Evaluation Questions

Annabell Pohl

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











Our media course work is about a 2-minute opening of a Horror movie. Our product took many ideas from different genres of films to create. Ideas from the unborn and The Ring were central in forming the baseline of our script and our storyline.
I drew out a storyline that fit into the pictures above and tried to represent all the horror materials I could find that would fit in and which can work perfectly with our film opening. The Fear Factor that I put into the movie contributes to the forms of the conventions of real media and media, which is not that normal like other media products. The ingredients of a horror film are, that you have to take care, that the hole story, is scary, that ou could see blood and that the people are screaming sometimes, also that the people are in panic situations and also that they maybe have a very dark for live story, these things making a horror film to something what is horror. In our 2 minutes opening film, we created a story, about a boy and a girl which habe been in love one yeart ago, but then he left her. But she doesn’t wanted to respect his decision so she made a plan and killed him in the bottom floor of a big house. Also a very good thing is, that she talks, and at the end she can’t understand, that she killed him. You can see flashbacks and her panic in the situations. I challenge this quiet good, because I produce the story with my group made and she has much more expierence then me, so it was much nicer, because she could tell me, how to do special thinks and she helped me with the editing, she explained it to me. Also I really liked it to made the costume design in our opening film and the designing of the outlines with our names.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

My media product represents the social group, which wants to see horror movies and wants to get the thrill of watching something that frightens them, I think it is for the group of genre with the ge 16-25. I used it with a special though, because I though that nobody from the older people would look at our little media studies opening film which is 2 minutes. So I decided that we just made the genre group for younger people also more teenagers. Also thefilm is with very young actors, it wouldn’t work, if a older person says, wow I really understand the hole film. It is more a teenyhorror story. But I think it wouldn’t be bad, if a oder audience would watch our film, because we tried to made something special, and what not so many people use. So we would be blessed, if someone of the oder people and of couse also all the younger people would say to use, that your film is very good. The using of the mise-en-scenes was not all the time so good, because the annoying think here is, that you don’t have such a good filmset and you don’t have the opportunity to use everything what you want.. But we managed it, and we used some good things for our film. The editing was not so easy for me, because of these, Lisa my group made has done the most of the editing because I never worked with the program before, so I looked at her, how he was doing it, and so I learned a little bit when I was looking at her doing it. And the editing in our film is very good, I think, Lisa done a good jop. The cinematography in our film is very good, we used some good pan shots, tilt shoty, and also very good zoom shots. Also the using of the flashbacks was a very good idea, the cinematography use in our film is not that bad, I really like it. All these things which we have done in our film, and how we worked represent my character absolutely well.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?







By realizing the genre of our movie is Horror, I tried to think of media institutions that associate with this kind of movie we also used. Then I looked up on the internet lots of very famous horror movies and continued my research as to which companies distributed those kinds of movies. On the top, I have some good examples.




Who would be the audience for your media product?

I thinkour audience would be people who really enjoy it to watch horror movies and movies, which made you be so scary, that you think you can not look it anymore but exactly this mix of a little bit to much and exactly right made the perfect horror movie, so we tried to make this. And we made this for a audience with the ages maybe 16-25 not so young and not for people who are not that young and understandable like the younger generation. Also we think that not that much oder people would watch the movie, or wouldn’t be so perfect for the oder audience, because we used very young people, teenagers who are acting in the movie so, I would say, that the audience would stay more by the younger and fantasiefully people, who can think them into the movie and could understand the story. And also, the bloodscenes, aren’t so good, if you show them little people, so the age just for people with the start of the age 16.

How did you attract/address your audience?

