common, however a a good guy defeating a bad guy is very common. We deiced that we would create our story on the idea of someone writing a story that comes to life

Storyboard

This is a simple storyboard that shows what idea is and how what shots we want is each scene this will help us when it comes to getting the scene we need so we don't forget what we need as well as when we are editing so we know to the order that we want the shot that we will  have to collected to be in. 

Second Idea

We have decided that instead of use the burglar idea as it became too complex and we realized that working with children was not something we could do to achieve a high enough standard of our film. so for our second idea we have deiced that we will that the story on an author. A writer will be writing a horror story and as she write the story we watch it come to life. We will know this as at the end we will see her read a newspaper where the headline is the death that she wrote.

First Idea

Our first idea was to do a short story about a child, who's house gets broken into. the burglar would creep around the house and the child would find a away of sneaking out of the house and running to their neighbors to call the police. The police then would find the mother tied up and there would be a massive plot twist about who the burglar actually was. 

However we didn't know how we would work children to get the right reaction or they would be able to give use the correct type of atmosphere

Choosing the Brief

I have decided that the briefs I am most interested in are numbers 1, 10, and 13

 1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

·                -a website homepage for the band;

·                -a cover for its release on DVD;

·                -a magazine advertisement for the DVD

     

 10. A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:

·                -a poster for the film;

·                -a radio trailer for the film;

·                -a film magazine review page featuring the film.

 13. An extract from a radio play, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

     -a newspaper advertisement for the play;

      -a double: page listings magazine feature about the play;   
        -a page from the radio station’s website promoting the play.

    1. I choice this brief because i thought i would be interesting to see how companies/ label create               music videos. as well as giving me the chance to be creative and develop new skills with                     music.
          10. I choice this brief because it will give me the most freedom to be creative and find a creative                 story line

     We have deiced to do brief 10 the short story. This is because we hope to develop from the work we did last year. we also think that will the creativity that we have we could come up with a great idea for a short story.  

Briefs

We have been giving the different briefs that we need to do as a part of the a level main project:

        1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

·         a website homepage for the band;

·         a cover for its release on DVD;

·         a magazine advertisement for the DVD

2.  A promotion package for a new film, to include a teaser trailer, together with two of the following three options:

·         a website homepage for the film;

·         a film magazine front cover, featuring the film;

·         a poster for the film.

3. An advertising package for a new product or service, to include two TV advertisements, together with two of the following three options:

·         a radio advertisement;

·         a TV programme sponsorship sequence;

·         a web pop-up

4. A promotion package for a new computer/video game, to include two TV advertisements, together with two of the following three options:

·         the cover of the game’s package;

·         Two hyperlinked pages from the game’s website;

·         a magazine advertisement for the game.

5. A promotion package for a new soap opera, to include a TV trailer, together with two of the following three options:

·         a listings magazine front cover featuring the new soap;

·         Two hyperlinked webpages(with video extract) for the soap’s website;

·         a poster for the soap.

6.A selection of materials related to an original children’s TV drama, to include the title sequence to the TV programme, together with two of the following three options:

·         the front cover to a magazine for the series;

·         a DVD cover for the series;

·         a radio advertisement for the magazine

7. An extract from a new documentary TV programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

·         a radio trailer for the documentary;

·         a double-page spread from a listings magazine focused on the documentary;

·         a newspaper advertisement for the documentary.

8.The first two pages of a new local newspaper, together with two of the following three options:

·         a poster for the newspaper;

·         a radio advertisement for the newspaper;

·         two hyperlinked pages from the paper’s website.

9. A website for a new TV channel (to include a minimum of three hyperlinked pages with original images, audio and video extract), together with two of the following three options:

·         a newspaper advertisement for the channel;

·         a double page spread for a listings magazine, focused on the channel’s launch;

·         an animated ident sequence for the channel.

10. A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:

·         a poster for the film;

·         a radio trailer for the film;

·         a film magazine review page featuring the film.

11.The first level of a new computer/video game, together with two of the following three options:

·         the cover for the game’s package;

·         a magazine advertisement for the game;

·         a radio advertisement for the game.

      12.  An extract/package from a local TV news programme, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

·         two hyperlinked pages from the programme’s website;

·         a generic radio trailer for the programme;

·         a short title sequence for the programme.

13 An extract from a radio play, lasting approximately five minutes, together with two of the following three options:

·         a newspaper advertisement for the play;

·         a double: page listings magazine feature about the play;

·         a page from the radio station’s website promoting the play.

AS Overveiw

Synopsis
The video is my final AS production of an opening sequence, of a districts nurse arriving at a patience house, when she entrance the house she hears a crash in the basement and experiences an unusual event.

Successful 
We were very pleased with our final task, as it was more successful than we predicted it to be. It  as successful as we made a detailed plan on when everything must be done and we suck to it this stopped us from panicking and allowed us to concentrate to make sure that we were are to put all our effort into making sure the part of the production we were working on was to the best of our ability.

We had a variety of camera shot such as close up of the candle and point of view, long shot, this made sure that the audience didn't get bored and they were kept intrigued. We also used a ranged of camera angles, such high angle and low angle this made it seem realistic.

We manged to used sound effectively as we were able to build tension, and helped the audience to understand what is happening in the scene. the sound effects that we used gave a chilling factor which both made our audience jump and become frightened which is a characteristics of a horror film.

Editing help make our production a success as it helped us with our continuity by using match on action, as this made it more realistic and therefore the audience will be more captivated with the film. we also used the 180 degree rule, so the audience was able to see where the specific objects were in contrast to the character.

Improvements
We could have used more camera movements. As we only used a few movements such as pan and zoom. This means that the audience would might not have found as interesting as they would have if it had been more interesting by using a wider range and camera movements.

The storyline could have been more creative as it was a typical stereotype of a horror film. It was a vulnerable woman. we should have used the Internet to think of more creative ideas that would have intrigued the audience.