Film - Link To Our Prezi Evaluation

http://prezi.com/ooz8ctw3_u9r/media-evaluation/

Film - Final Evaluation (Feedback)

After showing our Prezi presentation to the class in last Thursday's lesson we all felt that didn't go to plan. We were worried that we would not gain as many marks for our presentation skills. We decided as a group that it would be best if we presented again to make sure that we could gain the best possible marks. However in the next lesson our teacher told us that it was not even necessary to present and that the evaluations could all be done electronically.
As were were now not presenting our Prezi again we need to add some writing to it. We added a little paragraph of writing to each screen shot picture. We included things such as what camera angles were used and why and what the mise en scene shows.

Film - Prezi Presentation

For our final evaluation we decided to add a Prezi Presentation to make it more interesting and interactive for the examiners and our class when we show it to them. We first all set up a Prezi account so we could all access the presentation whenever we needed to. On our Prezi we wanted screenshots from our film opening, the questions of the evaluation and the answers to the evaluation questions. To get the screenshots on our Prezi we took several screenshots on the MAC computers and then put the pictures onto a memory stick so we could transfer them to a PC computer which we could then upload to Prezi.
We had already filmed our evaluation questions but we found it really hard to edit out all the mistakes. So we then decided to re-film the evaluation questions by deleting the mistakes straight away on the camera if any happened. This means that the editing process of the questions which be much quicker. Once we had re-filmed we imported the footage up onto the MAC. We then needed a memory stick to transfer the material to the PC so we could upload it to our presentation. Unfortunately our memory stick that we were using did not seem to be compatible with exporting footage from the MAC so we borrowed a classmate's memory stick which allowed to export the footage easily.

Film - Final Evaluation

After a lot of thought we decided that it would not be possible to do our evaluation in the way that we originally wanted to. We came up with an idea of filming our evaluation in our Media classroom with a powerpoint behind us, showing specific scenes from our film which relating to what our evaluation answers we talking about. Before we filmed we had to get the powerpoint in order of which scenes we were talking about. We did this by taking screen shots of the scenes we needed such as the suicide scene, the funeral scene, the panning camera movement in the boys bedroom and the animation. After getting all the correct pictures we had to put them in the order of who was talking. We then filmed ourselves answering the questions with the pictures in the background. We wanted to get an effect as if we were standing in the actual scene which we think that we achieved quite well. After filming we uplodaing the footage onto the MAC computer as we were going to edit it and add titles, fades and possibly background music.

Film - Evaluation Questions

For the evaluation we must answer 7 different questions. As there is 3 of us working together on the evaluation we have decided to each write up 2 of the answers and then write one answer all together. My questions were " What kind of Media Institution might distribute your media product and why?" and "What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing your Media product?"

What kind of Media Institution might distribute your Media product and why?

We think that the most appropriate production company for our film would be Film4 Production. The company is owned by Channel 4 and has been responsible for backing a large number of films in the UK such as 127 Hours, Shaun of the Dead and Slumdog Millionaire. Film4 is known for show casing British Drama films which are typically low budget.  A good example of this is the film This Is England. Released in 2006 the film grossed over £5,000,000 with a relatively low budget of £1,500,000. Judging by our film opening, our film would be low budget made; similar to that of This is England.  The most suitable distributor of our film would be a UK based distributor such as Optimum Releasing. Optimum releasing are one of the UK’s largest film distributors. And with releasing around 200 films a year they are the most prominent distributors in the UK independent film market. 

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing your media product?

The most important thing that we have learnt in the process of constructing our media product is how to edit properly.  When making our preliminary tasks we were very limited in what we could create and add to our film as we were all relatively new with the I-Movie software. As we continued with our project we begin finding new things that we could do our projects such as spacing out the text that we used. We did this with the Title of the film and the actor’s names to make it look more professional and polished.  We also learned how to trim clips of music. The beginning of our film opening starts with the slower paced part of Hometown Glory then moves to faster pace and then ends with again the slow part of the song. We had to make sure that all parts of the music fitted in correctly with the scenes that we wanted to. Another thing that we learned was how to make animations. At the beginning of our film we used an animation which we made of the software serif.  We had briefly used the software a few years ago in ICT but for our film we used how to make a stop frame animation which we were really pleased with. 

Film - Evaluation Plan

As our opening of our film is practically finished we now need to make a start on the evaluation of the opening. One member of our group, Inez, does not wish to work with us on the evaluation and has therefore decided to do her own evaluation for our film opening. This means that myself, Libby and Nancy will do the evaluation together. To gain the best possible marks, the evaluation needs to be creative and interesting. We had a group discussion in one of our Media lessons and decided that it would be a bit different if we filmed ourselves answering the evaluation questions in the locations where we filmed. For example in the Oxford Public toilets, on Cutterslowe Bridge and in the Christchurch College Quad. By doing this we hope to create an more interesting and appealing evaluation section. We think that it would round off our Media Film nicely by engaging the audience again in the locations that we used.

Film - Final Edit Of ABUSED