Evaluation Question 7

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

Evaluation Question 6

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

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Evaluation Question 5

• How did you attract/address your audience

Above is a reaction video to my opening sequence production. He is a neutral person that hasn't seen the opening before and has given his comments on the opening. From the video it is evident that the opening sequence includes a lot of styles and themes that attract the audience (due to their seeing of similar styles in other media products), but also includes parts that can be improved upon.

Furthermore the video shows how the video has attracted my audience. The person is someone that meets the psycographic profile of my audience, and therefore will be attracted to watch the opening sequence and henceforth the film.

We have attracted this type of audience by using stylistic themes and intertextual references from other films that the audience is likely to have watched, such as styles and effects, similar to that of film openings such as "catch me if you can".

We also targeted an audience that we knew would have a relatively large secondary audience, in order to appeal to a greater audience. This was down by including a range of styles and themes, and by omitting factors such as crude violence, in order to attract a wider range of age groups.   

Evaluation Question 4 Part 2

• Who would be the audience for your media product

Evaluation Question 4 Part 1

• Who would be the audience for your media product

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation: question 3 | Create Infographics

Evaluation Question 2

• How does your media product represent particular social groups

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1

Grifter - Final Opening

Editing: Day Six

Today the group met up, off the school timetabled day, to try and get the opening sequence done. It was a long day that I know the group will be unable to forget. I added finishing touches to the sound in order to fully prepare it for the part that we had now added to the film. Othman and Ja'van then got to work with the editing of the footage on final cut pro and tried to work out how best to get the graphic match done. It took a while but we found that it would be best to do the graphic match by using key frames in order to zoom in and zoom to create that professional looking match. Once we had got it looking neat, we added the sound to the opening and checked that everything was now fully flowing good and smart. Once Finished, we uploaded the film to YouTube and added it to the blog, finally bringing to an end the production of our opening sequence.

Evaluation Planning

The first question I plan to do is:

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

There are 4 ways that i believe would be best for answering this question; doing a prezi presentation, pop up video, side by side comparison and 9 key frames.

However i feel that the best one to use would be a 9 key frames for the evaluative question. This is because with the 9 frames i can see where in the opening we have challenged or conformed to conventions of real media products while still being able to do it quickly and easily.

Furthermore, from the question i can gather that it is necessary that i pick from our opening sequence where we have challenged and conformed to conventions of similar media pieces. In order to do this i will look at similar genre movie openings, to that of our film opening and make key comparisons.

Some of my main points will include, analysing where we have stuck to the conventions of real media products and where we have steered our own way. I will also show how we have used conventional themes and styles in our opening, when analysing the question. I will also look to explain how our decisions to conform and also divert from some conventions has helped aid the narrative of our film, intrigue the audience, the links to the institution, where it has led to an understanding of the genre and how the people and aspects of the opening are represented in relation to conventional sways.

After doing some added research on examples of 9 key frames I also found a tumblr page that used 9 key frames to show how a film developed, challenged and conformed to conventions of typical media pieces, relative to that genre.

The next question is:

• How does your media product represent particular social groups

For these question i think it would be best to create, either a pow toons cartoon or pixton. This is because in these i can easily, but creatively show how social groups are represented in my media piece.

It is most likely, however, that i will use pixton to answer the question, where i will talk about: stereotypes, counter-types and refer to common social groups depending on - gender, age, class, culture & ethnicity, e.c.t.

Below is a snippet of an example of a pixton: 

The next question is: 

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

This is a question that i have already similarly done on my blog in a v-log. However i plan to use another creative software to answer the question.

It is most likely that i will use an info-graphic from "infogr.com" in order to answer the question.

My main points will outline how the media institution would be good in terms of finance, marketing and in relation to my audience and why i have chosen the distribution company in the first place. I will also link to the key concepts of how choosing this media distribution company will relate to the genre of my film, its relation to the film's narrative and how it links to the audience.

• Who would be the audience for your media product

For this question i plan to create a voki, explaining who my audience is likely to be, their profile, the secondary audience and more in relation to who the audience for my media product would be.

I will outline the psycographic profile of my audience, their demographics: (age, gender, culture, ect) and also their socioeconomic class, in order to thoroughly explain who my audience is likely to be and what they are likely to look like.

The next question is:

• How did you attract/address your audience

The plan for this question is to do a reaction video, where an audience or person will view my media product and give feedback as to what they thought about the product, where it was good and where improvements could be made, and overall what appealed to them, to attract them to the video.

The video will include the audience being shown as they watch my product and the video in the top corner so that people watching the reaction video can also see my media product.

From this video I will also be able to further explain the sort of audience that my media product will attract.

Below is an example of what my reaction video will look like:

 

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

For this question I will need to outline all the pieces of technology that I have used, that have helped me in producing my final media product and explain what I have learnt about the technology in the process of creating my media product.

In order to do this effectively and yet still make the answering of the question look attractive, I plan to create a magazine, listing each piece of technology I had used, with pictures, and stating what i've learnt in using them and how I have improved in media as a result of them. These technologies will not only include devices, but also websites and program softwares.

Below is my plan for the magazine, answering the question.

The final question is:

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

For this final question I felt that the best way to answer it would be to do an interview, however I decided that I wanted to add a twist and therefore planned to interview myself in a podcast, stating what I have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the full product, the different pieces of technology I have had to have used, where I have improved since the preliminary task and more.

Evaluation Questions

Below are the evaluations questions that we were told we would be answering in order to gain the 20 marks necessary for the evaluation task:

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

• How does your media product represent particular social groups

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

• Who would be the audience for your media product

• How did you attract/address your audience

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

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

Above is a picture of how me and my group ordered the questions in value of importance, in our opinions.

The question we valued as most important was: looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product. This is because we felt that it was most important in our film opening production, to learn from the mistakes we had made in the preliminary task and also, learn new techniques that we would help us get the best marks in our production.

We saw: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why, as the least important question, simply because we didn't see at as the most important and relevant to our opening sequence production.

However we realise that each question has equal importance and relevance in relation to our production.

Filming Day: Day Four

After believing that we had finished our filming towards the opening sequence, we stumbled upon a dilemma. After watching and analysing our opening our teachers realized that since there were no visible characters and a lack in a strong narrative, the audience would/might struggle to work out what the overall film was heading towards and what it might be about. They suggested that we add a little bit of the beginning of the film to the end of the sequence so that the audience would be introduced to one of the settings and the characters and what they represent in the film. In the end we collaboratively thought of adding a graphic match to the end of the film to match an item or object with the bullet whole. So as a group we headed towards the studio again ready to film something that we had a rough idea about, but were struggling to envisage. However in the end we decided that we would line up items that the main character had taken on the table and use one of the items for the graphic match and get a shot of the character walking in while adjusting the depth of field. It didn't take long to film and we were thoroughly pleased about that.