1st Audience reaction

 So when we had done our first minute of the opening we decided to have an audience reaction to see if our idea for the rest of the opening seemed like it was going to work, and based on the reaction it seemed good so we will now do another reaction in our Wednesday lesson and see if it worked, we have not finished our credits yet but that will come soon.

title sequence

So, when we finally come round to putting in our credits, we were struggling to think of different ways to put them in with out making them look boring or dull, so we looked at a few of the past openings from previous years and this helped s decide on how to do ours, we liked the title in the 2015 opening oblivion when the two characters walk across the writing and it disappears.

 skip to 1.06 to see.

vlog 2 -final day filming

This was our final day filming, we had to film the scene where the bo gets the bag put over his head because we realised that it dint look real enough he diffident look scared enough. We also had to film some title sequence scenes as out actual opening was only 2 mins 30 we had to make it longer by adding in some scenes from the begginging.

EVALUATION MARK SCHEME

Level 4 16–20 marks 

• Excellent skill in the use of appropriate digital technology or ICT in the evaluation. 

• Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production. 

• Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.

• Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task. 

• Excellent ability to communicate.

For the other levels, 1-3, change the word 'Excellent' for:

Level 3:  'Proficient'

Level 2:  'Basic'

Level 1:  'Minimal'

vlog -title of our opeing

La LA Land

On the 15/01/17 i went to watch La La Land, its a 2016 American romantic musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle,The plot follows a musician and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love in Los Angeles. The film's title refers both to the city of Los Angeles and to the idiom for being out of touch with reality. 

Personally I liked the film although the middle bit dragged on a bit and i was uninterested, how ever the end bits plot twist did sort of wake me up and engage me back into to the story as it does not have a cliche ending. For a musical it didn't not have that many song in it which i thought was a bit odd, but then i liked the fact there was more of a story rather than just having songs thrown at the audience. 

The film was produced by Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt. It was written by damien Chazelle. it stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend and Rosemarie Dewitt. the cast were great and their quirky characters really fir the part for the story. all in all i really enjoyed the film and would recomend it to any one.

EVALUATIONS- Questions

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation are:

 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?

Straight Outta Compton essay

So my first attempt of an essay question dint go too well. the exam question was 'cross media convergence and synergy are a vital process on the successful marketing of media products to audience. The two films i chose to write about were Straight Outta Compton and Avengers, i choose these two films because i had done a power point on Straight Outta Compton already so i had a head start on their producing background and i chose to do avengers because they had a lot of synergy in the making of their film as they had lots of merchandise and advertised it a lot, for example they had made pizza boxes and popcorn bags with marvel comic strips on them, this, i felt would have made a good essay, how ever i did struggle with it.

The feed back i got from my teacher was 'good- you just need to do more work researching your case studies' and ' you can write - but if you have nothing to write about then ...'

This helped me understand that i am babbling and 'beating round the bush' i discovered i need to get straight to the point and use more key terms instead of avoiding them and trying to explain each word.

For my first essay i got a total of 16/50 this was disappointing but now i know what i need to improve on, i will take that on board and hopefully do better next time.

BFI trip

The BFI Film Center

On Friday the 11 November, we took a trip to the BFI Film Centre, here we spent the day listening to examiners talk about what they look for in as course work, and he gave us prep talks and showed us some good examples of some past two minuet film openings and some bad ones. This gave us more of an insight to what they were looking for in a good opening.hey also brought in a visitor, the man who directed Eddie the eagle, the elephant man and kick-ass, Dexter fletcher, he helped us understand that filming a movie is not easy, he told us the story of how he made one of his latest films....... he explained that no matter what the weather or conditions of the day you plan to film you need to commit, because filming costs a lot of money and the longer it takes to film the more expensive it is, so commitment is key when filming, there for our group had taken that on board and had to carefully plan out when we were going to film, for example on out 2nd day filming we had to make sure the parking space was available and that any cars that were seen in the previous shots were either there or we changed the camera angle so that our continuity was good.

music for film opening

As our chosen song for our opening is copy righted we have had to find someone who can actually play this piece, luckily one of the relatives of one of our team is able to play it there for we have recorded her playing it and transferred that onto imovie9.