Question 1- Evaluation

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

Convention:  The widely recognised way of doing something - this has to do with content, style and for.

Question 2- Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 3- Evaluation

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

We created our own production and distribution companies as we wanted to achieve a sense of individuality when it was presented to our audience. Our production company is called 45 Productions. We chose this name because our group number is 45, which puts our imprint on the production. It was also the only name that we could agree on as a group. Our distribution company is called Shoot Productions. We opted for this name because our film is based on football and shoot is a common term within the society. Similarly, shoot is also a part of media terminology, which makes the name even more appropriate for a film like ours.

I believe that FilmFour would be interested in distributing our film because they specialize in independent and British films and also develop and co-finance film productions. As they have backed a large number of UK films, I think they would be interested in our film because we are presenting original ideas which are innovative and creative and targeting a wide audience. FilmFour have also produced Slumdog Millionaire which was a very successful film and took in £1,827,457 in its opening weekend with 324 screens. This gives me an initial idea of what our film could achieve if FilmFour chose to distribute it.

Question 4- Evaluation

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 5- Evaluation

How did you attract/address your audience?

One way we attracted/addressed our audience is the amount of teenagers who are in the film. This appeals to other teenagers as they can relate to the lives played in the film. 

Another way we attracted our audience is football lovers as the film itself is football based

So far, we have reached our audience via Youtube, Vimeo and a cinema preview. We used social networking sites to address our audience because they are popular in youth culture today, which makes it easier for us to spread word of our film and broadens the range of our audience. In our cinema preview, we showed our film opening to many other media students and a few adults. We then interviewed certain members of the audience, specifically the ones that matched our target audience, to see what they thought of our film.

Evaluation Question 1

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

Convention: The widely recognised way of doing something, which includes content, style and form.

Conventions

In our opening, we used various means of mise en scene and cinematography in order to present and develop our storyline. In terms of editing, we used rapid frames (no longer than four seconds) in order to create an energetic atmosphere when Hadi is playing football. In addition to this, we added slow motion to some shots to emphasise the gracefulness of Hadi's movement and skill. This is a common aspect in many films with a sub genre of sport as it dramatises certain moments, hence it being used to show last minute goals in the films She's The Man and Goal. We also chose to include various conventions in our film such as young inner city teens being involved in crime. This convention was taken from one of the films that inspired us: Kidulthood. We utilised this convention as it allowed us to establish binary oppositions of good and evil between the hoodlums and Hadi, which therefore allowed us to challenge this convention, as it shows that young teens are capable of being both promising and hopeless. Finally, the sound that we used in our film opening is conventional considering the genre and plot. For example, we have Brazilian samba playing when our protagonist is playing football, which is typical of football films as South American music is strongly associated with the sport. Furthermore, as an urban film based on the youth of London, grime is also a common genre of music that is used. We also used it because films like Kidulthood and Adulthood have demonstrated the confrontational aspect that it can add to certain scenes.

Intertextuality

We also took some aspects from the two films that inspired us' Goal and Kidulthood, and incorporated into our own production in order to help develop our storyline. We took the location of a football pitch from Goal to emphasise Hadi's considerable footballing talent. It also allowed us to establish binary oppositions of good and evil between him and the two muggers when we filmed on a residential road in the second scene. This location also introduced a sense of danger to the scene as it is dark and had a low amount of passersby. In addition to this, our characters were also inspired by both Goal and Kidulthood. Our protagonist, who was played by Hadi, was based on Goal's protagonist - Santiago. We done this because we were influenced by his journey from an amateur to a professional; the same journey that we intended for our protagonist to embark on. The two youths that mug Hadi were inspired by Sam and his friends from Kidulthood. This is due to the fact that they are both youths from London, hyped and don't have a clear view on what is right or wrong because of their surroundings. The relationship between the two sets of characters is demonstrated by the similarity in body language, which highlights their youth culture.

Evaluation Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Representation: The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way.

