insomnia bloopers

FILM REVIEW: choosing most appropriate iages

This is a sketch of the picture for our film review. we chose as it shows the characters in conflict this gives a hint of the storyline of the film to the audience.

FILM: FINAL PRODUCTS

this is the final draft of our film poster.

here is the final product of our film review

here is the final product of our film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaftN0M176U

FILM: SCRIPTING

Interior – House -day

Music begins to play, film starts with transition of one second fade from black to an establishing shot of a street. Camera CUTs to low angle shot of the sky camera begins to slowly tilt downwards onto the house. In between the tilt, camera cuts to a long shot of a busy road, cars and buses drive by. Camera continues tilt downwards unto the house. Camera CUTS to medium shot of younger brother combing his afro.

Younger Brother: This guy man, he is over there!


Camera CUTS back of the younger brother head watching TV.

Camera CUT to an extreme long shot of older brother walking towards the house the older brother is wearing a dark green adiddas jacket with his hood up. Camera CUTS to a close up of the back of the younger brother’s head watching TV. Camera CUTS to a long shot of the older brother walking on the driveway towards door getting his keys out of his pocket. Music volume increases. When the older brother reaches the door the Camera cut to an extreme close up older brother using his keys to open door camera begins to zoom out as the older brother begins to take his first steps into the house.

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Scene 1-living room and dining room

Camera CUTs to medium shot of older brother shutting the door behind him and taking his hood down. As the Older brother walks away from the front door, the Camera Cuts to an extreme long shot of the back of the older brother walking through the corridor and into the dining room. Music fades out.

Older brother: Yo e-man you in?
Younger Brother: yeah I am in here

As the older brother reaches the end of the dining room, the Camera CUTS to low angle shot of the older brother standing and leaning on the wall with the younger brother sitting on the couch. Camera cut to an over shoulder shot of the older brother talking to the younger brother.

Older Brother: Has mum and dad gone yet?

As younger brother moves his head The camera cuts to low angle shot of the younger brother

Younger brother: ere blad! (stern)

Camera cut to over the shoulder shot of older brother

Younger brother: they left in the morning! (stern, raises voice, facial expression cross)

Camera cut to low angle shot of the back of younger brother sitting on the couch the older brother begins to move towards the younger brother with his hand in his pockets

Older brother: oi bruv don’t give me that attitude (facial expression annoyed irritated)

Camera cut back to over the shoulder shot of older brother moving toward younger brother

Younger brother: Shuttup man! (raises voice, annoyed)

Camera cut to low angle shot of the back younger brother.

Older brother: who do you think you’re talking to? (angry)

Older brother raises his hand towards the younger brother. Younger brother flinches and leans back.

Younger brother: what’s your problem? (furious)

Older brother walks off

Camera cuts back to over the shoulder shot of older brother walking off, the younger brother facial expression is furious.

Camera cuts to Medium shot of older brother leaving the room walking into the dining room as older brother pulls the chair to sit down the camera tilts downward. High angle shot of older brother taking his books out of his bag. As the older brother is taking his books out his bag camera cuts to medium shot of younger brother taking his phone out of his pocket and starts to text. Camera cut to high angle shot of older brother taking out his folder. The camera cut to an extreme close up of the younger brother phone, a text is sent. Then the camera cuts to a POV shot of the older brother highlighting his exam timetable .camera cut back to a long shot of older brother taking off his jacket leaving it on the chair walking off into the corridor. Camera cuts to a long shot of the older brother walking through the corridor towards the camera he puts his hands on the banister as he is going upstairs. Camera cut to long profile shot of older brother walking upstairs.

Interior- house -night

Scene 2

Another High angle of the sky camera begins to tilt downwards as camera tilts downwards the shot slowly dissolves from day into the night . Camera CUT to long shot of younger brother standing up from couch stretching his arms out and yawning. Camera cuts to close up of younger brother scratching his head and walking towards dining room. Camera cuts to long shot of younger brother and tracks him walking towards the dining room. As younger brother walks pass the dining table he notices the older brother exam timetable as younger brother reaches out and grabs the older brother’s exam timetable the camera tilts downwards then the camera tilts upwards as the younger brother bring the exam timetable to his face to read. Meanwhile upstairs the older brother is tidying it up. Camera cuts to an extreme close up of a pillow being pulled across. Camera cut and tilts upwards as the older brother is fluffing up his pillow. Camera tilts downwards as older brother puts the pillow on the mattress. Downstairs the older brother is feeling smug that he found the older brother’s timetable. Camera cut to a medium shot of younger brother looking at the older brother’s timetable

