This presentation is for Media As level Examination purposes only.

1. CCR PRESENTATION
MARIAM HAMID

2. Q. HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT CHALLENGE
OR USE CONVENTIONS AND HOW DOES IT
REPRESENT SOCIAL GROUPS AND ISSUES
The genre of my movie opening is Drama. A drama film is a film genre that depends
mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional
themes.
The reason why I chose this genre is because, as a person, I like movies with an
emotional background. Being a women, and containing that emphasizing factor
within me, I personally wanted to go with this genre. In short, drama portrays the
truth about life!
There are certain conventions of drama that are to be used and to be challenged.
For e.g, In a drama film the theme is usually exhibits real life situations, sometimes
portrays journeys of character development. Also, the purpose of a dramatic story
line is to move the audience emotionally.
Moreover, at all times, the main purpose of drama is conflict like realistic

3. Struggles depicting hardships, difficulty and pain.
The main purpose why drama is produced so that the audience can relate to the story
line and to the character itself. Furthermore, I believe, that I've used conventions in my
movie opening rather then challenging them . For eg. Taking a soft, piece of music to go
with story and also relating my narration about how people go through difficulties
everyday and also, that each person has a different story.
Another convention kept is how the audience an relate to this genre. Since, my story is
about a kid who lost his dear ones in a car accident , the audience will surely be able to
understand what the kid might be going through.
However, a drama film does not have to be a complete drama genre based. It can
interlace with many other genres like comedy, romance, musical, tragedy, thriller etc.
I've interlaced my drama genre with tragedy as you can view in my clip that towards
the end an accident takes place which obviously portrays tragedy.
Moreover, the second part of this question asks how my video represents social groups or
issues.

4. Well, it doesn't really represent any sort of social groups but it does represent an
social issue. It basically represents poverty and how hard life can be while living
with poverty. Especially for a child who is on his own .
However, it doesn't only represent people living in poverty, but it also portrays all
kinds of people ( referring to the time lapse ).

5. Q.HOW DOES YOUR PRODUCT ENGAGE WITH
AUDIENCES AND HOW WOULD IT BE DISTRIBUTED AS
A REAL MEDIA TEXT?
Since the genre of my film is drama which means that it depends mostly on In-depth
development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes .
Since my movie opening portrays tragedy and daily struggles of life, it would require a
mature level of audience to view the clip. However, it completely depends on a person
as in the movie, towards the end I've shown a child struggling with his life. Therefore,we
can we can depict that all kinds of audiences can watch the movie clip hence, there is
no age limit. After all, the main theme of this genre clip is to make the audience feel
what the clip has to say.
Moreover, talking about future plans, I believe that my movie is capable to be screened
on worldwide cinemas. I would love to join hands with Warner Bros. Pictures.

6. The reason why I chose warner bros. Pictures is because :
Firstly, because of its retrospective achievements, marking the fact that Warner Bros.
Pictures is the pioneer ruler of hollywood and rules over the Big6 studios.
Also, the fact that Warner Bros. Are in their 14th consecutive years to achieve over
billions of box office revenue. Considering their successful drama films in the past few
years for example Inception which won an award for best motion picture-Drama.
Another great example of would be of the famous Romance writer, Nicholas Sparks
whose novel The Lucky One was turned into a movie. Also, Baz Luhrmans The Great
Gatsby which was a major success earning over $350 million. Following another great
hit like 'Her'.
Secondly, the reason why I want to work with warner bros is because of their brilliant
marketing strategies. The master mind behind the great gatsbys success was the
production house.
The Great Gatsby was marketed worldwide which is exactly what I want for my film.
The marketing strategies included a soundtrack by known artists like jayZ and

7. LanaDelRey etc. A lot of cooperate companies joined hands like Prada, Tiffany & co. ,
Brooke Brothers, Vogue etc which eventually led the movie to immense success.
Hence, I want a success similar to the Gatsbys. Therefore, I believe that Warner Bros.
Pictures would not let me down in any way.
Thirdly, Warner bros Pictures deals with every genre. They release a substantial number
of movies every year with mixed genres for eg. Comedy, thriller, action, horror etc..
Hence, I personally believe that WarnerBros. Pictures would be a perfect choice to
distribute my movie.