We decided to present Hadi as a regular teenager with a dream of becoming a professional footballer in the future, however, he also has some characteristics of a stereotypical jock. This is because he is fit and athletic,  which is demonstrated by his footballing prowess, but he is also vulnerable as is shown by his mugging. The costumes that we chose for him also reveals aspects about him. For example, Hadi's football kit shows that he belongs to a group - a typical feature in sport films - however the fact that we don't show any of his teammates implies that he is in a league of his own. This shows that our film focuses on an individual rather than a group, which is rare in films with a sub genre of  sport. We chose to represent the muggers in a negative light in order to contrast them with our protagonist, which enabled us to portray the good and bad sides of youth in London. This provides our audience with an unbiased view on the matter. Their costumes are dark in order to reflect the immoral nature of their actions. Criminals in films like Kidulthood also abide by this aspect as it is representative of real-life situations, which brings a sense of realism to the scene.


 In terms of cinematography, we emphasised Hadi's lack of power in comparison to the muggers by using a point of view shot to show the muggers running  away. We used this shot to give the audience Haid's perception of the event and to convey his helplessness to them, which is similar to the stereotypical bully vs nerd convention in many other teen films. We conveyed the dangerousness of the muggers through the use of our editing. This is because we shortened the length of the shots in the scene that they were present in to bring a sense of tension to the scene and unsettle the audience, which suggests that the two characters are catalysts of demise. The contrast in music that we used to portray both sets of characters creates binary oppositions of good and evil. This is because the samba music used in the scenes where Hadi is playing football is upbeat and creates an energised atmosphere, which reflects his strong will to become a professional footballer. However, the grime instrumental that we used to present the muggers is cold and eery. This brings about an atmosphere of tension and danger to the scene in which they assault Hadi.

Question 6- Evaluation

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

Evaluation Question 3

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

Our distribution company

Our production company

We created our own production and distribution companies as we wanted to achieve a sense of individuality when it was presented to our audience. Our production company is called 45 Productions. We chose this name because our group number is 45, which puts our imprint on the production. It was also the only name that we could agree on as a group. Our distribution company is called Shoot Productions. We opted for this name because our film is based on football and shoot is a common term within the society. Similarly, shoot is also a part of media terminology, which makes the name even more appropriate for a film like ours.

Although our production company has produced blockbusters like Slumdog Millionaire and The Inbetweeners Movie, it is still relatively small when compared to others such as DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. This is because Film 4's productions are more suited for the British public as opposed to globally, which makes it a good choice for our film. Our distribution company is an even smaller independent company who also specialise in films catered to the British public, and because of this, they will be useful in helping us to get the attention of our own target audience.





We chose Film 4 as our production company as they have a distinguished history of producing successful British films, which have had low budgets and yet resulted in major profit. These include films like: Shaun of the Dead, East is East, Trainspotting and The Inbetweeners Movie, which were all hits with the British public. Another reason that we chose them to be our production company is because they have sufficient funds to produce our film, as it doesn't contain any CGI or big stars. In addition to this, the fact that they are also a television broadcasting company means that we may be able to advertise our film on their channels or websites, which will give it more attention and increase our potential audience. Moving on, we chose Revolver entertainment as our distribution company because they have distributed successful independent British films with similar audiences to ours such as: Shank, Ill Manners and Kidulthood, one of the films that inspired us. This would result in our film attracting the same kind of audience too. In addition to this, we opted for an independent company as opposed to a major one because we do not require a large amount of resources to get attention for our film. This due to the fact that our target audience is confined to the British public rather than a global audience. Instead of massive billboards, we could use social networking sites on the internet like: Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to get attention from our target audience. We could also put up posters of our film in places that we would expect people from our target audience to visit. For example, near football pitches in urban areas.

Evaluation Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Who watches teen films?

Teenagers generally tend to watch them, as they are made in order to appeal to them as an audience. However, many adults may also be attracted to them because of the nostalgic affect that it has on them. They may also watch them because of their interest in the lives of teens of their current generation, but they may end up with a warped perspective of them because of the stereotypes that most films choose to portray as opposed to what occurs in reality.

Who watches sport films

Our film has a sub genre of sport and people who tend to watch these films usually dabble in sports themselves, which allows them to empathise with the protagonist and engage in the storyline. This may also mean that they enjoy films that depict the protagonist going on a journey, as they themselves know what hard work and persistence results in. In addition to this, people who watch sports films may also enjoy the dramatic moments that are a constant feature in films of this genre. Moments like these include last minute goals or knockouts.

Who is our target audience?