I tried to attract the audience by using the simple method of suspense through our opening two minutes. We used Kim and Henry for our movie, and we though that they would be the perfect characters for our movie, because they aren’t like all the other peolfe and they could fix in the parts of each role best. And you counld not see openings like this and we though that this would be the best, if the people could see from the start of the beginning, that the girl would be the person, who kills the boy at the end, because they have such a big fight. This was good of attracting our audience as the titles tell a bit of the story already and gives ideas that this could be a horror movie. We have used genre and we used the elements of our genreto attract an audience in a special way, we tried it, that the genre would be perfect for genres with the age 16-25. Like I list of a question before. And I think our genre attract to our audienceabosolutely well, because you can’t se everywhere a film like ours. The address information’s hich I can give are, that we made all the stuff on our owns and we created the story, and the 2 producers, me and Lisa are famal, so the address of our movie is from two femal people. I think our our film is formal, sometimes maybe a little bit with to much bad words, but that has to be there, it wouldn’t be so interessing and it wouldn’t fit to the horror genre of our fim ,I we haven’t used it. But you can see from the clothes which our acotrs are wearing, that the class is formal. And we used a little bit of the teenage language.

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

Over the last few months working on The opening flm, ESCAPE I have personally learnt how to use our editing software, Premier Elements, on our school computers and use Audacity, which is a music-editing software to compile tracks and edit them down to the right size. As I was the member to make all the titles for our movie I did practice a lot on Adobe Photoshop to re-construct the titles of the credits that are in our movie. Finding new websites on downloading music that wasn’t copyright was a big achievement on our behalf and use that in our movie to create effects and soundtracks. Also I learned things, how to name shots, like pan shots, close up shots, or different thins like high angle shots, I never heard these thing before, since I started to work in our media class, it has helped me very much, to have a teacher like Mrs. Downes, who is always there, if you have questions, or things, you don’t understand. The technologies we used have been good digital hardweare, but not the best, so we didn’t had the opportunity to make a film, where you could see everything absolutely good and we couldn’t manage it, to make a film, who you can’t see any shake, because we always haf to hold the camara. The software on the computer was not to bad, we could manage it very well, to use it there. But the editing program, was sometimes absolutely not that good, because you have to reseave everything all 15 minutes. After a while it is absolutely annoying, also the computers aren’t that fast, so you have to wait very long till they are uploaded. The uploading was not to bad, but I could be better. The downloading form the internet was very easy there we hadn’t got any problems also we didn’t loaded much stuff from the internet, just 2 songs. The embedding was also not a big problem for us. The internet searching was also a nt big problem, because we always use the internat also in our freetime, so you have experinces with it. The program youtube helped us very much, because you could see examples of films, also there was another program, which I can’t remember, which helped us very much, for seeing how to make a film opening also the block of course, because we could looked at eachothers work and the work from the upper six media studies people.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back at the time we as a group did the preliminary task I can confidently say that I have improved a lot. Also you could see such a big differents, between the opening film now, and your prilmiminarytast before. Now we used much more stuff, like better shots, better locations, better actors and much more things, like not real blood and a real story, which looks much way more like a real film then like a tiny bit of learning how to do it. Also the working with the program, like editing, or searching for songs, and good actors are much better in this part. So I can say, that I have improved so much and I also understand much more, what to do, and what the teachers and the people in my class thing about.

How did the feedback you recieved help you to make a better film opening?

