Evaluation questions

Evaluation Questions;

Q1.In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Q4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?  

Editing fundamentals

Media presentation from Joe Sandford

Behind the scenes 2.0

For this day of filming more issues occurred when the original car used was unavailable and had to find a replacement. this made it very difficult with continuity in post production. how ever we came out with some good footage and we put it into Final cut and tried to make the editing as smooth as possible.

Second day of filming

On our second day of filming we were trying to film this sequence where the characters were running down a country drive towards a farm. To be able to keep a steady distance from the cast while maintaining a smooth shot we decided the best course of action would be to use the convertible ‘mini cooper’ to use as a fast pace dolly to get the shot we wanted.

Using the rig allowed for more control but also creating an impressive effect with a slight shake to add to the intensity. Safety measures were made. we did not exceed 15 miles an hour and it was on a private road with no traffic. 

Strong women roles

One of the most obvious developments in recent pop culture has been the emergence of the icons and rhetoric of 'girl power', a phrase slapped into mainstream culture by the Spice Girls and subsequently incorporated into the language of government bodies as well as journalists, educationalists, culture critics, and pop fans themselves. Magazines for young women are emphatic in their determination that women must do their own thing, be themselves, and/or be as outrageously sassy and sexy as possible. Several recent movies have featured self-confident, tough, intelligent female lead characters. Female pop stars sing about financial and emotional independence, inner strength, and how they don't need a man; and the popular mantra of self-help books is that women can become just as powerful as these icons, if they cultivate their confidence and self-belief, and draw up a plan of self-development.

The emergence of the increasing amount of strong women roles has been included in many films that have come out in the past few years such as hunger games with Jennifer Lawrence and star wars the force awakens with Daisy Ridley 

With our production we have also included a strong women role where we see the character of "Libby" taking the lead. Whereas the stereotype would be a "damsel in distress" which we have chosen not include in our production.

First rough edit

Our first rough edit of the sequence which we originally thought would be the opening to our production was more of a learning experience. As this day of shooting was not well planed, we did not stick to the shot list and it was challenging to get everything done. However it gave us the our first hands on experience with our new equipment which consisted of a glide cam, which allowed for high levels of mobility while giving seamless and smooth footage, which we used for the majority of the day, along side a shoulder rig which again gave us more mobility but not as smooth as the glide cam, we used this where it was not possible to use the glide cam. (inside the car)

The experience learnt from that day of shooting consisted of time management, Organisation of crew and cast, organisation of shot list and a briefing of what we planned to do that day. our main way of organisation was through the social network site Facebook. as a group conversation can be made in seconds and there were two groups, one with all members, crew, cast and logistics. And another which just consisted the members of the group. this was a great tool to use for the organisation of the entire production.

Behind the scenes

This behind the scenes clip shows our first shoots where we attempt to film the first scene where the group abruptly breaks down on a country road and obviously isolated from anyone else.some difficulties that we encountered were firstly, lighting. Ensuring that there was a suitable lighting setup was crucial to having a high quality shoot and being successful as a part of the final piece. we tried best to fit our filming times during the lightest parts of the day but as we wanted the best result it took an hour and a half to get the fist dialogue shot the way we wanted. this made for a long day of filming and the light slowly made it more and more difficult to get a shot that was well lit. this made editing in post very difficult as upping the exposure often caused the picture to be full of noise and not usable. we over came this but tweaking the colour grading to make the footage clearer without distorting the image too much. We made specific presets for the darker scenes where we could match the colour and tones as best we could


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