Finished product

Final rough cut

Final rough cut:

 

Evaluation question 7

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

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Evaluation question 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

The first feedback that we received was when we presented our pitch to our fellow pupils. After presenting out idea to our audience we then received feedback on the areas that they liked and disliked. They also gave us feedback on how to improve which was rather helpful feedback. From this we also found our primary audience, this being the people who said they would go watch our film. This was very helpful as when we needed further feedback we could first ask our primary audience. 

We decided to film in a rural setting so people in Devon, could understand that crime can happen anywhere in the world. It is not just big cities and town.

Throughout the process of making our film we have received numerous amounts of feedback from our class, telling us how we can improve our film. We also uploaded our film opening to YouTube and received public feedback. As well as this I asked some people to view and comment on our film over twitter.  

 

 

 

How our film may have attract our audience?

 

I believe that our film would attract audience due to the enigmas we have. Our main enigma was a briefcase, therefore I think this will hook the audience in as they would want to see what's in the briefcase and why she has it, overall I believe the suspense will keep them glued to their seats.

We attracted females in the audience by using a young attractive female as they can relate too them.

Eleanor said: "I really enjoyed the film and loved the fact that it had a women as a main character.  I really enjoyed the whole story in general and loved the suspense."  

 

 

 

 

Evaluation question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?
 

Evaluation question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?



 

Evaluation question 2

How does your media product represent particular social group?

 

 

 

Our opening sequence only really represents one social group: 

• Young women

Stereotypically young women are seen as weak both physically and mentally, however in our film opening we have down the complete opposite. The media often focus on women body's and looks , and not their achievements such as athletes. The media often judge women for what they wear. 


I collected some research and asked people what they thought of a stereotypically young women.

• weak
• Blondes = stupid
• Only interested in makeup, beauty and hair
• focuses on appearance
• Gossips
• emotional 

 

 

However in our film we have not done this. In our film we have represent our women as strong and powerful. I feel like the media do not often represent women in this way, so we thought it was time for a change. 

Evaluation question 1

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

 

More feedback

Feedback:

 

 

 I collected some more feedback, however I showed people of a different generation. The majority of my feedback has been from the younger generation however I wanted to get a variety of people to watch my film so I could receive different opinions about it.

Claire said :
"I really enjoyed the film , I epically liked the opening scene with the maps, I think it looks very professional. Overall I like the suspense that it gives and I would continue to watch it"
 

Location

Location of filming : West Hill We chose to film in west hill as it had easy access for my group, and also west hill is often quiet, therefore we would not be disturbed whilst filming outside.
 

 

More feedback

More Feedback:

After uploading the rough cut on YouTube I have received some feed back, along with this I have also received some feedback on twitter. Shown below. The feedback that I was giving was that the film is looking god and they very much enjoyed the opening of our film, however they said that I could work on sound which I completely agree on . I also agree that I need to work on the title , so I can make it fade nicely into the other clips, so it blends nicely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd rough cut

Codes and Conventions of titles

Codes and conventions of titles:

At the start of our 2 minute opening , we will have a sequence of titles , that will appear under the portraits.

• Distributor :  Entertainment film- we chose due to the fact that it is British and independent  
• Production company : Anonymous- We thought this fitted well with our film
• Starring : Katie Underwood- We asked Katie to star in our film as we think that she looks mature for her age therefore fitted well with our character that we wanted
• Directed by : Me and Emily
• Camera work : Me
• Edited by : Me and Emily
• Sound : Emily
• Title of film : Oblivion- We decide to name our film oblivion, Oblivion meaning the state of being unaware of what is happening around one , therefore we thought it fitted well with the genre. 

Rough cut

2 minute film opening

Our Ident

Our Ident:

To create this Ident, I used photos that I had previously taken from a photo shot of a person .The whole idea behind our Ident is to have a figure of someone , however not be able to identify their face. We created our Ident by layering images together and also changing the opacity. We did this using Adobe Photoshop. 

weather check

Weather check

 

The day that I filmed , I looked up what the weather would be like at the location that I was filming, therefore I could prepared. 

Risk assessment

Risk Assessment:

Potential Hazard	Who’s at risk	How to control the problem	Risk /10
Filming in the road(getting hit by a car)	Everyone	When filming check the roads  and you could also place some cones around with film tape so the public are aware of what’s happening. Also could film later in the evening so the roads are quiet.	Getting hit by a car 1/10 Low risk
Tripping over/slipping over	Everyone	To prevent this from happening check the weather forecast so you can see what the weather conditions are going to be like, therefore can chose a day where it is not raining.	Slipping over 1/10 Low risk Raining 6/10 High risk

Change of plan

Change of plan:

Our group has now decided to have a slight change of plan. After loosing a member of our group, we are now having to share editing, so therefore as there are less people in our group we have slightly changed our idea. We  are still using the same idea of the women walking to meet other people however we have decided to cut it down. We thought this would be best, as after doing rough cuts we have seen that our idea is to long and will not fit into our 2 minute limit, so therefore we have decide to cut out the women meeting the people.

