Question 3

What have you learned from you audience feedback?

Audience feedback is the essential part of the post production stages from of film and these feedbacks indicates the changes we will and would have to make during the filming and after the filming progress.

According to our genre I gathered a group of younger students from the school and got feedback from them on the first draft of our storyboard so they would get the ideal idea of what we were trying to portray in this film and its genre.

Our first initial idea was based on puberty dysfunction and this didn’t get the bests of responses which led us to changing the whole idea because our group of viewers told us that it wasn’t realistic enough. Student: “It sounded quite well however would be very difficult to show and portray manhood within “. The main reason why the story wasn’t really appreciated by the group was because it didn’t have any particular Unique Selling Point and it didn’t exactly fit in with the topic `Manhood`. The group told us that we could create a better story idea from the topic and we then had to discuss and broaden our knowledge about Manhood. From this first feedback we realised that we don’t have to make it so obvious because puberty is part of Manhood but we could create a creative film story and still bring out the same message.

The creativity in the film story would bring us a creative film and this is the progression we have to make from the basic AS skills to the advanced A2 skills and knowledge by applying more technological terms and using more technology and better story ideas for our target audience. This first final feedback gathered us together so we could great fresh new story ideas based on Manhood, Drama and relationships.

I personally did a block off collective research which is shown on my blogg and this brought us 2 new ideas which were 1. The story I came up with of a young man going to the army to gain his manhood back and he doesn’t tell anyone because we wants to come back proven everyone wrong.

2. There is married couple and the husband is a military man and he is called
out to go fight in the war against Afghanistan for UK. The tragedy starts from
there were by the wife is left along and she is pregnant as well however
he's been sent out to go fight several small wars but had returned home
nice and safely to see his wife's face again but this time he doesn’t come back. I pitched one of my ideas to the group and discussed on the idea if it was suitable to what we believed to achieve at the end of the year and the idea I told them about was the first one about the young man joining the army.

Reka and David came up with an idea which they had mixed together after the first feedback we got from the first story idea & pitch. We added in my part of the idea and came up with one whole new idea and pitch which we all felt happy about. We fixed up and make few changes to the idea which we presented to our classmates and teacher. Pitch, first script and treatment were finalised by us however we needed another set of feedback to make sure that we was on the line to success.

First response was “Increased improved from the first idea” we also received feedback on how the short – plot point in the story were very interesting and worked very well. The changes like changing the location for our main event to occur and using more suitable music & sound effects that were made and also the story was more organised, making the theme stand out throughout the treatment and we shortened the characters down to 3 main characters instead of 5.

Our audience feedback overall said that there was not any vital elements of the treatment that needed any major changes because from the first treatment we made a progressive change. We started off with 3 treatment ideas but because of the necessary feedback we received we mixed them down together and came up with the final treatment.

When we got back to the script we had to make a few major changes such as the text font of the script and the layout of the script because at first we didn’t follow the correct layout and format of a script but a student told us that it didn’t look too professional so we went back and did in depth research on how to layout a film script. Also it had to be presented as a silent film and shouldn’t contain too much dialogue so we had to clear out all the unnecessary dialogue and replace them with actions that would portray the same message and this was all achieved in our final draft and found to be more victorious so for instance when they were coming down the stairs in the morning instead of having them arguing or just shouting at each other we replaced it by Colin barging John half way down the stairs and then had a close of shot of John’s facial expression reaction towards what had just happened but this had to be shown in the script but not written out in full detail.

The final script was really improved from what we had been thinking of being before and from the audience feedback we got like: “Script looks more detailed and professional than the first one I saw”, “I like it because it shows that us have done more work to make improvements”, “Wow a real film script created by some one I know”.  These feedbacks gave us an insight on how there’s always room for improvement. Not only did we have our classmates and teachers look at the script we had the students and outside school friends look at it.  Audience feedback :” The audience wont know they are brothers, you need to show that they're related in some way and  haven't set up the difference and relationship between them both, I think you might need to a few extra scene, like for example the brother has friends to pick him up from school. There's not a strong representation of the favouritism between the mother and two sons.

