Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3

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

We decide that our film would be a small budget England based film, we then research through different small production companys to see which would be the most suited towards our film. We researched four companies 'Pathe' 'BBC Films' 'Film 4 Productions' and 'Revolver Entertainment'. We decided that Revolver Entertainment would be the best company for our film as they produce films similar to what we would want ours to be like, such as other low budget films 'Ill Manors' (£100,000 budget) 'Kidulthod' (£600,000) and 'Shank' (£385,000). Another option would be funding from 'The National Lottery' funding through  the 'British Film Institute' our film should hopefully be able qualify due to it being British and would have over 16 points on the scale.

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We knew that we wanted our two murders to be teenagers. Originally we imagined them to be lower class living in council estates in a busy city such as London. We took inspiration and imagined them to be like characters from such films such as 'Kidulthood' 'Adulthood' 'Shank' and 'Attack The Block'. We planned for them to be stereo typical wearing track suits trainers and baseball cap.

 However we later decided that due to the murder taking place within a forest it would be more likely they live in a small town rather than in a busy city such as London. This also influenced us to change the characters situations, we believed it would be more suitable if they were working class we showed this through them wearing jeans rather than joggers. We believed if the two murders were two working class teenagers who had never previously been involved with crime the story would become much more interesting as it is unexpected and shows how unplanned and accidental the murder is. Inspiration for this new characters came from UK drama and comedy shows such as 'Misfits' 'Skins' and 'The Inbetweeners'. The characters now being this way, was also was more suited to the boy that they murdered as he is a geeky middle class boy who would more likely be found in a small town rather than a city.

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of coventions of real media products?

Example and Description	Explanation how it uses/develops, / challenge forms and conversations.
Title of film	The title of our film is ‘It never happened’ This is developing on typical film titles as it uses the text message sent that is a key point of the film as it is when they decide to keep their murder a secret. You can also tell from it that it suggests something is being covered up and relates to the thriller genre. E.G. ‘I know what you did last summer’ is also a film in which an important line of the film is used as the title.
Setting/location	Our film is set in the woodland which is not challenging the genre as many murders in films happen in forests as they are in remote locations and nobody will see. However as they run out the forest there is a sign showing that there is operating CCTV camera in the area suggesting that someone may have seen and that they might get caught.  For example the film 'Severance' there is murders that take place within the forest, also the 2011 film 'Cabin In The Woods' set place with murders occurring.
Costume/Props	Both Billy and Matt who were the murderers were wearing simple typical UK working class teenager cloths, with Matt wearing a hoody and dirty jeans and Billy wearing a coat and some chinos. They both also had old dirty trainers on. We are not challenging the age stereotype or usual convention a good example of how they dress is 'Attack the Block'. The murder weapon is however not a typical murder weapon such as a knife, gun or household object but is a broken street sign found in the woods and used on impulse. For example in the 2011 Thriller two men try to murder the main character with a gun.
Genre	The genre of our film will be a drama/thriller which revolves around this murder. However unlike conventional murder based films the film is not based around trying to solve and find the killer. Our film will follow the murderers and showing how they deal with what they have done. For example 'Se7en' is based around two police men trying to figure out who is murdering all these people.
Camerawork/Editing	The editing throughout our opening follow convention with the beginning being at a slow pace as it is quite with just a body. It also follows convention when the boys start running away as their is fast quick cuts to suggest action. We also use a range of different shots none of them being challenging to the genre or scene.

Feedback For Draft 2

We handed in our 2nd draft to gain feedback to help improve on our film opening scene to make it the best it can be for our final cut.

Overall feedback was positive showing that or work had improved a great amount since the last draft but there are still however some improvement that can be made. Adding some extreme close ups for dramatic effect was something that was mentioned the most, we now plan to have one of Matts eyes to show his fear and one of his hands shaking to how nervous he is when taking off his jumper. Titles such as the director, writer, actors etc are needed to be added throughout most likely during the running sequence. The main title needs to fade in also. Finally we have been told we should later sounds by adding heavy breathing and other foley noises.

Filming day 5

After our first draft we was given feedback and decide there was more we had I film. On Wednesday the 9th of January we went out to get more footage at Jimmys house. We filmed a range of shots making sure we had plenty to look through and choose from when editing. This included a shot of Matt looking in the mirror taking down his hood and of him splashing water in his face in the bathroom. We then filmed shots of him entering the kitchen , taking his phone out his pocket, taking off his jumper and putting it in the washing machine. We then had a final shot of his phone on the side receiving the text 'it never happened'.

New music

After watching the first cut and gaining feedback as a group we decide we needed to change the music playing during the running away scene. We decide it was too dramatic and sounded like something that would be played during a mission impossible film. It did not fit the thriller genre that our film is. I researched and found these two tracks that could work as they both have a lot darker feel to them that would work more for our genre. They are both copyright free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk9voLIRL6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5_gypnogPQ

We decided to choose the first one as we thought it would work the best with our scene and was more of what we was looking for.

Further Change In Murder Weapon

After out first draft we decided that the murder weapon had to be changed as it wasn't clear. We decided that it would now be a brick rather than a sign post. We made it clear that Matt and Billy had dropped the brick and you can clearly see it fall to the foot of the body showing that the brick is what killed the boy.

First Draft