1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)



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



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



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



5. How did you attract/address your audience?



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



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

Evaluation 1

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

Evaluation 4 Mind Map

How did you attract/address your audience?

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

These are shots of me and Reece during filming, as you can see we used a video camera and a tripod to record onto. Using these cameras we learnt how to focus manually which we needed to take a few shots with, we also learnt how to set up the tripod correctly meaning we could have a wider variety of shots.

I also used photoshop elements 8 to create our ident for our film, from using this i learnt how to create new brushes to create different effects. I also learnt how to layer to edit things better, this meant that if i went wrong and had to rub something out then it didn't ruin all of what i was doing.

This is garage band which we used to make our music. using this we learnt how to put loops together to create music, i didn't like garage band much because there wasn't much variety within the loops.

This is the icon for imovie which we used to edit all our film and music together. With Imovie i learnt how to cut and edit film together effectively, this is done by watching the action frame by frame.

I used these three sites in my work
Blogger - this is what i'm using to post all of my work online, with this i learnt how to publish posts and change the layout of things so my posts are in the right order and the gadgets are where i want them to be
Tubechop- I used this alongside youtube. This is for if i didn't want to show the whole video because most of it was irrelevant, i could put the youtube URL into tubechop search and cut it down to only the section i wanted to show.
Youtube - i used this to find videos as research and evidence of things for my film. I also used this site to host videos to put on my blog. using this i learnt how to host videos and add annotations.

I also used slideshare to post powerpoints onto my blog - this meant that i didn't only have to post with just writing but i could present things attractively.

Evaluation 7 on Prezi

This is our first second third storyboard.

This is the thought shower of names for our film
Film Names
As you can see we thought of many different names, and in the end we decided to call it Dot to Dot because the whole point in the film is the audience has to connect the dots to see what has happened.

The filming that we managed to get done on monday was brilliant in my opinion and went really well, even though we did have some disturbance at the church. I think the panning shot of emily walking into the church went really well, and i think using emily was a good decision as her height, being quite short, helped suggest that she was quite vunderable which worked really well. She does dramawhich gave us a bonus with her acting. We could have used more ideal clothes (lighter, clearer colours), however it still worked well in the end.
Adam's usual enthusiactic acting was brilliantly done, and we got some excellent shots of Adam leaving the church scene from a platform as emily cried, even though in adam's usual sense of humour, he decided to sing to will young on the way out, requiring another shot. despite this, the final shot was brilliant in my opinion, and the diejetic sound worked really well with adams footsteps and emily crying, other than that just scilence.
The over the shoulder shots we did with adam talking to emily and vice versa were at first quite hard to film, as Adam obcessivley moved forward throught the dialouge without warning. in the end we got the shots sorted however. I hope that these shots give us a slighty better enigma to the narrative, and if edited right, could have a real impact on the film. filming on friday however could be slightly more difficult because of the people out and about at the time of day.

this is our draft film, as you can see we have a lot to work on for we feel it's more like a trailer than a film opening. (look back at our feedback for more improvements)

Mr smith and Mr Ford completely slated us about the running we had in our film, so that's the first thing that we need to change. despite the fact that the film is more or less orientated around running, which is quite confusing. we now need to get some more shots as this would add more pace, as pointed out by miss Sutton from the library, who also hated our project so far. were not totally sure about how we can cut down on running, but with more shots we could cover for this. another point made was that the montage is quite unclear and seems slightly unrelated to the narrative, and being so fast they are hard to make out. the same shots are also used repeatedly in the montages over and over again, which doesn't really seem to work and in my opinion makes t look more like a trailer than an opening. another point made on the feedback sheet was that we need to be more careful with mise en scene, i.e. get rid of the clown. i think maybe we need to be slightly more careful about the running through the street, and then into the garden as the location seems slightly relaxed for this kind of narrative.

this is the ident for dreamworks, as you can see it's colourful to relate to their target market of children. We need to relate our logo to our target audience so it fits in with our film. I like the sky as the background and the airy feel to it.


