Typical Audience member

His name is Ian and he is a graphic designer, he is 35 years old and a graphic designer. He has 2 children a boy aged 11 and a girl aged 6. He is an Arsenal fan and watches his son play football on a Sunday morning. He lives in a new build house in a rural area. He drinks regularly at his local pub, he is a well known figure down the pub. He drinks Fosters on tap and regularly buys other people a drink as he is reasonably well off. He is a film fanatic and owns a large quantity of DVD's and he also is quite keen on technology as he needs a good computer for his job. He is quite single minded when it comes to his political beliefs as he supports BNP. He doesn't believe that he is racist however he very patriotic.

Qu. 6

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

This is a screenshot of final-cut express, as i am a regular user of youtube and i have my own account and as a result of which i have some experience of making music videos. Although i had never used final cut before i have had extensive use of windows movie makes so it didn't take long for me to get the hang of it as final cut is only a bit more complex. (in the end i did most oft the editing as i was the most experienced in our group

this website is called "free play" it is a royalty free music site specifically made for use in media products.  this is the site we used for our music and i plan to use it in the future. 

this is an apple mac. as i use a windows PC at home it took me a while to get used to at (although i still get stuck on certain parts) i was able to grasp how to use final cut as i have previous experience in editing.

this is a camera together with a tripod. before media studies i hadn't done any sort of filming on this scale with this type of equipment. In our group i was more on the editing side of things with the other two doing more of the camera work (although i filmed the final scene)

this photo is of our blog on the website blogger, before starting media i hadnt even heard of blogger, but since ive started using it, it has proven to be a very flexible and easy to use piece of software that i plan to use in the future.

This is obviously youtube. since i was already a youtuber before the course began there wasnt anything new for me to learn, but i was able to use my skills to help our group in the editing process.

this is a picture of photoshop. In the end i didnt use photoshop as much as i had planned and i wasnt that skilled with it so in the end i changed most of the images using the Collour Corrector on Finalcut (out of all of us i would say Tom was the best at uisng this program)

This is a screen shot of windows movie maker. While not being as detailed or equiped as final cut, I find it easier to use and i have used it to make all of my videos to date. In media i am using it to put the final touches to our film opening.

Media piece

today i managed to finnish putting music into our film opening and i also made an animated logo for our production company 'poseidon productions

Who would be the audience for you media product?

name- John
age- late 20's early 30's
gender- male
location- middle class area of essex
hobbies- hunting, golf, going down the pub to see the football with friends
books- Chris Ryan, Andy Mcnab (Newspapers: Sun, Daily Express, Daily Star)
pass times- TV, newspaper, running
interests- golf, cricket, F1
what they spend their money on- CD's of late 1900's songs, classic car maintenance, tickets to cricket and golf matches, hunting rifle maintenance
beliefs- Right wing, supports UKIP, atheist
Values- National identity, Patriotism, capitalism, Independancy

Evaluation Question 2

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Average everyday man, middle class guy, around the age of 40. He's just a nice guy living in a small village minding his own business.

A few chavs, around the age of 16/17, probably lower class boys out just trying to cause trouble and harm others that have done northing wrong.

The 40 year old man was presented in a positive way as he is just walking home whilst having a cigarette causing no harm to anyone until he runs into the group of chavs.

The chavs are presented in a negative way as there acting in a bad manner, they assault the old man which implies to the audience that they are horrible youths just out because there bored and trying to make trouble.

The social groups are represented in a stereotypical way as when seeing a man at the age of 40 years old you wouldn't expect him to go out and cause trouble which he doesn't in our opening scene but at the end of the scene there is an element of suspicion because of all the documents on the wall about the youths that assaulted him. The chavs are represented in an even more stereotypical way as all chavs you see are normally not very nice people, always out to cause trouble and harm the innocent just because they are bored. Our opening scene shows this happening exactly.

rough copy

progress

today we managed to finish editing our media piece
and all we need to do now is add music

Evaluation Question 6

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

Here is a picture of Final Cut Express open with me working at editing our piece. There have been many skills i have learnt on final cut express just by doing this task. Firstly i have learnt how to import and export videos, Cutting clips down so we don't have pointless and unnecessary footage, How to colour correct scenes, How to add effects into our work, How to add in opening credit and place them in the style, colour, size and where ever we want them in our clip. This task has booster my final cut skills in every direction and I'm sure once we have made our music for the clip that will increase my skills to an even further level. 

