Evaluation

Media Evaluation by Jayne32

Filming: Final Cut

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHIMKMtZtWE

Editing: Sound

Originally we decided that we were going to have our music made for our opening by a guy me and Oscar no however when we all listened to the piece that he had created we decided that it didn't suit our film. So Oscar went home and researched some royalty free pieces of music and started to download them, luckily he has found a perfect piece that goes really well with the movie with no fuss what so ever.

As for the sound effects originally me and Bethany went out and made our own sound effects for the movie but these weren't very good quality and some didn't really go with the new cut that we had layered out. So we found a website that gave thousands of different types of sound effects, this really helped layer up the opening and give it that quality of sound that it needed. It also helped with the cut aways as we have a reversed gun shot sound that sounds and fits extremely well with the cut away scenes. As well as foot steps and doors closing we have also found a sound effect that fits in with the torture victims attempts to free herself from the rope.

Overall our sound is more or less done the music has been chosen and put in place as well as the sound effects, all that needs to be done is the changing of levels so that they mix in well with each other at different times. This will help the audience focus in more with certain sounds that either might shock them or build the opening's suspense.

Evaluation: Looking at the Questions

Today in our lesson we looked at the evaluation questions that we would have to start answering soon in great detail. This really helped me as some of them confused me a bit and i didn't no how i was going to present it on my blog or all the ways that i was aloud to present it. We also went through the requirements that you need to have and one of them is to make sure its multimedia so i'm thinking of maybe doing an audio clip with some visual aids as i am not so good with typing. The questions that i will be looking at are:

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


- How does your media product represent particular social groups?


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


- Who would be the audience for your media product?


- How did you attract/address your audience?


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


- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you fell that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Filming: Vicar Scene Re-Shoot

Today was the day that Imogen and Bethany had both planned to do the beginning of our film with the vicar interveiw. As they went of and did this myself and Oscars job was to do some editing. The group decided to change the dialogue of this scene and the layout as an interview seemed like it would work better and add a little more realism to our opening.

They filmed two actors today Finley Harnett and also Luis Harding However i don't think it went very well as they cam back quite early with no footage i think the problem was that the actors hadn't learnt there lines and all no one was prepared for this.

However they had another go a few days later and this time Oscar and Bethany did it while i stayed and worked on the film. This turned out to be a successful try as they even managed to get the green screen in the background which i think will look brilliant if we can get it right. The dialogue worked really The actors did really well and the footage more importantly was useable. Now all that needs to be done with it is for the green screen to be edited and for it to be imposed on to the TV screen in our opening.

Editing: Font

Today myself and Imogens job was to look and interesting fonts online from the website Dafont to try and find something for the titles. I want to stick to a font that will be quite bold and will stand out and is easy for the audience to read as well as interesting.

This is the first font that we looked at i really like this one as it is a strong font, its very bold, very clear exactly what i personally was looking for. It is also very masculine and would fit in very well with the our story line, i also love the fact its in capitals as it adds drama.

This is the second font that we looked at on the website that drew our attention. Personally i am not fond of this font as it has a very feminine feel to it, although it could be interesting as it would go against the normal conventions of a thriller film. Also the use of texture in the text makes it almost look like twigs found in a forest which is quite scary. I think that aspect of the font would make it fit in with the horror aspect of our film, but i was looking for something that is bold and something very dramatic and unfortunately this font doesn't have that.

Finally this is the third font that we had picked out of the bunch. I think this one would be perfect as it is bold, it stands out, its very interesting to look at and it has that drama as well as the capital letters. I think the different hight's give it that edgy tone to it and this could suggest that it doesn't follow the thriller convention. However it's not so different that it wouldn't go with our story line.

Overall out of all of the fonts that we looked at today i think we should choose the third and final one 'Dirty Headline' as its very interesting and defiantly would fit in would not only our genre but also the storyline of our film.

Planning: Dialogue

This is the dialouge which Bethany wrote for the news shown on the TV.

Announcer:

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to Spotlight. Here today to explain to us the dramatic resigning of Pope Benedict due to the Saint sinner killings. The Lords messenger Arch Bishop Hartley.

Hartley:

May our lord bless you and keep you citizens of God we have received information about the dead sinners who whilst their sin was great their souls were redeemable without this violence.

Announcer:

What is the church doing about this situation?

Hartley:

Well we are obviously working with the police on these so called Saint Sinner murders and are trying to solve this as quickly as possible. There will not be a government enquiry but these murders are in no way connected to the resignation of the Pope.

Announcer:

I think the public will refuse to believe that, we all know what’s going on in the Vatican and no one here would be surprised if one of your alter boys turned and did the killings. We all know the treatment they get.

Hartley:

Obviously this has nothing to…The Vatican is in no way implicated, no minister or vicar is involved this is obviously a fanatic carrying out God’s work.

Announcer:

Are you saying you agree with the killings?

Hartley:

Obviously this is an observation upon the prophecy and the true Christians are being tested. I assure you everything is being done to persecute them but…

Announcer:

That wasn’t an answer to my question

Hartley:

Well obviously I don’t agree but in principle Satan and his hoards must be punished.

Announcer:

Final question then your Holiness.

Hartley:

Yes, fire away

Announcer:

Where is your God now?

We have filmed this before but i think we all agreed that the sound wasn't very good and it was also too short to have to it going over the majority of the scene. I think Bethany has done a brilliant job and hopefully this time round everything will work with the sound. We are also planning to shoot this on a green screen background to see if we can put a TV studio and a church in the background to make the film look a little more realistic. I think this might be a little difficult to edit but if we can manage to get it right i think it will really add to not only our marks but also to the atmosphere of the film altogether.