How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This film is made by sixth formers so (I hope) that we the producers can identify with out actual age group. It would appeal to mainly older students and perhaps adults. There is a slight element of humour in the film which I hope people will enjoy…

The film shows and unfortunate P.A coming to show her boss a new product and the film stereotypes mean bosses (similar boss; Miranda Priestly- ‘Devil wears Prada.’) Many sixth formers have jobs and perhaps not so nice bosses, so they can identify even a little with the poor P.A.

Diferent props used were to add humour (the teddy and the gun...) and mise-en-scene was also considered carefully to create a nicer film to watch and to make it as realistic as the The. P.A could seem.

In this film the P.A who is the closest representation to the target audience is a rather shy and scared person (no wonder with a boss like Madame!) But this does not necessarily represent the target audience just someone that they may be able to identify with say, if they were going to meet a particularly scary boss!

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

In ‘the P.A’ we used different camera shots and angles which is very important in making any film look good. We used a range of shots including;

Close-ups; which were really good to exaggerate expression for each character and also show the focus on one particular thing (e.g the lipstick)

Medium shots; these were good because most of the film takes place at a makeshift desk. A long shot would be silly as the audience does not need to see the character's legs, and a close-up would cut most of what's happening out (body language, opening the suitcase etc...)

Long shots; these were useful when showing the character walking (as it di establish someone was actually walking.)

180 degree rule; this was a quite important aspect to ‘The P.A’ because there was a lot of dialogue across a table. To make the film look correct and aesthetically pleasing the camera had to stay behind this one ‘invisible line.’ We achieved this quite well and both the characters were shown on one side of the screen. At one point Madame the gangster was shown on a close up closer to the middle than when she was normally shown on the right. This didn’t look very good and is a classic example of the importance to stick to the ‘invisible line.’ I have learnt something very crucial for future filming tasks.

Match on action; this was one of the main things we had to achieve in this preliminary exercise and this was done by a character shown walking towards a door on one side, then the camera shot changes to from inside the room watching the character enter. The shot leading towards the door was of the character’s point of view then from the other side it was a medium long shot to see the character walk in. It was reasonably easy to film and with the help of the editing programme the film could be cut short and the sequence smoother and less delayed.

Shot reverse shot; this was mainly used in dialogue as one character said something hen the shot switched to the other to view their reaction and their ‘retaliation’ to the comment.

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WATCH the film on youtube and COMMENT!!....

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here is the adress;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDSfJPxHn-A

The P.A << title of our preliminary film

some general things about the film....

LOCATION; gordano school- to be more specific the sixth form library, library staircase and store cupboard)

ACTORS; (well actresses;)
*Ellie; the gangster called 'Madame'
*Philippa; Madame's unfortunate P.A

COSTUME;

*Madame's outfit; jacket, black trousers, killer heels and the infamous gangster hat!
*The P.A's outfit; smart blouse & jumper, black trousers and sensible shoes...

PROPS; well there were quite a few....
* the suitcase- which is the main suspense of the film
* Madame's scary gun (which is a bubble gun by the way...)
* Madame's evil teddy
* the lipstick (the whole point of the meeting)
* various other objects kindly provided by the school (chairs, tables etc...)

EQUIPMENT; the technical things needed to create the film
* Camera
* tripod
* whiteboard (schools version of a clapper board)
* i-mac (which is seriously difficult to use if you dont know how...)

Now for the real reason I created this blog.... to evaluate my (and my friend Philippa's) mini film which we made as part of a preliminary task for media studies so here goes....

Good morning Bloggers!

I am currently in school awating all the teachers to come in and teach. The traffic on the motorway is horrendous and we are expecting them to come in v.e.r.y s.l.o.w.l.y.....

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I have just created a new blog for the first time and I will be filling it up with all my media progress for my AS studies!

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