Media studies evaluation

The project we did was a opening sequence to a film, the film genre was a British film. I worked with 2 other people in the group, there was Sarah fowler (actor) Rob Maclean (actor and Director) and Karl Buckel (voice over, camera man & editor). I did mainly all the filming and editing of the film. In are feedback the editing section was responded really well as people said the editing and camera work was good

The Genre of our film is a British crime, realistic drama. We have represented two categories of people, a working class culture and the youth. We did his by setting the films in run down areas were there was little housing with back allies round every corner. This gave an edge to our film. We also represented the youth as stereotypically the youth is represented by crime, violence, knife & gun crime. We did this by setting 16 year olds n the film, also by using gun crime. The costume designee we choose was a hooded jacket so the person could not reveal there identity, this is again stereotypically connected with the youth. We also had a voice over with a common London accent giving the representation of the working class. We also darkened the film to give it a more working class town effect also to represent the darkness of the film. We asked people what genre of the film is and they responded how we would like with most saying what we hoped the genre to be






The dealer looking casual in designer gear where the main character in a hooded jacket, stereotypical of today’s youth.



The film is a British realistic film, using youth and working class background. Films similar to this are, this is England, kidlthood, the bank job, football factory. This film represented the youth and the working class era, the costumes of hooded jackets and tracksuit bottoms gives it the real British feel. Also with the appearance of the darkened track and also with the fast paced camera movement following the running person. In the speech we went for a cockney accent due to most realistic British films adopt this method e.g. football factory. The use of lighting was all natural that we had darken up through editing, this was only done on the scenes that we proposed to set in the evening time. These are all stereotypical of a British film staring male roles, as gun crime, dealing and fighting is all masculine features but we flipped it to be a female who was taking on all these actions so it fit the stereotype for the film genre but didn’t fit the stereotype of the characters roles.

This sowing the main character being a woman and not fitting with the stereotypical role of the woman



The style of films we have made are mostly backed with independent film makers e.g. film 4 that are rarely made or made to achieve extremely high box office Figures. The Company that would back our actual film would be film 4, they have back small British films for a long time with small budgets but with a big message. The type of films film 4 put money into are not films that will be worldwide but that will only make an impact in this country as it is a film people can relate to. There is a good chance this film could be made as there is not many films like it in the market, in our reassures 100% of people said they would go to see the film, this is because it has a good edge and a lot of

The most gender age that would watch our film would be the teenagers (12 – 18) as it represents them in today’s British culture. It would also be mostly males that will go to see our film as stereotypically it is a masculine film but some female may want to see it due to the twist of the gangster being a female. The film will probably viewed by mostly British working – middle class as it represents them and people who see outside the stereotypical sector will not understand the street language etc. This market is a good one to aim at as more teenagers are independent have there own social status and money to spend and this film is right up there end of the market. The secondary target audience will be the 20 – 29 year olds as these people are still in there youth and most films like football factory were brought out when they were a teenager.








Dark ally way, secluded and tight giving sense of being trapped and grim. Contrast between the two different types of day, this was done in editing by darkening the scene.


This opening sequence the story was set straight away with the deal taking place at the start of the sequence, the characters motions are set with the big time drug dealer and the dodgy person who he was selling a suspicious item to. We created a sense of time by shooting the early morning part in the early morning, it was also a very clear day which gave the sense of early morning. We also had time texted into the sequence which showed the audience exactly what time it was. We had a lot of enigmas in our opening sequence from the beginning, it started off with the deal, you don’t actually see what was been given to the person so it leaves a open mind. Also with the end part of the sequence where it is a woman who has shot a person who we don’t know who it is and why she shot him. We had a voice over in our film, it was done in a cockney accent which gave it a more British street feel. This also set the story as the person was telling he audience what was happening in the sequence as it is quite fast and the audience might not be able to keep up. This also keeps the audience involved. We built up tension by the fast tracking cameras and the constant running, the question of why is she running and where to keeps the audience on edge. Also we used the typical stereotype for a female and flipped it upside down to be the dominant, masculine character.

Looking Back on the first task I feel the final product is much better as we spent more time and effort on it, the editing was done much better due to knowing how to edit a lot better when we came to the final task. Also the camera angles and shots were much better as we planned them out as well as with the script.

The key strength of this production was the teamwork between us in the group as we made time to find spots to shoot and camera time. Also the editing was good and we got a lot of shots in so the angles would work well together. The weaknesses of the production was the camera, as it was only a small scale the screen picture was not good and the battery pack kept running out but overall the production was a success.

Karl buckel