Evaluation of UK AMBITION Film...

Our Film is based on a young basketball player, who wants to make into the a professional basketball player. Our initial ideas about the film was to create a good action film, but some time later when we discussed the idea in detail it became complicated and not an easy genre to do. So we came to a conclusion that we will make sport/drama genre which is very interesting and not so complex to make. We also chose this genre because there are a lot of different camera and movement shots.
We were changing the ideas as we went along to make scenes better and professional. The main characters in the film are two good friends who are meeting up and discussing the future of dreaming basketball player.


Working With Existing Forms and Conventions

We observed the conventions of continuity very well. We tryed to make scenes in detail as possible to make the into flow, so the audience would be interested and intrigued to watch the movie.
Our film does challenge the genre as it has the use of background music nearly throughout the intro, which is not used in the same genre movies i have research on.This creates the atmosphere and mood.
We have not used any intertextuality in our film, because it is only an into of the movie, so there is not a lot of time to fit it in.
The type of audience pleasure that we are trying to provide is the story of a basketball player who is dreaming to be a professional and unrevealed as yet. I'm confident that we have satisfied the audience with our intriguing opening scene.

Representation

We have represented a very stereotypical and determined young basketball player who with the help of coaches and who has an ambition to progresses to reach the professional level of basketball. This has been represented in the opening by the use of the the urban court, which emphasises that the boy is not very rich but is a talented player. the use of clothes represents the personality of the person, so we have used trackies, a hoodie and a coat with a hat, which represented the character in his own unique way. the use of the weather conditions created the atmosphere and the mood in the scenes which was in the middle of sun and light coloured clouds. this set a happy and great atmosphere.

We have tryed to include most of the characters and people which are targeted for the genre we created. Teenagers are included and older people are excluded. if the movie would be extended to a longer time than there would be older people included to make it realistic.

We have chosen a our intro to begin from the house all the way to the basketball court, which seems realistic because every persons day start from him/her waking up and get ready to go out. We have also made use of the court with graffiti around and no net on the basket. This tells the audience where the character is from, which is also realistic because it emphasises that he has a lower class family and lives in difficult conditions.

Mise en scene is quite important in our Film which makes the film realistic and sets the location as well as the use of props and lighting. The music sets the mood and the atmosphere in the scenes. The acting is even more important because this will tell the audience how it feels to be in characters position. The camera work shows different type of views in a scene which gives audience more detail of the location of the characters, emphasised the character's superiority and the construction of verisimilitude.

Institutions

The kind of media institution that more likely to distribute our product is working Title, this is because they produce movies that are unique, talented and are British films.

Audiences

Our main audience are mostly teenagers and older people who like Basketball. We came to this conclusion because of the music, locations, mese-en-Scene and camera compositions we have used.

My analysis and research process in pre-production of the movies was very useful and successful in some ways. I have found out what will be the best way to start our film, the type of shots should be used not making audience confused regarding to the positions/locations of the characters, the type of music genre played, the type of locations should be used and the most importantly the editing including transitions, cutting and continuity.

In filming and editing we have ensured that the meaning would be apparent to the audience by making it clear and simple story line. We made clear to the audience from the start of the movie. Following the actors throughout the intro so it would be clear for the audience to understand what is happening. We made some creative decisions while rehearsing our conversation part of the intro. Improving on our lines and making then sound realistic. We made the last shot of the intro slow motion which has influenced the sense of the audience.

When we trialled aspects to our target audience to get their opinions and views of the film, the respond we had was mostly positive as you can see at the comments made. Most of our audience commented on the last shot of the intro which looked very effective and has emphasised the character's superiority. We did our best to entertain the audience.

Using Technology

Technology like a camcorder enabled us to develop our opening scene. The use of camcorder was portable and allowed us to to range of shots. We have also used a tripod which enables us to make more stable and accurate shots making the scenes realistic and professional. However, if we had a better camera our shots could have been much better and professional. I think we did a mistake not using a microphone, which spoils some of the dialogue in the film. We have also used editing software which helped us to improve our film into by including transition of images, sound, cuttings and continuity of the film.

The Preliminary exercise to the main task helped us not to make the same mistakes. The digital technology enabled us to develop our opening by using the editing software effectively, to make the into look better. We also learned from Preliminary exercise some rules of the camera movements and angles to make the main task have a better effect on the screen. For instance in the Preliminary exercise we did not use a tripod successfully and not very often, but we have looked back at our errors and and use of the tripod to make the scenes stable. However, we did not use a 'Boom' microphone to make our conversations clear and profession. This made our dialogue scences a little poor and careless.

Myself and my group did a lot of research on the music choise that should have been used in the intro and came up with a better choise of music after uploading the work.
I was quite dissapointed with the use of sound as you have most probably noticed. We did our best trying to keep the sound clear and professional. By the use of IT helped us to improve when we had to fade the soundtrack into the backround which worked really well. However, during the dialogue there are other backround diagetic sounds which do not make the scenes look good and make it seem a sloppy work.

Final Verdict

I'm very pleased and happy with our final film because it showed a huge improvement. I had a good time Acting and editing which was fun and challenging. Overall if we were to do a task like this again we would improve on our mistakes and make even a better intro of the new film.
From the feedback we have recieved from the our teacher and other poeple regarding the many different points of our film we have felt of a definate improvement than the the first attempt we made with our peliminary work. The responses were generally positive but there were some things where we could have done better like the soundtrack, as we did in our peliminary work, which was prodused by the member of our group and sounded very original.

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