Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the in the progression from it to the full product?
Its been a massive learning curve for the whole group, we have been able to learn more from each stage of the production of the final piece. Even when we were not shooting any thing but in editing we were still picking up on things would could improve on.
From the preliminary task we learnt that having no dialogue may be the best thing to do, as sound plays a big part in any production and equipment to make the speech of the characters much more crisp was not readily available. We learnt how hard it is for real film producers to overcome the hurdle of sound, we tried to use dialogue but background noise proved to be a nuisance. Due to this we decided to take a different route and shoot a silent movie, this opened many more ideas to add to our production as it forced us to be a bit more creative as there will be no dialogue nor background sounds, just non-digetic sound of the music for that scene.
When it came to set for the preliminary task we used a classroom and some corridors, we felt this was a bit too simplistic and did not give much of a story. We saw from the preliminary task that scenes where the character is walking it was a lengthy amount of time before something happened, we wanted to keep the audience engaged throughout the production so from the preliminary task we understood that it would be much more engaging if scenes with walking should be cut down. We understood how difficult it is for real film producers to keep the audience engaged while the character is getting from one scene to another. So from the preliminary task we were able to learn how to keep the audience engaged the character is making a transition to another scene.
We also learnt that time is also a detrimental factor that was always looming over our heads, from the preliminary task it was very hard to shoot as when we began to shoot either other students will walk through the corridor or the school bell would ring. We learnt to allocate time slots during the school day when it would be best to film, this step proved to be very effective as we were able to shoot without much disturbance but we also learned to work efficiently within the time slots we had. We now have a better understanding film producers and time, in the world of film time is money and this is how they are able to work so effectively in the time they have, although there was no money involved we had to embody this type of work ethic to work fast and effectively yet producing a quality of film we were satisfied with.
05/05/2012
02/05/2012
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
We have learnt that technology is constantly advancing, much more advanced equipment is making production of films even more entertaining to audiences. We found out that once you have shot a scene, there are a number of things that can be done to it in order to achieve a certain effect or create a particular mood for that scene, from colour grading to sound dubbing. Editing was done on imovie this software became the core in constructing our media product, snipping selected scenes and adding sound can be done here. It soon became apparent to us that other editing software other than imovie can be used to create an altogether much more engaging production, imovie seemed to be basic for editing and much more advanced software is out there that if used correctly can make an impressive production.
We have learnt that technology is constantly advancing, much more advanced equipment is making production of films even more entertaining to audiences. We found out that once you have shot a scene, there are a number of things that can be done to it in order to achieve a certain effect or create a particular mood for that scene, from colour grading to sound dubbing. Editing was done on imovie this software became the core in constructing our media product, snipping selected scenes and adding sound can be done here. It soon became apparent to us that other editing software other than imovie can be used to create an altogether much more engaging production, imovie seemed to be basic for editing and much more advanced software is out there that if used correctly can make an impressive production.
01/05/2012
Evaluation Question 5
How did you attract/address your audience?
We did some research and created questionnaires for students in our school to see what genre they most preferred to watch. When we obtained our results, most teenagers preferred the horror genre so we wanted to base our film on horror with the odd element of mystery to engage this audience so they are still interested in the film. We attracted our audience by also asking a couple of six formers to preview our clip and then tell us their feedback and also to ask their own friends to view it. We got positive feedback as all the students enjoyed the opening of the movie and they wanted to find out what was going to happen further on in the movie. We also attracted our audience by implementing sixth formers into our opening piece such as Femi. This is most likely to attract audiences in our school because sixth formers will know him therefore they will want to watch the film to see his role in this production, this is also the same for the other characters in our film also.
We then posted it up on one of our members facebook (Vivian) to see if any of our friends of our age would watch it and to determine whether we had successfully reached our target audience effectively
We did some research and created questionnaires for students in our school to see what genre they most preferred to watch. When we obtained our results, most teenagers preferred the horror genre so we wanted to base our film on horror with the odd element of mystery to engage this audience so they are still interested in the film. We attracted our audience by also asking a couple of six formers to preview our clip and then tell us their feedback and also to ask their own friends to view it. We got positive feedback as all the students enjoyed the opening of the movie and they wanted to find out what was going to happen further on in the movie. We also attracted our audience by implementing sixth formers into our opening piece such as Femi. This is most likely to attract audiences in our school because sixth formers will know him therefore they will want to watch the film to see his role in this production, this is also the same for the other characters in our film also.
We then posted it up on one of our members facebook (Vivian) to see if any of our friends of our age would watch it and to determine whether we had successfully reached our target audience effectively
Evaluation Question 4
Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for our media product will most likely to be the 16-24 year olds. The reason for this is because of several factors. Firstly due to the nature that our film is located in a school, it means its based on school life which will definantly targets this audience because they are still in education either in university, secondary school or college. Another reason why this media product targets this audience is because all of the characters within the film are within the range of 16-18 years of age; moreover this reinforces why are media product aims at this audience because they are the audience that are most likely to understand the characters in our media product. The reason we didn't target younger audiences like the 8-12 year olds is because this film is a horror film, because of this younger audiences will not favour this type of film as they are more interested in action films than horror films so they wouldn't be the ideal audience to target. Older audiences such as the 30 + bracket will not be an ideal audience to target either because the films characters are very young and its based on school life. Older audiences wouldn't be able to understand as properly as other audiences as school life has changed from when they where init, which gives our group even more incentive to target the 16-24 year olds.
The audience for our media product will most likely to be the 16-24 year olds. The reason for this is because of several factors. Firstly due to the nature that our film is located in a school, it means its based on school life which will definantly targets this audience because they are still in education either in university, secondary school or college. Another reason why this media product targets this audience is because all of the characters within the film are within the range of 16-18 years of age; moreover this reinforces why are media product aims at this audience because they are the audience that are most likely to understand the characters in our media product. The reason we didn't target younger audiences like the 8-12 year olds is because this film is a horror film, because of this younger audiences will not favour this type of film as they are more interested in action films than horror films so they wouldn't be the ideal audience to target. Older audiences such as the 30 + bracket will not be an ideal audience to target either because the films characters are very young and its based on school life. Older audiences wouldn't be able to understand as properly as other audiences as school life has changed from when they where init, which gives our group even more incentive to target the 16-24 year olds.
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