Q4 - How did you use media technologies in the research and planning of your film

Q3 Ancillary technologies

This video shows the different technologies and tools we used for the creation of our ancillaries.

Q3 Audience feedback

This video shows two people who watched our short film now answering questions on the short film as well as the ancillaries.

Q2 Emaze

Question 1- How do our short film and ancillaries use develop or challenge forms of conventions in comparison to real short film and ancillaries

Text for ancillary

This film is based on an ordinary teenage boy who has just passed his driving test. After passing his driving test he quickly picks up two of his friends. After showing off his capabilities towards driving he then has a dilemma to deal with when he has two offers to do with social activities. The choice he now has to make is whether to stick with his original friends or move on to the girl of his dreams who has only begun showing an interest in him now that he can drive.

The main character is successfully acted by Jack Watkin whose only other acting role has been in the opening scene of the widely viewed "The last man standing". Given a larger role Watkin seemingly stepped up to the lead role in this short film, appearing confident and able in a role that required the camera to always be on him from a close range. It is also worth noting one of the major names that was able to act in this film. This actor being Liam Hodgson, yes the supposed antagonist who acted superbly in the opening scene of the film "Shadows". Once again Liam, does not disappoint playing the role of the quiet friend perfectly in the back of the car. The other friend was played by Ismail Hemamou a new upcoming actor from Morocco. Speaking near perfect English after only moving to the United Kingdom three years ago, he acts well but can only get better.

From the directors point of view I would be glad with what has been done on a extremely tight budget and tight filming schedule. The simplicity of the film comes form the one shot throughout the film using only a GoPro mounted on the front of the inside of the car. In this way this film is similar to another short film that we would highly recommend in Orange Drive however this is intentional with the director announcing that he drew a lot of inspiration from that film.

Overall we rate this film. Believing that it does promote a good moral message and does make you think throughout the film. The acting in the film is well done with special praise going the lead actor in Jack Watkin in his first major role. We give this film a 4/5!!!!




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Audience Feedback- Double Page spread

We showed our double page spread to our class to get some feedback. Our double page spread is a magazine review based of another real life poster from Empire magazine. We showed our class mates to get a fair review.

Overall our double paged spread got mixed reviews. The majority said it looked good and was well done in the layout as well as the image working well with what our film represented. However 3 people believed that the image could look just a bit more professional. We are now going to alter our magazine spread just a bit to make it look more professional.  We will look more carefully at professional spreads to try and end up with a higher standard of review page. We believe we can do this by filling in the small details which will hopefully make the review page that bit more professional.

Ancillary research

Luckily this can stay the same as our ancillaries won't be too far off what we were planning to do before. Mainly just a different photo to represent the new film and what we are trying to promote from this film. The photo we aim to take will have to include the car as well as the main actor who will be Jack as he has access to a car, making it easier for us to film regularly. We just need to stick to many of the typical short film poster and double page spread review conventions. Such as the billing information at the bottom of the poster and the main thing to do with the film in the centre of the poster.

Target audience

For our new film we believe that our film will be able to target a wide array of ages and classes but mainly people of the age 15-24 and a class of C1. This is because of the age of the actors in the film as well as the situations that arise in the film. People of the age 15-24 will probably be able to relate to the film the most however most people will probably be able to therefore the chances of our target audience expanding to include people from above the age of 24 is quite likely. While classes are quite open but once again people of the class of C1 and above or just below may find that they can relate a lot easier than others.

Inspiration for our new idea

With our new film idea involving the change of a teenagers social life after he passes his driving test we mainly drew inspiration from another students short film by the name of "Orange Drive" from this short film we noticed that it was all done in one shot and seemed quite a simple but effective idea to just show the main character always in their car. As we didn't have much time to complete our new idea we believed that this sort of film may be easiest.

Double page spread inspirations

I have found some examples of double page spreads of films from the movie magazine empire. We our using these designs for inspiration for our double page spread. As they are from all the same magazine, most of them have a similar layout.

1). This design is very much graphic based. It has a simple design but with bold text which goes nicely with the colour scheme and texts.

 2). This design is dominated by one image and has a simple layout on the right. It has a nice colour scheme and a little box of facts about the film which is nice.

 3). This design is very similar to the last one except it has one slightly smaller image so it can add an extra image in the bottom right. This one is goob but I find it doesn't seem as affective as the last one

 This featured in the last two double page spread. I am going to use this in our double page spread as it is simple but looks good and professional.

4). This is similar to number two. It is dominated by one image but has different colour scheme and visuals like the iconic gun barrel designs around the 007. This is a nice affect and we want to try and use something like this.