The narrative in my film

I found that the narrative for my film was not very clear, the audience struggled to follow it and often got confused with who was who. This is something that I would change if I was to create my film again. I was following todorvs theory of narrative for the making of my film. The film started with an equilbrium, this was were Lily starts college and meets a boy, there was then a disruption this is were Lily finds out Leon has a girlfriend. After this there is a new equilbrium that is formed, this is were Lily and her best friend Jay become a couple. I thought that this one of the best parts of the narrative, I just needed to make it clearer who the characters were at the begining of the film.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

The audience feedback allowed me to see what went wrong in the film that I created, it lets me see what needs to be improved. The first thing that I would change about film is the sound frequency, this is because in some parts of the film it was louder than others and also the background noises were louder than the characters speech so you were not able to hear clearly what they were saying. Another thing is that I would make the characters a lot clearer, the audience seemed to get confused on who was who this made them struggle with the plot. I would make it clear at the begining of who is who if I was going to make it again. The last thing that i would change about my film is that I would make sure that the characters change there clothing through the film, this is so the audience will be able to recognise that it is a new day. The feedback has helped me a lot and has shown noth what I have done well and what needs imrpoving in my film.

Audience Feedback

I agree with a lot of the comments that tehy audience gave me. One of them mentioned something about the clothing. This is a big mistake which I made in the film and when I noticed it was too late to do anything about it. 'Were was the comedy?' this is a comment that a memeber of the audience said, the comedy was based around Lily with doing silly things like falling over and making a fool of herself. Not everybody has the same humour so this paticular person may not have found this film funny but others did. A lot of the audience struggled with which character was who so I would make sure that I would make it clearer.

Outakes of LIfe of Lily

This is showing the behind the scenes footage of what happened whilst we was filming. It shows were we went wrong and how many times we have to go over one scene in the film as we couldnt get it right.

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

The two ancillary tasks that I had to create to go with my main product (film) was a review of the film and a poster. When I was making the the ancillary tasks I tried to follow a theme through out them, this is so the audience would be able to recognise that they were a part of the same production. I used the same images in both the poster and review, also I used the same font and I placed the tag line (two boys one girl...which one will it be?) on both of the ancillary tasks. Having two ancillary tasks is going to help draw the target audience in to watch the film. The two ancillary tasks are what is going to advertise the film intill the film is released. I have posted the poster and review on places were I know the target audience are going to look. I have mainly used social networking sites like facebook and twitter. They are going to give the audience little bits of detail of what is going to happen in the film.
I looked at many different posters before I created my poster, this was to help give inspiration. I have used two images that involve the main character Lily with each of the male leads, this will allow the audience to think of which male she is going to end up with. I have used the same images that are from both the film and the review.











I had a look at plenty of different reviews to help me with how to lay mine out and what you should right in the review. This helped me a lot for when I created my review. In the review I have included the actors that star in my film and what makes the film so good. The review is going to give the audience interesting details about the film and make them want to go and see it.













Through out all of the products I have created I gave tried to keep a theme so the audience are able to see that they are a part of the same thing.

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

Through out the making of my film I tried to follow the codes and conventions of rom-coms as best as possible. I watched a variety of different rom-coms so I was able to see what most of the codes and conventions are through a rom-com.
Boy meets girl is a convention that you see in all rom-coms, this is a very important element of the film as it brings the romance that you want in to it. In my film I had the boy meets girl very early on in the film, as it allows you to see the romance grow in both good and bad ways. As the audience it makes you feel more involved as you are able to relate your own relationship problems to the film.
Humour is another improtant aspect that is put into rom-coms. The humour is what brings the comedy to the film without this the film would not be a rom-com. The comedy brings the fun factor to the film and makes the audience smile. I have brought the comedy in through the animation that is used through out my film.
Happy endings are also always importnat in rom-coms as you want the audeince to feel happy once they have finished watching the film, you dont come accross many rom-coms that dont have a happy ending. I have made the ending of my film happy as it allowws the audinece to feel relief and happy for the characters that are in the film.
It is always important to have atwist in the plot as it draws the audience in more and stops them from getting bored. I have included a twist in my plot, Leon is cheating on the Heroine (Lily) who then ends up going out with her best friend Jay. This allows the audience to think more and gets them feelling exicted and want to watch more.
All these codes and conventions are what I feel will attract my target audience.

My final poster

This is the final poster for my film. I included all the main characters that are in my film and also a bit of the animation. I have included a tag line as I feel that this will help draw my traget audiences attention. I have also used colours that the target audience like to helo draw there attention.

How did you use new media technologies in the construction, planning and evaluation stages?

Research stage
Through the research stage of my film, the main new technology that I used was the internet. The internet allowed me to look at a wide range of different things from films to film reviews. YouTube was one of the main things that I used in the construction stage as it allowed me to look at a variety of different short films and trailers. This helped me decide on what I was going to make for my A2 project; it gave me inspiration and many ideas for what I wanted to do for my project. I also used the website IMDB a lot in the construction stage of my work as it allowed me to look at the different posters and reviews and helped me get ideas for what I wanted to do. Below is one of the many short films/trailers that I looked at.


Planning Stage
The first thing that I had to do in the planning stage was choose the genre that I wanted of the short film that I was making. New technology allowed me to look at all the different genres, I used a website that gave me all the genres and explained which of them were. The website was http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html. I also used a video camera to ask the target audience of what genre they most enjoy and why. This is another form of new media technology. Throughout the planning stage I also used YouTube as I was able to look at variety of short films that fell under the genre of rom-com. Another new media technology that I used to help me with the planning stages of my work was social networking sites (facebook) as it allowed me to approach the target audience in a way they feel comfortable as they use social networking sites a lot. I asked the target audience what they like about rom-coms and would a rom-com work as a short film. I also used a DVD player as this allowed me to look at previous students work. This allowed me to see the standard of work that was expected. I used many different new media technologies in the planning stage of my work another form of technology that I used was scanner. I used a scanner as I had done things by hand (storyboard) and they needed to be uploaded onto my blog and this is one of the ways in which you could do this.
Consturuction Stage
Through the construction stage of my film I used a wide range of different types of new media technologies. I used a video camera for the filming of the film I was creating. I also used a camera through the filming of my film as I wanted to take still shots of us filming to show us all working as a team. To make the poster for the film I used Photoshop which again is another type of new media technologies. This allowed me to create the best poster possible. Illustrator was also used; this was to create the review for the film. Once we had finished filming our film we had to edit and I used the software windows movie maker, this was a very good piece of editing software.
Evaluation Stage
During the evaluation stage of my film YouTube was one of the main things that I used this is because it was the way in which we could get the target audience to watch my film. YouTube is where we uploaded our film, pitch and everything else that was created to help us with our film.

Throughout each of stages I was blogging to show what I have done through the making of my film. Here are images of some of the new media technologies I used througout the making of my film.

Life of Lily

This is my film.

Animation

I have used animation in the film as I think that it works well there has been succesfull films and programmes that have used animation, one of the most famous ones is The Lizzie Mcguire Movie. Here is some clips of the animation that is going to be used in my film.

Editing

The editing software that we used to edit the film was windows movie maker. We found this easy to use and had no problems while editing the film.

Genre

This is the target audiences feedback to what genres they like and why.