Evidence of Genre Conventions and Regulatory Guidelines

In this post I am going to explain the regulatory bodies and genre conventions of the production I have created. I will be looking at the OFCOM guidelines to find information about what is appropriate to display on public television.
According to the 'Broadcasting Act 1996' all programmes unless otherwise stated, should  be applied for Licensed Service;'. This is to legalise a production airing on live television. Therefore, this means our production must apply for the licensing service to make sure it airs to the audience. - television licensable content service "has the meaning given to it in Section 232 of the Communications Act. 

 For our TV programme, some scenes illustrates signs of drug use and torture that may be sensitive towards our audience. Others may not be affected by this, however we will have a warning sign before the programme begins. If there are any complaints about the programme, this will head directly to OFCOM.
"Details of how OFCOM publishes the decisions it reaches on complaints and investigations"

Focus Group

In this video, it illustrates an audience giving their views on watching back our Short Film video me and my group created. They discuss as a group what strengths and weaknesses it had and also what we could improve or make more concise. 

During the duration of the beginning to the 4:33 minutes, the video portrays us all watching our short film online and they gained feedback from the audience to reflect on. At 4:41 Patryk begins the discussion by stating what we did well and what he liked about our overall film. He lists a couple strengths such as we used good angles whilst filming to make certain scenes stand out more such as the close ups on the makeup at the beginning. Another person Edi states there were plot twists he liked which makes it unique and different by how we presented the drug.

Our weaknesses we could reflect on are that in the scene with the weapon in the park, the lighting could be a little darker to make  the location more mysterious and tense. I agree we could've set it in a darker location and preferably at night as we would get natural lighting to make it more suspicious for the audience.

Editing Process

Evaluation of Strengths and Weaknesses

Release Forms

Hallucinations Video

Old Short Film Video

 


Improved Short Film Video

Conforming to Existing Generic Conventions

In my rushes, I have demonstrated generic conventions such as TV Mystery Thrillers in my footage by gaining inspiration from existing programmes in the media industry.

An example of a TV show with similar generic conventions as my TV show is Scream. This is because the show is a TV Mystery Thriller with shots of suspense and tension that keeps the audience glued to their seats and eyes fixated on the screen. In the shot with my antagonist walking around with a weapon in his hand, this creates an immense chill just like in Scream when the antagonist comes on scream with their iconic weapon in hand. It is also builds tension knowing they are after a victim intending to hurt them and has the camera follow them. This shot conforms to the generic conventions of an existing programme.

In the scenes that display the main characters hallucinations, I used a very appropriate location to portray the characters point of view on how the drug affects them. This is due to the heightened lights in God's Own Junkyard that she is surrounded by to make the audience feel dizzy and and also affected. This is because the lights are very bright. This raw footage displays what the character sees and by us turning the camera 360 degrees repeatedly, it conveys her bewilderment. It illustrates a dream and a world of her own which she is in.

A programme with a similar genre where we see the character delve into a world of their own creating a hallucination effect is in The OA where the character is taken into her own mind after an incident. She begins to see a world with bright colours like we see in my raw footage, however do not see the shot in her point of view which I feel would be very effective towards the audience watching it. This would make the audience experience what the character visualises and this is an important effect. In creating this effect, I feel I have conformed to the generic conventions by using the location with bright colours to portray the hallucinations as it it also  illustrated in the existing TV show
The OA.

Post Production Notes and Evidence

I have recorded footage that evidently shows what I did in my editing post production stage. When editing this specific scene in Final Cut Pro, to portray our protagonist who was hallucinating and lost, I created a little montage where I illustrated various little clips of her onto one image but made it a moving image. This was very effective for me as it was a new skill I learnt for editing and loved applying it to my work.I created this montage by creating a blank black clip at first and then dragged clips into it which I made smaller to make it look like a moving image collage. I then made them all the same duration so it ended together at the same time.

This was really exciting for me to create as I have not used my editing skills in this level before and was surprised as to how great the outcome was and looks good in my short film.

