Evaluation

Media Evaluation

Evaluation

Now that 'City Rush' our media opening is complete, i need to complete an evaluation of the media piece which will then complete the media opening part of this course.

I have been a bit behind with this part of the course due to a few hiccups with getting the media opening completed but i hope to have the evaluation completed by next week.

Final Cut

I have now completed editing the final cut of 'City Rush' and i am quite pleased with the overall progress of the piece of media as i didn't encounter too many errors or problems and went quite smoothly.

This is the first cut of 'City Rush'. This cut still has a few errors, mainly duplicated clips when trying to add credits to the video. But the main issue is the sound, also the train at the end we got some feedback and a better idea was to have a moment of blackness/silence then to have an ambulance siren which will then make more sense of the opening overall.

First cut

We finished filming on the wednesday as posted previously in January. From January until now we have been editing and perfecting the media opening. We came up with a name of 'City Rush' as this seemed to best fit the opening as it was fairly fast paced.
While we were filming we had a brilliant shot in first person view which was looking out of the train window and seeing the city go by, during this long clip there was an outstanding piece of audio that will fit the media opening perfectly, i extracted the audio and cut the clip to then have the audio over the best part of the clip so it didn't go on for too long and we had the best of both.
The audio clip said 'We are now arriving at Birmingham New Street. Our final destination!' This links in perfectly with our media opening as the train will blow up which then links in with 'Final Destination'.

I have now finished editing the first cut of the opening and will upload it in the next post.

Update

When we went to film our media piece we came accross a few problems with crew members and areas etc. So we had to improvise on the spot and this worked pretty well as we ended up with some pretty good shots and a decent plot.

We then created the story boards but don't have a camera/scanner to upload these anymore but we still have the same idea about a bombing, we used a train instead of a car and turned out to be the better plot in the end as it made more sense and was possibly the easier option.

Filming

We are planning to start filming this wednesday as we have media in the afternoon and will spend this time to go out to the train station during the hours where the public are generally at work or school giving us less busy times and room to move around and film within the train station.

*I will add the new storyboards when i get a hold of a camera in order to upload them*

January Update

We have been set back lately due to a member of our group leaving 6th form, therefore we didn't have enough man power to get this project on the go. Therefore we've had to change almost every aspect of our origional plan. We also lost the main character due to this and no longer have a car/driver so have to move to another location/public transport.

We are sticking with the terrorist bombing idea but this will now happen on a train using a briefcase bomb.

We have had trouble finding some blueprints/schematics of a bomb/briefcase bomb etc.. to lay out for the audience to get an idea of what's going on therefore we are going to have to use a picture of a briefcase bomb instead.

Here is an example of a briefcase bomb and possibly the image we will get scaled to A3 and use in our opening.

Christmas Break

During this time we didn't have any cameras to film with, therefore over them two weeks we didn't get any work done. Now we are back at 6th form we can continue to develop our film and will use the weekends over January to film and edit and hope to complete our film by the end of January.

Our Storyboard

Here are our storyboards of what we hope to film.

Possible Locations

Here are some possible locations for our opening.

Small Heath


Bimingham Town


Elmdon Park



Location to get ready/prepared

Blog of all members in the group

Here is the link to all the members of our group and their blogs listed.

http://it6asmedia.blogspot.com/

Questionnaire

Questionnaires have been made and given out to get results of what people prefer and to get some research as to what audience we will attract.

We have had 8 questionnaires back so far.

Here is a link to the questionnaire.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2wn2snm.jpg

Final Video

Preliminary Task

For this task we had to film a person walking, going through a door with shots from either side of the door.
There needed to be a couple of lines of dialogue and breif plot.. - Using shot-reverse-shot..
The harder part of this taskwas for the film to be edited successfully without any mistakes.
The program took me some going over to work out how to use it with success.
I think we managed to do this quite successfully.

The video will be uploaded soon.

Peliminary Task

In this task I will be explaining about the shot/reverse shot , 180 degree rule and Continuity shot in detail and how it is performed correctly.

Shot/Reverse shot is a very commom film technique an example of this is when a charecter is looking at another character this is normally offscreen, then you see the other charecter looking 'back' at the first charecter in the scene. This effect makes it seem like they are looking at each other, and is done well in some cases.
Shot reverse shot is a feature of the "classical" Hollywood style of continuity edit, which deemphasizes transitions between shots such that the audience perceives one continuous action that develops linearly, chronologically, and logically. It is in fact an example of an eyeline match.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_reverse_shot

The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_degree_rule

Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in narrative cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.
In most films, logical coherence is achieved by cutting to continuity, which emphasizes smooth transition of time and space. However, some films incorporate cutting to continuity into a more complex classical cutting technique, one which also tries to show psychological continuity of shots. The montage technique relies on symbolic association of ideas between shots rather than association of simple physical action for its continuity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_editing

Things we need to do

Mood Board - Images, Words.
Location - Needs to be done - Small Heath, Washwood Heath, School, Alum Rock.
Main plot - Silent movie with a terrorism twist.
Characters - Extras, Terrorist 1 , inoccent bistander 1, inoccent bistabnder 2 and Police officer.
Costume - Terrorist = Rags , Inoccent bistander 1 = Casual , Inoccent bistabnder 2 = Casual, Police = florecent jacket, badge, handcuffs.
Soundtracks - Classical Silent movie.

Grouping Up

We got into groups of 4-5, I am in a group of 4; Scott Jones, Michael Sidwell, Aaron Collins and myself.
We were put into groups to create an opening to a movie, no longer than 2 minutes with credits etc.

Start of Media

First lesson of Media Studies we set up this blog where we are going to record our progress of our lessons / opening to our movie etc.