Group Work - who did what

Who did what for Light in the End of the Tunnel from Vicky Squires

Evaluation - Q1

Codes and Conventions of Drama from Vicky Squires

Evaluation - Q2

Evaluation Q2 - Script

This is the full script of Question 2 that is in the Prezi:

As well as our main product; the short film, we chose to create a film poster and a magazine review. The convergence of all 3 products has been achieved through placing the conventions of melodrama into all of our products. We achieved this in different ways according to each product we created.

Film Poster- We did not use images from the film in this product however we have stuck with the main concept; A guide dog with Jessie in the dog’s eye in order to allow the audience to easily identify and relate to the narrative of our short film. By relating the poster to the narrative of our film we were able to represent the feelings of the genre to the audience by arranging the images into an effective arrangement. By placing Jessie in the guide dogs eye we were able to connote the emotion of Jessie’s reliance on her guide dog enabling the products we created to converge effectively. We used a standard font on the poster in order to match the codes and conventions of film posters we initially researched, making it an effective and recognisable product overall for the audience to see.

Magazine Review- The purpose of a film review is to give an overall assessment of the film’s quality, helping the audience decide whether or not they want to see the film. By relating the film review to the genre we were able to converge the products and give a clear and accurate opinion of our short film throughout the review. We decided to create our own magazine and so this meant creating a new layout, font style, colour scheme as opposed to following an existing layout from a magazine, this enabled us to present the review in a way that would complement our short film. When creating the magazine review we decided to use photos from the film itself that the audience would recognise and therefore be able to relate the review to the film. These images taken from the film therefore directly follow the film genre and form an overall representation of the film. We used light-hearted, emotive language in order to draw a link to the products through the moods and emotions we portrayed which was inspired by our genre. By using emotive language, we were able to relate the film review to the narrative of our short film and as a result we were able to create a positive recommendation of the short film to the audience.

Evaluation - Q3

Evaluation - Q4

Final Draft - Magazine Review

Evaluation

Our final stage is now the evaluation. We have to answer four questions which Lauren and I have divided between us. We will then combine them together and create an audio and visual presentation to exhibit them.
The questions we have to answer are:

1. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
2. How effective is your combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. In what ways does your media products use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I am going to be answering questions 1 and 3, Lauren will answer questions 2 and 4. 

2nd Draft - Film Review

Final Cut of Short Film

HERE IT IS!!!!!!!! DONE!!!!!!!


When you watch it, please go to the settings of the video and put it in 1080p HD otherwise it does not show the correct quality of the film.

2nd Cut of Short Film (Almost Finalised)

Earlier today we finally finished the filming for our short film; relieved and overwhelmingly happy is an understatement!! However, we did not leave ourselves a lot of time to edit and were unfortunately rushed to do so meaning that we have left a few things needing to be tweaked slightly. This is not a problem as we will be in school during the Easter holidays and will be able to use the editing software then.

Some of the things we need to change include:

• The credits
• Parts of the volume nearer the end
• The text

We are aware of the few mistakes but we are so excited to share this with you after so much hard work so we hope you like it!

P.S. Please leave your feedback on the opinion polls on the sidebar of my blog on what you think of our short film and film poster, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Final Filming and Editing!

We will be finishing our filming tonight and completing our final edits, meaning OUR FINAL FILM WILL BE UPLOADED TONIGHT HOPEFULLY!!


We've had a lot of difficulties along the way from struggling to get our actors together (due to everyone's busy schedule and deadlines) to being unable to use an official guide dog after months of communication, but we're finally there.


We are buzzing about it and can't wait to show you the final edit of all our hard work!!

Full List of Actors

Jessie played by Esme Graham
Mason played by Harrison Miller
Caitlyn played by Rachel Boyle
Amy played by Lauren Cook
Mum played by Caroline Squires
Katie (Guide Dog volunteer) played by Vicky Squires
Holly (Guide Dog expert) played by Holly Thompson
Pet Cat played by Tigger
Guide Dog played by Saffy

Guide Dog Actor

We have been unable to use an official Guide Dog due to legal reasons and have therefore had to look elsewhere for a dog to act in our film. Luckily one of our friends, whose Mum owns a rescue dog shelter, has offered to let us use her dog Saffy in the film and we are very grateful for it.

We will be finishing our filming very soon!!

1st Draft - Film Review

Final Draft - Film Poster

This is the final version of out film poster. We have taken audience feedback into account and have further asked for a received audience feedback which will be posted soon. We are very pleased with our final piece and feel that we have met the essential criteria. 

Today's Lesson - 17/03/16

In today's lesson, Lauren and I have been planning our evaluation and also when we are going to film the final scenes of our film.


After receiving brilliant feedback yesterday for our short film so far, we have arranged to finish our filming hopefully by the end of next Tuesday. We are feeling very confident about our film, due to the feedback we have been given and how unique our storyline is.


We have also made some amendments to our film poster which I will post up in a separate post.


We will now begin our evaluation and finalising our media course.

Pitch - Part 2

Pitch - Part 1

Voiceovers

Our initial planning included voiceovers within our short film. After editing together our footage we have taken so far we have come to the conclusion that we are not going to add in any voiceovers to our final product. We feel we have made an effective short film and that using a voiceover as well as other non diegetic and diegetic sound elements in our film it will become too cluttered and will not be as effective as we would like our short film to be.

Audience Feedback on 1st Cut Short Film and Poster

Auidence Feedback - Film Review

1st Cut of Short Film (filming not finished)

In today's lesson Lauren and I continued to edit our footage and are very pleased with our film so far. Unfortunately we have experienced difficulties with using the editing programme we are required to as it has made our film very pixelated and blurry. We are in the progress of fixing this issue and are in contact with Guide Dogs UK in order to film the last parts of our film.

Editing II

Lauren and I began to add sound to our film today and have found a website which offers royalty-free music. We will give them credit for their music in the final credits of our film.

We will use dull, sad toned music throughout most of our film, which will gradually get happier and happier as time goes on, supporting the mood of the characters.

We have gone against the 'norm' by featuring music throughout but we feel that this is effective to our piece as it aids the mood of the film.

Editing

After a long awaited successful weekend of filming, Lauren and I have been editing the footage together that we were able to shoot over the weekend.

We will add credits at a later stage and may also need to add some voice-overs.

2nd Draft - Film Poster

Lauren and I have created another draft of our film poster after we ran an online poll to ensure that our work was effective and it came out with very good results, with a few suggesting improvements which we have taken into account.

We have now included the text we wanted into our poster and will run a further poll to ensure this is effective.

Overall, we are very pleased with our poster and believe it eye-catching and relevant to our film and hope that our new poll reflects this.

Magazine Review Analysis

Film review analysis from LJ298

Codes and Conventions for Magazine Review

Film Review Conventions from jaymelouise_

Codes and conventions of film review pages from Adrianna Paniak

Magazine Review Research

A2 media studies empire magazine cover and review1 from Alleyn's School Media Studies Department

Poster Draft Poll Results

Here are our poll results, we will act upon our feedback in order to ensure the best outcome of our final film poster.

1st Draft - Film Poster

This is the first draft of our poster which is shown from the perspective of the guide dog looking at it's owner. We are planning on doing a post-release poster and will arrange where the text will be very soon.