Evaluation question 7

evaluation questions

Today, we have received the final question of our evaluation. The question is:

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

Evaluation question 6

Apple Mac - we have learned that using a mac is the best way of producing a media product, due to its speed, its clarity and its array of media software. 

Sony Camcorder - To film our opening sequence, I used a HD Sony Handycam which is of good enough video quality and is easy to carry around due to its small size.

Final Cut Pro x - I learnt a lot from the Final Cut Pro editing software. I used it because it is a professional software and is better, more updated and easier to use than final cut express. It is much easier to add transitions and filters. It is simple to trim, blade, and range select as well as editing in and out music. Also it wasn't a tough task to upload our product to youtube when we finished it

 Audacity - I used Audacity, which is a technological recording software. I used it to record my own voice when creating several directors commentaries. I learnt how easy it was to convert the audacity file into mp3 (Blogger compatible) and how to transfer it to the website 'Internet Archive' before embedding the link onto Blogger. After doing it once, it becomes simple. 

Garage Band - We used Garage Band to create the music for our ident and to modify our non-diegetic soundtrack. It is a good software to use because it has good sound effects and can be easily transferred to Final Cut Pro.  

Prezi - I used Prezi to present certain information. I learnt that you could apply pictures with text and create an animation on a background of your choice. It is a good alternative to Powerpoint because it is more animated. 

Powerpoint - I used Powerpoint because i was already proficiently skilled in terms of creating useful presentations that will achieve getting my information across successfully

evaluation questions

We have been introduced to the 6th question of our evaluation, the question is:

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

Evaluation question 5

Evaluation question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product? by Philipp Borisov on GoAnimate

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evaluation questions

We have been introduced to the 5th question of our evaluation. The question is:

How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation questions

Today we have received question 4 of our evaluation. The question is:

What would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation question 3

evaluation questions

We have received our 3rd question of our evaluation and to answer it I'm a going to create a powerpoint presentation. The question is :

 What type of institution might distribute your product?

Media evaluation question 2

Media Evaluation question 1

 To open the thriller sequence, we have used a medium close-up of our Protagonist, along with a voiceover, which sets up the point of narrative straight away. This is quite common in the openings of thriller films. For example, at the beginning of Nolan’s film Memento (shot shown above) a medium close-up is shown which also establishes who the protagonist and also has a voiceover playing over the footage like ours does.

 Conventionally, we have used a blacked-out background and low-key lighting to create an enigma as soon as the footage is shown. The fact that a shadow is created is another convention of a thriller film. An inscrutable tone is developed because the audience doesn’t have the faintest clue of who this character is

and his whereabouts; we applied this technique to entice the audience as early in the film as possible. 

In this shot, we have established the location of the scene, the location being the Protagonist’s house. In a lot of thriller films, I had noticed that the location is revealed very early on in order for the audience to comprehend where the action is taking place. We applied this medium long shot of the Protagonist leaving his house to develop the prospective of the narrative.

In this scene we have challenged conventions of real media products by creating a rather unusual shot that an audience wouldn’t normally see. We employed a long shot from out of the same window that was shown in the previous scene to develop the mysterious mood of the sequence and to also show that the character that was on the drive before had now gone. Also, when choosing our titles, we decided to fade them onto the footage, rather than showing them on a black screen, which wouldn’t keep the audience engaged as effectively. The fact that the titles fade on and off the screen conveys the idea of the Protagonists mind drifting and not being stable. Additionally,

the fading of the titles onto the screen adds more continuity and flow to the opening sequence.

Conventionally, we used framing to create suspense and to make the narrative comprehensible by showing the audience that the antagonist is always stalking and lurking around the main character. In this shot, we framed our antagonist in the background slightly to the right in order to convey his mysteriousness. However, we framed the Antagonist as far away to the Protagonist as possible so it isn’t clear for the audience to distinguish his characteristics  

Regarding the titles, we created a white title on top of a black background to insinuate the notion of good vs. evil, which is a theme in our film and is very common in other thriller films. We have created the title so it glows, as shown on the two screenshots above. The reason for this is that we wanted to emphasise the state of the Protagonist’s mind and the instability of it. Also, the fact that the title glows and the font becomes thicker, creates immediate suspense and will engross the audience further in the film.

When editing we applied a filter over the footage to show that the action that is being shown is a flashback. We used a flashback because it is conventional of thriller films and a very useful technique to portray a narrative. One example of a thriller film that contains flashbacks is called The Butterfly Effect (picture shown above), which is also a psychological thriller and has a filter over the shot like ours. Also, the filter makes the action look quite scary therefore building tension, which is what we have aimed to do through these flashbacks.