CREATIVE CRITICAL

REFLECTIONBy: Syed Hassaan Ul hasan

Q1. HOW DOES YOUR PROJECT USE OR CHALLENGE CONVENTIONS AND HOW DO THEY REPRESENT SOCIAL GROUPS OR ISSUES?There is a huge chunk of audience who prefer romantic films over any other genre, and adding in tragedy to the love story is like adding spice. I took inspiration from various movies from Bollywood like Ghajini (Hindi Movie) for some scenes. The genre of my movie is drama. I am portraying the love story of a guy and girl. But when girl dumped him he became weak and committed suicide. I am following the conventions of drama with the help of flashbacks.

The social issue that I am trying to explain in my movie is that youngster are getting into relationship which leads to depression and suicide, which is giving our younger generation a negative effect. People will think if they don’t achieve anything in relation so they can easily commit suicide. Also, We are the up coming generation of our country and if teenagers get into this and commit suicide this will be a big distraction for our country.

Q2.HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT ENGAGE WITH AUDIENCES AND HOW WOULD IT BE DISTRIBUTED AS A REAL MEDIA TEXT?

My media product is aimed at the teens and mostly females of age 18 as they are intrested in love stories and tragedies. My objective is to entertain the audience. Love is a feeling which many people associate to so i think they will be able to relate with my story. The background music which is emotional this will also engage the audience with my film giving them a real feel.I would like Warner Brothers to distribute my movie as they come in the big 6 production houses. Another reason to choose them is that they are really famous across the world.

My next idea would be to release my films on dvds after a month it releases in theatres and maybe it on itunes for buying. After that i will release it on netflix too. I will make a twitter handle and facebook page for promotions. I will make customized shirts of my film and distribute it in stores for promotions. This will even help further attract more audience, and my film would reach maximum people.

Q3. HOW DID YOUR PRODUCTION SKILLS DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THIS PROJECT?I chose media as my subject because I wanted to learn more about movies. However, Media Studies is so much more than just a subject that tells you about different movie cultures.

Media studies helped me in different variation like how to direct a film, edit it, capture it and more about camera angles.

HEADROOM1- In the first we got to know about headroom, which is the space between

the subject’s top of the head and the frame. It is used to include the sense of space on both sides of the frame.

2- What we have to take care of is that there should not be too much headroom in the picture or no headroom at all. If for instance, our subject is a

human then the human’s nose should not be the middle of the frame in case of a mid-shot.

FRAMING We got to know about it when we started capturing pictures and when we

started shooting for our assignments. In framing the rule of thirds is a concept in video and film production in which the frame is divided into nine imaginary sections, out of which your subject is placed on almost one-third

of the image. For examples you can see the image below.

TYPES OF SHOTS▪ We have learned about various types of camera angles with camera

shots.▪ Firstly, we studied about camera angle that is an extreme wide shot. This shot is

basically so high from the sky that the subject/object is not even visible. It is also known as the ‘establishing shot’. Then second shot that we studied was wide shot, which is a lesser closer version of the extreme wide shot. In my movie I have used this as my opening scene where we can see the background which has significance importance showing how my scene is going on. It also lays emphasis on the day light in which I have done my shooting. Then there is a wide shot, which is quite similar to a very wide shot but here the subject is very visible and not just the background. You can see the picture below.

We have also studied about the mid shot which I have used in my movie as well in the starting. Mid shot is a shot in which the shot is taken from head to its waist. We have also learned about the Point of view shot is a shot which shows the view from the subject’s perspective.Another shot that we have learned is over the shoulder, over the shoulder shot is basically taken from an angle that is over the subject’s shoulder showing him/her talking to another person. As you can see below I took this shot in my movie when I was shooting in the car.

Q4. HOW DID YOU INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGIES IN THIS

PROJECT? When I first started working on my project I came across many software's and online websites. I had to learn how to edit my movies and my project. We were firstly asked to make a blog, first I had some difficulties like how will I use it and how will I upload my movies but when we started working on our assignments I was motivated and interested more into this subject. After learning about blogs it became much easier for me as now the only thing complicated was the editing.

SOUNDSound plays an important role in the movie.

I have used Di- Evantile Glaze in my movie as a background music. As we can see it’s a sad story so I

have used a good quality of sad tone in the background. I found this tone on google.

HardwareTripod: When it comes to the shooting part we don’t only need camera, lenses and person to shoot it. We need many things as i used tripod in my shots as it keeps the video still and makes the shot look more realistic. First when i started using tripod it was hard to handle it but when the media classes passed away it became really easy for me to shoot using a tripod. It was really hard to shoot in car but i managed to do it.

Camera I used 1100D canon for my movie. At first i didn't know how to shoot a movie but then we were taught and then i started looking tutorials on youtube, to get to know about the good quality movie. Shooting was the most easiest task comparatively to other work we had to do in the movie making process.