Three films are discussed that inspired the creators: Philadelphia, about the stigma around AIDS; The Pursuit of Happiness, showing one man's struggles through voiceover and flashbacks; and Precious, focusing on a vulnerable teenager dealing with emotional issues. The document discusses representing these themes through a film targeting 15+ females with interests in social issues, using techniques like close-ups, dreams, and realistic portrayals of symptoms. Distribution through companies like Film4 that allow online distribution are considered. The learning process around technologies like cameras, editing software, and effects is described.

1. 3 Films that have inspires us:
Film: Philadelphia
What inspired you?
The negative attitudes towards the man with aids
(didn't want to touch the mans hand)
Form: Lots of close-up shots
Conventions: tried to make the character look ill like
in Philadelphia.

2. Film: The Pursuit of Happiness
What inspired you?
The voice over shows it is an account of an
individuals point of view.
Clips at the beginning-shows what the film is going to
be about.
Flashbacks
Form: long shots when the character
is running away.
Conventions: Flashbacks and voiceover

3. Film: Precious
What inspired you?
Character: The vulnerable teenager
Form: Dreams of her-idea of being “perfect”.
-close up shots
Conventions: character dealing with real life
emotional situations

4. Target Audience
Age: 15+
Gender: Females
Ethnicity: For all
Social Class: Working class
Social group: Urban
Hobbies/Interest: Outgoing, enjoying spending
time with their friends, social problems
We want our audience to gain an understanding of the kind
of emotions some people with aids feel and try to reduce the
stigma towards the illness

5. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
Represents the stigma towards aids by some people in society.
We researched the symptoms of aids and used some of these to add to
our characters look, for example
-Nose-bleeds
-Blurred vision
-Weight loss
-Tiredness
-Night sweats
-Flu
-Pale face (for some)
The Main Character
Pale face
Nose bleeds
We also researched Aids stigma so we made our character
homeless/sleeping on the streets to show people with aids are treated

6. Issue: Aids
Theme/Idea: Relationships
Friendships
Aids
Dealing with teenage issues
Music: Relates to characters feelings and makes audience feel
emotional
Characters-We used actual teenagers to do the acting so it looked
more realistic and the audience can feel more engaged an can
relate to it
Form: Lots of mid-shots, close-ups to show the characters
emotions more and the audience could feel more in touch with the
characters emotions
Convention: Dealing with social issues, teen issues and
relationship

7. What kind of media Institution might distribute your media product and why?
Momentum pictures
-Owned by Alliance films which operates in Canada, UK, and Spain
-Release different genres and have successful movies such as the kings speech
and law abiding citizen.
-Founded in London
Lions gate
-Also release a range of movies including Precious which is one of our inspirational
Films.
Film4
-Allows you to distribute films online
-British film production company
-Also co-produce with other distributing companies e.g Muramac films
and Warner Bros
Our finial decision was to distribute film 4

8. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this
product?
Throughout the project we have learnt so much about the technologies from
the process of constructing our opening sequence.
It started off with our research and planning, we learnt to embed PowerPoint,
uploading images and you tube clips and writing posts for experiences and
explanations.
Our preliminary was the first time we used the tripod and camera, we were
introduced To the imacs and used the imovie programme, here we learnt to
edit and convert the preliminary onto QuickTime player where we could
upload it and embed to our blogs.
For our opening sequence we also used the imovie programme, we had more
Better Advanced skills as we learnt how to manipulate sounds and music,
using voice recorder and adding effects.

9. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the Progression from it to the full product?
Looking at the preliminary task we felt that we have made a big
progression as now We are all very familiar and comfortable
With using the imacs.
After the preliminary task we had more time over the weeks to
try out some of the effects listed.