Evaluation

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Question 6-What have you  learnt about technologies from the processof constructing the product?


Question 7

Planning and shooting comparison

My planning and preparation has improved greatly from my preliminary task to the film opening. When planning our prelim task, I only made 1 story board and did not sort out the shot list prior to shooting. This caused some confusion with what sequences we had recorded and what ones we hadn’t which meant that a lot of time went to waste and we ended up not having enough time to edit the footage to a good quality. Another issue that we had because we didn’t plan our shots was that we had to go back and film more shots on multiple days because as we were reviewing the footage after each day we found that certain, important shots had been missed. It was very time-consuming to keep going out and recording when he should have been editing the clips.

The shooting quality of my work has improved a lot as well. I have learnt to properly handle the camera equipment. The tripod that I had was hard to use at first but once I had practiced a couple of times, I worked out how to properly use the angles and different height adjustors. My handheld camera work also improved a lot. Prior to shooting the preliminary task, my camerawork was always shaky and lost focus frequently, but after shooting a couple of scenes multiple times, I managed to understand how to handle the camera so that the quality of footage was much higher.

Editing progression

Before starting media, I did not know how to use Premier Pro at all. My knowledge of editing only extended to windows movie maker, and even that was basic. After a few practice edits using random clips, my skills using the program developed substantially and my interest in editing grew. I discovered how to implement audio and visual effects into a clip and how to add text, which helped me to add the titles we needed in our film opening.

Problems, Weaknesses and Strengths

Problems that I encountered with my prelim task was the lighting and audio were very difficult to match up. The lighting on the day that we filmed was constantly changing as it was cloudy intervals, and the locations at which we filmed were either outside near a busy road or inside where the sound echoed a lot. This resulted in the quality of footage being lower than we had intended and I had to edit some properties in post-production to combat these negative effects.

Strengths of our task was that we included many different camera angles and shots in the film. This added individuality and a uniqueness to our film as other preliminary tasks did not have as many creative shots in them. The effects that I used over the footage when editing was also a strength because it allowed us to show the past without spending huge amounts to money. The locations at which we shot helped us greatly as many of the other groups only shot in one location, whereas we used a church graveyard in our preliminary task.

Production Diary

Production Diary:

11/11/16: In our first day our planning our film opening we were put into groups of 3, our group consisted of Jordan Carter, Harry Foord and Jess Prentice. In these groups we had to come up and brainstorm a few strong ideas for film genres and plots, in which we would eventually choose our strongest genre depending on feedback and availability. Today we came up with three main genres, these were; action/comedy, mockumentary and crime thriller. We now need to further develop these ideas and produce a pitch to receive constructive feedback.

14/11/16: After deciding on three genres today we were given the task of developing these ideas and producing a film pitch of our main ideas to the other class groups. As a group we assigned each individual with a task to complete a selected amount of PowerPoint slides on genre related topic (props, plot and practicalities). The next step for our group is now to present our film pitch.

15/11/16: After creating our PowerPoint we as a group presented our film pitch to the class groups, this allowed us to receive feedback on our strongest idea. With this we were then able to go and produce and develop a main genre idea, as well as this we blogged our feedback and gave an evaluation of what we can improve following our feedback. We now need to produce a storyboard, shot diary and shooting schedule for our final film opening idea.

17/11/16:  Today's lesson consisted of each individual in the group creating either a shot diary, story board or a shooting schedule. Following our decided plot, we created a story board for each shot with a brief description, shooting schedule of the shot type, time and setting and finally a shot diary of the order of shots. We now need to produce a talking story board and plan when we will be filming our final film opening.

21/11/16:  Following the final stages of planning, today we are completing any fine details in planning before we begin filming. This included producing an audio guide of our story board and beginning our script and final research.

22/11/16:  Today we were researching our film openings backing music, finishing our script and researching out title font. To do this we each produced a word document on our research and took a vote in order to get the final outcome of the title font and music.

23/11/16: We then begun filming our film opening, we done this by as a group going to our final settings and filming the final shots for our opening. This was done at our second location (HSBC Chelmsford city centre), We filmed these shots in the afternoon to get the effect of time passing through out our opening.

25/11/16:  Today we uploaded our finishing shots and began to sequence them together as well as cutting and editing the footage we had. As well as this we continued to add music research in order to find the best suited music to our genre.

27/11/16:  We then continued to complete filming, for this we went to our second location (green close). These shots we took were to complete any retakes or opening shots in our film opening.

