Filming Schedule;
Monday;
12.45pm - 1.30pm
Wednesday;
1.30pm - 2.20pm
Thursday;
1.30pm - 2.30pm
Friday;
10.45am - 1.30pm
We are doing all our filming around the college because it is were the story is based on. We are going to be using the sixth form building as it is the most modern part of the college and we want our film to be more up to date. Also at the start we do a walk though the lower ground of the college.
Friday 5 March 2010
The Editing Process
Once we have successfully recorded our film we are now ready to edit it to make it look and sounds like a proper professional film using Final Cut Pro, software that is widely used to edit television shows and programmes we watch today.
Final Cut Pro is a very comlex piece of software that allows you to do many things and is very confusing getting to know some of the functions of it. For some of the editing process Gina took over because she managed to get the hang of some of the vital functions we needed to use to edit our film, however when she was away both me and karl took over and shared the editing and even recored an introduction to the film to make it longer as we found that it wasn't long enough. to meet the 1 min 1/2 minimum time length. The introduction when edited in with a new soundtrack that we also added in almost made the film twice as long.
At various point in editing the video and audio would occasionally go out of sync for no apparent reason, whether it was us or the software we still don't know, but we managed to change it and knew how to get it back in sync.
Final Cut Pro is a very comlex piece of software that allows you to do many things and is very confusing getting to know some of the functions of it. For some of the editing process Gina took over because she managed to get the hang of some of the vital functions we needed to use to edit our film, however when she was away both me and karl took over and shared the editing and even recored an introduction to the film to make it longer as we found that it wasn't long enough. to meet the 1 min 1/2 minimum time length. The introduction when edited in with a new soundtrack that we also added in almost made the film twice as long.
At various point in editing the video and audio would occasionally go out of sync for no apparent reason, whether it was us or the software we still don't know, but we managed to change it and knew how to get it back in sync.
Podcast Evaluation
1) In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
In terms of camera work at the start we used a point of view shot of Nicholas walking through college to meet his mates.
The rolling stone song 'Satisfaction' is used which is a rock and roll type tune, and in previous experience of horror films start off light hearted and have a bouncy feel to them added by the soundtrack and this was the path we went down.
Our opening sequence was entirely from the beginning of the film.
2) How does you media product represent particular social groups?
Because our film is set in a college it is based entirely on teenagers around 16-18 years old.
There are ,murderers among the teens which is more apparent towards the end of the actual film. And its the fact that the murderer is a teenager that makes you think that younger people in this day and age are cabable of murder. You see it on the news that so and so has been stabbed by a young offender, and young offenders institutes are becoming more and more popular because of the rise in crime among teens.
3) What kind of media institutes might distribute your product and why?
I reckon BBC films will more than likely distribute this film because i personally think it is most suitable for a British audience, as say other countries like America, Australia and places like France may not get our film and wont be able to familiarise themselves with the setting. However, as we are bombarded with films set in an American school we might be able to familiarise ourselves with that because we have seen so many films set in an American school that we know what it is basically like even though its might not be a modern or even accurate representation of a typical American school.
4)Who would be the suitable audience for your media product?
I think our intended audience was mainly 12-25 (possible mid/late 20s). This is because it is a modern setting and used almost entirely a cast of teenagers, and is a film that the older generation like mid 30's plus wouldn't choose to watch.
5) How did you attract/address your audience?
Even though out target audience ware teenagers and young adults you would think we would choose an up to date tune, however we used a rather retro song to lead the audience in, paired together with a point of view shot of someone walking through a college and its that that the viewer want to keep watching because they want to know where they are walking to. Overall, though, i think its the Rolling Stones song that managed to keep the audience watching because when i watched the film back i said would i keep watching if this was a film? and i said yes mainly because of the soundtrack.
6) What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In using the camera and tripod, i thought it was pretty obvious how they worked, and the camera also because we grow up around technology we know the drills and menus u need to find what you need.
Using the editing software however was a struggle, because Final Cut Pro is a professional piece of software and used to edit many television programmes, so it had plenty of functions, the only problem was is finding them functions and you can go through menu after menu till you find exactly what you need and it time consuming too.
Capturing and logging the film off the tape was confusing at first too but in the end was actually quite simple.
Using this website, Blogger, to blog my media work as i went along didn't at all take long to get used to. However when i started using it i only knew how to blog something and that's it, but as i went along i got to grips with how to upload pictures on the blog, like the story board and the BBFC certificate logos also. Plus how to embed a video from YouTube, i needed help with that but was fairly simple to do and needless to say could do it again if i wanted to.
