Question 3-

Question 6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of making this product?

I would say the technology i have learnt the most about is Blogger, this is a software that we got told to document our work and explain everything that we have done in the previous weeks of making out final media project- At first I had no idea how to use this software and was completely oblivious at how many different things it could do. To get some inspiration of what my blog should of looked like i looked at many previous blogs that have been done recently and a while ago. I found this very useful because it gave me many ideas of the way that i wanted my blog to work and the way i would of liked the end product to look like. 

The first thing I did when I created my account was explored the customize bar- I found it very interesting that i could do pretty much whatever i wanted to my blog to make it my own, also it made the task of having to write a blog a lot more fun as it is completely your own work and it expresses the way you feel. 

Once you know how to use blogger, it makes everything look much more professional and also it shows you have the techniques to be able to do it effectively- one of the main things i made the mistake of when i first started using Blogger was I copied and pasted my images and they looked very grainy  and not very good quality then I discovered how to insert saved JPEG images which had 10X better quality and they looked professional, also I love the way that you can move your images around the screen and get them exactly where you want them. 

Also, another thing that helped me understand blogger is how to embed things from vimeo and prezi- when you know how to do this it seems very easy. It allows you to put things straight onto your blog without having to open another link. 

From making my media project i have learnt that there are many key components to making a very successful film- one of the most simple things I was getting wrong is that I wasn't using a tri-pod when trying to film my first shots in my preliminary task but then I noticed that the shots looked awful, This meant that my shots did not look very professional at all. Without using a tri-pod your film would not flow very well and the editing would look awful if I had carried on not using a tri-pod i would have got a rubbish grade. 

Overall, i have learnt lots about technology when making my final media production- we had to make many things out of our film because they didn't work and the angles weren't right, this is because we were not happy with them. I believe that we did everything we could in our final piece and that we should be very proud of how far we have come with learning how to use many different forms of technology and all the different equipment. 

Question 7.

Preliminary Task- 

Media Studies Practice Video from Callum Lynch on Vimeo.


From this task to my final media project I have learnt so much,
I have discovered how to actually use camera angles to represent certain things in my film- before I did the preliminary task I had no clue how to use editing software and and I didn't know how to really use a camcorder. 

When I was using the camcorder in my preliminary task I only really knew how to just press the button to make it record- I now know how to make all of the different settings work on it and how to use it at the best angles to get the best looking shots that there can be for me to achieve the highest grade. Also, I have learnt that using a tri-pod is essential so that the camera shots do not wobble and they look slick, they also need to be steady so the shots all link together smoothly.  

 In my preliminary task I used very simple shots such as match on action and close ups on the door handles, I realize now that they're not the only shots you can use to create a good media film. In our final media product we used a huge range of shots. 


Editing-
When editing our final task I discovered that short and snappy cuts are the best for horrors- this is because it makes the suspense a lot higher and it also leaves the audience wanting more. When we first did our preliminary task we did quite slow cuts but with our actual media production we did fast cuts. 

Now I know how to use the 180 degree rule effectively, which we did in our preliminary task but now I feel as if this rule comes naturally when I am given a camera- I explained what the rule was back on my first blog post. 


Time management and organisation-
In the beginning our group was awful at deciding when to film and how long we would need to spend filming, we made the mistake of leaving our filming to 2 weeks before we needed to hand it in. I think that we have learnt that we need to film very early in advance and we need too film things many times just in case some of the shots are not good enough and will lack continuity. 



Overall, I am proud of how far I have progressed within the process of making my final media piece, I am looking forward to progressing  even further in my future projects that I get given. 

This is our final media project- 

Media studies Final 2 from Callum Lynch on Vimeo.

Question 5-

What elements of your text would attract target audience?

I have attracted my target audience by having the age of our characters the age at who our target audience is. This helps our target audience relate more to our film because they can feel the way that we are feeling. 

The clothing we have used to attract our target audience is simple because we used clothing they teenage girls would typically wear on a normal day, we did this because it shows that they are not anything different to normal teenage girls who have boyfriend problems and want to go to their friends house to talk about- Also, when you're a teenager you have a lot of pressure put on you and in our film it represents how people our age deal with it.

Using two females and one male in our film is very common in real world movies- normally the male is the antagonist which in our film we have kept this the same and followed the codes and conventions with this but having two girls as our lead characters attracts more girls to watch it as there are not many films who have female leads. Having Callum as a lead character represents that there are males in the film and the thiller/horror elements of our film will appeal to the male gender. 

We also used technology to attracted our audience- We used an iPhone 6s, which is the latest phone out at the moment. Every teenager wants the brand new iPhone out because it is seen as 'cool'. This shows that Ellen has a lot of money and people will want to have what she does and maybe they will look up to her. 

Question 4 - 

To conclude, we had many representations of social groups in the films the main one is;

-Vulnerability of teenage girls 

This is shown in many ways, some shown above. 

Evaluation- Question 1.