Evaluation Question 7

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?

When answering this question i will be using the website time toast and emaze.

29. Erika, Megan, Tereza from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 6

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

When answering this question i have used the website emaze.

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

When answering this question we created a interview  with the director of our film.

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 4

What would be the audience for your media product?

When answering this question I will be using the website Powtoon.
 



Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 3

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

 When answering this question is used the website e-maze.

Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

When answering this question i used the website Prezi.

Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1

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

Typically title sequences

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 3

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?

PRELIM vs. Final Film

PRELIM:

Final Film:

Conclusion:

In order to conclude this evaluation, I believe that during the time from my PRELIM to my Final Film, I have learned how to work both independently and in a team - as well as under pressure. I have learned new techniques in relation to tackling time management and working under pressure and have made my creativity come out much more.

I have learned how to work with Motion, Garageband, Final Cut Pro, Camtasia and other programmes on the Mac's and learned how to use them in order to expand on my creativity and use them for my Final Cut.

I've definitely come a long way from the PRELIM and believe that the things I have learned and the work I have done have paid off in our Final Film.

Evaluation Question 6

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

Make sure to read reviews on my wix website here

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 5

EQ5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation Question 4

EQ4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Here is a short 50 second movie I created on PowToon to answer my question:

Evaluation Question 3

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

Examples of influences:

Clueless is a production from Paramount Pictures. Although it's title sequence does not have any title credits, 'Clueless' is a very popular and high grossing teen movie, which we got a lot of our influences from.

Mean Girls is also another one of our very big influences, also a production from Paramount Pictures. It totals in about 26 credits, which makes it very similar to our sequence. The main actress' name is also before the name of the movie, which is where we took our influence for our money from.

Another very big influence is The Breakfast Club, which is a classic movie that we took the idea of the lockers scene from and the transformation of characters from.

Order of our credits:

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question 1

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

I have proceeded to write up my answer on my wix page where it can be seen here, and here are screenshots of it:

Camtasia video:

Interview with Actor

The interview with the actor is also on my website. Here is the link and how to find it:

Interview with Sound Designer

Just like the interview with the director, the interview with the sound designer amongst many other things are on my website. Here is the link and how to find them:

Interview with Director

You can find the interview with the director on my website. Here is a link and how to find it:

Interview with Sound Designer

Interview: Written Form

Sound Designer

Me: When creating music for the first few minutes of a film what would you say is important? 

Sound Designer: Music is great at manipulating emotion, so is essential when trying  to connect with an audience. At the beginning it is very important to set the tone of the film, whether it is sad or happy. For our film "2-Faced", we incorporated both a sad and happy mood as we were showing a clear transformation of a character.

Me: When creating two different tones and attitudes through sound what would you say is most important to include?

Sound Designer: Well for our film we decided to incorporate just a piano to create a sad/mysterious atmosphere, this was very simple yet still heightened the mood a lot. However when changing the mood to a more happier lighthearted mood, we used a mixture of instrument i.e guitars, drums etc.

Me: Would you say foley sounds enhance the feel of a film?

Sound Director: Yes most defiantly! Foley sounds both create real life feel but when use dramatically it also can create a more comedic/animated film.

Interview with Actor

Interview with Actor: (in written form)

Me: Hello Kelsen. As I believe you are lucky enough to have been chosen to portray Charlie Bing, the main character of aspiring High School Drama '2-Faced'.

Kelsen: Yes I am and I am extremely overwhelmed by it. 

Me: How does the character of Charlie Bing compare to any other character you have played, especially within the High School Drama genre?

Kelsen: I think the character of Charlie Bing is not only a rare character within High School Dramas but in film in general. Being able to convey the troubles of the unacknowledged teens all over the world I feel privileged to do so and to do it in the best way that I can to honour them. 

Me: Did you find it hard to portray different personalities within 3 minutes of footage? 

Kelsen: Its not the easiest thing to do sometimes but with the help of props and costume I was able to get into the mindset of them different personalities as i separated the characteristics. 

Me: Thank you for your time and I wish you all the success you deserve from your role in '2-Faced'!  

Interview with Sound Designer

Interview with Sound Designer: (in written form)

Me: When creating music for the first few minutes of a film what would you say is important? 

Sound Designer: In the first few minutes of a film there should always be an obvious mood and whether it changes or not should be noticeable for the audience. So when creating the music for the title sequence of '2-Faced', considering the fact that there is a transition in character personality I had to show that through the beat and the tone of the sound.

Me: When creating two different tones and attitudes through sound what would you say is most important to include?

Sound Designer: When portraying a sad sound it is important to edge towards a light piano based background whereas when portraying a happier sound you are free to include drums and guitars, instruments which allow you play about with the outcome alot more. 

Me: How important would you said the inclusion of foley sounds are? 

Sound Designer: Foley sounds are important when trying to portray a realistic feel especially when there is no dialogue in the scenes. 

Me: Thank you for your time and I look forward to reporting back to the world of your work in '2-Faced'! 

Interview with Director

Interview with director: (written form)

Me: In filming specially for a title sequence of a film what do you want to capture for the audience?

Director: When you are filming footage for a "film" but its really just the first 2 minutes you have to allow the audience to understand what that "film" would be about but all within in boundaries. You don't want to give away too much because as a viewer you want to be surprised. 

Me: While filming the title sequence for '2-Faced' what do you want the audience to understand of the characters story?

Director: I feel like it is important for the audience to realise that there is a change in personality at some stage in the first few minutes of footage because that is one of key elements of the film, if not the most important thing to understand. 

Me: If you had the opportunity to film the rest of '2-Faced' would you?

