Evaluation - Question 1

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

Below is a powerpoint I created about the conventions we used throughout our thrller opening. I then uploaded this powerpoint onto slideshare. This is shown below; 

Evaluation question 1

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Finishing and uploading

Once we had finished our thriller we asked some class members to watch it and then later on put t on youtube. However, when we uploaded our video we noticed a glitch in it which must have occurred whilst uploading it to youtube. We will double check this in the lesson tomorrow and see if it can be fixed. Now the film is finished, I can now start the final evaluation of the project.   

Analysis of finished Thriller Opening

Today we finished our editing, we are extremely happy with this! We believe our editing has gone well and that our film is of a high standard finally. Looking over the aspects needed to be included in the thriller, we believe we have used all of them including;

- Using a variety of shot distances
- Using a variety of shot transitions and captions
- Holding a steady shot
- Framing a shot
- shooting appropriate material
- Using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task
- Selecting mise en scene, including colour, figures, lighting, objects and
  setting
- Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer.   

Furthermore, in order to make our thriller look more realistic, rather then using our name repetetively we dicedided to make up some names. We believe this makes it look more proffesional as there are more names of people who do not yet occur in the film, showing they may be coming into the film later on or are an important aspect of the thriller.  

Final tweeks to the film

Today we focused on tweeking the film in order to try and make it look as though it flows more naturally and improve the continuity. We made sure all the shots ran smoothly by ading fade in and fade outs and also dissolves (shown below). This enables the picture and music to gradually change rather than changing too abrubtly. We also cut some bits out in which we had before hand decided to put in, this was in order to make the film shorter and to add credits inbetween where appropriate. We believe this worked effectively and were happy with the final outcome. Moreover, some pieces of music in the film increased in volume far too much. Therefore, in order to decrease the sound but still have it louder than the piece before hand we used a tool on final cut express. This enabled us to place dots on the pink sound bar, as shown below, and drag them either up or down to increase or decrease the sound where appropriate.   

Dissolve;

Credits;

Final cut express;



finished product of our ident

Today in lesson, whilst Connor was fine tuning the lasts bit of the thriller opening, me and Sarah completed the ident! We are quite happy with the final outcome of the ident and believe the music in which we made using garage band goes well with it. Our completed ident is shown below;

Adding the music

Today in class me and Sarah edited the last section of our film, we completed this whilst Connor made the credits to the thriller. This way we were able to get more completed in a shorter time. Furthermore, after school Connor and Sarah finished the editing and added the music to the film. I have listened to the film, and believe the music goes well with the thriller, I am happy with the outcome they have acheived.  

Plans for today

Today me, Connor and Sarah plan to spend the majority of the day editing all of our footage. We have edited quite a bit already, however still need to creat the credits and put the music over the top as well as finish editing. we plan to spend from around 9:00 - 10:35 in the computer rooms editing and between 3:00 - 5:00. We believe that this will be a sufficient ammount of time to complete a lot of the editing needed.