Final video

Representation of gender and how this can create the characters within the short film

With the idea of creating a gangster based genre of a film, we needed to come up with characters that would look the way you would normal establish a gangster to look like. we then went on to doing research into the idea of characters as well as the way they way you would expect the characters to speak, with a deep voice, a cockney accent, a load mouth with a charm to his voice. we needed to pick a voice that would be easly established as a gangster which we then went with a cockney accent which we though was best suited for the role as well as we needed to get the voice right so we had to make sure the actors where able to speak in cockney, the narrator of the characters also was needed to make a cockney accent for the description of the characters. 

with creating a gangster based film you wouldn't regularly see women as a main character within the film as it is usually based around men reasons for this is that people see the representation of men to be strong figures that would get into fights and handle any situation.we needed to get a good feeling for what type of cloths a male modern day gangster would be wearing, this then went on to another peace of research which we then formed our costumes which we wore in our filming of our film.

  

Character Tommy: the way this character is shown is to be a traditional gangster who is a laid back character who isn't really interested in the business but can get down to to it if he needs to. being a man as all men do he is interested in checking out the ladies that catch his eye.  

Character Vinnie: the way the character is represented is that he is shown to have a old traditional view of things that if he wants something he expects to get it no matter who he has to go through to get it. he isn't shown to be much of and interest with the ladies so much, more interested in his job that needs to be finished.

I have chosen in creating these character as they believed to be more of a strong suited characters that are able to be names that are more common to the style of film i am wishing to complete and having these names i am able to present and work with the characters in order to be able to build on them for them to be the Wright sort of people for our short film. 

Evaluation

How does your media product represent  particular social groups?

with our media group we wanted to not aim it a a particular social group as there are so many out there all with their own different opinions about films and how they see then, because everyone can all have a different interpretation towards a film they may see. with social group it is normally that nearly everyone in that group all have the same opinions towards things for example watching a film the probably all like a genre that maybe we are not showing so that the film wouldn't appeal to them. if I had to decided which social group i believe it would appeal to the most I think it would show more interest to the people that maybe are interested in crime or gangster related as they may have been involved within them selves or their just interested by it, I could appeal the more of a violent kind maybe in the scene they believe as it is crime related or believe the film will involve theft as well as other sorts of crime.

Evaluation

what have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

While creating my media piece the filming proses of the work i was able to learn how to use a camera properly showing the right angles as well as where it should be placed at a certon scene, while creating my two minite beginning of a film I had to post updates of me progress through out how it is getting al as well at information about the scenes we are doing, as i was shown this on a blog I was able to learn features i didn't before like how to upload pictures as well as videos.

we needed to carry out a lot of research and i used the interent to find out about music that we would hopefully be using in our media piece we had to look for a non copyrighted music that was not attached to any label so that we where able to put it in our video without it being illegal. 

while making the video in the editing prosses I was able to learn how to cut clips of of media piece and change them around so that they fit as well as the effects putting them into the video which was something new to learn, while editing our media piece we needed to find a heading text for our film name so we went out to search for text that was suitable for our piece as well using the internet to find out what we needed. 

Evaluation

Who would be the audience for your media product?

With our audience we wanted to allow it so a wide range of people where able to view the finished media piece, we wanted to give it a modern look about it but not contain violence as well as other scenes you may see within a crime film, we aimed it around the ages of 15 to 30 and on words the reason for this is that you wouldn't normally find younger children watching the sort of genre we where going for as well as the story line doesn't always appeal to them as they don't allays fully understand it, people ages in their 20s would have more of an in site into crime and gangs and could fine the media piece interesting to watch as it could appeal to them. It is also aimed at the male gender the reason towards this is that there are no female lead characters as well as the story line it has wouldn't normally interest women that much, but with men they enjoy watching a crime fine that is related around that sort of genre as it appeals to them, because the story line would usually interest men, but there are women who can tent to enjoy a crime/gangster based genre movie. 

Evaluation

How does your media product represent gender?

with the representation of gender with most crime/gangster genre films you will usually see that characters to be full on men characters giving a full representation of how you would picture a male person that would be involved with crime as well as other sorts of violence, we wanted to show the sane sort of traditional role you would normally see for the character but also but a modern sort of look towards how we would show gender and how it is seen. 

Extras:

Group of teenagers: the group of teenagers are shown to be hanging around with a large group of people which is usually what they are established as showing a modern representation of how teenagers are seen which isn't allays how they should be established, also the teenagers are shown to be in a always behind houses out of sight from other people, this could mean that they are causing trouble or planing to do something in that neighbourhood. it is also argued that they could be causing trouble not just cause there is a lot of then as well as they are all boys and it is established that a lard group of lads would cause trouble at any time.

Two girls: although thee two extras where're only in it for one shot the way they where shown was to be in a modern, as they walk past the characters checks the girls out looking them up as they walk past he slowly walks from behind them, the reason for this is girls are normally seen as an object and that is shown in the clip which we where trying to get at as the character is to be told to be a ladies man. 

Main characters:

Vinnie: this hard tough characters is represented to the traditional representation of a male person, being shown as a male character he is shown to be violent at times, which could cause harm to others as well as the way he is speaking shows within deep voice of the character, Vinnie being a male character is shown to be the leader out of the group this could be represented that a male figure would normally show them selves as a head of a group, and Vinnie does this with his demanding attitude to others as well as how he can control the other character Tommy if he has to.  

Tommy: The way this character is represented was that he is shown to have a modern representation to the other characters, with his flirty attitude to everything as well as the cockney accent, being male he is also shown to be a tough character but isn't useallly wanting to get involved with other people if he doesn't have to which is also a representation of a male character withing a group as you can always find outsiders of a group the quiet ones that would normally stand at the back but is talkative when it comes down to it. 

Evaluation

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

I think that the distribution company Vertigo would distribute our film the reason for this is that the company over time has shown to distributed a number of successful film from horror to action as well as comedy, the company itself isn't doesn't distribute that of a low budget films but the money put towards the film isn't as greater deal as you would normally see with higher more famous companies. I believe even though our film itself isn't that of a high budget being distributed could increase its popularity as well as would increase the numbers who would watch it even though it may be low budget the story to it would make the viewer want to watch it.

Films like Bronson, The Escapist, w Delta z and Outlaw are all crime related films which have the story line which is ether based around crime or has something to do with the involvement of it, as is our film Shifty which is based around two dealers who like to make a profit selling goods to people with a story behind it as well as a story to the characters.

Evaluation

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

we wanted to show our film opening similar to the film snatch, which was made in 2000 directed by Guy Ritchie. Ritchie had also made like lock stock and two smoking barrels another crime based film, there reasons for trying to get a similar look to the snatch opening was that what made us interested was the text on the opening how it spun around a lot as well as zoomed in on a couple of shots and it had a freeze frame showing one of the characters.

we decided to incorporate the ideas we had from that opening film but change them around so that they where could be our own unique way of showing the clips. we showed a zooming effect with one of the clips that introduced a character as well as a freeze frame.

what makes our film opening different from any other gangster/crime genre film is that we show our characters to have a different sort of personality than you would normal see even though one of the characters is stick to a traditional role of being a hard lad one is shown to be a ladies man which you wouldn't normally see in films even though we have stuck to normal clothing wear that is normally shown as well as the look within the filming has shown to be a modern look, with the background as well as extra characters that where shown.