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 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 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:

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.

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.

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