8. WARNER BROS HITSSSS!!

9. Q.HOW DID YOUR PRODUCTION SKILLS
DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT?
I personally believe, to portray any idea you first have an inspiration. In my movie,
for e.g: the starting of clip, I took inspiration from Gone Girls movie opening. The font
style and the plain black background gave the starting an elegant look and made
it look very simple. Also, I took my inspiration from produced by charlie chaplin
studios to construct and shoot my sunset time lapse.
.

10. Talking about development of production skills, I personally believe that if
you're shooting, especially in an outdoor setting then it extremely hard to
counter problems like traffic noise and unexpected appearances and also,
light issues. You may not get the perfect lighting you want for your project.
Since the beginning I didn't even know the meaning of camera angles such
over the shoulders, one-third rule, low/high angles etc.
However, while producing several videos I got to know what shot is used for
which situation. In my video, however, my production skills enhanced

11. Firstly, I got the opportunity to shoot people. Which actually meant to document
them first. Through this, I got to know what they go through every single day of
their lives. Since I knew what their story was, I was able to capture and shoot them
in ways so that I could portray what sort of life people here have been living.
Secondly, since all of my shots were outdoor shots mostly at the sea and on the
road I got to know the right angles to shoot properly which would give my clip a
professional glance. For eg. I used rules of thirds to shoot my sunset time lapse.
Another camera angle I used was a low angle shot to shoot the kids feet which
portrayed poverty and struggle. In this way, I shot ever angle to give it a meaning
and relate it to the story.
Throughout my entire media course I have developed and enhanced my
production skills immensely however, while making this project I got to know the
struggles of real film making. Especially when it comes to editing. However, I was
able to overcome each and every obstacle quite perfectly and that is how, I
believe, I've enhanced my production skills.

12. Q. HOW DID YOU INTERROGATE
TECHNOLOGIES (HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND
ONLINE) IN THIS PROJECT
I believe, to construct any sort of project you always require extra information and
information from the Internet. In this generation, technology has advanced to such
an extent that getting answers to certain question is just one click away. Also, with
new concept of smart phones, life has officially been easy. There are so many
options present in a smart phone which make your life simpler by making
presentations or communicating with loved ones outside countries via internet.
Just like that, internet is also a vital part in producing a movie.
However, the stem of this question asks us how have I used technology while
producing my project.

13. Well, firstly speaking about the hardware equipments, the only equipment I
used throughout my video was my canon 1200D and I used a tripod while
shooting my sunset time lapse. Canon 1200D
was of great help! Its extremely user friendly, for
me, it was a good experience overall. I used this
camera throughout my project.

14. • Secondly, without a proper software for editing no video is complete. Since, I
learned how to edit properly recently, so the editing software I chose was Windows
Movie Maker. The reason why I chose movie maker is because:
I. It is very efficient and easy to use. You don’t have look for options like transitions
or not add/remove clips. Hence it not complicated like other softwares. Therefore
its user friendly.
II. If I did not understand any tool or the purpose of it I could just google it
III. It provides its users with amazing music options for example fading in and fading
out and trimming the music etc.
IV. Compiling videos was never this easy. Its trim and split tool allowed me to
professionally edit my selected footage and compile into one video, with the
help of various transitions of course.

15. WHILE WORKING WITH MOVIE MAKER

16. Thirdly, internet proved to be of BIG HELP!
Even though finding the right background music for my video was hard,
because of the various options the internet provided me with, I still managed to
find one perfect melody for my video via sound cloud. Also, searching for the
perfect sound effect to blend in with the accident was just one click away.
Throughout the project, I took a lot of help from the internet. The main obstacle
in my video was the editing part but because of Internet I was able to search it
up and was able to find a solution to my problem.