7. When Ruhksar has the flashbacks, and he is shown stealing and walking around like he is about to have a fight, he is shown with his hair with shaved patterns, wearing big earrings and has a angry face. This representation lives upto the stereotype that boys with that sort of hairstyle and boys with diamond earrings are gangster/thugs. We used these elements of Mise-en-Scene to indicate he (in the past) was a bit of a thug because we know that people would pick up on the stereotype and know that that is what Rukhsar was like.
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10. Function in Narrative The way that Rukhsar is shown looking scared and regretful when he is shown thinking back to good and bad memories represents how young people get themselves into bad situations and have regret in everyday life, this is done to again establish the genre social realism and teen drama. It also represents how it can be hard being a teenager.
11. Settings The locations were just normal ‘working class’ areas nothing ‘posh’, this again was to relate to the group who are being represented, teenagers. A lot of teenagers in Britain today can relate to the sort of areas Rukhsar is shown in.
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13. Another example were teenagers are being represented as confused is when Rukhsar is shown in a high angled shot, this represents him as been weak and vulnerable, again another feeling which teenagers encounter in Britain today.
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20. How did you attract/address your audience? In our feedback, the audience commented on aspects they liked and didn’t like. What they did like was the music, angles and the editing. However one member of the group didn’t like the music but said it went well with the pace of the scene, so I think he just doesn’t like the type of music that we used. Generally our feedback was good, we wanted to get the audience hooked and the music to kick in straight away like in ‘Trainspotting’ our ‘inspiration film’ and for the audience to want to carry on watching, which was what happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmzaBvKzrZI We also did what we set out to do which was set enigmas for the audience, we knew from our own experiences in watching films that to be attracted to a film, enigmas have to be there, wanting to know what happens next etc, this happens in our opening because we don’t giveaway what happens and end with Rukhsar’s eyes scowling as he thinks <-- Eg of popular films, which we picked as our ‘Inspiration film’.
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22. When Rukhsar is running he look scared and weak, when he is having his flashbacks he is shown walking about as if he is ten men, this ‘binary opposition’ contrast in behaviour by the same character sets off enigmas, and anticipation to find out why and what Rukhsar was like, which is a good way in which we thought we could attract the audience. Again to use our audience’s feedback, they commented on how they liked the sequence because they want to find out what happens and keep watching. So we did attract some people from the group as they wanted to keep on watching the film. Which is a success.
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24. For our audience feedback we filmed a group of people aged 16-18 years old in a classroom. I feel like this was a good thing to do as it was done using my new skills at filming. It also made the questionaire more informal and useful in my opinion because I got to find out more information and why they thought what they did, and also defend our sequence. Also…
25. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? In our preliminary task we just filmed in pretty much one angle just three people communicating. Our final product ‘So Weak’ is a lot better. As it has a story in it, music, different angles, enigmas and effects i.e black and white. This comparison shows how mine and Rukhsar’s filming skills improved in the space of a few weeks. It also proved that you need to put in more time and effort to make a product look better.
26. Conclusion Our overall feedback on things which were good and aspects of our sequence which should be different based on our analysis and our audience’s feedback: Flashbacks Storyline Shots Weaknesses Strengths
27. Overall I’m pretty happy with our opening film sequence. I like the pace of it and the order of it. The music also fits well with the editing. If I could start again I would want to do different flashbacks, however I really enjoyed doing it and working with Rukhsar.
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