6: Unit 5 & 17 Visual Effects & Special Effects

Monday, 18 June 2018

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"

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

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.