This document summarizes a short film project for a media studies class. The film tells the story of Daniel, an 18-year-old double amputee who uses a wheelchair and has become depressed. The film uses typical conventions for settings, costumes, and props to portray Daniel's ordinary day and struggles with his disability in a realistic drama. Locations include Daniel's house and a train station to show his isolation. Costumes are casual clothes a teenager would wear.
This document summarizes a short film project for a media studies class. The film tells the story of Daniel, an 18-year-old double amputee who uses a wheelchair and has become depressed. The film uses typical conventions for settings, costumes, and props to portray Daniel's ordinary day and struggles with his disability in a realistic drama. Locations include Daniel's house and a train station to show his isolation. Costumes are casual clothes a teenager would wear.
This document summarizes a short film project for a media studies class. The film tells the story of Daniel, an 18-year-old double amputee who uses a wheelchair and has become depressed. The film uses typical conventions for settings, costumes, and props to portray Daniel's ordinary day and struggles with his disability in a realistic drama. Locations include Daniel's house and a train station to show his isolation. Costumes are casual clothes a teenager would wear.
This document summarizes a short film project for a media studies class. The film tells the story of Daniel, an 18-year-old double amputee who uses a wheelchair and has become depressed. The film uses typical conventions for settings, costumes, and props to portray Daniel's ordinary day and struggles with his disability in a realistic drama. Locations include Daniel's house and a train station to show his isolation. Costumes are casual clothes a teenager would wear.
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Evaluation 1 In what ways does our media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products? The task we had been set for our Unit G324 Advance Portfolio was to produce a short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which will be live action, together with two of the following three options: A poster for the film; A radio trailer for the film; A film magazine review page featuring the film. My group and I had put together multiple ideas raging from horror, action, thriller but we chose to settle with drama in the end. The general synopsis of the film was that of Daniel, an 18-year-old double amputee who lost both his legs in an accident and is now on a wheelchair. He has given up on life and has become a distant figure, doing his best to avoid everyone and everything. One day he wakes up and decides to wander about in his neighbourhood. His day keeps getting worse by the minute and he only had one though in his mind; suicide. Setting/Location The setting for the production was Daniels house and the general public e.g. the train station. This was done in order not only put emphasis on his disability but also to add a sense of realism i.e. showing how his normal days are; waking up to an empty house and having missed calls from his doctor. Generally speaking, the audience should have been able to distinguish between the general settings in which the scene cut between which shows that we had followed the general codes and conventions of the typical genre of a drama as it was arguably a typical setting. Costume & Props We ensured that the costumes used throughout the sequence were of the typical conventions, that a teenager would wear i.e. hoody, joggers, trainers. This would allow the audience to keep up with the story following the lead, a teenager life.