DONE!

Our film opening is finally finished. Enjoy!

Section A - Disability

This extract portrays Disability in a negative way. In the wide shot of the woman in the wheelchair after she gets hit by the frisbee, she is shown as weak and fragile which not all disabled people are. Also, the fact that she has a minder with her lives up to the theory of disabled people needing someone there at all times and being incapable of looking after themselves causing them to lose independence and freedom.



This clip however shows Disability in a positive way. Due to Craig Moon having down syndrome, he still comes across as confident when meeting his siblings for the first time in the mid shot as appose to people with disabilities having low self esteem. He seems happy in his own skin evidently by the constant smile on his face throughout the clip.

Evaluation Questions

We have started taking into consideration our Evaluations of our film openings that we are going to be doing soon. As a class, we spoke about all the ways that we could do it for example, having someone there to ask you the questions while you answer them, doing it by yourself and embedding clips of your film into it etc. We also spoke about doing it in pairs or by ourselves. In my opinion, I think doing it as a pair is a bit risky due to one person not saying as much as the other however I like to work with others so I may work with someone. On the other hand, working independently would be a challenge for me so this may be an option for me as well.

The questions for the Evaluation are:


1. In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your film opening represent particular social groups?

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your film opening and why?

4. Who would be the audience for your film opening?

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this film opening?

7. Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final film opening?

Our Title

This is our newest draft of our film opening and we have now added our title which is 'The Herione'. We chose this because of the Herione that drops out of the girl's pocket at the end but also because it is the female word for 'Hero' which shows the contrast between good and bad.

Nearly finished!

So we have nearly finished our film opening! We just need to fix our titles and one of our film openings and then we're done. Also, we have decided to scrap the idea of someone's feet being in a close up shot approaching Elisha on the bike. Instead, we just have a low angle shot of Elisha on the bike realising something has dropped out of her pocket (drugs). Due to me and my group deciding that the certificate should be a 12A, we changed it to a 15 because of the new ending we have chosen.

Vlog 6 - Me and Eisha

What we did on our 'last' day of filming :)

Rich Mix Trip - Tuesday 6th March

On the 6th of March, we went to the the Rich Mix Centre to help us out with our exam that we will be taking in May. In the first part of the conference, we were given tips by Pete Fraser, the chief examiner of OCR A Level Media Studies about methods on how to take notes, how to structure our answers and useful things to include to gain full marks. We also were given the chance to do a few activities in terms of analysing screen shots and practicing taking down notes from a clip. In the second part of the conference, Charlie phillips, the lead editor of the popular TV Drama 'Sherlock' came in and spoke to us about the way he edits the episodes and how challenging it is but fulfilling at the same time. After this, we watched an episode of Sherlock which I thoroughly enjoyed. The framing and editing techniques were amazing and so abstract which was pleasing to the eye. After we had watched the episode of Sherlock, we were then able to ask Charlie any questions that we had about his career, about editing etc.

Overall, I found this trip very useful because even though I know what to do for section A and B, it was good to have it made clearer by the chief examiner himself as I am less worried for the exam now due to picking up a new method of note taking and having figured out new ways to structure my answers in Section A and B.

Vlog 5 - Me and Sophie; Second film company

Vlog 4

Vlog 3 and first production company.

First production company below.

Film Draft 3

As you can see, we tried adding the scene at the end but as a group we don't think that the scene fits in so we are going to try something new. We were thinking of maybe having a mugging or a phone call. Just something that will leave the audience wanting more. In our film opening, we have also duplicated our shots so that it looks jumpier.