7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what did you feel you have learned in the progression from the start to the finished product?
In the media unit we have been doing i have learned that a good detailed time plan (for filming) is essential.
Group work needs to be spread evenly and don't do most of the work, and don't do too little an let the others carry the group. Or do a lot in one aspect of the work and not another because this is still not fair.
After using the cameras i can now easily pick one up and use it effectively to make another film with my group and if we were to make another film it would be an improvement as we learn from previous experience the do's and dont's in film making.
Even though we were aware of the 180 degree rule i think we may have forgotten about it in the whole filming process as we were stressing about who is doing what saying what, and we may have disregarded it a tad.
To improve i need to brush up on my knowledge of Final Cut Pro and all its has to offer so i can take full advantage of what it can do. Because it is a very complex piece of software no-one could possibly sit at it for the first time and use it effectively.
In terms of camera work at the start we used a point of view shot of Nicholas walking through college to meet his mates.
The rolling stone song 'Satisfaction' is used which is a rock and roll type tune, and in previous experience of horror films start off light hearted and have a bouncy feel to them added by the soundtrack and this was the path we went down.
Our opening sequence was entirely from the beginning of the film.
2) How does you media product represent particular social groups?
Because our film is set in a college it is based entirely on teenagers around 16-18 years old.
There are ,murderers among the teens which is more apparent towards the end of the actual film. And its the fact that the murderer is a teenager that makes you think that younger people in this day and age are cabable of murder. You see it on the news that so and so has been stabbed by a young offender, and young offenders institutes are becoming more and more popular because of the rise in crime among teens.
3) What kind of media institutes might distribute your product and why?
I reckon BBC films will more than likely distribute this film because i personally think it is most suitable for a British audience, as say other countries like America, Australia and places like France may not get our film and wont be able to familiarise themselves with the setting. However, as we are bombarded with films set in an American school we might be able to familiarise ourselves with that because we have seen so many films set in an American school that we know what it is basically like even though its might not be a modern or even accurate representation of a typical American school.
4)Who would be the suitable audience for your media product?
I think our intended audience was mainly 12-25 (possible mid/late 20s). This is because it is a modern setting and used almost entirely a cast of teenagers, and is a film that the older generation like mid 30's plus wouldn't choose to watch.
5) How did you attract/address your audience?
Even though out target audience ware teenagers and young adults you would think we would choose an up to date tune, however we used a rather retro song to lead the audience in, paired together with a point of view shot of someone walking through a college and its that that the viewer want to keep watching because they want to know where they are walking to. Overall, though, i think its the Rolling Stones song that managed to keep the audience watching because when i watched the film back i said would i keep watching if this was a film? and i said yes mainly because of the soundtrack.
6) What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
In using the camera and tripod, i thought it was pretty obvious how they worked, and the camera also because we grow up around technology we know the drills and menus u need to find what you need.
Using the editing software however was a struggle, because Final Cut Pro is a professional piece of software and used to edit many television programmes, so it had plenty of functions, the only problem was is finding them functions and you can go through menu after menu till you find exactly what you need and it time consuming too.
Capturing and logging the film off the tape was confusing at first too but in the end was actually quite simple.
Using this website, Blogger, to blog my media work as i went along didn't at all take long to get used to. However when i started using it i only knew how to blog something and that's it, but as i went along i got to grips with how to upload pictures on the blog, like the story board and the BBFC certificate logos also. Plus how to embed a video from YouTube, i needed help with that but was fairly simple to do and needless to say could do it again if i wanted to.
7) Looking back at your preliminary task, what did you feel you have learned in the progression from the start to the finished product?
In the media unit we have been doing i have learned that a good detailed time plan (for filming) is essential.
Group work needs to be spread evenly and don't do most of the work, and don't do too little an let the others carry the group. Or do a lot in one aspect of the work and not another because this is still not fair.
After using the cameras i can now easily pick one up and use it effectively to make another film with my group and if we were to make another film it would be an improvement as we learn from previous experience the do's and dont's in film making.
Even though we were aware of the 180 degree rule i think we may have forgotten about it in the whole filming process as we were stressing about who is doing what saying what, and we may have disregarded it a tad.
To improve i need to brush up on my knowledge of Final Cut Pro and all its has to offer so i can take full advantage of what it can do. Because it is a very complex piece of software no-one could possibly sit at it for the first time and use it effectively.
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