38d. Evalutaion Question Four

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

I answered this question using the Prezi Below.

38c. Evalutation Question Three

What have your learned from your audience feedback?



These are links to my posts where I have written about my feedback.

Post 36 alterations to film review article and feedback
Post 31 Poster final design and feedback
Post 25c Second draft of film and feedback
Post 25b First draft of film and feedback

This is a Padlet I have used to show how I have changed my Main task and Ancillary tasks according to audience feedback.

Created with Padlet

This is my feedback for my poster using soundcloud:


This is my Audience feedback using a flip camera:

38b. Evaluation Question Two

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Here I have used Lino It to post all of my tasks.

Here I have created a SlideShare talking about my main task and anciallary tasks.

38a. Evaluation Question One

As a group, we tried to reinforce the conventions of a drama and also those of a short film. The conventions of a drama are; real life situations that the target audience can relate to, dramatic relationships and obstacles that the protagonist has to overcome alongside intense social interaction. For our film, we used our school as the main setting. This was convenient for us while filming as it meant that we were able to film during our free periods in the school day, but it is also a recognisable environment that everybody can relate to. Another way that my film adheres to these conventions is through the characters that are used.  These characters were school children, bullies, teachers and policemen.  These are people that the audience would recognise from day to day scenarios and so would be able to relate to them. This will help draw them further into the story.

Conventions of a drama film from molliebugg

We used mise-en-scene to help add to the realism of the storyline. For example, the costumes that we used were everyday clothes that our actors would wear on an everyday basis around school. We also used a policeman’s hat in the scene where Josh is being told off by a policeman, this made the character more authentic and showed him to be in a position of power. We also used props, such as a knife. The knife connotes violence so helped show the gang to be antagonists. The lighting we used was mainly natural lighting as most of our scenes were set outside during the day. However, during the scenes that are inside, for example the school office and Josh’s bedroom, we bounced red beads at the ceiling top create an overall soft lighting effect often used in dramas.

During editing, we created montages. These helped show the relationships between Josh and the gang and Josh and Amy in a relatively fast way. Montages were fist used in the 1920’s and are a conventional way to build tension and show the passage of time. During editing we could have used transitions between shots but we felt this did not fit with the conventions of a drama as they can remove the audience. During filming, we tried to use a variety of camera shots and angles as well as applying continuity editing. We used high angle shots on Josh to make him appear inferior and low angle shots on the gang of boys to make them come across as stronger than Josh and controlling. We also tried to use close-ups of Josh to show his emotion and help the audience sympathise with him and make a connection. If we were too re-filmed then I think using more close-ups would make our film stronger as this would mean we could show more emotion form a variety of characters at different points within the film. We used a combination of non diagetic and diagetic sound within our film. The diagetic sound is mainly the dialogue between characters; this helps to show them building relationships and moves the storyline along. However, during editing we also added in non-diagetic sounds, such as music, over some of the shots. This helps to show what the character is feeling, such as the loud and aggressive music played whilst Josh storms out of his bedroom which helps show his anger. 

Me and Fiona Aldwin also created a director's commentry on our film.  

37b. Final Products

These are my final produtcts.

Short Film:

Poster:

Magazine Review double page spread:

37a. Roles and Reponsibilies within filming

My Roles:

• Organised Locations
•  Chief Editor
• Sound 
• Played a major role within the Camera Work
• Made my own Magazine and Poster

Fiona Aldwins Roles:

• Organised Actors
• Co-Editer
•  Played a major roles within the Camera Work
• Costumes 
• Made her own magazine and poster

Ben Howard's Roles:

• Acting
• Contributed to Camera Work
• Runner
• Made his own poster and magazine

Rosie-Mae Christopher's Roles:

• Contributed to camera work 
• Contributed to editing
• Made her own poster and magazine

36. Alterations to film review according to feedback

This is the first draft of my film review article:

 

This is the final draft of my film review article

 

Using my feedback, I have adapted my magazine review article to appeal more to my target audience. To do this, I have added a stand out quote in large blue letters. This breaks up the text and adds more colour into the article.

 

I also added a 'Look Closer' section over the corner of the photograph. This contains 3 facts about the film that the audience may not know. This is a convention of an Empire magazine article which I have based my magazine review on.

 

The last thing I have changed, is adding in a caption to the photo in the corner, this is always used in empire magazine articles and makes the review look more realistic and as if it would be featured in a magazine.