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

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Ancillary Task - Website

http://www.wix.com/rs13media2011/weightless#!home|mainPage

Ancillary Task - Film Poster

'Weightless' Film Trailer

http://vimeo.com/39206543

Filming - House

We filmed in Rebecca's house today in order to set the scene of the character Eve's broken home. We used black eyeshadow and mascara for her eyes, and used water to spray on her face in order for the make-up to run and to make her look upset. Red and blue eyeshadow was also used to create a swollen look around her eyes, so to emphasise her crying.

We took a high angled medium-long shot of Eve crying on the stairs in order to convey the sadness and lonliness she feels; being an outsider in her own family. Problems we found with this part of the filming was with the focus on the camera - using deep focus on Eve in the background, and soft focus for the banisters in the foreground. We avoided this problem by changing the area we filmed from, to the top of the stairs, giving a clearer and more central view of Eve crying on the stairs.

We also filmed a long shot of Eve in her room quickly packing some clothes to show her haste in running away. We used a low angled long shot of her running down stairs and a long shot of her exiting the house to emphasise her leaving. We also filmed a long shot of the front of the house with Eve's Dad shouting for her to come back to show the agressive nature of her Father.

Given the location we were filming in today, we decided to take advantage and shoot other clips that we intend to go in our trailer; when Eve is suffering from the effects of the drugs. We took medium shots of her lying motionless in the bath with the black eye make-up on to show her crying. Her face and hair were sprayed with water to give the feel that she really was in the bath.

The only problem we had with filming Eve in the bath was our idea for her to go under the water. However, with the actress being fully clothed and there being no water in the bath, it was difficult to get a smooth motion of her doing so. This problem was also avoided by our decision not to include this clip in our trailer.

Filming - Park

Today we re-filmed some of the park scenes:

1. Where Eve is sat in the shelter
2. The two characters talking and getting to know each other
3. Shots of the sky which we filmed on a roundabout and will be used to overlay with text during the editing process.

The weather was perfect for the atmosphere we wanted to create, and the park was also empty, which meant that we had the freedom to experiment with filming, for example, spinning on the roundabout.

The only problem we encountered was that the tripod made it difficult to complete the panning shots, as it was very jerky even after a lot of adjusting.

Filming - Tunnels

We went down to the tunnels today equipped with the camera, tripod, and a few bin bags for Ayajul to fall on as it was quite muddy.

We originally started with the camera being on the outside of the tunnels filming us inside, however, this didn't really look effective as we were hard to see. Then, we placed the camera on the inside of the tunnels in order to form silhouettes, which was really effective as it created a tense and gloomy atmosphere.

Filming - Burnley

Today we filmed the urban shots in Burnley. We did have issues with people walking infront of the camera, and looking into the lens, but we will be able to rectify that in editing. Also, we attempted to do the shot where we walk backwards, however, we figured that this would be too difficult to achieve as we could have walked into people.

Filming - Park

Today, we filmed in Stubbylee Park which set the scene of the first meeting of Eve and Jermaine. We used an extreme-long shot of the couple holding hands and walking up a path alongside a stream. Our intention is to edit this by speeding it up and having jump cuts to initiate an obscurity among the two and a passion for speed which will later be shown through their dangerous drug-taking.

Problems we had with filming today is that the shots we not to the standard that we desired: some of the shots were shaky and the lighting didn't reflect the mood we intended such as the picture shown above of the long shot showing the two characters covered with shadows of trees.