Evaluation.Q7- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

19. PRELIM Summer Beth Serge Darnell from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation.Q6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation.Q3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation.Q2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION Q.7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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?

Evaluation Question 6- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

EVALUATION Q.6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Here is a powtoon explaining which technologies i have used in the process of constructing this product 

EVALUATION - Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task , what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Question 5- How did you attract/address your audience?

Some points to take from the interviews:

• To target the wider audience we realised that we must include elements of comedy to interest audiences who may not be interested in the usp.
• Also we realised that the names of the cast and crew would be an important element to attracting audiences.
• It was clear that the target audience was to be met through location, so a lot of teens local to where the film is set would or should be interested in it, as they can relate.

EVALUATION Q.5 How did you attract/address your audience?

EVALUATION - Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation Question 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

Here is the Facebook profile of our ideal target audience. a 16 year old boy from London who loves football. The film's USP of football allowed this target audience member to be identified, and because the film is also about teenage boys playing football in London, we believed that Daniel's factors would make him the ideal target audience.

Here is the Facebook profile of our wider audience. James is an older male from London who still loves football, however our USP for the wider audience is the style of the film, and the independent arthouse element that hopefully attracts the older film lovers, who also enjoy films and want to watch a fun, comedy film that they can still relate to.

EVALUATION Q.4 Who would be the audience for your media product?

Here is a screen shot from our research into who would be your audience for your media product, this is the typical spectator of the film Boyz n the hood based on a database of 77 people who watched the film to construct your average or typical spectator, as Boyz n the hood follows the same genre of being a teen film as our media product we are using their average audience as our typical audience.

Here is a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation which we embedded through slideshare which explains who would be our audience for our media product and answers many potential questions. 

Here is a screen grab of a Facebook profile of somebody who typifies our audience.

Evaluation Question 3- What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

EVALUATION Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Here is a Powerpoint exported through Slideshare Which talks about what kind of Media institution distributed our product and why.

Evalutaion Question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION - Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

EVALUATION Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION - Q2. 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? draft

SKILLS DEVELOPEMENT EDITING

The editing stage is probably the most extensive in the amount of programmes and software used, so its of no surprise that I learned many skills during this phase. As well as learning how to use new programmes like Camtasia, I also learned how to use other programmes which I had been introduced to prior the editing stage to a greater depth, like Garage Band and Final cut. These programmes are very broad in what you can do within them, and there is a lot to learn to become an expert in one of these programmes so I was continually learning when working with both of these two programmes to  a greater extent to the knowledge I had prior the editing stage.

SKILLS DEVELOPEMENT FILMING

At the beginning of the academic year we had a lesson which demonstrated to us how to use the filming equipment. That lesson was roughly 6 months ago, so when it came to filming I was a bit rusty with the equipment, and during the few weeks of filming I was reminded by my group mates of how to use the filming equipment, for example I forgot how to clip the camera onto the tripod and how to re-watch the clips we had filmed, and both of these techniques were shown to me by my group mates during the filming sessions. We also had to use various shot types and angles and have an abstract view to envision the shots we would have while filming as explained to me by Oliver We also filmed various scenes again and again but with different shots such as close ups and extreme longshots just to ensure we have a vast variety of shot types so that we can determine which is the best shot type for the particular scene while editing.

Skills learnt in production.

This is the stage in which I learnt most of my skills in. During the production stage , filming various shot types and angles allowed our title sequence to look more professional. We filmed various scenes again and again but with different shots such as close ups and extreme longshots to show our understanding of the different shots. These skills may be highly useful in the future so learning them was quite useful. While editing , we used different programmes such as motion and final cut pro to improve the quality of our title sequence , we messed around with them to make sure we understand all the different tools. Finally , during the soundtrack , which was probably the longest stage of production due to the fact that there are hundreds of sounds to go through and trying to sync them to create a soundtrack was rather hard.

