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We hope you had a fantastic time viewing our work and seeing our learning journey throughout our media coursework journey. We have tried really hard and hope it comes across our work. It was our pleasure on working on this blog

Yours Sincerely

Bansari and Guleed (AS Media Students)

Evaluation Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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Evaluation Q6: What have you learnt about technolgies from the process of constructing this product?

In order to construct our film opening we had to use a software that would help us edit our opening and make it look like an film opening. The software we as a group and individually used for the first time was Adobe Premiere Pro. A editing software that is used at an advanced level to edit.

We used Adobe Premiere Pro for the first time when we edited our preliminary at an basic level to see if we can put clips together flawlessly and see if the footage after exported works as one clip without any visible efforts of editing shown even though it has been edited. By the time we got to editing our film opening we had to add conventions of an film opening to our opening such as titles and film logo's. One being our film logo the other an existing and established film company. This software is was used to put the whole film sequence together. In order to prepare we had to view certain tutorials teaching us how to add film titles etc.
Due to us not having this software at home we had to download free trails but due to a limited time available with the free trails, we were forced to evaluate most our work in school putting us at a disadvantage when coming to our time management. Due to our film already being one sequence we only had to put in the conventions of a film opening such as titles and film logo's to make it look like a film opening. Us not having to add any special effects but simple things helped us edit a bit better. However we did have to edit our logo's and our opening them bring them together as two separate clips as we found putting them all together at once did not work.

Our skills with the software has developed over the course of our making of our film. As a group we have learned to understand the use of different tools in the software and are much more confident with editing then we were at the start of the course. We used tools such as the Razor Tool and and Rate Stretch Tool. Our creative control was limited due to the lack of knowledge of using the software itself. Due to our film opening was one continuous sequence our editing was not as complicated allowing us to shoot around for a minute continuously without having to worry about separate shots. Due to our lack of knowledge on how to use the software to it's full potential we struggled with a few things. Such as adding the titles and logo's to our film opening which have to treated differently to the film opening. However we managed to put everything together.

That was the only software we used during our construction helping us understand the importance of editing and how it works on a professional level.

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Evaluation Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Posted by Bansari Raval and Guleed Hashi

Evaluation Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product and why?

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Evaluation Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Q2: How does your media product represent particular social group?

Evaluation Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

We videoed ourselves evaluating our first question.

Posted by Bansari and Guleed

Final Cut

Here is our final cut for our film opening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umKC_Za46U8&feature=player_embedded&safe=active

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First Shoot

For our First Shoot of our film opening we still felt we weren't ready as a group to start filming however we went for it and filmed, hoping the outcome would be as expected. As media students we highly expected errors in our work as it is highly unlikely that the first ever time we film our opening and it would be the first copy we would submit. Knowing that there would be things we would need to brush up on, we filmed. Our first shoot gave us a brief idea of how our final piece would end up looking like and helped us make decisions in things we could change in our final opening and things we could add. However we needed to stay in the 2 minute film opening boundary, therefore forcing us to rethink certain decisions regarding our film opening. As expected we did make a lot of errors while filming, but they were a learning experience, which helped us in our final opening re-planning.


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Actors

We only used the four actors for our film opening. We were lucky due to one of our actors is a AS level drama student and another one of actors being a GCSE drama student. Therefore their acting was natural and helped bring out our synopsis of the film opening very nicely. Our other two actors were fairly good in playing there roles. One of our actors had no speech to say but just to act a scene were no dialogues were required from them.

Here is a list of our actors:-

Michael Daniel- GCSE Qualified Drama and AS Drama Student (Tyler)

Feranmi Oke-GCSE Qualified Drama Student (Harvey)

Mahir Rab-(Max)

Krishma Verkeria-limited acting with no dialogue required (Callie)




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Editing in our Opening

Here are a few screen grabs showing our editing in our work.



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Our edting was difficult due certain technical issues we faced as either the computer would switch off when we would edit the Adobe CS4 didn't work. However we still managed to edit our work and create a finished product. We our film opening we need to add the conventions of a film opening. We did this by adding the film 4 logo and our own production logo; Bangu Productions, which we created by using the a website called VIDEO COPILOT. We used the Spin Orbs to create our production logo. This was edited separately from our film opening than edited and added in with our film opening. due to issues with the file not opening we could print screen and put in a screen shot of it. We enjoyed editing our work and acquired new skills. Such as putting two different edited clips together  and than exporting them together which we tried a couple of times before we made our final one.

 

Screen Shot Showing VIDEO COPILOT Spin Orbs Logo we used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sound in our Film Opening

In our film opening we have refrianed from using diegietic sound as we didn't find the use to use it at all. Therefore we made a script and used diegetic sound. This keeps our found footage idea conventional. When it came to our scripts we made only one version but did make changes to it. Coming to our final changes as a group we decided to make our actors improvise bits of the script. We didn't follow the script exactly as improvising worked better as our actors were naturals with one doing drama A Level and a GCSE and the other did drama GCSE.




Front part of Script

Back part of Script

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Mise-en-Scene and our location for Film Opening

We have located our opening scene in a school during after hours so that the school is empty, this allows us to have more control over how we film and a bit more freedom as it would be harder to do it in a non-school environment  Also we have the characters wearing normal teenage clothes, this represents our target audience which are teenagers. Dressing them casually sets the film well in our setting. Here are pictures of our location:-

The Corridor

The Classroom  

Posted by Guleed Hashi 

Camera Shots in our Film Opening

Our Film Opening is a continous shot, so there were no visible cuts added by editing, thus we had to use techniques such as zoom, to add the found footage element to our film. We did not have to experment with our shots or angles as we had to follow the protagnist as he spoke to the camera while his freind filmed so everything was set out for us. With us planning what we needed in each shot, it heped us with what specific Camera Shot we wated throughout our film, which was mainly the Mid-Shot.

Posted by Guleed Hashi