Evaluation part 8

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

Thinking about what we have achieved and accomplished in the last 10 weeks, i'm surprised to say that i'm in fact so proud of what my group have achieved. Going from being a joke of the class having people thinking "oh they wont achieve much from this project" to seeing the look on peoples faces when they witnessed our first draft and having brilliant feedback.

We was shocked to say the least when we received such brilliant feedback from our class and teacher of how the elements we used was a success. I think that overall i've learned from this experience that it doesn't matter who you have in your group it matters about the chemistry and commitment that you within your group share with eachother. Looking back now i feel that if i was in another group i would never of had the confidence to voice my ideas of different aspects of our sequence, and how it allowed me to go further and push our groups media title sequence product to be the best it possibly could.

I've learned how to take an idea from a table in class and take it to lengths of having a physical example to watch as many times as i want over the internet. Basically seeing our thoughts come to life, i feel that at the start i believed that it would be a real hard challenge going from what we had to do. To what we have achieved now i find it amazing to think all of the challenges, all of the late nights and all of the planing and struggling to end up in a single video.
    

Evaluation part 7

What I learned from the technologies that we used in our media product

We was given two fantastic opportunities one being the fact that we could decide our own genre of the title sequence we was going to make and another being the fact we could choose who was going to be in our group. I jumped at the chance to work with Liam and Jeevan not only because the reason they was my close friends. But because I knew in a group with friends there’s that chemistry, the way you can express yourself and give of ideas that you maybe wouldn’t have the confidence to say in front of a chosen group not in your friendship group. Having Jeevan and Liam both in my group was a wicked advantage as this I was aware that all three of us were all great at different areas of which would have been useful for instance.

I had Liam, had passed media gcse with me before and had great knowledge in filming and knowing what to think about how the audience would react to different elements in the sequence. And Jeevan new to media although had great knowledge of ways to develop the conventions of our product for instance he knew how to act in our sequence and what should be within and what was best to take out. And me, possessing my (A* in music technology) I had great knowledge of what music and sound in general should have been put onto the sequence.

We had a straight away issue from the start however with camera it was extremely technical and required knowledge for instance I said form the start I didn’t want to control the camera as I knew myself I couldn’t be trusted holding and using such an expensive piece of equipment with such poor knowledge. So I did the decent thing and called a group vote for just Liam to use the camera as he had done photography in gcse and had great knowledge of how to hold and change the lence. So we asked our teacher for a tutorial into how to use and take care of it.

I learned more in depth about final cut pro, causing me to gain knowledge of how it works and how to take a non-edited clip and transform it into a masterpiece. But my main gain in knowledge of the experience of with logic Pro 9. Using Logic Pro 9 I single handily created and produced the soundtrack and even added effects of our media product title sequence “The Waking Hour”.

Evaluation part 6

What attracted our audience?

Our main target audience as we originally as a group had decided to be from the ages of 15-25 year olds. Our media product (title sequence) reached out to our audience I felt as we used elements and key features that would have attracted the ages we aimed for. For instance nowadays from the ages of 15-25 when questioned a staggering 71% of a local cinema over a period of 2 months, revealed that they were most interested in seeing films of a horror/thriller nature. This being chosen over huge genres such as sci-fi, rom/com and action. Knowing these statistics we found I feel that we achieved in attracting our target audience of the same age and interests.

Using questionnaires we a created and sent around our sixth form to not only our friends but also people not in our social group and even teachers. We gave them the opportunity to have a private screening of our films title sequence and after gave them our created questionnaire containing such questions as “do you feel the actors represented people of your social groups?” and “do you feel how the actors of your age group are acting represents the right social groups?” with amazing feedback such as… “What that man’s wearing is really scary and sinister I can tell his the baddy straight away” which gave us great influence and determination as a group to go further in the production knowing we had reached our target audiences attraction  

Evaluation part 5

How our media product represents particular social groups-

Using key elements for instance props we were able to show the viewer of our product, to go further in our title sequences story and plot. We as a group decided on many which we could have gave the audience knowledge of the social groups being represented. For instance our title sequence as a whole featured the use of two social group entities, one being a group of 16-17 year old teen boys. The other being a social group of a dark, sinister and seemingly suspicious nature when looking into our first represented social group (teen boys). We spent many hours looking into how they behave, how they think? Even what clothes they would be seen wearing, in the end we had decided as a group to go for 4/5 boys wearing clothes such as smart casual. Being traditionally jeans nice shoes and smart top we achieved this effect by instructing our actors before the shoot to wear clothes as if they would have been going to a party.

