Roles within our group.

As a two person group, we cannot distrubute all the roles individually and we must both contribute to everything, but personally, being very in touch and familiar with technology and editing software, I will be doing the majority of editing, I can follow clearly how we want it to be and I will be using Final Cut Express and Imovie, both of which I have personally on my laptop to edit all of our footage. Katharine watches lots of films and listens to lots of music, she is very clear about what she wants and has no trouble picking out music from memory to suit the mood, also her definite judgement on films means that she knows what will look good with shots and camera, so she will be doing most of the directing. But for camera, lights and all the other roles we will both pitch in where need be and do what we can when the situation is suited. Also she will be helping me edit, not in the actual editing, but as I said she knows what she wants and we can work together for the best outcome. I consider myself quite a fast and good editor, it is something I take a knack too and also I quite enjoy it, I like having the software myself so I dont have to rely on being in school to use the computers, also we have our own camera, and props so we are very indipendant.

Criteria for Research and Evaluation

Criteria for research through my partner Katharine Wood's blog, taken from the OCR website.

Audience as Product

I actually liked the text on Audience as Product, I understood it and it made me think about adverts surrounding shows I watch and the nature of the shows reflecting that rather than vis versa. So I took an example and analysed it further.
Misfits is a drama on e4 aimed at teenagers, male and female, the nature of the show is funny but often quite dark. The first advert to come on in the break was an advert by the company Staples,  an office and stationary company, which correlates to the target audience in that in education from high school up to university, stationary is needed, from pencils to printers. The advert featured a baby whizzing around at high speeds to some happy music, overall very 'feel good', most probably intentionally contrasting the nature of Misfits, plus babies are cute, and teenage girls love cute babies. Also the advert mentioned mobile phones, a product and subject also strongly stereotyped (and quite rightly) to a teenage audience. And another advert for mobile phones was also in there. So we have established that the adverts and show are very obvious and strongly aimed at teenagers based on every stereotype of teenagers and every aspect of a youth target audience, so in the eyes of the Audience as Product; the creators of misfits will create their show, drawing in a teenage audience, they will then take their show to the advertisers and say 'Hey look, THIS kind of people are going to watch our show' and the advertisers want to sell their product to that audience, done job.

Task 7.

This is my personal answer to the chart given. Although there are a few questions that get raised while I do this. Why is Neighbours, a specific show but in amongst genres of show like soap, quiz and news? Surely Neighbours comes under 'Soap'? Also I think the use of this chart could be extended to most if not all aspects of the media, web shows, radio shows, newspapers and books, and films. After spreading my updated chart:

around to family and friends (of roughly the same age range) over the internet, I made a final copy with the most popular, most occurring and average answers:

Okay so the outcome was very predictable, the first thing I notice was the unbroken column of 'yes' to 'Do people I know 'use' it', This is because shows and routines of watching shows trend within groups of people such as families and friend groups, it shows that the target audiences of the shows are accurate and successful, and that shows spread quickly and communities form and become closer.

 I find that the use of a programme by its viewers is not determined by the viewer but by the show, for example, no-one watches the news because they can relate to characters, and no-one watches kids programmes for information. But then depending on what kind of person each individual viewer is, effects what programmes they watch in order to satisfy the needs created by the personality and fulfilled by the uses. (It makes sense to me)

Media Medium Status'

Without any research I will give my opinion of what the status' of the mediums of media are, for example which are seen as 'better' or 'worse', their levels of popularity and importance.
I think that film/cinema is regarded as the highest quality and 'best' medium, I would say this firstly because their is a direct fee to go to cinema, so people notice it more than TV license etc. Also, for example, if a film is released in the cinema it is seen as more mainstream and high-brow, whereas if a film is released straight to television, such as the version of Hamlet with David Tennant, then it is assumed it had a lower budget and not as popular actors/directors. Home cinema (dvds etc), I see as in between the two. Broadsheet newspapers are seen as very important and respectable, not so much 'better' just rather more serious, Tabloid newspapers are looked down at, mostly seen as being untrue, twisting and tacky, filled with celebrity garbage. I also feel that radio is not so much looked down at, just ignored, disregarded.
After doing some research I will post again.

Continuity Task

Continuity Task from Joe Cracknell on Vimeo.

Inspiration.

For inspiration on characters, set, music, effects and style there are a few films me and Katharine looked at:
Sin City:

Sin City Movie Trailer from Casey Ochinang on Vimeo.

Kill Bill:

Kill Bill Trailer from Brendon Palmer on Vimeo.

300:

300 Trailer from Nevin Pontious on Vimeo.