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Evaluation - Question 7 - Jennifer Tate

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

From the preliminary task I was learned a great deal about the camera as I did all the filming for ours. Filming took around 15 minutes as I'd never used a camera like that before so I have to learnt all about it. Also as we wanted to try and do the best possible job we could, we did about 3 shots of every scene. However when it came to editing this I found it surprisingly easy and enjoyed it a lot more compared to filming. I learnt how to cut clips down, render the film, add text, add music etc. We didn't have to use a lot of editing skills in the preliminary though as it was very simple compared to our finished film.

I feel ii have progressed form the preliminary task throughout the time we've been making our finial project. Me and Jess talked it through as we knew that her stronger point was filming and mine was editing, so therefore we both wanted to do a little bit of both; but Jess did more filming and I did more editing. Through editing our finial film I've learned out to add text on the screen, add music, adjust sound levels and volume for speech or music or any particular type of sound, I learnt how to spilt a screen in two; we had to do this as we had a spilt phone conversation. I think using all of these skills has helped me understand the film business a lot more and made our film more interesting to watch, which will hopefully get our target audiences attention. 

Evaluation - Question 4 Jenny Tate.

Our target audience is from an age range of 15-21 and of both genders, this is because I feel that they will be able to relate and understand the film a lot more easily than someone who is say, in their mid thirties. The social group that we would be aiming for would be a 'party animal' type, they get excited by the idea of going out, drinking, seeing friends and having a good time, they typically would also be around the age of 15-21. We know that under the age of 18 is illegal to drink but its a known fact the under-age drinking happens so they would enjoy watching this film as they would be able to relate to it. 

When thinking about the audience for our media product, we thought up two hypothetical teenagers as I thought it would then be easy to think of the types of people who would watch our film.  

Mischa: She is a 17 year old college student of black British ethnicity, that lives with her Dad in Bristol, that enjoying going to concerts, hanging out with her friends, going to parties, going to town, drinking and following fashion. At parties and in her spare time she tends to listen to music that is in the charts, dubstep and drum and bass. She generally watches e4 as it appeals to her age group, some of the shows that are shown are; Skins, The Inbetweeners, The Big Bang Therory, Shipwrecked, Misfits etc, this all falls under the 'Teen' genre. 

Aaron: He is a 16 year old school drop out of white British ethnicity, who is unemployed and lives with his parents in Liverpool. In his spare time he likes to go down the skatepark with his friends, he also likes to play xbox and occasionally smokes cannabis. He listens to alternative rock and indie music. He doesn't tend to watch much t.v except for Skins and the occasional episode of Friends, but he mainly watches films such as Kidulthood and other 'Teen' films. 

We came up with these two people as although they are both different in they own ways they would both still be interested in our film because if their age and their interests. These would be the type of people who would most likely watch skins as it has aspects of their own life in it. Also according to the BFI, the gender spilt of films with a similar genre to skins in 2011 was 53% girls and 47% boys, really not that much of a difference, this is why we thought of two people as both genders would hopefully be interested in our film.

Evaluation - Question 2 - Jennifer Tate

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media product represents our social group as rebellious. We thought of our social group as soon as we started to think our our initial ideas. We knew from the start that we wanted our film to be about teenagers, teenage life and how they rebel against what society wants them to be.

We wanted to show that I had had a rough night out, possibly got myself into trouble, drank and possibly even taken other substances. The way in which I am dressed, my make up and my hair all connotes this. We got our inspiration for the make up from 'Effy' a character in 'Skins'. As she has she has make up down her face as if she's been crying, has messy hair and is smoking a spliff. however we to advertising drug taking so we made me smoke cigarettes in our film. 

We used cigarettes as a prop in our film so to suggest that she needs them if she's stressed, tired, hungover, and smoking is just a normal thing for her. It's typical behaviour for her, she's a 'difficult' teenager so smoking in an alley way outside college is classed as a general thing for her, and we wanted to follow the stereotype of a rebellious teenager, so thats the reason we dressed her in this way, used cigarettes and hopefully made her come across with an 'I don't care attitude'. 

Evaluation - Question 1 - Jennifer Tate

Evaulation Question 1

Evaluation activity seven - by Jessica Towler

From the preliminary task I have learnt a lot about camera work and the programs we used to edit the filming, the preliminary task was quite rushed and only took about 5 minutes to film as we used a small room and so this made it was easy to get the shots we wanted, whereas in the main filming for our movie opening, we also used quite a tight space for the beginning of the opening, but this made it a little bit harder to get the shots we wanted because it was a narrow alley way so some of the shots like a long shot of Jenny sitting down was not possible as I could not possibly get the camera that far away from her, I did the best I possibly could and got an angled long shot of Jenny sitting down on the curb in the alley.

I have also learnt a lot about editing because in the preliminary task there was only so much editing we could do, but in the movie opening there was much more of a variety of things we could do with the filming, we decided to add music, text and different volumes and effects in the filming, for example we used the split screen for the phone conversation, this is a good thing to have in our movie because it is originally from a music video type thing, and this could help our movie link to our target audience of 15-21 year old's because they are the age group that tend to watch music videos the most. 

Evaluation activity six - by Jess & Jenny

The photo on the left is of me setting up the camera and tripod for Jess as she was going to film the inside shots of me and Hayley in the end scene. However I do know how to camera as did all the filming in the preliminary task we did. This involved me making sure that there was enough memory on the camera so we could film everything we needed, making sure we have enough battery for the time we were filming, and generally just checking that the camera and tripod were in good working order. I do some filming outside when we used another person to do the other end of the phone conversation but we didn't use this as it looked too rushed. 

The photo to the right is me using 'Final Cut Pro' this is the software we used to edit all of our film. The edited took a long time and consisted of a few days possibly 2 weeks as we had to edit in sound, pictures, video clips. I imported the clips, and photos onto 'Final cut Pro' and then edited them in the correct order, once the film was edited correctly, I then added in the two sets of music we used. The reason that editing took so long was because we had photos to import but the first set didn't come out well, so we had to redo them, which lost us 7 days of editing the photos.

This is a photo of me using the camera and the tripod filming
the inside shots, i have used these before on the preliminary task, but i didn't film a lot for it, so using the camera as much as i did was interesting and helped me learn a lot about technology, i  filmed the majority of the opening of our movie so got a lot of use out of it.
The shots outside worked quite well i thought because we got them filmed quicker than i thought we would, as we got all of it filmed within 10 minutes, even though we got about 3 shots of most things this helped us get on and edit, helping us on timing to get everything done on time.





This photo shows me using soundtrack pro, the screen grab below is also soundtrack pro and i used this program on the mac to make the sounds for the ident, i put the sounds that i wanted together, altered the speed of the typing sounds and imported it into final cut pro.


 

This is a screen grab of Final Cut Pro, we used this to make the whole media product, we added the music and the sounds from Soundtrack Pro into Final Cut Pro and edited it all in that one place, this made it easy as everything was in one document and so it was easy to locate and work from throughout the project.