Part 3 Evaluation

Part 2 Evaluation

Part 1 Evaluation

When producing our very own media product , we had to stick to our plans such as our productions schedules , scripts and other planning made by our partners regarding the production of the film. However although these were big factors which decided our production , the "Brief" which we were working towards was our main priority. The Brief was entirely what i was working towards. The key elements of the brief i needed to follow was embedded into my film. These key elements consisted of : Ensuring my target audience is for my media product 16-24 year old , Create the first two minutes of a British social realism film which should show the graphical musical and editing style to it , to meet the audiences expectations of the media product and finally that all the audio (soundtrack , music etc.) and the camera work (visual) are all original.
Our title for our media product is , "southpaw". There are many connotations towards this title. The term it self , Southpaw , is a boxing term. Boxing is our main theme , and the whole films is based around the sport. The term means a boxer who has the forefront of his stance (defence) by his right hand. Whereas the opposite of this is orthodox. We chose this title because it mixed perfectly as we had the boxing theme as well as the fact our character is not orthodox at all meaning he is not the usual boxer nor is he the average young person. This is because our character is different to all other boxers , due to the fact he is forbidden to Box in his religion however makes the sacrifice. The other main connotation of our title goes back to our definition of southpaw itself. Southpaw again means the boxer defends himself with his right hand and the left being the stronger. Islam being the religion of our character , does not respect the use of left hand. In the religion it is forbidden to eat with the left hand , it is also forbidden to greet somebody with the left hand as well as give things as well as take things with the left hand. It is almost like the dirty work hand. This is very relevant towards our story line because the character is in fact forbidden to Box in his religion and hes parents disagree with it. And the fact that Southpaw is a boxing term , which clearly states that the boxer uses his left hand most effectively we decided to use it because our character using his left hand most effectively means he is doing a forbidden deed which boxing itself is forbidden for our character. In our opening sequence we show our main character Yusuf , who deceives his father by telling him his going to the mosque. Where as in actual truth he takes off his mosque hat when he leaves the hat , in irony the moment he takes his hat off is the moment he changes. he then jogs to the route of his boxing gym. However he comes across the mosque , and ignores the mosque calling and carries on going to the boxing. Throughout this opening sequence i have touched many British social realism themes , one of them is the occurrence of poverty. With many of the backgrounds and scenery it was easy told that the place required more work towards it or some maintenance as it looked very gritty and run down. These were places such as the mosque and the alley way in which Yusuf was running in.

The opening sequence sets up the movie in the right direction , because now people understand the main theme in this film which is of course the whole "Boxing Vs Religion " case.  Also the opening sequence emphasises the snub of the religion , which is a very important scene within the whole film. Because in the latter stages of the film this decision comes back to haunt him in terms of Karma.

This is the narrative for the opening sequence from my Treatment :

" The opening sequence will consist of: Yusuf leaving hes house where he is meant to be going mosque however when he arrives then stops and then Carry's on past the mosque to go hes boxing training instead. On the way home he is then faced with a problem as he is confronted by a Gang .

The clothes that will be worn will be normal jogging bottoms and jackets as it shows how the middle class live. the music will be Grime as it is a common genre of music for the lower class people and for people that like sports. "

My opening sequence relates towards my treatment effectively , because the narrative of my opening sequence is exactly what actually happens other than the fact of the gang. I didn't add the gang bit due to the fact i felt there were too many elements from British social realism and it would just be an overload. Instead i decided to focus more on the poverty , religion and grime topics of British social realism.



Southpaw Final opening seqence

Production log 9

What have been the key issues in the post production ?

This week was the last week in terms of our whole post production as well as post production. Meaning our Final opening sequence should be more or less ready by this week. We started the week by looking over our adjustments from the feedback we had got , and then asked for advice from external people out of the class. They had suggested we re film one scene , in which the camera was shaky at the point Yusuf was running down the stairs.
After addressing this situation of the stairs , we felt that we was more or less ready with the production as well as post production.
However we did leave out the titles and production logo till the end as we thought it would be easy. This did seem at the time a good decision however it did prove to come to haunt us. The titles and production logo took a lot longer than we thought. Therefore we had to spend many sessions after school , during break periods etc. in order for us to get all the titles and the logo itself in. The font it self which we made from live type had already been sorted, it was just a matter of making the production logo and importing all the credits and Titles. We acted upon this issue by coming back frequently during that week and spending more time as we felt we had to buy time for us to finish our product at its best quality.

 ( final production logo )

Overall this post production week has been very hectic and busy , which i would change if i could go back. And will note when i do post production and production next year , i will learn how to plan things better as well as organising my self better in order to get the work done at its best quality as well as on time.

(Credit used)

Production Log 8

What have been the key issues of your post production ?

Earlier in this week we managed to finish all of our work . After this we had shown the class our work , and we had received feedback on the work itself. This feedback turned to be increasingly important towards out post production. This is due to the fact some of the things we did not notice in our production such as mistakes , or non continuity editing we had received feedback on it. Which meant we could address all these mistakes. We also received feedback on how we could improve the work it self , therefore it sets up our post production schedule. As we will prepare to get done what the feedback says then add any other things needed.
One issue which was addressed quite often by the feedback was the lack of camera quality , therefore we have decided to use titles where the quality of the camera lacks. Also we have addressed this by maybe using extra footage which i addressed in my previous production log , the footage we kept could be used to make the camera work look better.   Overall one situation which we could have handled better was our time consuming for production then we could have made a better draft , meaning we would get better feedback which will obviously benefit us because we would change the things needed.

Production Log 7

What have been the key issues of Production ? And what decisions did you make about these issues ?

This week was the second to last week till the final deadline. Therefore there was only two deadlines to finish off production as well as post production. This had mounted pressure on us and resulted us to in fact performing very well this week. From the call sheet we have shot most of the scenes , and now there is only a bit of production left then we are ready to edit the movie.  Although there was no key issues again this week , we did feel as if we have not not spent enough time on each shot in case we need this for back up. Therefore we went back and did a few back up shots in case it was needed for post production. Other than this was no major concerns up till where we are at , apart from reaching the deadline in time itself.