Director: Most definitely! I believe this is a strong storyline unlike any other that would really stand out against all other High School Drama movies and I even believe this would be a hugely successful film within Hollywood. 

Me: Thank you for your time and I look forward to reporting back to the world about the highly anticipated '2-Faces'! 

 

 

Blogging Health Check #3

Mary did not get round to doing the third blogging health check so I therefore cannot comment.

Features on website

I have added some new features to my website; including interviews, a link to the blog and a 'form for enquiries'.

I've also added a navigation which can be found by scrolling down the website - where you also find the plot of the title sequence.

Production Reflection

As we began filming we started with the scenes that required us being in college. After reviewing the days footage we saw that the settings on the camera were not correct, causing the footage to appear off focused. When we re-filmed this footage we not only changed our main actor but his clothing and opted to loose a prop, being the sunglasses as the actors hair would now symbolise the shift in personality that we tried to portray through the use of sunglasses previously.

Filming at location #2 (the main characters home) we carefully reviewed footage on set to ensure that what we had was usable. Throughout the day we had to re-film certain shots due to bad lighting. 

Other than the stated issues we had during filming we were able to learn from them mistakes and improve shots as we went along during the times we scheduled filming. 

Blogging Task 49 - Health check 3

Post Production Editing

Post Production Editing

This gif shows the process of adding sound/music onto our final product. We used both copy right free music from soundcloud and foley music from garage band, to heighten realism in our film. These foley sounds included doors closing and the sound of putting clothes on.

Blogging Task 45 - Interviews

Interview: Written Form

Director:

Me: When filming, specially for a title sequence of a film, what do you want to capture for the audience?

Director: As we are only filming 2/3 minutes of the entire film, it makes it more difficult to show what is going was the initial story line. We have to show clearly what the story line is and introduce each character and their role instantly.

Me: While filming the title sequence for '2-Faced' what do you want the audience to understand of the characters story?

Director: Though we don't want to make the story line too confusing, we still want to generate an interesting story. We decided on creating a transformation of our character, both their personality and image will change. This is the most important part of our film so we want the audience to easily understand it.

Me: If you had the opportunity to film the rest of '2-Faced' would you?

Yes, defiantly! I feel like we have created a great story line here, as it is very unusual and challenges the stereotypical high school drama. High school drama's are very popular, so our twisted new version of the genre may be just enough to receive some recognition.

Me: Thank you very much for the interview and i look forward to watching your title sequence   

Blogging task 44 - Extension Activity: Wix Website

LINK TO WEBSITE- 

Blogging Task 43 - Reflection of filming

Blogging Task 42 - Photos from filming

Signing off - finishing editing and production

WIX WEBSITE

LINK TO WEBSITE

Here you can find details on the film, including actors, distribution and interviews with the director, sound designer and actor!

It's available as a Mobile Version!

Reflection on editing/filming

Since we have finished our filming, I believe that we have done exceptionally well with our time management - despite that fact that we have had a member of our group drop out, and we had to re-film a lot of the film. I believe that the portrayal of our main character was relatively good and that we managed well with the costumes and props, although I do think that baseball jackets etc. would have been much better.
As for the location, I think that we couldn't have got a better location for our shootings. The house was very good and portrayed very good mise-en-scene in relation to props and lighting. Furthermore, the weather for our last shooting was very good and we managed to get a lot of natural lighting. We used some artificial lighting for the 'locker scene' because the location was too dark but it was relatively good and we are all happy with the way that the final cut came out.

Public feedback

Gathering feedback from people in our class etc. we have found that our story line is understandable, however we need to re-edit it and cut down more stuff as it is too long

Setting up and filming the locker/hallway scene

For this locker scene, we used artificial lighting to create the hallway more bright. We also used props such as the folder, ring, scholarship letter.

Filming cafeteria scene

Filming in the cafeteria for when our main character walks into college and meets all of his friends

Filming barber scene

Our main character going to the barbers as a part of his transformation in becoming the popular boy at school. We used a local barbers for this scene, which allowed us to use their barber shop.

Location: Angel, near Angel station/market

Filming

Here we have pictures from filming our main character entering school

Location: City and Islington Sixth Form College

Creating and Editing the Soundtrack

We have made our soundtrack using Garageband. We have sourced usable tracks from soundcloud to convey both emotions in our soundtrack, beginning quite sad and emotional and then the other being a more up beat, happier tone. Through the use of Garageband we were also able to add folley sounds such as doors closing and the removing of clothing to make the scene seem more realistic. These folley sounds play over the soundtrack and are incorporated to not dominate the music. 

Re-creating the soundtrack 

Props

A range of props will be used during our title sequence:

• iPad - alarm/clock
• Kettle
• Folders
• Work jacket 

Rough Cut 2

Soundtrack production

I personally took the role of creating the music and soundtrack for the title sequence, as well as taking all photos when filming and editing. These are screenshots of the first draft of our soundtrack, through which I added some Foley Sounds and an up-beat sound for our characters transformation.

Transition of the soundtrack for transformation shown here:

Target audience

Looking for target audiences, we have looked at different websites which recommend factors for target audience: 

From this, and previous research we established that our target audience would most likely be aged from 14-25, and that the gender would be a mix between male and female. Our geographic target audience is worldwide teenagers, pre-teens and young adults (as our production is large-scale).

Fonts

Taking into account inspirations from movies such as Mean Girls, Clueless and American Pie our title sequence would most likely have a big, bold font in either black or white.

Furthermore, we can use fonts such as these to relate to the idea of high school

 And these other ones as they are similar to what high school dramas use