Our target audience is males that enjoy football aged from 14-21. This is because the plot follows a teenage male protagonist who aspires to be a professional footballer in the future and we think that our film will be more effective in attracting people who are in a similar age group to our protagonist, as they can relate to him more. More specifically we want to really appeal to young people from London as they can relate to the youth culture that is portrayed in our film easily. For example, they will be able to understand the slang that features throughout. Conversely, this factor could also attract the attention of people who are not from London or that are older, as they may want to get an insight into what life is like for people that fit our protagonist's demographic. The sub genre of sport enables our film to appeal to a wider audience than what we specifically target, as football fanatics will be urged to watch it solely because of the aspect of football that is so heavily linked to our plot. We also aim to address people who are looking for an unbiased perspective of London youth as the riots of 2011 have given us somewhat of a bad reputation. We are able to do this because our opening contains both the good and bad sides of the youth of London as is the case with our protagonists and the muggers, which enables our audience to form their own view of them.

Question 7- Evaluation

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



Raekwon Smerkz Lamothe's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Evaluation Q1

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

Convention: The widely recognised way of doing something, which includes content, style

Conventions

In our opening, we used various means of mise en scene and cinematography in order to present and develop our storyline. In terms of editing, we used rapid frames (no longer than four seconds) in order to create an energetic atmosphere when Hadi is playing football. In addition to this, we added slow motion to some shots to emphasise the gracefulness of Hadi's movement and skill. This is a common aspect in many films with a sub genre of sport as it dramatises certain moments, hence it being used to show last minute goals in the films She's The Man and Goal. We also chose to include various conventions in our film such as young inner city teens being involved in crime. This convention was taken from one of the films that inspired us: Kidulthood. We utilised this convention as it allowed us to establish binary oppositions of good and evil between the hoodlums and Hadi, which therefore allowed us to challenge this convention, as it shows that young teens are capable of being both promising and hopeless. Finally, the sound that we used in our film opening is conventional considering the genre and plot.

Intertextuality

We also took some aspects from the two films that inspired us' Goal and Kidulthood, and incorporated into our own production in order to help develop our storyline. We took the location of a football pitch from Goal to emphasise Hadi's considerable footballing talent. It also allowed us to establish binary oppositions of good and evil between him and the two muggers when we filmed on a residential road in the second scene. This location also introduced a sense of danger to the scene as it is dark and had a low amount of passersby. In addition to this, our characters were also inspired by both Goal and Kidulthood. Our protagonist, who was played by Hadi, was based on Goal's protagonist, Santiago. We done this because we were influenced by his journey from an amateur to a professional; the same journey that we intended for our protagonist to embark on.

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

Various aspects of our opening are aimed to attract the attention of our target audience. One way that we went about doing this is through our storyline. Within our opening, the protagonist gets mugged shortly after he leaves his house. This is a common occurrence London, so many of our target audience can relate to the situation and therefore empathise with our protagonist. In addition to this, the protagonist is played by a young actor who's age is similar to that of our target audience, which allows our audience to further relate to him and entices them to watch the film. The mugging also provides our protagonist with two options: the good path in which he could simply move on and focus on recovering, or the evil path which would involve him wanting to take revenge on the muggers for potentially ending his footballing dreams. The title of the film also appeals to our target audience. This is because it implies that the protagonist will embark on an emotional journey. This will entice the attention of people who enjoy sport films because they are usually dramatic and inspiring, a feature that may also attract our young audience. The genre of the film is further emphasised by one of the locations in the opening - a football pitch. This gives the impression that the film is heavily based on football from the outset, which encourages football fans to watch more. The sound in terms of a song that we utilised in our opening also appeals to our target audience. This is because young males from London may know who Wiley is and respect him. This form of celebrity endorsement may encourage our target audience to watch our film or even broaden the spectrum of people that will be attracted.

Rough cut and technology

In terms of our rough cut, we didn't have to alter it in order to make it better appeal to our audience because of factors like genre and conventions. However, the quality of the film was the major factor in deterring our audience. Because of this, we cut down the duration of all of our frames in order to give our film a fluid pace and prevent our audience from getting bored. So far, we have reached our audience via Youtube, Vimeo and a cinema preview. We used social networking sites to address our audience because they are popular in youth culture today, which makes it easier for us to spread word of our film and broadens the range of our audience. In our cinema preview, we showed our film opening to many other media students and a few adults. We then interviewed certain members of the audience, specifically the ones that matched our target audience, to see what they thought of our film.

