Friday, 30 April 2010
Evaluation
Evaluation
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Evaluation
Our film was produced under low budget and will be distributed by a low budgeted method. I will release my film on video hosting sites such as Youtube, vimeo etc. This method is a method which almost guarantee's success in attracting audience as video hosting sites such as Youtube has Millions of visitors a day. We will also have our movie screened at 'Screen on the green' and will get feedback from our peers.
Evaluation
Evaluation
When we were going through stages of planning our film, we came across a film which influenced our group’s ideas and technical skills. Arlington Road is the film which has influenced our ideas of creating an opening sequence. The film Arlington Road is created with short clips merged, creating a tense opening sequence. The mise-en-scene has dark lighting which adds tension to the scene. In our opening title sequence a sans serif font was used throughout to make the film look more contemporary.


Our opening sequence is structured in a discrete format. Our title sequence is similar to the title sequence of the film ‘The Thing’ as both title sequences have a range of shots merged together which has been merged together using transition effects.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Evaluation - Task 6 - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Monday, 26 April 2010
Evaluation - Task 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression from it to the full product?
Throughout this project our group have learnt many new skills, which are demonstrated in the develpment from when we started (Preliminary Task) to our ending product (Final Film). At the start of the project none of us knew how to use any of the editing software; Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro and Livetype, and were first introduced to them by the teachers and technicians who guided us in a step by step tutorial. After learning the basic skills needed to edit footage we were then shown how to use the cameras and tripods.
The basic skills we learnt were then put into practice by us producing a Match Cut for our Preliminary Task.
Evaluation - Task 3/4 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? How will you attract/address you audience?
This Thriller Opening Sequence by AS Media students from Liverpool was uploaded onto Youtube in April 2009. The video has had nearly 2000 views and has recieved good feedback through its comments. The choice to upload the video onto Youtube has helped to atrract a wider audience and has been successful in doing so. Online video hosting sites such as Youtube and Vimeo are great for sharing/promoting/releasing amatuer and low budget movies because anyone in the world with internet access will be able to view it. Amatuer low budget films are also not very likely to be commercial or profitable so there wouldnt be much dedication to promote/advertise through TV ads, posters, flyers etc, and these type of websites can help by showing your video as related videos to ones already on the internet.
Our film was produced under a low budget and we will take the same route as the AS Media students who have chosen to use Video Hosting Sites to release their film because it has been successful in attracting audiences. We will also have a cinematic screening amongst our peers at the 'Screen on the Green' where we will be able to recieve feedback as well.
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Evaluation - Task 5 - Who would be the audience for your media product?
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
Evaluation - Bektas OZER

'The Thing' remake opening Task two - How does your media product represent particular social group?
Our movie does not represent any social groups as no characters are included in the opening sequence we created. We wanted to portray a rugged and urban area. This type of opening is similar to ‘
Our movie'Arlington Road'
Task three & four - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product an why? How will you attract/address your audience?
I found this interesting video post on a very popular video sharing website. It is a thriller intro project from other students and another sixth form/college. In this case YouTube has been used to release it to a much wider potential audience. The video has had over 11,000 hits, so the decision to release the video on to YouTube can be considered a success. In relation to our media product it is very similar because of the fact that 16-19 year old students made it and also the movie budget would have been low. Low budget projects such as our thriller intro is most likely to gain as much views as possible if the media product is released online. Video sharing websites such as YouTube and Vimeo can be very useful for amateur film makers. Unlike YouTube, Vimeo is a website which specialises for film makers. Video quality and resolutions are much better than on YouTube and most amateur film makers post on Vimeo to get noticed. Our own media product will get a screening cinematic screening at 'The Screen on the Green' and shared screening with other peers and the potential audience for our product, if released online is huge.




Task six - What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
However as we progressed through the making of our media product we learnt how to effectively use a variety of shots in different angles. My editing skills with FinalCut Pro drastically improved throughout making the final product. In the preliminary task we barely used any video effects or clip transitions. However after naturally getting better because of good practice tasks such as the preliminary activity, we managed to use many video effects and transitions in our final product. The video effects and transitions we used worked well in aiding our product look and feel like a real thriller opening to a movie.
Evaluation - Task 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products


Monday, 19 April 2010
Evalutaion - Task 8 - Audience Feedback and Comments

Sunday, 18 April 2010
Changes in light of feedback from roughcut
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
Skills Audit - Titles

Titles were added to our opening sequence using Livetype. We chose to use a bold and simple sans serif font for our titles because we wanted it to stand out from the background and to look modern. The titles were also done in white to help it contrast from the dark background and we used a couple of effects to make the titles suit the shaky handheld footage. The effects we used were transitions to fade in/out the titles and other effects which made the titles move about randomly on the screen.
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Skills Audit - Title Soundtrack

The soundtrack to our title sequence was created in Soundtrack Pro. We chose not to use music for our title sequence because it wouldnt suit the way our film had been edited together, so we chose to use sound effects and long drones instead. We searched through the sound library looking for a long sound which could play through our entire title sequence, and a few shorter sounds which could be used to for the titles. The sounds we used were a long dark drone and dark hits found in the sound effects.
To get the soundtrack to play in time with our title sequence we dragged the sounds along the timeline and shortened/extended them to get them in the right places for when the titles came on.
Skills Audit - Editing
