Final Product

Final Film Opening Scene

Evalaution-Question 5

How successful is your product?

Focus group:

I chose to do a focus group because this is the best way to get audience feedback, comparing this focus group to the one we did before we started filming has shown we have accomplish most of our targets, one of the key challenges was staying true to the convention and this showed through our fight scene, throughout the product it is obvious that we had unprofessional actors and this is due to the product being an am mature film.


There are a lot of positives from our final product which show well throughout the film opening, for example the pace of our product fit in well with the actions within our final product.

Evaluation-Question 4

How did you integrate technologies- software,hardware and online-in this project?

Evaluation-Question 3

How did your production skills improve throughout this project?

Editing and Camera technique:

Preliminary task 

This was our opening shot for our preliminary task, this shot was a semi long shot, the focus on this shot is poor and this shows very basic camera skills.








This is a very basic shot, the pillar appears to be an obstacle within the video. the shot is out of focus and blurry, however this is a decent long shot and establishing shot. this was a pan tracking shot.keeps the audiences focus on the main character.

This shot is needs colour correction as it appears to be too over exposed.the audience isn't sure on who to focus on as the two subjects of the shot are out of frame 

This shot shows a well executed over the shoulder shot,due to it being an over the shoulder shot it then makes it impossible to show a reaction shot.other limitation of this angle is  only one subject is in frame of the shot.

Final Product

In the first few seconds of the film, we have brought up our production company which we have made ourselves, we made the logo and the name on photoshop,typically this is a good shot because it shows all focus on the subject of which it intends to.

This shot shows the growth we have made throughout the production because in our preliminary task we had out of focus shots and the subjects were out of frame whereas in this shot there is a perfect centre on all 3 subjects.

This shot shows a good use of an over the shoulder shot. the lighting and contrast of this shot is perfect and this intrigues the audience to know whats in the bag.

This shot shows a perfect establishing shot which we have managed to significantly improve on compared to our preliminary task, the subject is in frame and the lighting is good.

This shot shows all subjects in frame and the positioning and angle of each subject helps intrigue the audience more, we have improved with the use of multiple subjects in one shot and being in frame.

This is one of the final shots of the scene, this is a very good use of long shot, we can see the second subject in the distance and this technique has been improved massively throughout this project.

Time Management 

When it came to the production, we had a minor issue with time management due to filming time fitting everyone involved, however we resolved this issue by making our production schedule more flexible for example on some days we didn't need all actors present or we'd only film a couple of hours one day and the next day we'd film till sundown to make up for the time missed.

Editing

personally i have found my editing skills to have improved massively, for example my first time using final cut pro was during this start of this project and throughout question 1& 4 of this evaluation i have used skills such as voiceovers, muting the background sound, editing two finished piece together and cuts between scenes which i have learnt only throughout this project.

Evaluation- Question 2

How does your product engage the audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

Evaluation- Question 1

How Does Your Product Use Or Challenge Conventions And How Does It Represent Social Groups Or Issues?

Plan- Question 5

How successful is your product?

we will be using a repeated measure by using a focus group and we will also create another questionnaire to have audience feedback which will also be discussed in this section of the evaluation 

for example;

Plan- Question 4

How did you integrate technologies- software,hardware and online-in this project?

we will be doing a share screen to show the difference platforms we used and how we used it.


for example;

Plan- Question 3

How did your production skills improve throughout this project?

to answer this question, i will be using side by side photos from our preliminary task and our final product and adding annotations to them, this will show our improvements and our newly learnt skills

 For example;

Plan- Question 2

How does your product engage the audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

we will be using a prezie presentation to ask this question, although my group is using the same platform to answer questions we will all have individual prezie presentations and evaluations

For example;

Plan- Question 1

How Does Your Product Use Or Challenge Conventions And How Does It Represent Social Groups Or Issues?

to answer this question we will be using a video of ourselves, we will each film each other answering and upload it to our separate blogs. this will be done by using a split screen of ourselves and the opening playing.


For example;

Location Change

As a group we decided to change the location from an abandoned school to an abandoned warehouse due to the original location being under construction and therefore unavailable.

The warehouse s a very good alternative for the drug deal because it is broken down which allows space and freedom.

In the warehouse we can easily bring in effects like breaking walls due to how fragile they are therefore does not put anyone participating in our opening in danger.
This location provides for wide scales shots,for example our chase scene.there are also many windows and walls to jumper over and etc  which are covered with sand without rocks so if someone where to fall the sand would stop any injuries from happening. 

Because this is only an opening scene we had a pre brown through window to ensure no harm came to our actor.

Final Story board

AJA: Research Mark

Maya Talaat

AO4: Undertake and apply appropriate research

Level 5	16–20	A	The ability to undertake and apply appropriate research is excellent, as evidenced in detail on the blog with relevant examples of film or magazine production elements. The finished product also demonstrates the effectiveness of this research. Research informs the creative critical reflection to a high degree.
Level 4	12–15	B	The ability to undertake and apply appropriate research is competent, as evidenced on the blog with relevant examples of film or magazine production elements. The finished product also demonstrates evidence of this research. Research informs the creative critical reflection to a good degree.
Level 3	8–11	C	The ability to undertake and apply appropriate research is apparent at a satisfactory level, as evidenced on the blog with some examples of film or magazine production elements. The finished product also demonstrates some evidence of this research. Research will inform the creative critical reflection to some degree.
Level 2	4–7	D	The ability to undertake and apply appropriate research is apparent at a limited level, as evidenced on the blog, with limited examples of film or magazine production elements. The finished product also demonstrates limited evidence of this research. Research informs the creative critical reflection to a limited degree.
Level 1	1-3	E	The ability to undertake and apply appropriate research is apparent at a minimal level, as evidenced on the blog with examples of film or magazine production elements barely apparent. The finished product also demonstrates minimal evidence of this research. Research informs the creative critical reflection to a minimal degree.
Level 0	0	U	There is no evidence of ability to undertake and apply appropriate research.

Targets

1. Complete following tasks: Conventions of film openings, Editing analysis, Narrative analysis, Storyboard, test shots  
2. Production schedule – change to future tense and put in table
3. Shot list – add more shots and insert into table
4. BBFC Rating – add more detail – why did you choose this rating?
5. Title analysis – add detail to analysis and post your own film title, explaining your choices (font style colour etc).
6. Opening credits analysis – add analysis (see Kamini blog example) and edit images into a storyboard
7. Gender representation – link to your own product – will you follow conventional gender representation?
8. Narrative analysis – apply Todorov’s equilibrium theory to a film opening and then link to your own product – will you follow the narrative equilibrium theory?
9. Location planning – add more locations and explain choices in more detail
10. Soundtrack analysis – embed the opening you analysed and put analysis in a table
11. Costume/props planning – add more detail
12. Production title logo – explain choices
13. Audience profile – add more detail – age, gender, interests, etc. Also discuss how you intend to appeal to this audience.  Use an images/video to show typical target audience member and similar products they would be interested in.  
14. Focus group video – draw more detailed conclusions from responses – which ideas are you going to use in your own product and why?
15. Analysis of film openings – add more detail to analysis
16. PROOF READ AND CORRECT ALL POSTS – spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitals etc

DEADLINE: January 15 2015