Task 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

I have learnt from this project is more about the different types of camera angles, 180 degree rule, I have learnt most about editing, whilst doing the finishing touches of editing to our film, I have learnt all about the cuts of the different scenes and how to change the speed of the action taking place. All these things about editing have interested me a lot during the project and it has influence me to want to do more of it. The whole day filming our project, working with professionals, and being able to direct some of our film, got me learning a lot more about the ways of how to use a professional camera. I also learned whilst filming the action taking place to use the camera like playing an instrament. Using techniques like close-ups, tracking. These techniques helped us present the mood of what was happening. For example, we chose to use close ups on his face and his hands wrapping the boxing tape around his hands to show the emotion going through his mind. We also used close ups on his body working out, to really show how hard he was working and to show the sweat on his body to show how long he had been working out. The aim of the close ups we used was to also get the audience to relate to what Dan our character was feeling at the time. We also used lighting to creat a mood in this task, whereas in our prilimary task we did not use this teachnique. Instead we used the head lights in the room, so this did not create as much of a mood.


After our filming day we have been concentrating on editing. In this task we focused on working on every detail of the footage. We have been aiming to make the emotion and the mood of our film a lot clearer through editing, which has succeeded greatly. This is because we new what we had to translate to our audience in our editing, so we all knew exactly what we had to achieve. An example of this, is that we wanted to show how hard Dan was working for his last fight and we wanted to show exactly what he was thinking, and how much training and pain Dan had to go through to get his way. So we made thing clear by creating sequences of his training progress. To get it right, we had to cut from one shot to another without breaking the flow of the sequence. not only did we have to do this but we also had to build up the tension and the tension of the end of our beginning. To create this effect we made the speed of our piece get faster and faster, however we slowed the speed down when it cuts back to Dan sitting in the changing room, rapping his hand with the which boxing tapes. So this creates the effect of the editing showing to the audience that all the working out that dan was doing throughout or sequence, is in his thoughts, it also suggests the emotion dan is feeling.

Our set for our thriller was a much better set up than our set in our preliminary task, in our thriller we had a big studio to work in, with a brick wall to give us a background of Dan working in a basement area. With our preliminary task we had other things around our set which did relate to our storyline, or our piece. we also had our characters sat in an awkward place. For example one of our characters was sat at a desk with a telephone, where he did not look like he was not in a office but in a classroom, which he was in at the time. The preliminary task was not as organised and in as much detail as our thriller project. That is also another reason for why I enjoyed doing our thriller project. 

Task 6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We used Youtube to edit our film even more by writing in speech bubbles expaining whats happening in our opening sequence just to make it even more clear towards the audience about how we did things to do with technology and our storyline.

Task 5 How did you attract/address your audience

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Task 4 Who would be the audience for your media product?

The age of the audience we are targetting our film at is mainly around the age of 16 to 30 years old. This film is all about fighting and boxing and boys around 16/17 are inspired by these tough men, and they would like the action of this film and the storyline of revenge. Our storyline can also mirror other people's lives and so these people would want to watch it. so our thriller is based on reality and revenge. People around 16 and older like watching things which is based on reality. So the main audience is males for this film, however females may like to watch this film too because of the storyline about the brother. We have got our idea from the film "Fight Club" and this film turned out to be popular within the teenage group and so we would be hoping for the same type of audience. So our secondary audience would be people around the age of 30/40. This age may have had a history of this in reality and may like to watch it to see what other people present the fighting world on film. older men who are into watching fighting and the boxing world would definatly go watch a film like this because it means they could test how much we got right about the boxing world. This genre of our film would mainly attract males. It is an action movie, so men would mainly be the audience.

These two pictures are from the film "Fight Club" which we got some of our ideas off.

This picture is a photo i picked up from google, thinking that these two boys are an example of who we are aiming our film at. Our target audience.

Task 3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

The media institution which could distribute our film is Vertigo studios. Its an English company, it has distributed films like Street dance which is set in London, around Batasea area. Our setting is around north London, Vertigo is the company which would make our film big because it is the biggest film company in England. It would handel the distribution of advertising our film. Examples of this is advertising our film on TV, trailors, in the cinema, posters, posters on buses, bus stops. To get people whatching our film.

Task 2 What type of social groups our project is set towards

Our film is showing the working class type of group. The star in our film is set to be from a rough area of london. He has an east london accient and he's an 18 year old boy, so this shows that he is quite young to do all this boxing. So this is talking about the younger generation getting into boxing, and showing his background. So we are aiming this film at the younger generation mostly at teenage boys. This is because our film genre is an action film and young teenage boys would be interested in this type of film. So the groups we aimed to represent, are the kids who grew up in a rough area of london, and had a poor background whilst growing. Our character has personal issues and this could represent reality to other kids.   

Task 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products



This snapshot is of him doing press ups, we once again sprayed water on him to show his hard working and to show how tired he was at the time because of him doing so many press ups. We also decided to make the lighting dark here too because we wanted to make it clear to the audience the mood of the films and the storyline.



This snapshot shows a wide shot of him punch thin air with his boxing gloves on. This shows his anger he was feeling whilst working out. Once again this snapshot like all the rest of the shots of him training is in his imagination and him planning on what he was going to do to win the fight. so this snapshot is to bring out his anger.





This snapshot shows a close up of his face concentrating on the object he is about to punch, we aimed our close up to focus on his eyes because the eyes is what brings out the emotion he was feeling at the time. We used very dark lighting in this scene to show the dark storyline and the dangerous mood.



This is another snapshot of him training for his last fight. We decided to make the lighting in this snapshot, darker with only a tiny bit of light to show the mood of what was happening. We got this idea by watching "fight club". In this media product, whilst there scenes of fighting the lighting was mostly dark with a tiny bit of light to show the mood of what was going on. this lighting showed the danger, excitment and reality of what was going on within the film.

This snapshot shows him working out, training hard to get fit for the last fight. This is what is happening in his imagination, whilst he is sitting in the changing rooms wrapping bandages around his hands. In this shot we sprayed water on him to make him look like he had been training for hours, and training hard, to show his determination for his final fight.  

This is another snapshot taken to show how he is feeling and to show what he is thinking, and it is also to make clear to the audience his emotion while sitting there.

This snapshot is to show the audience what our character is thinking and that it shows that he is imagining and planning on how he is going to win the fight, so he is thinking about all the training he will do which is shown later on in our opening sequence.

We started our opening scene with these titles because it introduces the mood, the style, the genre and the storyline of our project. This title sequence shows who presents our project and it basically starts off the whole opening sequence of our film.



This snapshot shows a close up of him wrapping bangages slowly around his hands, shaking slightly to show his nerves, and to also show his determination. This snapshot is also where he is thinking about all the training he did and has to do for his fight, so his shaking hands and the speed of when he was wrapping the bandages around his hands tell us that he is thinking about all what has been going on.