The script seems a bit random, you need to tighten it and fill in the gaps.”

This feedback gave us a lot to do which meant we had to add in scenes were the favouritism for Colin is shown. Right from the beginning we haven’t this message to be clear so when Colin walks into the kitchen and gets his breakfast ready, Linda comes over and grabs the cereal box of him saying that she will prepare his breakfast for him. Then John walks in and his mother tells him to prepare his own breakfast this already portrays that Colin is more loved by Linda also on the table scene we see Linda pouring cereal into Colin’s bowl and John just watches them and he has to do everything himself.

Storyboard was our challenging area because we came out with the first final treatment and realised that things would have to be stating out on a storyboard and would have to follow the exact guidelines. For the storyboard I did a personal questionnaire based on four simple questions and gave it out to 10 different people who I spend most of my days with. Regarding the first four questions which involved the participants having to rate on a number of factors involving the quality of our storyboard and treatment from 1-5, (1 being the lowest, 5 the highest) there were a range of different opinions. To begin with, with the first question being “Does this look like a film storyboard to you?” there was an average rating of 4, with one participant circling 5, yet around four participants circling 2. Therefore, this shows the diverse range there are in participant’s opinions, with obviously the drama genre with a manhood themed story only appealing to certain sixth form students and friends. Also, this could perhaps be an indication of participant’s unique genre taste, as a female who could be fanatic about drama’s , relationships and family  would potentially find our treatment appealing, yet on the other hand a male who may only be interested in action films may not find our short film that interesting to watch when it had been released. With the feedback from our random sample we gathered that our storyboard was on the right track and were happy to continue to improve based on the feedbacks we got from other sixth form students.

As we were moving unto the next stages I started to realise that feedback was vital in everything we did especially because we were creating a product for the target audience and not for ourselves which may have seemed like the perfect story idea to ourselves just because we created them. During the finalising stage after I got the questionnaires I realised that we were missing a few shots in the storyboard like the shots of Colin Barging into John in the opening scene when they are coming down the stairs and also the shots of John walking in the road by himself as Colin and Friends walk straight past him and these shots were the most effective ones which none of us had noticed and also some of the shot angles mentioned in the storyboard wouldn’t work on location. Audience feedback told u that “A panning shot on that table wouldn’t work out but if we did it would look very ruff “ and also the scene were Colin’s friends are outside we wanted to do a birds eye view shot but that wouldn’t work on location at all so what I had to do it basically create a whole new storyboard from scratch with all the new cuts in them and after this was created we had to think of how we could make certain shots more interesting by adding in tilts, zooms, pans, spins, transactions etc.  We also thought about how to maintain these interesting shots in production and after this we showed a the same students & friends the storyboard again and got feedback like Jackson : “I like the fact that you started from plain again and built up on improvement I gave you”  

Once production was cleared out of the way we moved onto the editing process was we had major problems which we didn’t notice ourselves until we got feedbacks from our audience.

The technical issues were mostly to do sound and making sure we cut out the right shots to make the actual film size smaller within the rage of 4 to 5minutes.  For example when Linda was picking up the letter we didn’t have to show the post dropping into the house and she walking up to the door to pick it up because it would really be a waste of time that whole clip after 5 seconds would have gathered to the audience what it going on and this only came to our notice after the feedback we got. Audience feedback: “The opening credits and names aren’t enough” because we just had the 3 main characters names on the opening scene. We showed our audience the first draft of our edited film which was about 8 minutes.

“Some of the shots are not needed” so what we had to do is run through the film and cut short shots or shot that could be replaced.

 Continuing the process of trimming down the 25minutes of recordings down to 5 minutes the end product came out successfully.

During editing stage we had to find the matching music’s for our film which was a bit challenging because we didn’t want to use tragic music all the way through the film so I did some research on what would fit in with each scene.

