Simeon's Evaluation Q7

Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learned In The Progression From It To The Full Product?

During our preliminary task we were all very new to new camera work and to editing. The main thing I learnt working with the cameras was how to get the right white balance, as this had been a big problem because we thought we could get away with having it the same through all our shots indoors. As we later found out lighting can differ inside so we had to adapt our white balance very often.

In both projects we had to do continuity editing because did some shots and retakes of scenes on different days. In our preliminary you can see that we didn't check where our errors were, but by the time we progressed to our thriller opening we were checking all over for errors in white balance, clothing and overall lighting.

Furthermore as we spent more time on the thriller project we began to utilise our time effectively and during our first editing session where we gathered all our clips and put them roughly into a timeline, we found areas to improve on and as a team we managed to find ways in which we could tweak these to perfection.

Simeon's Evaluation Q6

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

 

Before we began working on our preliminary task and our thriller opening project, I had not grasped the concept of editing video and audio and I did not know much about cameras and how to cleanly shoot HD film.

 

I have never used Final Cut Pro or any other software of editing before, let alone a Mac. This course has shown me clearly how to use the software and how to snip, clip and merge video clips and audio clips to a standard I would have never dreamed of. I have learnt the importance of naming clips and separating the ones I need from the ones I don't because later on in both the tasks my team and I found rummaging through all our nameless clips and retake clips near impossible.

 

I had never heard of white balance and what it contributed to shots and takes, but I soon found out that it changed the way we saw lighting and how important it was while we were editing and doing continuity editing. I also learnt how to use the tripod and how a stable camera can make all the difference between what kind of impression you are trying to make on the audience.

Simeon's Evaluation Q5

How Did You Attract/Address Your Audience?

We attracted our audience by using references to dress code, which is a part of mise en scene, of the average teenager. Clothing brands such as Primark and new look are being worm by both our characters and this further gives the audience something to relate to. In addition to this the way both Jake and Kyle speak is the same dialect of what the majority of teenagers speak like, this was intentional as we wanted to engage them as much as possible.

Simeon's Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

The audience who this film would be directed at would be young males, more directly older teenagers. Both Jake and Kyle are in their late teens and so this would give young males something of a connection and something to relate to as they are of the same age and gender.

Simeon's Evaluation Q3

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

The difference between media production companies and media distributers is that: media production companies make the films and examples of these are Disney, DreamWorks, 20th century Fox, and Universal. Media distributors are the companies that distribute the films and try to get everyone to know about them, and they do this buy advertisement on billboards, selling by DVD, showings in cinemas, and now more recently it is more common for this to be done digitally such as through Netflix or gaming consoles or big TV companies for example Sky or Virgin and there separate movie subscription channels. Media production companies and especially big ones who need to make a big revenue will use these distributers to get as many people watching there films. These can be expensive to hire so we will need to possibly down grade and go for the smaller ones.
Now media distributors such as Momentum and LoveFilm, distribute films that are of a low budget such as our own.
On the other hand we could try distributing ourselves through services for example YouTube. By letting google put ads on our films we can possibly earn money that way as google or the advertisement firm would be paying us.