Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

skills development:

prelim - bad camera angles, bad editing, use of zoom

what we have developed: better range of shots, camera angles and how to use equipment
better editing matchcuts using different effects and programms

Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Question 4: who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

WE'RE FINISHED !!!!! FINAL POST

AFTER LONG MONTHS OF HARD WORK AND DEDICATION WE HAVE FINALLY WE HAVE FINISHED OUR FINAL VERSION OF THE OPENING OF 'THE VICTIM'

WE HAVE TAKEN A VIDEO AND PICTURE OF JAZZEL SIGNING THE BOARD IN PRIDE

Even though there is only 2 of us we were still the first to finish in our class. We hope you enjoy the final film and is what you expected it to be like.

Ident Sound

As you know we have made the production ident and added it into our film but now we have also found some appropriate music, I thought it would be nice if we could have a stamp sound whilst the text pops up on to the screen i also wanted a hand holding a stamp but couldn't find it so decided to leave it as it is.

I found the sound on youtube which is a video : 

Then used a program called 'clip grab' which looks like this: 

as you can see i have copy and pasted the link into the box and then waited for it to convert into a mp3 file.

The next step was to then drag this mp3 file into another software called 'audio converter' which looks like this: 

and then when this completed it automatically went onto our hard drive which i then imported into final cut pro which is the program we are editing on and then added this into our film and placed it under the ident.

The final video looks like this : 

FINAL DAY OF EDITING

At this point we have completed most of our editing of our opening film, today we changed our title sequences because it didn't look realistic, so we allocated each person a seperate role instead of giving the same person the same job. We also added the ident at the beginning of the film and we're also planning on finding appropriate music for the ident because at this point its quite boring.

Blog Review

Today is the deadline day! we have until 3pm to complete everything. So far we have finished the rough cut and are now going over our editing to make sure its perfect.
We changed the title sequence to make sure each person and their allocated role instead of having all of us doing everything and we will also show their role one by one instead of a few roles at a time.
We added the ident in the beginning of our film but  we also want to add different music to fit in during the showing of the production ident.

Production Ident

Today I have been creating the production ident on a software named 'motion'. We decided to name the production 'Candi18productions' as we are group 18. In this software you are able to create a moving ident to put in the beginning of the film.

I have decided to use this shape which is a group of stars in a circle -

Then I add the text which is 'CANDI18PRODUCTIONS'

Now, we can make the stars move around while the text pops up in the middle and this would be our production ident.

Re-filming

After re-filming the scene of the victims walking up from the staircase and changing it to them walking down the stairs we realized that the lighting in the background was too light as there is a window behind the staircase and we could not see the characters properly. Unfortunately we now will not have enough time to try and do it again in another way so we will have to keep our old footage.

Final days leading up to the deadline

Right now we have a couple more days until the final deadline of March 12th, at this point we will continue editing and making sure everything is done and ready for the final viewing.

Re-filming (changes)

We were told by our teacher that a scene in our opening film wasn't effective enough as the bullies in our film weren't following the stereotypes of our characters, this is because instead of walking down the stairs we were seen walking up the stairs instead. We decided and planned to change that scene and to change it to us walking down the stairs instead, but unfortunately the lighting was poor when we were filming and decided to continue with the footage we had.

UPDATE

Another member of our group was unfortunately kicked of the course, we are now down to just two people in the group, Mary advised us to change a scene in our opening film because it wasn't suitable with the idea of our opening film, so me and Hana have planned to meet up tomorrow to re-film, it might be an obstacle to film as there's only two of us but we'll try our best.

In one scene of our film mary advised us to make it into a split screen as the scene was too long and boring. we've done this in final cut pro by using a crop tool to crop out the background so the camera was tracing Nia. on the other half of the screen will be the title sequence.

Here is a screenshot of our editing.

Rough Cut

Today we have finished a rough cut edit of the opening of our film. We have received feedback from Mary on how to improve our final opening and we have taken her feedback on board and decided to re film a scene on Thursday. We need a range of different shots including close ups and better camera work and sound. We will have our final film finished on March 12th.

ROUGH CUT IS UP !

We have finished the rough cut of our film and we will be posting it very shortly! I hope you are just excited as we are to show you the final outcome to the opening of our film 'The Victim'.

We still have lots more editing to do as you can see and we still need to add: production ident, title of the film and also fixing the title sequence, adding effects, changing sound and much more.
This will all be done by 3pm on the 12th March which is our final deadline.

Here is a picture of us signing the wall to say that our rough cut is done and up.  The next column to sign will be to say that we finished our film. stay tuned :)

Sound

We found a song for the opening of our film here is the link. To do this we went on creative commons because of copy right and decided to get a remake of the song which is non copy right.

We think this song fits in with the opening of our film as we see a character walking on her own and the song is slow and mellow which matches the mood of the character and this will make the audience feel the same.