Interviews

In this clip I interviewed someone who isn't the same gender of our target audience to see if our film would still appeal to her. The fact that she did enjoy it suggests that our potential audience isn't just limited to males and that it it attracts people of both genders as long as they are interested in football. In addition to this, our interviewee was also enticed by our choice of music and location, two factors which we specifically chose to attract our target audience. This tells us that our methods to attract them were successful.

In this video, I interviewed a man whose age didn't match that of our target audience in order to get an insight on the potential range of our target audience. He stated that the aspect of football in our opening appealed to him, however he also thought that there was nothing more that enticed his attention, which ultimately deterred him from wanting to watch the entire film. This suggests that our film is more catered to younger viewers, which is our target audience, as opposed to older people.

Evaluation Q2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This was made using slide-es. I discuss which social groups my film is representing and in what ways we were able to show that.

Evaluation Q3

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

Although our production company has produced blockbusters like Slumdog Millionaire and The Inbetweeners Movie, it is still relatively small when compared to others such as DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. This is because Film 4's productions are more suited for the British public as opposed to globally, which makes it a good choice for our film. Our distribution company is an even smaller independent company who also specialise in films catered to the British public, and because of this, they will be useful in helping us to get the attention of our own target audience.

We chose Film 4 as our production company as they have a distinguished history of producing successful British films, which have had low budgets and yet resulted in major profit. These include films like: Shaun of the Dead, East is East, Trainspotting and The Inbetweeners Movie, which were all hits with the British public. Another reason that we chose them to be our production company is because they have sufficient funds to produce our film, as it doesn't contain any CGI or big stars. In addition to this, the fact that they are also a television broadcasting company means that we may be able to advertise our film on their channels or websites, which will give it more attention and increase our potential audience. Moving on, we chose Revolver entertainment as our distribution company because they have distributed successful independent British films with similar audiences to ours such as: Shank, Ill Manners and Kidulthood, one of the films that inspired us. This would result in our film attracting the same kind of audience too. In addition to this, we opted for an independent company as opposed to a major one because we do not require a large amount of resources to get attention for our film. This due to the fact that our target audience is confined to the British public rather than a global audience. Instead of massive billboards, we could use social networking sites on the internet like: Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to get attention from our target audience. We could also put up posters of our film in places that we would expect people from our target audience to visit. For example, near football pitches in urban areas.

Evaluation Q4

Who would be the audience for your media product?


This was created using Powtoons. I discuss the audience's prespective and who would be interested in watching our media product.

Evaluation Q5

How did you attract/address your audience?

One way we attracted/addressed our audience is the amount of teenagers who are in the film. This appeals to other teenagers as they can relate to the lives played in the film. 

Another way we attracted our audience is football lovers as the film itself is football based

So far, we have reached our audience via Youtube, Vimeo and a cinema preview. We used social networking sites to address our audience because they are popular in youth culture today, which makes it easier for us to spread word of our film and broadens the range of our audience. In our cinema preview, we showed our film opening to many other media students and a few adults. We then interviewed certain members of the audience, specifically the ones that matched our target audience, to see what they thought of our film.

The two video's are interviews that we conducted to receive feed back from our opening teen film. thankfully, we heard loads of positive things. Both seemed to meet the criteria of our target audience as they are interested in football and are at the youth age (16-19). This helped me realise also that although it has the football element,  target audience can still be addressed because of that youthful element to the film.

Target Audience.

Within our opening, the protagonist gets mugged shortly after he leaves his house. This is a common occurrence London, so many of our target audience can relate to the situation and therefore empathise with our protagonist. Also, the protagonist is played by a young actor who's age is similar to that of our target audience, which allows our audience to further relate to him and entices them to watch the film.The sound in terms of a song that we utilised in our opening also appeals to our target audience. This is because young males from London may know who Wiley is and respect him. This form of celebrity endorsement may encourage our target audience to watch our film or even broaden the spectrum of people that will be attracted.

Rough Cut

Though not many changes were made after our feed back from the rough cut, we did discover that we needed to change a few things in order for it to be presentable to the audience. One thing we changed was the pace of the film, the general feeling was that it was to slow for the audience. as a result, we needed to shorten each clip to roughly four seconds so that the pace goes much faster. The rough cut was a good idea as it helped us understand what the audience enjoy or dislike.