In this scene shows the protagonist beginning her hallucinations side effect and gradually fade from being captured in a dark room to a room full of bright heightened neon lights which cause her to act unfocused and dazed.
In Final Cut Pro, I used the opacity tool which I lowered and overlapped clips to create a ghost effect. I overlapped the clips at different seconds in short intervals to create a trippy effect which conveys an illusion she starts to experience.



When filming this scene, I rotated the camera around various times to create a powerful optical illusion that will make the audience feel dizzy. This is to create empathy on the character and for the audience to experience the hallucination effects of the drug she was forced to take. I also used the opacity tool for this specific part also to create the same ghost effect as I mentioned before. Using this tool was very effective at illustrating a double effect, in other words making the audience think the character is 'seeing things' or feeling uneasy.  

Rushes

Set Up and Operate

This shot was taken at Dilly's house where we used many props and camera equipment when filming in Dilly's Room. We used the camera on filming mode where we changed the lighting to shade mode as we wanted to perceive a darker image. We used the red cup to symbolise that Dilly was at the party where Amina was supposed to arrive to but never did because she was captured. 

We also have to fake blood to portray that Amina is hurt and and does not have to strength the resist against the kidnapper. All of these elements were important to use as they all represent a specific part of a scene and also helped us set the scene by being simplistic yet shows us a bit more of what is happening. Also, sound helped a lot in the party scene as we would play faint music in the background to portray the two different locations. 

We used record foleys and wild tracks to display the atmospheric sounds. The sound is more muffled then clear to portray that Dilly is in a separate room to where the party and music is. This shows she wants her privacy and peace to enable her hearing Amina speak to her on the phone. Using this sound equipment really helped in this specific scene to give us purpose to make sure the audience fully understand what is happening and how the two characters are communicating in two different locations. These sounds were recorded on the sound equipment USB Condenser Mic which caught all the different sounds nicely. The sound was quite loud and clear, therefore preferred using it to record distant sound. We recorded these sounds after we filmed the scene and matched up the sound with the clips.

 In these images, it shows how the locations we went to film and directed and filmed on set. We kept referring back to the script I created to check what the actress had to do in each shot. We filmed various shots, using close ups, mid shots and long shots to portray different angles of the actress.

Call Sheets

Issues and Risks for Multiple Effects

Green screen-This is a visual effect that we are going to use.We are using this to show the view of London at night time. Since our character will be walking during the night, we want to show the lights flashing and revealing the background location of God's Own Junkyard. We're using a green screen to make this look more realistic for the audience to watch. We want to create a dark atmosphere which will resemble the chances of something bad likely to happen. We want to show London as our main location, as this is one of the most well known cities in the world, which will then engage the audience.
The risk assesment for this will be; to be careful you don't hurt yourself as you have a chance of tripping over the green screen sheet. Therefore, we will tape the sheet down with black tape to prevent the chances of our actress tripping over.
The green screen we are using is the one in our School Media Department. We will ask permission from our Teachers to use this. As we have used the green screen before, we have experience on how to use it and therefore will not waste any time in doing practicing shots or learning how to use it.

"Clearly identify who has control of the premises,location and facilities;", we will be stating this to the Media Department who will have control of the premises, location and facilities. 

"Work is carried out in line with legal requirements and the production company's policy and procedures;".This is what we will follow. As we have been given the legal requirements and what we have to film. Therefore, we will then follow what we've been given. We are allowed to film with a green screen as this is a visual affect which is a featute in our unit.

Holograms - This is a special effect that were going to use. I think this will be an effect that will be exciting to use. We are going to use a hologram to show that our character has gained superpowers while taking the drug. There may have been bad side effects. However, this will then be overshadowed by her superpowers. This effect shows when she looks at someone the information of  that person will then appear. Therefore, she can then receive information about someone by looking at them, so she can then easily make judgements. This will then engage the audience as we're showing an element of fantasy.

The Hologram will be created on a computer software where we will use Adobe Flash to create a moving image of the hologram where her eyes portray advanced futuristic technology.
The purpose of using the Hologram for our work is to make our work much more creative, original and engaging. As this is a superpower we are trying to show that our character has futuristic elements from the pill which creates tension and appeals to drawing them in.

