Link to Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6BJ_3TlrIs&feature=channel_video_title

Evaluation Question 7.

Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to your full product?

Looking back at the preliminary task for the first time, i realised that there was very minimum effects, transitions and camera shots. There wasn't much effort been put into it at all. So i decided that for my real media product it would most certainly be the best to add more things to it, to give it the hope and thrill i was expecting for my product. The idea of the preliminary shot was to get used of using the differant effects, especially shot reverse shot. I did not feel as i had done my best in this exersize, so i decided that i want to use most camera techniques such as; Shot reverse Shot, close up, mid shot, long shot, over head shot, over shoulder shot and panning, this giving my movie more realistic shots and feel to it, and prevent it from being boring.

The preliminary shots that were taken, were okay, however there were a few that needed retaking, a few times the camera was being hand held and not on a tripod, therefore the footage became alittle shake, meaning i knew when it came to the real filming, that i need to take every shot atleast three times, this giving me atleast three options to choose from.

In the second half of the lesson i also had a play around on Adobe Premier Pro. Just by watching the Priliminary video, you can see that it was the simple basic editing techniques that i had looked at, therefore i gave myself extra lessons using the programme so i could improve on my final product.

Editing.

I used a few editing tools such as;

.Cutting

.Cross fade

.Dip to Black.

As you can see i only used a few tools in the lesson provided, however i now knew where to find the tools when i needed them, i figured out how to add them onto my timeline (along side of the videos that i put on the timeline). At the time tho i still did not know how to change the colour or use any of the sounds and lighting effects that are provided with the programme, however the extra lessons that I had aloud me to learn how to use them. 

I believe that if it wasn't for the Peliminary exercise i would not have been as confident starting the editing for my movie opening. I have learnt a lot more since the first exercise and a lot more of the editing techniques as you can see by watching my movie.

Evaluation Question 6

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

I already had experience with working with a Digital Video Camera, therefore there was not much for me to learn, however, i have learnt a lot of of new techniques that i can use whilst filming. There are buttons on my DV Camcorder which were not on the camcorder that i got provided with, for this reason the DV camcorder which i used was more 'basic', making it easy to use. To make sure i was as confident as i feel when recording, we did the preliminary shooting to play around with the many effects.


I have never used a Tripod before, so when provided with the tripod, i found it fun and interesting to use. I had to be shown how to safley place and remove the camcorder from the tripod, but once shown it was simple.


I learnt how to connect the DVC to the computer and import my footage onto the programme, 'Adobe Premier Pro'. 


I have never used Adobe Premier Pro software before, so learning to use it for me was a challenge.  Learning how to add effects and transitions to begin with was quite difficult, but with plenty of use, it soon became very simple.

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Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address you audience?

To publicise my video i
posted it online. I used 'Youtube'
 and 'Facebook'. As i believed that my target audience was
 the younger generation,ie;
Teenagers, i thought it
 would be best to
upload my video to facebook
which includes all my high school and sixth form class 
friends, aged between 15 - 19 years. I also 
have adults, this will also tell me whether my movie attracts the older gerneration too.   

 By putting my media product on these social networking sites, it allows me to get realistic and pure feedback for my video. This giving me the opotunity to realise the things that need redoing and the mistakes i have made in my video therefore overal giving me tips of improvement.

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

I would suggest teenagers to be my main target audience for my media product. This due to many reasons. To start, the characters in my movie are aged 18 - 19years, and my actors who i casted are aged 16-18years. This for one draws my media product to the younger generation.

This is Rhiannon. Rhiannon loves going out and enjoying lots of time with her friends, she loves settling down with chocolate and ice scream to watch a good movie. She enjoys days out shopping in shops such as; Miss selfridge, River Island, Top Shop and Next. She enjoys spending quality time with her sister and having fun nights at ice skating and the cinema. She studies A Levels in Performing Arts, French and Law. This just proves that no matter how hard she loves to get down and study, she also loves a bit of fun.  She loves settling down to a good movie on movie night with her friends. Rhiannon enjoys movies such as comedy, Rom coms and entertainment, however she is also known to sit down to scary movies such a, Orphan, IT and The Shining. She loves to also watch soap Operas and other programmes that are brocasted on television. Programmes such as Emmerdale, Eastenders, Glee, Scoobie Doo, Hollyoaks, Friends, My Wife and Kids and Fresh Prince Of Bel air. So as you can see she is no stranger to a mixed variety of genres.

This is Ben, he loves Performing arts and spending time to the people closest to him. He loves to sit and watch movies, play Bowling and perform on stage, Ben loves accents, mainly french, and loves competing with his friends. He again is no stranger to sitting down and watching horror Movies and Entertainment on the television.

I believe my movie will appeal to someone like Rhiannon and Ben as it has a mixed amount of nature to it, and always gives you mixed emotions. Rhiannon loves to sit down to Rom Coms, this is a good thing as my movie does at times concentrate on the love for his long lost love. She also is no stranger to horrors, the horrors listed are deffinatly hgih at the top, therefore i hope for the best for my movie and i believe that she would love to watch a movie such as mine as it seems as it will appeal to her. My movie will give her the thrill and excitment she will love.

Evaluation Question.3

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

Looking at my movie and the effects that have been used, and the camera work, i would most defianatly say it will not be hollywood. It will be a company who takes on low budgit movies such as mine. Altho a media institution such as 20th century Fox have lots of Horror big budgit films, i still dont believe mine will fit into that catagory, as the effects and acting used in my movie it not to that of a high standard, also my movie may not be taken by a world wide company such as Universal, therefore having to say that my movie will have to be taken on by a low budgit institution. Miramax is the sort of institution which distributes products such as teen horrors, therefore mine will fit into this catagory.


      

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My movie has actors between the ages of 16years - 18 years, which is good as i casted them as 18years - 19years. When thinking back, i believe that the plot of murder is most common in the adult community and audience, so if i was to change this it would be the age of the actors i cast. However it may also work, this due to the fact of the numbness of teenages, how they dont think things through, how they try to take things into thier own hands. This goes well with the plot.

I changed my movie alittle bit, it starts by showing the surrounding and the set where the murder taken place, the first character i show, is the male, who is stuck between his murdered girlfriend and a unruley revenged ex partner. Normally we see the vulnerable woman who is the focus of the movie. I used the opposite convertion to this for alittle twist to the movie, and showing that men should not be too steriotyped, along side of woman.