Evaluation activity 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In all crime films there have been a armed 'bad guy'. In the part when me and Kieran as the henchmen are walking down the alleyway , we're confronted by a mysterious character at the other end. Like most other crime films the mysterious character is armed. However in most of the crime films they are armed with a gun, harry in ours isn't armed with a gun but a baseball bat. we chose to use a baseball bat because we believed it would still me very effective in look like a powerful weapon. It is also very effect because me and kieran are unarmed which gives the idea that we thought it was a straight forward mission that would be simple and not have any problems getting it done. The clip also fits in with the steroytype beacuse most cime films have a misson like ours, however our doesnt go as planned.

Our film also reprents the sociol group of a gang. In all clips our characters are all wearing suits and look like a steroyical gangsters. We all have our blazers done up and look very clam and collected walking with the briefcase. Even though in most crime films there is a greater amount of people walking in a group, i believe that me and kieran look the part and still give the effect as the other picture.

Evaluation Task One

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

- The first screen shot is how are film is introduced with the title screen. We chose to use this title screen over the other we had previously made beacause its more eye catching and keeps in touch with the openings genre. The text style and background looked very good because after the blood drops onto the floor, the title comes up and looks very effective.

- The second picture was very good at setting the next scene. It shows the next part of the film is set in the woods. It also shows that me and Kieran are very important to the film. Although our film takes place in different areas it was key to show when the scene changed. We did this very well though the editing and continuity.

- The next picture shows the costumes and props we used for the film opening. At all times we where wearing suits, which is the normal thing to wear in crime/gangster films. Also the briefcase is the main point of interest though out the film. We showed this very well because with most of the lighting in the film being dark it made the breifcase stand out, and showed the watches that it must be focused on.

- The next picture was part of our crash zoom used in the last scene. We had the idea of using a crash zoom very early and tried to incorperate it into our film. Many other crime films in media just used the idea of a tracking shot, however this made the scene go a lot quicker. It also put alot of emphasis on harrys character. We had the idea from previous crime films but we chose to develop it into a way which would be more effective and put alot of mystery behind harry's character.

-  The next picture shows the text style we chose for our names being put smoothly into our film. These parts are like most other typical crime films. They are slowly paces and easy to read, it also fits in with they begining. Whilst Mitch is getting ready the film is very slow paced which fits in well with the credits. This was used in many other crime films at the start of  a calm atmoshper, which is then later changed dromatically.

- The next shot of mitch is getting ready. This sets the scene at the begining of the film very well, it also introduces the first character very well. It is very common in most crime films for the setting of the scene to introduce one of the many main characters.

- The next shot shows harry preparing the baseball bat in a postions to strike. This is very common to most crime films becuase it has a sence of violence. It would also be very easy for the audience to establish what sort of genre it is. Its was very easy to relate it to other crime films becacuse all of them have a scence of viloence and fast paced action which is located at the end of our footage.

Mendacity Audience Commentary

When we showed the rest of our media class our final product we got a lot of positive feed back. Mr Oswick said "The opening of the case scene worked really well and actually that shot was framed really nicely with Matt just looking over, the most nicely framed shot in the whole thing i think. It worked really well''. We where very proud of this shot as we had thought about what could make the scene more effect and we really wanted to achieve that. 


David in our class said he liked the sped up shot that goes down the alleyway, he thought that was really good and effective. Again it was another point in our film opening that we put a lot of thought into. We wanted to attempt to put a crash zoom in somewhere to just try it out, but it worked very quite.


Alex also added he liked the way it didn't stay on the same shot for too long and the credits faded in and out to black. He Also said some of the shot techniques like when the shot looked up towards the sky and came back down to a different area. This again was an Idea that we thought a lot about, And it showed off in the final piece because everyone thought it all looked impressive and smooth.




One area Mr Oswick touched on the few pieces of dialogue that were included were very quite and hard to pick up on. Which could be improved simply by having a proper mic or just recording the dialogue separately and link it with the video.

Mendacity Final Piece (AS Media Opening)

Diary of editing

March 27th

After speaking out side media lessons we had decided to use, the two tracks used are called Abandoned and On The Trigger. Kieran had put them over our footage and edited the switch between the two tracks to fit the change in scene. Kieran will then upload the final piece into his youtube account, which i will then later upload onto my blog.

Opening Credits second

After the previous post this is what kieran came up with at home, however he wasn't very happy with it and we as a group decided that we should use the first one with some minor changes.

Diary of editing

March 24th

In our lesson we had all decided that we need to cut one of the smaller time consuming parts out. After discussing for a few minutes in the group we had decided to cut out the toast scene. We would not miss anything very important out. The only thing we had to do instead of having the toast part in, was that me made a sound bridge of the kettle boiling from one scene to the next to have the same content as before.

We also said we would look on websites like freeplaymusic or non copyrighted music for our opening and talk out side of lessons yo what we think is the best and best fitted for our media work.