I have created two different idents:



































I like this layout, i like the blood splattered style but i don't think you can see the word "films" well enough, i like the font because it matches with the backing of the blood but i'm not sure whether it fits the genre of our film.

From our draft film we have found out that we need more close ups of different body parts of our characters.

We think this because at the moment our film isn't very fast paced all the way through how we'd like it to be. We really like part of the sequence when the two characters go up stairs then jump down because we did a lot of shot variety which works with the pace, we need to add more shot variety to get the tempo right for the film.

we need:

• Close up of Adam's eyes
• Close up of Rob's eyes
• Close up of Adam's feet
• Close up of Rob's feet
• Close up of bottle smashing
• Close up of Adam's face
• Close up of Rob's reaction
• Low angle shot of Adam jumping fence
• Low angle shot of Rob jumping fence
• Close up of Adam's arms while running
• Close up of Rob's arms while running.
• Reshoot the first focussing scene with the flower replacing the clown.

The Fella Goes Arctic - Avenue  by  thefella

I really like this, i think this is something like what we need, the calm bit for the flash backs then the more upbeatness as it continues.

http://www.audiomicro.com/atmospheric-underscore-dramatic-memories-no-drums-royalty-free-stock-music-571251

I think this is perfect. I like the simpleness yet the atmospheric feel of it. I think that we should try it against the film.

Me and Reece filmed the majority of our shots. I have also film the bible focussing shots. Then. we will only be left with shots with the young girl in.
We have Adam Ringrose playing our main character and Rob as our chaser.

This is us in action:

After looking across a few sites and playing around with garage band, i've found what i think is the most ideal site for our needs: freeplaymusic.com. the website allows me to search through music by using various keywords, or looking through menu's such as the genre of the music, and a particularly useful menu for our needs, "feeling" of the music. tracks are actually listed under the emotional effect they have on people and i am finding this really useful. so far, i have found these tracks which we don't think are right mainly because of the tempo or being to up beat:

"forever and ever" - to soft and not fast

"Songs without words 19 5"

Reece, i found this song:
Logan 5-Little Gothic Masterpiece  by  Logan5
I like beginning of it because it gives us the unknowingness of our character running, i thought it was good for the slow part of our song, thinking it would pick up pace i listened on and the speaking kind of ruins it for us. I think our music needs to start off quite slow then pick up pace.

Somber moments in life  by  Mr Sinister
I also quite liked this for the effect at the beginning but it doesn't really pick up pace and wouldn't fit the ending of our piece. BAD TIMES

http://www.mysoundfx.com/thematic-background-music/suspense-horror/creepy-hip-hop.html
I found this song, see what you think, it might be a bit hop hoppy but I think it could work

i also like the build up in this:
http://www.mysoundfx.com/thematic-background-music/suspense-horror/eastern-death.html
Yes, i know it's only 40 seconds long but i'm sure we could figure something out.

And lastly this one:
http://www.mysoundfx.com/thematic-background-music/suspense-horror/zombie-tension.html
although it might be a bit "district 9" if you get my drift, for some reason it reminds me of it? Also, it could be a bit off beat?

This is the animatic of our storyboard. Personally, i think that the timings will work well, although we may add a few extra shots into it, this is good becuase some of the running shots could be cut down.

I was thinking of a variety of different fonts wecould use for our title sequence.

I found these fonts on the internet and i chose to use this list to look at because i like all the different styles. Personally, i feel that the Benjamin Gothic font is the most suitable for our film becuase i like the thick style of it. I like the way it flows together aswell. I also like the Intrepid font because i think it's neat and straight. This could connote the style of our film to the audience. I don't think the Grenadier font is suitable because it's not very nice to look at. It's difficult to read and it very fancy. This also looks like it would suit an older film. This font reminds me of ivy and nature which doesn't fit the theme of our film.

