Evaluation task 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Task 1

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

Difficulties whilst filming and editing

Editing

After filming our opening sequence, we had to do some editing. We had to use a vast amount of different software's to improve our film opening. Using software's such as Final Cut Pro played a major role in our editing as it done most of the job. Features such as trimming, copying, pasting, adjustments with lighting and sound where edited using Final Cut Pro. Also transitions and effects such as the muzzle flash was done using Final Cut Pro. We believe by editing our opening sequence, this emphasised the genre of our film more and help the audience have sense of the storyline in our film. Sound played a big part where we had to adjust sound levels and make sure they flow when moving to different shots. We also had to make sure that different parts of our soundtrack where played in the most appropriate scenes, which increases suspense and interest. Also, having the opportunity of editing helped us use a variety of shot techniques such as the jump cut, which we believe was a really good outcome as we thought having a long scene of our character washing himself up would be fairly boring to watch.

 Lighting using final cut pro.

Credits using Motion.











We used Final Cut Pro for our muzzle flash effect.

We used LiveType for the Production Logo Indent.

To create the muzzle flash, we done a bit of research on how to create one. Below is a tutorial of how to create one, and by watching this video this helped us to create our own muzzle flash using Final Cut Pro:

Animated Storyboard

Props Part 2

Realistic props make the film seem more professional. To get some of our props looking genuine and realistic we had to alter some of them.

Above were the different stages of painting the gun to make it look like those we see in real life films. 

After experimenting with our fake gun, we decided to change it to one we felt was even better due to the fact it seemed for realistic with better features on the gun such as the trigger sound effect. Also, during filming the gun we was initially was going to use was very difficult to see due to the colour of the gun (black) which clashed with our lighting. Therefore, a change in gun was required so that the gun can be seen using brighter colours (silver).

Location

We needed to have a good controlled location to be able to shoot our film. Here we drafted up ideas and concluded the different places we could film our opening sequence and our final decided location.

Here are the final location shots where we have decided to film:

Front Door

Passage

Bathroom

Kitchen

Living Room and Kitchen

We decided to pick this location as it was a family members house. This allowed us to feel comfortable whilst filming and the freedom to experiment without causing an inconvenience and without the fear of being told we were not allowed to film. Also the flat had certain aspects from our storyboard that were possible to create. Another reason why we picked this setting was because of the set decoration. The plain white canvas with little furniture allowed us space to film and made colour of our props (the gun/knife/fake blood) stand out against the colours of the environment.