Evaluation Question 6

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

In this Prezi, I reflect on some of the various technologies that we used to aid us in making our film. I also state how useful these were to me and the effect that they had on our production.

Evaluation Q6

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

Evaluation Q7

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

Research

Preliminary: I learnt the basics to filming such as shot types, camera angles and movements. However, I did not carry out any more research for the prelim, so my skills were not developed. In addition to this, I had a limited knowledge on aspects like the genre and conventions of films.

Final: By the time that we had to make our final production, I had learnt many aspects of film openings. This includes things like: sound, convention, representation, genre and titles. All of this information contributed to us being able to make a high quality film opening when it came down to production.

Development: My research skills have increased dramatically from when I first started this course. At the time of my prelim, my research skills were restricted to a few shot types and camera movements. However, now I understand all of the factors of both mise en scene and cinematography.

Pre-production planning

Preliminary: At the time of the prelim, my planning skills were strained as we only had to follow the script that was provided for us instead of acting independently. The only things that we were required to do is select costumes to capture the image of our characters and chose an appropriate location to film. we found this quite difficult because the access to location and props were limited.

Final: When it came to our final production, we had to act independently and plan for ourselves. And I was able to cope with this because of the experience that I gained from completing all of the other filming tasks prior to it. Because of this, I understood what I needed to do in pre-production to ensure that the rest of the production went smoothly. 

Development: My planning skills have improved greatly since when I was working on my prelim. For example, we were able to give real thought to our filming locations, costumes and actors, which enabled our film to have more substance to it. I also learnt how to utilise websites like Blogger to store my plans for ease of access and safety. In addition to this, it also helped our group to communicate more and share our ideas.

Filming

Preliminary: In terms of filming, when we were doing our prelim we only had knowledge on how to work the camera and a few shot types. This resulted in our prelim having a good range of shots and angles, however the lighting was not so good. This is because we didn't turn the filter on whilst filming facing a window and when we were inside a brightly-coloured room. In addition to this, our lack of knowledge on framing resulted in us breaking the thirds rule; our characters were mainly in the middle of the shots.

Final: In our final production, the quality of our film improved significantly as we had better shots and camera movement. We also didn't break the thirds rule so our film had good framing. However, in our haste to finish filming, we broke the 180 degree rule, which resulted in us having to go back and film the scene again. I also experienced another light related problem as the lighting was too dark in this film. This was a result of us not filming close enough to a source of light at night.

Development: Despite the fact that I still had some filming errors in my final film, my skills in this field have improved vastly since the time of my prelim. The various filming tasks that I have taken part in have increased my knowledge and skill of filming bit by bit and has led to me contributing to a high quality product. The group activities also enabled me to accumulate knowledge of the subject from a diversity of different people, which in turn aided my progress.

Editing

Preliminary: At the time of my prelim, I had no experience in editing and we only were knowledgeable on certain aspects such as cutting certain shots. Because of our lack of knowledge, we had no added sound effects or titles and our film was not enjoyable to watch as it did not have a good flow to it.

Final: When the time came to edit our final product, previous tasks had enabled us to incorporate aspects such as sound effects to it. They also provided us with the skills to edit our film so that the 180 degree rule was not broken and the resources to make our dark scenes lighter. We also had a smooth match cut and continuity editing.

Development: During the course of time from my prelim to my final product, I have gone from having no knowledge in editing to having the required skills to make a presentable film opening. These skills also helped me make my technology timeline using Camtasia.

Evaluation Question 7

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

Research

Preliminary: I learnt the basics to filming such as shot types, camera angles and movements. However, I did not carry out any more research for the prelim, so my skills were not developed. In addition to this, I had a limited knowledge on aspects like the genre and conventions of films.

Final: By the time that we had to make our final production, I had learnt many aspects of film openings. This includes things like: sound, convention, representation, genre and titles. All of this information contributed to us being able to make a high quality film opening when it came down to production.

Development: My research skills have increased dramatically from when I first started this course. At the time of my prelim, my research skills were restricted to a few shot types and camera movements. However, now I understand all of the factors of both mise en scene and cinematography.

Pre-production planning

Preliminary: At the time of the prelim, my planning skills were strained as we only had to follow the script that was provided for us instead of acting independently. The only things that we were required to do is select costumes to capture the image of our characters and chose an appropriate location to film. 

