Final short film

This is my final short film that I have made for my A2 Media coursework.

 

 

Final film poster

This is my final film poster that I have created for one of my ancillary tasks. I created this using Photoshop and a stills camera.

 

Final film review

This is my final film review that I have created for my second ancillary task. 

 

 

 

Bloopers video

Evaluation question 4: part two

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

 

 

 

 

Evaluation question 4: part one

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

Audience feedback results

 

Evaluation question 3: part four

This is the third audience feedback video that I have selected to be a representative of 10.

 

Evaluation question 3: part three

This is the second audience feedback video that I have selected to be a representative of 10.

 



Evaluation question 3: part two.

As well as my questionnaire, I also decided to record 10 members of my target audience reaction's to my short film, followed by a few questions at the end. I have selected three people from the 10 that I think are a good representative sample. 

Evaluation question 3: part one

Question: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

After creating my main product and ancillary tasks, I firstly devised a questionnaire to give out to 10 members of my target audience to gain some opinions on my film and to see what I needed to change.

Closed questions

Open quesitions

I selected 3 answers out of 10 for all questions.

Evaluation question 2

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

Evaluation question 1

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

First draft of my short film

 

This is the first draft of my A2 media short film. There are a few changes that I would like to change to the film before it is finished. These changes have been influenced by the feedback that I have received from target audience. The biggest change that I want to make is the end graveyard scene. I feel as though the scene doesn't really work well and it isn't clear to the audience what is happening in the scene. I feel as though it doesn't look realistic enough to create the effect on the audience that I would like, so it needs to be re-filmed.
To improve it I think that filming it in an actual graveyard will add to the scene and make it more clear, and if the friends are putting the flowers down at an actual grave it will make it more emotional because it will be more believable.
Another change that I want to make is that I want to change the music that I have used for the beginning and middle parts of the film. I don't feel as though it fits the storyline well and when I asked my audience for feedback, they agreed with me and said that it would be better if different music was used.

 

Clip from my short film: part 2.

This is another scene from my short film that I have decided didn't look right and re-film. The lighting in the scene is too dark and it doesn't fit as well as I originally thought it did. I have decided to re-film it so that it has better lighting and it flows better. 

Clip from my short film: part 1

This is a clip from my short film that I have decided to cut out and re-film. The scene doesn't really fit well together and doesn't create the effect that I wanted it to, therefore I have decided to re-film it so that it looks better in the film.

Is Tyrannosaur poverty porn?

  Ideas and opinions taken from a guardian article - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/16/tyrannosaur-poverty-porn-the-debate

Short film screenshots two

 

These are some screenshots of some of the earlier scenes in my short film. The first is medium shot of the main character looking dejected after the teacher ignores her when she has her hand up. The second screenshot is of the main character and other students walking towards school, to show the audience a passage of time and a new location. The third screenshot is from one of the shots in the classroom scene, in which the teacher looks up to greet the class entering the room. The fourth screenshot shows the class waiting outside of the classroom waiting to enter, and the fifth screenshot is a long shot of the class, and the main character has her hand up waiting for the teacher to answer her.

Ancillary task progression three

 

Since my last progression post, I have added a block of text containing the credits for the film underneath the masthead. As well as this, I have played around with the position of the masthead and the images of the production companies at the bottom, as I didn't feel as though the position fit correctly. I felt that in the earlier images in this post, the masthead was too high up on the poster and it needed to be further down in order to let the audience see the full effect of the image.

Ancillary task progression two

 

 

Since my last progression post, I have played around with the position of the tag line, as I am unsure where about I want it placed on the poster. I am not sure which position will be most effective, whether it will stand out better at the top of the poster or beneath the title.

I have also added some film production company logos and awards at the bottom of the poster. From looking at real short film posters, I have noticed that they tend to represent the companies that have funded the film at the bottom of the poster, as a sign of credit for the film. 

Short film screenshots part one

 

 These are a few screenshots from the time lapse at the very beginning of my film, and the very first scene. I wanted to use a time lapse at the beginning of my film to introduce the title of the film, however at the moment I'm unsure how I am going to get the text onto the clip.  By using a time lapse at the beginning of the film, it also informs the audience of the time of day that the film is set in. The time lapse itself watches the clouds move over the sky, and it turns from bright and sunny, to where dark clouds are starting to roll over. This matches the storyline of the film, as it begins with a state of equilibrium, and then takes a very different turn.

 

 

 

 

 

Ancillary task progression part one

These are screenshots of my ancillary task in the beginning stages. I decided that for my poster I wanted an image of the main character, in which she is looking into the mirror and there is no reflection. This correlates with the opening scene in the film, where the character is getting ready in the mirror and notices that her reflection is not there.

To do this, I took the original image (first screenshot) and cut out the characters body. I then chose an image of the mirror that has nothing in the reflection, and pasted the cut out body onto the image with no reflection.

For my title, I used a website called dafont.com, which gives you a wide selection of choice for different fonts to choose from. I chose to have the title in capital letters, as it makes it easier to see on the poster and stands out. I changed the colour of the font to white to make it stand out from the image behind it more than it would if it was in black. To define it more, I dropped the shadow to give it a black outline around the letters, making it stand out more. I also decided to add a tag line onto the poster, to give the audience a slight insight into the film. I chose 'WHY THE SUDDEN CHANGE?' as it keeps it short and sweet, but still makes reference to the film. At the moment I am unsure of whether I want the tag line to remain below the title, or whether I want to move it to the top of the page instead.