Part three

Ellie Part 3

Part seven

Ellie Part Seven

Part five

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Groups

Part six

Part two

Part 8 - Preliminary Excercise.

My preliminary task wasn't my greatest of finished pieces but it was quite successful in terms of the camera shots and edits we used. this wasn't my first time in using equipment, like cameras, macs and the programes that are featured on them. So using equipment wasn't one of our problems, i liked our editing and shots that we used, although our final piece didn't turn out quite like we'd hoped. this was because our planning and research was so much more detailed and we had an idea in our head of how it would look, so when it turned out not so great we were quite disappointed. Our final film didn't look very creative or thought through, like we had rushed it and had no planning, although this could of been due to some our film being deleted, meaning that we had to film again which made everything harder, we were on a tighter time and we had to make everything look and sound the same.
Due to not doing so well in the priliminary task, it made me want to do better in my British Social Realist opening sequence as i knew i could do better, which i think i did, in terms of, not just planning but our final piece as well.
Least successful in this task, in my opinion was, our use of timings as we left things until the last second and had to re film a lot due to loss of footage, although this was not our fault. Our sound on the footage, when watching it over was very blurred and not clear, this was because of the wind blowing whilst we was filming, this could not be helped though, but it was a problem. Also using a young child in our film, turned out for the worse as it caused more problems than it helped. Due to the child being little they didn't understand and could not actually act so that made things more difficult and time consuming.
To impove the outcome of my British Social Realist opening sequence, we did not involve a child and had people that were involved in the making of the opening sequence acting so that there was no trouble with people not being able to do it. Also this time round, sound was not a problem as when we filmed outside it was quite nice weather, no wind and it was not very conversational so that the wind would not block out any important spoken words.
Also in this task, i think we had more control over what we could do, in terms of shots, locations, basically anything, apart from the themes and conventions. Having more space, i think, allowed us to do more and achieve a better, finished film.

Part 1 - Brief

What brief are you working to?
Our brief was to create a British social realist opening sequence, as a new upcoming director for Film4, to be aimed at an audience ranging from the age 16 - 24. The opening sequence was to be 2 minutes long and will follow the use conventions of a British social realist film. An initial idea we had was to show a boy being beaten up, which resulted in him having slight memory loss and the the film would be him, day by day, getting closer to his attacker and seeking revenge. this we thought was a good idea, but to clean and cut and we wanted to make it a bit more edgy and different, as it was following conventions of Film4 films.


                                                                                   


Explain how it explores the themes of British Social Realism                                                              We thought our original idea was a very typical idea, one change we made was that the main character would be a girl, adding to British social realism and following the sort of path that fish tank went down. We also changed the girl to be a basket player and after being beat up she has to stay in a wheelchair, this would add aspiration, one of the themes of British social realism, to our film. after these changes are film went as followed; a girl playing basketball in the park, the next thing she knows shes woke up in a hospital and her best friend is standing by, her friend explains the story and we see flashbacks as she narrates what happened. the doctor tells our main character that she will be paralyzed from the waste down and so our opening sequence ends on a bit of a cliff hanger, where the audience are left with what she does next. 






Explain the title and what happens in your opening sequence making reference to the treatment.     
Our title 'Wheel Power' we finally decided on, after many different titles. We decided on this because we would of liked to see that our main character, after her incident, still went on to do well and played basketball in a wheelchair, still going for the aspiration theme, so ' Wheel Power ' seemed best suited, as it connotes to the audience without seeing the whole film that she finds the power to get up and get on with her life and doesn't let her incident stop her.
Our two minute opening sequence explores the British social realism themes in a way where, it appeals to a small, niche audience as of the gritty and upfront nature. It shows a teenagers life, through a view that does not have rose tinted glasses and shows the true down falls of life, and how hard it can be. It also is very very British, in where, only Britain will understand it and want to watch it, it will not be a film that goes global and is sold out everywhere, not even in cinemas, as it is not all pretty and happy endings, which the mainstream audience will enjoy. This will see that our film is recognised as a British Social Realist film.