Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression of it to the full product

There are many differences between our preliminary task and our final film that we made, one difference is that in our preliminary task there are no institutional logos shown in the opening but our final film has two institutional logos in at the very start of the final film, showing that we have learnt when and where to put the institutional logos in a film opening. Another difference is that in our preliminary task we both filmed and starred in our own film opening but when it came to the final film we were able to be more organised by getting other people in to act in our film other than ourselves. In our final film we included more shots including a drone shot and we added more vairety than in our preliminary task becasue we wanted our final to look as good as possible. 

Our detailed planning included setting up a group chat so we could communicate about our film and decide things like when to bring props in for our film and what day we should film the opening on. Our group also kept up to date with the blog work so this helped the planning run smoothly as we did not have to rush any of our planning because we spent our time in lessons usefully by always doing something whether that be group/individual blogs, planning for the film or sorting out what we were going to do. This detailed planning helped us produce our film because we knew what shots we were going to and what order they would be in, so this meant that on the day, the filming went smoothly as we had organised it very well.

We do now feel more confident with the equipment we were using such as the cameras and the apple mac because during our preliminary task, it was the first time we had ever used one so we didnt really know what to do but when we came to making our final film it was easier because we had had a past experience using the macs and the camera so we had some knowledge on how to use them.

Our end product is successful because it demonstrates most things you would see in a film opening such as the titles and the director being at the end, the institutional logos being at the start and the characters being introduced into the film.

Evaluation Question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

The strengths of this Nikon D4 camera were that it was high quality so we could get a great picture for the film  and the drone we used for the drone shot provided a good picture which was not too shaky. There were some problems faced in filming like the wind that day because when we turned up to the field, it was very windy because we had no cover from the trees and so we resolved this by putting on a fuzzy on top of the camera (see fuzzy circled in red), we also resolved this issue by having someone occasionally stand in front of the mic for close shots so we could hear the audio clearly and have no loud wind noises in the background. Another issue we had is that we could not do the drone shot on the day of filming because it was too windy for the drone to fly so we had to wait a few days for the wind to calm down so we could get a good drone shot for our film opening. In our film opening I did not get to use the equipment that we needed for our film because I was coordinating stunts and telling the actors where to go and standing in places they needed to run to for some shots and helping the actors off screen by telling them when to do something like tripping up the other guy on that shot of all four running behind the presenter.


Our group found it easier to edit our films on the mac this time round because we had previous experience on it, unlike in the preliminary task where it was all new to us. This time round we found ways of coping with problems because if some of the shots of our film were to bright, we could use the apple macs to lower the overall brightness of all these shots by using the dimming tool. The only real problems we faced during editing was learning how to use the editing software iMovie even better than the last time we used it and by the end of editing our film opening we knew a lot more about how to edit and different things to do on iMovie than we did before.

I think that are group worked very well together because we divided up the responsibilities when doing all of the blog posts that were required and we would happily swap posts with other group members if we preferred to do a certain blog posts and that other members would do someone else's blog post if they were busy. We also set up a group chat on Messenger so we could organise the dates for our filming and talk about other work including getting the correct equipment ready and helping other people in our group with blog posts if they needed it, this helped us because it meant we could talk about our work outside of the school. The day we went filming, the filming went very smoothly because when we arrived we all knew as a group what shots we wanted to do, so all we had to do was set up the cameras we needed and then just started recording our shots

Using blogger to log my work was very helpful because I could access it when I was at home and at school as well. If I needed help with some work I could go to one of my blog posts on that topic and it would help me by giving me key information on the topic. Using blogger to log our group blog was helpful because if one of us couldn't get on a computer at home to do some work, someone else in the group could come and do that blog post if this was after school hours.

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 4

In this video clip I have answered evaluation question 4 which is, Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institute might distribute your media product and why?

First of all what a production company does is that it helps to create a film by providing a budget which would help the film get their technology that they need to make the film and to also get in a list actors if they are a mainstream production company. A production company is also responsible for how they distribute and market their media product.

The idea of a distributor is to send your film out, so lots of different audiences can see it in various places. The production company that would distribute our film would be Film 4 Productions because as we are a small independent British company we would like them to distribute our film because they are known for backing films that have been made in the United Kingdom. The funding for our film would come from the British Film Institute because they use National Lottery funds to help and support small independent British filmmakers like us. The company that would distribute our film would be Vertigo Films because they are a small independent film distribution company and we are an independent British film. They would distribute our film mainly to independent UK cinemas including BFI Southbank because these cinemas specialise in showing independent, classic and non English language films.













The titles named in our film titles are the two institutional logos first and then they are followed by the five actors who play the characters who are then followed by the stunt coordinator and then the cinematography and then the producer and the last film title is the director after this is shown, the real names of the characters in the film are shown when they are doing interviews. We put the titles in this order because generally in most films the Institutional logos are usually the first titles that are shown on the film screen followed by the actors and these actors and actresses are in order of how well known they are. The directors name was shown last because it is the most important role. After the directors names we added in the names of the characters because we thought it would be useful to introduce the characters to the audience watching the film.

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups

Our media product shows a representation of gender through are male and female characters because are male characters are stereopyical because they are shown as strong and powerful by working in the army and carrying guns that they can use, the character shown to the left follows the stereotype by speaking assertively and acting confidently.

Our media product shows that women are represented non stereotpically because we show them in the army acting powerful and dominant and these are media stereotypes that you would associate with masculinity and not femininity. Also in our film the women is the corporal and the leader of this small group which is non stereotypical because it would usually be the man who would be leading.


The representation of age is shown in our film opening because it starts following some young soldiers showing both there maturity and there immaturity. This is shown in the film opening through some of their answers to the questions that the interviwer is giving. Our story is told from this small groups perspective and throughout the film it is narrated by the character following this small group called David Attenbro.

Evaluation Question 1

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

Our film incorporates the generic conventions of our genre which is mockumentary because there are mockumentary generic conventions such as the dialogue being used which is adding comedy into the scene, another generic convention of mockumentary is that the viewer will know that this a comedic documentary when they first see the opening of the film. There will be interviews in the film that are light hearted and comedic. We have used these generic conventions of mockumentaries in our film because in the image to the left we used the transition fade in and out to show everyone laughing already showing that this is not going to be a serious documentary because it is a mockumentary. We have also used another generic convention of mockumentaries and that is to have an interview during the film opening and this is where we introduce the four characters who are in this squad and we show this during the last part of our film where the characters are answering some questions.

Our film titles are quite different to what most other film opening titles would be like because in our film our director comes halfway through the title sequence after the names of the characters and the rest of the staff are introduce but after the name of the director is shown, the actual names of the characters and their rank are shown on the screen.  




Most mockumentaries start with some small text like the two examples shown which are What We Do In The Shadows and Tropic Thunder but are film opening is different because at the start of our film opening we show each of our characters through the use of the transition called fade in and out.