In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Thursday 28 January 2016
Friday 22 January 2016
Tuesday 19 January 2016
Editing 19/01/2016
19/01/2016
In this media lesson Izzy and I continued the editing of our final piece and managed to add in the clips we re-filmed on Sunday. The editing process took slightly longer than we anticipated as we discovered the sound effects and music had moved out of sequence when we imported the new footage, so we had to make sure all the clips were correctly sequenced together and then re-import all the sound clips to make sure they matched up with the correct clips at the right time. We then changed our original font for our credits and titles (as advised by our teacher) to a more interesting and sinister font to reinforce the thriller genre.
In this media lesson Izzy and I continued the editing of our final piece and managed to add in the clips we re-filmed on Sunday. The editing process took slightly longer than we anticipated as we discovered the sound effects and music had moved out of sequence when we imported the new footage, so we had to make sure all the clips were correctly sequenced together and then re-import all the sound clips to make sure they matched up with the correct clips at the right time. We then changed our original font for our credits and titles (as advised by our teacher) to a more interesting and sinister font to reinforce the thriller genre.
Sunday 17 January 2016
Re-Filming 17/01/2016
Re-Filming 17/01/2016
Izzy and I decided to re-film some of our footage on Sunday 17th January for our deadline on the 21st, as certain clips from our draft edit were out of focus and would lower our overall grade if they were used in our final piece. We worked efficiently in our extremely short time period and managed to re-film all 3 clips to a high quality without any continuity errors that could've occurred from filming the original clips and the new clips so far apart.
The clips we refilmed:
Izzy and I decided to re-film some of our footage on Sunday 17th January for our deadline on the 21st, as certain clips from our draft edit were out of focus and would lower our overall grade if they were used in our final piece. We worked efficiently in our extremely short time period and managed to re-film all 3 clips to a high quality without any continuity errors that could've occurred from filming the original clips and the new clips so far apart.
The clips we refilmed:
Tuesday 12 January 2016
Plans for Re-Filming
Re-Filming
Izzy and I have planned to refilm a few clips for our final piece on the 17th of January at Charlotte's house in her bedroom. We need to refilm the clip that shows the female character painting her nails, and the footage of the extreme close up on the female character's eye as these clips are both slightly out of focus which creates an unprofessional finish. We also need to create a soundscape of a few ambient noises to create a more polished and enhanced audio. This will include the sound effects of the door creaking open and the phone vibrating as the female character receives an anonymous call.
Izzy and I have planned to refilm a few clips for our final piece on the 17th of January at Charlotte's house in her bedroom. We need to refilm the clip that shows the female character painting her nails, and the footage of the extreme close up on the female character's eye as these clips are both slightly out of focus which creates an unprofessional finish. We also need to create a soundscape of a few ambient noises to create a more polished and enhanced audio. This will include the sound effects of the door creaking open and the phone vibrating as the female character receives an anonymous call.
Audience Feedback for Draft
Audience Feedback
Izzy and I uploaded our draft video on to Youtube for our final piece on the 10th December 2015, and have since received a variety of different views and opinions from our target audience and our media teacher. Our teacher has created a page on google classroom for each group where she can send us feedback and constructive criticism, which has been helpful throughout this process as we can take her advice and ideas into consideration and feature some of them in our work.
Our teacher mentioned that she feels the male character's entrance is slightly cliché and that he isn't essential to the narrative, however this conflicts with feedback we have received from other students and our target audience who believe that his part in the narrative creates lots of tension and suspense and is a strong feature in our footage. Izzy and I reiterate this and believe that Matt's character is necessary to the narrative as his lack of dialogue and sudden entrance adds to the thriller theme of the footage and also adds a narrative enigma as his character is anonymous and mysterious.
Our teacher also disliked the music we have included in our footage as it's "too sinister" for the beginning of our thriller, however Izzy and I have tried a variety of other music clips and the other clips don't work as well with our final piece. We also believe that the music we have chosen creates lots of atmosphere and suspense, which our target audience and multiple students in our class have agreed with.
Our media teacher also suggested we refilm the nail varnish scene and the extreme close up on my eye as they're slightly out of focus, which Izzy and I agree with and are planning to film some time next week to amend this as soon as possible.
