Political Film

Pre-production is very important when making a film, it seems like there is a lot to do which could be stressful, pre-production seems like it would take up a lot of time effort and if that didn’t take place the film would be difficult to make because each individual character involved in the making of the film needs to know what to do and have a planned agenda for everything to run smoothly. The end product will depend on how well the well the pre-production goes, that’s how important it is.

For example, the location is essential to plan out, this is needed so the crew can get comfortable with the setting and they are able to plan for weather conditions.

Cast rehearsals are important because they need to get used to their lines and it will be much less time consuming when it comes to filming.

When it comes to filming, the crew will want food, therefore planning what food there will be and how much it will all cost is extremely important also.

Ideas for my 3 minute political film:

Two political parties that are very competitive with each other to gain power in Westminster to the point where they start to get certain members begin to ruin the other parties chances of winning the election. They have a lot of arguments and fights which could be considered inappropriate and cheating. The final decision will be a big shock to the audience. After William Hague resigned from the conservative party, the labour party started feeling threatened therefore tried to do as much as they could to stay in power, Tony Blair hated the fact Duncan Smith was the conservative party leader, he cheated and broke the rules just to ruin the Conservatives chances of winning. Blair and Smith ended up having a fight which broke the rules.

Tony Blair

Duncan Smith

Voting

The task
In this task we wen't on http://voteforpolicies.org.uk and took part in a survey to find out what party we should be voting for, I selected four policy issues and for each one there were 6 policy sets, we then clicked on what policy we thought was best. At the end of the survey the two political parties that said I should be voting for were Conservative or Labour.
We have been asked to find ways of making the younger generation get involved with politics and sign up to vote. In previous lessons we made eye catching posters in different art styles in the hope to get younger people to vote. A couple of posters have been chosen to go around the college to be apart of the appeal.

What I knew before
I am not very involved in politics myself, I know about certain political parties and their policies however after this lesson I now understand why it is so important for the younger generation to vote or at least register. By this happening politicians will be able to do more to interest more people.
I also found out about Conservatives policies for example they say they will be cutting income tax for over 25 million people, saving the typical taxpayer £705 a year. That means hardworking people keep more of the money they earn and are better able to provide for their families. 

Copy Right for audio

Creative commons 


Creative commons allows you to share your work with no legal obligations. Make sure it is credited, meaning you credit the person who actually created the product, image etc.

Copyright 

The legal right to edit, and redistribute someone else’s work for a certain number of years. This work can include literary and audio.

Fair Use
The legal right to edit, and redistribute someone else’s work for a certain number of years. This work can include literary and audio.


Royalty Free
This refers to the right to use copyrighted material without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use.



I have chosen to look into creative commons, an example of this is YouTube as it allows users to mark their videos with a Creative Commons CC BY licence. These videos are then accessible to YouTube users for use, even commercially.

There are certain places where you can access royalty free music to use for projects meaning that you won't have to worry about paying anyone or getting in trouble with copyright laws.

Youtube has an audio library which has a collection of sounds and music for any creator to use on their project. Youtube has a page that tells you information about the tracks that are free audio and other conditions about what track are copyright etc. 

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3376882?hl=en-GB

Research Method

I have planned out my research which makes it a lot easier to do as I can can go back to look at what needs to be done at what stage and I have a guide helping me. Also by doing this, I have been able to explain what sort of research I am going to be doing and why.

Research method: 

Define the research you will undertake

In this project I will be doing research to find out what young people think about politics and what involvement they have in it. I will then begin to find out how to get the younger generation to vote and I’ll be finding out what media product will attract the younger generation. By finding out this information I can make a media product that will be appealing to the younger generation and get them to be interested in politics and hopefully start being involved.

• I will conduct a range of textual analysis on existing political multipage documents.
• I will be using the internet and books to find out political information and what others think about it.

Describe how you will do it

Primary

To do this I’ll be using primary research such as paper based questionnaires and focus groups. This will allow me to get a better understanding of the relationship between teens and politics. Questionnaires will be good because the teens can answer the main and important questions I want answering then by doing a focus group they can include opinions and expand on each of their points.

I will be giving the questionnaire to students around the college because that will allow me get a range of different opinions and answers. Using a

Secondary

I will mainly be using the internet to find out information because I can imagine it will be very informative, as will books. These two resources will be useful because I will gain a larger range of knowledge and learn more about the subject. YouTube is also a good idea for secondary research because as well as being very information they will be visual which will be easier for me to understand and I can gain the knowledge quicker.

