question 2

the thing that will lead your essay is the argument you give.

Venerable, teenagers. what group are they in within the media. undatable, a-word. they tackle this within soaps that has to be covered by the government within the stereotypes.

Hoodie horror, came back and everyone is scared due to knife crime, portrayed within all media and if that is really what teens are like. film example is brotherhood and ill manners.

In real life characters, internet. if it is ruining lives, social media. mainly in news and documentary such as in real life. and gaming.

Criminals that turn things around, kingsman, people who have identity who have a goal and can help society.

Geeks win, nerds have won, kids who work hard and get jobs who learn and do well. will in the inbetweeners and the big bang theory. sbtv.

normal kids, fresh meat, just boys and kids in soaps

exceptional kid, tom daley, sbtv, youtubers.

Genre- 1B

Genre

In this essay I am going to be writing about genre and how I linked my film opening “On Track” to genre. The genre I have chosen for my film is sports.  I conformed and subverted certain things throughout my film opening and genre. An example of my film opening subverting the sports genre is using two females as the two main characters. This subverts as in a stereotypical sports film it is a male main character in a male dominated sport.

We chose to do a sport film as it is different it also allows us to expand our ideas on other films that also share the sporting genre. When researching we was inspired by the film “fast girls” we used this film as a structure as to how to make a sports film. We used the research idea of having the settings, camera, mise-en-scene and editing all being very similar. An example of how we made the films very similar so that we could link “fast girls” to our film is by using similar locations such as an athletics track, a gym and a swimming pool. All of the settings we used link to a sports film as they are all stereotypical sporting venues where people will train and perform overall for sport. Another film we looked at for research is “Rocky” we used this for the narrative as to make a film link to sports as a genre the story line will have to be similar to how you want the film to be. “Rocky’s” over all out line was to train, the main character to get knocked down, get back up, train harder and then win a competition. We linked this to our film opening as our story line was to train, main characters to have a rivalry, one loses a competition, on trains harder than the other, another competition where the other girl wins and the audience then feel for the winner. This links overall to the genre of sport as it shows competition and determination which was seen throughout “ROCKY”.

In my film we chose to use sport as the type of genre, as in Daniel chandler’s theory, genre is a type so I chose to use sports as my type for the genre of the film this theory was also conformed throughout showing that it was always a sports film. Another theory that was linked to my film opening was Steve Neale’s theory as my genre was repeated throughout my film but it also showed differences so that it can link back to sports as a genre throughout the film. My film was similar to a sports film as it conformed with all of the stereotypes of a sports film such as the mise-en-scene as I chose locations that have been linked to sports such as tracks and gyms but also the props as a key icon within the film are the shoes, this links to sports as a genre as the type of shoes where trainers but one pair was worn out so this shows the genre of spirt and hard work. I also subverted the sporting genre showing differences such as the characters as they are female this is not a stereotypical sports film mise-en-scene.

within the film we also used camera to show the genre of sport, this would include shots where it builds suspension such as a low tracking shot. we used this shot before the race scene to show  make to scene more intense. this shot was a tracking shot going across the competitors hands showing there starting stance as they was just about to go. we also used mine-en-scene, the costume used was to show differences between classes within our genre, to show the sporting difference between to people we used different shoes, as one pair where scuffed trainers while the other pair where clean white shoes. this would portray the sporting genre as a money driving genre. 

conclusion-

Representation- essay

Apply the concept of representation to one of your coursework productions.

on track is a film including two teenage girls who are aspiring athletes, both have a massive passion for sprinting. within the film they compete in many competitions leading up to there big day. within the film there are may different locations such as trainmen facilities and stadiums all of these link to the representation of girls within sport. we used these location so that we can set the theme of sports and teenagers.

