Powerpoint

Evaluation

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Wednesday 1st April

We presented our evaluation powerpoint today and although i am not the best at speaking infront of an audience and despite stumbling over a few words, i feel that i did a fairly good job. I have learnt a lot from both filming in the preliminary and filming for our actual piece specifically with how to use and set up a camera. Creating continuity was probably one of the most difficult tasks especially when trying to link to pieces of footage that were filmed at different times. We had to change the actor for the boy 3 times due to not being able to find a boy who was free when we were, we should have planned the cast better, perhaps even involving someone from outside the school in our piece as we would know that they would not have lessons during filming time. Other than that planning went well, the storyboard was kept to very closely for the beginning of the intro and deterred only slightly during the second half. Despite set backs such as not being able to find the same costume for the geek, these problems went unnoticed and i think the piece was created to the best of our ability. We are still developing as directors, camera operators and with the editing software so anything we are doing currently is a learning experience.

Monday 30th March

In today's lesson we managed to get feedback for the piece with its new ending, the feedback was a lot more positive. We also began our evaluation presentation. We found that we represented teenagers very stereotypically, this was a key convention of teen comedies which we have viewed in the past as they allow the audience to easily identify and relate to e.g. having the geek dressed in glasses and stereotypically geeky clothing made them easy to sympathize with as the "victim" of the narrative. However we may have cast teenagers in a slightly negative light as many people thought the teens were self obsessed and popularity was a big ambition of theirs. However this was from only looking at the 2 minute introduction, the moral at the end of the film would have changed their opinion as it promotes the message that friendship is more important than boys. I will post the powerpoint after we have presented it.

Friday 27th March

We re-filmed and edited the end part again. The continuity is much better than before and i along with the other members of my group are much happier with it. Unfortunately one of the member's of our group was absent today as she is ill, so we had to alter the scene with the three girls so that it was just two girls. We also had to cast another boy as the original boy was not avaliable. Despite these set backs the piece went well, looks more professional and although it doesn't necessarily follow the storyboard exactly it works well. We will try and get some feedback on the new ending over the weekend and failing that from other media students on monday. We will also be completing our evaluation presentation using the new feedback that we have gathered. I will also be posting my own personal evaluation over the weekend.
Here is the finished product:

Wednesday 25th March

We burnt our preliminary and final pieces onto a disk today and got audience feedback. The feedback was generally positive but frequently when asked "What do you think we could improve?" the general opinion was that the end section was not perfected and lacked continuity. We knew this all along but felt that it wouldn't have such an impact as it did.
Here is the original:


As you can see the editing on the end is very choppy and lacks continuity. We were conscious that our mark may have been pulled down due to this, especially as it was so obvious to the audience.

Monday 23rd March

We have finally found a suitable song from an unsigned band called "GoodbyeStereo" and put it in our piece. We found it and downloaded it courtesy of musicglue.com which allows unsigned bands to get their music distributed worldwide through the use of free MP3 downloads. The song is indie but is bouncy enough to suit the genre, i particularly like the effect of the build up to the chorus and how it fits with the action on screen - the chorus kicks in as the two leave their houses. Another accidental thing that i really like is the way the lyrics "paint your lips red" coincide with Jessica putting her lip gloss on in the mirror. I feel a lot happier with the piece now that we have this new song as the song from garage band was too repetitive which made the intro seem very long. I'm still a little unhappy with the editing of the final couple of shots but i think that is more down to being a perfectionist. The piece overall is good, and i feel it suits the teen comedy genre but with a British twist which is aided by the use of the song from the British band "GoodbyeStereo" and the references to British pop culture such as Jordan and Peter.

Refilming, Editing and Audience Feedback

Today we refilmed the last scene of the girls talking outside the school again today because the original was too jumpy and didn't flow well. After editing the result is much better although i am still not entirely happy with the very last shot as it doesn't quite fit with the shot before. The rest of the film introduction is good and i am very happy with it. The storyboard wasn't followed completely because we realised that it would be unfeasible, some of the camera angles written down and drawn looked wrong when filmed so we had to change some bits. We also began writing our audience feedback questionnaire which we we all get people to fill out upon viewing our film introduction. For next lesson we will all be trying to find a song which fits our piece.