Evaluation

Final Cut

Title Order

Melissa took the initiative to look at the order of titles as we are nearly at the stage to incorporate them into our Thriller opening. She looked various title sequences and noted down the order in which the titles appeared. These were her findings;

• __________ Presents
• A __________ Production
• (Actors name)
• (Actors name)
• Film Title
• Music by _________
• Editing by _________
• Produced by ________
• Written by ________
• Directed by ________

She looked at the film 'Panic Room' and found that the title of the film wasn't at the end, which is what we would have expected by nearer the middle. I think Melissa did a good thing by looking back over the order of titles again as it will help us with our final product. 

Evaluation Questions

At the moment I have started the evaluation progress in order to meet my deadline and I have been looking over the evaluation questions;

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learn in the progression from it to the full product?

These are the questions we need to address when completing my evaluation. By the looks of things it is clear there is a lot I need to do in order to get the best possible mark for the evaluation. At this stage I am only taking notes for what I could include in each answer but by the end of this week, hopefully I will be able to bulk them out and get started on my powerpoint.

Questionnaire

We are now at the point where we are looking back over the evaluation questions, therefore we have put together a questionnaire which will help us on audience feedback. As a group we will put it on each of our social network sites, along with the final product.


This is the first draft of the questions we have created;

1) From the opening sequence, does it make you want to watch the rest of the film?
2) Does the opening sequence make sense to you?
3) Do the camera angles work and do they create realism?
4) Are the transition smooth?
5) Is the non-diegetic score work?
6) Does it have thriller elements within the opening?
7) Is the storyline presented well?
8) Are the props in the opening realistic?
9) Did the characters work well within the opening sequence?
10) Do you think the locations are suitable?
11) Are the titles easy to read and do they last for long enough?

This is just the first idea's we had of the questionnaire we will be sure to expand and think of better ways to ask. Already we think that people who aren't into media might not necessarily know what some of it means so we will have to adjust them for everyone to understand. This feed back will help us when completing our evaluation because we will need to know how to improve and if the opening sequence worked as a whole.

Rough Cut

This here is our rough cut, however it is not completed and more improvements need to be made. Melissa and Jacob took Callum up to London to film the second half of our opening. As you can see there is no music and bits missing still, we are still looking into what non diegetic score we could use to create the intense effect that we need. Not only this but when going to put the title 'Mad Teacher' in at the end, we decided we didn't like as much so we are still in progress with that, I'm sure once we have the completed opening it will come to us. Melissa and I spent time doing the editing and there were many shots that have already been cut out/cut down. I'm still not 100% on the transitions but I think once all the clips are put in and edited that will sort itself out.
Although it's finished, I think that already it is so much better than our original idea and it is more creative, but if you don't try different things you wont know whats good and whats bad, therefore I think it was good that our group spent time and reevaluated our idea's to create a new storyboard in order to get the best out of this as possible. Like I said it still needs to be improved and there is more clips that still need to be added but overall I think we are on the right track in achieving the best that we are capable of.

New Storyboard

Our opening so far was shown to the class to be peer assessed, it was clear that we needed to make a lot of changes as some of the lighting was bad, we chopped Callum's head off in one of the shots and we needed to change one of the pans. After that we got together as a group and talked about what we could do in order to improve it.

After Melissa and I started to edit through our shorts we found that it wasn't long enough and that some of the shots weren't as good as we would have liked. From this we got together as a group and decided what we could do to improve this, we decided that on the 5th of February some of us are going to take some shots in London outside the Houses Of Parliment. The teacher (Callum Carroll) is going to be following the Prime Minister's movements around London. Also we will have to introduce a new character (his wife) however we have not decided whether to see her or just hear her talking. For all she knows her husband is going to work as normal.

We will shoot;

• Callum on the train looking impatient/agitated 
• Callum amongst a crowd just walking
• Establishing shot of Callum smirking and gritting his teeth with the The Houses Of Parliment behind him
• Iconic buildings of London 

By including Callum on the train surrounded by ordinary people it highlights the contrast of how 'normal' he looks but how mentally unstable he is being portrayed to the viewers.

Not only do we have to shoot these shots but we will also have to go back to Jacobs house to re film some of the shots we had done previously and film the added shots we have talked about above.

This is our new and improved storyboard.