I found some copy right free music online and downloaded them and got my partners to listen to them so we inserted them unto the film clip not realising that it wasn’t the ideal song for the film. We only discovered when one of our classmates said that the music was way to “Upbeat and Cheesy” for our film and because of this feedback I went back and did further research on the kind of mellow music that would fit in and I found the music on http://www.music4yourvids.co.uk/ they gave me a variety of genres that I could select from and I resulted with the right sound clip for certain scenes.  This showed me that music really portrays a lot that happens in a film and it would have to be a precise music to get the audience into the mood for example if our genre was Action it would be a adventurous upbeat thrillerly kind of sound were as for the drama it has to have some mellow and calm music inserted for example when John is walking to school we have the rap music fading down and then the tragic mellow music fades in when John is by himself it portrays how he is lonesome and sad.

At the last stage I had to use Adobe Photoshop CS4 to create my 3 film posters after the research I did on film posters so I could have the bright idea of what a real poster layout looked like.  Many of my classmates looked at several of my posters for example Poster 3 I had a black background with John & Linda hugging but after feedback I got from a few Year.10 students who told me that  the black background doesn’t really go with what we were trying to accomplish . They recommended that I used a lively background like water or skies and I decided to go for the skies/clouds because I noticed that black had nothing to do with relationships, drama and manhood were as the clouds represent peace, drama and freedom.  The background made a major difference and I noticed that the background place a big role in the poster format because it tells what is happening in the background and how it differences or is the same as the foreground image or colour.  Another feedback I got from one of the people in my production group was that I had to add in the tagline of the film because it follows the codes and convention of film posters. I did take this step and added in the tagline in the 3^rd poster showing that I took in the feedback and improved on it. The language I used on these posters had to be very clear fully selected and had to be the right words because these posters are the distributions of the final film and they are going to attract the audience to come and see the film so at the last stage I got 5 people to come and look at my final draft and tell me exactly what the thought of it. Feedback I got is :” I would surely watch the film if I saw the poster some were “,  “ I like the fact that its an amateur production but you have made the poster look so professional at a beginners stage”.

The main lesson I learnt from all this feedback is that there is always room for improvement and because media is based on people (audience) you will always need feedback, comments and suggestions from them to create the best media product there is so it would be suitable for your target market whether niche or mass audience.  Good feedback gives me the boost on continuing the further works on what I started and bad feedback makes me stronger and that all part of development when your skills are improving day by day just because of the things people say to you.

Question 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

From the start of production stages I had to make several uses of old and new technologies to complete research, planning and evaluation works. Research started right after our AS Exams we looked at different short films and annotated them in full details and this went on for a few weeks to get our knowledge and brains freshened for A2. We had created a story idea based on “Rite of Passage”: A rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person's progress from one status to another. From this mega topic we had to go and brainstorm on themes that link in within Rite of Passage.

From the brainstorm I found myself using search engines to find out further detailed information like Google, Search, Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia to find a creative interpretation from which I could great a strong idea from. Research on Manhood led me to so many different articles and films which all had relevant information about manhood were I could build a story up from.  Wikipedia however led me to the male sex organs which technically is part of “Manhood” but not the ideal information I needed for this project.  At this stage most of the technology used was search engines and YouTube simple because it was all for the use of first and formal outline information about what we wanted to make a film about. For the review I found gained a lot of information from IMDB and other Google examples on reviews or I visited the actual website of the film companies and looked at their film magazine reviews.