It helped me very much, because when you have second opinions about your work, you can do the work, who isn't so good, better.
We had very good feedback from Mrs. Downes and Mrs. Black, they said about our film, that the running foot shot is a little bit to dodgy and the sound editing is clumsy the meaning at start is unclear and the music choice at killing is very 1980’s.
Also Mrs. Downes said, that the caption colour red on black is very difficult to read. And she said, that "Escape" is very like the caption and it shouldn't start at more.
However we had very good and helpful advices and feedback from Gabby Paterson, she said, that Kim Paxton,she's playing the main caracter in our film Escape, looks like she is moving to fast in the running scene on the big field.
Also that when the title comes up all the disappears come up, maybe it should be fade. A little mistake we did as well was, that we forgot to let the phone ring,Gabby reminded us about it and we changed it.
Also everyone told us, that the music is a little bit to fast and not absolutly perfect for the film, so we changed the music in a very good and absolutely perfect song for our film.
The film we maket, was also at the beginning a little bit to short, so we did some other things in some parts, were we thought, we could make it a little bit longer and more interessting for people who want to see our film.
After we got these feedback we changed all the things and we got new feedback for our film.
Gabby Paterson said this time just positive things, that she really enjoyed the beginning of your film and that we have created a quality film which looks convincing. She said, that she especially liked the music which we used throughout the film. Also she said, that it helps to build intensity in the scenes and compliments the genre of our film. She is a fan from our scenes which were flashbacks in black and white as it enabled her to distinguish between the past and present.
We good however feedback form a person, who forgot to put their name under his post, but however he things the film is well made with very good music but however there are a few things he didn't liked e. g. the running in the field which looks weird for him and he said to us, that we should add a sound effect to show the mobile phone ringing. Which we did streight afterwards.We also get some feedback, which isn't written in our block or documented.
Some people also told us, to make some changes. On some parts, when they were walking behind us and could see a little bit of our film.
sometimes, we also asked people, if we could cange something.
That helped absolutly much for making a better film with Lisa and so we could improve a lot and make the film to a better and cooler one, with better musinc, with slower running and with the phone ringing and lots of other little thing, we had to change.
And so, we have produced and maked a quiet good and quality film.
By our preliminary task we also get some helpfull feedback, but we could't change that much, we just did the preliminary task, to improve for the big film project which called Escape.
Jenny wrote: Just after vidur has sat down, the lighting in the room changes which is a continuity error because it does not look like the footage was filmed on the same day.
Henry wrote: The preliminary task is good, the only thing that wasn't good was that the camera was wobbling sometimes and it was a bit dark when Vidur looked through window. But apart from those little mistakes the task has been well done.
James said: It was good and especially the part at the beginning with the music. When you filmed the parts with the close ups of the characters the camera started to shake and in parts the lighting was different but apart from that it was good with a wide range of camera angles.
This prelimanary task was really good do practice and to get feedback. That really helped us and we couldn't make the same mistakes again in the real and important film named Escape, that was really helpfull!
And you can see such a big difference between the preliminary task and the real film.
Its really cool, to see this success!

Evaluation Questions 3.

Creative Tools

1. How did digital technology enable you to develop creatively and are there examples of the technology obstructing or preventing your creative flow?

During the course of the year, we learnt how to use different software such as Photoshop, Premiere Elements and how to use a blog.
We began with a preliminary task and we had lots of feedback telling us things that we could improve on. During the process of making our main task opening, by getting constant feedback from peers and teachers, we were allowed to use trial and error in order to make our work the best of our ability.
By using internet search engines like Google to find information and YouTube to find trailers and movie openings for inspiration, this widened our knowledge of movies in this genre and really helped us progress to make our film.
In this project, it was the first time we had used a web blog. By posting constant updates of our progress and documenting everything we did, we were able to receive constant feedback in order to keep our film to the best standard. We learnt how to upload videos onto a blog and how to embed them into posts so that they would appear on the blog homepage.

We had to find non-copyrighted music on the internet to accompany our film. A large problem occurred because we couldn’t find appropriate music that didn’t have a copyright on it. We spent a lot of time experimenting our clip with different songs that we had found and eventually ended up with 2 different songs.


Thinking About Audience – making meaning


1. How did you respond to the initial brief with the audience in mind?

When we were told what our task was, we wanted to either go for a teen romance genre or horror, as these two most appealed to us.
After talking about it and writing down a lot of notes, we decided that a more interesting genre would be horror as we found it easier thinking of a story for a horror genre. We tried to add twists in our story, with hints of different genres such as thriller and teen romance, in order to expand our audience.
We also had to decide on which age group we were directing our film to. We decided on a middle sort of age, of 15 because of the storyline.
However, we had to keep in mind the rules of our school and this restricted us in a few areas of things we could and couldn’t do. We couldn’t have any nudity, sex or drugs etc.


2. How did your analysis and research into the type of film you selected impact on the creative process in pre-production?

