Evaluation Question 7 - What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the full product?

Evaluation Question 7 - What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the full product?

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Evaluation Question 7 - What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the full product?

Compared to the first task, our attitude towards film making and editing has completely changed, we have learnt how to use many different programs in order to increase our skills and the quality of film. 
We have learnt how to edit the clips and make them flow steadily as one whole opening sequence, where as when we did the preliminary task, we had trouble editing the clips separately and making them look like they were meant to be together.
Adding in sound effects in the first task was something that we played around with to see if it worked, for example the creak of the door and the noisy children, we used this as practice and with that experience, used the sound effects for our real thing appropriately and professionally. This showed us that the preliminary task really was necessary because, without that, we wouldn't have known exactly how to use them or add them in within the right timing for our real final piece. We also enhanced the diagetic sounds in the real task, Red kissing the picture and walking is real but in order for the viewers to hear it over the music, we had to make it a bit louder.  
After watching both the preliminary task and the final piece again, one after the other, it is clear that we have made significant improvements to our skills as directors, producers and camera women. The use of the camera in the preliminary task looked unprofessional and shaky, however it is obvious that with practice, our camera skills improved immensely. We made sure that we used the tripod at all times and when doing the close ups, kept the camera completely straight and even. 
After seeing that our framing in the preliminary task was not completely right each time, we made sure that each clip in the final piece was in the correct framing and that no extra things that we did not want in there, were within that frame. This is another improvement that has benefited our final piece hugely, as without the first task we wouldn't have known to look out for small details like this.
Overall, I feel that we have made a significant improvement and come a long way since our very first task and we are all very proud of what we have achieved . We have learnt many new skills and organisation techniques in order to get everything done, sticking to our filming schedules, whilst keeping the blog up to date as well.       

Evaluation Question 7 - What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the full product?

We have learnt a lot about film making and editing since the very first preliminary task. We have demonstrated the various skills that we have learnt during lesson time throughout both tasks but the final product has highlighted our skills even more. For the first task, we found the camera angles challenging to keep steady and create smooth transitions from one clip to the next during editing. However since then, we have increased our knowledge and understanding by increasingly practising these techniques before we started our final piece.
For our first preliminary task, we broke the 180 degree rule and did not correct it. After this we knew to be aware and careful not to break it for our real task. Whilst filming, we did not break the 180 degree rule at all which is a significant improvement to the original. We made sure that each shot was within the 180 degree rule and at one point we almost broke it, then reassessed it and changed it.

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

Evaluation Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups? on Prezi

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

We decided to interview a variety of different people that fit into our target age group of 15-30.

Most of the people we interviewed enjoy shopping, spending time with friends and visiting the cinema. Many of them said that they had jobs, which means that they would have some spare money to use for leisurely activities, like going out with friends. Quite a few people mentioned that they enjoyed watching watching horror, thriller and suspense films.

I think that our film will appeal to the people that we interviewed as they seemed to enjoy spending time with their friends and visiting the cinema. They also said that they enjoyed horror films, this relates to the genre of our own film.

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

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

Tripod: The tripod was useful to steady the camera whilst shooting, without it the footage would have been wonky and unsteady. We were able to adjust the tripod legs according to what angle we wanted the clip to be filmed at.

Camera: This is the camera that we used to shoot all of our footage. We were able to experiment with a variety of different camera angles and zooming and panning.

Live Type: We used the programme Live Type in order to create the title for the film. Firstly it was difficult to use, however after a while we got the hang of it and we were able to make a good title for the opening sequence.

Picnik: We used the Picnik programme in order to edit some of our pictures that flash up in the opening sequence. Overall the website was easy to use and navigate and was very useful.

Soundcloud: We used the website Soundcloud in order to upload and share different music for our sequence. We were also able to use this website in order to search for different sound affects and music from unsigned bands. In the end we were able to use a certain sound effect for our production company logo.

Garageband: We attempted to use Garageband in order to create a soundtrack for our opening sequence. We found it very difficult as we had a range of many different ideas for the kind of soundtrack that we may decide to include in. In the end we decided to use an unsigned band for the soundtrack, and we used Garageband in order to edit and cut the sound clips.

iMovie: We used iMovie for the editing process of our opening sequence. Whilst using this programme we were able to import or footage and edit it by splipping/cutting clips and experimenting with effects, sound and titles.

Blogger: We used the website blogger to upload information, pictures and clips during the research and planning stage. Each blog post is in date order, we were able to arrange each of the posts and update any information that may have been missing. This was very useful during the process as we were able to dicuss ideas as a group.