The aesthetics that will be used is to create work that shows our character gaining supernatural powers, after she takes the pill she's given by an unknown man.

Storyboard

   

Risk Assesment of Visual effects and Special effects

Production Schedule

Special Effects and Visual Effects Treatment

Sugar bottle

This is a special effect that were going to use. This will be used in the scene where our 

character is out in public, and then passes out as she gets a bottle smashed by an unknown man. We will then use a fake glass bottle, as we will fill it up with sugar which will make it look much more realistic then.This will then create suspense as the audience are unaware of why he done this. Also what really stands out is that we don't know his identity. The audience will then immediately look at him as an antagonist character, and they will then sympathise for what happened to her as this will then resemble innocence as she done nothing wrong.This will then also show violence being used, which is an serious topic were addressing.

Green screen
This is a visual effect that were going to use. Were going to use this to show the view of London at night time. Since our character will then be walking during then night, as we will want to show the lights flashing then. Were going to use a green screen to make this look more realistic for the audience to watch. We're trying to make a dark atmosphere which will resemble the chances of something bad likely to happen. This is what were trying to show. We want to put London as our main location, as this is one of the most well known cities in the world, which will then engage the viewers into watching .

Hallucinations

This is an visual affect that were going to use. Were going to use this to show how the drug is affecting her. We will show the side affects, as were going to show how everything that's surrounded by her, how everything will begin to get slower then, and then get blurred out then. This will then make the audience sympathise for her in the situation that she's in . This is because she's away from reality , and stuck in her own world. Which symbolises that no one can help her. Were going to use this visual effect because I feel like we can make a much more vivid scene for the audience to remember, because this scene will show the development of the character.

Holograms-

This is a special effect that were going to use. I think this will be a special effect that will be exciting to use. Were going to use a hologram  to show that our character has gained superpowers while taking the drug. There may have been bad side effects. However, this will then be overshadowed by her superpowers. Were going to show when she looks at someone the information that person will then appear. Therefore, she can then receive information about someone , by looking at them, so she can then easily make judgements then. This will then engage the audience, as were showing an element of fantasy.

Shooting Script

Recce

Recce 

 

Setting- Were going to film in Walthamstow, this is where we want to set our programme that were going to film. Since it's quite far away, we feel like this will be more of a challenge as were being creative by thinking outside of the box.

Location- Were planning to film in god's own junkyard, this is suitable to what were filming, this is because there's enough space for us to film. Also this is a very colourful place, as there a range of different bright colours which are used to make this look more appealing. This is what's needed because when our character Dylan hallucinates, he will then be in an fantasy in which he will see different bright colours, which will then engage the audience more then. This will also be an area to film which can be easy to edit , as we can blur , and we can also decrease the speed of the video, and with the bright colours used, this will then look more like a hallucination then. There's also enough space that can be used to bring a group of people for recording, which is benefited as we can get more detail out of filming then.

Backup location

Setting- At Chadwell Heath , which is much closer to us which means that this is an attachment area.

Location- At the park because there's rides in the park which have a range of different colours, and there's also bright colours which are shown in the park . Bright colours can be edited as being blurred which can also resemble hallucinations, which will then engage the audience then, as this will then look realistic then. This is beneficial for a backup because this is much closer to where we live, which will then mean less travelling then, which will make it easier for us as a group to meet up so we can film earlier then. This also means we have more time to film then. Therefore, this will then be more convenient for us, which is an advantage.

Setting - Dilly's House  (Chadwell Heath)

Location - Our location is set in Dilly's room (Me) as we show at the beginning of the video that Amina is getting ready for the party and is shown putting on her makeup and looking in the mirror. We will also show the location of where Amina is by showing aspects of her room. Dilly's room is great to use as she has lots of bright lights in her room that will foreshadow the bright lights she sees at God's Own Junkyard. We will use Focus Pull a lot to bring in the lights as it represents the hallucination she will experience later on in the night after she has the pill. The lighting in her room is well lit and shows the time of day it is which is mid evening as she is still getting ready for the party.