Evaluation Question #7

Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that 

you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Question #6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of 

constructing the product?

Final Cut Express | Create Infographics

DSLR | Create Infographics

BLOGGER | Create Infographics

Evaluation Question #5

How did you attract/address your audience?

I found it easier to address my audience by putting them in front of the final product. In this case i decided to ask my brother and sister-in-law to be in this reaction video. At the end questions were asked to see what they truly felt of the final product. It shows enjoyed it and are willing to watch a full feature film based on it. But the reason i choose them its because they fell perfectly in the target audience for this specific film. They are in their mid 20's which is the right age for this film. The opening sequence is sophisticated and was the typical style they witnessed while growing up. Due to this it made them the perfect candidates that would tend to enjoy such a film that had a slight edge of their times. Even so it was said my brother that 'I have not seen something like this in a long time', which shows they are quite eager to see this style of film.

Evaluation Question #4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Question #3

What kind of media institution might distribute your 

media product and why?

Evaluation Question #2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Question #1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or 

challenge form and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Planning

1.  In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge form and conventions of real media products.

For the first question i plan to use the 9 key frame analysis. Reason being to use this is because it breaks up the film in 9 individual frame and allows me to go in depth with each one. As well as showing my analytical skills, it displays the main parts of the opening sequence and show's the emphasis it has with forms and conventions.

2.  How does your media product represent particular social groups.

For the second question i plan to use a website called www.powtoon.com I find this website to be very professional and interactive. 

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

To answer this question i have decided to make a vlog, other wise known as a video blog.

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

To answer this question i have decided to use Voki. I like using this software because it is quite a different style. With it we can see a basic outline of what the character may look like. 

5.  How did you attract/address your audience.

To tackle this question i have decided to make a reaction video. The way i would do this is i will place some of my desired target audience in front of a camera and show them the opening title sequence. Then i will edit this as Picture In Picture (PIP) to show the reaction and the opening title sequence playing at the same time. This gives a nice effect and show's how my target audience actually feel about the opening title sequence.

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

For this question i plan to use the website http://infogr.am/ to create an infographic. Reason for this is because it allows my work to look more creative and overall making it aesthetically pleasing.

7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product.

Personally i feel this may be the strongest question in the whole evaluation set of questions. So for this it occurs to me that i may have to do something special as it may be the last question i answer. The way i would answer this would be set up as a fake interview. I would play both roles one as the interviewer and the other as my self. A few questions will be asked in regards to the preliminary and opening sequence and seeing how far i have transgressed.

Evaluation Questions

Today we were told about all the 7 evaluation questions. This is the first time we have properly seen the evaluation questions and initially they look very simple to me. There are 1 or 2 questions where i thought of how i would answer them, but originally i was thinking of all the different techniques of the way i got present each question.

As we looked at them we decided to put them in a specific order, starting with the most significant all the way to the less significant.

The reason for choosing the first question where it is because we see it to show a big significance in the way we progressed. The idea of re-calling the day of the preliminary task shows how far we came from our first official piece of work.  From there everything goes down until the least significant. In this case; 'What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why.'
Either way i do see all the questions significant. As in order to achieve the marks all the questions must be answered.

Evaluation: Preliminary Task

The main meaning of the preliminary task was to work in groups and create a short clip which demonstrated continuity, as well as; match on action, 180 degree rule and short,reverse shot. We were told for the clip to include someone walking through a door, walk across the room, sit down and exchange a few lines of dialogue. It was very difficult to create the clip as we were not allowed to break the 180 degree rule and considering the fact we just had learnt of it recently it seemed that we managed quite well. The continuity was not the best sadly. We looked at our footage and noticed that there was not a lot of time to cut in between clips during edit as the actor would of turned there head around or the camera would of stopped recording. Because of this clips were cut a bit to quickly or started to early thus no showing the best continuity results.

We can se through the two screen shots above that continuity is ruined. The first picture (on the right) is of one scene and the one to the left is directly after. It is noticeable that this is not continuos as one moment his hands are by his sides and the next he is fixing his blazer, this ruined the continuity effect.

From 0:42 when the shot reverse shot began there is still lack of continuity. It was really hard to edit the clips due to the fact that there was no gap between eh actors talking and the rolling of tape. Meaning as soon as the actors began talking it started recording, and when they stopped talking immediately the camera stopped recording; thus making it hard in the edit. There was some background noise at the start of the clip but that later was gone due to the rest of the clip taking place in a quiter room.

However overall i like what we as group have created. Since it was our fast task it seems to be done well and we have tried our best to apply are knowledge and stick to the 180 degree rule which through out the clip was not broken.