During planning stage I discovered that we would use double the amount of technology that AS stage because there was a lot more to do but in the same process.  One activity we carried out was taking pictures with a SLR Camera of everyday objects in different angles which would help us out when we was at the shooting stage. The photograph activity really developed my skills in camera use. Whilst taken pictures I took advantage of the various settings on the camera such as Macro to change the focus and blur of each picture.  I study photography so I could apply some of my skills into doing this activity. From planning to research we had to use online publishing documents like slide share, slideshow and prezi which would let us publish our script and treatment in its original format and it also made it look more creative than just blogging down a load of text. From AS stage I felt comfortable with these technologies were as when I got to the stage in A2 I had to refresh my memory a little bit but got comfortable after a while Using the Canon X5 with the Libec Tripod as it was easier for me to assemble and was familiarised with it. This reduced the time of setting up so we could move swiftly on location and keep our times to the minimum during the shooting process. On the video camera we had to look at specific technical aspects like making sure that the spirit level on the camera was correct. The viewfinder was another technical part of the camera that was extremely important to us. In such we had our camera on manual which meant we have to control the white balance/lighting ourselves and make sure it was suitable to what we wanted it to be so not too dark and not too light. We used many several of camera shots using the Canon X5 like in the scene were Linda come to the door and picks up the letter from the floor, this shot was a high over shoulder shot from Linda’s point of view. We used a panning shot right after the boys walk off on their house road and go to school the next shot we see is a panning shot of the school’s entrance board. It starts from about the middle point and pans its way to the top of the shot and this created more effective ness because it shows that we are able to use variety of shots in the right places. In the case if this school entrance board was just shown as a flick up picture for 4seconds it would look professional at all. During filming we used shot-reverse-shots especially in the scene were John, Colin & Linda are at the table and they are eating their breakfast we get a shot-reverse-shot of John trying to talk to his mother and his mothers reaction of ignoring him. We used this camera shot here because it creates that action – reaction vibe and this shot reverse shot was shot very close up to get all the facial expressions.

We used the sound equipment as well for voice over and also to get some of the characters dialogue. This equipment was the boom, the pole and the microphone itself we didn’t need this too much as it was made to be a silent film but I had to make sure that the right channel on the camera was activated so that the sound will come through the headphone properly. However as a group had to make sure that the equipment was dry especially because we had outside scene so we had an umbrella because of the little rain that was happening on the shooting day. The weather also created a problem with continuity as the rain would stop and start between different scenes, meaning that we had a change of weather in different shots but it wasn’t to noticeable when it came down to editing. During planning stage we used various media technologies to find our actors/actresses firstly we used

Starnow    Gumtree 
NowCasting      but these didn’t amount up to what we was looking for so we went down on making phone calls to relatives and friends who we thought were right for our short film.

We continued using the previous technology for editing which was Abode Premiere Pro however it was easier this year because last year I had the basic knowledge and playing with it throughout the months I developed my skills in it. Whereas this year we broadened our range and shot scenes with the intention of creating shot reverse shots and slow motion at the end of the film because we all wanted to increase our technical skill and make further progress from our previous AS production which would have shown the examiner the progress we made. In Adobe Premiere I used several tools to make sure that the film came down to a clean 5 minute cut and theses tools included trimming tool to trim down the video lengths and delete the unnecessary shots and seconds. Capture tool to record in the film from the Canon video camera unto the Adobe software and this whole process is called capturing. Rate stretch tool is another tool I used frequently during editing this enable me to stretch out the shot and with the zoom till look at the closer. There a was a twist this year because we had to create film reviews and film posters and for their formats we had to Adobe Photoshop Elements which was the best recommended editing software. I personally used Adobe Photoshop CS4 and there were many tools I used to create these posters and review such as Lasso tool which basically enabled me to cut out John from a screen shot of the film into a blank page I had opened up and this page was going to be the poster. For the review I used the shape tool a lot to create like the

 Paint brush to create the outline glow of “Take the next step” which was a black outline the reason why I used a paintbrush to do it is because it makes it stand out  and I learnt that doing things manual on Photoshop creates greater effect for people to see from afar

 Text tool was used all through out the process of creating the poster and review for example in the poster I used the text tool to write out “Take the next step” even with the text tool I was able to add in effect unto the title like shadow which basically is the black shadow behind the text.

 Image size tool was used to resize pictures on my film review like the first image on the first page of my review I used this image size tool to change the size of John walking in the middle of the road from Width 400 pixels and Height 400 pixels to Width 600 pixels to Height 350 pixels. This image size change made the image fit in right with the film reviews layout.

 Filter effects has many effect that I can use from it however the one I used the most was Sharpen like in the first poster I used the sharpen effect on the background which was the stairs and the reason why I used this effect is because it enables the blurry images to look sharpen that they originally are. This Sharpen tool made my images look clearer for instance another example is the image of John & Linda hugging in poster 3. In that image I added on the Sharpen tool which made the image also look clearer and sharpen than the original screen grab. With Filter effects there are more effects that I used like sketch which is another tool which enables a sketch effect on the image which means that it gets the cartoonist effect, texture, render and blur.

