Afraid. final piece

  

   

This is my final piece for the opening of my film including final sounds and Titles.

Question 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Question 6, What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have never used any blog website before so I was kind of worried about using it because I was worried that I wouldn't know how to use it properly, but once I started using it, it became something very simple and very easy to use however one thing that annoys me is placing pictures on to posts because it is not as straight forward as microsoft word which is something that I'm used to using when placing pictures.What I like about blogs is that I can look at other blogs that are by people from previous years and I can get ideas of what to write or add on my own blogs. I also hear a lot of celebrities or youtubers like Huda Beauty, Amrezy and Mariam Diamond who say that they are bloggers and they ask people to check out their blogs all the time, now that I have started using blogger.com I kind of understand why they always advertise their blogs. Blogs could be useful because they can be updated all the time unlike books especially when more and more people are using technology in their daily lives. so far I have used websites such as Imgflip.com and Prezi.com, dafont.com and freesounds.com to help me use different formats to present my blogs or to help create my film. 

                

 









When constructing my evaluation I used Prezi.com which is a format that I haven't used before and I used it as the base or the main format of writing my evaluation, I first anserwed all my questions on there as my draft evaluation and then after that I would have looked at the other formats to answer some of my questions for the final evaluation. In my opinion I think that Prezi is similar to power point but instead you can make your prezi online and it sometimes saves automatically unlike powerpoint. I found prezi very easy to use but when someone else looks at it they would think that I probably spent ages editing the paths and the zoom in and out effects when infact the program does that automatically for you, Prezi is very easy to use but very fun or nice to watch at the same time. I have also never used Imgflip.com which is a gif maker, because I have never made a gif before. Again it is a bit easy to use because downloading the gif is very straight forward but I found it difficult to choose the part of the video that I wanted to make as a gif another downside is that the gifs didn't move when I put them on my Prezi but that might just be a fault in the prezi website. I have definetly used dafont.com in the past for work that I did in GCSE so I definetly wanted to use it to download unique fonts for the titles for my film. People who have reviewed my film most of them commented on how much they liked the title's font. On dafont you can always find a font somewhere that could suit the subject of what your making or presenting. The only time I used freesounds.org is when I made my film all of my sound effects that I used for my film are on there I think that it is a very good website especially when you can download them for free, however I had a slight problem with finding sound effects for my sirens, because I wanted one that the volume would go for a low to high, but then I realised that I could just edit that sound on premier pro instead, which is what I ended up doing. 


 
 

Question5.How did you attract/address your audience?

Question4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 2. How does my media product represent particular social groups?

Question 1,How does my media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Opinions on final piece

I have asked the same people from my drafts and some extra people about what they thought about my final piece. Good things about my film was that some people said that they liked the effects I put for the "associated with" part of my title others said that they liked the siren sound effects, people also said that they liked inserts of the dead body and they said that they want to know more of what happened and they want to see what is next.
Not so good things about my film, is that some shots are a bit too long and that they should be shorter. They also said that some titles were a bit too difficult to see and that I could have added a close up of the father's face of when he looks at the bag.

Editing 6

I have shown the shots of the bag and ignition to my teacher and she said that they were good enough to add to the film. The shots of the bag are going to replace the shots of the MM's feet/shoes which means that there is no Mysterious Murderer in my film because the MM's shoes do not look convincing or suspicious enough that is why I have used shots of a bag instead.I have added a close up of the ignition just to make the part where the father walks to his car a bit more interesting.

Editing 5

Today I want to edit my titles abit more, I am planning to make the colour of the titles a bit darker because it was reccomended by the response I got after my second draft. I want to add the fade in and out effect to my titles that have all the cast names. I also want to work on the siren sound effects I might choose a new sound effect or I will use my current one and make some edits to it so that it can go from a low to high volume. 

Update: I have managed to make my titles darker and I have added the fade in and out effect to my titles. I have chosen to keep my siren sound effect and I have edited it a little by adjusting the volume so it can go from low to high volume.

Draft 2 and opinions

 

I have decided to upload my second draft this time my draft includes all the titles and ambiant sound, I also cleaned the editing a little abit as well, it is still not finished because I might need to improve some shots and maybe change the colour of some titles.


Audience opinions:
I have asked again the same several people that I asked from my first draft about their opinion of the second draft.
I have asked:
What did you like about it?
What you didn't like about it?
What could be improved?

 In general people said that they liked the fonts of the titles and they said that the ambiant sound is an improvement to the first draft. They also said that the editing has definetly improved as well and they liked the fade in and out effect of the two first titles and they said that it would be best if that effect would be used with all the other titles as well. What they didn't like was the colour of the titles that have all the cast names on most people said that they could not see them properly and that I could make it a bit darker. They also disliked the sirens in the end someone said to look for another siren sound effect and someone else said to make the siren sound blend in to make it go from a low to high volume in the scene. 
 

Filming day 5

I went out and filmed a close up of the ignition inside the car because I thought that the scene where the father walks outside needs more close ups. I found it a bit difficult to film because I couldn't get a proper close up of the keys because it looked really blurry but when I zoomed out a little it wasnt as blurry but the only problem with that is that you can see the stearing wheel so when I go to editing I need to cut that bit out.  
It was recommended that I filmed a bag that had a hammer and a piece of wood sticking out to make it look suspicious and if that works that shot would replace the shot of MM's legs because it looks more suspicious. 

I have taken these shots and I will ask my teacher if these shots will work or not. 

Editing 3

I have started to add sound effects and background music to my opening scene at first I wanted to use this background music https://freesound.org/people/tradeshowmusic/sounds/136721/ for the beginning of the opening scene and then the song "Blood on the leaves" towards the end.  However I was advised that adding the song blood on the leaves is not really ideal which I now agree with therefore I will be using the background music throughout the entire opening sequence. I also came up with the idea of adding police sirens at the very end of the opening where the title "Afraid" appears.

Editing 4 (Titles)

I will be using After effects to make my titles, so far I have been making draft titles just so that I can get an idea of how the program works, I will begin to make my final titles after the Christmas break.

Update:11/1/16 
 After the first lesson back from the holidays I managed to go back on after effects and on my draft titles, before the holidays I was watching a tutorial on how to use the program and for my first two titles "C.E.E Productions" and "Patra Films" I used a fade in and out effect. During this lesson I managed to download the fonts that I wanted to use from Dafont.com and I edited all my draft titles with the chosen fonts, all my titles are in grey except for the title that I want to use at the end of the opening:"Afraid" which will be in red.
I also added all my Grey titles to my opening, I had trouble with the colour of my font it was a bit too light so I darkened the colour a little bit and now the titles are easier to see. I have left my red title for now and in tomorrow's lesson I will work on adding it to my opening.

12/1/16
I have changed the font and colour of my last title of my opening, the title is in white and I have changed it because the font makes the opening look like that it is from a horror film. The font is from the editing program, premier pro. I like this font because it is more basic than the other one and at the same time it does suit a thriller themed movie.With my other titles that just appear I have edited those as well and now those titles fade in and out.