Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

I think that during the time of my preliminary task and my the task i am doing right now I am quite positive in the fact that I have learnt quite a lot for example how to work the computers (Apple Mac) and also all the equipment for example the still cameras, video cameras and the tripods to get the maximum effect from a camera angle.

One of the things that I learned and was most effective between task was continuity editing i say this because in the preliminary task as you can see in the first two screen shots i have taken above the match on action and continuity was quite of because when the actor came through the door and back out the other side it was quite clear that both the door and the actor was not in the right position therefore not getting the action as right as it could be.

But in the last two you can see the improvements i have made over time because you can see the the positioning of the door and the actor coming in was spot on. i feel that i made this sort of improvement by studying what i have to do and then carrying it out in a task.

I also think that my camera techniques and the type of shot taken got much better also. i say this because in the first task i did and filmed i was not comfortable with the camera and the types of shots i could take in order to occupy the audience and make the scene interesting but as time went on the shots go better for example i new how to take long shots, mid range shots, close up, very close ups, panning shots, point of view shots, high and low shots. These are range of shots that could make a scene not just good but great because it makes everything we are trying to do interesting and more entertaining to watch if shot properly.

In filming if you brake the 180 degree rule you may make the view confused over what is going on and they wont enjoy the movie or video as much so it was important that i learned about the 180 degree rule quite quickly and in doing so i implemented it into all the filming task i did.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Name: Nathan Thomlenson

Gender: Male

Age: 19

Lives: Inner London

Watches what TV programmes: Sports channel, Movie channels, Eastenders, Scrubs, family Guy, MTV Base, 2 and half Men

Visits what websites: Facebook, Skysports, Myspace, Youtube, Mixtapes Sites

Does what when they go out: Play Sports, concerts, Movies, Nandos, Night Clubs

Listens to what music: Rap, Pop, Funky House, House Music, R&B, Slow Jams

Wears what clothes: Jerk Style, Hoodies, Jeans, Jordons, Trapstar, Gstar, LuieV, vans, Blazers

Reads what magazines: Sports mags, Music mags

Shops where: West End, Westfields, Internet Shopping

Aspires to be: Footballer, Physio

Anything else about your ‘character’: My charactor is a very outgoing Charactor that enjoys to play all sports but mostly football. He enjoys listening to music inputicular Wiz Khalifa, Rick Ross, lil wayne, Tyga and Chris brown and loves to shop and look good on nights out. He goes to a lot of parties as he loves a good social life but is also a very fit person as he goes to the gym 4 days a week plus play football everyday. He has no girlfriend as he wants to experience life at its fullest before he gets into a proper relationship. He loves to watch t.v and play his Xbox whenever he has free time but unfortunetly very rarely gets to do this as he lives a busy lifestyle.

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

During the process of me learning about the technology that i used to ensure that my film was better i learnt and found out about a range of new technology for example:

• Final Cut
• IMovie HD
• IPhoto
• Youtube

These are just a range of things i learnt out to use t

o help my group and i with our opening sequence. I think that i can use the technology that i have stated to my advantage now suggesting in the future i will be able to make a good movie or anything else regarding these kind of Apple Mac technologies. When i was finished making my opening sequence i uploaded it to both Youtube and Facebook to get feedback from both my friends and people i didn't know. I thought this would be a good idea because good and bad feedback will help me in the future if i want to do things like this again.

Facebook is a great way to share and keep in touch with your friends so i thought it would be very good if i posted the clip that my group and i made to get some feedback on WWI and EBI. This was also a good way of showing of my acting techniques.

Like Facebook Youtube is also a great way to interact with people over the internet but in a different way so i thought one again it would be good to upload our opening sequence to Youtube to get some feedback not by my friends but by total strangers so i could see their reactions towards our film. I also used Youtube to get other ideas from other opening sequences because i thought that it was important to broaden our range to not just one thing.

This screenshot that i have uploaded is Imovie HD.

Now this is an very important if not the most important Technology to making your movie. I say this because you can do almost anything on this for example creating a movie, editing movies or clips, putting audio in with your movies or clips and you can also drag and replace things at any moment if you think that something is not quite right. This is the technology my group and i used to make our clip.

This picture that i have uploaded is from a site called "wordle". i have uploaded this to try and show/promote the type of technology i have used when creating my movie in Media.

This Screenshot that have uploaded is of Photo shop. This shot is basically showing the audience what photo shop looks like and all the filters at the bottom will also show the audience how to make the picture look better by editing it.

Final Cut is really good if you want to edit your film or an video after you have made one. You are able to play back and take things out and put things in using this technology. It is also good for attaching sound to your movie and this is really important if you want your movie to be upbeat and fun for the audience to watch.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why

In our task we chose to do an action film. Now action films are traditionally very high in cost because of all the props and special effects needed to make the movie better than the rest and even make if spectacular to watch. suggesting what i stated above it was only right that i chose three of the biggest movie companies to distribute my movie around the world and i did this because as well as being the biggest movie companies in the world they are also three of the best for what they have done in the past for example the type of movies they have made and the popularity and success they have got from the films they have made and distributed for example Tristar Pictures have brought out such films as (Terminator 2 judgment day) 20th Century Fox has brought out such films as (Star wars, Avatar and X-Men) and finally Paramount Pictures has brought out such films like (Star Trek, Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones) these are some of the most famous films in the world and also some of the most expensive films also especially Avatar.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film ethnic stereotype is not what is normally pertrade in a movie for example in a typical movie of any genre a black male or female is not normally the good person in the story line and may mostly be the bad guy suggesting te stereotype that is normally seen in a good film, but in our film this was not the case as the good guy hat was on the run from all the bad guys was young and black.

Another odd thing about or movie that quite changes the stareotype of a typical action thriller movie was the fact that there was 5 bad guys and four of them was white and one was black. this is almost never seen in televetion because normally its normally just a black group or a white group, it os very rarly mixed as we can see in the demostation picture i have below.

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

The frames that I have uploaded is a series of pictures from a scene that my group and I made for a project in media. The pictures include my title and the most important bits of the clip in my opinion. I think that it is not your typical opening sequence because I think it tells much more of a story than your typical opening sequences does especially an action opening sequence. I say this because the audience can see such things as all the bad guys faces so straight away you can tell who they are and normally a director will keep at least one of the bad guys a secret for the peruse of keeping the audience from knowing so they will have the element of dough in their mind. Also your typical action movie is normally mainstream as in the amount of money they have to spend on the props amongst other things but in our opening sequence we had no budget to work on and you can tell this was he case when you see things like our title and the props that we was using w had to work with what we had. As we are a small movie company.

Some of the camera shots we used was very inventive as you can tell in the frame I uploaded. Before every shot we thought about the best way to shoot the shot to make the audience feel more attracted to the scene and also give them more of an idea of what was going on in the actual scene. The opening clip of the whole scene does not give that idea that all of that action would take place in the sequence and I think this is good because it will surprise the audience and they will be glued to the rest of the sequence and also the film in general although there is not much special effects.