Describe what you hope to discover

I hope to discover information for example how many people access political information, who votes, what sort of campaigns attract a certain type of audience. This will help me to make a successful campaign that includes everything possible to make it appeal to the target audience.

Audio

The Breakfast Club

I have chosen a scene from the film 'The Breakfast Club', the scene includes a song called We Are Not Alone by Karla Devito. This is probably the most upbeat scene in the whole film and I would say that is because of the music. The scene starts with the characters sitting on the floor laughing with each other then suddenly the music starts with a drum, we then see each character beginning to dance to the song. The genre of the music is pop and it adds an element of humour to the scene because the dancing is quite fast and exaggerated. The song and the characters movement compliment each other because the lyrics and the upbeat instrumental shows us that the characters are happy and enjoying themselves. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRMrMzw0t20

Youth In Revolt

There is a scene in the film 'Youth In Revolt' that has a sound called When You Love Somebody by Fruit Bats. The scene begins with a conversation then as a two characters are saying goodbye to each other a piano is introduced which highlights the emotion within the scene, after that another beat begins which is building on the tension as a character walks out of the front door. He stays by the front door for a few seconds which allows the the volume of the music to increase, as an audience we feel like something is about to happen. As the character gets up and starts to run the music changes slightly and we can hear the lyrics to the song because there is no dialogue any more. I would say the genre of the song is a mixture pop and electronic which helps us to understand the tense atmosphere. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6R3Oeg0-U8

Remember Me

This particular scene I have chosen from the film 'Remember Me' is towards the end of the film, it is an extremely sad scene and it is based on a true story therefore the soundtrack needed to capture the emotion. Firstly we see the main character looking out of a window whilst we hear the almost classical music begin, it has a slow tempo and it is very quiet, the music fades out which allows the audience to hear the background noise then as the scene goes black the music begins again and starts to get louder and more instruments are involved, this creates more tension as the audience begin to realise what is happening in the scene. After this there is a voice over however the music remains the same, there are then more background noises so there are a lot more sounds in the clip which is making the scene seem 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ku3Jld7mEU

After looking at each scene I now know the importance of genre and type of music, for example if the scene is representing something happy or exciting I will need to use upbeat and fast music to create the atmosphere. Also I think the amount of sound included in the clip such as the dialogue, music and background noise can alter the mood of the scene. 

Focus group

For this task we did a focus group for tasting cookies. Whilst doing this task we realised that carrying out a focus group for these questions were good because it meant that we were able to do it a lot quicker than if we were to fill in a survey and because we were speaking it was more detailed because we were just saying what we initially thought. I think by doing a focus group we were able to state our opinions more because are I stated earlier we could just say what we thought. However there were some negatives of doing a focus group, for example people could not clearly state their opinion if they are just speaking, they may change their mind and waffle on, it might be difficult to understand and hear the voices in the audio clip.  Another con is that it might take a wile for the researcher to collect all of the information if they have to listen to each audio clip.


Before doing this task I didn't know much about focus groups and what data they were used to collect however now I understand in much more detail and I thought it was a lot more informal and interesting to do.

Appearance?

Does it make you interested in politics?

Does it grab your attention?

Style?

This is my final poster. After printing it out in A3 I have realised that I have made a couple of mistakes, for example the triangles in the middle are wonky which could make the poster look untidy. Some of the edges are not straight which I didn’t realise before printing it. If I were to do this task again I would make sure I zoomed in a lot to make the edges and triangles to look neat.



























This is the focus group that took place, each of the students at Bath College took time to look at the four posters and analyse them. You will see that from this audio clip you can hear the students saying what they like and what they didn't like about the posters. They also discussed which ones were more effective and why.

Flash

During our interactive lesson we used flash to make a short animation. I decided to make an animation of a tree, I didn't think it was too difficult bearing in mind I have not used the software before. However I am not very good at drawing so I struggled when drawing the tree with the brush tool. In order to make it an animation after drawing each part of the tree I clicked on insert then I went onto timeline, after that I selected keyframe. When I have selected that I carried on drawing and did this after each step. 

I then repeated the same steps for a Christmas related gif. This one involved more steps however it was a lot easier because I knew the steps and I knew what to do. 

The week after I tried outcome more gifs, the one below was a little more difficult than the others and it took more time to do however I got the hang of it eventually. I started off by drawing a ball on the first keyframe, I then right clicked on the 60 then moved the shape to the other side of the frame and went to the middle of that section to select create shape tween. Next I inserted a key frame at 120 which was the end of my animation, after that I right clicked in the middle of that section and selected create shape tween again and I changed the shape slightly. This step made the shape change as it was moving across the frame.