Thursday, 28 April 2016
Monday, 25 April 2016
Evaluation
Evaluation
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.
Codes and conventions from Caitlin McPoland on Vimeo.
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Technology Eval from Caitlin McPoland on Vimeo.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Since the preliminary task I have learnt a vast amount however I feel that the most important thing I have learnt is that it is vital that the script is understandable and the storyline is clear, I feel that our preliminary task was difficult to understand and therefore this caused it to suffer in regards to the overall quality of the product and the audience was left slightly confused, we tried to make sure we did not repeat this mistake in the creation of our final media product whilst at the same time we thought it was extremely important that our final media product raise the viewers curiosity as it is the opening of a film and we wish for it to capture the audience.
We have also learnt several things in regards to the actual filming process, I believe that the quality of the shots we produced this time not only were of far better quality but also were significantly more difficult and required a greater level of skill as we were making use of several handheld shots and a tracking shot which we found to be extremely difficult to capture correctly however I feel we did eventually achieve this, we did not attempt as difficult a shot in our preliminary task as we felt we would be unable to do it correctly however we realised that it was very important within our final task that we showcase a range of shots varying in difficulty.
This time we also managed to make sure that everybody did there assigned task successfully and that the work load was shared equally, we struggled to achieve this with our preliminary task as we did not do a detailed role allocation and therefore there was slight confusion in regards to who was to do what, We felt that it was important to avoid being in that situation again so we made sure everybody was clear as to whet they were to do.
Another thing that we have come to realise in the importance of sound and audio, in our preliminary the audio we used was not of a particularly high standard and we recognised this soon after finishing the editing process, we felt it was extremely important that we improve this for our final task and I think that we have achieved this in our final media product, we spent a great amount of time debating as to what type of music we wanted in the background of out media product and I feel the acoustic music we used was extremely effective and so were the sound effects that we have included, we felt these sound effects were necessary as they helped us to convey the fact that the film was indeed sci-fi and not a thriller. However upon the topic of audio we have discovered how verbal communication is not indeed necessary throughout the media product in regards to conveying the situation that is occurring, I believe that in our preliminary we possibly included to much speech with the intention of making the situation clear when in fact we actually did the opposite and managed to confuse the situation which cause the audience to be left confused.
We also learnt the importance of having plenty of research and having a definite storyboard and screen play previous to actually starting to film, we did not really do this previous to our preliminary and this meant that we were following very little direction and we ended up having to make several changes at the last minute which lowered the overall quality when compared to what it could have potentially been if we had of done this research and planning. We made sure that previous to starting to actual film our final media product we knew exactly what we were going to film on each day and estimated how long this would take, this meant that we were more efficient when it came to filming and therefore had more time to edit and I believe that overall this benefited our media product greatly. We also made sure this time to prepare our actors better as with our preliminary task we ended up having to feed lines to our actors as we were filming, this made to filming last significantly longer and made the editing process significantly longer. In order to prevent this from happening again we made sure that the only speaking actor we had, which was the news reporter, was given her line weeks in advance so that she had the opportunity to learn her lines previous to filming.
Overall I believe we,as a group have learnt a vast amount since our preliminary and that our standard of work has greatly increased over the past weeks as well as our ability to work in a team.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products.
Codes and conventions from Caitlin McPoland on Vimeo.
How does your media product represent particular social
groups?
3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
groups?
3.What kind of media institution might distribute your media
product and why?
Who would be the audience for your media product?
How did you attract/address your audience?
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
ScreenShots from Editing Process
learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Since the preliminary task I have learnt a vast amount however I feel that the most important thing I have learnt is that it is vital that the script is understandable and the storyline is clear, I feel that our preliminary task was difficult to understand and therefore this caused it to suffer in regards to the overall quality of the product and the audience was left slightly confused, we tried to make sure we did not repeat this mistake in the creation of our final media product whilst at the same time we thought it was extremely important that our final media product raise the viewers curiosity as it is the opening of a film and we wish for it to capture the audience.
We have also learnt several things in regards to the actual filming process, I believe that the quality of the shots we produced this time not only were of far better quality but also were significantly more difficult and required a greater level of skill as we were making use of several handheld shots and a tracking shot which we found to be extremely difficult to capture correctly however I feel we did eventually achieve this, we did not attempt as difficult a shot in our preliminary task as we felt we would be unable to do it correctly however we realised that it was very important within our final task that we showcase a range of shots varying in difficulty.
This time we also managed to make sure that everybody did there assigned task successfully and that the work load was shared equally, we struggled to achieve this with our preliminary task as we did not do a detailed role allocation and therefore there was slight confusion in regards to who was to do what, We felt that it was important to avoid being in that situation again so we made sure everybody was clear as to whet they were to do.
Another thing that we have come to realise in the importance of sound and audio, in our preliminary the audio we used was not of a particularly high standard and we recognised this soon after finishing the editing process, we felt it was extremely important that we improve this for our final task and I think that we have achieved this in our final media product, we spent a great amount of time debating as to what type of music we wanted in the background of out media product and I feel the acoustic music we used was extremely effective and so were the sound effects that we have included, we felt these sound effects were necessary as they helped us to convey the fact that the film was indeed sci-fi and not a thriller. However upon the topic of audio we have discovered how verbal communication is not indeed necessary throughout the media product in regards to conveying the situation that is occurring, I believe that in our preliminary we possibly included to much speech with the intention of making the situation clear when in fact we actually did the opposite and managed to confuse the situation which cause the audience to be left confused.
We also learnt the importance of having plenty of research and having a definite storyboard and screen play previous to actually starting to film, we did not really do this previous to our preliminary and this meant that we were following very little direction and we ended up having to make several changes at the last minute which lowered the overall quality when compared to what it could have potentially been if we had of done this research and planning. We made sure that previous to starting to actual film our final media product we knew exactly what we were going to film on each day and estimated how long this would take, this meant that we were more efficient when it came to filming and therefore had more time to edit and I believe that overall this benefited our media product greatly. We also made sure this time to prepare our actors better as with our preliminary task we ended up having to feed lines to our actors as we were filming, this made to filming last significantly longer and made the editing process significantly longer. In order to prevent this from happening again we made sure that the only speaking actor we had, which was the news reporter, was given her line weeks in advance so that she had the opportunity to learn her lines previous to filming.
Overall I believe we,as a group have learnt a vast amount since our preliminary and that our standard of work has greatly increased over the past weeks as well as our ability to work in a team.
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