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Opening sequence to a new fiction film
Monday 11 April 2011
Friday 8 April 2011
Evaluation Question 7
This is our evaluation for the question: What have you learnt from looking back at your preliminary task?
Topics of discussion within our evaluation:
- Planning was a major factor in producing a media product
- The importance of taking more than one shot when filming for the editors peace of mind
- Realising that the lack in planning resulted in a sloppy schedule and unproductivity
- Careful scripting is a must when you have dialogue although we didnt have much to say in our final cut
- That its better to leave out filters if they look to cheesy or deminish what they are trying to achieve in the first place
- If planning isnt up to standard, some improvisation would have to be done
- The importance of proper casting
- There aren't enough of us to shoot, direct, produce, edit and star in our product
- What we can do next time
- How its important to keep to the filming rules (match on action)
- The importance of keeping up good continuity whether it be video or audio
- Making sure the video stays the same resolution and size throughout
- An appropriate timeline planning task is crucial to a successful media product
- Not enough time was allocated to editing
- The importance of test screenings
- How editing can completely change how the narrative pans out for the audience
Evaluation Question 6
This is our evaluation for the question: What have you learnt about technologies while working on your product?
Topics of disscusion within our evaluation:
- How well we got on with working with cameras
- How difficult it was to create match on action
- Why big film institutions find it easier than we and other small film institutions to create these effects as they have expendable money s that they can invest in two cameras for instance
- The amount of re-shoots needed to get enough quality footage to use in our final cut
- Explinations of some shots that were effective but not crucial to our product
- How from all of the time spent filming our shots got better with practice
- How even though we had lots of incredible technologies we still couldnt manage to create some shots
- Problems we faced in editing in the form of continuity errors
- How the enviroment created problems for us when filming
- Other technologies we tried and failed to make our audio more polished
- How we created an effective title sequence and where we went wrong at first
- Other media texts that werent so successful in their title sequences
- Post production techniques we tried which lost its effectiveness and made it hard to read
- How we used the title sequence to our advantage
- Problems we faced with using filters
- Where effects from other media texts inspired us
- Drawbacks with technology and its download time
Continue watching our super long technology question evaulation video in part 2:
Continuing on:
- How different editing programs are easier to use than others
- Whether it was better to have a program that was easier to use or one that had a lot more options and effects to use
- Its good to have a backup save to all your work as we found out the hard way
- How you cant always rely on technologies to work in your favour
- That we wanted our product to have its own independant soundtrack
- That unless your a composer it is very hard to layer music on top of each other to make it sound worthy of our product
- Things we did to make our soundtrack sound as proffessional as possible
- Our initial ideas for our soundtrack were scrapped because of the difficulties that would have stood in our way had we tried to complete them
- Other little sound effects that we tried to input but just made our product look unproffessional
- Problems we faced when editing our product and the audio not fitting
- Unplanned successes when dealing with our audio
- Some effects that we tried to achieve but the technology held us back from doing so
- Restrictions our low budget equipment had on our directing and filming
Evaluation Question 5
This is our evaluation for the question: How do we address/attract our audience?
Topics of discussion whithin our evaluation:
- Technologies that allowed our product to be viewed by many and receive feedback and queries
- Audience feedback
- Post production effects put into our product that helped the audience understand the plot better
- How our audience felt about our storyline
- Problems with effects that we used in our product that confused rather than helped explain
- How from our first draft we introduced a third character to help the audience understand that there was actually someone chasing the daughter
- How we introduced filters into our product to represent a difference between the two storylines
- Extra shots that in retrospective we could have shown to ellaborate the the audience that one of the main themes in our product was indeed kidnap
- Fades introduced to indicate ellipsises and to cover up any mistakes in our office scene
- Shots we introduced to show to the audience the father daughter relationship in the office scene
- Shots, audio and other techniques we left out from our final cut because of our feedback
I DO APOLOGISE FOR HANI'S INTERUPTIONS TO ALL OF US IN THIS VIDEO, THIS QUESTION WAS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING HE WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT.
Wednesday 6 April 2011
Evaluation Question 4
This is our evaluation for the question: Which audiences would be the most likely to consume our film?
Topics of discussion within our evaluation:
- The initial age range of audiences that might watch our product
- How the characters in our product would relate to certain audiences
- How our genre and the themes within our product woud relate to different audiences
- Representations of characters in our product that were contemorary from modern day society
- More themes introduced including the struggles of parenthood and how that would relate to audiences
- That our product might receive a large audience due to the existing audiences for crime thrillers
- That our product can easily relate to audiences by being a used and easy concept (kidnap), but still has the complicated plot that crime thriller fans love
- Themes that effect people from media that we have incorporated into our product
- How our product promotes realism but is still interesting
Evaluation Question 3
This is our evaluation of the question: What sort of media institution might distribute our product?
Topics of discussion within our evaluation:
- Whether or not our product would warrant a big media institution's interest
- How we should distribute our product (if we should extend our distribution to American cinemas)
- What we should do with our product should it do well in cinemas
- If the genre of our film would warrant a big institutions interest
- Similar media products that have been produced and distributed by smaller institutions
- The evolution and expansion of our product
- How themes in our product would point us towards warranting a smaller institutions interest
- How our feedback would suggest that we should promote our product to a smaller institution
- What our product would be looking to achieve (popularity or awards)
- The extent that if we were distributed by a smaller institution how many cinemas we could get out product into
- If our product would relate and be successful in American cinemas
- If a clever choice of director would effect our films success
Evaluation Question 2
This is our evaluation of the question: How does our media product represent particular social groups?
Topics of discussion within our evaluation:
- Where the idea for our project title came from
- Themes our main characters express like over-working parents and drink
- How the themes our characters represent relate to people in reality
- How we have shown the relationship between our characters and how that can relate
- Effects we have used to show to the audience how the characters relate to eachother
- How the characters in our product stick fairly closely to sterotypes of characters in most crime thrillers
- Why we didnt spend much time focusing on the representations of our characters
- Taking more time on our characters back stories rather than how she was shown to the audience
- Older techniques we tried to use, but eventually cut from the final cut that would have represented the characters in our product more indepth
- Problems we faced about the representation of our characters from inadequate casting (the father/detective not looking old enough)
- How we tried to represent our kidnapper as a threat to the daughter
- Effects that we used to try and separate our kidnapper from kidnappers from other cime thriller products
- The social classes of our characters
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