Younger brother: alright then (cocky)

the camera CUTS to a medium shot of the older brother upstairs in his room pulling his curtains together. Downstairs in the living room the younger brother receives a phone call. Camera cuts to a High angle shot of younger brother sitting on the couch his mobile rings. Upstairs the camera cuts to a close up of the older brother wrapping up his mp4 and putting it on his desk. . Camera CUTS back to long shot of younger brother downstairs, the younger brother stands up from the couch speaking on the phone.
Camera tilts upwards.
Younger brother: yeah, hello


Upstairs, Camera cuts back to an extreme close up of older brothers hand arranging his shoes. Downstairs, camera cuts back to close up of younger brother downstairs in the kitchen speaking on his phone.

Younger brother: He is always bullying me! the way he was talking to me this morning! (Irritated, raises voice)

Camera cuts back to frame shot of older brother arranging his shoes. Over the duration of the shot there is voiceover of the younger brother speaking on hisphone.

Younger brother: look he’s got an exam tomorrow and that guy isn’t definitely not gonna make it, yeah that will teach him a lesson (stern)

Camera cuts back to close of younger brother downstairs in the kitchen

Younger brother: yeah just trust me gotta go man bye.

Upstairs the older brother has finished tidying up his room, Camera cuts to medium shot of older brother leaving his room. Camera cut to Long shot of the back of the younger brother downstairs walking out of the kitchen. Camera Cuts to high angle shot of younger brother and older brother at the bottom of the stairs.

Younger brother: Good luck man (smug)

Camera cuts to low angle medium shot of older brother and younger brother. Younger brother is going up the stairs.

Older brother: What you talking about? (Surprised)

Camera cuts to High angle shot of older and younger brother. Younger brother is walking up the stairs.

Younger brother: (chuckles) don’t worry man

Camera cuts to long shot of younger brother and older brother at the stairs.

Younger brother: (chuckles) don’t worry

Older brother: (sighs)

Older brother walks into the kitchen. Camera cut to long shot of the back of the older brother walking to utility room to get something to eat. Camera cut to medium shot of younger brother going upstairs. While downstairs the camera cuts to medium shot of older brother taken bread and butter to the kitchen counter. Camera cuts to medium shot of younger brother upstairs opening the door to his bedroom. Camera cuts back to a medium shot of the older brother just finishing eating his sandwich. Camera cut back to high angle shot of younger brother getting into bed.



Scene 3 House night

Downstairs the camera cut’s to a long shot of older brother leaving the kitchen and going up the stairs to his bedroom as the older brother reaches upstairs he puts his hand on the banister camera cuts to medium shot of older brother walking to his room. camera cuts to medium shot of the back of the older brother he open his door and switches on the light and shuts the door behind him

As the night goes on camera cuts to an extreme close up of an alarm clock camera cuts to medium shot of younger brother peeking out of his room as the younger brother looks left to right the camera pans to a POV shot and pans from the stairs to the bedroom door of the older brother camera cuts to medium shot of younger brother sneaking out of his room he switches the light off in his bedroom and while keeping an eye out for any sign of his older brother coming out of his room and he closes his bedroom door carefully, Camera tracks younger brother as he goes down the stairs. As the younger brother reaches the end of the stairs camera cut to long shot of younger brother and track him walking into the kitchen towards the boiler. the younger brother pulls down the catch on the boiler. the camera cut to an extreme close up of younger brother turning up the knob on the boiler then the Camera cut an extreme close up of the screen on the boiler showing the temperature. When the younger brother has finished turning up the central heating. The Camera cuts to a long shot of pulling the lid of boiler back to its place. Camera tracks younger brother as he walks out of the kitchen towards the stairs. As the younger brother reaches the end of the stairs camera cut to medium shot of younger brother walking towards his bedroom, opening his bedroom door and shutting it behind him. Camera cuts to close of older brother’s face in bed. Due to the rise in temperature the older brother is tossing and turning in his bed throughout this, the shot goes through a series of dissolves. The Last shot dissolves into high angle shot of the older brother sitting on the edge of the bed flicking up his t-shirt up and down.

Scene 4 House Night

Camera cuts to medium shot of younger brother coming out of his room. Camera dissolves to medium shots of the younger brother downstairs messing up the living room by taking out board games books and controller pad and spreading them all over the living room. Camera cut to an extreme close up of older brother feet going downstairs. When the younger brother hear the older brother footsteps camera cuts to medium shot, he rises up the camera tilts upwards.

