Evaluation answering (question 2)

How does your media product represent particular social group?

• What types of people (age/race/gender/religion/ethnicity/culture) are represented in your film and how do you feel this affects your film and your audiences' reaction to it
• How and Why did you represent these social groups?

In our film, we have a young victim and a middle aged criminal.

The victim:
It is a male young adult, who had a nice time in the pub in the evening and is making his way home. He is a normal, average workman and on the other hand a victim, which he does not know. This is what nowadays no one can now, especially when you are relatively young.
In the film, you can see it due to his clothes, which show that he is young and male. Furthermore you can see that due to he was in the pub in the evening and he lights his cigarette, which is not illegal in this age. He is also self confident, because he is doing his way home on his own and you can clearly see that it is dark and scary. Of course he does not expect that he might be murdered.

The criminal:
He is in an average age ( between 25-40) and he is male. He does know that he is a killer and planned his act before. He has a long coat and boots and a knife. The knife of course does not show that he is an average man, but in this case it shows danger and that he is going to do something. He also spent his time at the pub. 

The affect on the audience:
The audience does actually get scared and sure about the fact, that the video they are watching is a thriller opening scene. So they get what they actually expect. In order to the chosen persons, they will see that a young, inexperienced workman had a nice time after a work day and is spending the evening in the pub to end the day. On the other hand the criminal is scary, you can't see his face and has a long coat. So they do already feel that there is something wrong about the whole situation. So tehy follow the action until they see the scene with the knife, which lets discover their predictions. So the persons represent the thriller and the type of thriller also shows how the people are.

We represented this group, because any young guys could get into such a situation. But actually it does not matter how old he is due to the fact that everyone could be stabbed or killed. But we took this young guy, because we are still young and wanted to represent that into the thriller. We wanted the criminal to be older due to the fact that young people do not murder just like that. You can see and feel that he was planning this and wanted to kill this exact person.

Evaluation (qu. 7)

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

How did the preliminary task prepare you for the creation of your film? What did you learn about the equipment software and from the creative process? How did your knowledge affect your perception of the main task? Were you excited? Uncertain? Do you feel the preliminary task was beneficial in preparation for the short film?

The preliminary task was hold quite simple and just a clip of about 12 shots. We have of course not taken it that seriously as the main video we had to do. We have taken about an hour and a half to make the preliminary task, whereas the main video took about 1 month and a half. So the preliminary task mainly prepared us in terms of using the editing program Final Cut Pro.
Therefore in comparison to the main product we had to think of the story, get used to the camera and learn filming. The problem there was that of course it was our first time making a video. Therefore the filming at the beginning was not that good and we had to refilm a lot in terms of darkness or facial expressions. In terms of the preliminary task we only had to film couple of scenes and cut them together, which of course was fun, but was actually compared to the final video pretty bad.
Our own knowledge got influence not in terms of the software, but in terms of the individual skills in filming, acting or thinking of the story. The good thing was that we both had actually the same ideas of the thriller, which means we both thought of something scary and dark murder scene. Furthermore we had to adapt the story on our possibilities given, like we had to use the location around the school. So our own knowledge and individual class.

I have answered the question mainly but not completely, because we decided spontaneously that we will make a mind map on a big sheet of paper with away of progression shown on it and the way we have developed.

Evaluation answering (question 6)

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

Discuss in detail all the different forms of media you have used throughout your coursework and how this has affected and influenced your understanding to different forms of media technologies.
This can include:

• The filming equipment ( cameras, Tripod, etc.)
• The editing software - Final Cut Pro
• Other software: In design, PowerPoint, Word, Motion, Garage band, etc.
• Your blog and everything that entailed to create and maintain it.
• YouTube, other videos (The Art of Titles), copyright free music, etc. 

For this question we have done a presentation on prezi.com. We will record the presentation and will furthermore answer the question by audio on top of the video presentation. 

Evaluation

Today we have started to answer the questions of the evaluation. Due to the wide question, there is a lot to answer and therefore it will take a long time to answer them all and in a good way. I will continue on answering the questions this evening.

Finished the video

We have finished all our work on the video now. It is called DARK VENGEANCE and is a thriller opening scene for our AS-LEVELS. 
We now will start to make the evaluation, which is answering 7 questions and present them in 7 different media forms. So we will answer the questions and afterwards we will think of the media form and finally will make it.

Titles

We have thought of all the titles and have made them now. The words are glowing and like under electricity in order to make it scary. 
When we edited it into the sequence/ clip there was one problem. The music fitted perfectly without titles and when we put the titles into it, the music of course did not fit anymore. Therefore we had to sit down again and make it fit, which we successfully did. 
We also edited some special sounds, like the lighter or the sounds when the victim falls to ground. Of course the heartbeat is imported as well.

The music

The music is now finished and does actually fit perfectly. We only had one problem which we fixed, which was that the music was a bit too long. But we have cut it in final cut and in garageband that it fits perfectly. 

editing the clip

We have edited the clip into the perfect sequence we want to have it. Now it is only on making the music fit perfectly and making the titles.

Refilming a scene

Yesterday evening, florian and me went out and down to the pub to refilm a scene.

 

In this scene the victim, me, is turning around and seeing the criminal running towards him. In the first filming session, this clip was way to dark, so you could not see any facial expressions, which are very important in this situation. 

Furthermore we filmed some

scenes for the end, like the falling over of the victim from 3 different angles.

We also did a point of view shot from the victim after the tripping. And after that we filmed the shadow of the criminal for the final scene.

Here is again our location

Editing in Final Cut Pro

Today i have started to set and cut the scenes together to mak it to one single film. Of course it is just placed after each other and is not perfect. That is what we will use the other lessons for.