How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
My opening intended to not challenge the conventions of the romance genre but did include social groups. The social groups that are definitely going to be apparent in the film would be teenagers. The means of communication in the opening in most prevalent those among teenagers. I felt that there was no need to challenge the conventions of the romance genre to there not being enough to challenge. And I don’t mean to use this as an excuse but my first ideas of the project were going to most definitely challenge some of the conventions of the genre. According to Romance Writers of America, the most typical movies and novels tend to be driven towards females. With my movie, I am aiming towards a male audience. Something I feel is underrepresented in male depression and suicide. According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention males are 3.7 times likely to commit suicide. A statistic like this is something that I feel should be talked about more and making a movie about it can open people’s eyes to the problem.
How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
My opening intends to engage with males. A production choice that I feel reaches out to my target audience of teenage males is that of using iMessage. I feel that a lot of adults tend to use Facebook messenger to communicate so using iMessage I felt reached a broader audience that reaches everyone including a younger audience and using a laptop helped show what the male character was looking at. Distribution is a major part of any movie. Considering the mine is a small production I would look at smaller streaming services to upload my movie to such as Vimeo Dailymotion or Youtube. This will be cost-efficient and allow people to watch the film along with that I could place ads in the film which will allow me to make some money.
How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
I feel that at the beginning of the projects I was ready to use things like a tripod. But halfway through our blogs and our projects we got hit by Coronavirus, the virus changed everything that I had planned. Instead of having my opening being filmed, I felt that using pans and tracking shots helped a lot. I’ve taken a film class before but I personally feel that taking Media Studies helped me the most when creating the project. The way the we were taught how to be resourceful and to adapt to problems is something that no other class has taught me.
How did you integrate technologies- Software, hardware and online- in this project?
This project integrated a lot of different technologies. From the filming to the editing and to the blogs. All of these things were a part of the project as a whole and they played a vital role in the completion of the project. For the entirety of the project I used my iPhone XR to film and I made sure to use the lighting of a small lamp for the parts shot in my room. For the shots in the kitchen and at the door I did not need to add lighting since they were shot in the day. I used iMovie to edit my video. I felt that iMovie was inefficient because when I would playback my video I would be very laggy. So to overcome this I put all my clips together on the iMovie app and I sent the project to my laptop so I could add music and the credits. Once on the laptop, I added music and because I never heard back from Warner Bros. so I made the decision of using copyright free music and I used a song that I felt fit the tone of the opening. I added the song and on the parts in which there was dialogue I made sure to split the clip and lower the volume of the music.
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