Younger brother: What’s that? (Surprised)

Camera cut to long shot of younger brother running away (tracked by the camera) from the living room he leans on the dining room wall. He keeps an eye out of the older brother in the background walking across the corridor into the living room. When the younger brother sees that the older brother is out of sight he makes a dash to the stairs. Camera cuts to medium shot and tracks younger brother running to his bedroom, younger brother looks backs at the stairs,

Younger brother: (sighs)

Younger brother goes back into his room. Camera cuts back to long shot of older brother tidying up the living room. As the older brother downstairs tidies up the living room the transitions of shot dissolves as the older brother puts back boar, games, controller pads and books back. Camera dissolves into long shot of older brother walking out of the living room back to bed.

Scene 5 House Night

Camera cut to an extreme close up of alarm clock. Camera cut to medium shot of younger brother coming out of his room the younger brother shuts the door behind him. Camera cut to long shot of younger brother downstairs in the living room he shuts the door behind him.. Camera tracks young brother as he walk towards the stereo in the living room, he crouches down and opens the glass door of the stereo. Camera cut to extreme close up of younger brother turning the volume knob all the way to the maximum. Music begins. Camera cut to long shot of younger brother leaving the living room he shuts the door behind him. Camera cuts to medium shot of older brother upstairs in his bedroom he is disturbed by the loud music, he is tossing and turning and puts his pillow over his head. Camera cuts to long shot of older brother opening the door into the living room walking towards the stereo with his hands over his head his facial expression is annoyed as he cannot stand the loud music. As older brother reaches stereo he crouches down with one hand over his head the camera tracks him. Camera cuts to extreme close up of younger brother turning down the knob for the volume. Music fades out. Camera cut to long shot of older brother and track him walking out of the living room the older brother shut the door behind him.

Scene 6 Interior- Day- School-classroom

Camera cuts to Establishing shot of Eastbrook School. Camera cut to close up pf whiteboard. On the whiteboard it has exam details Camera cut long shot of pupil writing on paper. Camera cut to close up of pupil writing on paper. Camera cut to long shot from classroom and tracks younger brother walking along school corridor the younger brother knock on the door. Camera cuts to medium shot and track teacher walking towards the door. As teacher approaches door Camera cuts to long shot of teacher opening the door, the teacher leaves the classroom and shuts the door behind her. Camera cuts to medium shotof younger brother and teacher talking.

Younger brother: here’s my coursework miss (hands over folder to teacher)

Teacher: Thank you (takes folder) Where’s your older brother? He’s got an exam (slightly concerned)

Younger brother: Miss I don’t know where he is (slightly raises his hands up)

Teacher: he’s supposed to be in here he’s got an exam (concerned)

Younger brother: (shrugs shoulders) I think he forget about it or something

Teacher: I’ll call him (takes out phone)

Younger : (takes step back) miss I have to leave (walks off)

Teacher looks back then dials number and brings phone to ear.. Camera zooms in on younger brother as he walks off. Camera cut to extreme close up of teacher calling older brother. Begins Camera cut to an extreme close up and begins to zoom out, of the older brother’s phone in his hands as he is still in bed. Music begins. Camera cut to high angle medium shot of older brother in bed with the phone still ringing in his hand. Camera cut to close up of teacher ringing older brother. Camera cut back high angle long shot of older brother in bed with the ringing phone in his hands. Film ends, shot cut to black. Credits roll.

Evaluation of insomnia

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

In the beginning of our film the way we used our camera is we used long shots of streets with cars, buses and houses. We chose to do this as it shows a real environment; it distinguishes the location and the setting. In the long shot the house is semi-detached. Also in the beginning we chose to use a medium shot of the younger brother looking at something then we used an eyeline match with a point of view shot from behind the younger brother’s head watching TV and combing his afro. We chose to use these shots because it draws the audience into the mind of the younger brother which is done effectively. Also these shots represent the younger brother as lazy and a couch potato because he is sitting down in a relaxed position and talking to the TV.



The way we used our camera to challenge normal conventions, is when the younger brother sneaks out of his room he first peeks through his bedroom door. We decided to use an eyeline match of the younger brother peeking with a panning shot. We decided to use this because it shows that the younger brother is checking to see if the coast is clear but in addition this again brings the audience into the mind of the younger brother, but this time shows a different side to the younger brother personality. Previously, in the film the younger brother is represented as someone who has a one track mind as he is complaining at the TV .But through the panning shot the younger brother is seen as somebody who is clever and mischievous. As before the younger brother leaves his bedroom he makes sure he doesn’t get caught. This shows analysis and thought in the younger brother. This moment in the film brings versatility as there is more to the characters than we first thought in the opening.

