1970

this is our final media production which is a short film called '1970' based on the themes of time and technology.

nineteen seventy from abigail bell on Vimeo.

Evaluation - QUESTION 1

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

Untitled on Vimeo.

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Evaluation - QUESTION 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

ANCILLARY TASKS EVALUATION

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Evaluation - QUESTION 3

what have you learned from your audience feedback?

for our audience feedback we have shown our film and retreived feedback in many different ways.

firstly we showed our film to the rest of our peers and asked them 5 questions to which they all answered via post it notes in an annoymous way these question included what they liked what we could improve and was a message strongly portrayed a video from our audience feedback is shown below.

we have also been sharing the film to others via social networking sites such as facebook and vimeo where the viewers were free to leave any comments if they wished.

screen shots from the video shared on vimeo as well as statistics of how many hits it has recieved.

from looking at the feedback which we got from our audiences i feel that our film was a success as there was a lot of positive feeback. also the question asking if there was any improvements helped us to think whhat we would include or change the second time round if we could make improvements on the film.

Evaluation - QUESTION 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and reseach, planning and evaluation stages?

MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES EVALUATION

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Research and planning - DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD.

for my double page spread i wanted to create something which was simplistic yet had enough information to promote the film without giving the whole thing away. from looking at examples like empire magazine i used similar conventions to appeal to my target audience.

• i firstly began by creating a black border as well as inserting an image which is similar to that on my poster which is from a scene on the film linking to both products. as well as the technology influenced font used for the title and the bold slogan used used throughout to help keep the product recognisable.


• to this i added my film review, plot, stats and star ratings. i used page splitters and titles to make it easier for the readers to navagate round the page i also importantly included the date in which the film is showcased.


• i then felt my last review draft was to crammed and not using the sace on the page as much as i could, therefore i changed the font size and rearanged the layout of the page changing where each element was placed.


• when researching more magazine film reviews it was clear they used columns much more therefore i split my plot section into seperate columns. also when printing the review the writing still seemed to big therefore i down sized it to 12pt font. again i altered the layouts of the page using the space provided much more. i lastly most importantly added where the film is showcased and dates which its on.

Research and planning - REVIEW LAYOUT RESEARCH

EMPIRE MAGAZINE from looking at various magazine reviews and layouts i found that i prefered those of empire magazine, and felt that my film would be suitable for a less mainstream version of emipre magazine. conventions used within empire layout include

• a large still from the film which covers sometimes more than half the page.


• a large bold title of the film being reviewed.


• simple colour schemes empires being black white and red.


• movie stats which are in a seperate box from the main text.


• columned review in a small simple font.


• a verdict and star rating.

i feel that i can use some of these conventions as well as challenging them as i feel that the audience of empire magazine is similar to those of our films target audience.

Research and Planning- FILM POSTER PRODUCTION

when creating my film poster i decided to create a polaroid picture format from researching films which used this technique, as i felt that it complemented the films theme and genre as well as appeal to the target audience.

• i began by using photoshop to create a border upon the picture, which i had taken with a retro filter on my camera to create a aged look relating to the title of our film 1970


• i then used dafont.com to select a font which contratsed the aged photo by using a digital font relating to the technology brief. i then used an orange filter on photoshop as well the burn tool to make the photo seem un developed, as well as a texturising tool.


• i added the slogan 'who needs technology?' is a font which resembled handwriting to make it look as though it is a polaroid memory.


• i then decided that the previous layout didnt work so well as when people look at posters the main focus should be central and the title of the film wasnt so i made '1970' central. under this i added credits of the film in a basic black font so it didnt take any focus away from the main content. i also used a black simplistic background for behind the portfolio.

Research and planning - STORYBOARD

storyboard 1970 from abigail bell on Vimeo.

Research and planning- ANIMATION IDEAS

within our film we decided to do some stopframe animation to connote time travel this is a storyboard of ideas and plans for our animation.

Research and planning - RECCE CHECK

these photos are images and screen shots from the settings of our film.

for the film there are 4 basic settings that are involved:

- blogging , anywhere (probably bedroom)

-The girls’ bedroom

-A transitional stage -The field/beach naturalistic setting that the hippies are in

-Returning home scene, street/home setting

Girls bedroom- I want this scene to reflect the two girls characters and the binary opposites that they represent, using mise en scene might be a nice way of doing this panning across the bedroom half of which is decorated elaborately in the style of the ‘free’ sister character and bed is split down the middle to the girls side that is full of wires etc.

The setting I found for this is in my house there is a bed in the front window flanked by a wardrobe and a set of draws this will be perfect as in is relatively symmetrical and can be decorated easily .

Transitional stage we are going to use fade to black and a short animated section .

Research and Planning - RISK ASSESSMENT

POTENTIAL RISKS & CONTROLS 1.Tripping over lighting wires - Make sure wires are out the way of acting space. 2.Slipping on wet surfaces in the bathroom. - Make sure the floor is dry before filming. 3.Water near the electronic devices - Keep the equipment away from any water. 4.Slipping on mud in outdoors scenes - Try filming on dry ground, make sure people go steady. 5.Getting burnt on the campfire - Keep a safe distance from the fire.

