Evaulation

http://www.slideshare.net/ZaqWehliye/media-evaluation-7990451

Evaluation Podcast by Joe

Here Is my evaluation Podcast answering all seven questions. I have tried to mention as much as I could about our research and planning spent before we took part in the final task.

Joe.

Media Evaluation

Our media product was influenced by several existing media texts, however, we was heavily  influenced and inspired by the film 'Taken'. The mise en scene was a key aspect when we took on board in relation to developing our product, as we was extremely fond of the storyline in terms of the audience being drawn in from the get go of the film, which immediately signifies action, thriller genre.

This movie opens with a shots of the protagonists daughter blowing the candles after her cake on her 5th birthday. This shot had a fuzzy, unsteady effect to it which indicates to the audience that this particular shot has been filmed with a portable video camera. In addition I believe the whole fuzzy effect signifies a dream like world. This scene quickly merges into a medium shot of the protagonist warning up, with the use of quick flashes. Then the use of the sound becomes very effective as a non-diagetic calm soundrawn begins to play which signifies a peacful relaxed atmosphere aswell as some sort of bond and relationship between the protagonist and his daughter. As he leaves his appartment a close up of a framed picture of the protagonist daughter also enhances his fathers daughter connection.


David

Storyboards

 Here are the storyboards for our opening sequence:

Zaq

Preliminary task

Below is our preliminary task, we had finished it before the Final task, however we forgot to add it to our blog. We thought the task went very well considering that we had had no experiance at all at filming or storyboarding a 2-3 minute film. We found that some shots were lacking good continuity as shirts and jackets changed position and hairstyles grew and got shorter in different shots due to it being filmed on two different days.

Zaq, David and Joe.

Planning our evaluations

We have spent the past week planning our evaluation podcasts/powerpoints. David has filmed his podcast already, only Zaq and I need to film ours now. My notes for the podcast are ready, all I need to do is book out a tripod for the night and film it at home and edit it on windows movie maker. I found that I struggled a bit on a few of the questions especially question 1 and 6 as the key terminology wasn't as fresh in my brain as it should have been.

Joe.

Audience questionnaie

To help us evaluate our final film we made a rough audience questionnaire in which it asks problems and where they would like to see the film lead on to. Below is our first handed back questionnaire.

Joe.

Costume research

We wanted all our characters to look realistic to their social groups, doing so meant we had to dress them in a way we felt expressed this. Below are images that we had asked our actors and actresses to wear for the film to look effective.

We wanted all our kidnappers to look suspicious and stay under the cover of darkness, this meant we had to dress them up in black hoodies. This then follows what many people think gang and youth affiliated people dress in, the hoodie will make them look dangerous as it obscures your vision of their face.

This snood covers the identity of the wearer leaving them looking sinister and like they were looking for trouble, which our gang were. These were easy to find and very cheap to buy, we managed to rent a snood from a ski hire shop for a day for almost no cost at all.

Below is a similar Bandana which was used by one of the actors who kidnaps our main protagonists girlfriend. This gear allowed the kidnapper to cover his face, to prevent the victim from not seeing his face and to keep his disguise. This had planned to look more realistic and made the kidnapper look much more intermediating. 

Zaq and Joe.

Location recees

Below are a few images of a bedroom that would have been used for the waking up scene, and the scene when Josh is speaking to both Aleisha and Denzel. There are also location shots of the house that would be used to film in.

Zaq, David and Joe.

Audience feedback

After the completion of our final task, we needed to get an outside opinion on our final piece. We asked around and looked for things we could change.

 By putting the film on Facebook and Youtube, we could find out what our peer thought of our film. Facebook proved to be the most useful of these networking sites as the video was linked only to people of the target audience group. The video managed to get 20 "Likes" in as many minutes on Facebook and had over 7 comments stating how much people enjoyed the video.
A few people had picked up on a few continuity editing errors as the section where Josh Diller is on the phone to Denzel the curtains in the background seemed to open and close in between shots.

Zaq, David and Joe.

"SunDown" Synopsis

" A fast paced action thriller in which a group of young mobsters, kidnap a beloved girlfriend. Feeding a growing sense of panic, the boyfriend goes on a blood boiling rampage in search to find the money before his worst fears become apparent. ''

Zaq, David and Joe.

The equiptment we have used so far

To film and edit our piece we needed specialist equipment. Below is a list of everything we used to film and edit our final and preliminary task:

Sanyo exacti HD camera
Sony Tripod
Cannon hand held video camera
Imovie HD
Apple Mac computers
Lighting booms

Joe.

Our final film

This clip below is the 2 minute start extract from "Sundown".

Zaq, David and Joe.

Starting to evaluate our film

Zaq and I (Joe) had started to consider answers for our evaluation for our final piece. We only managed to think about one question, how our film challenged or developed on ideas already created by another media institute. We thought that our film would develop on already existing idea, and that it also challenges ideas as most films made about youth culture always suggest that they are reckless and trying to cause trouble. We're challenging that idea as the main protaganist is trying to right the wrong.

Zaq and Joe.

We've done it!

We've met the deadline! Everyone in our group has worked extremely hard every stage of the way whether it be filming or editing. The final outcome in our opinion looks very good. The Final piece will be on our blog asap, when we can figure out for to upload it onto Youtube.

Zaq, David and Joe.

Change in Music

We had to make a change in music which was used in the film towards the ending. This was due to getting feedback from our teacher and which we thought of taking consideration in and to took action in changing it. Shortly, we found a new song to replace it with. We chose this music (below) as it had a tensive build up and we believed it linked well with the sequence in the ending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbvD1HoSvig

Zaq

Rough storyboarding for new Sundown film

Below are the rough storyboards for our new Sundown idea

Zaq, David and Joe.

Editing continued

After school today, Thursday, we spent our time looking at shots that we could shave a bit of time off. We managed to sharpen up the shot reverse shots between Josh and Aleisha and Josh and Dixon. We lost about 5 seconds total from all our editing work which meant we could have more room for the title sequence.

Joe.

Adding the production company and the titles

Today during our double lesson we focused our attention on adding the titles to our film sequence we had already decided on the name of our production company so now we only needed add it on. This seemed like an easy job at first but then we realised just how difficult it was to position the titles exactly where we wanted it to be. Finally we managed to get it into the right position and now the film looks almost professional.

Naming our production company

We needed to pick a production company for our film, we had to decide on a name that sounded cool yet also had something to do with the film itself. In the end we settled with 3Dimentional productions. This will be added to the film before it starts to make it look more professional.

Joe.