Ivan Ramcharitar's AICE Media Studies Final Project

 Question #4- How did you integrate technology, hardware, software, and online in the making of your film?

  Question #3- How did your skills develop throughout the project?

Question #2- how did my product engage with the audience, and how could it be distributed as a real media text.  

Question 1#- How does my product use or challenge conventions or represent social groups or issues.

All of my scenes are now finished and merged together, along with the sound overlayed. A popular thing that movie companies do before releasing out their final product, is screen it to a variety of different people in the population. Inspired from this, that is what I did to gain the opinions of others so that I have other perspectives of my own critiquing what I could fix in the opening of my film.  I showed the near finished product to my 9-year-old sister, and she mentioned that some of the audio was choppy and not fluent, so I went ahead and added better transitions between audio clips. I showed the opening to a friend of mine similar in age and he mentioned that some shots were still kind of choppy, so I went back and extended some of my previously cut and edited shots and made them longer. Finally, I showed my film to a teacher of mine, and she noticed background voices in the opening credit scene, so I went ahead and muted the audio in those clips.

I tried to keep this rule when filming the scene during the conversation between the homeless man and the protagonist, so that it is clear that the two characters are conversing. To do this, I stayed on the right side of the conversation, and traded camera angles from the same side.  To portray the relationship between these two, I incorporated the technique of high and low angles. In the current circumstances of the film, the homeless man is inferior to the protagonist, as he is poor and seemingly not able to help out the student due to his low intellect. Because of this, I filmed his dialogue from a high angle, as the protagonist's view, to show that he is looking down on him both literally and figuratively. These angles would eventually switch in the movie, for example, in the future scene where the protagonist looks to him for help, he will look up to the homeless man as he then holds the superior role between the two.