So our film will consist of the women walking to meet people however they will never show , therefore this will also add another enigma as the audience will wonder who she is waiting for. 

Overall this plan is working well for us

sound

Sound Terminology:

Ambient sound: This meaning the sound of the locations therefore a example being water noises near a river, cows mooing in a farm etc.

Asynchronous sound: This is where the sound is either out of sync with the visuals or is unrelated to the visuals.

Contrapuntal sound: This is where sound or music that seems strange in comparison to the scene we are seeing.

Dialogue: The words the characters say, for example when having a conversation. 

Direct address: This is where the character talks to the audience directly.

Diegetic sound: This is sound that you can hear if you were one of the characters inside the scene.

Non Diegetic sound: Non diegetic sound is where other sounds that the characters in the scene can not hear, for example a musical soundtrack or a voice over.

Pitch: Low pitch describes as a sound that is deep and low for example thunder ,therefore a high pitch describes a sound that is higher and lighter an example being a phone ringing.

Rhythm: The rhythm describes the beat of the music , whether the music is fast or slow. Sound with a fast rhythm is often used to increase a sense of urgency or threat.

Voice over: A voice over is simple where the narrator speaks over a clip.

Sound bridge: This being a portion of the sound that covers a cut , normally to link two scenes together.

Audience feedback

Audience Feedback:1 minute footage:

Today we asked a few people to watch our 1 minute footage so we could collect feedback, to then improve our film.

They all said that our film was good and that it had some good shots throughout.

They said our film had potential , however there were a few things that we could alter and add to improve it.

The majority said that we needed to re-film some clips due to the lighting , however me and my group had already decided to do this before. Some suggested that we should add more sound effects and music to our film so that it adds effect to the clips.
Overall the feedback we received was good.



By asking others to look at our work, it means we can get and insight of what people are thinking and also allows us to improve our film successfully.

Moodboard





Actors

Our Actors:


Here is a photo of our actor that is in our 2 minute film opening. We decided to use Katie as for her age (17 )we believed that see looks rather mature. Therefore dressed up, we thought that she could look like a strong women which we think worked well. 

Katie is the only actor that you see with in our 2 minute film opening.

Rob Jones Workshop

Workshop:

Today Rob Jones came in for a workshop were he gave us feedback on our current work and gave us advise and also gave us tips on everything.

He told me that when it comes to editing to always work with more footage than you need too so that, you can then cut it down, rather than struggle with the footage you have. He also advised that when editing to not edit it as a whole as it can get rather complicated as you have so many clips to work from, however to pull clips out and edit them individual.

Along with giving us advise he also showed us his work and his websites to promote his work. 
He also suggested youtube channels that have videos that can help with editing and how to do different techniques whilst filming.

synchronising sound

Synchronising sound:

Tom Joyce conducted a sound workshop where he showed us how to use different software to have good sound with in our work.Along with this he showed us how to record sound with a microphone. He then showed us how to sync up the sound with our footage. 




He also told us to make a sound at the start of recording so when it comes to editing you can link them up perfectly, as you know where it begins.

pitch

Pitch:

For our pitch we presented our idea to the rest of the class. A handful of people said that they would go watch our film as they liked to enigmas we had within the film.

They also said they would watch it due to the fact that we had a strong independent women as our main character therefore breaking the stereotype.


Overall our pitch went well.

More research

Different genres:

	Comedy	horror	Romantic	Action	Thriller
Female	////	/	//	/
Male	/////	///		//	/

 

I collected some research to see what genre is most popular within my class. The range of people are aged 16-18.

 

Oscars

The imitation game

 

The imitation game released in 2015 was directed by Morten Tyldun. The film was nominated for an Oscar and won for best writing, adapted screen play.

 

Distributors of the film :

 

 

Production companies that worked with the imitation game are black bear pictures, and also Bristol automotive

 

 

 

 

 

Our distributuor

Distributor:

 

Entertainment Film is a British distributor of independent films in the UK and Ireland for a variety of  production companies, currently run by Nigel and Trevor Green. We chose Entertainment film as a distributor, due to the fact that they are a British and independent. They have released films such as 17 again, Austin powers goldmember, the lord of the rings twin tower and many other highly rated films.                  

Editing

Editing:

Here is a photo of the process of me editing my 2 minute film opening.

The process has been long , however the film is starting to come together.

Lighting

Lighting:

 

Here are some photos from the dark room were we tested out different lighting. We firstly tried adding a shadows to the face by placing a candle next to the face to create a warm side effect to one side of the face  and a dark shadow on the other side.

 

We also did the same thing however with a studio light, to create a brighter light to one side of the face and a light shadow to the other side.

 

We also experiment with a different coloured lights such as blue to create a cool/cold affect to the face.

 

By doing these experiments it can very much help us with our filming , as by having different lighting it can create different tones and add affects to different situations. For example a dark lit room can give off the connotations of something that is going to go wrong, for example a horror.