With all the knowledge I have I was able to help a lot of my classmates on using these various tools on Photoshop.

To conclude, we used a wide of different ranges of new and old media technologies to help us complete the work needed for the construction, research and planning stages for our A2 Media production and to my own believe it came out successful from the stage we started at.

Question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

The colours in my poster are a mixture of black & white and then full colour and the reasons why I choose to use these colours is because I wanted to create that great impact on anyone that passed by the poster. The sense of black and white would make the public think what kind of “old film” is this but looking at the detail would reveal to them. And the use of original colour just to make it look modern and also appealing to the viewers eye because colour is what the human eyes catch first then shapes. The title of the poster is black simply because its isn’t a fancy film so I kept the colour straight forward and this links in with the film because all the aspects in the film.

During research I discovered that most film posters whether short film or films were made out of several of images. This inspired me to use several images to create my poster but in my first poster the use of images wasn’t of satisfactory to my audience. The feedback from my audience who said that “because the image is a screenshot from the film it isn’t clear for me to see” so during the stage of creating my redraft of my first poster I looked at how cinema posters used images to make their posters appealing and attractive. I looked through the images I had from my film and decided to go out and take a few photo shots of different stairs around my area now the reason why I did this is because out title is “Take the next step” and this title gave me the ideas of having John walking up a stairs. The reason why I decided to use the image of stairs is because it represents every step John takes towards his manhood and then added in an image of John which was a screen shot from my film and this image was of him walking up and I used the Lasso tool to cut him out from the background and placed that cut out on the stairs. The contrasting light of dark to light on the stairs image creates the effect on how he is walking into a deeper meaning of life and I didn’t want this image to be so obvious so I positioned John on the direction of the stairs were by he is walking down and not up. Reason for this image positioning is because that the twist we have on our film that he is taking steps towards manhood which technically is a harder advanced life and that’s what out short film is about.

The intended target audience for this poster would be 15+ simple because it has a lot of drama and some kind of action involved and the immature mind wouldn’t be able to understand a film like this. The 3^rd poster has the characters hugging each other and this symbolises a strong relationship between them two. It wouldn’t be right if the target audience was PG which is open to everyone because it isn’t that kind of Finding Nemo film or anything which a 5 year old child can sit, watch and understand and this poster portrays what exactly main product shows.

These poster have a own unique style of attracting its target audience through various persuasive techniques. Firstly the layouts of the posters are very eye catching because I followed on how the original poster did there and looking at films of the same theme I caught many ideas on how to show forth these posters. Use of colour and contrast is a persuasive technique I inserted in because I knew that it was one of the main avenues to attract our audience and doing some quick research it has proven to work a bit.
Tag line, Text and Font these are other persuasive technique that a viewer would look at and this would decide whether they will be interested in watching the film or not.

When its down to genre its straight into drama and some even mentioned action however the main genre is drama and then if we break it down its also about relationships. The poster represents a lot of tragedy and this falls into drama. The USP of this poster is the design of the actual poster and how the characters are presented on poster is another USP because looking at the other posters that are out from amateur’s film makers I personally feel that this one would be one of the outstanding film posters just because of the creativity put into it.

Comments I received from Audience "The poster design is brilliant however it has to look more of a drama genre"                       "Real creativity inserted in this poster and the title font is good"

Doing my film review took a lot of time and research because it had to look as professional and realistic like the posters so I took my time to create this review and looking at other examples fed my mind with more knowledge about film reviews.

Take the nest step is the final product which audiences get to see, but in order for them to want to watch the film my review has to create hype/ buzz and market the film in a way that answers questions and gives audiences the first view of the film. From my research of Total Film I decided to base my inspiration on Total Film. Not only did I base my inspiration on Total Film but I had all my information and house style based from their film reviews.