Izzy and I uploaded our draft video on to Youtube for our final piece on the 10th December 2015, and have since received a variety of different views and opinions from our target audience and our media teacher. Our teacher has created a page on google classroom for each group where she can send us feedback and constructive criticism, which has been helpful throughout this process as we can take her advice and ideas into consideration and feature some of them in our work.
Our teacher mentioned that she feels the male character's entrance is slightly cliché and that he isn't essential to the narrative, however this conflicts with feedback we have received from other students and our target audience who believe that his part in the narrative creates lots of tension and suspense and is a strong feature in our footage. Izzy and I reiterate this and believe that Matt's character is necessary to the narrative as his lack of dialogue and sudden entrance adds to the thriller theme of the footage and also adds a narrative enigma as his character is anonymous and mysterious.
Our teacher also disliked the music we have included in our footage as it's "too sinister" for the beginning of our thriller, however Izzy and I have tried a variety of other music clips and the other clips don't work as well with our final piece. We also believe that the music we have chosen creates lots of atmosphere and suspense, which our target audience and multiple students in our class have agreed with.
Our media teacher also suggested we refilm the nail varnish scene and the extreme close up on my eye as they're slightly out of focus, which Izzy and I agree with and are planning to film some time next week to amend this as soon as possible.
7th January 2016 - Editing
07/01/2016
Today Izzy and I continued our editing of our final piece in our first media lesson back in college after the Christmas break. We worked efficiently and effectively today, and managed to include all the titles and credits we were previously missing, and fixed the slight issues with the audio that we had encountered. We also included the whipsery voice overs we'd previously been missing, which really helps to create a more tense and anxious atmosphere for the audience.
We now just need to refilm the out of focus footage, and include the flashing images of the doll, plus we would like to include some extra sound effects such as the door creaking as it opens and the phone vibrating as it rings to enhance the audio.
Today Izzy and I continued our editing of our final piece in our first media lesson back in college after the Christmas break. We worked efficiently and effectively today, and managed to include all the titles and credits we were previously missing, and fixed the slight issues with the audio that we had encountered. We also included the whipsery voice overs we'd previously been missing, which really helps to create a more tense and anxious atmosphere for the audience.
We now just need to refilm the out of focus footage, and include the flashing images of the doll, plus we would like to include some extra sound effects such as the door creaking as it opens and the phone vibrating as it rings to enhance the audio.
Construction - Editing
Construction - Editing
Izzy and I began to edit our thriller opening on Thursday 10th December in our media class at college, on the Abobe Premiere Pro editing software. We worked effectively as a team and managed to complete all our editing for the first draft in 3 hours as we stayed behind after college for an extra hour to make sure all the clips were smoothly edited together and transitioned well before exporting the video and uploading it to YouTube.
We decided that we wanted our footage to be in black and white as this created a more tense atmosphere and appearance as the connotations of black and white are often associated with negativity and anonymity. We managed to also include some non-diegetic music in the background of our footage to create a tense atmosphere full of suspense which gradually builds as the narrative unfolds.
In our next editing session we need to include our production titles and credits to create a more polished and professional look, and we also need to incorporate the whipsery voice overs into the clips which will reinforce the tense mood. However before we do this Izzy and I need to refilm certain parts of the footage as some of the clips were slightly out of focus, and we also will need to add in the flashing images of the Barbie Doll's face.
Izzy and I began to edit our thriller opening on Thursday 10th December in our media class at college, on the Abobe Premiere Pro editing software. We worked effectively as a team and managed to complete all our editing for the first draft in 3 hours as we stayed behind after college for an extra hour to make sure all the clips were smoothly edited together and transitioned well before exporting the video and uploading it to YouTube.We decided that we wanted our footage to be in black and white as this created a more tense atmosphere and appearance as the connotations of black and white are often associated with negativity and anonymity. We managed to also include some non-diegetic music in the background of our footage to create a tense atmosphere full of suspense which gradually builds as the narrative unfolds.
In our next editing session we need to include our production titles and credits to create a more polished and professional look, and we also need to incorporate the whipsery voice overs into the clips which will reinforce the tense mood. However before we do this Izzy and I need to refilm certain parts of the footage as some of the clips were slightly out of focus, and we also will need to add in the flashing images of the Barbie Doll's face.
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