Evaluation Question 3

                       What kind of media institution might distrubte your media product and why?

- Mainstream film- we think it would beDistributed and produced by “Warner Brothers” as they are a multimillion film company

-People under 25 (girls) would mainly see it as it’s a chickflick, good audience choice as the most cinema goers are aged under 25.

Evaluation Question 2

"How would your media product represent particular social groups"


First of all our opening sequence is about two twins who are very different to each other. Ones a goth and ones a girly girl. They both live very different lives and both are part of very different social groups. We have tried to achieve this by putting are two main characters in very contrasting costume to represent their personalties and also to show popularity at school and friends we showed the characters friends they hang out with. A big influence from our film was "Mean Girls". which is all about different social groups, personalties and how different people get seen and treated.

This shows some of the social groups in our film that are similar to mean girls. The Gothic twin Erica is very quite and shy and only has a few friends. Similar to Janice From Mean Girls.

To show how different the two twins are and their social groups, unlike above we showed Tiffany the other twin with a big group of friends to show she is popular. We got this idea of Mean Girls as In Mean Girls Regina George is allot like Tiffany.


A key character from our opening sequence is the semitropical girly girl Tiffany. Tiffany is the first main character you see in our opening and attitude and presents shows how different she is to her twin.

Our group made sure that the character Tiffany was similar to characters in other films to get inspiration and ideas. A character we feel is allot like Tiffany is Regina George from Mean Girls.

Costume and appearance wise these two characters are very similar as they are both very into there looks. They both wear pink is well to show a typical girly girl. The role they both play are is well very similar as they are both meant to be very stuck up and arrogant characters who are quite artificial.

Another film that a character from our film and a character from another film are similar is Yasmin from The Bratz Movie. 

The two characters are similar because they again are both very girly and like to wear bright colours and are into fashion and looks. How ever the two characters roles are very different. Our character Tiffany is very big headed and selfish and treats people badly where as Yasmins Role is very generous, caring and likes to help her friends and family.  

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Activity 1 on Prezi

Our Final Project! - Gemini

Challenges we faced whilst filming and editing

Challenges we faced whilst Filming and Editing on Prezi

Updates from Editing

After filming all the shots we needed, we imported the clips onto the computer using iMovie. We then began to edit the clips. As we had filmed many takes of the same shots, we began by chosing the best clips to use for our opening sequence. After that, we imported the best clips onto iMovie HD and placed the clips on the timeline in chronological order. We started trimming and cutting each clip, in order for it to run smoothly. For example, we used many match on action shots, such as when the characters waking up. Therefore, these clips needed to be trimmed, in order for it to transition well.

Match on action shot

After editting most of these clips, we watched it through and decided that some clips weren't necessary, and some needed to be filmed again. For example, there was a shot where the camera would zoom up to the letterbox of the door at the beggining of our opening sequence. However, we felt it didn't zoom up smoothly and wasn't necessary, so we removed that clip all together. We also had to re-film the shot where the music credits would be typed on the phone as it wasn't clear enough.

Text had to be made larger on the phone screen in order to see it clearly

We then added sound effects to the opening sequence, such as the ringing of the alarm clock, and the school bell to make it more realistic. We also had to add music to make the opening sequence feel more upbeat and energetic, which we want our opening sequence to feel like. This is because our genre is a "chick flick" aimed for teenaged girls. We edited the volume of the music so the audience is able to hear the diegetic sounds from the actual film clips. We did this so that our opening sequence didn't feel like a music video.

When adding text to our opening sequence, we faced a few problems. Our first plan was to use Live Type, however our edited opening sequence wouldn't open on the software. Instead we used a different software to add text to our film company logo, "Oh La La Pictures" and more opening credits to our opening sequence.

Text added onto film company logo

To add our film title, we had to use iMovie instead of iMovie HD, this is because we had created our film title logo on photoshop and saved it as an image. We had a few difficulties placing the image over the top of our film using iMovie HD. In order to solve this problem, we added a green background to our film title image, and used the green screen effect on iMovie to place the image on top of the opening sequence without the green background.

Film title on top of opening sequence

Props & Costume

In are opening sequence to get the two twins in the films characters to come across as effectively and obviously as possible we had to think of ways to do this. Props and Costume was a big part of this and helped allot to get the right mise en scene to suit the genre of our film.

Costume/Make-up;
We wanted the actor playing the two twins to have a completely different look and style to show they have very contrasting personality's. We dressed the Gothic twin "Erica" In all black (stereotypical) with dark eye make up and a hat to cover her face. We wanted her to look very dull depressed and plain looking.

Here Erica is wearing plain dark  clothing
, and a hat to hide her face to show she is a miserable
teenager maybe also so show she is shyer then her sister?

For Erica the Gothic one we added very dark heavy make up to her eyes to add character.

How ever, the other twin played by the same actor "Tiffany" is very different to her twin in every way. We wanted to show this by her presents and attitude. We also wanted Tiffany to be very bold and "In your face" we wanted to show very extreme personality difference to get the message across that they are very different and do not like each other. We got Tiffany to wear very girly, stylish and bright clothing to make her stand out unlike the other twin Erica. 

Here Tiffany is wearing a pink glittery jumper to show
that she is a very loud and bold character and takes pride
in her appearance.

                In contrast to Erica with her black eye make up

                we wanted Tiffany to be very girly almost like a barbie doll

we added bright pink lipstick to her lips to make her look like she wants to stand out and be noticed

Props 
-We used a few props to differentiated between the two twins. We even went into allot of detail and found appropriate bed linen for each of the twins rooms e.g. flowers for Tiffany and plain dark blue for Erica ( Goth)

. We looked into things like the two alarm clocks for when the characters had to wake up,the girly girl Tiffany had a purple alarm  clock while the other one had a plain silver one.


We also made door signs to on the doors to differentiate the two twins personality's all to add more detail and to make it as realistic as possible.

To Do list for this week

To Do List For This Week on Prezi