We looked on the internet to find ideas to help us work on a film with the genre of horror. By researching famous horror films and watching the openings of them, we had immediate ideas of how we wanted to lay out our film.
Obviously, there had to be certain limitations of what we could and couldn’t do. We couldn’t use that many special effects as that is quite advanced and we do not have the resources to do that. Also about locations, we had to make sure we had the correct permissions to use certain places around our school campus in order to film. Also, we, again had to take into consideration the school rules of no sex, drugs or nudity in order to keep our film as respectable as possible and also to not get into trouble!
When we were storyboarding our film, we had to take all of these things into account so that we didn’t have to change much if we did encounter some problems further on in the project.

3. In filming and editing, how did you ensure that the meaning would be apparent to the audience? What creative decisions did you make in planning, rehearsing, filming and editing that were influenced by your sense of the audience and possible layers of interpretation?

The first cut out of our film was a little bit unclear to the audience, as we heard from the constructive criticism we received. By choosing a complicated storyline which has flashbacks in it, we had to make sure that this was very obvious for our audience so that they could keep up with the story.
For example, the speaking parts at the start and end of the clip were initially unclear and didn’t really make sense as the dialogue was quite vague. After getting feedback, we made this better and changed the speech and we think that now it makes a lot more sense. In ways, now it is a little too obvious and gives away the story, but as an opening 2 minute sequence, it is easy to interpret.

4. How did the audience respond when you trialled aspects of your film? Are there a variety of possible interpretations of your opening sequence that will depend on the cultural situation of the viewer?

When we received our criticisms from our class/teachers, obviously there were a range of different opinions. Realistically, you can never have a room full of people who all share similar interests and like all of the same things, so we had to remember this whilst looking at the feedback and not get too offended by some comments.
For example, teachers are a bit older than students, so they may not be that interested in horror genres to do with teenagers. But the teachers are interested in the technical levels of our piece so we made sure it was to the best of our ability.
We also had to take into account that there are many different religions and cultures so some of these people might not agree with our storyline, which is completely understandable.

Final Video, with changes.

After making the adjustments, here is our final film. TAKE 2.

posted by Annabell:

Mrs. Black and Mrs. Downes gave us some things which we have to improve.
these things are:
- the running foot shot is a little bit to dodgy

- the sound editing is clumsy

- the meaning at start is unclear

- the music choice at killing is very 1980’s

And now we are working again on the film, to improve these things.
Hopefully we could change the things into something better.

Evaluation Questions 2.

1. How did you manage the group dynamics, equipment and resources, interim deadlines and the necessary collaborative nature of film making?

The group dynamic wasn’t all the time so easy, because of Annabell’s sickness and sometimes, because both in the group had different views of some situations or decisions. But we managed it to have the same decision at the end of the each lesson. The equipment was easy to manage, we both share all the editing, filming and all of the wanted deadlines. We worked together as a team and we have been always together for all things we have done. And we finished all tasks together as a team.


2. What health and safety and logistical problems did you solve?

We followed all the rules from the school and haven’t done some special stunds or high angle shots. We kept the filming and the action simple but very effective. We worked with a knife and used it responsibly. Also we always had the right basic for each situation, where we needed anything. We managed it, to become the right level in our film.


3. How did you organise your human resources – the people involved in the production?

We used two characters who named Henry Yueksel and Kim Paxton. They both are in our media studies class so it was much easyier to organise all the filming stuff and the right times, were we can go to film all the film. We also always managed it to work with them in a constructive and organised way. They always had they costumes and they where reliable all the time. Two very authentic persons. That has done our film production much easyer.



4. How did you manage actors, locations, costumes and props? Remember that deciding NOT to use a particular strategy [e.g. not to use any props] is also a creative decision.

We picked a girl and a boy to play the main roles of our characters to follow our story in the right way and with a good structure. We picked two different locations on the plot from the Gordonstoun School. A field and and Gordonstoun house. We have chosen the field because it is absolutely empty and you can’t see anyone walking and also you can’t see any cars or other not useful stuff. Also because there is absolutely much space for filming a girl who is running away from her bad thoughts and her angriness. And we chosen Gordonstoun house because we wanted to have a location who is empty, clear and with no stuff in it. And also we wanted to have a long way, where the character could walk very good, without seeing, what is behind his back.
We chosen the knife because it is the weapton for murder scene.