The narrative in our film was used in a normal conventional way. The storyline of our film was based on the five part structure of narration which is exposition, development, complication, climax and resolution. The relationship between the two characters is shown as in the climax of the film the brothers argue, the older brother wins the argument this represents the younger brother as someone who is very rebellious. The narrative is used to great cause as it makes our film easier to follow because the film is in a structured setting. What we decided to do unconventionally is present a challenging resolution. We did not want to be condescending to the audience by using a dull, uninteresting and happy ending. We wanted to catch our audience by surprise by challenging the view that the “good guy always wins”. So we decided that the younger brother should get way with his mischief.

We applied the conventions of editing, by using dissolves. We put dissolves in between scenes of younger brother messing up the living room, the older brother tidying it up afterwards and on the establishing shot when it fades from day to night.. We wanted to pull of the effect that time is passing by. However generally using dissolve suggest a long time period, using dissolves shortens the clip and gets rid of unnecessary footage as we did not want to show how much time and effort the younger brother used to we feel this will bore the audience.

The conventions of real media products we used in our film is continuity editing In our film there is editing on the characters moving around the house, walking through doors and walking into rooms. We decided to use this as it pieces our film together and makes it easier to follow this is effective as it makes our film more domestic. Also we wanted to get an authentic life perspective of the characters in the film as this will get the audience more involved because it something they can relate to. We did not want the audience to get distracted from this so we did not add any extravagant fades and transitions

the way we use sound conventionally is through the use of dialogue. We decided to use this as it establishes the character. This is visibly shown in our film as we know the younger brother’s is defiant and immature whereas the older brother’s character is mature and dominant. The soundtrack in our film is Dream by The Game. We chose this track as the music is slow paced and the lyrics in the song associates with sleep. This is effective as it gives the audience hints as what the film is likely to be about. One other ambient sound we added in the film was the song Mr Bombastic by Shaggy when the younger brother turns up the volume to disturb the older brother. We chose this song because this song is raucous and blaring. The lyrics in the chorus of the chorus are “What you want is some boombastic romantic fantastic” This is used to great effect as this represent the younger brother as someone who is full of himself and self assured. Conventionally we used diegetic sound as in the film we can hear the sound of the TV. This is done effectively as it creates the realism of a typical family home in the film.



Conventionally we used mis-en-scene is the characters wore casual clothes. Wearing casual clothes can suggest that no matter how hard the younger brother tries to prove himself he will always belong in the background. We chose not to wear costumes or extravagant clothes this will not represent our film accurately. We used ambient lighting and we decided to keep in all the props such as drawers, tables and beds in the camera shots because it brings reality that the film it shot in a real place. Also it just represents two typical teenagers living in a house who the audience can relate too

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

For our poster we wanted to create brand through the language, picture and image.

The way our poster created a brand through our film is through our image we did by illustrating our characters in. In our poster the older brother is sitting on the edge of the bed, while the younger brother is in the foreground looking over his shoulder. His facial expression is serious and firm which show that he is the main character and that he is up to no good. In the background the older brother is sitting down at the edge of the bed his body language shows he is feeling irritated. Also around the older brother there is a mess this can represent the older brother as someone as who is a messy situation. Through these sign s this could indicate to our audience that our film is a stern drama. The studio that created the film is “white cap productions” through our poster this gives the studio its identity as a producer of dramas.

One other way you can notice a film brand’s identity is through the language. The language in our film poster is from the tagline. The tagline in our film is ‘worse than your nightmares’ one of the connotations of this tagline can be with horror films. But at the same time it shows elements of mysteriousness and curiosity. It gets into the mind of the audience. It challenges the thoughts of the audience “what could be worse than my nightmares”? “What does this person know about me”? “How do they know my nightmares”?

In addition the brand of a film can be identified through its design such as the colour scheme. The colours we used in our film poster are red, white, and black. The use of the colours black and white suggests sophistication. It gives the audience a stylish exclusive feel about the film. Black and white are clashing colours which can suggests unstableness this can resemble conflict between the two characters. The use of the colour red has connotations of danger whereas white has associations of purity.

