Unit 3: How the exported media product meets the brief

Our film, "Live For The Weekend", successfully meets all aspects of the brief.

The brief states that our film should:

• be a "Short Narrative Film" that runs for a "Maximum of 15 minutes" - our film runs for 00:08:37. It follows the story of a young character over a weekend telling the story of the events that took place. 
• it should be able to be entered for an "Independent Directions Film Festival", be made in a "maximum group size of three" and be of a "recognisable film genre" - our film was made by three students with no support from any production company. It is a short "Drama" film. 
• each member should have "specific roles within the group" and "be original and produced by us" - I took the role of Director of Photography and Sound, Alex was Editor, and Patrick was the Director. All content in the was made by ourselves aside from the music and SFX, these were sourced from a copyright free site.
• The target audience for our film was young people. Our film is suitable for this audience because it contains young characters (all teenagers) who want to party at the weekends and who are a bit bored of school. Young people will be able to relate to this, making them more likely to watch it. We believe this will be true because of similar programmes such as The Inbetweeners which have proved very popular in the past.
• The final video is in mp4 format in h.264, this makes it suitable for uploading to the internet and viewable across most video playback devices. This format also makes it suitable to be edited into promotional material that could be shared on social media. The final film was exported in Full 1080P HD meaning it would be suitable to play at a festival on a larger screen and still appear to be good quality.

The film conforms to the "Drama" Genre by:

• The film conforms to the "Drama" genre in multiple ways as our film follows many typical conventions. The film follows a young girl living her life as a teenager. We see the girl amongst friends and in various environments where young people traditionally 'hang out' such as a park scene, in friends houses and the bedroom. This results in very naturalistic acting which is expected within a Drama film. 
• Various shot types usually seen in a Drama film were used in our film. We used many long shots to establish the scenes, this is best seen in our park scene, it establishes the location and places our main character in the location - helping the viewer understand what is happening. 

• We also used Extreme Close-Ups throughout the drug taking scenes, these were done to exaggerate what was taking place - to make it obvious to the viewer what was happening. 

• During each scene, the film uses multiple camera angles from different positions around the characters (it wasn't just a fixed camera) - this ads 'realism' to the scene, it doesn't feel like we are on a set. 
• The titles of the film break up the first scene with a black screen and white text. This is a conventional way to start a drama film but also a way we picked up from the research of "party" films such as "21 jump street" which follow a similar genre to what our film was based around.