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    Evaluation: by Ben Lambert

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    My media product uses common conventions of teen comedies such as having three distinct character types and using slapstick humor. Filming was constrained by only having access to daylight, limiting lighting options. Costumes were used to represent teenagers, showing various subcultures was not possible with the limited budget. The product could be distributed by a small British company. The target audience is teenagers due to some mature content. Techniques like fades were used to attract the audience and establish the story. The process taught valuable skills in editing and different shot types.

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    Evaluation: by Ben Lambert

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    My media product uses common conventions of teen comedies such as having three distinct character types and using slapstick humor. Filming was constrained by only having access to daylight, limiting lighting options. Costumes were used to represent teenagers, showing various subcultures was not possible with the limited budget. The product could be distributed by a small British company. The target audience is teenagers due to some mature content. Techniques like fades were used to attract the audience and establish the story. The process taught valuable skills in editing and different shot types.

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    My media product uses common conventions of teen comedies such as having three distinct character types and using slapstick humor. Filming was constrained by only having access to daylight, limiting lighting options. Costumes were used to represent teenagers, showing various subcultures was not possible with the limited budget. The product could be distributed by a small British company. The target audience is teenagers due to some mature content. Techniques like fades were used to attract the audience and establish the story. The process taught valuable skills in editing and different shot types.

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    Evaluation: by Ben Lambert

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    My media product uses common conventions of teen comedies such as having three distinct character types and using slapstick humor. Filming was constrained by only having access to daylight, limiting lighting options. Costumes were used to represent teenagers, showing various subcultures was not possible with the limited budget. The product could be distributed by a small British company. The target audience is teenagers due to some mature content. Techniques like fades were used to attract the audience and establish the story. The process taught valuable skills in editing and different shot types.

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    Evaluation

    By Ben Lambert
    In what ways does my media product use the forms and conventions of
    real media products?

    There are forms of media projects that my media product meets such as we
    use three characters all with different personalities. This is similar to American
    pie. E.g we had a tough guy character typified as the “tough guy” character in
    American pie. A stupid dunce like character that often uses slapstick humor to
    get easy laughs. Slapstick humor is another convention of the comedy genre
    that we have used to get on our side. Finally we used a poncy sensible type
    character, this type of character is evident in most teen movies including Ferris
    Bueller and American pie.
    Continued
    Additionally we filmed all of our opening in bright lighting conditions. However we
    had to use daylight. If we had a larger budget then we would have been able to use
    bright lighting settings all of the time. As we didn’t though it made this element of the
    task difficult to keep a regular lighting constraint.

    Conditions
    that we
    filmed in.
    How does my media product represent different social groups?

    My media product represents social


    groups mostly through the use of
    costume. The choice of clothing that
    we used showed that these were just twilight
    like any other teenagers our age. This
    was easy for us to adhere to as of
    course we are all teenager and this
    meant that we already had the clothes
    available. If we were to make the film
    with a bigger budget we would have
    possibly been able to emphasise the
    characters persona’s more thoroughly
    as we would be able to have the
    resources to show different
    subcultures throughout teenage life.
    Such as casuals in films such as the
    firm or gothic in twilight. The
    firm
    What kind of media institution might distribute my product?

    The sort of company that would


    distribute my film would be a
    smaller British company such as
    amber films. This would be due to
    the fact that we have a small
    budget and this would suit our
    product as we made it on no
    budget. Bigger companies
    however such as universal
    pictures would be able to develop
    our ideas to make the film into a
    big mainstream hit such as
    American pie.
    Who would be the audience for my media product?

    The audience for my media product


    would be people around the same
    age as me. This is due to the
    context of our products genre
    being suited to people who are
    more of a mature age. Similar
    products to ours, as previously
    said American pie, often contain
    scenes of a sexual nature and in
    turn this meant that whilst we were
    conducting our questionnaire we
    only asked people that were in the
    same year or above us. This
    meant that everyone we got
    information from was our age.
    How did I attract/address my audience?

    I attracted our audience through the use of


    using the secretary several times. If
    you noticed, at the beginning of our
    production the film fades in and out of
    each of our characters. Every single
    time when they are fading it comes up
    with a shot of the school secretary
    looking at her watch whilst we are
    getting ready. This entices the
    audience to continue to watch.
    Furthermore whilst each of the
    characters are preparing for their day
    this makes the audience want to know
    where they are going to go. This ideal
    is furthered through the short long shot
    of the three characters meeting up,
    establishing a relationship. This makes
    the audience feel attracted to find out
    what is about to happen.
    What I’ve learnt about technologies through the process of
    making my product.

    Whilst I did our media product I learnt essentially a valuable amount about
    editing. I learnt how to use effects to try and give a representation of the
    school children’s fast paced lives by using fades and cuts whilst showing the
    different things that happens in a school child’s daily routine in the morning.
    This was essential to developing the story line in the audiences mind and
    establishing that these teenagers were going to school.
    Looking back from my preliminary task I have
    learnt.
    Looking back from my preliminary task I have learnt several aspects
    from all over the media subject. I have learnt several different new
    shot types such as long shot, high and angle and establishing shots.
    Additionally I have learnt several aspects of the editing side of
    media. I have learnt that through the use of editing styles such as
    ellipses and juxtapositions you are able to give representations of
    people.

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