Evaluation- Question 5

Question:
How did you attract/address your audience?


I think from the start of the film opening, the audience sees  that the main actor is a young adult, which is something they can instantly relate to, being young adults them selves.

The Mis en scene gives another thing for our target audience to relate to. The actor wears casual clothes to make him look like a regular young adult which is important to our film opening. Also, the props used heighten the interest of the viewer.

The production company is a college production company, since a large number of my audience attends college them selves, it allows them to know what we had to work with, since its probably similar in their own college. It also shows them that we are just regular students like them, making the film opening more exciting for the viewer.

The rough cut feedback helped us greatly. It showed us what we had to do not only to improve the film opening but to improve it with our target audience in mind. We fixed many of the flawed technical elements which led to a better film opening all in all.

We watched the final film opening on a cinema screen in a cinema called the screen on the green. It was very useful in providing what turned out to be very positive feedback for our final film opening.

Evaluation- Question 7

Question:


Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?


Planning & Storyboard


In terms, of planning, my skills have greatly improved from my preliminary to my final film opening. The planning for the preliminary task was very rushed as compared to the final film opening. For example, we did not follow most of the shots we planned to use from the storyboard in the preliminary task as we found that they did not work well. Better planning would have solved this problem. The final film opening planning went much more smoothly. We followed all of the shots we planned on the storyboard.




Camera


Using the camera in the preliminary proved difficult, it took time to adjust the camera in the right position to capture usable shots. At times we couldn't use a tripod to steady the camera because of the small size of the room that we were working in. The camera was used much more effectively in the final film opening. We were able to use a tripod properly and steady the camera. We were also able to put the camera in and out of focus when we wanted to add effect to the scene. A skill we did not process when making the preliminary. We also learned how to watch playback of the recently film scenes to see what we could possibly do better. 




Mis en Scene


The controlling of Mis en scene was non-existant in the making of the preliminary. We never arranged the props correctly simply due to inexperience and allot of things looked out of place in the scene. We also forgot about costume and just woe whatever we were wearing at the time. On the other hand, in the final film opening we put allot of thought into the Mis en scene. We planned the costume before hand and it was to the benefit of our scene. The props were also properly arranged this time. We had lit candles, a newspaper article, a noose, writing pad and pen. They all looked great and added to the effectiveness of the scene by making it seem more realistic and believable.




Lighting


Lighting proved difficult in both the preliminary and the final film opening. In the preliminary there was no light available apart from the light in the actual room we used to film in. Therefore we had no control over the lighting of the scene which negatively effected it. The lighting in the final film was much better but still was hard to use. We had a dimmer light available to us which we used to the best of our abilities, it allowed us to get rid of some shadows in the background  by altering the height, range and brightness of the light. Some things still weren't right though and for some scenes we put a bag over the light to shoot the scene. We know it was not ideal but necessary.




Sound


There was no soundtrack in the preliminary scene because we found it difficult too effectively use soundtrack pro. We did add foley sound though because they were easy enough to do with just the camera's microphone. The final film had a fully fledged soundtrack created on Soundtrack pro, by then I had the skills necessary to create a very good soundtrack. We wanted to add foley sounds also but there was no time for that.

Soundtrack Pro

Editing

Editing on both the preliminary and the final film was done on final cut pro. Our skills on Finalcut pro did'n't really improve from the preliminary to the final film because we were already quite good at it, I feel if we had more time to practise on Final cut pro, we would have been more skilled and able to use Finalcut pro to a much higher level.

Finalcut Pro

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Evaluation- Question 2

Question:
How Does your media product represent particular social groups?

In our film opening, we steered away from obvious representations of social groups. This wasn't a conscious decision on our behalf but its the direction we went in. The small representations in our film opening is of young people and its not a common representation. A film like 'Kidulthood' has very clear and rather stereo-typical representations of young people, like in the clip below.

Feedback from cinema screening

Evaluation- Question1

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


The typical convention seen in film openings is a 'title sequence'. It includes information like Production/distribution logos, cast member names and the name of the director.




Conventions of film openings:


The four different types of conventions to think about in a film opening are:

- Traditional


- Stylized


- Discrete


- Black Screen 


For example, the film '300' uses a stylised film opening convention.  This graphics style is used through out the film opening. It represents the film perfectly and implies that a battle will take place, foreshadowing future events.

The convention we used was traditional. It was more on the 'plain' side, not revealing anything about the actual film

- Production/distribution company

Production and distribution logos are a strong feature in any film opening. Depending on the style of the film, the logo might have some effects added which relates to the film in some way.

Here we see some effects added to the Paramount logo.

Here is the original Paramount logo. Its very different to the one above.

- Name of Cast and Director


'300' uses red font to write the names of the director and cast members. I believe that it is supposed to look like blood which could suggest a very violent film.

The names of the director and cast members in our film opening does not give anything away. Its different to most films as the font type would probably have greater significance to the film, whereas our has none.

- Title of Film

- Introduction to main character 

Here are some of the other conventions.


- Graphics Appropriate Font Type
- Establish Location
- Suitable music/sound




The conventions used in our film opening


The conventions used in the film '300' influenced the conventions of our own film opening. we put the name of the director first in the title sequence which is not the conventional way but its how its done in '300'. Though we did add our own style, we have an introduction to the main character almost instantly whereas '300' doesn't, making it different.

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Day Two - Bloopers

Last Note - Final Opening

Planning

Treatment:

Planning

This is the storyboard we have created, during the filming process we followed this to create the film opening we planned.