Youtube: We used Youtube as a source to veiw many helpful videos. These videos varied from other opening sequences, interviews, production company logos/indents and possible soundtracks. We were able top embed any useful vidoes directly onto the blog so that other members of the group could veiw them. Overall Youtube was a very helpful and simple website to use.


iTunes: We used iTunes to upload the song that we wanted to use as our soundtrack from a CD, from here we uploaded this into iMovie. This is a programme that we were all familar with a before the beginning of the project.

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

• Above is the feedback that we received from people after they had watched our opening sequence.
• Overall the feedback was very positive.
• They liked the range of camera angles and shots - they liked the extreme close up in particular.
• One negative they commented was that the titles during the sequence for slightly weak and could have been a lot more precise.

Evaluation Activity 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Unfortunately, Jordan and Juanita were not able to join us in the recording due to them both filming participants for the questionnaire which will be used for another evaluation question.

Final edits to the film

We have come quickly to our deadline and we have decided our finishing touches for our film. These include, filming an extra part of reds eyes and then a point of view shot from Red watching a jogger running into the distance. We will then finish our film there but we will decide as a group whether we like it and either keep it in or cut it out. We decided to film an extra part so our film is exactly on the time frame of 2 minutes and that we see the beginning of a story, we all like the idea of having an option so we can play around with the final sequence and decide whether we like it

Victim photos

We have taken the three photos of Red's victims. These are shown below:

We decided to change the images to black and white but leave the red lipstick mark on the victims. We decided to do this as it will be easier for the audience to make a link between the kiss on the photograph and the kiss on each of the victims.  

Production company logo

We have chosen to use a selection of images and put them together using iMovie to create our production company logo. We came across this idea as our first idea to film a books pages turning using a fan/hairdryer didn't work as we had planned. Below is one of the images that we used during the logo sequence.

The use of the flower and the lipstick mark emphasise the genre of our film.

Credits

We liked the effectiveness of this films credits. The simplicity of it made us think about being simple yet creative with our own credits instead of overcomplicating the process by using too many different effects at the same time.

Soundtrack

We have found a suitable song by an unsigned band named 'King Mob' it has a good drum beat which fits in well with the forest scene as it builds tension and adds to the sex appeal.

To do list

To do:

• We will add in the logo at the very beginning. This consists of an old book with the name 'Sister's Grim Production' written in red lipstick with the book being opened with red nails.
• We have been discussing the types of credits we will add into our film sequence and looking at inspiration from films including 'Jennifer's Body'. We have decided to use fade-transitions called 'cross-disolve' throughout each clip.
• With the editing, we need to add in the pictures of the 3 victims that she has already killed, flashing photos 1) as she's walking 2) as it zooms into her legs 3) after she's put her hood down.
• Sort the background music out, we have found an unsigned band to use
• Finally need to edit everything

Photos whilst filming

Below are some of the photos we took before filming, in order to get a feel for the atmosphere and mis en scene that would be in the sequence. We thought that the blood red of her coat on the woodland background contrasted well with one another and emphasised her femme fatal role. The red also portrays her dangerous characteristics and sex appeal to the audience. 

Edits to the story

As we started editing our work we had realised that the bedroom scene took up a fair amount of time even after we had cut and edited the sequence, therefore when we filmed the rest of our film we cut out the part when 'Red' encounters the 'jogger' due to simply not having enough time to have that part in the film.

Although, not having this part in doesn't reveal too much of the story in the first opening sequence which could potentially be better because if we did include that part we would of witnessed her murder a man in the first two minutes which may have revealed too much of the story too early on. Not knowing much about her purpose and character in the first two minutes of the film adds to her mysteriousness and could perhaps make more people want to see the rest of the film to see what she is out to do rather than seeing it straight away.

Bedroom Scene - Mis en scene

The first image is the dressing table which 'Red' sits at to get ready in the first scene, the black wood can be seen as modern and classy but also dark and seductive this creates an intimate atmosphere for the bedroom.

In the second image we have our actress which plays 'Red' in her costume and posed as her character we chose the red mac with a hood as its a modern statement jacket which can be seen as classy yet mysterious as characters wearing macs are usually seen to be mysterious (spys or detectives). The colour red contrasts from her black dress and black stockings making the red jacket appear more vividly, also the red heels and red lipstick are a subtle add to 'Reds' Image and gives her the sex appeal we want our femme fatale style 'red riding hood' character to empower.

Filming

.We filmed the inside scene on Friday, we have edited the scenes to make them shorter and better quality. We have found that we need to redo one scene in order to make it better with better framing. 

Production Logo Test

We tested out our initial logo idea. We used a fan to create a fairytale-like logo for our production company

It did not work as well as we thought it would, as the pages did not move completely over as we had intended. If we were to use this logo in the real thing, we would try and find a way of making it more effective.