our whole film is a counter type, this i due to the main characters being teenage aspiring athletes who are both female. we chose the characters to be female so that it would break out of the ordinary. most sports films are about men and there way of winning  but we have chosen to make it girl based so that it will be able to spread more to a female audience. the two characters both have different personalities and up bringing as one is rich and one is poor so asa stereotype the rich girl is the mainly disliked girl as they are seen as the stubborn villain and the hero is the poor girl who has to work for there victory. so within the storyline the poor girl wins the final race therefore they ar the hero and the film is conformed.

both girls are subverted sports models as they are women not a stereotypical man. but as one of the girls is rich there is a conform as rich people win everything but the main winner is the poor girl but alongside that there is subvert as the poor girl has to hustle to win.

within my film the representation is shown through the characters, these characters can have many different personalities but for both characters they share similarities and differences. both are able bodied, one is in lower class while the other is upperclass, both are teenagers and both are female. when using female characters we did not want to follow Levi stress theory of sexualising there characters so we subverted his theory. this was done so that the characters would come across as innocent to our target audience. another theorist that had an influence on our film was Vladimir props who talks about stereotyping characters, this theory is about stereotypes within a film. this in my film was conformed.

Post production essay- editing

In media I have done a two-year course. During the first year it was all about learning about how to use your post production skills to create the final product in year 13 which is our final music video. To do this there are many parts that have to be practiced such as the technology, the websites, the presentation tools and the editing software.

To start with the editing, when I started the course in year 12 I had a little bit of experience with editing but I had only ever used IMovie on a MacBook air. Learning how to go from IMovie to premier pro was a had step for me as I was used to simplistic cuts and transitions. In year 12 we were given a task so that we could get used to the program, this was to import, cut and match up video with audio. To do this we used limited tools within premier pro, we mainly used the cut icon and the transition pad. Within this task there was no creativity involved, the main part that I struggled with within the task was getting used to all of the icons on the program as it took a while to get used to what every icon was for. The next task we got given was called juno, and that was to recreate a scene from the movie juno. Within this task we used editor to correctly cut and place the video footage in time with the music and the actual movie. This task was very basic for post-production as it was more for the camera work, but there was an effect that I had to look up on YouTube to find out how to do it but it was simple compared to my year 13 work.

For the final part of year 12, we had the task of creating an opening scene for an upcoming movie. For the editing in post-production, to creative the narrative I used basic cuts so everything fitted in with the idea and it all made sense. The main effect that was used within the task was a split screen, this was used to how the cross between personality’s. the split screen was very basic as there was no added effects to make it look sharp or unedited, there was no feathering added it was a line dead centre. Also within the task there was no sound correction so it was muffled sound which was also screechy, in post-production there could’ve been an improvement by using sound correction within premiere pro. Also for the task it would’ve been the first time using titles and text, the final product has titles in different positions and different sizes but the main focus was to get the same font and size both of which we found hard as we were still learning how to position without changing the size of the text but also how to position the text without needing a different colour or font.

Going from year 12 to year 13 there was a big difference within my post production work this was shown through my first piece of work created which was banana phone a task where you have to show different objects and effects on a lip-sync 30 second music video. In my video I had adapted my skill son premier pro for a music video I learnt how to make finding the video to match the audio easier by using the curser on the screen. Doing this it would allow me to look at the video every frame to check if everything was in time. I also learnt how to make more effects and transitions effective by using the effect pad on the left of premier pro. Using this it would allow me to change how long an effect would last or how much it would affect the video.

Going from banana phone to my final production, this was to make a music video for an undiscovered artist within this video I found out how to use more effects and how to make them more effective in a music video. To do this I look up video on YouTube to learn how to do better effects so that when it came to the editing I could play around with certain effects. Also within editing I learnt to use after effects, using this in my music video it would make it look more professional by adding different colour effects and correction on effects. When editing I had to make sure there was good synergy to match the orange on the other parts in our post production. In after effects the main effect I used was masking within a transition, this is where there is a cut around an object to make another video appear behind. This was effective within my video as it helps the overall narrative.