Evaluation: Question Seven

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

Evaluation: Question Six

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

Evaluation: Question Five

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation: Question Four

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation: Question Three

What kind of media institution might distribute your media production and why?

Evaluation: Question Two

How does your media production represent particular social groups?

Evaluation: Question One

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

Final Piece

Re-Filming

Today, we filmed the new scene which will appear at the very end of our piece after the Pose and Prose title to show the continuation of our film. We filmed at a member of our group's house with the tripod and camera. We took numerous shots from different angles of Jamie exiting the house and the camera panned to follow him as he also takes his earphones out. Overall the filming went well and we will edit this to be at the end of our opening.

Health & Safety and The Making of our Production

Post-Production: Re-filming

            After almost completing the opening to our Rom-com, we have decided to deviate a little more from our storyboard by adding in a new scene. We have done this because we felt that the ending with the writer drinking from a mug didn't really create the continuation into the film that we wanted and also because in our audience feedback some of our peers and teachers suggested this. Therefore we came to the decision of re-filming. We initially wanted to film with our model to show how her narrative continues into the duration of the film. However because of time commitments and availability we could not use the female actress and so we planned for our male actor, Jamie, to be part of the new scene.


     We decided to incorporate a convention which we found many rom-coms to use; where the non-diegectic music from the opening title then transfers into a diegetic sound showing a link in the scenes. Therefore, our writer will be walking of of his house, with his headphones in and the music 'Bright Soul' will still be playing however as he takes his earphones out the music will fade out so the ambient sounds in his environment are heard. 

Post-Production: Audience Feedback 2

     We decided that we were at the stage in our production where needed feedback from our target audience to improve our piece. Therefore we decided to set up a room with a projector and invite a group of our peers to watch the opening to our Rom-Com. We tried to get a mixture of both genders however more females participated in the feedback which we thought helped aim our piece mainly towards girls of 15-24. 
      We filmed this group as they watched our production to see their response but we also asked a few people to partake in an interview, so we had more detailed feedback from them as individuals. 

Post-Production: Audience Feedback

        The opening to our film has almost been completed as we have come to the point where only small details need to be edited. Therefore, my group and I decided to ask some Year 13 Media students for some feedback on our piece for any improvements that they could suggest because they are also in the age range of our target audience. These were the main comments after watching the opening to our Rom-com:

• The shot of the kettle was too long and needed to be shortened
• The longer poses of our female character needed to be slightly shorter
• The transition from the polaroid photograph to 'real life' needed to have further adjustments for to improve the continuity
• The editing on the beat was done well
• There was a good use of titles

Overall we felt that the advice that the Year 13 Media students gave us was useful as well as more intricate feedback from our Media teachers. We will begin to make the adjustments that have been suggested so to improve our opening to make it as appealing as possible to our target audience. 

Editing

Today, we began the editing of the opening to our film. We worked on imovie which is an apple mac software and uploaded our filming. We now have the task of sequencing the shots we have filmed including aspects such as the distribution and production logos and all of the titles for the opening sequence of our Romantic Comedy. 

Filming Diary

Day One of filming:

Day Two:

Day Three:

Filming Schedule

(21st- 25th February: Some of these dates are in the half-term break and so we feel that this allows us the opportunity to re-film shots if necessary within the time period set). 

Camera Experiments: Lighting

Health & Safety

        Before filming, my group and I had to consider the health and safety of each environment we were filming in, to ensure our group and actors were safe. 


We composed a list of possible hazards within each setting and tried to devise ways of minimising these risks:


The Writer's Scene:

• hot boiling water from the kettle -- we would warn our actor of the risk and be cautious of spillages.

• Numerous items -- not to trip over them whilst filming and therefore we would move them to a safe place.

The Photo Shoot Scene:

• wires -- we will have to tape wires to the floor so as not to trip over them

• the bright lights for the shoot -- we would warn our actress of the brightness.

The Reception Scene:

• the receptionist walking in high heels -- we would ensure the actress was as comfortable as possible, walking in the shoes and support her if she lost her balance.

Animatic Storyboard

            We created a visual storyboard which tested our camera shots and the continuity of our piece. We have not added the title on however as we were mainly trying out our shots rather than post production skills. Also the mise-en-scene of shots are not correct however the general idea is conveyed. 

Storyboard