Gloria Media AS: 2012

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

How did you attract /address your audience ?

We thought about the genre of our film ( psychological Thriller ) and we thought that allowing children under the age of 15 to watch such films, this may psychologically harm them so we thought it woulkd be a bad idea as we may be exposing them to things their parents do not feel comfortable exploiting to them. So to avoid this stigma, We targeted it for children who would have been more able to understand the situation.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product. ?

we have learnt how to use the camera & how to use it in the lighting.
we've learnt how to focus the camera
we've learnt how to edit the scenes
we;ve learnt how to make title pages and credits using i movie
we've learnt how to use a tripod properly
we've lerant how to film in different day times
we've learnt how to use iphoto
we've learnt how to use the blogs
& youtube
We learnt how to research properly using sites like google, IMDB && Wikipedia
we learnt how to use our phones to import informaation

how does your media product represent particular social groups ?

Age - All teenagers in a room depressed shows how they are all going through something and we tried to show how they could handle this so we could make the film relative
Ethnicity - characters are black, so peeople may believe that most black adolensences go throuh this
Gender - female & males both go through this - we tried to represent the feeling of equality and togetherness. we tried to represent the fact that everypone goes though this
Environment - filmed in houses to represent the commoness within the film. to show that these are ordinary people just like u & i

Friday, 16 March 2012

New Media Technology x

Pre production :

To make the story line script & timetable, we used paper and pen to write everything down. then emailed each other via internet.

To find our character, we used a social networking site on the internet, we used phones to call them up & let them know our planes and even emailed each other different details.

To research our theme (Psychological Thriller) we used the internet & also watched other films on dvd or youtube.

Production :

Whiles filming we used a digital cam corder

We saved our film on an SD card

We also used a professional camera to take pictures of the characters

Post production :

When editing the film. we used a software on the computer (imovie) to edit the

We also used social networking sites to upload these films

We also Used our blogs to publish our work.

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Audience Theorys

HYPODERMIC NEEDLE MODEL.
This is the idea that when people watch things they go on to believe exactly what is portrayed to them. A great example of this would be : Blood Diamond

This film was about the war in Sierra Leone & how Sierra Leoneans survived through the 9 year war. After this film became successful, people then became to believe Sierra Leone as a war zone type of country and even though the war has been finished for the last 17 years or so, people still believe Sierra Leone to be a dangerous country.

USES & GRAFICATIONS.

The idea that people use the media in different ways for different reasons. 'its not what the media does, it's what you do to the media.'

For example: Dreamgirls - A film by the famous 'Beyonce Knowles'.

The film by these ladies was suppose to represent power and struggles that a woman goes through, instead it portrayed more or less issues about weight. the perfect size someone had to be when popular and also the ideal size for a 'black' woman. in the picture, we see the woman dressed in brown surrounded by her friends who were all slimmer than her about the same average size each. This film created a certain size for women and showed the problems of not being that size.