Evaluation Question 1: Answer

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

Refilming

Today we refilmed a couple of scenes for our short film; the scenes of James texting as the texts didn't match up with the texts scene at the end of the short in the flashback scenes. 

Here are a few clips below:

Representation

One of the questions in our media exam is on representation of working class so I am going to start by talking about representation.

Representation is the way in which people or things are represented (e,g, in the media.) The media doesn't show the real presentation of the world: it shows a construction. The more we see of a certain group represented in the media the more it becomes natural to us and it becomes the expected representation or a stereotype. A stereotype is a representation of a person or thing without fine detail.A stereotype often involved judging people/things by their appearance (e.g. judging a person by their hair, makeup, clothes, etc.)

Problems with iMovie

Since we finished all our filming a couple of weeks ago we have been trying to edit using iMovie. However, we have been having some problems with iMovie not allowing us to import our files, being jumpy and really slow, meaning we are slightly behind where we wanted to be by now. Jayme, who is doing most of the editing is trying to sort this out so we can start editing properly.

Narrative Structure Case Study: Pulp Fiction

Narrative Structure

In class we have started our exam theory and at the minute we are learning about the narrative structure and applying this to different films. This shows the theories we have been learning revolving the narrative structure.

Completing Filming

Today we completed all of the filming we need for our short film. At least for now, we haven't looked over the clips and discussed whether any need to be re-filmed or not, but hopefully that will be all of the filming done so we can start editing properly. Below I have added a few clips of some of the shots.