Final evaluation

After completing our short film and ancillary tasks, we kept looking over them to see if there was anything we could add in or take out to benefit them and make them better but I have now come to the conclusion that everything we did was done for a reason and adds to them individually in its own way.

I am very pleased with the way our film turned out, although at first we were finding it a little difficult to manage our time, get all the actors at the shoots on time...etc we eventually got our self organised so that it all went to plan.

We also made a few mistakes whilst recording our first draft of our film, for some strange reason we were filming as though we were editing in our film. Luckily we manage to put most of our film together avoiding this tricky situation however the problem arose in the scene where the two characters are in conversation in the lounge. Unfortunately we hadnt filmed enough clips from different shots and angles so we were unable to cut to anything else. Luckily we were able to refilm a few weeks later and fix our problems however it was slightly unconvienient and caused a few continuety editing mistakes.

If I could change one thing about our film it would be to add music in. Originally we decided not to introduce music into it because right from the first scene there is talking and therefore the music would overpower the voices and make the scene less effective. However, when the credits come up at the end, our film could have benefited with a bit of music. We were told we weren't allowed to use songs by artists because they were copyrighted and we couldn't get permission which meant if we wanted music we would have to compose it our self in a programme called 'Garage Band', In my opinion Garage Band works very well if you need to add in sound effects or music for suspense...etc but it is very difficult to create a whole song without any help that would fit in with our film so we came to the conclusion that our film would look more professional without any.

I think our poster works so well because its not overcrowded and busy. It may not be that complex but the fact that it is simple and to the point makes it bolder and gives it more edge to stand out. There is less to look at, making it easier to remember. I think our colour scheme for the title 'The Morning After' was one of our best ideas because it is something so simple yet looks so effective. It has stayed with us throughout the whole coursework process and is something anyone looking at our coursework would find hard to forget.

The Magazine review didn't start off so well because we had never done one before so we didn't know where to start, what to put in it, how to do the layout...etc. We then learnt how important research is as it taught us everything we now know and really helped us the whole way through, i now thing that our magazine review looks just as professional as one you would find in a film magazine.

Finally, the presentation we had to do involved answering 5 questions that were given to us. What helped us most with this is all the research we had done throughout the process of all the other tasks. We didn't leave our self with as much time as we would of liked for the presentation but i am happy with the final result and think it presents everything it needs to.

Our final film !!!!

clips for my powerpoint

we used these two clips on our powerpoint to illistrate 2 of our conventional editing techniques used through our film.
The two techniques seen above are:
1) Cross Cutting / A montage sequence.
2) a Point of View shot.

Our PowerPoint.

We had to create a Power point presentation evaluating our ancillary tasks and short film. There were five main questions we had to awnser:
1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of a real media product?
2)How effective is the ocmbination of your main product (short film) and ancillary texts?
3)What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
4)How did you use new media technologies in the constuction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
The evaluation was worth 20% and therefore we wanted to try and achive as many marks as possible. This is how we did it: - We put clips onto our powerpoint as illustrations and examples. - useing images as examples - makeing sure we answered every question in detail without haveing too much writing. - Giving our audience a questionnaire to fill out about our short film and ancillary texts. - makeing bar and pie charts to show the results from our audience feedback

Amanda Murray and Nikki Harris - Final Evaluation Presentation

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Bellow are two of the clips we used in our powerpoint. These clips were created to illistrate 2 of our conventional editing techniques used through our film.:
1) Cross Cutting / A montage sequence.

2) a Point of View shot.

Our Final Ancillary tasks.

Bellow is the poster and magazine review for our short film:


We used all our research and development to help us for our final products, and we followed certain conventions making both our poster and our magazine review realistic for our viewers.
This has all been written about in our powerpoint presentation.

Photographs of the locations we used.

