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Final Project - Bird Lime

Here is our Finial Project - Bird Lime

Question 7 - Evaluation

Firstly, I found the preliminary task incredibly useful in helping me understand the importance of editing and how key good editing can be to making a really good product. Another important thing I found when doing the preliminary task is that you need to take lots of takes of the same shot just incase one shot is ever so slightly wrong and therefore you have plently others to rely on and thus it gives you cleaner and better product if you have a many shots to choose from. 

Additionally, the importance of continuity also became something I learnt about throughout the proces of making the Preliminary Task. For example as you may see in our Preliminary Task, some of our shots might not add up due to the little things like having hands on the table and then next shot them not being there, this therefore was a mistake that we corrected when producing the final project. 

Here is our Preliminary Task 

Question 6 - Evaluation

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Question 5 - Evaluation

How did you attract/address your audience?

We attracted our audience in many ways. 

Firstly, because we were excited about the project we were working on, we therefore attracted our audience through our word and purely conversing with others about the media product. This was found to be an effective method because when you show your excitement to others about a personal thing, they usually support you and want to hear and know more therefore we attracted our audience through that method. 

Another method we used was social media, we spread the word of our final project online which therefore attracted the attention of people around the world who were and are into the same genre as our film. We used the likes of Facebook and twitter to showcase our project online. This has been successful for many big name films, an example would be the Marvel Facebook account uploading all of their film trailers so the whole world can see them easily. 

Marvel's Facebook Page

The final method we used was uploading the project onto youtube, this therefore means that any person scouring youtube for gritty British crime films, they'll see ours and thus attracts our audience in another way. 

Final Project

Question 4 - Evaluation

Question 3 - Evaluation

Film 4 was the company that we believed who would distribute our Final Project. We found the links between their films and ours uncanny and that no other institution were distribute our product who related better with our product than Film 4.

Question 2 - Evaluation

How does you media represent particular social groups? 

We felt that our film would be mainly based to men 16+, because we felt that this group of people who be most interested in the genre our film is, which is gritty, British crime. 

Therefore our media product represents this social group of men because men are most likely the ones who would watch our genre of film and additionally, most characters that appear in British crime films are men and therefore this mean it will primarily represent that social group of people mostly. Perfect examples of this are films like Snatch where most of cast are men and therefore the social group they represent would be predominately male based.

Question 1 - Evaluation

I decided that the genre I wanted to loosely follow for my opening sequence was a British crime drama.  I based a lot of my initial ideas on films like Snatch by Guy Ritchie, and Layer Cake to try and develop the sense of a gritty, dark story that still has elements of that dry wit and really comedic lines. I used a lot of different genre conventions to reinforce and challenge this, type of film.

The narrative of the main character accompanies the whole opening sequence.  This gives us someone to instantly trust, or at least think we do, and acts as a guide throughout the story.

I think the soundtrack, which is Beethoven’s moonlight sonata, really challenges the genre convention. I used this track to contrast the high-octane action and suspense with a much calmer, more peaceful soundtrack.  Giving the audience the sense that the main character has the situation under control, and is not at all nervous.

The use of shots, angles and composition were also really important to us in correctly portraying the crime genre conventions. To do this I used fast paced match on action to create the sense of being able to see more than the character in the scene, making us feel worried for him. I used a variety of different high angle shots, such as the one of the character walking from the car to the house, to show the lack of control the character has over the situation, which we noticed were very affective in the film reservoir dogs, when a hostage was being interrogated.  

I intended the editing in our piece to be very much seamless and smooth. Which generally challenges the very abrupt, and noticeable transitions of many British crime dramas.  A good example of the smooth transitions in the sequence is when the character is getting into his car and is about to drive off.

Final Project - Costume

The costume for the final project, was smart dressed in a suit. This was because it best represented the character we were trying to portray, a smart, succe

ssful business man. The character on the right, had to dress like a hit man, which we believed to be a somehwhat smart but also scruffy man in a black suit, who was prepared to get the job done.

Final Project - Titles

Here are some of our titles within our opening sequence:

Final Project - Props

The props we required within the short sequence were:

Car - We needed the car to show our character driving from the city to their house 


Gun - We needed the gun to show the shooting of the main character at the end of the clip. The gun comes up twice within the short clip, and both creates the sense of serious danger to the main character


Keys - We needed house keys so the character could get into the house and lock the car

Final Project - Sound

For our opening sequence, I had to find some foley sounds like guns, doors opening and closing and busy ambient sounds. Here are some of the sounds we found:

Gun Shot Sounds 

Door Opening and Closing Sound Effect

Final Project - Location

We have started shooting at two of our locations. One of them is old rundown multi story car park, and the other is a member of our groups house. We chose these locations because they fitted our idea of how we wnated the film to look adn also because of their accessibility.

Final Project - Script

One of the members in our group has written a script for our voice over.

Final Project, Planning

In class we had to decide what we wanted to do for our final project. My group decided to do a hitman, action kind of film. We started throwing around ideas of where we could do it and what kind of music to use. We ended up decided to shoot the opening sequence in Oxford, more specifically the westgate car park.

We chose this location because of how dark and empty it is, and out of all the places we thought that a chase might take place, this is the one that we all agreed on

Final Project - Story Board

In our class today we sat down as a group and started to story board our main project which is called Bird Lime. Our Project is about business man being chased by a hitman yet he doesn't know the hitman is after him.