Evaluation, Question 7

What have we learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

During our time of making our film, we have learned how to use  different types of technologies and some of them were even new to us! Me and my group have created a  little animatic to demonstrate the technologies that we have used. 

It was fun getting to learn how to use all these technologies that were new to me. I believe I have learnt a lot about technologies that can be used to create a film, and if I make a film again, it should be much more easier for me!!

Evaluation: Question 3

Who would be the target audience for your media product?


In class we had a discussion about who our target audience for our thriller. we finally decided that our target range would be rated 15.

However we would be targeting 18 to 30 years olds.  we have decided this becasue they are more mature, we think that it would be too scary for younger children. We dont think it would be suitible for them.

this would be our range:

We went on to this animation website where you can create characters and scenes for the to be in.. we have used this website to make one to help create a montage of our typical target audience..

We have made this animation of some of the things that our target audinece member would do on a regular basis...
GoAnimate.com: Kim 18 by ethelafrane

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This is the typical things that they would have in their bag..

QUESTION 7 What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product

This is me and Ethel talking about all the things we have learned.

QUESTION 6 Audience Feedback and comments

This is a wordle of what people thought about our film opening and here are some peoples comments of our film.

Evaluation, Question 3

Who would be the audience for our media product?

Because of the aspects of our film and the story line, our target audience is girls and boys (mainly girls) aged at least 13 years and above. This is because the theme of our film is about a young girl who is obsessed with dolls so this might appeal to girls that like to play with dolls or girls who used to play with dolls when they were younger. It may appeal to boys because the the 'thrilling' side of it (as in general, males seem to like thrilling films more than females). I have created a small monatge of what the typical target audience may look like.

 I have chosen the girl that I have circled in red to be our example of our typical audience for our film (her name is Emma). I created a very short animation (on http://www.goanimate.com/) of Emma. Take a look!

GoAnimate.com: Kim 18 by ethelafrane

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I have also created a montage to show the things that Emma may carry around in her bag.

As you can see, Emma is a typical teenage girl carrying typical things that a girl of her age would carry with them in their bags on an average day. There are three significant things in her bag that I have circled in red; her doll, a Blockbuster membership card and a Vue (Vue cinemas) gift card. These three items give away a hint as to why she is a typical example of who would watch our film. The doll (which she has named Amber) is her 'good luck' doll and she carries it in her bag wherever she goes. She carries this doll around as she used to love playing with dolls when she was younger, however, as she got older she obviously stopped playing with them but she still has an obsession with dolls. She has had Amber since she was a little girl and she feels Amber gives her good luck and makes good things come her way. The fact that she used to love playing with dolls (and still loves them) makes her a good example of our typical audience. Girls like her may be more willing to watch our film as the theme of it is about dolls, however they may dislike the fact that the doll in our film (Annabelle) is evil as they may feel that this is a bad representation of dolls.

The Blockbuster membership card (which tells us that she visits the cinemas regularly) and the Vue cinemas gift card show that she likes to rent out and watch films. The Blockbuster card shows that she is a member and this means that if our film was to be distributed as a DVD she would most likely rent it out and watch it. Also, if our film was released in cinemas it is also likely that she would watch it to as she has a £20 gift voucher!!

Evaluation, Question 6 (Part 3)

Watching our film in 'The Screen On The Green' cinema and getting audience feedback

Today was really exciting as we finally got to watch our film ( as well as every other media groups' film) in The Screen On The Green cinemas in Islington Green (not far from our college). It was good as the audience was really responsive, active and supportive and it was good to see the kind of films other students created. Below are some images I took while I was there...

This is the cinema!!

These are other groups' films playing on the screens

This is our film showing on the screen!!!!!

Most importantly I was able to record some people giving me feedback of our film using my video camera! I have posted them below!

 

EVALUATION; Q8

 LOOKING BACK AT YOUR PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNED IN THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO THE FULL PRODUCT?


-Looking back at our preliminary, I feel that we have progressed, becoming more confident with using Final   Cut and Soundtrack Pro and we have learnt from our mistakes, taking them in to help us make the final production as good as it can be.

Preliminary;

Final Production;

-Looking at the preliminary and the final production, the CANDI Studios looks more professional and is more readable in the final production rather than in the preliminary, although we did not make it ourselves, it gives our opening a more  high quality professional look.

TITLES

-I feel that when adding titles to our preliminary, we rushed, as we spent too much time editing and adding sound that we did not have enough time to think about where the titles should go. But when it came to our final production, we looked back at what we have learned about opening sequences - where the titles should go, and thought carefully about where each one should go and what font/colour we wanted to use.


SOUND
-In the preliminary, we worked so much on the sound, which is another reason why we didn't have enough time to add the titles, but when it came to the final production, we used our time wisely and worked on each different aspect equally.

CAMERA SHOTS
-We used simple shots in the preliminary and didn't vary the shots much, we had lots of medium shots and and close ups, but when it came to the final production I feel that we also didn't vary our shots, we also had lots of medium shots, but hardly any close ups. 


MISE EN SCENE
-For the preliminary, we didn't take much thought into it apart from the gun we used and the scene, for costumes, we didn't plan anything for that so Ethel and Fatama just wore what they were wearing on that day. However, for the final production, we took so much thought into it, as we had to change the way our character looked from the first time we started filming. The scene where we were filming helped us to make our decision as it was an ordinary bedroom and we felt that the character we had before didn't fit in with the scene.