 I chose Total Film as the influence of my film review as I felt that the editors had very relaxed and colloquial language which would comfort the reader, whilst also using filmic terms. I had to incorporate language into the review, so mentioning the directors and actors name which would identify to the audience who they are and if they had been in any previous or further films.

The image I chose for the film review was perfect because they were the shots from the film itself and that follows a film reviews inserts. Main character John is the one I wanted to show more in the film review because this story revolves around him and John’s facial expression gives an indication of his character.  I also added an effect to the image using simple photo editing software to give it a sharper look and it rounds off the image nicely. The review overall does not give away the whole plot, it advertises its characters and genre successfully.

The overall layout of the magazine page was easy to replicate so using publisher I was able to make it look as if my review had came straight out of the Total Film magazine however I discovered that I could design better by using Adobe Photoshop so I went ahead and used that to create this film review.

On the source of colours I kept it according to Total films reviews because I wanted my poster to look exactly like it would fit in with the magazine ones and these main colours were red, white and black. These main colours were displayed all over the two pages

Question 1

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

The Manhood / Rivalry and Relationship genre is what we used for our short film. While watching short films that there is mainly just one or two characters in the film, and there will most likely be a central protagonist who will remain centre frame throughout the film. Looking at the themes short films we created I had a few films that I looked at for example Mother, 7 Pounds and many more. These films inspired us as a production group to create “Take the next step”

To gather the codes and conventions of short-films, I used YouTube as my main source, where I was able to find a very useful channel 'Future Shorts' which contains several short films from all genres. The company Future Shorts is a well-known distributor of short films, they are not in the production industry bust instead see their main aim to advance the short-film industry, more information on Future Shorts can be found on my earlier post and companies like this can get our short films out to the world.  Most of the short films I watched only had the one character focused on, for example This Is Me, where the central protagonist was the male in a hospital bed. He always remained centre frame, and there were only two other characters in the film, his wife and the boy with the plane.  Another code and convention I noticed whiles watching short films is that quite a lot use the steady-cam technology to create a point of view shot, this is because short films are mainly a story in a particular characters life, and the best way to portray this story is to see it how the character would see it. A good way of producing a story for a short film is to simply take a normal life situation and simply tweak around with it, for example you could have everyone walking around in underwear’s and socks and acting as though it was normal.

In the same way our main focus in the film is John because he is the one going through the rite of passage and everything revolves around him. What our short film has is a twist to it because after doing research I discovered that all short films have a twist to the storyline like a short film I watched called STALKER is about a young man who is in a deserted industrial area but then some stranger run up on the place and kill him, this is most likely because the films are so short, that without a twist in the story, it would simply not be interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmp2gchZEao

Knowing how our genre follows its elements we picked these out and used it in our film but we also challenged it by going to extra mile on adding that twist on how big the dilemma was. In my short film, I only had 3 main characters in the film and the rest of the 5 were only extras in the film. By using to this convention of a short film, I enabled my short film to be much more understandable as there were only 3 characters that the audience needed to follow. Our central protagonist remains centre screen when possible at all times. This helps signify the importance of John.

I used the point of view angle in some shots, but it was mainly show the movement of the central protagonist by showing what he is seeing. I did not use it to the extent that I had seen it used in some short films.  Short Films usually last bout 1-5 minutes- however my short film lasts just a bit over this, this is not me trying to challenge the codes and conventions, it just simply worked out that my short film needed a bit more timing to build up to the twist.

In most short films there aren’t much dialogue in short films- In my film there is only one line of dialogue, I decided to follow this code and convention because any dialogue may have given away too much about the central protagonist and ruined the twist, and created an oppositional reading.

For my locations I chose my house. I chose my house simply because it was easy to access and also I wanted to display a home environment. I chose my living room because it was a large, indoor space which I could also get access to and also had good positions to take shots from when filming. The living room, when filled with people, also gave a good atmosphere which created the image I was looking for and most families’ dramas are based at home.

