Question 1

Q. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 2 - Ana Maria

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

Question 3 - Ana Maria

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


 

Question 4 - Ana Maria

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

Question 5

Q. How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 6 -Ana Maria

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

During the time we spent building up and creating this film, i have learnt a lot to do with different technologies.

Such as; Garage band, Final cut pro, ClipGrab and Audio convertor.

Whilst creating and editing the films title sequence on Garage band, i've learnt multiple skills on how to make a audio track with ether the tracks that are provided on garage band or with tracks i have found online ( Youtube). it was easy learning how to use the sound tracks that are provided the part i found difficult would be when combing the tracks that are provide with tracks that you have found using the internet, as for this you have to know or learn how to use ClipGrab and Audio convertor.
On top of this i also learnt how to preview and use different types of loops and also how to overlap them or just simply use them alone. whilst learning the techniques with looping i also learnt how to fade the audios so they don't clash or sound to harsh at the endings.

Although i used ClipGrab and Audio convertor for Garage band, you could also use it on Final cut pro. they are also use to transfer a type of media such as a video, from youtube to your creations on Final cut Pro. whilst using and watching Daniel use Final cut pro i learnt how to make short or long films. i learnt how to cut and expand video and also how to combine to clips or shots to make a video or a short film. to do this we learnt how to use techniques such as 'match cuts' this is when you have to shots on following the other so it shows a action in action. for example a boy kicking the ball and then seeing the ball hit the hall or whatever. to do tho we had to make sure that there was no grabs that would make the title sequence have any blank screen seconds.

Question 7 - Ana Maria

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

Hi guys (Nazmin & Ana)

Good blog so far – 15/B grade.

You have exactly the right idea in what you are writing so far but I think you could improve the level of detail i.e. give a breakdown on specific steps taken in the processes described. In some posts you mention refilming – how did this go? Do you have any documentation of the filming? The detail on how you changed and balanced out your film is good but what about some notes on technical skills developed? Explain what you have learnt so far – what can you do now that you couldn’t do 3 months ago. Try and be as specific and detailed as possible and don’t forget to illustrate with screen grabs etc.

FINISHED

Group 34 is now done with all the editing, sound and titles for our high school movie 'Colly' :)

We hope everyone enjoys watching it

Interview with cast member- Ana Maria Florez

In this interview, Ana is asked a few questions on whether she thinks if she portrayed her 'princess' like character well in the film. 

health check 3 - Dan L

Hi guys (Nazmin & Ana)

Good blog so far – 15/B grade.

You have exactly the right idea in what you are writing so far but I think you could improve the level of detail i.e. give a breakdown on specific steps taken in the processes described. In some posts you mention refilming – how did this go? Do you have any documentation of the filming? The detail on how you changed and balanced out your film is good but what about some notes on technical skills developed? Explain what you have learnt so far – what can you do now that you couldn’t do 3 months ago. Try and be as specific and detailed as possible and don’t forget to illustrate with screen grabs etc.

What have i learnt so far?

Final lesson - 06.03.15

    In todays lesson Nazmin and I, are putting on the finishing touches to the music and then adding it to the final cut.
We had completed the music last lesson, but we have decided to change the audio that plays over the rich girls(Ana Maria) scenes. the reason for why we have decided to make this change to the music right at the end, is because the audio we originally had for the rich girl, didn't fit her personality and we thought that because of this reason it would have been difficult for the audience to know that she is rich.

As you can see from these images, we found a audio via youtube and now were gonna export it to the garage band to our audio.

We used ClipGrab to download the audio we found via youtube and then we put it into a audio convertor and which then turned it into AIFF file, now that it is a AIFF file it allows us to add it to our audio we are creating on GarageBand.

Dan's feedback on rough cut

1) Get rid of the scene of the close up of Amy's feet as it's too dark

2) Why does Ana get to the college first?

3) Clock time and phone time doesn't make sense. It isn't clear that she decided to ignore her alarm

Todays lesson cont.

  In todays lesson, Nazmin and I were finishing off the music for the title sequence and matching it up with the moving images for the title. We did this by placing the movie track onto garage band and then matching the different tracks for each character to it.

Todays lesson 4/03/15

We are also trying to improve the appearance of our website by adding more information, etc to the website and we had also changed the name of our teen drama film from Story Of Our Life to Colly. This is because it felt more appropriate to our storyline.

What we did in todays lesson 27.02.15

                       

In todays lesson, we will continue on what we was doing last lesson.

Nazmin is still working on the soundtracks for the title sequence and amy is creating the titles which are going over the scenes. 

Later on we will be going outside to film some of amy's scenes again as there was a continuity error.

What we did today (25.02.14)

As we are still waiting for additional shots from Amy, we decided to dedicate this day to editing and putting in the music made my Nazmin. We are still considering re filming a couple of Daniel's scenes as we have noticed that the screen time that we have allocated to each character is not equal. 

We also decided to change the name of our film from 'Story of our life' to 'Colly' to connect with our target audience of teenagers who attend college. 

Dan and class feedback of rough cut

In conclusion, the advice given include:

1) To even out the screen time of each characters so we need to film more of the nerds and the goths scenes
2) There is a continuity error where all the  characters run towards school but only Amy ends of at the college
3) Have more close ups of Amy towards the end.

Rough Cut

This is the rough cut of our high school title sequence