what have we learned from making our preliminary task to the final production?

From our preliminary production to the final product, I learnt a lot of things concerning camerawork and editing. For example in the preliminary task, the quality of the shots was not to the best standard as the camera was fairly shaky and the audio was not as loud as it could have been.  However when producing our final production the quality of what we recorded was to a much higher standard as we learnt to use the tripod to make the camera movements much smoother. In editing we also managed to decrease the amount of errors in the final production, as in the preliminary task the video ended abruptly and did not work however in the final task we took time on our editing and made sure that the video flows well and is edited so it looks as good as possible. In both tasks we also had to use camera techniques such as the 180 degree rule, match-on-action and shot/reverse shot. I believe these became smoother in the final production as our editing and overall camera skills had improved so the techniques looked better.

completed productin + directors commentary

this is our completed production with the directors commentary afterwards.

what have we learned about technologies when constructing this product

In the construction of this project, I gained a greater understanding of how to use the camera overall, for example I became more comfortable with the layout of the cameras features which made most of our shots much easier and quicker to film.

The tripod we used was also helpful in developing our thriller opening as it made the shots we filmed appear more smooth in the final cut than if we had just held the camera with our hands, I simply learnt how to mobilise and use the tripod more easily during this production.

This is a screenshot from my blog; throughout the coursework I used the website ‘Blogger’ to post my preliminary task and evaluation, all the planning, the props/script etc., our final production and the overall evaluation.

This is a screenshot from pinnacle, the editing software we used to edit the final version of our production, during this production I learnt how to use new features in the software and improved my editing skills overall. Unfortunately we could not use the software unless we logged into a specific account on the computer which was obviously inconvenient somewhat.

There was also a problem accessing Youtube , the video publishing software we needed to post our final production on, as the school blocked access to it .

what is our audience for this production? how did we attract this audience?

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what kind of media institute would distribute our work?

A production company puts together all of the film, this will be from the funds that are available. They will also select the actors to be chosen to perform a certain role and who to direct a movie. if the production company is bigger than they will be able to get the bigger name actors to perform the roles as they have more of a attractive name. The production company essentially puts everything in place for a movie to happen. For a film such as ours it would probably be funded by several companies in order for it to reduce the risk in case of a loss. This can be funded by projects that are set such as the uk film industry or by external production companies that are willing to take a risk. With a movie like ours, in an ideal world we would have a top class actor but the realistic choice would be an up and coming actor or somebody who is lesser known on order to attract them to the production.

For our production company logo we have chosen to design it ourselves and make it three m’s coming together. We have done this as it is a fairly memorable logo so people will remember it. The name we have chosen is ‘triple m productions’ this is a simple name and is chosen because it represents the first letter of the name of the three people involved in the production. We also chose the use of black and white for the colours in order to represent good and evil’ in our production and to establish to the audience that this will be a thriller movie of some sorts.

In our production we have put the name of the production company first as this is always the most important name to put in as they have financed and put the film together. You will then have their name again at the end of the titles. Just before the end you will have the name of the director in order to show who has made it so the audience can appreciate who has done the work with directing the movie. in terms of the actors you will have the headline actor first on the titles and will only show the main characters not the smaller parts. The main titles will also show the screenplay workers and costume design and also editors for example.

How does our media depict certain social groups?