Looking at films relating to Family- Drama there is a lot of adult features involved however we decided to develop this by just having one adult in the short film and have the brothers as the main focus.  Watching a film called Beethoven it’s all family related and everyone had their role as a whole family but what I wanted to develop is how things run with in the film so I had Colin in the shoes of a father and this would then make John look smaller than he is mentally. During the process of choosing these characters we wanted it to be a White based family because we knew that things like that happened within that ethnicity however after long thoughts we knew that we wanted to challenge our genre so we got a black family without a father in the family. Films that really inspired me to really continue making this film is the Korean film called “Mother” it has a lot of the themes that we have in our film like mother to son relationship, tragedy, action, amusement and love however we use these themes but turn around the way they are portrayed at that’s what makes it a successful short film.  The pursuit of Happyness is another family drama which has a twist to family drama codes & conventions which is that there is only Father and Son throughout the film. We do hear about the mother but never see her so she doesnt play a big role but from this film I learnt that you can create a family drama without the complete mother , father & kids concept.

After doing research on our genre I needed a few ways to challenge our genre and I found out usually in family drama’s there is a father or father figure but we challenged this but taking out that whole concept and just have the mother and 2 brothers this gives it a twist because the stereotypical thoughts is that the mother won’t have control over the boy. Usually in a family drama there is this constant use of love or hate but we did a bit of both and mixed it up by having a favourite in the family which is Colin. We don’t focus on the mother character too much because she is just one of the reasons why John takes the step into manhood. The reason why we decided to use the organ donation as the twist in the film is because we wanted to great a different way to step into manhood. After research on typical ways of proving manhood I discovered that most likely ones were fights, competitions, war, get a female or betting. These different ways were so typical and that wasn’t what we wanted to portray to our target audience so we all thought of an unusual way of stepping into manhood and we came up with kidney transplant and it worked out to be successful because we had a local hospital so we could go and find out information about how these transplants occur and how patients feel about them.

Take the Next Step

interview on FaithProductions Crew

This is a exclusive interview on the people behind FaithProductions who are also the creators and the master minds behind "Take the next step" so we took a spin in there studio and asked them some common questions about how the production for the short film went. We have Jesse (Director) , Reka (Assistant Director) and David(Cameraman). Faith Productions was established in 2010 by David Bigfaith and expanded with Jesse and Reka they have no created 2 Short films and also Jesse & David have been working on poetry works which have been very successfull. Faith Productions is looking to release more products as the New Year is coming up.

Interview On John & Colin

 



An exclusive behind scenes interview on John & Colin (Davide and Ope). John and Colin are the main characters in this short film they play the role of two brother who live in one house with there Mother Linda.
Colin the older brother is more of the favoured by their mother and this puts John down however the relationship between the mother and John remains very low throughout the shortfilm until a change happens.
Colin is suppose to be the braver and more matured brother between them two but this is not what it appears to be.
David & Ope will shortly just tell us about what they did and how they enjor or disliked their role in this shortfilm.

Blogg about Kidney Transplant

http://kidneytransplantforkyliesmom.blogspot.com/


I did some research on other bloggs who related to Kidney Transplants and I came to a blogg which was set up by someone who had a family member going throught that process. They built up a blogg about how things went for them daily so its more a dairy for people to read but this helped me to see what people from the outer box saw.

The Woman who set up the Blogg (Christina) :
My daughter Sandra is a young vibrant mother of a 13 yearold daughter. Sandra was diagnosed with end stage renal failure in November 2005. She has since then had two surgeries to allow access for two different methods of dialysis. Her doctor says that her only chance to a "normal life" is a kidney transplant. As there can be up to a ten year wait on the transplant list, and no blood matches in the family, the transplant coordinator told us it is time to aggressively campaign for a living donor.

Welcome to my blog. I created this blog out of desperation to find a living kidney donor for my daughter. I also want to use my blog to bring awareness to the pain, dialysis patients suffer while waiting for years, for a kidney transplant. I hope, as people visit this place that they will realize how important it is to sign up as an organ donor. In some communities, it is enough to have a sticker on your drivers license. However, in other places, like my province, British Columbia, Canada, you have to be registered with the transplant society. Although this blog does not look like much right now, there will be a lot of information here as soon as I get more proficient in blogging. Christina