Evaluation (Part 8) - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learn in the progression from it to the full product?

Preliminary Task:
Digital Technology:



Strengths:
I think one of the main strengths of the work was the actual continuity of the work and the match on action. This was the main objective of the preliminary task and I think we executed it smoothly. For example at 0.04 when I open the door from one angle and then the camera cuts to the interior of the room at 0.05 and the continuity was smooth and had the perfect timing. 

Weaknesses:

I think the weaknesses of the digital technology could have been how I handled the camera in some shots. For example, at 0.20 when using the handheld camera, I was very shaky which ruined the focus and quality of the picture.

Improvements:
I have improved this in my final opening sequence 'Framed' as at 0.28 in my final sequence I am again using a handheld camera yet this time I managed to keep the camera in focus and less shaky improving the picture quality.

Post Production:
Strengths:
I think the strengths in post production were the editing. I think the cuts we added to the preliminary task was effective especially at 0.11 where it cuts to a close of the clock to connote time has passed.

Weaknesses:

I think that a weakness of the post production is that there may not have been enough transitions added when editing the work. I think adding a few more may have made the preliminary task look visually better.

Improvements:

I think I have improved and developed my editing skills in post production as I have learnt how to add audio files into the movie, how to import graphics into the movie, reduce the contrast by a certain percentage and how to increase the sound of audio at certain parts and decrease the sound.                             

Planning and Research:

Strengths:

The strengths of our planning and research for our preliminary task was the story board and the actual research itself. We would not have been able to get the shots  right if we did not know the research itself - for example the rule of three and the match on action and the 180 degrees rule. 

Weaknesses:

I think the main weakness of planning and research was that there wasn't enough time to plan more extensively as my partner and I had joined the media subject later then everyone else so we had limited time to plan.

Improvements:

I have made improvements in the planning and research section in my final opening sequence as I have managed to use the knowledge gained from the research in final production such as the match on action, rule of three etc.

Creativity:

Strengths:

I used my creativity to develop the scenario as I thought we went with a different idea to everyone else's  We could have came up with the typical narrative which everyone uses but we decided to try something different and unique which I believe made us stand out from the others. The narrative of our short movie was I was a police officer interrogating Spencer as he had supposedly committed a crime, which no one else did which made is unique.

Weaknesses:

I think that I could have made the narrative a little more interesting as even though the idea was original, it did not seem fast paced enough and attention attracting.

Improvements:

I think that i have taken the creativity and the original narrative of the preliminary task and developed my skills onto the final opening sequence as I thought of an original and unique narrative for that too.

Targets For Next Year:

My targets for next year would definitely be to use my time wisely and as I have learnt that time management is a key area and an area which I lacked in this years tasks. Other targets would be to add a little more use of editing skills such as adding some more transitions into clips to link or separate to scenes and make my work more visually appealing and interesting.  

Evaluation (Part 7) - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this prdouct?

Evaluation(Part 6)- How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation (Part 5) - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

In my opening sequence, we represented different social groups through camera, angle, shots movement and position, editing, sound, mise-en-scene, expressionism and typography.

The main focus of our rep was teenagers who have been unjust.We wanted to get the message across that the stereotype of some teenagers in Britain are not always nothing but trouble and sometimes they find themselves in situations which was not their fault or they could not control and why we wanted to appeal to teenagers and young adults in Britain and also display the reality of the mundane lifestyle in Britain for some teens.

Camera:

In this shot we decided to use a mid shot from a low angle. We used this to represent the power level and authority the undercover police has, as we are looking up towards him connoting his high level of power. We also decided to use this shot as it was the best way to introduce the agent of change as it represents how he is quick to burst into the scene carelessly to arrest the protagonist and the low shot connoted this power.

For this we used a two shot from a low angle to again connote the high power level of the undercover police as opposed the the delivery boy. We can see from the the two shot that the cop is standing tall and firm while the delivery boy in on the floor helpless which again connotes the power of police as a social group.

Here we used a high angle from a point of view perspective of the undercover police. The police is looking down at the delivery boy again displaying the low power of the delivery boy and the high power of the police and a social group. 

Editing: 

Here we used editing to represent the social groups. We did this by creating the recording graphic and added it in to the clip to connote that the protagonist is being interviewed as he had been arrested for the drugs. 

This also created verisimilitude and represented a stereotype in the current era of how youths are always getting into trouble due to the fact that we had this scene fade in (edited on mac) right after the drugs were shown to denote the protagonist getting in trouble and being interviewed.

Mise-en-scene:

Here we used the mice-en-scene to create the representation of particular social groups in the opening sequence. In the shot we can see how the character is looking around with a weary expression which could connote that he may be doing something dodgy and  or may be on the lookout for something and someone or going into unknown territory. Again this could represent the stereotype of youths in this era engaging in suspicious activity's and causing trouble and exploring new things.

Here we can see through the facial expression of the character that he is bored and just waiting for something. This represents the social groups of some young British people with the mundane lifestyle. 

Here we used mice-en-scene to represent the stereotype of youths getting involved with drugs in the modern era. We did this by having the shot of the drugs run for around 5 seconds which stuck in the audiences head.

Expressionism:

Here we can see how the lighting is very dark and dull and also the clothes the character is wearing is dark grey which is dull, which could be reflective on the representation of the character. We particularly chose these colours and lighting scheme as we wanted to display how the colours represent the dull and boring lifestyle of some youths in Britain.

Sound:

The music we used in the video was a slow, mysterious grime instrumental beat. We used this specific genre of music as grime is a common genre which is listened to in Britain and mostly among youths, which could represent how the youths in the current era listen to a lot of grime which could represent youths in this era as being mysterious and mischievous. 

Evaluation (Part 4) - In what ways does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and convntions of real media products?

Evaluation (Part 3) - What impact did the media institution Film 4 have on each production stage and why?

Evaluation(Part 2) - Who would the audience be for your product?