Friday, 6 May 2016
The FINAL Production - DOWNFALL
Here is our Main task opening sequence, we hope you enjoy it. Thank you for watching!
Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your meida product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
To answer this question me and my group created a video describing the forms and conventions of real media products and how we used them.
Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represet particular social groups?
Here is a PowToon me and my group created in order to answer this question.
Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media instiution might distribue your media produc and why?
Here is a PowToon me and my group created in order to answer this question.
Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/adress your audience?
In order to attract our audience we had to research the key aspects of attracting our audience would be. From our research we found that one of the main aspects was costumes. Costume is used to represent your social groups, so our audience will link the costume with our social groups we have created in our film. They interpret the character and the characters situation based on the clothes they are wearing, it is called pre-judging.
We also found that music and soundtracks was another factor to attracting and addressing our audience. The music we used for our main task was low and had lots of bass notes. We feel this was the best soundtrack as our film is a slow thriller, so the soundtrack of the film increases when the action of the film increases.
Our soundtrack had quite an 'eerie' feel to it, making the audience feel uncomfortable and question what is going to happen next.
The music must link with what is happening at the time in the video. If the music has no link with the video then it will confuse the audience and make them question the genre of the film.
We also found that music and soundtracks was another factor to attracting and addressing our audience. The music we used for our main task was low and had lots of bass notes. We feel this was the best soundtrack as our film is a slow thriller, so the soundtrack of the film increases when the action of the film increases.
Our soundtrack had quite an 'eerie' feel to it, making the audience feel uncomfortable and question what is going to happen next.
The music must link with what is happening at the time in the video. If the music has no link with the video then it will confuse the audience and make them question the genre of the film.
Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Here is a PowToon me and my group created in order to answer this question.
Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progressions from it to full product?
Looking back at my preliminary task I feel I have gained a lot more knowledge from then until now.
Our preliminary task challenged continuity, the 180 degree rule and match on action. Having the chance to explore different ways in which I can use those conventions meant that my main task was more professional, looked better and also saved some time. In the preliminary task I also got to use the editing software for the first time, being able to understand that meant that it saved a lot of time when editing the main task and also made everything run smoother. This made it look much more professional and has a greater effect on the audience compared to the preliminary task. For the main task I had more knowledge, I knew that I had to focus on everything that was in the camera shot, not just the main characters or objects.
The preliminary task also gave me the chance to experiment with different camera shots and angles, which gave me knowledge on what were the better shots and angles to use in our main task. Without the 'practice' of the preliminary task I don't think the main task would of ran as smoothly or as efficient.
Our preliminary task challenged continuity, the 180 degree rule and match on action. Having the chance to explore different ways in which I can use those conventions meant that my main task was more professional, looked better and also saved some time. In the preliminary task I also got to use the editing software for the first time, being able to understand that meant that it saved a lot of time when editing the main task and also made everything run smoother. This made it look much more professional and has a greater effect on the audience compared to the preliminary task. For the main task I had more knowledge, I knew that I had to focus on everything that was in the camera shot, not just the main characters or objects.
The preliminary task also gave me the chance to experiment with different camera shots and angles, which gave me knowledge on what were the better shots and angles to use in our main task. Without the 'practice' of the preliminary task I don't think the main task would of ran as smoothly or as efficient.
Thursday, 4 February 2016
Soundtracks
To make our opening sequence much more professional we have decided to add music, not only for it to look better, but it adds to the mystery we want to create for our audience. When choosing the music we had to make sure that it wasn't copyrighted and it fitted within our theme. Luckily, we found the perfect track for our opening sequence and we feel highly confident its going to make it a bigger success.
Filming day - 1
(28/1/16)
In todays lesson me and my group went to film our first opening scenes to our sequence. We were well prepared and looked at our storyboard carefully to make sure we were following it correctly. We got all the footage we needed for that day and it made us feel quite successful as we completed it well and worked together in order to make the scenes look professional. The only downfall of our filming day was that the camera died quite quickly so in order to make sure it doesn't happen again we need to make sure its fully charged.
In todays lesson me and my group went to film our first opening scenes to our sequence. We were well prepared and looked at our storyboard carefully to make sure we were following it correctly. We got all the footage we needed for that day and it made us feel quite successful as we completed it well and worked together in order to make the scenes look professional. The only downfall of our filming day was that the camera died quite quickly so in order to make sure it doesn't happen again we need to make sure its fully charged.
Production
In this lesson my group and I decided to draw up times and dates we were all available to film our footage. We crossed off all the days we could not do and focused on the days we could all do. This has helped massively as we have planned which day would be for which scene, making us more organised and prepared and we can now focus on other areas of the production stage.
Production meeting 1
In our first production meeting we decided to draw up our storyboard which will help us while we are filming our footage. Each scene was drawn up and a brief description of the scene was given to help describe what was going to happen in the scene. This has made our group much more organised and has helped us decide which day we are going to film the different scenes. Here is a picture of our storyboard:
The title sequence
This is the title sequence we are going to use for our opening sequence. The background will not be black, but actually filled with footage for our film. The writing will appear over the top of the footage to give it a much more professional look. We think the text adds well to our opening titles as they create the mysterious theme we want to create.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCRhw_gvlZ0&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCRhw_gvlZ0&feature=youtu.be
Camera shots and angles
(17/09/15)
In today's lesson we learnt about the different types of camera angles and shots, and how each shot or angle can effect an audience when watching a film. Then we got into pairs and demonstrated how to do these camera angles and shots, by producing our own version of these pictures. Once we had understood each shot and angle with our own pictures, we created a power-point to edit the pictures in order to make them look like professional shots, so they were a clear rectangle shape and not square (a screen is never square always rectangle). This activity gave me a better understanding of camera shots and camera angles, and taught me that when filming never to imagine the screen as square.
In today's lesson we learnt about the different types of camera angles and shots, and how each shot or angle can effect an audience when watching a film. Then we got into pairs and demonstrated how to do these camera angles and shots, by producing our own version of these pictures. Once we had understood each shot and angle with our own pictures, we created a power-point to edit the pictures in order to make them look like professional shots, so they were a clear rectangle shape and not square (a screen is never square always rectangle). This activity gave me a better understanding of camera shots and camera angles, and taught me that when filming never to imagine the screen as square.
Our idea..
Talking in our group we have decided to change the idea of our opening sequence. Our first idea was to follow a secret agents mission with a very significant spy genre. Instead of this idea we have decided to turn the secret agent into a police officer/investigator. This seemed much more realistic and fitted better within the locations, costumes and props, making our opening much more believable. We are still using the same locations which are Lloyd's house and the Yarnton quarry where the criminals will be caught. Our costumes are also much more causal, fitting better within the location as the first idea was for the agent to be in suits.
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