5. How did storyboarding and creating a shooting script work in practice? Did you make creative decisions to depart from the original plan? For what reasons and with what outcomes?

Our storyboard was at the beginning absolutely to short and uninteresting. So we put in some more special shots and interesting scenes and special effects. We also needed to add more reaction shots and shorter clips to make the film more interesting and special for the people who watch it and also for ourselves. We made a lot of creative decisions and we even add an estra scene, because our film was to short.


6. Although time management may seem a less exciting aspect of the creative media practice, it is possibly the most important – how did you manage your time, and with what success?

It was difficult to manage time to filming ect, because Annabell was sick for 2 weeks at the end of the first term. But during this time period all the film we had done prevestly was all edited when she came back to the lessons. So we both didn’t get behind with all the work, we both worked in different ways, Lisa has done more of the filming and the editing and Annabell has done more of the costume design and the production and the planning of the acting in the film. Also we have always spoken about the situations we have decide to do, because that don’t bring someone to have big arguments. We finished everything together as a group and that always by the right time.

Evaluation Questions 1.

1. At a micro, technical level, how well did you observe the conventions of continuity, the language of film and the grammar of the edit?

Before filming our major task, we started with a preliminary task to practice using cameras for the first time and to help us understand the importance of continuity in a short film. Bringing this knowledge to our major task we were able to make it look as if everything was set according to our storyboard and was on the same day.
Using many different angles and camera shots we explored many aspects of the different areas of film. We used props, effective accompaniment and were able to create our characters through dialogue and costume.
We were able to experiment with different editing skills which we used in our film. Effects such as ‘Fast Blur’, ‘Black and White’ and ‘Ghosting’ were shown in our editing.

2. How many mistakes did you make, and did you improve in the main task having made errors in the preliminary exercise?

In our preliminary task we didn’t have enough footage which resulted in us re-shooting on different days which was bad for our continuity element as it was obviously not shot on the same day. We had used zoom-ins on some of our shots which made it look bad and also a lot of free-hand camera which resulted in shaky shots.
Lack of lighting ruined some of our preliminary shots and the fade in and out of music was very bad.
In our main task, music and sound effects fading in and out was much more effective and our continuity was a lot better. We still needed to re-shoot some of our shots but they don’t look as if they were shot on different days as we kept all aspects of the original shots the same as in the re-shoots (e.g. props, costumes, location).
To reduce shaky shots, we used a tripod so that the camera was still whilst filming. Our lighting was much more effective in our main task as you could always see the character clearly.

3. At a more symbolic, macro level, how does your fiction film reflect or challenge the conventions of the genre or type you are working in? Will it fulfil the ‘contractual’ nature of film genre or will it subvert expectations deliberately?

Our chosen genre is horror, and we tried to find as many ways to represent this by using props and the way we filmed our shots.
We researched other scary movies and saw what was recurrent in each one, and we used this to help the planning of our own horror movie opening. We saw that lots of people in horror movies die, so we created our storyline reflect this aspect or horror.
Something twisted happens with our storyline, like in most horror films. They want to intrigue the audience. This is typically horror genre; we set our film in flashbacks, as in a bad event happened in the past but karma is catching up with the present.


4. Are there any elements of deliberate pastiche or parody, where you ‘play’ with the genre’s codes and history? Are there any intertextual moments where you hint at a reference to another film?

A pastiche is something borrowed for one or more other sources, and a parody is a humorous imitation of a literature piece e.g. black adder.
Our film has neither a pastiche nor parody. We decided not to play around with the genre’s codes and history and stuck to the basics of typical horror genre.
We thought that the storyline we had decided on would be a lot more effective if it was done seriously without humour or something borrowed from different sources.
We kept ours original and made up our own ideas for everything, including sound effects, captions, shots and storyboard.

5. What kinds of audience pleasure are you trying to provide, and how confident are you that you have delivered on this promise?

