Evalaution Question 6- Part 1- Audience feedback and comment

Evaluation: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation" Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learned in the progression form it to the full product?

Evaluation: What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation: Audience feedback and comment

Evaluation: Who would be the audience for your media product?

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

Both of these shots are very similar but are from

different films the top right shot  is ours and the left shot

is from the film ' The Shinning' which was one of

the films we analysed and got ideas from.

Both shots give the audience different 

ideas about the film .Our shot tells the

viewers  it is very realistic  as we have a bench included

and houses whereas the shinning shot of mountains and one car makes the audience

feel as if something is abandoned and that something bad is going to happen to the car. We wanted our location to feel mysterious . Our genre was crime thriller  and i think that using a huge park is a good location .

We also got inspiration from the Tv programme CSI. We took the use of lab scence 

 and included a lab scene in ours. We wanted it to look like someone was analysing  the body by using props from the science departement to give the feeling of our sub genre. We also put Jessica in a white coat to make it more realistic to the audience. We had her looking at parts of the body as they would do this in real like we tried to keep it as real as possible.

Evaluation - Question 7

What Have You Learned About  Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

Video drive:

The video drive was very useful because it kept everything together, our clips, pictures and presentations.

Camera:

We were taught on how to use the cameras. First we learned how to insert the memory card so that our work was saved safely. Also how to insert the battery by just hearing a click so we knew it was secure. Most important, we learned how to turn the camera on, by just pressing a button. The best way to get stable shots is by using a tripod. We were taught on how to set it up so it didn’t collapse.

Final cut pro:

Final cut is the best programme to use to edit a movie. You can shorten the clips, make it faster, or slower. You can cut out the bad scenes to make the movie perfect. You can also create titles for your movie and also sound. Above all, you can add special effects.

Live type:

This programme allows you to add titles to your movie. You can choose the type of font you want. Change the colours, size and style to adjust to your film

Soundtrack pro:

On soundtrack pro we learnt how to mix sounds together to suit our film. It was easy to add it to our film, but pretty hard to find what exactly we were looking for. It had a huge range of sound effects to choose from.

This programme allows you to convert a video into an mp4 file so you can upload it onto your blog. At first it was pretty complicated but once you get the hand of it, its really easy and useful.

 

 

Evaluation - How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups- Still images

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

opening scene from our film= Picture 1

Opening scene from the shining=

Scene from CSI of guy ananlysing evidence= Picture 2

Jessica finding the dead body

Clip from Wire in the blood= picture 3

Clip from our film

clip from CSI New york= Picture 4

Clip from our film

Final Film

Me and sophie spent the time in class preparing a rough cut edit so we have a clear idea what our film will look like .We edidted some of the shots together and changed the speed aswell. It went really well as it was good working in a smaller group as we had more to do individually.

I have been unwell so i had to let the group down on filming day which was so unlucky as i was looking forward to filiming how i heard that they done a fantastic job and they showed me some photos of the day.

Rough Cut Film...

Giving Feedback

It was also really good to watch other people give their pitches. It was helpful as well as we could see what ideas everyone had come up with and maybe use something they have thought off. It was really good giving feedback as well and helping other people with their films. The ideas were very good that people thought of some of them i thought would be really hard to film and  make realistic but i made sure i made that point as i don't want to see my peers fall down.

Feedback

When we finihsed our pitch we then go to see what the class thought about it , we gotsome good feedback and some good advice on how we could make our film better and what we could change.

We were told to :

• To make it exciting 
• Use snap shots and close ups
• Think about sound effects we could use to make it more intresting
• Think about our title sequence
• Good actors to make in convincing

This feedback was really helpful as we didnt really think about some of these things such as titles we didnt speak about it atall. Overall they thought it was a good idea and would make a good film if we stick to what we had been told.

Presenting Our Pitch

Today was the day we had to present the pitch to the class. We had about 20 minutes to finish our presentation ( we still didn't finish it ) we finished the anamatic and finished of some slides. We were the first group to present our pitch. We decided to split the slides between us so we all had ago at speaking. This was very nerve racking as I hate speaking in frount of large groups but it will help me in the future as I may have to speak up at work etc. It also good for our confidence.We went through the slide slowly and explained to the class what each slide ment.

Our Pitch

In class we were told that we had to create a pitch to the class about out film so we can get some feedback and also give advice to other students it will also be a good expereice as we get to see what other groups are filming and what idea that they have.

Our pitch had to consits of the following

1.  The title of our movie

2.  The treatment (brief outline of the film)

3.  What type (subgenre) of the thriller is it? Have any other openings inspired us?

4.  Planned locations and location shots (Include Photos)

5.  Props, costumes and other Mise en scene (photos or bring them along if you already sourced them)

6.  Full storyboard and preferably animatic including the titles

7.  Preliminary ideas about sound

8.  Production Schedule

9.  Risk Assessment

10.  Skills We learnt

11. Institutional detail

12.  Audience detail

Our Animatic For Thriller Openinng

Treatment

We started planning our film finally :) and we had to write a treatment of what our film is about and what it will include.

We decided to film in a field at Hampsted Heath and also film in a staffroom and college to recreate to setting of a office at a police station. In our film a young girl has been murdered and been found in a field it is up to the police ( me and Jessica _ to investigate into why and how this has happened to this girl and see if we can trace her last moments. The props we will be using are costumes ( suits , trousers, glasses,black shoes, notepads,police badges,fake blood, white sheet and more if we can think of some. Our influences are the opening of the stepfather as we want to have flashbacks in our film and we also looked at The Bill for ideas as we will be filming a crime thriller and also Silent Witness. The sound we talked about if a suspense soundtrack maybe all the way through we looked at The Bill soundtrack and we would like something similar to that also we need a gunshot noise and we are also using dialogue.

To be contiuned.