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

I think that our video challenges the certain stereotypes of which teenagers/ young adults of the 90's generation face from the media. We are represented in a way which is mainly negative and all most 90% of the time it is not the case. For Example we used an unexpected couple. The male in the relationship was a waster to put it bluntly. He would sit at home daily and not look for a job while his long term partner would be at college learning how to become a teacher. She would go on placement and do different activities daily with the children. When the male would sit at home and take drugs all day or think about how he was going to get his next fix. By using this individual couple, in which one person does drugs and has for a long time, and the other has never done drugs before, it shows the contrast between two people who otherwise are very close for whatever reason this may be.

Our film then continues to show the Beginning of the relationship of the two people and how close they are even with their differences in consideration of this. The girl then persists to ask the boy what its like doing drugs, especially the drugs he's on, heroin. When the girl then asks about doing drugs the boy is weary of the decision and answer he then gives.

The film then goes on to show how the choices that the female character had were wrong and that she shouldn’t have made the decision which she had.

As most people of our generation are shown as heartless thugs we decided to combine the two, we showed the male in an attire which would make him look like the typical stereotype of a thug, he was wearing a hoody and some jeans in the shot of him at a grave stone, when he could have wore something more respectable, but to him his attire was adequate to the situation of which he was placed in. As he knew that his long term partner loved him and wouldn’t have minded what he visited her grave in just as long as he remembered her. The footage which we took makes the male look very emotional and like he's thought in depth about the consequences of his actions and what exactly they have caused.

The story then goes on to tell the story of how the man is living with his guilt and how it has turned his life around. Our film then goes on to challenge forms and conventions of real media products because it shows a different side to how teenagers or young people are presented by the media itself. For example kids are always on drugs, alcohol, or medication, all of which to fit a stereotype? Children are shown in series such as skins and misfits as being time wasters. We wanted to project another side of the traumas and emotions of teenagers and young adults of society.

The End

Today myself and Emma have stayed back at lunch time and after school to finish off our media video and pull together the final touches.

We rendered the clip over dinner time to save ourselves sometime over tonight... However the video did not want to co operate with our plans and instead decided not to render over lunch although we were under the impression that it had.

So myself and Emma have now sat for over 2 hours sitting waiting for the video clip to render. Howerver we have had to go through this process around 3 times untill it has finally rendered. We then had to export the video so that we would be able to save it in the correct kinds of format.

here is our finished, rendered and exported video !

Moving Forward

Today Emma has re-edited the image which Callum edited and it now looks allot more realistic than the previous image which we had of the grave stone. We are going to try and fit in in the project somewhere to emphasise the effect of the famail charicters death. We think that the simple image of the grave stone would have a good effect on the viewers of the video.

Today I have began to render the clip so that it is allot less jumpy when we are trying to watch it also to save time at the end of the project. I have began to start working on the evaluation part of the task which we were all given. After doing this i then decided to write up the titles for the end credits of our film so that once compleated we can just slot them into the video.

Todays Progress

This is the list which we have recieved from our teacher, the list stated all of the things which we needed to do to to make our progect better and more succesfull. We have read through the list and this lesson we have produced and tweaked the clip to the best of our abbilitys.
We have cut the music clips at various different sections throught the video so that it fits in with the mood at the current time in the clip. The highlighted things below show the tasks which we have achieved today.

1. You'll need to clean up the sound, although I would hope that the music will help with this.
2. I wonder if the first sequence would work better if you cross-cut more between the "cooking up" sequence and the graveyard - this would make it a little more interesting and would break it up a little.
3. There is an odd black-out at about 40s - is there a reason for this?4. There don't seem to be any credits at the moment - is the film title supposed to come up before the conversation?5. Where is this going? Although you've now got a range of camera angles, you still need to hook the audience in a little more. You could really do with a third scene which is designed to set up the story and the characters. You have 45 seconds to play with at least - think about how you're going to use them.

This Means That the only thing which we will need to concentrate on next leson is adding in the credits to our clip.

Today

today we edited the clips which we have and have decided to use the voice over instead of the other methods which we had chosen to use within our cilp. the editing is going well the only issue is to get the editing done on time which is possible and the sound on the clip is not as crisp and clear as it could be. we edited the clip halfway through so that a part of it was in black and white showing a distant memory of the past.

Todays Progress

today myself and callum have been editing the clip and reaserching further into films that produce the type of footage which we are using.

we have done this to make our clip look slightly more refines and wee thaught out. we may need to shoot some more clips over the weekend but will talk to emma about this when she is back in school as she is at a university shaddowing day today at newcastle.

Further Editing

We have edited the clip today and we had had some trouble with the grace stone which we had used.
The date of birth was far to old for the charicter in our clip and the date was relevent to the shot which we had took .

We have opened up the clip on various different software and are currently trying to change the numbers around so that they look belvable.

Editing

Not only have we got all of our clips now but we are beginning today to start the big cut!

We are using premier pro to edit our clips and create the final video , We will be adding in the new footage which we have collected of the conversation scene between myself and callum and add this onto the ending of our clip.

We have also sorted out the problem of the music clip not being able to play on the final video which we are currently producing.


We still have not got titles and things for our film clip but we will be adding these on closer to the end of producing the final video. their will only be a few things which we will need to edit and work on to progress and finely make our clip the best that it can be for the deadline date.

to make sure that this is done by the deadline and that we will have enough time to produce the video incase errors or problems occur we will be putting as much time into this project as physically possible. For example hours after school and dinner times to compleate the video to the best of our capability to achieve the highest grade possible.

Progress

as i asked oliver to produce the music four our clip to help us out as evereything else would need to be coppywrited he kindly produced some music for the start of our movie clip. myself and emma tried to add the music to the video however when we added it, it said there was no audio on the track. we believe we will have to change the format of the clip to make it work and this is something which we will need help with during lesson time from our teacher.Therefore we are going to try to fix this at a later date. Tonight we are shooting a few more clips that we realised we needed after we did our rough cut.

Video - rough editing

progress

as i was off the last few days i was unable to see the work progressing and how our team had progressed when producing the clip.

half of our video is rendered already and the rest is currently editing. myself anc callum have done some edditing today and this will help towards the final cut of our movie start.
we are rendering the rough cut and this will be placed on our blogs at some point throught the day.

all we need to add to the clip is titles and the opening to our film, the logo and film title.