Final Film - Hope
Group Photo
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Finished Film Poster
Finished Film Poster
In the end, we decided to take Daisy's poster and edit it in a way that we had all had an input and were all happy that the final design looked as professional as possible and was fir for purpose (advertise our film and present its context well)
The changes we made to the original was the size of the pictures and added the text along the bottom.
All in all this improved the finish of the poster immensely and gave us all credit for creating the film.
Evaluation Question 1
How our
Film uses, develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products
By Emily
Smith
The genre of our film has been one of the main focuses
throughout the research, planning, production and editing stages of our
project. The way we planned to follow the conventions of this genre was by
presenting realistic and believable situations, as well as authentic and
natural characters.
The locations we presented were also used to create a
realistic portrayal. We applied places such as
park, streets, car park and a hospital to show that the placement of the
film concerns everyday living situations.
How we portrayed our main character was influenced by our research
into similar films of the same genre. My Sisters Keeper's protagonist generated
the biggest impact on our own character. Portraying this character in a
negative way, such as committing crimes or not agreeing to save a loved one's
life, makes audience feel angry or unsupportive of the character. This will
have a greater impact on the audiences emotions when the true reason for their
actions are explained. This concept both challenges and develops the
conventions of the dramatic genre.
Ways in which our film subverts conventions of this genre
includes the ending. The death of Hope and devastation of our main character challenges
our audiences expectations. In most drama's, the plot concludes happily,
leaving characters in a good situation. However, after researching elements of
alternate genres such as crime and adventure films, we decided to challenge
this convention. We planned to create an immense impact on our audience and to achieve
this, we let our eponymous character die. This was not all, with the death of
Hope, Destiny has failed. She was unable to save her sisters life and thus had
committed numerous crimes for no reason.
In my research, I have found that the use of a voice over is
an effective technique employed in other films of the same genre. Again my
sisters keeper has been extremely influential in relation to this. Kate's
farewell in the voiceover form, whilst going through her memory book creates a
heart wrenching, emotional scene that engages and touches the audience. A
similar reaction was hoped for as an outcome for our film and adaption of this
technique.
The majority of our film is created to send the audience through
an emotional experience. Throughout the film, emotions of characters, along
with the audiences emotions are expected to change and develop as the plot
progresses. This applies to Richard Dyer's Theory of pleasures. In this theory,
the use of these emotional differences in our film would be relevant to the
intensity pleasure. This is where the audience have an experience of emotions
that are directed and authentic, which our film does.
Continuity
is a big factor in the creation and production of a film. To maintain
continuity certain factors should be monitored and maintained. For example, a
character cannot wear a blue hat one second and then a red one the next, it
would make the scene look strange and confuse the audience. A rule of
continuity that is normally followed in the 180 degree rule. However, we chose
to challenge this convention in one of our scenes. We chose to do this only
because it created a sense of confusion and chaos to watch, which was a
reflection of the characters emotions during the scene where she is told her
sister had died.
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