Evaluation for the 3 blogs I looked at.
1. Rihanna's AS Media
What did they do in their planning and research?
This person for their research made her own storyboard first before even talking about what to do in what scene. She made her own so they can put their individual ideas together when they come together again. This person had group meetings as well to talk more in detail about their initial idea and what they were going to do. They talked about the location and the casts for their film. They also discussed the genre they would do for their opening sequence. Then they got together and made in more detail their storyboard about where and what they will shot in each scene. She then wrote up their synopsis and her personal response on it. For the research she started to look at the distribution companies and the promotion.
What did they do in their actual filming?
This groups filming had to be very organised as they had a lot of locations that they had to film and there were a lot of people they had to coordinate. They said that not everyone was available at the same day but everyone had a go in the filming.
What did they do in their actual editing?
They spend a lot of time uploading the clips on to final cut express safely and properly. They started to roughly cut the shots to what they needed as they had a lot of film footage. While they were editing they started thinking about the mood of the sound and the music. They were able to cut down to 2mins as it was too long before. When they started editing the sound they experienced with many different sounds. For their credits they used a lot of scrabbled pieces like paper on the fridge for the film.
2. Lauren Elaine Vlahos
What did they do in their planning and research?
This person made her own story board of her film. She made a personal response of her storyline and her groups response on it. For the research she looked at the actors and the genre of her film. She also looked at the location of where they can film their sequence. They mostly chose to shot outside as it looks more scary. They also did a audience research on the genre and most people liked the genre horror/thriller especially teens/adult years. She also researched different types of lighting. She also researched the codes and conventions for opening sequences. She looked into film productions and companies and the research for the sound. Also she looked at the camera movements for the chosen genre.
What did they do in their actual editing?
Her group had an incident where their editing disappeared so they had to import their clips back onto the computer. Straight after they started to put it in the right order. While editing they found something new that you can enlarge the part so you can see it better. They tried out the sound. They tested the sound clips on garage band. The final editing they did was the lighting and the speed. By using the colour tool they adjusted the lighting. They speeded up the killer clips so that the audience can see the pace of the killer.
What did they do in their actual filming?
For their actual shooting they made shooting schedule and wrote on what day they are going to do this and that and also the time for each shooting schedule. They also wrote down the casts and the roles of each cast.
3. Zainab Media As coursework
What did they do in their planning and research?
This person looked at the codes and conventions of a thriller film. He also looked at the initial ideas for their film. He also looked the importance in sound as music plays a key part in the movies. He also did background research on the chosen genre. They made a practise storyboard for their idea and their storyline. He also looked at his own response to his group choice.
What did they do in their actual filming and editing?
When they filmed there opening sequence they realised that although the filming they have done is in good quality the lighting is too bright and it gets that chilling feeling away. For the editing they found that the editing they have done was too long so they had to cut it down a lot. This person concentrated a lot on the lighting as this creates the atmosphere.
What did they do that you think was effective and what are your plans to use this knowledge this time?
I think the way they did the layout of the blog was very effective and it made me interested to look at it. But however the colour of the blogs seemed a bit dark to me and the layout all though it was good was a bit confusing so I got a bit bored after a while. The presentation was really good and I would like to make the presentation more appealing next time on my own blog. The way they wrote their analyses was not too much information that I was not interested in to read and not too short where I would think that not much thought was put into it, it was just in the middle and it made me want to read it. But some of the posts were long and that kind of put me off to read it so I am going to try on my blog to keep it simple but still in a little detail but not too much information and add pictures to make it more interesting.
