Evaluation of our Media Product: Questions 1, 2 and 3

EVALUATION OF MEDIA COURSEWORK

By Megan Lawrenson

1: IN WHAT WAYS DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT USE,

DEVELOP OR CHALLENGE FORMS AND CONVENTIONS OF REAL MEDIA PRODUCTS?

The title of our film is Only Chance the title of our film helps to emphasise just how serious the band is to its members

whilst also intriguing the audience.

TITLE

SETTINGStereotypical college setting which sets the scene immediately and

gives an idea of the films genre.

The college setting is clear due to our use of props for example the environment has notice boards and other teenage extra’s with bags

which make them appear they have lessons.

On the continuous shots Chesky walks down a corridor and past lockers clearly emphasising the

college setting

SETTING

COSTUME

The two main characters have contrasting costumes to establish the difference in personality and their attitudes. The props are minimal except for the musical instruments in the band scene as they were a necessity for the films plot.

The costumes of our characters are typical casual clothing that students would wear on an everyday basis. The costume for Meg however has more of a rock look.

ICONOGRAPHY

The poster represents the group’s desperation to find a singer as they are now opening the auditions to anyone that wants to try.

CAMERA WORK

I think for us it was very important to establish that the film was going to be different from the beginning so rather than have the credits over long shots we decided to split sections of video into

quarters allowing us to have two pieces of video playing simultaneously with the credits

GENRE

The genre of the films was very clear from the offset the setting is very clearly a college film as we thought the opening should have walking shots to establish the location of the film whilst close ups of the guitar show that the film will also include a lot of music.

HOW THE CHARACTERS ARE INTRODUCED

The first main character Chesky is introduced through close ups of her playing the guitar and close ups of her head bobbing along to the music her band is playing.

When being introduced it would be hard to first recognise Chesky as one of the main characters as other members of the band have close ups too yet as the story progresses chesky is the only member of the band in the auditions emphasising how important she is to the band and how she is the key member

HOW THE CHARACTERS ARE INTRODUCED

The first contact between the two characters sees them barge into each other in order to establish the animosity between them.

The character of Megan is introduced through walking shots. Her videos are filmed handheld which shows the roughness of the character and her edginess.

2: HOW DOES YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT REPRESENT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS?

Megan, one of the two main characters from our film is reminiscent to the character of Jenny from Gossip Girl

The appearance of both characters is very similar for example both girls have platinum blonde hair and have very similar make-up as we believe that the large amount of eyeliner conveys the girls rock attitude.

Both characters are wearing similar style outfits, which are original and bold

Chesky portrays a character similar to the one of Sam from ‘Bandslam’

The characters are both brunettes and front girls

Both characters appear happy and positive.

Both characters are guitarists

The two main character’s from our film generally go against stereotypes as the blonde is stereotypically portrayed as the nice girl yet our film breaks the stereotype and goes against the ideology of this by portraying her as a rock girl who isn’t that innocent.

In the majority of films the brunette is portrayed as the more rebellious character whereas the brunette in our film is shown as someone who is nice and dedicated to her band.

Our film offers a much more realistic representation of teenage girls by showing them as girls who can be nasty and bitches to each other. This idea will later by reversed as both girls will come together and become friends in order to be successful.

The portrayal of teenage cliques in this film is also more realistic than the usually over exaggerated portals in many modern American films and is much more subtle in showing the contrasts of cliques.

3:WHAT KIND OF MEDIA INSTITUTION MIGHT DISTRIBUTE

YOUR MEDIA PRODUCT AND

WHY?

We believe that touchstone pictures would be the best option for distributing our film as they have released many films of a similar

style to ours e.g. 10 things I hate about you and Step Up 2.

The film would be a good release for this company due to the film’s target audience and the fact that Touchstone Pictures is part of the much larger Walt Disney Company and is known for releasing films with more mature

films suitable for teenage audience.

We believe our movie could be produced in a major Hollywood film studio because the idea is original yet still fits with the

genre conventions of a typical teen movie

Our film wouldn’t be an indie film or a small British film as we feel it appeals to a much wider audience.

Our film offers for franchise/merchandising as it features a band that would actually perform in the film. The featured

band could do a tour, much similar to the likes of Miley Cyrus who is an actress and a performer. This would increase profit

made from the film.