 Using different techniques such as different types of editing and camera angels we were able to show the realistic nature of our groups and how they had been represented was in a positive nature. Rather than how media in general likes to represent youth of teens in extracts as being “abusive”, “chavs” and having general disregard for society and local areas. We challenged this convention by involving the youth social group in our title sequence to have a positive attitude towards their society and people around them. Although we had the difficulty of having no diegetic sound of speech from the actors (youth) in our title sequence what we had originally planed them to discuss the party which they was going too. Because of this it made it that little bit harder to have the representation of the teens to be in a positive nature, which meant more strain had to go on how they would look (mise-en-scene) to show their background in the short time they would have been showed for in the sequence.

In comparison with the social group background of the older man we found that a much more easier task of representing him out to be of a dark nature. Using props such as hodies and black clothing we were able to give of the impression that the man in black was of a dark nature and would instantly be shown to be the main protagonist. This worked as the colour black is often used to represent a dark feeling and troubled nature. Whereas the teens social group was shown to be in bright vibrant clothing connoting the difference in backgrounds between the two.

Evaluation Part 4

Evaluation part 1

Evaluation- Brief

The sub genre of our film is horror; it references different types of elements to horror as it contains all conventions of horror. Including for example a mysterious character seen stalking people, wearing conventional black clothes. This worked well being used as it connoted danger, fear, and mystery. In the title sequence what happens is a man is represented as being dark, scary and mysterious. And is then shown stalking 4 boys into the woods. Even though no actual gore or violence is used within the title sequence, the audience can clearly tell that the man had killed theses boys. We managed to achieve this by having the man in an earlier scene holding up pictures that had been taking from the boys phones and placing them onto a clip board. This worked well as we was fortunate to not have to show actual violence within the title sequence as gore or violence wouldn’t be used conventionally in a title sequence.  

The Waking Hour (final draft)

This our first draft of our media title sequence The Waking Hour, in this draft we have had Liam edit the whole sequence using a wide variety of huge, eyeopening and intuitive effects which enabled the sequence to be at a more near completion rate. We still have more editing to do for our final draft but within this draft the sound has been completed with great feedback from our class screening as well as completed titles in well placed orders.

This draft also features t

Fonts we wanted in our sequence from day 1-

We knew from day 1 what fonts we wanted in our title sequence, we agreed from the first moment we story boarded that we wanted to have a font that as well as represented that the film would be a horror/suspense/thriller. In the end of editing Jeevan who's job it was to design and create the fonts for the title sequence. Decided that he was going to go for a "se7en" looking font, meaning that it would be skinny and not just black. Jeevan thought that he would go for his own style of font with the use of the colour goldy black. 

In the end our font came out looking stylish, eligant and scary. All of which we had hoped for! During our feedback sheet I found that one of our positive feedbacks was "fonts matched sequence we'll" this was exactly what we had hoped the audience viewing would think. Leaving us to feel proud of the fonts we had chosen in the end.

Diary-Shooting-day 5

Today we have just finished shooting the last remaining scenes of our title sequence, We have just finished shooting the last of our scenes for which was shot inside Liam's kitchen. This involved me Liam and Jeevan spending the whole of the day working together to capture the best possible shots for our remaining title sequence. When we first arrived at Liam's we began by setting up the tri-pod in the kitchen. After we had layed out the euipment on the table which included ;camera,tri pod,storyboard and Ofcourse books. 

After setting up we then began by printing off all of our pictures of the boys that stared in our woods shooting. We then started shooting making sure that we had shot scenes of me dressed in a black dark hoddie placing pictures of the boys onto a clipboard. We decided to go with the shot of me placing pictures onto a clip board as we felt that it added great suspense to the sequence and mystery of how this (mystery man) had retrieved these pictures from the boys phones. Hoping of course that I'll audience would have enough time to question that themselfs.