Main task

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUaFFZRTOZ4

(16/3/16) This is our finished, edited, main task.

Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at my preliminary task I feel I have gained a lot more knowledge from then until now.



Our preliminary task challenged continuity, the 180 degree rule and match on action. Having the chance to explore different ways in which I can use those conventions meant that my main task was more professional, looked better and also saved some time.





In the preliminary task I also got to use the editing software for the first time, being able to understand that meant that it saved a lot of time when editing the main task and also made everything run smoother.





For the main task I had more knowledge, I knew that I had to focus on everything that was in the camera shot, not just the main characters or objects.

The preliminary task also gave me the chance to experiment with different camera shots and angles, which gave me knowledge on what were the better shots and angles to use.

Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

This is my Evaluation Question 6, what I have learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product.

Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

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This is my Evaluation Question 5. The link shows my powerpoint answering how I attracted/addressed my audience.

Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

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This is my Evaluation Question 4. The link will show you my powerpoint answering who the audience of my media product would be.

Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

This is my Evaluation Question 3. What kind of institution might distribute my media product and why.

Q2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This is my Evaluation Question 2. How does my media product represent particular social groups. 

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

This is my Evaluation Question 1. Here we discuss the ways or media product uses, develops and challenges forms and conventions of real media products.

Finished production - DOWNFALL

(4/3/16) Today we finished our main task, DOWNFALL. Adding in all the sound effects. We will now progress onto analysing our main task. I will answer the 7 questions with the right technique to try and get as higher marks as possible.

Final Production - DOWNFALL

(3/3/16) In todays lesson we edited more of our final product, Downfall. When we finish editing we will move on to analyse our main task. I will need to understand the 7 questions we have been given to answer. Those 7 questions are:


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


2. How does your media project represent particular social groups?


3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media project and why?


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


5. How did you attract/address your audience?


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


7. Looking back at your planning task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final production? 

Editing & finishing main task

(25/2/16) In today's lessons we imported all of our filming clips onto the computer. We then chose the best clips and started editing them. Once we had edited them we removed all unwanted sound and placed the soundtracks that we wanted onto it. We then added our title sequence to our main task. This resulted in our finished main task, called Downfall.

Story board adjustments

 

This is our adjusted storyboard. We have added in new clips/pictures and taken away anything to do with the main character being a secret agent and changed to the police man idea. We've kept the car scene and the bedroom scene but changed the ending to the video.   

Change of Main task

For our main task we have made a change as to what our film is going to be about. We have changed the idea about the main character being a secret agent into the main character being a police officer who is highly ranked within the police force, kind off an investigator. And rather than the secret agent being followed we have made it so that the police man has the criminals surrounded by a swat team and he is shocked by who the criminals are.

Planning

(21/1/16) In today's lesson we planned out the dates for when our production will take place. We then re-modelled our story to change it into a police film rather than an agent film. We re-wrote our storyboard with the adjustments we had made to our film, and to the ending to the film.

Title sequence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCRhw_gvlZ0&feature=youtu.be

This is my title sequence that I will use for my main task, my opening sequence for a film.

Pitch Productiong

(3/12/15) In today's lesson we all presented our pitches about our opening sequence to a film. Our film is a spy, intelligence, action, thriller styled film. It is about the British intelligence at war with foreign excellences. Our opening scene will see a British agent getting ready & then proceeding to see and spy on 2 foreign agents. He is then seen and followed. The screen goes black and a gun shot is heard, this is when the title to the film will appear. We got asked the questions of who will be the actors and what locations will we use. We will think about the best answers to these questions.

Foundation portfolio - Main task brief

(17/11/15). Our task is to film the opening sequence of a new fiction film, including titles and soundtrack to last approximately 2 minutes. The first thing is that it needs to get people intrigued so that they'll want to watch the rest of the film. The beginning of the film always sets the scene so we'll need to give a fair reflection what is to come in the film. The music should only be non-copyright music. We should use many different sounds throughout the video, not just 1 track over the whole thing. We need to learn how to merge tracks together to add sound effects. Research many different costumes and props that would be of use. The film is fiction so therefore it doesn't have to be real, it can be anything we want. Although the video is very short it needs to be very significant so that people watch more. And the video should probably be left on a cliff hanger because this'll entice people into watching on.

Short films & pitching

(12/11/15) Today we watched a presentation from year 13 student Emma. The presentation was on short films and pitching your ideas. We had to think of a film and pitched it to the class to see how quickly they could guess it. A short film is usually 5-10 minutes and has a clear story that you can follow easily.

Presentation

(9/11/15) Today we presented our video clips with editing terminology to the class. My presentation was on a hustle video clip showing Ash performing a scam. I feel my presentation went well and that I talked about everything that was in the clip.

Editing

(4/11/15) In today's lesson we started editing our preliminary task. We got all of the video clips onto our computer and then put them onto Movie Plus. Tomorrow we will proceed to finish the editing and post our task to our blogs