Dear Diary Opening Sequence

Evaluation

Question 1 In what does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The title of my film is Dear Diary. I chose this this because the movie is about a teenager that hasn't got any friends or anyone to care for her and the only thing she spends time with is her diary, so its like she's writing about herself and she records all the events in her life. This movie may be seen as a true life story because the message i'm giving across is happens around the world, in some places there's discrimination and others there's diversity. My title came into my head when i started looking for a title for my movie. I think i like the two word title, Dear diary sounds more emotional, you will get the idea of what the movie is about when you hear the title and i like it like that. Most of the movie with two word title are the movies i like i think they are more interesting to watch. 


Examples of movies

Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social group?

My media production shows a teenager that isn’t happy in the environment she’s in she’s been tortured, maltreated and abused by people in the same social group as her just because she is different from them. This movie shows how our communities are treating other people just because of their values, beliefs and also their culture.

What kind of Media Institution might distribute your media product?

My movie would be seen all over the world, at different cinemas all over the world. And the movie would be available on DVD and youtube for people that cannot access cinemas. My movie would reach far because of the message it carries. It portrays stereotypes in the world we live in.

 Who would be the audience for your media product?

My movie is targeted to teenagers from the age of 12 onwards. The reason why this movie should be classified as a 12A is because this movie is telling teenagers that no matter what happens to them in society they should always believe in them selves. When kids reach ages like 12 and 14 they tend to get bullied at their schools because of who they are and people sometimes cannot accept the fact that they are different.

Target Audience Profile


Daniel Mibuulo is 16 year old teenager and studies A level maths, physics, biology and ICT at a sixthform college in London, Blackheath.

Daniel Mibuulo

Daniel enjoys watching Television, playing football and hanging around with friends. Daniels life ambition is to be a pilot, and he’s planning on going University after his courses at Blackheath Bluecoat School.
Daniel doesn’t discriminate people with different culture, beliefs, values and their colour, he treats all people the same. Daniel dreams in future he will have a good job, nice kids, a wife and a nice home.




How do you attract/address your audience?

I attracted my target audience attention by the language my actors used, they spoke in an informal language which shows the kind of way teenagers address them selves in this modern world. I attracted attention by the editing’s I done to my movie I added some kind of sound to my movie to show the feelings of my main actor and how emotional she is. I made posters of my movie and on my poster you can see my main character ‘Tatiana’ and then her enemy looking down on her, this shows that people don’t respect her and she hasn’t got any kinds of friends.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have learnt a lot about technologies through the process of shooting my movie.I used the internet to help me with my project, also used Adobe Photoshop 4 to edit my production logo. I have learnt that if you want your work to look clear and High Quality you need to use a camera with more mega pixels, less pixels result to less quality movie. I have learnt the different types of camera angles.

Adobe Photoshop 4
Adobe Photoshop helped me alot during my project, the only option i had when i was making my production logo was to use Photoshop because its easier to edit pictures on, and it isn't complicated as other photo editors. Photoshop is very easy to manipulate images on and also its professional than using Microsoft photo editor.

Microsoft Movie Maker
Microsoft Movie Maker was one of the main tools i used and it was needed to be able to join my bits of my movie together. I used Microsoft Movie Maker to also add sound into my movie and it worked perfect for me, i had some problems with it at start but then later on it was alright.

Over the shoulder shot

Over the shoulder shot

Low-angle shot

High angle shot

Point of view shot

Close up shot

Looking back at your preliminary task, what have you learnt in the progression from it to full product?
Looking back at my preliminary exercise i think i have improved a lot. I didn't have sound over my preliminary exercise but this time i have come up with different ideas and added it into my movie and i really think i have improved.

Week 9

Me and my characters has thought about  the Story line of my movie and we have realised that my movie is not really interesting. It hasn't got anything unique about it so we decided that we make the movie more funnier and interesting so we have changed the movie to have a bit of comedy in it.

The character List

My main character's name is Tatiana Marshall and she is 17years old.
Tatiana's hair is black and curly
Her nose is small and has a quiet a long nose.
Her most noticeable feature is her eyes.
My character likes jeans and like nice clothes.
Tatiana is skinny, she goes to a sixth form college and she doesn't have any job at the moment.
There isn't any scars or tattoo on her. The characters voice is normal and has quite a squeaky voice.
Her favourite food is nice food. she said "i don't like disgusting food, i like delicious food".
Her favourite past time is when she was little and she played with her brothers.
Her worst nightmare is her falling down the stairs.
Her best childhood memory is her playing with her friends.
Her most embarrassing moment is when she dropped in year7.
Her life goal is to make it big in life and also to be successful.
Her best friend is very generous, caring and very good.
She said her worst enemy is the character playing "Latifa" she said "Latifa" is her enemy in the movie but not in real life. They are really close in reality.

My main character is called "Sabrina Ohanaka" she is called "Tatiana Marshall" in the movie "My diary". Miss Ohanaka is from a Nigerian background so like mostly Nigerian food and less English food.  Sabrina goes to Blackheath Bluecoat School Sixth form college. Sabrina attended Secondary school at Blackheath Bluecoat C of E school. Sabrina Ohanaka is a very good actor in general. She has a very good personality and a great sense of humour. Sabrina Ohanaka hasn't got tattoo's on her, she's a Christian and practices Christianity.

Main Character: Tatiana Marshall and her FAN

Character Development

Actions

The character acts very emotional in my movie, she acts very sad as she gets bullied at school. My character isn’t a ghost haunting her hometown. My charater doesn’t fight monsters and demons.

Thoughts

My main character “Tatiana” thinks about her life and the mistakes she has made in the past and she’s thinking about how she can fix does mistakes. My character doesn’t brood all day about not being allowed to fly.

Speech

My character speaks with fear in her, because of the things she goes through and face daily. My character doesn’t have a gravel smoker’s voice. I’ll say that my character does have a British accent but she doesn’t say the word “mate” she probably says “you know”. My character talks about her feelings a lot.

Interactions

She interacts with other people with a lot of respect; she interacts with unfriendly people with fear. My character isn’t a bully she doesn’t take kids lunch money. It kind of the other way round, my character gets bullied.