MEDIA STUDIES AS EVALUATION –FOUNDATION

PORTFOLIO By Momin Khan

How Does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social

groups or issues?

Action has been a successful film genre since film began. These movies usually overwhelm the audience and are usually successful. My film opening is based on the genre Action and Crime. The opening scene shows a guy being chased by two men who appear to be some kind of gangsters. This sort of scene is common in a lot of crime action movies.

Music is very essential to create the right atmosphere for the movie scene. I’ve added back ground music which creates suspense in the viewer’s mind.

Though when the scene starts there is no music, that is to give the effect that everything is calm and then we see the guy run.

And that is when the action music starts playing in the background.

The guy is shown running. In order to keep the suspense, I showed the guy running using multiple other shots also.

This is to keep the audience’s attention. In order to create a climax and suspense. This is commonly seen in various action crime movies.

The attire of the guy gives off the impression that the scene is taking place out on a quiet street that the two other guys are probably gangsters.

At the end of the scene it is implied that the guy is shot, he either got to get killed or got kidnapped perhaps. This idea has been inspired by the movie scenes of various action films.

How does your product engage with audience and how would it be distributed as a real

media text?

The movie’s genre is action/crime which would gain the attention of male audiences. The appropriate age group would be 14-55. As action movies are enjoyed by men. So it’ll be quiet famous. The demand for action movies is growing wider, crime movies are also greatly enjoyed. What mainly guys want to see is a lot of car chases and killer action. Which my movie is all about so it would be watched by a lot people.

Since my movie is an action crime film, it would be distributed by a mini major company like lionsgate since Lions gate entertainment is known for distributing action films like the hunger games and transporter tribology. So I would go for that. Other than that my movie would be distributed online via social media.

How did your production skills develop through out this project?

Before I was given this assignment I had very little understanding of how to properly direct a film. But this project has helped me understand how to properly function the technologies that were available to me. Like how to use different camera angles in the movie scene. I’ve also used to wide shots to give an over look of what is happening. And I’ve used multiple shots to make sure the scene does not get dragged. The wide shots help understand what is actually going on. Since it’s a chase scene I’ve understood that wide shots give off a better impact so I’ve used them. My editing skills also improved, I used the software windows movie maker which I found was very easy to use for editing. So that helped me edit and give the special slow motion effect to my film.

How did you integrate technologies in this project?

The equipment used for filming this project was a professional camera, Canon dslr 60D and a tripod was used to film certain shots.

However I didn’t use a tripod for filming all the shots, some of of the shots were taken while I was driving the car and the actors were running.

The software for editing the film is windows movie maker, which I found very simple and easy to use. I was able to merge scenes easily and along side with that was able to fit the sound tracks and effects easily too. Throughout our school year I had worked on other video projects too, so this wasn’t my first time making a video.

This was also not my first time making a blog for posting videos. I manage a facebook page (SALTS STUDIOS) with a group of friends where we make and post videos. SO managing my blog was rather easy since I have past experience.