Alex Horton A2

Audience Feedback: Our Response: After showing the trailer for ‘Borderlines’ to our target audience, the response we received overall was extremely positive. We found that our dramatic use of sound and editing techniques in conjunction with the professional use of camera work made the storytelling shine through and effectively engaged the audience. This was shown by the fact that the audience was able to formulate an idea of what might happen in the rest of the film, creating a talking point without giving too much of the plot away.  A majority of the audience was able to identify the genre of the trailer, sitting between drama and coming of age. It was pointed out that this was made apparent though the use of camerawork and framing, as well as the more naturalistic and subtle use of colour correction and layering of diegetic audio with appropriate emotive music and voiceover. We also received feedback on things that we could improve within the trailer, such as fu...

1 -  Nobel Has a consistent colour scheme that is borderline monochrome - bleak and dark outlook war imagery - suggests a war torn film, with issues this would entail suggests family themes effects on transitions = futuristic? establishes the main character death and gore = tragedy 2 - Angry Indian Goddesses introduces the main character the colour scheme is consistent  filtered effect on images that were not drawn bright colours - suggests change burnt hue - struggles faced by the protagonist iconography of lots of women and female goddesses held in high regard in India - addresses issues of gender iconography of protests = women's rights embraces the culture of India  3 - Hard Rock Medical  depressed tones = heavy topics - key societal issues addressed array of doctor iconography shown in each frame  no real colour scheme  only a desaturated edit with a vignette effect on the images bleak overall sense/...

Storyboard Alterations The Second draft of our trailer is much more evolved than the first with all of the footage filmed and incorporated, text screens added, and sound included within the draft.  However, there were many alterations made during the editing of our second draft which pulled it away from out original storyboard intentions. When we came to recording and editing in the scripted dialogue it ended up taking up much more time than we had planned meaning we were no longer able to create a trailer made up of a series of scenes and instead had to go for more of a montage style trailer. This altered our trailer dramatically but we decided it was necessary as the dialogue is the key indicator of plot within the piece. We also had to cut scenes from our trailer which we were unable to film effectively. The scene in the hallway was reduced to simply dropping the drawing on the ground as, despite our best efforts and research, the contrast between the cool outside light an...

Drama Conventions: Exhibits real life situations with realistic characters, settings, and stories Portrays journeys of character development  Intense social interaction Purpose of a dramatic story line is to move the audience emotionally Heart of drama is the conflict  Conflicts include inner/outer realistic struggles depicting hardships, difficulty, and pain  Audience can relate to the Characters (Preferred reading – Halls Theory)  Structured with climaxes and anti climaxes to keep the audience emotionally attached and the tension ongoing  A form of realisation at the end/happily ending Drama can be interlaced with other genres such as comedy, tragedy, etc. It does not have to be complete drama. 

Social Realism Conventions: Social realism is a film genre that concentrates on enlightening the audience on what representation and problems that exist in today's society.  They usually revolve around the themes such as money, drugs, class, religion and politics.  Age of characters - Most films use young teenagers and young adults, between the age of 13-25. Examples of films that use characters between this age are 'This is England and 'sweet sixteen' Social class - mainly represented through mise-en-scene, the people's clothing is a key mise-en-scene the actors wear common typical clothing that everyday people would wear it makes it a lot more relatable. Also it is mainly lower working class backgrounds that are represented in these films as it identifies the struggles in their lives which typically upper class wouldn't necessarily face and this is portrayed through the places they visit in the films and where they live usually being a bit run down and ...

EQ1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Use: conforms to the structure of a trailer - 3 acts of a trailer: equilibrium, disruption, return to equilibrium Uses voiceover = convention of coming of age films and trailers in general naturalistic style = realistic sets/props/costumes music reflects the mood = non diegetic beeping builds suspense conformed to the age range of the common of age genre = 2 people who grow up together to conform to a social realism we use depressed tones, darker lighting and desaturation which conforms to the depressed mood of the protagonist and the social realism genre used the beeping sound to tell the narrative = this alludes to his death without explicitly showing it on screen Develop: Integrated the diegetic beeping sound into the non diegetic music - created an underlying threat through the non diegetic music we developed the social realism and coming of age ge...

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Alterations for our Final Draft Our feedback from our second draft of our trailer suggested that we needed to make some minor tweaks to the sound of our trailer to make it more cohesive and to also consider our colour pallet in more detail.  For our final draft we altered the sound, cutting out a section of the scripting where the narrative seemed to dwindle slightly. We also make some slight colour corrections to add to the professional feel of the trailer and then, briefly, added a shot of a black paint stroke swiping across a finished painting. This shot had previously been cut out of our trailer as we made alterations to our storyboard. However, we were sorry to see it go so decided to reintroduce it to our piece.

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Audience Expectations Primary Research Secondary Research "A coming-of-age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood" - Wikipedia "Social realism ... [draws] attention to the everyday conditions of the working class and the poor; social realists are critical of the social structures which maintain these conditions" -   Wikipedia "Social realism has shown us to ourselves" -  BFI "Through the movement from childhood to adulthood this genre (coming-of-age) allows a discussion of personal identity and selfhood" -  Lianne Vella "Social realism is a discursive tern used by film critics and reviewers to describe films that aim to show the effects of environmental factors on the development of character through depictions that emphasise the relationship between location and identity" -  Julia Hallam and Margaret Marshment

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