Friday, 1 May 2009
Evaluation
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of the real media products?
Our production is a thriller. So my group and I included thriller conventions in our production. In our thriller, we have included thriller conventions such as an protagonists and an antagonist, we have included a crime involved with the narrative. Thrillers convey unusal, extraordinary events that happens in situations that are ordinary. We included that into our triller product. We understand the the aspects of thrilelr conventions and we included them into our product.
2. How does your media product represent particular media groups?
Our media product represents the social gropu of teenagers. Our film shows how many teengers result in situations they may be in, which results to a deady actions
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Our media product might e used as an example dor other media classes who will be doing the same project as us. This will be helpful to other media students as they can get ideas from our media product to help them in the process of making their own.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for our media film as I mentioned above will be other media studnts who aredoing the same project as us. However as we did reaserach the age of our media product will be viewed from the age of 15 and up due to the material used in our media product. As teenagers were represented in our media product it can attract a wide varity of audiences as the life of teenagers are being represented.
5. How did you attract /address your audience?
We attracted our audience by producing a questionnaire. In the questionnaire we asked questions such as age, gender, and qustions relating to media. The results from our questionnaire helped us to know what audiences prefer to watch in the media. By knowing this my group members and I were able to use the results of our questionaire and apply it to our media product. This is bascially making our media product enjoyable to our audience.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In the process of constructing our product, we learnt how to use the camera, and how to use it connectd to the tri-pod, we also learnt how to use a iMac properly and he iMac software needed to construct our media product. As I did media in my secondary school I had a bit of knowledge of how to use a camera, however as I used a HD camera there was a few differnet ways to use the camera. On the other hand when my group members and I used the camera, tripod, iMac when doing our prelimary excercise this helped us to grasp how to use the equipment so when it came to doing our media product it will be a breeze for us. As we would know what to do. The prelimary excercise was like training for us, for the final test.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?
When doing my preliminary task it helped me alot in the process of my final product, as I learnt how to use different camera movements, different camera angles. Using the footage from my preliminary exercise, me and my fellow group members edited this. Editing my preliminary exercise it helped me to know how to use the software so when it came to editing my media product i would know what to do and how to add transitions, text, music and so on.
Our production is a thriller. So my group and I included thriller conventions in our production. In our thriller, we have included thriller conventions such as an protagonists and an antagonist, we have included a crime involved with the narrative. Thrillers convey unusal, extraordinary events that happens in situations that are ordinary. We included that into our triller product. We understand the the aspects of thrilelr conventions and we included them into our product.
2. How does your media product represent particular media groups?
Our media product represents the social gropu of teenagers. Our film shows how many teengers result in situations they may be in, which results to a deady actions
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
Our media product might e used as an example dor other media classes who will be doing the same project as us. This will be helpful to other media students as they can get ideas from our media product to help them in the process of making their own.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for our media film as I mentioned above will be other media studnts who aredoing the same project as us. However as we did reaserach the age of our media product will be viewed from the age of 15 and up due to the material used in our media product. As teenagers were represented in our media product it can attract a wide varity of audiences as the life of teenagers are being represented.
5. How did you attract /address your audience?
We attracted our audience by producing a questionnaire. In the questionnaire we asked questions such as age, gender, and qustions relating to media. The results from our questionnaire helped us to know what audiences prefer to watch in the media. By knowing this my group members and I were able to use the results of our questionaire and apply it to our media product. This is bascially making our media product enjoyable to our audience.
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In the process of constructing our product, we learnt how to use the camera, and how to use it connectd to the tri-pod, we also learnt how to use a iMac properly and he iMac software needed to construct our media product. As I did media in my secondary school I had a bit of knowledge of how to use a camera, however as I used a HD camera there was a few differnet ways to use the camera. On the other hand when my group members and I used the camera, tripod, iMac when doing our prelimary excercise this helped us to grasp how to use the equipment so when it came to doing our media product it will be a breeze for us. As we would know what to do. The prelimary excercise was like training for us, for the final test.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the product?
When doing my preliminary task it helped me alot in the process of my final product, as I learnt how to use different camera movements, different camera angles. Using the footage from my preliminary exercise, me and my fellow group members edited this. Editing my preliminary exercise it helped me to know how to use the software so when it came to editing my media product i would know what to do and how to add transitions, text, music and so on.
One last bit of filming
As me and Carla put the finshing touches on our film, we showed it to sir and it was approved. However i still had my doubts on the film as i wanted to add an extra bit into it. It came to me that we needed a simple scene to show that one of the actors had been killed, so it makes it clear to the audience.
On my way to the editing room I met up with Carla and she told me that she added a shot to our film to show that the character was killed. I will know go into futher detail of the scene as you will have to wait to see ou final piece, which will be added onto youtube and aso my blog.
So keep posted to my blog.
On my way to the editing room I met up with Carla and she told me that she added a shot to our film to show that the character was killed. I will know go into futher detail of the scene as you will have to wait to see ou final piece, which will be added onto youtube and aso my blog.
So keep posted to my blog.
The title of our product
After long hours of thinking, and trying to decide what our film title will be. By inspiration of a fellow friend we have came up with the title. The title is 'When summer ends'. The reason behind this is becaus the flashback scences were filmed in the sun showing the summer season. However the other shots were filmed in a school/6Form. The summer then ends for the antagonsies victims. This is irony
Thursday, 30 April 2009
Editing Process
Today me and Carla continued editing and we felt like we have finshed. Today we included some more transactions, clips to show the actors names, we added in more effects like fade out, flash, cross disslove and may more. We are very pleased with what we had done. We also searched for music, which took us a long time as we wanted to get the perfect sound to match our film, and i found one. I added the music in as Carla did not know how to do it. We then needed other opions so we asked our fellow friends, and class mates on their opions aswell, and the feedback was great and everyone loved it. Me and Carla felt we did good so we finally showed our work to our teacher. Sir gave us great feedback and told us two thing to chnage in our film and our film will be complete. We edited the two things sir suggested we did and were complete, well wer soon complete, we are left with one more thing to do..come up with the title of our film. As soon as we decide what our film title is goin 2 be, we will edit that into our film and then we will be COMPLETE. :)
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Filming Process
Today Carla and I did some more filming with our two actors. Unfortunatly Hannah could not make it due to illness. Carla and I took it in turns to film the parts we needed to do. As itis a joint effort and we are working together. We used a varity of camera angles, camera movements. I accomplished alot today as we finshed the filming and it was just needed that we import what we filmed today and edit it. Today we filmed da shots of the killer and the victims encounter and the scene where the killer shows his plan to the udience who his next victim is.
Editing Process
Carla and I did ALOT of editing today. We arranged our shots in the right order, and we used differnt techniques throughout our film, we also used differnt transactions in between clips such as cross dissolves. We used black and white effects and even colour effects as one clip we turned it red (look out for it when we upload our completed c/w). Thats all the editing we done for the day, it may of sounded like not alot but it took us a long time and i guess even more time as me and Carla want our c/w to be PERFECT. But after today we have arrnaged to meet up agen and do some more editing.
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