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Before choosing our final location we had to go to a few different types
of locations and take a few photos before deciding which location
would suit our film
the best. As you can see we choose the second location on this slide.
We felt the first location wouldn't work due to the house being
surrounded by houses and so our two characters wouldn't have been
able to get into a house not belonging to them. Also the second
house worked nicely also due to the house
coming off the two main roads, after a long think about it we
thought it wouldnt make sense for our two drunken characters to go into
a close and choose the one house which so happens not to have any people in.

Altogether after coming up with the pros and cons for these two houses we decided on choosing the house in the second slide. All the images on the second slide have been a part of the location used whilst filming our film.

We have the bedroom scene, the toilet scene with layken (Amy), the lounge scene where Jack and Amy are having a conversation, the scene at the start where Amy and Jack are stumbling over walking back from the party, the scene where both the characters enter the house and the kitchen scene and lastly the scene where Amy is coming down the stairs.

magazine review template

Our first rough outline to our film poster

Although this was our first sketched for our film poster, after researching several film posters we decided to base our poster on the film
"The Break-Up". This enabled us to focus on conventions of real media products.

Film reviews research

This was quite useful research, however after researching film reviews in detail which are displayed in magazines we realised that the review would take up an A4 page worth. This review did help for the rough layout of the review.

Looking at the start of a short film.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p005f7db

1) Channel 4's IDEASFACTORY presents
2) A dogtooth media production
3) TITLE OF THE FILM.
4) characters name followed by the actors names
5) editor - director of photography - sound recordist - music
6) produced by
7) written and directed by

When adding the titles into our film and seeing the way inwhich the titles are placed i decided to look at a few short films for help which are roughly the same genre as ours. This film was about a man getting over his old girlfriend who finds another man, and so the ex boyfriend hires a karati man to deal with his ex girlfriends new boyfriend, however in the end we find out that the man who he hired to beat up the new boyfriend ends up with the girlfriend.
The order about is the routine in which the titles were shown.

This is a poster from the film, The Break Up. We thought it would be a good poster to study seeing as it is the same genre as the film which we have produced. A romantic comedy. This research is crutial so that we are able to follow the codes and conventions to a film poster, however this is for a feature film, not a short five minuet film which is what we are doing.
Looking at this poster we have decided it might be a nice effect to have our two characters sat in bed starring at eachother in confusing seeing as this would represent the fact that neither of them know eachother ( hence a one night stand ).

On The Break-up poster the husband is on the left hand side, and the wife is on the right hand side.Both of them are expressing their feelings on their face so the audience can pick up the fact that they both look fed up and unhappy. They are both sat up in bed leaving a big gap between the two which emphasises the fact that they are no longer a happy couple and that the film is clearly going to be about a couple 'breaking up'. Above the characters are the names of the acters.And at the very bottom there is information about the makers of the film, and the film, including the date this film will be released.

A Four Letter Word.

This film is about : Six people in New York are adrift. Zeke and Luke work in a sex shop: Zeke takes gay liberation seriously, Luke likes to sparkle and takes nothing seriously. He's offended when Stephen calls him a gay cliché, then, surprisingly, they find each other attractive and interesting. Stephen, it turns out, has a great apartment, trust fund, and artwork he's painted on his walls. Meanwhile, Peter, a neat-freak, and Derek, nice to everyone, move in together. Peter's compulsiveness threatens the relationship. Last, newly-engaged Marilyn, a recovering alcoholic stuck at step 2, can't stop obsessing about wedding details. Can these folks sort out civilization and its discontents?

I decided to have a look in which this film was layed out with all the titles.

1st - It tells you that it is Embrem Entertainment.
2nd - It says Embrem Entertainment presents.
3rd - A Casper Andreas Film.
4th - The title of the film ( A Four Letter Word )
5th - the names of the acters starring in the film.
6th - the co producers name
7th - who the music was composed by.
8th - who designed all the costumes in the film.
9th - who designed the production.
10th - who edited the film together.
11th - the producers of the films names.
12th - Who wrote the script (storyline).
13th - who directed the film.

The more films which we look at the more likely we are to perfect the codes and conventions of the films and the more knowledge we have on putting the titles in the correct places of our films. However once again this is a feature film.