Mine and Annabells’ film was set as a horror. Our plan was to create something chilling and I think that this was quite successful for our first film. After taking things from typical horror movies into consideration, we were able to construct our own murder scene, build a climax with our running scene and build up tension throughout the two minutes with rock music as the accompaniment and a scream to add to our sound effects.
We tried to keep our shots as interesting as possible and also gripping to watch. We want it to be aesthetically pleasing to all audiences.

Feedback:

Mrs. Downes;
- Caption colour red on black is very difficult to read
- Escape very like the caption shouldn't it start at more perhaps?

Gabby:
- she looks like she is moving to fast
- when the title comes up all the disappears maybe it should fade?
- phone needs to ring
- so sound?!
- should be longer

Annabell:
- no sound when he walks into the secound room
- a to fast movement from Kim's head
- to much black background
- (he's back?!) sounds a little bit weird, because you can't see anything
- Escape more forward to the ( he's back sound)

evaluation questions:

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

- you can see, that the product is made by students. It is not like a very good film from an very good producer.

· How does your media product represent particular social groups?

- it presents social groups in a very nice way, because with the block you can see, that it is very good, when you work with another person on it. It shows, that we are a social group in our media class.

· What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

- maybe the persons who thinks that our block and our media work is good.

· Who would be the audience for your media product?

- all the people who like to watch a scary and horror story.

· How did you attract/address your audience?

- with the other stuff which we have posted on our block. with the ideas and all the other stuff.

· What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
- that it isn't so difficult to make a little trailer. At the beginning everything is very difficult and new, but after a while you get used to it. And you start to undestand the program.


· Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

- the trailer, which we have produced in the last 6 weeks, you can see, that everything is much more professional and we have a different screnery, better actors and a very good story. Everything is much better and very interesting.

Fedback:

-sound levels need to be sorted
-sound at 00:3:14 missed
-very difficult to rea the titles/ on screen to long
-sound requiered behind the action track 1:01:19
-1.09 sound needs adjusted-hissy-
-the captions are too long on screen
-"Escape" needs to be centred
-need to be able to use photoshop

Today I have designed our layout for the titled film. We want to name it "Escape".
But thats only the beginning of the layout. Maybe we want to change a little bit more, the baground has to be in a different colour.
I have done it with photoshop.

costume design for major task;

I decided on simple, light coloured clothes to signify that she is a victim at the part when she is running away from him. Maybe dark blue coloured jeans and a white shirt. She'll wear her hair open so it blows in the wind.
The make-up is light, she only wear a little bit mascara and rouge. You can see the mascara coming down from her face, because she's crying.
By the shot when she kill her boyfriend I decide that she is wearing a red or black party-dress with black high-heels and a very dark make-up ; smoky-eyes and red lipgloss because it shows more her evil side.
The boy will wear black jeans and a white shirt so that you will be able to see the blood.

Planning Major Task

Synopsis;
A teenage girl has a horrible past. She has killed her overly-obsessive boyfriend one year before. She tried to forget him and that she has killed him, but he didn't forget her and now he has come back to be with her forever and make sure she doesn't forget what she did to him in the night. We will try to do this by fast editing, to make it more interesting and more scary. By editing all of our shots in Black&White, I think this will add to the scary story that we are trying to portray. By making our opening scene very catchy and quite confusing, we think that this will draw an audience to want to watch it, and we will try to do this effectively by cross-cutting shots and having fast editing.I am hoping that our filming goes as well as we plan it to so that our opening can be better as possible. We will be starting this very soon, but we wait for a little bit more nicer weather(Aka. Not raining) to film in. Our indoor shots aren't actually needed until later as our outside on-location shots are our priority for filming at the moment.

Locations;
Location-wise, we will only be using two different ones.One will be outside in a field, and we want this to give an eerie mood our opening, as it will be quiet and empty, making the audience ask questions.The second will be in Gordonstoun House, in the long empty hallway downstairs. With the correct lighting and filming/editing skills, we could definately make this location very spooky and this is why this place fits our movie genre perfectly.

Actors;
For our main character, who is female, we have chosen Phoebe Ritchie. For our 'victim/killer' we aren't quiet shure, who we want to choose, so we search for the right actor.

