Showing posts with label Issey. Show all posts
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Friday, 22 April 2016

THE EVALUATION: Question Five

Question Five

Our actors are teenagers, this made our opening sequence relatable to our target audiance and the way the actors reacted to diffrent situations. As our opening sequence is also about friendship, this relates to a teenage genre as teenage years are the most dramatic when it comes to friendships and shapes the people to who they will be when they are older. Our jump cuts and transitions make our opening sequence more tense which appeals to our target audiance, it is stereotypically known that teens love horror films, love the thrill and watching it with friends. We feel like this really appeals to our Audiance.

We also got a lot of people from our school to watch our opening sequence and feed back to us. We have filmed two pairs in task nineteen target audiance but in general we all got a lot of possitive feed back and comments. Things that pointed out the most to us by our ideal target audiance was the flash back, it was pointed out that the black jumps in the opening sequence was effective and worked well with the audio of the heart beats to go in time to create more tension.

A variety of our target audiance also appealed to Melissa Zero, who has been seen in two CBBC programs, this was a familia face to our sequence which also made our opening sequence stand out.

After a short amount on time on facebook we got a few possitive comments which where all around the same age of our taeget audiance (Teenagers) which gave us a better understanding that if our film was to be published the kind of audiance we would attract.

THE EVALUATION: Question Four

Question Four

THE EVALUATION: Question One



In question one I spoke about the ways that our media production use, develop or challenge forms and conventions from real media.







Monday, 18 April 2016

TASK NINETEEN: Target Audience

Target Audience 

I arranged a time where we were able to ask three pairs a range of questions after watching our opening sequence 'Missing'. I asked the groups seven different questions. By asking four groups instead of one we were able to have a more accurate overview of our opening sequence and a wider range of the opinions from our target audience.

Here are the questions asked:

1- What stood out for you the most during the Opening Sequence and why?

2- What do you think needs improving in our Opening Sequence and why?

3- Who do you think is our target audience?

4- How did you feel when you watched our opening sequence?

5- What Genre do you think our opening sequence is and why?

6- Do you think the audio we used went well and contrasted well with the opening sequence?

7- How did you fell about the locations we shot our opening sequence in?

Friday, 15 April 2016

TAST SEVENTEEN: The Editing Process

The Editing Process

Throughout editing our opening sequence we took screenshots of what we did in Final Cut Pro to achieve what we have now. We used different tools to make our opening sequence more effective.


In the screenshot above you can see that in our first scene of Kate (Milly) there are various cut outs - these are the black gaps you can see throughout the clip. This was essential in our opening sequence because as the screen changes back and forth, we have music to accompany it.


Here you can see the sound that we have added in the sound of a heart beat. We wanted to have this playing throughout this first scene so that the audience could sense that something bad is happening and it gives them more of an idea of how the character is feeling at this moment. 


Here we needed the sound to slowly fade as the scene was coming to an end. We did this by clicking the sound and dragging it backwards. After this we changed the sound fade shape. We did this by control-clicking the fade, and choosing a fade option form the shortcut menu. We used -3dB because we felt that it was the one that fittest most with the scene.


In this screen grab there are tonal contracts from the added filter that was found under ‘Effects’. The effect we used throughout our opening sequence was Luna and Cool Tones. In some cases we used Luna and Cool Tones together to create the right colouring. The effects can be placed onto the video by simply being dragged onto the chosen clip where the filter is needed.



Here we needed to show the audience that there was a jump in time. We did this by adding a transition in the video to show the audience that the next scene is not related to the previous one. To ensure the audience that they completely understand the time difference we added in text (2 YEARS LATER), this effect was found under ‘Titles’, ‘Build in/Out’ and the effect is called ‘Typewriter’ Not only does the typewriter effect nicely show the time jump but also gives our opening sequence more of a professional feel.


Like any intense opening sequence we needed to add a range of music throughout, we found a variety of music on youtube after a lot of hard hunting that would fit into our opening sequence. We downloaded the music through youtube converter and then, after the audio came up in iTunes we simply dragged it music to where it was needed. We was able to fade the music, shortern it and change the volume buy adjusting the settings. 






For the texts that come up on the screen in the scenes where Claire (Rosie) is using her phone, we used After Effects. We followed the instructions that came with the download package for the messaging template. After we made this we opened the template up in Final Cut Pro and added it to our opening sequence.


At the end of our clip we wanted Claire's (Rosie) scream to carry on after the screen had gone black. So we copied a section of the audio of her scream and added it back in again. 


We did a similar thing earlier on in the opening sequence where we fit the dialogue of Claire (Rosie) saying "Kate" and we fit it back into where he mouth is moving.


Once most of our editing was complete we went threw our opening sequence we added a variety of jump cuts. These cuts fitted in well in our sequence as it added tension and suits the genre not only this but it added more visuals. 

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

TASK SIX: 25 Word Pitch

25 Word Pitch

I created my 25 Word Pitch by recording myself writing 25 words that related to our Opening Sequence. I used Final Cut Pro to add effects to the video, this allowed me to add different colour effects, music, speeding techniques, an introduction and cropping software. This allowed the 25 Word Pitch to become more visually appealing to the viewers.