Skills learnt in research,

During the research stage , many skills and ideas were learnt and had major impacts with our title sequence. One of the skills was analysing the mise en scene , editing , sound and camera in different type of dramas. This skill was crucial in our title sequence because we had to know which shot types were good to use in our titles and how to use them. So , we had to decide what kind of drama we were doing , we picked a teen drama and then watched and analysed one which was 'Kidulthood'. This had a great influence on our title sequence as the whole story of our sequence is about a group of friends who have some differences and then argue. Further more , kidulthood also allowed us to figure out what type of attire we should include with our characters and the type of clothing they would wear. We also were able to see and decide which type of titles we should use , either animated , narrative etc.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

during the planning stage I feel my skills really developed and it gave me an added impetus heading into the filming and editing stages. The main key skill I learned was to think outside the box and have a more creative mind-set. This was necessary as we didn't want our title-sequence to be to cliché and we wanted to stand out amongst the rest and sometimes a creative mentality makes the difference between a memorable title-sequence and an easily forgettable title-sequence. I also learned to be persistent as many of my ideas were written off by the teachers and my group mates as they were either to far-fetched or inappropriate for the title sequence, when you spend a lot of time trying to provide creative input and its rejected its often very frustrating and those are the moments when you have to be persistent and keep going.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

during the research stage I don't think I gained as  many skills as I could have as my attitude was rather lax and too casual. Despite my easy-going attitude towards the research phase I still believe I learned how to use time wisely and be time-efficient. I actually believe my careless approach helped me to gain this skill as I was always looking to cut corners and not waste any time, that when I did the research I didn't waste any time reading useless or unnecessary articles, and I could quickly detect whether the information I was attaining was relevant or not.

Friday 6th March

On the day of the deadline , two of us stayed back and added the finishing touches to our title sequence. Firstly , we had to make sure the titles are the same length , size and font , and we had to make sure they were 100% visible to our audience. Secondly ,  we were given more feedback from Louisa in which we were told that a certain title was blending with the background so we had to then change that. Thirdly , we then added the text bubbles to show what was being said on the phone between the characters. Lastly , we played the whole sequence again to see if there is any problems with the sequence, and then we saved and exported the file.

Grande Cosas Distribution

Silver Patch Productions Logo

Creating Our Soundtrack On Garageband

Evidence of Oliver editing

Evidence of Darnell editing

Evidence of Andrew doing a bit of editing

Interview of Andrew about the title sequence

Proof of Samuel editing

Interview of Samuel about the title sequence

Rough cut 2 feedback from Louisa

wednesday 4th of March list of what we have left to do

Production Identifier (logo picture)
Distribution Identifier (logo)
Distributed by grande cosas
Produced by silver patch productions
Film name (Chemistry)
Cast
Casting director
Costume
Music by
Edited by
Written by
Directed by

4th March - What we indend to do next lesson

On wednesday (next lesson) we intend to complete the soundtrack for the title sequence , we also need to act on all the feedback in which we received from  Dan  (see previous blog post). Which contained : Trimming down our title sequence ,  including more action scenes such as more football scenes and less texting scenes as that may bore the audience

Rough cut feed back 2 (From Dan)

After Dan viewed our rough cut we were told to decrease all the texting we had as due to the fact our title sequence is a football , we have to make the texting scenes smaller and increase actual footage of the football. Furhter more,we were also told to decrease the lenght of it as currently it is a 3minutes , so in order to do this we are going to cut or shorten the scenes as much as possible. In addition , some shots were way too far and narrow so we have to improve that. However he did say the various shots were used properly and effectivly.

MONDAY 1ST FEBRUARY 2015 UPDATE

Today we will continue to edit our title sequence following the advice we've received from Louisa.

We also plan to cut it down to around 2 minutes as its currently over 3 minutes by removing the scenes we feel are most unnecessary and unsuitable.We also plan to trim down some of our suitable scenes to make them more time efficient.We are also starting the production of our sound track as its a vital element of the title sequence and with the impending deadline of Friday 6th of March it had to commence today with the hope it will be completed by Wednesday the 8th of March.