Poster For Opening sequence.

Evaluation on Who's Next Film Poster:

For my film poster I decided that I would use a dark image in the woods because this is a still image if I had used a image that was brightly coloured the audience might not be able to signify the genre of this film. The colours in this image are blacks, whites and greys. These colours signify danger, fear and dispair. Although our footage is filming in colours rather then the colours on the poster we have colour corrected them to make it seem more darker. Also the audience will have something to follow so the genre is clear through actions.  

By Chelsie.

Who's Next? - Final Opening sequence.

Evaluation Question 6.

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

For this evaluation we are going to be videoing our selves showing you what we have learnt and now able to do with the different peices of equiptment and softwares thoughout the process of making our opening sequence. This video will include how to use a digital camera and tripod, how to use final cut express, the effects we have used to produce our final draft, different ways to blog and how to set up blogger, how we uploaded our opening sequence and any other extra softwares we used in the process. 
The first part of this video will be about how to use final cut express and how you upload videos, add affects and the audio. Then the video will move on to blogger and different ways to blog including pictures, prezis and any other word documents.

The fact that we could all individually automatically access a YouTube account as the same details are used for our google accounts has been very handy as we haven't had to spend time making more and more accounts for each programme/technology. Its also been useful that those details are able to be used for our blogger accounts as well. YouTube is a great website as we've been able to post everything we've needed to and with YouTube, you can edit how it will look, change the caption, and many other things.

How you export videos from Final Cut Express

1. Go to Final Cut Express
2. Go to FILE, then EXPORT, then QUICKTIME CONVERSION. 
3. Then follow the instructions as carefully as possible. (It's very important to do this as if any wrong option is selected, the video won't work and will come up different on YouTube)
4. Name it and choose where you would like your video to be saved on the computer. 
5. Change the format to MPEG-4.
6. Click on the options button.
7. Change the file format to MP4, be very careful now, as there are other options similar to this. 
8. Change video format to H.264.
9. Change data rate to 8000.
10. Change image size to 1920 x 1080.
11. Click ok.
12. Click save. 

By Chelsie, Bethanie, Alix and Rebecca.

Feed back.

Questionnaire



We've created a questionnaire as a way of gaining feedback on if they like our opening sequence, which parts were the most effective and why, and whether they think it suits our specific target audience.




Firstly, we showed them a rough copy of our opening sequence, and explained that we were not at the final stages of our editing therefore it was not entirely completed.




We began with asking questions including their age, gender and favourite genre of film. This helped us gain an understanding of what types of opinions and feedback we'd be receiving and why.

They then moved onto filling in the rest of the questionnaire, and asked them to answer it as honestly as they possibly could as this would improve the reliability of our feedback.

• In our questionnaire, we asked the following questions...
• Do you think the location was suitable for the genre and fitting to the plot?
• What did you think of the acting?
•  Was it convincing?
• Do you think the effects on the lighting looked right?
• What was your favourite part?
•  eg shots, locations, props, dialogue.
• Did it make you want to find out what happens later on in the film?
• Were there any elements that could have been executed more successfully?
• Overall, did you enjoy it or not?

We made sure the people we asked our questions to fit in with our target audience...15 years old - 30 years old Both boys and girls "Thrill-seekers" .An interest in horror films/horror and paranormal documentaries/ TV dramas with sinister plots. A younger audience Mainstream style or potentially the other end of the scale: punk/rock/gothic style.

• From our audience feedback, we found out that out of everyone we asked, everyone loved our choice of location. We were told its the perfect location as it looks like a typical place for  kidnapping, it added a chilling atmosphere, we filmed on a good day as it looked cold and it was very conventional of the genre. 

• Overall, our audience liked the acting and thought it was very convincing, however one person said the acting in the scene in the house wasn't as good as the rest of the opening sequence. One person on the other hand said they loved the acting especially Naya's voice during the voice mail calls over the credits as they sounded realistic and scared. 

• The effects we added onto the lighting was liked by all of our audience. Everyone said they hadn't even noticed we had used the effects as they were done so well. Someone said the effects were simple and effective. Although one person said the shots where the ropes being dragged by the killer could have been a bit darker, there was too much greenery. 

• Out of everyone we asked, every person said they would watch the rest of the film as our opening sequence was interesting and exciting. One said they wanted to carry on watching as they wanted to find out who the killer was at the end. Everyone said they enjoyed it. 

• Parts we were told could have been improved were again, the scene in the house as the acting wasn't convincing enough, the speed of the walking of the killer through the woods, and finally the production logo being shortened and maybe the volume turned down a slight bit.

By Chelsie, alix, bethanie, Rebecca 

Evaluation Question 2.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Stereotypicall assumptions for teenage girls:
The media stereotype female teenages to be moody, lazy, want to be socially excepted and conscience about there appearance. The two female characters in our opening sequence will be aged 16 typically this is when teenagers feel most stressed because of exams and future life decisions. In our opening sequnce they are going for a run, this supports my idea that they worry about what society thinks of them. In our opening squence Molly would be seen as a demsel in distress. We have represented this in our opening squence when Molly is pulled back by an older man and she results in sceaming out if fear.

Stereotypical assumptions for a middle aged male:
40 year old males stereotypically tend to have a lifestyle that they tent to repeat everyday and are 'set in there ways'. Males are typically stronger and more dominant in this case more minipulative to younger girls this would support Propp's character theory along with Molly being a damsil in distress.  They may also have a family and a middle class job in an office. 

In our opening sequnce we see the two teenages in a conventional way because they are running to improve their appearence. But on the other hand we also see them sociallising with eachother. Their clothes are also unconventional because they are not wearing tight outfits or a full face of make up. The idea of one of the girls being stalked in the woods also connotes that she is a easy target for the older male. 
We see the male in an conventional way, he is wearing black walking boots, big trousers, blue shirt and gloves. We decided on this outfit for the male because we needed something that would make him look stereotypical for the character. E.g. the blue shirt signifies that he is a male but by wearing a shirt rather then a polo this connotes that he could have a regular office job which is typical for this age group, the use of gloves connote that he doesnt want people to know what he is going although he is dragging around a rope in the forrest, the colour of his gloves are also black, this colour is signified to be scary and dooming. The gloves are also leather and not cotton this signifys that he is slik and is able to afford a more luxuary acsessories.  

By Chelsie.

Evaluation Question 1.

In what way does my media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
By Chelsie.

Evaluation Question 4.

Who would be the audience for my media product? By Chelsie.