Shane Meadows

Films - Once upon a time in the midlands
Dead mans shoes
This is england
Film stratages

• Doesn't need to be a big budget film to be a good film.
• Low budget films have a low risk in loss of money as there is not alot of money to be lost. Quite profitable.
• Low budget means have to use natural lighting, more realistic view.
• Buying cars instead of hireing them - cheaper.
• Finding a location instead of building one - cheaper. Nottingham, old fashin estates.
• Makes up the scripts with the actors to get a better and more realistic story line. The is better if the story line is really good. Its not all about the actors.
• Actors, film crew and team work together as one to have a working proccess. Come up with better ideas.
• Social realism - recreating reality of society.

BMX Magazine
I think that the conventions of our magazines follows the conventions of the magazine we have recreated as we have used a similar layout to the magazine and used a photo of a very good quality for the front cover.The conventions the cover breaks are that it doesn't have the funky writing down the left hand side of the magazine. This is because we Can't copy the exact style of writing used in the magazine.The colour palette suits the target audience as the writing is aimed at young childrn and teen agers. The writing attracts this target audince by being funky and unique. This is achived by a chalky faded look.Te cover lines entice the audience by giving a little bit of information on the front cover to grab the reader/audience attention to make them buy the magazine to read more about the little bit of info from the front cover.The magazine appeals to both new and regular readers as the picture on the front cover is alomst always a striking photo. This grabs the attention of the audience and makes the reader intested.The distributes are shops are supermarkets, these are where most magazines are sold as it is where most people are when the are spending there money.Things i have learnt about producing a magazine front cover is that to keep it simple and not to full of information. Also to put recent news on the front cover to grab the audiences attention. To have a good photo on the front cove to make it more apealing.

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Ealuation of TV soap

This is a typical soap scene because it is shot in a house above a pub. This is a typcal soap scene as most soaps have a pub in and people living above it. What also makes it more of a typical scene is that it is a morning and everybody are waking up making it become busy around the house.

The camera angles use are :wide shot, pan shot, high angle and low angle, mid shot, two shot, over the shoulder shot, long shot, close up,

I think our recration was pretty good as we acted well but on the other hand we didnt get all the shots in each scene, but it was a good recration.

Our succetions of our project is that it was a convincing recreation but our failings were we didn't shoot every shot that had been used in the soap.

I have learnt that mise en scene is that you hae to set the scene an use effective props to make the recreated scene look more realistic. For example we taped a mobile phone to the wall to make it look like a house phone. this makes the audience think its more realistic.

The lighting we used in our project wasn't very effective as we didn't use it to its full potetial.
For example we could of used the scene where peggy opend the curtains to show how late billy and jay had slepted in to emphasise how late in the day it was.

I feel that i need to work on filming, this is because we didn't get all the shots we needed into our recreation of TV soap. working harder on getting all the shots in each scene will help the recreation become more realistic.


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