CREATIVE

CRITICAL

REFLECTION

BY SHOAIB SULEMAN

Q1.How does your product use or challenge conventions and how do

they represent social group or issues? The genre of media portfolio is action thriller I have gone along with the conventions of the typical action film. The sound, the mise en scene and other aspects of the film opening stick to the conventions of a action film, moreover the typical use of high key lights is seen across the whole movie. After a bit of research over action thrillers the opening part to my film I tried to

recreate a small workout scene from the movie mission impossible rogue nation, keeping the camera angles in mind tried to keep the audience thrilled. Over all the project portrays important every day reality how young adults from the ages of 20 to 30 are addicted to violence. And what harm all these activities bring to them. My film outlines the life of a young man and how he gets into trouble because of old grudges and involvement in unlawful acts. My film targets social group who are between the age15-30 but raises a social issue against violence.

Shots I tired to recreate in my own touch

Q2. How does your product engage with audience and how would it be distributed as

real media text?People nowadays are attracted to to action thrillers and these kinds of movies jolt them out of their seats and keep them concentrating on the screen. I copied most of my content from the movie mission impossible rogue nation. Young audience these days enjoy the adrenaline rush they experience while watching movies with good amount of action, suspense, mystery and venture. The audience finds the plot interesting and they are eager to watch through the whole film. Actions movies grab largest amount of consumer cash over the year.

Action movies were the most popular genre in 2016, garnering the highest earnings at 20% of box office gross (r245-million), followed by action/adventure and animation both at 17%. Both males and females find action thrillers interesting as well as the people around the age of 40 so the audience ill be attracting by my product will be 15-40 in age. Also the fact that action thrillers usually and mostly are a success statically.

My project would be distributed as a real media text by WARNER BROS. as being the big six in the Hollywood, my film would be in good hands to be delivered to the masses. Warner bros. do a tremendous job in showcasing their products. I myself have been a huge fan of every film they’ve got up to the big screen. My movie THE PARTNER sketches out action and thrill in the finest way which will do the job on coming out as a real media text. The Oceans Twelve, The dark knight rises and Get Smart are movies distributed by Warner bros.

Q3.How did your production skills develop through out this project?

All my life I knew getting to a levels would mean to finally study what I had in interest. Choosing media as a subject was like I was doing my thing. Working as a camera assistant with my dad developed my interest further more to pursue this field. Growing up I learned different camera angles different lighting strategies and production and direction overall. But after studying it in a proper manner my knowledge boosted. I learned that media studies is so much more than a subject that tells you not only about all the technology and techniques but also the movies, movie cultures, gossips, editing, promotion, exhibition and distribution of a film.

THE RULE OF ONE THIRD

The rule of thirds is applied by aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section.

SOUND EFFECTSSound plays a vital roles in a film. It gives character to a particular scene, as im using the mission impossible theme song as a background score, the fast pace of the song keep my scenario alive. Media studies taught me that sound effect Is an assential part of a film. The background score in my project is known as non diegetic sound, sound whose source is neither visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action: narrator's commentary. Sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect. Mood music.

CAMERA ANGLES

•wide shot is an establishing shot of a scene in my movie to establish I used an ariel shot using dji inspire 1 pro. This shot• is the intializing of my film showing the overall location of the film.

•Two shot, it is a mid shot mostly taken to cover talkies in which 2 person are seen in the frame having a conversation going on.

•A close-up in filmmaking is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object. Close-ups are one of the standard shots used regularly with medium shots and long shots (cinematic techniques).

Media has given me a bulk of understanding and knowledge and there is a lot left to be learned

Q4. How did you integrate technologies in this project?

While doing this projects I had to come across many software and hardwares and online websites. Google helped a lot too! The first thing we all were asked to to was to make an online blog so we could update all our assignments over there for the whole term. I also made an account on vimeo to upload my videos there. It was a really easy task. Needless I discovered that vimeo is an amazing platform to share our work with the mass as anyone can view it globally and this encourages and motivates me to keep working hard.

SOFTWARE

For editing I used Imovies on my mac. However it was an amazing and easy software to use for a beginner like me.

DJI GO APP: I used this app to use my helicam for the opening shot I have in my film

HARDWARE

Canon 7D I what I used to film the whole project. My device being one of the best made my film look more professional look and made my camera work outstanding. I used a PL MOUNT along with my camera.

ARRI CARLZEISS LENSE

The lenses I used are manufactured to have superb visual characteristics. These maintain a certain level of sharpness and render colors

DJI INSPIRE PRO

A totally different camera I used was my dji inspire helicam and it was used for the opening Ariel shot I took and it gave my project a little different hint.

POWER GRIP CAR MOUNT

Car mount was also used for the wide car shots for this project.