50 First Dates

50 first dates is a romantic comedy feature film. This is the poster for advertising this film. It is set out very similar to the film The breakup. They are located on a beach, center of the poster, The title is placed at the bottom of the poster in the center and the acters names are at the top left and right. This is useful to look at when making our own film poster.

This film is Presented by Comlumbia pictures.

poster research

Poster research

Poster Research

Making a great poster can be fun and is certainly a challenge!

A GREAT POSTER IS...

readable,

legible,

well organized, and

succinct.

1. WAYS TO MAKE A POSTER ARE

make your own.

Designing the poster panels deserves consideration. Most posters are most quickly made using some kind of computer software. A word processing program plus a few graphics packages (e.g. Microsoft Powerpoint, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker) are important tools. Of these, Powerpoint has the least sophisticated graphics options.

2. CHOOSING BETWEEN TWO POPULAR FORMATS:

a large format poster or

a multiple panel poster.

3. TO BEGIN:

decide what the main message is,

Keep it short and sweet and make this your title! Use the active voice (The Morning After)

measure the space you have,

Regardless of poster format, lay out the space physically as well as on paper to double-check yourself. If you can, make the poster flexible enough to change the size by adding or omitting panels or elements. This flexibility is handy if you are going to more than one meeting, if the poster boards are not exactly the size advertised, if the meetings have different in size requirements for posters, or if you wish to update your data between meetings.

lay out your panels crudely,

Before you actually spend time making the final panels of the poster, take pieces of paper that are about the right size and see if you can actually make it all fit. This will save you a lot of time in the long run.

begin to make individual components of the poster!

4. POSTER LAYOUT HAS TWO ASPECTS:

Consider how to arrange poster elements and text within each panel and

People approach new information in a known spatial sequence: we track vertically from center to top to bottom, and horizontally from left to right. This means that you should put the most important message in the center top position followed by the top left, top right, bottom left, and finish in the bottom right corner. That's why the poster title should be your punch line because, in that position, the title and your name will be seen in the first 11 seconds that a person looks at the poster.

Space is important in a poster: without it, your reader has no visual pauses to think. Books leave space on the margins and by having chapters. Posters that are crammed with information are tiring to read and are seldom read in their entirety. Omit all extraneous text or visual distractions, including borders between related data and text, so the reader can assimilate your ideas easily.

Size of poster elements or the fonts in each panel can serve to emphasize the main points. For example, making your subheadings in all capitals and two font sizes larger than the rest of the text on the same panel will draw the reader's eye first, and so be emphasized. The use of multiple fonts in a poster can distract from the science.

practical matters.

It takes time to make a great poster. Regardless of format, allow 2 to 3 days to assemble all the bits and pieces, such as photos etc, and then 1.5 to 2 days to assemble the poster. That last bit of data you rush around to get at the last moment will go completely unnoticed if your poster is messy and disorganized i.e. illegible and unreadable.

5. FONT CHOICES GIVE YOU OPTIONS WITH

size,

Font sizes need to be big to be effective. A good rule is to stand back from your own poster: if you, who are familiar with the material, cannot easily read it from 6 feet away, your audience will certainly not be able to.

highlighting with text format,

Indents set text apart and are great for short lists.

Justification of text in the center of a line will draw attention.

basic font choice and highlighting with font variations.

Choose a basic font whose "e's" and "a's" stay open at all sizes and that is supported by your printer.Bookman, Helvetica, and Geneva are examples of good choices. The choice of serif or sans serif is largely a personal matter. If your font is not supported by the printer, you will get ragged edges on all your letters.

Highlighting a few parts of the text is done easily with:

/ capitals as in the "go CHILDREN slow" or the "Stop,..." street signs,
/ Zapf dingbats instead of numbers for simple lists of things,
/ wrapped letters that arc around an image,
/ switch styles (bold, italics, shadow, etc.).

6. COLOR

Ways to add color,

A color border or background is a fast way to add color to a poster. Choosing colors that do not compete with your data, that look good once printed, and that color blind people can see is wise.

