Final production.

This is our main product final cut.

Evaluation Question 1.

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

In our media product we chose nine shots from our film where we used micro elements effectively as shown below.

(From left to right starting at the top.)

Image 1: In this image of the girls sister i feel the costume was closely thought about, as she doesn't care about the main girl (her sister) so she's dressed carelessly. As if she hasn't thought about her outfit, but also dressed as though nobody would want to fight with her with boots on and her hand in her jacket pocket.

Image 2: This image i feel is very effecting as the way it's edited making the sky look pink is showing the girl views everything in a disoriented way as she doesn't have a very good life.

Image 3: In this image the it's shot at eye level, it shows maybe somebody is watching her, allowing the audience to feel sympathy for her. The cinematography was thought about carefully here.

Image 4: This is an image of the main character sitting by herself, while her friends are together in the distance. We edited the main characters 'friends' in this shot at the second tree as there was only three of us there at the time so we couldn't take a shot with all three in the shot.

Image 5: We chose this image from our film for cinematography, as we thought about cinematography here and we had to time it right for when the girl was swinging. I feel thing image is very affective in allowing the audience to ask questions as to why her identity is never revealed.

Image 6: This image is from the note scene, and as you can see we thought about our mis-en-scene very carefully here. Chose to put those teddies/dolls on the chair showing she has those sort of things in her room to comfort her as she has a very lonely life where nobodies care about her.

Image 7: We chose this image as we thought about the lighting very much in this. Made it darks so in conveyed the creepiness of the letter from the girls dad. The dark lighting also allows the audience to see the note, but not too much of the background which is effective when you see this scene in the film.

Image 8: When editing this shot we felt editing is as though the camera was in night vision was effective as usually parties are in the evening so doing this shows the audience this was in the evening as we didn't have a night vision camera to take these pictures on.

Image 9: In this image we had to think about the lighting very carefully to get the best silhouette we could. The first attempts at creating a silhouette were poor because the camera wouldn't focus and kept going in and out focus, so in the end we used our school cinema and turned the screen on and filmed while it was a blue screen to achieve this silhouette.

(From left to right starting at the top.)

Image 1: This is from a short film called 'Frendo'. You can clearly see int his shot straight away they have thought about their mis-en-scene as they have made sure they've used a mouse with a red scroller on to convey danger, this inspired us to make sure we thought carefully about the colours in our film.

Image 2: This image is also from a short film called 'Frendo', here they have thought about their lighting as the person they are trying to show, vision is blurred where they are drunk therefore the lighting here is how they are seeing the street lights at night moving the camera to blur the lighting.

Image 3: This is from a short film called 'Snap' In this shot, the person in the film taking all these photo's has captured the emotions very well by using photography, which inspired us when using cinematography in our film to frame the cinematography well.

Image 4: This image is from a short film called 'Lifeline' here they have thought of the lighting as it's a kind of scary film, so in the titles here they have carefully used lighting to create and eerie atmosphere creating tension for the audience.

Image 5: This image is from a stop motion called 'nice white clean'. Throughout this stop motion they have edited the pictures so they are vibrant colours, we have done this in our film and looking at this stop motion allowed us to do this.

Image 6: This image is from the titles of a film called 'mud boy' i feel the editing in this title screen in simple but effective. After using this as inspiration we did our title screen black with white writing. It gives nothing away about the film at all but it still says the name of the film, so doing it's job.

Image 7: In this image from the film 'mud boy' the cinematography is well thought about. The camera being at ground level, giving the impression somebody is on the floor, giving the audience suspense right from the beginning of this film.

Image 8: This shot also from 'mud boy' was carefully thought about the camera shot being below the level of the girl but you still see a childish skirt so the audience know this girl has just found a body choosing to make sure they've incorporated the boys hand. Shocking the audience, we've used some shots in our film to shock the audience like they've done in this short film. (cinematography)

Image 9: This image from a stop motion called 'satisfaction' was edited in a similar way in which we edited some of our image, when watching this, this made us realize we could convey different emotions/feelings to allow the audience to feel confused which they have done in this image.

Evaluation Question 2.

2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

When we made our ancillary tasks (poster and review page) we carefully considered the pictures we used for them as they had to relate to our film. We decided to use images from within our stop animation for the poster and the review page otherwise people would watch a film which was in no way related to the advertisement for them.

The picture used on our poster works very well with the name of our film. The poster basically sums up our film, we felt by editing the picture on our poster to make it look like the main girl is swinging was effective as just a picture of a girl on a swing would be very boring.

We when creating our main product we wanted to create a storyline to confuse/shock the audience and i feel we have done this. The pictures we edited are very surreal, to do this we edited them so the colours were either vibrant and bright or dull and washed out to show the viewer how the main character feels. This is how we made our film different and to enhance our shocking storyline as we didn't just wanted natural colour pictures, we wanted the characters feelings to come across with the editing of our pictures.

Evaluation question 3.

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

From audience feedback i have learnt many people like our ancillary tasks, we haven't yet had a criticism about them. On Tumblr; a blog site of mine somebody wrote underneath our poster that they'd like to see the film. as shown in the print screen below.

We put our final cut of our film on Youtube and got feedback via youtube and Facebook.

This is a print screen of the feedback we got on youtube. We have positive and negative comments.

After we got our negative feedback we changed the main criticism which were that the 'typewriting' went too slow, so we sped it up and the second one was that people couldn't read the writing on the note scene so we slowed it down.

I then linked the video to my Facebook page and i got feedback on there.

This is a screen shot of the feedback i got from Facebook. Nine people liked it and as you can see we also got two positive comments. One saying she loved the camera work, the other saying she thought it was good.

So what i have learnt from our feedback is that most people like our film, and we only had very few negative comments.

Evaluation question 4.

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

For our production 'swing life' we used many technologies from the begining to end of our film production and ancilary tasks to get the best out of our main product, poster and review page. Not just to create and edit but also to get feedback on our product.

These were Adobe Photoshop, Video camera, Still photo camera, Youtube and a range of social networking sites, imovie and an Imac.

Adobe Photoshop;

This image above is an image of Adobe Photoshop. We used this programme to edit all our photo's for our stop animation on. We also used this to create our ancillary tasks, Review page and poster. When using this i learnt many new skills.

Video Camera;

The image above is the style of camera we used when filming the filmed parts in 'Swing Life'. This is a very good quality camera, we also used a tripod to keep the filming steady as this is what we needed.

Photo Camera;

This image above is a similar style to the Still photo camera we used to take all our pictures on for 'Swing Life'. We needed the camera we used to good quality as we didn't want any blurred or out of focus pictures, unless edited like it on Adobe Photoshop.

IstopMotion;

YouTube;

This image above is a print screen of my Youtube account where I've put all the video diaries to embed onto my blog and our 'Swing Life' to receive feedback.

Apple Imac;

This image above is a picture of the Apple Imac we used to edit our main product and create our ancillary tasks. We had to use an Imac in order to use Photoshop, Adobe premier and Istop motion.

Vicki's video diaries.

My video diaries.

What was the best part of the filming process?

What was the worst part of the filming process?