Final: When it came to our final production, we had to act independently and plan for ourselves. And I was able to cope with this because of the experience that I gained from completing all of the other filming tasks prior to it. Because of this, I understood what I needed to do in pre-production to ensure that the rest of the production went smoothly. 

Development: My planning skills have improved greatly since when I was working on my prelim. For example, we were able to give real thought to our filming locations, costumes and actors, which enabled our film to have more substance to it. I also learnt how to utilise websites like Blogger to store my plans for ease of access and safety. In addition to this, it also helped our group to communicate more and share our ideas.

Filming

Preliminary: In terms of filming, when we were doing our prelim I only had knowledge on how to work the camera and a few shot types. This resulted in our prelim having a good range of shots and angles, however the lighting was distorted. This is because we didn't turn the ND filter on whilst filming facing a window and when we were inside a brightly-coloured room. In addition to this, our lack of knowledge on framing resulted in us breaking the thirds rule.

Final: In our final production, the quality of our film improved significantly as we had better shots and camera movement. We also didn't break the thirds rule so our film had good framing. However, in our haste to finish filming, we broke the 180 degree rule, which resulted in us having to go back and film the scene again. I also experienced another light related problem as the lighting was too dark in this film. This was a result of us not filming close enough to a source of light at night.

Development: Despite the fact that I still had some filming errors in my final film, my skills in this field have improved vastly since the time of my prelim. The various filming tasks that I have taken part in have increased my knowledge and skill of filming bit by bit and has led to me contributing to a high quality product. The group activities also enabled me to accumulate knowledge of the subject from a diversity of different people, which in turn aided my progress.

Editing

Preliminary: At the time of my prelim, I had no experience in editing and we only were knowledgeable on certain aspects such as match cuts, which enables continuity editing to take place. Because of our lack of knowledge, we had no added sound effects or titles and our film had a jump cut.

Final: When the time came to edit our final product, previous tasks had enabled us to incorporate aspects such as sound effects to it. They also provided us with the skills to edit our film so that the 180 degree rule was not broken and the resources to make our dark scenes lighter. We also had a smooth match cut and continuity editing.

Development: During the course of time from my prelim to my final product, I have gone from having no knowledge in editing to having the required skills to make a presentable film opening. These skills also helped me make my technology timeline using Camtasia.

GROUP 45- PODCAST

A podcast that we done via Skype reflecting on our experiences in media so far.

Editing (Final evaluation)

Once we completed our rough cut, we then went on to our final cut. This was the toughest problem we faced during our project. However it is now completed which is a real positive and relief!

To complete our final cut we had to consider and put in place various of things:

1. Place the music in the correct place so that it compliments the action taking place in the film. e.g.(before Hadi got attacked a gloomy 'danger' like music gets played to signify Hadi is in danger from something) Also we had to add sound effects and Foley sound especially when Hadi is playing football and when he gets attacked.
2. Make sure the credits were in the right position. This was a stumbling block for us because at one point during our editng process we had some credit tittles on the clip and some on black screen.. so we had to in the end put all tittle credits on black screen which made the film longer and more than 2 minutes at one point.
3. Shorten and edit clips from the rough cut to ensure there is continuity in our film and so that it flows. 
4. Add Distribution and Production company motions as it is an significant part of the credits as they mostly promoted and funded the film. We made ours ourselves which was a good accomplishment

When editing our film we would always get feedback from the teacher which was mostly positive with some faults being noted in which we fixed to improve the film. We are happy with what we filmed and edited and our looking forward to seeing it on the big screen. 

Blog update

Progress so far

We have made signifcant progress in the last two weeks managing to film and edit 75% of the film

Making of idents

We had to make a distribution and production ident in to make our film seem more realistic. In order to do this, we had to use a software called Motion 4. 

Motion 4's starting page.

In our first attempt, we created our rough production and distribution idents, however we thought that they were too basic and time consuming to create. So to overcome this, we decided to use two of the professionally designed templates that were available to use. This both saved us time and provided us with a presentable title.

We decided to use the swarm template for our distribution company because we thought it reflected the nature of our group.

We opted for the skyline template for our production company because it highlights our roots; the city.

Ident& editing: Group Update.

idea for the ident…..

media terminolgy

media terminolgy

Yeah... So, we need this apparently.

Media terminology