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Group 65-

1. Soundtrack drowned out the sound of the actors.

2. the whole film was hand held, whilst this added to the sense of reality, distracted from the dialogue.

3. it was well framed and the costumes suited the film.

4. There were a lot of midshots which made the script seem quite dull and tedious to watch.

5. Mise-en-scene was good and suited the dialogue.

6. Worked well for a children's film, easy to understand.

7. Green screen worked effectively, only minor green shadows.

group 64- the over the shoulder of the conversation on facebook was effective. The music was good but a bit repetitive and was too loud when the actors were talking. Good mise-en-scene with the costume of the leprechaun and children will find that funny. The use of green screen was good and leaves a cliff hanger at the end. it is not smooth when the girls scream and they suddenly stop and are standing in a slightly different place. the change in music when the leprechaun appears is good and effective.

Group 66-

The short clip was average

could have more of a storyline

keep the camera still more

There was no talking when their needed it to be

Editting was a bit trippy

some varity of shots were used

Group 61-

The handheld camera at the start make the facebook conversation quite difficult to read/ unclear. The use of slang should not be used oin the facebook convo as it will be hard to interpret by children. Sound is unprofessional.

Cloverfield

 Handheld shot

The entire film above (Cloverfield) is recorded with no use of a tripod or anything, it is all done by handheld. Despite this film not being relevant to children it can still help us with techniques for filming. People use handheld to give the viewers the feel that they are actually there experiencing it, this makes it realistic and more intense in a scary film. We are using this in our childrens film so that the children see what is going on better.

evaluation questions

In your evaluation, you must answer and illustrate the following questions:

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

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

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

5. How did you attract/ address your audience?

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

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

Here is a good example from the TV programme The Simpson's, of an over the shoulder shot which we a a group used once or twice in our two minute opening for the childrens film.  Over the shoulder shot is a good shot to use in a film because it gives the audience ta feel as if they are looking at the actor, it makes it realistic and helps to see it from the characters perspective.

Here is another great example of a close up which we also used in our opening sequence and this is effective because you can get a real clear view of what the camera is focused on whether it be a persons face or an object.

We also used a lot more camera shots in our opening sequence but these two we have mentioned are two of the most important as they could attract the audience and get them more interested.

Childrens Film: The Tale of Poppy Greenhatch

Childrens Film: Garage Band music

This is the theme tune of the film we created. we decided to make the music simple and catchy rather than making it difficult. We chose to use the music in the first part of the opening sequence as no speech was needed so to make it more interesting we decided to play the theme tune throughout the first section of the film. We decided to make the theme tune upbeat to keep the children interested and ready to watch the film. The film being happy and upbeat fits well with the music we have made.

Childrens Film: Editing lessons

In the last 4-5 lessons we have finished all the acting which included filming in the green room and finishing off the filming in the woods. since we finished that, for the last 3 lessons including the one today, we have been editing all the film and trying to add credit and all the music to our film so it will look the finished article. we filmed all the scenes over and over again for all the filming so that if one of the clips did not look quite right, we had spares to work with. this helped us when it came to editing the film opening because we could use the clips we wanted to instead of being stuck with one clip for each part of the film. Nick worked on the music which fits really well while the other group members have been helping the editing with Daisy leading the editing pack! we believe that all w have done for the two minute opening sequence all fits well together and should turn out really well when it comes to watching the final version of it. Getting to grips with all the equipment was tough at first when it came to the editing lessons but as time has gone by, we have all adapted well and know firmly what we have to do now. Even though when we drew in one of the scenes we would have a panning shot of all different family photos, we decided against that and we thought in the modern day, we would use a face-book chat because that wold be easier to get the message across to the kids instead of the phone call we firstly thought of doing. we stuck to our story board well and did not really change a lot apart from the opening scene.