This is the audience profile for our film: frank, is a 19 year old boy, who likes to hang out with his mates often, and meet them at the pub for a few pints and a laugh. he enjoys a good film and likes to be out and about instead of at home. he likes a film which doesent require a high amount of thought to digest, but does make him think and has a few various twists, yet also keeps some action in it. Something that keeps him on the edge of his seat at all times is his idea of a great film - something that hits him all of a sudden and gives him the thrill of sudden realization of a hidden narrative really knocks his socks off.Audience Profiling

Today I shall film the opening shots to our piece. ,I'm going to do the flowers, necklace and clock shots for i haven't yet gotten hold of a bible.

These are shots number 1,3,7,15, 21,22,24,26,27,31,34,35,39,42,43,47,50,51,55

These are obviously going to be repeated shots, but I'll take multiple shots of each objects and choose which ones we like best.

Here's some photos of the different in focus objects:

Out of these shots personally, i like the last one, i like the brightness and the positioning of the three flowers

As with the first group, i like the last shot the best, i like the tilted look and the way the cross is clearly visable.

I like the second to last shot from these.

Due to the unfortunate event of our original location being boarded up we were forced to change our narrative.
The new one is as follows:

starting with the characters who are chasing our main character, i am looking for the ideal code of dress. my image of these dark, mysterious, shady people would be a long black coat kind of look, to create an element of ghostly aura. Hard to explain exactly what I'm talking about, but i think it would be great to really capture that kind of character as hard as it would be. i think this kind of black and almost "invisible" kind of colour and formless clothes would give an untouchable feeling to the characters, make m seem like they have no history and don't communicate, they just hunt their target. It could also make them seem very intimidating and powerful. i looked at the matrix for inspiration for this, but didn't find what i was looking for. I then looked at Blade, a film my younger brother seems to obssess over. i remember watching one of them with him, and despite the film being appalling, i think the outfit blade wears might be what I'm looking for, despite the fact that the target audience for our film will be severely different, i would like to take the same kind of character for the enemy and put him into a different narrative. He looks extremely intimidating, and the image just gives a "don't mess about with me" kind of impression, an almost indestructible kind of target, and that would show what our protagonist is really up against. The outfit makes his shoulders look much more broad and adds to the intimidating effect he has. The quite original looking sun glasses make him look slightly mysterious and almost adds some sort of robot element to his persona. However, the practicality of getting our hands on a costume like this would be difficult, let alone getting hold of 2-3 of them, and therefore, we may need to improvise for this. i have a leather jacket we could use and i am sure we can get hold of some black trousers and sunglasses. the only problem is the part underneath the jacket. it would be nice to use something like that to make them stand out on the chest pads he wears are really distinct, which is something i relay like.

i have consulted alex on her thoughts about basing our chasing characters on Blade's outfit, and she agrees with what i have said. the only problem now is getting hold of the clothes in time for our Tuesday filming session, which could be a challenge.

Next is to find the main characters look. i have been looking at things i could take inspiration from various media i have seen in the past. i have looked at films with characters i think would give the correct effect. one thing in particular has stood out to me quite significantly. the inspiration actually came from a PlayStation 3 game i recently played, with a character who appears quite "roughed up", and quite desperate, quite clearly out of his depth but determined and still fighting on. The game i took this from is the Uncharted series, and a character named Nathan drake. my brother brought me the game for Christmas. the characters name is Nathan. i like the looked up look he has about him. The picture is some concept art of the character in the game. i would love to try and capture his characteristics in our character despite how hard this will be. think we could do this by giving our character torn up clothes, maybe some fake blood. a plain tee shirt with some dirt on it would work, because it would make him look like he had been surviving without luxuries of fresh clothes, washing etc. like he is on the very edge of his ability to avoid his families killers, whoever they are.

this a shot of an alley way that i discussed using with Alex for a running scene

this is a car park area i really liked that we could experiment with running around and jumping about

this is the same car park, i liked the skip because me and my friends used to climb on it when we were younger, so we could do something similar if were careful not to make it look bad


boarded up house