Research and planning - CAST LIST

Main characters.

Hannah - Hannah Coxon.

Abigail - Abigail Bell

Hippy extras.

Molly Cormican

Abigail Bell

Vicky Nimmo

Hannah Coxon

Jack Peacock

Char Wilkinson

Research and planning - SHOOTING SCRIPT

Scenes 1 and 8 - Tuesday 25th January. webcam scene in college.

Scene 2 and 3 - Saturday 29th January. Abigail's house bedroom scenes.

Scene 4 - 1st February onwards, animation scenes.

Scenes 5, 6 and 7 - tuesday 8th February Abigail's house hippy scenes.

Editing from the 9th February. Then titles and credits.

Research and planning - FILM POSTER PLANNING

for the title of the film we chose 1970 as this shows the time set of the film, but with the font of an digital clock as this also connotes modern day and time. the contenders are: INSPIRATIONAL FILM POSTERS the film back to the future uses time travel which resembles elements of my film plan, when the girl travels back in time, i like the use of the dark undeveloped background which gives the feeling of a black hole or transporting to a different realm. i like the thought of using a polaroid format for my film poster after looking at posters such as the film momento; i feel the polaroid format will fit well with the film as polaroid have a old vintage feel to them and were around in the 70's. i also feel that it is even connoting a momento of hannah going back in time.

Research and planning - SHORT FILM SCRIPT

Scene 1
NARRATOR- computer are a tricky business, as a tool they make life a whole lot easier. but its when they become your life that the problems really start.

Scene 2
NARRTOR- last summer i learnt this in the starngest way possible.
ABIGAIL- are you going to come to the beach tomorrow then?
HANNAH- *doubtfully looks at abigail*
ABIGAIL- but its so sunny
HANNAH-i cant ive got something ending soon on ebay
ABIGAIL- ohh whatever, but all our firends are going to be there
HANNAH- my friends are already here
*awkward pause*
-get me a drink!
ABIGAIL- *smuggly* OK

Scene 3- abigail gets hannah a drink. Scene 4- stop frame animation with music.

Scene 5 HANNAH- *voice over* when i arrived i thought i was crazy
- and when this happened i thought i was crazy
MOLLY -come and sit over here
HANNAH- Where am i? Where is my laptop? who are you?
- *voice over* when i spoke to them it didnt really change my mind much
MOLLY- laptop? im molly and youre at the beach bro
HANNAH- wait what year is it?
MOLLY- nineteen seventy why?
HANNAH- OH HELL NO! #
-*voice over*but as terrified as i was i decided to stick with those hippies
VICKY- please come over, im sure 'laptop' wont miss you. just chill for a while.

Scene 6
HANNAH- *voice over* and as day turned to night, i began to learn it was a lot of fun the beach.......... and that i didnt need my laptop after all.
- *voice over* when i realised this i also realised how horrible i'd been to my sister,and i wanted to go back
JACK- whats wrong?
HANNAH- i just miss my own family, can i go back home please?
JACK- of course you can, i'll find you a ride

Scene 7
HANNAH- *voice over* the ride he got me wasnt exactly high tech space travel, but it was definately good to be back.

Research and planning - EDITED PLOT

the narrator introduces the story via videoblog The central protagonist of this film is trapped in a cycle of technology she ‘can’t live ‘ without her phone and laptop and spends all her time inside on facebook and twitter. Her only community is the detached one of the online world. Her twin sister is the complete opposite; she loves to be outside with her friends and wants her sister to understand that it is better. she thinks that the computer makes her antisocial and traps her . One day the out going sister gets sick of her ignorant technology obsessed sister, she gets really angry and decides her sister needs to live life before thechnologies like web 2.0 were invented so she is sent back in time to 1970 and the first ever Glastonbury where a crowd of hippies show her some of the true values of community. She learns that she doesn’t need to have technology and that she misses her family the hippies get her back home via a bicycle. FREEZEFRAME

And the ‘moral’ is told by the narrator via videoblog again.

as our film focuses on social networking and how it changes peoples lives i found this picture which sums up the range of networking sites, who uses them and what for, but in a whitty format. like our film as they are taking over and and emphasises how big a role they play comparing each to a certain social group.

Research and planning - PROPS

Briefly some of the props which we need for the film: Scene 1 - computer with a web cam. Scene 2 - binary opposites of props. really technical - i pods, phone, laptop very modern props. the other really traditional/relaxed - floral patterns bed canopy. Scene 3 - glass and fizzing tablet. Scene 5 - 70's costume. hippy style dresses bandannas etc. Scene 7 - campfire and bike. Scene 8 - computer with web cam.

Research and planning - FILM CHANGES

Untitled from abigail bell on Vimeo.

Research and planning - SCENES

Research and planning - SHORT FILM PITCH

Film pitch

View more presentations from molcorm. This is our short film pitch which we used when we pitched out ideas to our peers. explaining content, distributions and original ideas of our film.