The way our magazine feature enhances the audience understanding of the film is through the language in our film review we did this by briefly explaining the plot this is pulled of really well as it show the originality in our film, which can persuade the reader to see the film or read the rest of the film review. We have used rhetorical questions, “so how do you dodge this bullet?” informal language “its time to grab your coffee this seems like an all nighter”. The way we have written the magazine review is in a chatty style use of language gets the reader involved as it is written in 2nd person. The language in our film review highly rates our film, and shows our film is amateur is unlikely to make a huge amount of money at the box office film but a film that hasn’t taken itself seriously also in our film review it describes amateur filming as a good experience and encourages the audience to make their own films.

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

The application we use to show the stages of our film process is http//www.blogger.com,using this software has its advantages.

In a blog you are allowed to insert pictures, videos, screenshot. I found this very useful as I can be more interactive to the reader as the reader does not have to read a long lengthy description to get the full picture of what I am talking about.

On other advantage of using the blog is a blog can easily be accessed and shared with anyone who has access to the internet. This allows blogs to be reviewed and commented by large amounts of people. Because I can look at other people’s blog and get ideas also I can look the blogs of the people in my group at the same time without stopping them from working on it. This helped me in my blog as it gives me freedom to express my views and opinions and thereby increase my creativity.

One other tool I found useful when inserting post it collect in a form of a diary this allowed to have an structured collection of our work and when searching for our posts this make this task much easier. also what i foud helpful is that in the blog it organises your post which saves a lot of time trying to sort out your work.

However using a blog has its disadvantages as because blogs is a public space there is no privacy which means anyone could comment anybody’s blog whether it is a good comment or a bad one. This can create a lot of controversy. When inserting a new video it doesn’t always come in a nice format as the format is dictated by the person who made the video this can make.

Blogs are mostly written in informal language which means there can never be a full explanation of what I did. what I didn’t find useful about blogger.com is that although the blog has a diary format you when you plug in the newest post it appears first while the older terms this effects the order of post which can result in the reader having trouble trying to navigate around the blog. one other disadvantage of the blog is there a limited layout which put barriers on my creativity.

the software we used to edit our film is adobe premier.

Using adobe premier has it advantages as on adobe premier the pace of editing is easy to control. The razor tool allow you to cut pieces of film that are unnecessary therefore the pace of the film can be easily manipulated to ensure correct pieces of film are linked together therefore in a finished professional product. This was very useful for us as it helped us to be accurate on our continuity editing. It also possible to add music to the film and add effects to the scene transitions such as dissolve, wipe. If the lighting in scene is too dark, brightness can be added which was helpful as we had many shot in our scene that was too dark. What I find really helpful of adobe premier it is presented in a composed, organised view which is easy to follow.

However using transitions and brightness on adobe premier requires a lot of rendering which can be a lengthy process also the usability of adobe premier is was not very good as it took some time for everyone in my group to get used to, working on it.

what did you learn from your audiecne feedback?

We showed our film to an audience as we wanted to know how our audience would respond to our film. we asked the audience if they could leave any comments as we wanted to know if there were any suggestions of improvement we could do our film. Our audience consisted of 100 people aged 12-18 year old this was their responses to our film. These were their responses

looking at the pie chart a large majority of our auidence enjoyed our film and was pleasantly pleased with what they saw.

about 80% of the audience understood the stroyline in the film this shows our narrative was shown clearly in the film and easy to follow.




about 80% if the audience were correct on the hidden message this shows that the message in our film was shown accurately and clearly. this was really helpful as it show we made progess into reaching out to our target audience.

a large majority of our film beleived the sound was used effecitvely in our theme. as we chose the song dream by The Game to create the overall theme over our film. And the "Mr Bombastic" to show the mischevious side of the younger brother.




all in all, our target audience really enjoyed our film and watching our film was a very pleasant film. we beleive that our target audience was genuine about their views and opinions and if we had more time we would have focused on the sound as some people in our target audience was slighlty irritated of the creaking noises of the movement of the camera.

FILM REVIEW: Choosing most appropriate images for film review

here is a sketch of the picture we chose to do the film review page.

In thi sketch we wanted to get the two characters in the shot confronting one another. this gives audience a glance of the re;ationships of the character in the film.

FILM POSTER: Choosing appropriate images for film poster

for our film poster we took a variety of shots. in these pictures the younger brother is in two diffrent poses. and for the older brother he is in the same pose but the diffrence between the pictures of the older brother is that there is objects in one shot and not in the other.


We chose the pose of the younger brother looking into the room because it show that he is aware of the older brother state.


we chose picture of the older brother with objects involved as it shows the older brother's state, he is in a mess.