Mise-en-Scene;
We want our backgrounds to be extremely simple to add to the eerie feel of our opening. Possibly by using make-up on the girl, we can show that she is upset, by smudging her mascara or something, becuase she is runing away, and then she is crying and all the mascara is running down her face.

Props;
For props we will need:-A knife-some sort of substance for the colour on the knief, maybe ketchup or something else.
Our opening will be in black and white so it doesn't matter, what we choose for an substance it will be all black.
We want to keep our opening as simple as possible, so as not to give away our entire story in the first 2 minutes, but enough to make people want to watch more.

Video

Posted by Lisa-;


Here is our final video for our preliminary task!

Preliminary Task

1)n At a micro, technical level, how well did you film the tasks required – match on action, continuity filming, shot/reaction/shot and exchanging dialogue?

We had a few complixations within exchanging dialougue of shot reaction shot. Sometimes the timing of when it was time to record their acting had come a little to late. Other than that everything was all according to plan. The camera shots Lisa and Kate used were fine however when I was looking through the film that she had edited, I didn't so approve the way she camerad Vidur shoes. The camera seems to be very unstable-(unbalance) doesn't look professional however I can't blame her for it would hard to do a tracking shot.

2) How many mistakes did you make, and what have you learnt about filming?

I haven't make big mistakes, becuase I was only the actor in the film.
Okay, sometimes, I was sitting there and then I was thoughting, oh, you have speak to early or to fast, but the rest was very easy. And there wasn't many mistakes to made.

3) If you had to do this task again, what would you do differently?

I would change the setting and dialogue. It would be based on "relationships". An arguement between a boy and girl argueing about who cheated on who and him finding out that she's been playing with him all a long. The volume of the voice would be louder, the shot reaction shot would be faster,-(When frustration occurs of him looking through her phone), the music would be carmer. As he say's "give me 20 good reasons why I should stay" by Thirsty mirc, the background music slowly rises up with what he just said. As the song hits to a medium stage the two of them will be camerad individually. She'll be sitting in different positions-(shot, shot) on her chair and he'll also do the same however on the ground. The music will be edited on the computer. Why I want to film them in the same room, being in different positions of different shots is to show both of their frustration and how body language is portayed. There will be two cameras used on the both of them.

If I was to do it again I'd ask to edit it or both of us to edit it. If I was to struggle ask Lisa to help me do it with her. I would do the editing along her helping me out. So far I only know how to cut a scene. I want to know how to put the music on, change the volume to soft sound to a loud sound. What type of feature to use when an opening scene is about to come up e.g. A sqaure, fading etc. I had been watching many short opening films of how a conversation is started and the type of feature they use to go to a next scene. This intrigues me very much and I'm hoping and keening to learn more.

I feel I haven't gained an understanding how to edit a film on a DELL computer. What I've benifit from in this project is exploring the many different camera shots. There many I wanted to use however they wouldn't had came to fit with our project. For example a "pan"

4) Describe how you edited the footage, and any problems you encountered.
I can't describe how I edited it for Lisa felt that she was cable enough to do it herself. We all had different roles. My role was to write up the dialogue with Kate and do acting. Lisa's job was to film Vidur and edit.

Dialogue

The dialogue of our script consist of only two characters including Vidur and Annabelle.
Vidur: As he sits down on the seat facing oppsite her he begins to talk. 'Hey...watcha you doing there', in a casual I'm so cool attitude.
Annabelle: As she continues to write on her paper, she says to him without any eye contact, 'nothing its not your business'.
Vidur: 'So...what do have next lesson'?
Annabelle: 'I've already told you once, it's none of your business and twice, leave me alone'!
Vidur: as he sighs he then says, 'oh come on your being boring'.
Annabelle: 'Look, Vidur, can't you see I'm trying to study here alone...by myself'. As she says this she will look straight up to Vidur having a close up shot of her facial expression. 'by mself' will be closup of her eyes then mouth.
Vidur Turns away and says, fine I was just being friendly.
Annabelle: As Vidur closes the door behind him, she then turns her ipod on and says, 'finally'.