Evaluation - Question 1

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media product?

Evaluation - Question 2

Q. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation - Question 3

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

Evaluation - Question 4

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

Evaluation - Question 5

Q. How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation - Question 7

Q. 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?

Final Cut Pro

 

Motion

GarageBand

What I have learnt? - Daniel

Learning to use Final Cut Pro

I have decided to take up the editing role in the group as I was the most familiar with Final cut out of everyone, as I also do film studies. Despite already knowing how to use it, I still managed to learn plenty new things in order to polish our sequence further.

I have greatly developed my ability to match cut which improved the overall flow of the sequence. We made sure to eliminate all continuity errors through change of edit or re-filming if necessary.

I was also taught how to blade by Rebecca. This allowed shots to flow quicker as it eliminated any redundant screen time. This helped us as it was often pointed out that some of our scenes dragged on for too long.

 Motion

Even though I was not in charge of the making of the titles, I was present throughout their making when Amy was doing them. Although my knowledge here may not be complex as in regarding Final cut, I have learnt some simple features of the program such as: customising font style, special effects, size, 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. 

Editing - Continuity error fix

As we were receiving feedback from Rebecca she pointed out that the shots with Amy throwing the clothes on the floor did not flow as the first shot dragged on for too long. In order to improve continuity I made the shot shorter and now it looks fine.

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

While editing...

After we have acquired all the necessary shots I have put them together and noticed that shots that we have of Vivian (Rebel) and Me (Nerd) are redundant so I decided to get rid of that short scene. As a replacement me and Amy filmed more parts for the nerd so now all the characters have relatively equal screen time, except Amy as she is the main character. This means that the rebel is no longer part of out sequence but I believe we have enough characters anyway.

Editing - Amy's Pictures

During the editing process I have noticed that the shot of Amy's childhood pictures is too dark and not of good quality. She has taken new pictures that look better now which I can use as filler shots in the first scene. This makes the audience connect with the character more as we are learning about her past and childhood.

Final Blog Health Check - Daniel

"48 posts at final health check.  Daniel - I'm a bit disappointed with your blog here as you've made little improvement since health check 2 and you don't seem to have taken on board my feedback from health check 2.  You've produced barely any individual posts since the last time and are under the minimum blog count.  You have until Friday to sort this out otherwise you will get a low grade and this would be a huge shame.  

So, to get this sorted out you need to do the following before Friday:

- Create INDIVIDUAL blog posts for your contribution to the editing process.  Take screen shots of the editing process and post them along with your own feedback on your contribution.

- Post an INDIVIDUAL blog where you reflect on the feedback that Dan gave you on the rough cut.  

You really need to do this as you should be going into the exam with a good grade behind you - remember that this is 50% of your whole AS mark.  you can do it but you'll need to make time to do it."

Planning for refilming nerd's scenes

Since there is a continuity error where the nerd and rebel bump into each other, we have decided to film more scenes of the nerd to fix this and to introduce his character more. We will ensure he has the same props and outfit and that we get plenty of close up shots. 

Editing - Daniel

As I was editing I noticed that the transitions from one character to the other are too sudden and don't flow. As a result I have decided to go out and film some filler shots in order to act as a motivational shot, as each character is going to eventually arrive at the college so I thought shots of the college would be suitable. They also clearly mark the end of one scene and start the introduction of the following character.

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. 

Editing - Daniel

After editing together the parts with Amy and others running to the college, Dan pointed out that it does not really make sense as only Amy arrives at the college even though the nerd and the rebel were present in the previous shots. in order to counter this I decided to re-film Amy's scenes without including the other characters, therefore their disappearance can be explained as they are at different parts in their journey to college.