How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our film represents social groups in a subtle way because we do not show any proper characters during the opening two minutes because we felt that a more abandoned look will be more effective than using lots of characters because this will detract from the feeling of emptiness and the apocalyptic genre which we want to create. Because there are no characters present in the opening sequence this evaluation question is extremely tricky however we use the scenery to help create representation by showing no life meaning that no one will survive the disaster. This subtle yet very powerful message acts as a way to represent social groups because some people will watch our films and hopefully take away a message of how nuclear war is certain death for everyone because the power of these missiles is just immense. Due to this hidden message in our film the social group we hope to represent is the older wiser person acting as a warning to the younger generations who will come to watch the film because it looks good.

The other way we hope to represent different social groups is by the teenagers walking across the car park unaware of what is about to happen in their lives again acting as a hidden message to take care of their planet because they will never know what is going to happen.

Question 6: What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process of Constructing This Product?

Question1: In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

The Fallout opening scene challenges typical forms and conventions of typical media products immediately from the start because the lack of characters which are shown during the opening sequence. We have intentionally done this to challenge typical forms which all films abide by we wanted to engage with the audience immediately encouraging them to focus in order to understand the reason as to why no characters are shown they may come up with their own ideas as to why no one has been shown maybe because they are already dead or they know something the others don't.

Anyway this is explained later on in the film because we develop the storyline to slowly increase the number of characters in the film rather than start with lots of characters and then having nowhere to take the story.

However our media product does use the enigma code constantly making the audience question what is happening because they want to know so the story can progress. We will constantly use the enigma code throughout our whole product to keep our audience guessing as they have no idea of what is coming meaning they remain engaged in the film and enjoy their film experience getting the most they possibly can out of our film.

Music Research

Music for my film needs eerie and set a tone as soon as it starts. Music can really make a film feel a lot scarier and can make a good film a great film.

Here is a siren sound which we are thinking off using because it makes it sound as if things are coming to an end.

This sounds like a broadcast to let people know the world is coming to an end making the film sound more realistic.

Here is an old radio sound which we may use because it makes it sound as if normal things have stopped and things are ending.

Prop List

No props where needed in the making of my film as we didn't plan to use any. but we did need a group of friends to walk past our cameras unaware that we was filming them so it gave the look that everything was normal to start with but then it changes. also we wanted a bird to sit on top off the floodlight so it shows there is still life and not everything is dead yet so we knew they often perched there so by chance one day when filming here we got the footage we needed off it on the floodlight.

Shooting Schedule

This is the shooting schedule for our film The Fallout as you can see we need to film in a number of different locations this means we need to film on a couple of days to enable us to gain good quality shots to prevent the need of rescheduling more filming dates putting us behind on our filming. The shots we need have been described by doing this we are aware of what we need to capture when we are on location meaning we can get our shots as close to perfect as we can. it is important we stick to this schedule in order to begin editing on time.

Peer Evaluation

From my feedback on my film, Fallout I can see that everyone thought the editing was very good and no one faulted it but what everyone also said was all the footage was good apart from the bomb they felt it was very unrealistic and that it let the film down a bit they felt we should of shown it in a different way to make that sense better. Some people thought the opening needed to last longer and in that extra footage it needed to be explained more so that they 100% was going to understand what was coming up in the film. One person said the titles were good but said they wanted to see characters in an opening. And lastly a couple off people said that they loved the tense build up.