EVALUATION QUESTION 1

In What Ways Does Your Media Product Use, Develop or Challenge Forms and Conventions of Real Media Products?

Here I have used slideshare to present my slideshow of the conventions of teen films. I have shown what films we borrowed ideas from and an overall comment on how we tackled the conventions and how we used and challenged them.

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Question 1 - Conventions of teen films from Nadia_796

EVALUATION QUESTION 2

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social Groups?

I have created a video using an iphone app called 'Cute Cut' to present this question. I have used drawings and also a voiceover to show how our media product has used stereotypes to represent our characters. 

EVALUATION QUESTION 3

What Kind of Media Institution Might Distribute Your Media Product and Why?

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EVALUATION QUESTION 4

Who Would Be The Audience For Your Media Product?

EVALUATION QUESTION 5

How Did You Attract / Address Your Audience?

Here I am showing an interview on a chat show I have created called 'Teen Talk with Tom Cat'. This Chat show is suppose to be a television programme where a cartoon character interacts with teens all over the UK about general topics relating to adolescents. 

This interview is based on the latest films that teens enjoy watching:
I used an IPhone app called 'Cute Cut' to edit this video: 

How we used our rough cut feedback to help us make our opening sequence of Trapped more effective and appeal more to our targeted audience. 

I used a website called Stupeflix to edit this video

Our final opening sequence:

We uploaded our video to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter as these were all social networking sites where we can filter people of our age group to see our personal posts.

We also watched our film opening in the cinema which was aimed exclusively to students. It was really exciting to see our project on the big screen! Here is a video we took during our two minutes of fame!

Here is some of the feedback we got from our teens! 

Here is a poster I have also created for our film 'Trapped'. I have made Jakir's photo bigger than the two girls and also have placed him in the middle as he is good looking and an attraction to teenage girls who might want to watch the film. Also, Thahmina is also a pretty girl in the film which could also bring in female viewers as they could potentially see her as their celebrity idol in the future. Finally, I have added in a quote to show that someone has enjoyed watching it along with 4 stars to show it's ratings. 

I edited this poster on an android app called 'PicsArt - Photo Studio'

EVALUATION QUESTION 6

What Have You Learnt About The New Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

I used a website called Stupeflix to present this slideshow

EVALUATION QUESTION 7

Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To The Final Product?

Below, I have created a 'Prezi' to present the final question of the evaluation. 

Note: Please click anywhere on the presentation where there are images and videos to enlarge them for a clearer view. Also, you can move the slides with the buttons at the bottom and you can also use the screen to travel around the presentation. 

My Photo Collection of Our Filming Journey

HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS WE TOOK DURING OUR FILM MAKING JOURNEY...

Me sitting all lonely on the toilet seat :(
Maya's scenes

Akbar filming us

Walking up to our filming location - Akbar making us laugh

Me and Thahmina fooling around whilst filming Cassie's bedroom scenes

Walking up to our filming location

Jokes...

Me and Thahmina editing!

Me and Jakir filming the toilet door

Don't we look professional?

Final Cut Pro!

Akbar, Jakir and Thahmina filming the building 

Thahmina editing credits!

Editing...

Thahmina filming the lift

Maya's only friend...

Akbar filming Jakir getting out his house

Me and Jakir looking through our videos

Jakir and Akbar waiting to film a bus driving pass

Our first day of filming over

Some more filming

Jakir practicing credits

Me practicing edits

Akbar filming me taking a picture of him...weird.

Not ready

Dancing behind the scenes

Thahmina filming

Blogging Progress!

Jakir filming

Thahmina finding videos

Lonely Maya

Working Hard

Me filming Cassie's scenes

Me filming Cassie looking in the mirror

Zooming 

Editing!

Me and Thahmina taking a break of editing

And again

And again...

 AND WE'VE FINISHED!

How I Found This Whole Filming Journey

How I found Blogging

I found using Blogger difficult at first, but once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed using it as my personal diary for filming.  

I did find that I often forgot to make new posts frequently after different activities during the making of 'Trapped' which made it harder later on when it came to remembering exactly how the day actually went. I did however get used to updating and I do have a lot more blogs posts uploaded now than I did in the very beginning. 

I also thought that I could have improved blog posts by making sure that I had used different kinds of multimedia such as videos and presentations to make it appear ten times more interesting than boring pictures all the  I time. 

