Final Product

Audience Feedback

Amari Remal
"I thought it was sick!"

John Baker
"Wow, one word describes The Missing , Epic !, for being a A level media project I was gripped from the beginning , even though there was a few mistakes as the major one was when we saw the tall girl play two different parts and ther scenes were next to one another , but apart from that it was great, the news report added realism and the music created suspense and it carried the film to a cliff hanger ending wow I want to watch more"

Aron Smith
"Excellent, some parts were unbelievably interesting"

Joshua Nwator
"It was amazing! 5/5"

Anees Anwar
"It's pretty good, tension, got my bit for cardio excercise done after watching that. Newsreaders great and the Semi-Parkour too"

Jaymee Ingham
"It is very inspiring piece of work. I truly enjoyed it"

Mags Tanev
"I thought the storyline was original and enticing. The acting was believable, the camera work was good too"

John Wakefield
"It was great, very structured and the camera angles were placed very well" ­ ­

Lucy Fieldsend
"It's so good!!"

Nazmun Nahar
"I would definately go and watch it. The music works really well. I like the way it shows two different things at the same time"

Sam Worthington

"The only film out there that seems worth a £5 Cinema Ticket"

Michael Davies

"The film was inspiring and compelling. The acting skills engulfed all my core emotions and gave me the sense that I felt belonged"

From this feedback we have established that the film we made was well paced and well made. The entire production from Kelsea, Koceila, Lucy and Mike was successful and our roles proved stronger for the team. The audience enjoyed it and our intended target audience was found (as proven by the humour, slang and sarcasm of Amari, Aron and Josh is comments)

Directors Commentary

Shot List Of 'The Missing'

1) Eye Line Match / Medium Shot - of the news anchor as the 'Production Title' fades out.

2) Panning Shot - of William as he walks into the elevator room.

3) Close up / Low Angle Shot - of Williams back as he stands within the elevator.

4) High Angle / Over The Shoulder Shot - of Willaims looking down at the villain from a balcony.

5) Wide Shot - of William as he sees the villain and flees.

6) Long Shot - as William runs through tunnel.

7) Panning Shot / Wide Shot - as news reporter broadcasts.

8) Tilt Shot - as William runs down staircases.

9) Extreme Close Up / Cutaway Shot - of Blackberry revealing Lucy's name.

10) Establishing Shot - as William runs over bridge.

11) Two Shot - as news reporter interviews Lucy.

12) Backwards Tracking Shot - used as William runs into tunnel.

13) Forwards Tracking Shot - used as William runs through tunnel.

14) Panning / Slanted Shot - used as William runs towards door.

15) Close Up - as William goes through the door.

16) Shaky Cam / Point Of View Shot - used to show protagonists movements.

17) P.O.V Shot - used again as villain attacks William.

Michaels Personal Account Of The Group And Tasks

When I decided to take media in September, the reason was that if i advertised the aspect of being able to work in a group and produce a media production which would be both entertaining and educational at the same time. As January arrived my eagerness for filming remained, luckily I was paired off with a group of people who I would class as friends through this experience they were: Koceila, Kelsea and Lucy. The mixed gender in the group provided many advantages in filming due to the use of more realism as both genders are common in society, it also brought various ideas together which males or females alone may have not created.

For our project we created a horror opening sequence to a film, this was entertaining as the scenario was of a main protagonist being chased by a mysterious figure (which was me). To create the best mis en scene we used the latest fashion techniques to cover my face to blur the fact hat the figure was an unknown character. By doing this we used a £2 primark scarf wrapped around my face and my coat zipped up to my collar to cover my neck, not exactly Hollywood effects but it worked for our product. Many challenges faced in our group was the weather when filming luckily it was cold and gloomy which suited our film perfectly to add more realism of a typical horror film.

The positives I taken out of working on the whole production of the film was the amount of knowledge I gained and techniques in the editing process. It was enjoyable to go around Manchester finding shots to suit our product. I also very much enjoyed the aspect of of group work as i feel that we all pitched in our ideas and work together for example: Kelsea and Lucy did the camera work, Koceila did the editing and I blogged along with everyone else. Working as a unit went very well as we accomplished a high quality film therefore succeed in our task and we are all very proud of all our work as group.

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challange forms or conventions of real media products?

In our group we have develepoed an urban British film. The film we have produced came from ideas from watching Shaun Of The Dead, Mirrors and The Messenger. These are a mixture of thrillers and horrors we wanted to base our main task on. However we chose to mainly focus on the films Mirrors and Shaun Of The Dead.

We have developed this idea by having a male character who at the begining see's a mysterious black figure on two occasions. He then becomes highly paranoid and begins to run looking around nervously. We end the opening scene in a dark boiler room, this relates to the opening scene of Mirrors where the man enters the grungy locker room.

We also took the typical horror convention of "You don't know who the villain is" and used it in two occasions in our opening. We were inspired by films such as 'Final Destination', 'Halloween' as well as 'Shawn Of The Dead'. As you can see by the image on the left we took the figure look from the film 'Shawn Of The Dead' due to the fact it was our inspired film of choice.

However we challenged the typical 'Damsel in Distress' theme that runs through thrillers by planting the role of the victim on a young male. From films like 'Halloween', 'Cloverfield' and 'Silence Of The Lambs' it is a female character who is the victim. In our film we didn't want this reoccurring stereotype so changed it to fit the modern era and cut the theme of scream queen. This was made ironic from the final part of our film where the protagonist screams before the sequence finishes.

The music added is typical of thriller films as such as our own. Its progressive and suspenseful and we received a great reaction from our audience based upon our film and its music. Its similar to songs from films like 'Requiem For A Dream' and '28 Days Later'. Those two films (Drama and Horror) suite the songs perfectly and our thriller genre film has the same effect with the help of the track used.

We also used horror setting to make the fear set in. This is used in our 'Tunnel Shot' or 'Pipe Room' scene. The eery environment and exclusion in the dark add to the fear that we wanted to show by captivating the theme into our story. Films that do similar are 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', '28 Days Later' and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' proving that we have hit the right theme due to the sheer vast library of immensely scary films which we used.

We also used the idea of relationships to do this we looked at the film Shaun Of The Dead. In this film the protagonist Shaun has an issue in his relationship with his girlfriend Lizzie. We used the consept of broken relationships but put a twist on it so that the girlfriend was not seeing her boyfriend and being distraught due to him being missing. This takes the idea of broken relationships but in a different direction.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product representents both middle and working class audience. This is due to the female newsreporter being middle class unlike the protagonist being 'Working Class' working part time in a local shop. These two very different people can relate to both audiences the middle class news reporter showing a woman in power giving the story of the typical every day working class male going missing. These two roles work well together to give our product more realism and seem more realistic.

In our product we enabled the working class to seem inferior and vunerable in a way that it was typical for a working class male to go missing, we also used a female news reporter on purpose to show a middle class fem

ale reporting on the story. The irony of this was the male being in danger and the weak one whereas the female news anchor was reporting the story. Also the male news reporter, who is also middle class, was working for the female news achor which breaks typical stereotypes of men being dominant. As you can see, in comparison to 'Anchorman', we have a female reading the news in comparison to the typical anchorman.

However, the use of 'Anchorwoman' can be seen as typical. This is due to most news channel being dominated by 'Woman' such as BBC News. The mis-en-scene, as you can see below, of the news reader is similar to that of the news reader from 'Anchorman'. The brown suite is the most recognizable and the entire transition between Hollywood typical anchorman to low budget anchorwoman is perfect and entices the social group of females in a upper class society.