28/11/16:  After getting all our rough film footage we now uploaded our new shots to our existing footage, before sequencing and editing the timings and duration of each shot. We also begun our institution research.

29/11/16: We then continued to edit our footage as well as changing some sequences and the variety of shots we were including. Also whilst Harry and Jess were editing Jordan continued to do music research and develop our institution choice.

30/11/16:  Now we have got our sequencing complete we began adding our credit titles to each individual shot, we have also started to add transitions to each title. As well as this Jordan begun our representation and completed our institutions research.

01/12/16: Today we continued to edit our credit titles into our film footage. However, Jordan continued to complete any outstanding paperwork, this included our representation PowerPoint and beginning to find and location shots.

05/12/16:  Today we gave each individual group member an individual task. Jordan's task was to produce a presentation of our location shots and a brief description of what they included, Jess was completing any editing that was outstanding and Harry was producing a film poster using Photoshop.

06/12/16:  Today we were giving feedback on each individual film opening draft, we gave our feedback individually, this was done in categories of positives, negatives and what we would change.

08/12/16: Today we were given the tasks of each individual producing an analysis of a similar film poster, we also continued to edit our film opening.

09/12/16: Today we were continuing to edit our film opening towards our final version, as well as this we each continued to update and catch up on any paper work for our film opening.  

12/12/16:  Today our group worked together to analyse and continue editing our film opening, we also assigned each group member to complete any blogging or genre research that was incomplete.

13/12/16: Following from our last group meeting, we continued today to assign each individual task to complete any further research in which we needed in order to improve our film opening, this included any audience or genre research and planning.

14/12/16: In order to meet our film opening deadline we received feedback on on our film opening and went back to editing the order and timings of each title. With this we completed our film opening research, this included further title sequence research from a suitable genre film.

15/12/16:  Our group today worked together to process any thoughts we had about our film opening, following this we applied our ideas into editing our final film opening.

16/12/16: With today being our film opening deadline, we worked as a group to get any negatives into positives, this included any sequencing or final titles needed.

19/12/16: Following our deadline our group was working to complete and incomplete blogging our film opening paper work in order to meet our blogging deadline.

20/12/16: Today consisted of our group updating any research/planning that was outstanding for our film opening. We also uploaded our final film opening to YouTube.

21/12/16: Today we continued to complete any planning/research for our film opening, this included any script or genre research. We also each individually continued to update our blog.

Film opening- final draft

Below is my groups final draft for our Action/Comedy film opening.

Script

The script for our film opening consists of short sentences and all dialogue is kept to a minimum. This is to draw the attention away from the action occurring in the sequence.For example, we only have 2 scenes that contain dialogue between characters, which are when packing the van and when riding inside the van. It clearly shows who is the boss of the operation and allows each character's personalities to shine through.

Scene 1
Jess: We leave in five, pack what you need.
Harry: Alright boss.
Jordan: Gang gang

Scene 2-In the van
Harry: Oh yeah guys, I've got this as well.
Jess and Jordan: WOAH!
Jess: Put it down, Jesus!
Harry: ...Sorry

(Jordan's phone rings)

Harry: For fuck sake!
Jordan: Mum! I told you, don't ring me when I'm with my friends...(Hangs up) Sorry about that guys.

Scene 3-Outside the bank
Harry: (Goes to open the bank door, finds out it is locked) Shit.

Genre research

Today we were doing further research into what our genre and film plot usually includes.

A heist film usually consists of 3 acts, which include; a briefing of preparation and planning, the heist itself and finally the outcome of the heist. Due to this we are including clear but brief reflections of each act within our film opening to maximise the clarity of our genre.

Also, a heist film includes characters with a clear identity, this can be down to their personality costume or skill.

Finally, a heist film will usually include a mode of transport to and from the location of the heist, props such as guns and robbery tools. Throughout a heist fil there is a clear reflection o the characters living outside the law.

We ensured that we had included the comedy aspect of our film opening by adding clear flaws to the planning scenes, the randomness of the props and skill level difference. In order the effectively do this we analysed films such as “Central Intelligence” and “21/22 Jump Street”.

Marketing planning

Here are different types of marketing that we will use to promote our film. We will have both physical and digital avertising to appeal to a wide range of teenagers. The first type of marketing we will implement is the use of billboards and advertising on buses. This allows the posterto be seen by a large amount of people in urban areas. The other mehtod we will use is to create a website, which appeals to a younger, more tech-savvy audience.

Link to the website

BBFC 15

Above is the criteria for a film to be classed as a BBFC 15 film.