Evaluation Task 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

One of the characters that we tried to link the antagonist with was a fighter from the film The Raid. He is one of the main antagonists in the film and is a very skilled fighter, he could take on the two protagonists at the same time with ease. He also manages to predict their every move and counter their attacks, resulting in them getting beaten up.





Another character we tried to make similar to is a person in the film is the guy from fast and furious, he is the villain and he wears the same kind of clothes as the villain in our film. We tried to make him as close to him as possible just so he looks good.

The third character we tried to get him to be as close to was a character in James Bond, the role of the character is similar to a henchman in the film who tries to take out James Bond but fails, he his good at fighting and he is evil.

Evaluation Task 1 - In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products?

In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products? 

The  title screen of our film is meant to be metal like it is a bullet or a gun. Also the title is bold so that it stand out to the audience. It also shows that the film it is an action film, because real action movies use fonts which are big and bold and stand out out the audience. This also shows the audience that it is an action film as well.

For the setting the film was mostly at the bridge, which we thought was a good place for the fight scene because it was outside and we had more space to do the fight scene, plus it was a lot more better than doing a fight scene inside the house because it would of been harder to get good camera shots because it is a small space.




The clothes that we are wearing are not what we are supposed to be. We are supposed to be policemen but we had no police uniform, so we decided that we would be undercover policemen that are patrolling a neighborhood. To compare with big action movies i'd say that it doesn't really matter that we don't have the uniform because it look a lot more better when we fight in the clothes we are in, however it would of been better if we did have a better style of clothes rather than coats and jeans.






We tried to use lots of screen shots in our film to make it look more like an action movie. So we make it look like it is fast paced especially when it comes to the fight scene. Like real action movies they have lots of shots of one fight sequence, this shows that they can use a range of shots. That's what we did so we can show that we can use a bunch of shots well to make the film look good.




The font  title is bold so that it stand out to the audience. It also shows that the film it is an action film, because real action movies use fonts which are big and bold and stand out out the audience.

The story is about two policemen who are patrolling the street one day and they get a phone call saying that there has been a murder close to them. They then rush to go and see what is going on, when they arrive they discover a body in the house. Suddenly a man runs straight out of the gate. it then goes straight in to a chase, where they end up on a bridge and have a battle 2 against one. It then ends with the bad guy getting beaten. The opening sets it up well because it shows that we serious by the phone call we get. This makes the introduction seem very intense and sets up a good point for when we find the body.


The genre of the film is a intense action movie, the opening suggests it by showing an intense scene of getting a phone call, The music gets serious all of a sudden this gives it a good feeling to the audience by making it feel intense. By getting the phone call we try to make it seem serious so it gives the audience the feel that something really bad has happened.



The characters are introduced in different ways, one way that we introduced one character was by using the phone call, when Matt answers the phone it makes the audience focus on him instead of the other character. The second protagonist is introduced by discovering a dead body and says "he is dead". Finally the antagonist is introduced when he starts running out of the house to try and get away from the protagonists. These are good ways to introduce them because they are quick paced introductions which is good for an action movie.

The main special effects that we used was mainly the punch noise during the fight scene, it gives a good effect to the fight scene. For example in the picture when i do the kick we add in a kick sound and a sound when Conor dodges the kick. After that we add in a hit sound when he gets kicked down too the ground. Overall it makes it a great fight scene.

Evaluation - What have we learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Equipment

The equipment that we used is the tripod and a phone, we borrowed the tripod from the school and we used Conor's phone to film with. The phone was not the best quality so the picture quality is not the best and we could of used a better camera to record. It was difficult to record with tripod because the phone would not stay on the tripod and would keep changing position. But we managed to get it recorded, most of the time we didn't even use the tripod we got another person to record it. This proved to be difficult because the camera was shaky and made the video look like it was bad quality, but we managed to do it. There was also people walking pass the camera a lot so this proved to be hard and a bad place to film since it was a public place.

Evaluation - How are social groups represented in Our Production

How are social groups represented in our production?

There are many social groups which are in our film are policemen which are investigating murder scene, it then turns into a chase/fight scene. We try to make the policemen very serious and act realistic so when they get the call, that there is a murder they act very calm like they are professionals. The stereotypical policemen would usually take the call and wouldn't panic when there is a serious murder, that is what we want Matt and Luke to portray as the police.

The editing in our film is very quick, so we would have lots of cuts to different videos. We did this because the film is supposed to be quick, mainly because of the the fight scene which has the most cuts in it to make it look like a sequence of punches and kick, accept they are made in very neat order.

The audio that was put into the film was mainly music to make it more intense. To compare it with Hollywood action it is very fast pace and since we have a chase scene in the film we need fast music. So we chose something that had a good beat to it and sounded very serious for when the fight scene starts.

The Mise-en-Scene was not that good in our film. We wore normal clothes so it didn't look like we were policemen, so we decided that were going to be undercover policemen on patrol. We tried to act like real policemen and stay like that as we were doing the fight scene and chase scene.

There were many camera shots used in our film, we used a lot of them because we wanted to make it very fast pace and give the viewer a lot of angles of the scene. For example in the middle of the fight scene, Matt goes for the punch and then the kick. We do a POV point of when he goes for a punch to make it seem realistic and give perspective from the Antagonists point./ We then switch it over to a high angle where the kick happens. We do this because in famous action films they use different camera shots to make it more exciting. Also if you use different  shots it shows that you know your shot terminology and can use them effectively to make the film look good.

Directors Commentary

Commentary of our Film
This explains what shots we used and what kind of process's we went through while making the film.

Feedback from Audience - Video

Feedback from the audience

Vindictive - Final Movie

Vindictive-Final Movie