Acland's Theory (unfinished)

My Main Piece

This is my main production; Meeting At Midnight
enjoy.

Radio Ad

This is the radio trailer that I made  for the brief: 
10. A short film in its entirety, lasting approximately five minutes, which may be live action or animated or a combination of both, together with two of the following three options:

·                -a poster for the film;

·                -a radio trailer for the film;

·                -a film magazine review page featuring the film.

Film Poster

This is my film poster, I wanted to keep it simple and dramatic so that is caught peoples eye and they became intrigued to want to know what it was about. 

Q1

Question 1:In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
I have decided to do a directors commentary to answer this question. This means that I will show parts of my main production while I talk about it. I think that it is the most effective method as I will be able to show where i use the conventions and explain why we used it and why we used it in that specific area, also by using this format I will be able to pause it and talk in more detail about the part the scene that I needed to. It is effective as it would be hard to explain without watching the clips. 

Unfortunately I have unable been unable to add a directors commentary voice-over to these clip. However, I had add a paragraph to the end of each clip explain what I would have said. 

As we can see in this clip out main character is female. Using a female actor to play a vulnerable character is very stereotypical. By using a female character we already know that something dangerous or troubling will happen to her. Films have a tendency to use female to play the vulnerable character because males are stereotyped as being dominate and powerful.  

Another way that we developed conventions for the thriller genre is by using a forest. This follows conventions as they feel secluded and isolated. Which is why they are so popular to use when there is going to be a crime. This suggest that the something bad will happen to the character. Which makes audience automatically feel fear for the character when she enters the forest. 

We used the female role in this short film not only to help develop convention but to challenge them. In out production we use a female to play the dominate villain character. This breaks the use of normal conventions that would use a male to play the part of the villain. we used a female character in this role as we wanted to give the audience something unexpected. 

Q2

Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
I have created a Prezi presentation to help evaluate Q2, this link will send you the presentation:

http://prezi.com/bhlgf1hfc0qm/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share


I decided to use a Prezi format as it help to explain in greater detail the reason why I chose my ancillary texts.I think that this format will help to show the advantages and the disadvantage to my ancillary texts help to promote my main production. It is also a creative way to display the information that i need to give. It is also a a very simple site to use.

Q3

Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I answered Question 3 as interview. this is when i have someone from the movie (in this case Amber Mobbs) answer a few questions.This allowed me to create a script that they could follow explaining the planning and different techniques I would have used to now that I know how my production has turned out, so that if I could redo it I would be able to make more improvements.
I have divided each question that I asked in to three different clips.

I think uses an interview format was the most effective as it allows the audience to connect with the person speaking and therefore relate, and understand what the interviewee is saying. It also helps the keep the information simple which means that audience can connect with the information that is in the interview. 

Q4

Question 4: How did you use new media techniques in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages. 
For this question I have decided to answer it as a slideshow presentation with audio. I will have different slide answering each part of the question. 

I think that this would be the best way to answer this question as the audience it is simple to read the information they want while I explain the answer. I will be able to write all the information they want in simple format, so they can easily access all the information that they want to know about the media the research, planning and evaluation stage of this project. I can also easily record the information that I need to say so they can listen to my answer while going through the presentation. 

Please listen to the audio while looking at the presentation 

Q4 Media Evaluation (1) by daniellegarden

Keeping Up The Continuity (unfinished)

we must make sure that the character look the same each time we film so there is no break in the continuity. this means that each time the actors must bring in the exactly the same clothes so the audience done notice that the filming was done of different days.

Film Poster Idea

I need to look for idea for the creation of my film poster. I needed it to represent the genre of the short film, thriller. To get ideas I looked on line at professional film posters. I when looking at the poster I thought the simple but dramatic posters stood out the most when compared to the other poster. This helped me to decide that I wanted to make my poster simple and dramatic. The poster that gave me inspiration:

Putting in the narration (unfinished)

We decided that we should a narration over the top of the film, this because it will help the audience to understand what is going on in the film. We wrote a script on what the write (played by Amber Mobbs) needs to say:
Lola could hear the crunching of gravel underneath her feet as she walked home from work. Whilst crossing the road, she peered over her shoulder only to see someone dressed in black exiting the alley way behind her. As she continued down the street the figure pursued.

She sat down on a bench, waiting for a friend to call. Unbeknownst to he, the figure previously following her every move, sat on another bench across from hers. They cautiously reached for their phone and began ominously taking photos of her. Receiving the message, she continued on her journey home.

Turning the corner she noticed that the figure was still following her every move. Trying to remain calm, she took the familiar steps on her route home. Observing her stalker has become more suspicious, paranoia set in and she quickened her pace.

As she became more scared she began to rush, running for cover in a nearby forest. Running through a gate and down a path, she was forced to drop her bag to prevent the weight from slowing her down.

Her stalker stayed close on her trail. As they ran further into the forest, she got lucky when her pursuer stumbled.

She took the opportunity to climb over a fence and hide behind a wide old oak tree. Squeezing through the fence, Lola’s stalker continued to follow her every move.

As they neared, she began to panic. She began to hyperventilate and had no other choice but to call for help.

Her hands shaking, she pulled out her phone. Little did she know, the figure she was so fearful of was lurking right behind her, watching her every move.

Before she had the chance to get through, the stalker lunged toward Lola and she fell

We then found a quite room to record in so that there isn't any noise over the background so the audience is only having to pay attention to what the narrator is saying.
once we had finished recording the narration. we uploaded the files on the computer and converted them so we were able to edit them on the software the we were using. we made sure the correct voice over was over the right shot.

Editing

To edit the shots that we had filmed we us MoviePlus X6. It allows us to simple select the shot that we want and move it the where we want it as well as simply edit the shot in the length.

 Editing took quite a few days but it also allowed us to see if we need to redo some shot or to complete get new ones. We had to add visual effect that you can see in the current shot in the picture, this made it see different the scenes with the author making the audience think that it is the scenes from the book that the author is writing.

What Improvements?

We had the class watch out work, which was very helpful as they gave us some very positive feedback and some ways to improve what we have done. The improvement we got were: that the some of the scene where the stalker is chasing the girl are a bit too long (so we will go over them and cut them down), this will also help as the brief says that the film should be about 5 minutes and we are over that time by quite a few minutes.
Another thing they say that needed to be improved on was that the stalker filming the girl when they are sitting on the beach ins't very obvious. We plan to improve this by filming in the stalkers prospective, this will work as then people can see that the stalker is clearly obsessed with this girl.

Office Filming

We starting our filming by getting the office scene first as this was the scene we were most unsure about so we wanted to be able to give ourselves plenty of time if we needed to go back and change scenes or re-do some of the shots.
These are some of the shot that we got.

However we will have to edit most of the shot we got to make them work with each other so there is a fluent motion between them.

Forest Filming

this was probably the hardest of all the filming we had to do as we found it quite challenging to make sure that the shot where clear while we ran. We also had to make sure that we got the shaky effect that happens when there is a chase scene.  

We made sure that we got a lot of different type of shot to make sure that there is a variety for the audience when they are watching do it isn't repetitive, and making sure that when we are editing it looks like it is connected and that the scenes flow from one to the next.   

4oD research

we have been set some classwork to research channel 4 on demand (4oD). We had to make a presentation to explain to the class.

4OD by daniellegarden