Location

Chelmsford City Centre: this is where we will film the chase scene and the rich boy meeting up with his mate. The busy atmosphere will give the affect of how no one gives any sympathy for the poor boy and allows him to get chased.



Central Parke Chelmsford: This is where the poor homless boy will wake up and the scenes to follow that will be filmed. This area is nice to look at and will give the affect of how different the boy is and that he doesn't really belong.





This is where most of the rich boy scenes will be filmed of him waking up and his daily routine, the house we chose is a normal looking house which will give the impression of how normal this boys life is.

Great Baddow High School: This is where our final scene will be shot of the two boys walking into the boxing club entrance.

Question 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real mediaproducts?

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Question 2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents teenagers, poor people and rich people. Teenagers are represented through the two main characters because of their age. They are both 17 years old.

 Poor people are represented though Jack’s character, because of the way he is presented in the film, such as sleeping on the floor in a park, poor clothing and no home.

Rich people are represented through Ben’s character, because of the way he is presented. For example, he lives in a nice house, he eats at a table with food made for him and he owns his own gym equipment.

Their characters also represent the differences in popularity and emotion. In the film, Ben is shown being happy and content, and meets some friends; whereas Jack is sad, on his own, and gets chased by a gang of boys.

Jack’s character’s background is presented as a rough upbringing in the opening scene, and represents the lower class; Ben’s character’s background is presented as an easy upbringing. He represents the upper class.

The overall representation is the contrast between the two characters, which is shown through their personal presentation, and how different their lives are to each other.   

Fighting To Survive final

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Other Stereotypical action/drama features are:
- One character is usually an outcast
- Chase Scenes
- Fight scenes
- Two main characters with an emotional story-line
- An event which brings the characters together
- Emotive action

Films with a similar genre

 

 

The Fighter: American welterweight boxer from Lowell Massachusetts. Managed by his mother, Alice Ward (Melissa Leo), and trained by his older half-brother, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale), Micky has not had a particularly successful career. The story is just about his redemption and training for the fight of his life.

 

 

 

 

Rocky: A struggling boxer gets the opportunity of a life time when the world heavyweight champion sets a fight up. It was suppose to be an easy win for the Champion but no one told Rocky that.

 

 

 

Never Back Down: At his new high school, Jake Tyler is lured into an ultimate underground fighting club in a Backyard Fight. After receiving threats to the safety of his friends and family, Jake seeks the mentoring of a veteran fighter, to train his mind and body for one final no-holds-barred elimination fight.

 

 

Warrior: Two brothers face the fight of a lifetime - and the wreckage of their broken family - within the brutal, high stakes Mixed Martial Arts tournament where winner takes all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Karate Kid: 12 year old Dre Parker ends up moving to china with his mother where he manages to make an enemey of the class bully and one of the best kung fu fighters in his year. He has no one to turn to when he meets the maintenance man who trains Dre for the fight of his life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First draft feedback

 We Presented our first draft to a group of Media students and gave them a sheet to fill out with certain questions on and here are some of the responses that we got:

Is it obviously an opening sequence?
All of the comments we got said that it was very clear that it was an opening sequence.

Is it clear who the target audience is?
On this question we had a mixed response some people though that it was really clear who the target audience was but others thought that it wasn't very clear. So to make this better we will have to add some hints so they know who the target audience is.

Titles go with the genre. Is the genre obvious? Are they clear? Are there enough and are they in the right order?
Most of the viewers found that the titles really fitted with the film and that the transitions between each title was really good. However a couple of people thought that the titles were too simple and that they were in the wrong order.

Think about the sound and the images are they appropriate? Do they fit together?
We got a good response with the sound of the opening, everyone thought that the song really fitted with the whole mood and the emotional side of the film and the storyline and that they automatically feel sorry for Jack.

Camera- Are the shots appropriate and relevant? Is there controlled use of camera attention to framing, variety of shot distance and angle? Close attention use of mise en scene?
The audience felt that the shots that we chose were very good and very effective at introducing the characters and setting the whole theme of the film. But a few people felt that even though the shots were very effective that we needed to have some more variety of certain shots that we use.

Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transition and other effects.
The people that we asked thought that the editing was excellent and they really liked the whole mirror effect to show the differences between the two characters. They also thought that the opening flowed really well and that the transitions between each scene was very clever and worked really well.

Total Score
Taking an average out of the 22 people that we asked the score that we got was:
47.3

Improvements
To improve our first draft we will need to finish filming all the shots especially the last shot needed which will sort out any confusion about what the film is about and the whole boxing theme to it. We will also need to change the order of the titles to make it more professional and to cut certain scenes like the chase scene so there is less time for the audience to wait from one scene to the next.