Evaluation Question 6

"What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?"

Throughout the entirety of the project, my group were constantly relying on technology to ensure the best possible product. We had to learn new skills with software that we were unfamiliar with and took full advantage of technology to deliver our final product and help us through the journey there from the research stages. During the whole of the process, my group all used Blogger to keep on track of the work and have a space to share all our ideas and refer to any ideas at any point.

RESEARCH

PLANNING

PRODUCTION

POST PRODUCTION

Evaluation Question 5

"Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final product?"

As a whole, I feel like we did progress in a positive way from the preliminary task to the final product. I think that this is because we were able to use the preliminary task to guide us, we had got practise with the filming, the editing and the sound and began to understand how to manage them. We also had to use the 180 degree rule to ensure that the conversation within our preliminary task maintained structured and made sense to the audience. At first, whilst filming the preliminary task, we seemed to cross this line a few times when the character was walking through the door, and then when we were playing back the footage, we noticed that we had crossed the line. We were then able to change this and film from another direction. Our footage did seem to maintain the 180 degree rule, although the conversation at points didn't seem to match up, possibly because of the different angles and the different levels of lighting received from each side of the conversation. We did, however, manage to keep within the rule when it came to our final product. However we did have to delete some footage because it had crossed the 180 degree line whilst Emma was walking down the train station. After we had deleted the footage, we did then actually realise that we preferred the continuity of the sequence without that part. We were also able to use other technical elements and improve on them....

This is the actual song to the instrumental that we used at the very beginning of the opening

Here is the acoustic version of our main soundtrack

Here is the soundtrack that we used at the very end of the opening

Evaluation Question 3 and 4

"Who would be the audience for the media product?"

"How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

(I will embed this video when it shows up in my youtube videos on here)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUK5sb8G4Js

Evaluation Question 2

"In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"

Evaluation Question 1

"What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?"

As a group we had to decide on a distributor. Our distributor would be based on the outcomes that we want from this film. Our main focus and drive is to get a message out, we therefore do not need a Hollywood massive company like Sony to distribute our film. This is because our film is very individual and does not show many conventions of a typical Hollywood  romance film, for example Wild Child or Clueless. We have not catered specifically for typical American audiences although it would be suitable for a global audience to watch however this is not our main aim. We would just want to get our message across and connect with teenage girls rather than making loads of money. For this reason, we decided to go down an 'independent film' route, and researched several companies that have previously and continue to distribute independent films. For this reason we chose Fox Searchlight Pictures. This company is owned by the large American company called 'Fox'. Fox Searchlight Pictures specifically target independent and British films to distribute to British audiences and sometimes American and internationally. This gives us a bigger audience which means that more people see it and hear our message. Our group put together some facts and figures to show why we chose Fox Searchlight Pictures as our possible distributor using Prezi.

Changes in our film

CHANGE OF CASTING

Whilst we were filming the first stages of our sequence, we encountered casting problems. Our actress for Emma's character, Rhiannon, came from a different school and so we had to base our shooting schedule around the times that she could do. This became a problem because we had to make sure that we were filming at specific times which allowed smooth continuation and transition through out the day. This however became harder to do because of the narrow schedule that we were restricted to. This shooting schedule was also limited because we could not allow ourselves time to reshoot if needed. We could not be flexible to ensure the best possible clips and because of this restriction, we decided to change the actor. Instead, We decided that it would be best if I acted as Emma instead. This way, we knew that I was more available to film than Rhiannon was so we could be more flexible with how long we took to film. We changed the character profile of Emma to suit this change.

CHANGE IN STORYBOARD

After filming our classroom scene, when we came to editing it into our sequence, we realised that the shots that we had filmed were very dark and sometimes very bumpy. The whole "look" just didn't seem to work and we were not happy with the footage that we had shot. We had to find an effective way of getting over this obstacle. We thought of different ways to introduce Emma with lighting, practicability and casting. Since we had already asked a lot of people to spend time filming, we wondered whether we could limit the amount of people we used. This way we could spend as much time as we wanted filming and re-filming to get as much quality footage as we could. We decided that we still wanted to show Emma through a transparent/reflective medium, and for this reason, we chose a reflection through a mirror. We thought of ideal places to show a reflection. We preferably wanted to find a reflection through a mirror to guarantee a reflection -unlike our initial idea of the reflection through a window. We then realised that it would be effective to show this reflection through a mirror in the school toilets. We decided to show Emma through her reflection, joined by two other girls who appear to be friends. These girls fix their hair and talk amongst each other, although the audience cannot hear them because this is where the voice over occurs. We thought that this would be a better introduction to Emma's character because we were able to show her feelings and insecurities around her reflection and then compare this to the other girls' confidence to outline the importance of appearance for females. We then had to consider which camera shots and movement would work effectively with this idea and altered our storyboard to show this change.

CHANGE IN SCRIPT

Because of the changes we made, we also had to update our script. But, whilst editing our initial sequence with Rhiannon as the character, we noticed faults in our scripting and how effective it was. The actor of Harry, Aaron, had dialogue without his presence. This ended up sounding a little weird, especially alongside the actual words. For this reason, we changed the dialogue so that the conversation was a little bit more relaxed and natural, rather than Harry quoting an Oliver Twist book. 

Our Finished Product

This is our final product of 'I've Got Time'.