Construction

From constructing this media product I have learnt a lot about camera angles and how to make them work in a video. Using shot-reverse-shot at different angles to show dominance in a relationship and conversation. Using match on action to comply with the brief, when opening a door and having the right angle will make sense from one shot outside the door to another of the character inside.

When filming we had some continuity problems, as we were filiming in school time and our male actor Oliver was wearing different clothes on some days. We tried to get around it by fliming him taking off a black cardigan and exposing his shirt underneath because the previous day he was wearing a black jumper.

The camera we were using were simple, compact and easy to use. However the picture quality isn't the best.
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Audience

The audience for my media product if it were to be shown on TV as a Drama the majority of the audience would be 20-40 year old women from lower-middle class.

The woman that would watch my media product in a TV Drama might have strong beliefs that woman should be the dominant partner in a relationship. This is because we have protrayed the female character as the dominant one.

We have attracted our aduience by using characters that they can identify with and a storyline that is not unlike real life, but exagerated a bit.

Filming

I think this storyline and type of product might be suitable to show on television it has the potential to work as a TV Drama, not in film or radio though, as I don‘t think it would make as much sense to the audience. For the scenes where Oliver and Kushi are talking we have used Shot Reverse Shot, which we had to use according to the brief. We also didn't break the 180 degree rule, which as you can see from the diagram below makes sure the film makes sense so that we're not filming from the wrong angle when the characters are having a conversation. This makes sure the audience isn’t confused.

Characters

My film only has two characters, there is no need for other characters in the film and I think that it makes the audience able to relate to them more.The first character we have is the male one, played by Oliver Morris, we have made him a bubbly and happy character who seems very eager to see his girlfriend, for reasons that become evident as the filming progresses. Oliver plays the less-dominant character, his feelings are hurt when she says no to his proposal, and he is on one knee, lower that her.The second character is the female, played by Kushi Senghani, in this film she seems like the most rational character, Oliver seems to be a bit childish whereas Kushi is the one who knows what she wants.Our media product represents the working class in a positive way, Kushi is playing a teacher and when we first see her in the film she is hard at work, marking papers. We have also represented women as being strong in our production, as the brief has outlined. Kushi is the dominant character and takes control of the situation this is a positive representation of women.

Deciding on a storyline

There are four members of my group that are working on this preliminary task. We all came up with some interesting ideas for this film, we finally decided on a proposal scene, thinking this idea the most interesting and easy to work.The scene is set in a school, which was easy to do seeing as we were in school at the time we were filming. The female character is a teacher who is surprised at work by her boyfriend who proposes. But all does not go to plan because she says 'no'. In the brief we were given, it said that we should make one character dominant and show this with camera angles. We chose to make the female character dominant in the situation because the outcome of the proposal rests on her answer. We showed her to be the dominant character by having the male actor on his knee for most of the conversation, he is looking up at her and we have filmed the proposal scene from his and her point of view so that the differ in heights is evident.