This is a shot of a website called free play music where your allowed to preview and download pieces of music for free but its not copyright as the website is set up and designed for things like what were doing. I had never even heard of this site before so by doing this task it has improved my skills to look for website and i will definitely use this website again in my next media task. 

This is just a clear shot of a Mac, mouse and keyboard unfortunately this would have been lots of peoples main area where they have improved there skills. But as i use a Mac myself this task hasn't really improved my skills a lot apart from using Final Cut Express and Photoshop that are 2 programs that run on Mac's which i don't use at home. So this allowed me to help Sean and Tom whenever they came stuck on a Mac as I know my way around them fairly well.

Here we have a camera on a tripod. I hadn't really done much filming like this before I started this task so I've improve my filming and setting up skills as i never really knew how much of a difference a tripod made as i always thought sometimes you could get away with doing half handheld if you had a steady hand but a tripod just does it all perfectly. By doing this task if I was now asked to go and film another groups work for them i would know exactly how to set it all up, which shots would look best and how to film it in a professional manner.

This is a photo of another website 'Blogger' that I hadn't even heard of but was introduced to when starting this task. It is a very good, quick and fairly easy site to use to keep an up to date blog which we need to do for part of our coursework. I had never really used any site like this before but after using this one if I ever want to keep another blog I will definitely use blogger as it is a very good but also professional site to use. The skills I have learnt from using blogger is how to post, label, alter posts, and give a blog a professional layout and design.

This is clearly a shot of youtube. From this task it has made you more aware on how to use youtube and find the clips you are looking for much quicker than you would have before starting this task. As when doing this task you need to find many youtube clips, openings and scenes of films therefore when looking for these all the time you become quicker at searching what you are really looking for and finding it. This skill will stay with me forever as everyone one uses youtube now and again.

Here we have a photo of garageband. We haven't actually finished our piece of music and added it to our work as of yet but when creating many different beats and pieces of music we have used garageband a lot of the time. Therefore I have improved my music developing skills because before we I started this task i had never really made more than 3 songs on garageband so it was nice to improve my skills and get advice from sean as he also has a bit of an idea how to use this program. 

Here the picture is quite faint but it is a photo of photoshop. Before starting this task i had no idea how to use photoshop. When creating our logo Tom who is a bit of a master in this department helped me out and showed me how to do most things on it. Now I understand it much better and can do things on it which I could never do before like layering pictures on top off one and other and editing the colour of them so it looks like a more professional standard. I improved my skills in other areas on photoshop like export at a certain size but the main one was layers and editing the picture.

This is our Facebook page when we just started out with John in our group who left and has recently been replaced by Sean. We didn't really use a lot of facebook when researching, planning and creating our work as we didn't find it as useful as other groups. Most things are on facebook but we just didn't find it that beneficial when trying to promote our company and gain feedback. We found it easier to use other source like websites to research rather than facebook.

Evaluation Question 4

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Create a profile of your ideal audience member – considering:

Age: 28

Class: Upper Middle

Gender: Male

Job: Estate Agent

Location: Born and brought up in Romford. He has a slightly rough up bringing but has slowly moved up in the world to now live in the town Bishops Stortford.

Hobbies, Interest and Pastimes: He goes to the gym every now and again to keep in shape, Likes to spend time and playing football with his 4 year old son. He loves going to the pub on a Friday or Saturday night for a good drink with the lads, He also likes to watch top gear as he is into cars a fair amount and drives a Honda civic type r.  He’s a pretty average bloke who was brought up in a slightly rougher background than others but has worked his way up. This is how he can relate to this film as he can see it from the youths point of view it was just a bit of fun.

Beliefs and Values: He treats people how he wants to be treated; He believes in fairness and is finds people who are snobby and think the world of themselves very annoying and dislikes them as he things they don’t realise what some people go through. Values of his are to believe in God and law as those two things make the society a nice and peaceful place to live in and live life to the full as you only get one shot at it. 

Progress Check

Today me and Sean worked for many of hours on editing and adding in effects to our work. Tom was busy so he joined later on. The main bit we are missing is the music as we are finding it rather tricky to work out what music we need for our first scenes as we have come to the agreement that a heartbeat getting quicker and quicker would work perfectly for our last scene. Apart from this we have edited and cut down all scenes, added all credit into our work and Sean showed me today how to take our piece to the next level by adding a fisheye lens effect on our last scene to make it look even more professional. So apart from missing the music we are near enough complete.

logo

i am begining to make anmated logos for the start of the thriller (production company etc)

Final Scene

Yesterday we filmed our final scene for our opening thriller. It was a great success, now bring on the editing.