If you opted for a multiple panel poster, then LaserFoil allows you to make your printed words from a laser printer come out in color. Available in mat, glossy, and "prism" finishes, LaserFoil can add pizzaz to a poster. Colored graphic tape or dots, and white arrows (Chartpak, Lettraset) can be quickly applied to poster elements to draw attention to the elements you wish to.

contrast,

Proper contrast will reduce eye strain and make the poster more legible and interesting visually. Again, be careful that the color does not outclass the visual impact of your data: too much contrast is hard on the eyes and can distract the reader from your data.

Adding light color backgrounds to your figures can make the poster attractive. For example, using white lettering and lines on a blue background can make your poster eyecatching. Like a painting, poster elements can also be double matted physically or digitally to add interesting contrast.

7. CHECK TWO THINGS BEFORE YOU “ASSEMBLE” THE POSTER

have others review it for you,

do take a moment for ethical considerations.

8. FINISHING YOUR POSTER

It is trivial to assemble a poster once you have decided on and made all the individual elements. Be sure to give yourself enough time to finish the poster,say 1-3 days, so you have time to reprint it if necessary to revise color or content, or to simply get into the printing queue!
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Evaluation so far
So far we have uploaded our footage onto the computer and made clips over every scene. We have chosen the correct footage and edited it together. So far we are very pleased with the result although we have come across one problem. In the scene where Amy and Jack are having a conversation the following morning over a cup of coffee we had a 'jump cut' and because we didn't film enough different shots, we have faced a fairly big problem. It looks messy and disjointed and therefore we have decided we need to re film that scene again making sure we get a bigger variation of shots and shot sizes.
At the same time as doing this we will also take the photographs for our film poster because although we have drawn out a plan and some rough ideas we need to start putting it together into a poster.

Whilst we are waiting to re-shoot our short film we are doing the titles and music. Although choosing the 'font' for film titles seems like a minor thing we are having to put a lot of thought into it to find something that suits the genre and character of our film as well as choosing where is appropriate to have music and what type of music is it that we want?


Ideas for our poster:
Because our film is a 'Rom com' we want the poster too have an element of comedy in it to draw in peoples attention and interest. Because our short film has a fairly basic simple storyline to it we thought the best thing to have an image of was. The awkward moment when they wake up the morning after...
possible ideas;
-possibly with thinking bubbles filled with images from the night before.
-speech bubbles. showing what there thinking
-title of the film
-cast
-age certificate
-quotes?

poster research

Research on magazine film reviews

Research on film posters
Cinema and film posters are the physical incarnation of the special movies we have enjoyed through the years. Although there is a big market for collecting film posters, they were never intended or created to be sold to the public. They were merely meant to promote and entice viewers to come to the local theatres that were screening the films. Today these rare original movie posters are in great demand. They are the tangible souvenirs of favourite films and stars whose characters we fell in love with


Early Days
Ironically in the early days of movie making actors were not usually depicted on the film posters. The title of the film and the producer and directors names were usually the attraction until Hollywood realized that it was the actors who brought in the viewers. It was at that time that the stars of movies were then plastered on each poster giving life to a new era in the film industry.
Bellow are two examples of film posters traditionally created for advertising which are now rare and expensive collectors items, you can see that these posters are very different to 20thC posters...



Casablanca is one of the many classic film posters available.
Film posters like The Seven Year Itch are as popular as ever.

This is a picture i found on google and you can see that three of the films out at the time had been advertised on telephone boxes. The film industry want to try and advertise their films as much as possible seeing as the more heard of their film is by the audience the better chance it has in suceeding.
Film posters can be advertised on billboards, telephone boxes, buses, taxis etc.

FILM ADVERTISEMENTS.

Another task which we need to create and start thinking about is making a POSTER to advertise our film. As a start i researched into some ways in which film companys have had their films advertised to the public.

These posters to advertise both of these two films are extremely plain and simple, however in both of the posters you can see a picture of the main characters involved in the films.