Finally, I realised that I had to keep my blog posts in order of our filming progress to make sure that it made sense to the person reading it. If my blog was all over the place, then it would not make sense to the person reading my blog and it would not look like a journey of filming. 

These are all things I have learnt whilst using Blogger and next time, I will take into account all these factors and put it into practice if I do have another project like this in the future. 

My Overall Opinion of Trapped

Overall I thought our Final Opening Sequence turned out to be better than I had expected! It was a relief if I am being honest as we all as a group worked so hard on trying to make it the best it could be. 

The GOODS and the BADS of Trapped - In MY opinion:

GOODS!

• I liked how we used 'Split Screens' in our opening as it showed all three characters in one shot which I believe gives the audience a hint that the characters will be friends later on in the film. 
• I liked how there was backing music playing behind the voiceover to give it a slight urban touch. I also think that this keeps the audience more entertained. 
• I like how the three characters are all introduced in the opening which allows the audience to be familiar with the characters. 
• I like the way we used costumes and props to emphasise each characters personality. For example, my character 'Maya' was not very fashionable and she wore glasses to make her look a little bit like a geek. 
• I like how the titles and credits were shown during the film opening and not seperately.

BADS! - What we could improve!

• I would have loved to include more scenes that we had filmed but because we only had a time limit of two minutes, we had to say goodbye to alot of scenes. 
• I would have loved to re-film certain scenes and use camera angles better. 
• I did not like how some scenes jog a bit as it makes our opening seem unprofessional.
• I would have liked to use a camera light on our building scenes as they look a little dark.

Our Rough Cut of Trapped

This video was published on 05/03/2014 but it had accidently been deleted therefore we have uploaded it again, however the feedback for the roughcut will be found in previous posts.

How I Found Using the Softwares for Editing

FINAL CUT PRO

We used Final Cut Pro to edit our opening sequence. We found it very frustrating if I am being honest as there were so many things we needed to adjust to make scenes fit with the timing but eventually we got there. Along the way we did learn some new skills which helped us make our sequence look a lot more professional such as 'Split Screening', Transitions, Cropping scenes/audio and also adjusting volume. This was difficult to do at the start but once we had more practice at it we eventually found it pretty easy. I will love to use Final Cut Pro again to do a project like this. I really loved the whole process of it. 

Motion 

Motion was a really quick and easy software to use for our Distribution and Production Ident. It was basically just a picture in motion which presents titles at the end of the motion which we found was the perfect way to make an ident. We used Skyline for the Distribution ident as we thought that the silhouette of the buildings would give an urban feel to our movie before it started. We also thought that the colours Black and Red also gave that street, teenage feel. We also made another production ident which included square blocks unfolding and then showing our production name which we named " TNJ Productions". We made the TNJ appear suddenly in red block writing so the audience would remember our ident in future. 

Feedback from others

FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS

NEELI:

THAOMY:

• to change our original ident and making it a moving motion as she said this would look much more better
• she liked the music we had chosen for our distribution ident company, she said it was different and sounded really good
• enjoyed Cassie's scenes with the Beyonce song

AKBAR:

• enjoyed watching Thahmina's scenes
• the ending where the title "trapped" comes on looks really good
• could improve the beginning add a motion for the production 

LISA:

Where I found all our soundtrack in the opening

The two sites we used to find our soundtracks in our opening were:

1. Creative Commons

2. YouTube

We needed to make sure that all our soundtrack was copyright free so we used Creative commons to find audio for the overall background of the opening and also audio for Trevor's scenes. We also needed to find a soundtrack to go with our distribution ident so we also used Creative Commons to find a sound that was very different to our opening soundtracks.  

Soundtracks from Creative Commons:

Distribution Ident:  "Blue hours -chapter 19-empancipstion"

Overall Soundtrack (throughout the opening) - "Rap Instrumental Beat"

Trevor's Scene: Rack City Remake

Although Cassie's sountrack of "Beyonce - Crazy In Love" was not copyright free we wanted to show Cassie as being a stereotypical girly teenager who listens to her favourite songs in the morning whilst getting ready for school/college. We made sure that you could see her plugging her speakers into her phone and playing the song and as soon as she was finished getting ready, we took a shot of her taking the speakers out and stopped the music as soon as she had done so to show it was coming out from her phone. Alot of people had asked why we were using this soundtrack and if it was copyright free but after watching the scenes, they understood how it worked.