Evaluation- Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenges forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation- Q2: How does your media product represent social groups?

Evaluation- Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation- Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Thinglink below, please click on the bullet points to reveal the text:   Below is an example Facebook page for a target audience member:

Evaluation- Q5: How did you attract/ address your audience?

We completed this task using Weebly.

Here is the link:

http://mediaevaluationq5.weebly.com

Here are some videos of audience feedback which we received after the premiere of our title sequence:

View on Flipagram

View on Flipagram

- Wider audience feedback

• After our local release, we received great feedback from the wider audience. Most people liked our how interesting our title sequence was. We received great feedback for the music we used throughout. We also were told that there should've been more intense music in the house scenes, we would act upon on this if we had to create our title sequence again.
•  After receiving this feedback, we have realised that all the audience advice we received was important as it allowed us to achieve such a successful title sequence. 

Evaluation- Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation- Q7: Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Signing off!

When you finally finish your coursework:


Creating our title sequence was a task and a half but we managed to create a great final piece. It was hard to create and very stressful but somehow we managed to get through with a bonus of making some good friends on the way!

We are happy to say that we've come to the end of our coursework for media studies. It was a rollercoaster of emotions, but mostly very enjoyable.

Chilling out with Jeannie

A photo posted by Official Movie (@hiddenmovie) on Feb 2, 2017 at 3:40am PST

Blogging Health Check 3

This has been a long journey and I have produced a mixture of both good and bad posts. Whenever I received feedback, I have acted upon them to ensure I am able to get the best grade.

After receiving this feedback, I acted upon my first target to ensure that we had a good editing post.  I achieved by using screenshots from our video drive to ensure we had a great editing post.
For my second target I have ensured that my results obtained from my survey are onto the blog.

Last Editing Session & Ticking off our Sequence

It was our last day of editing our sequence today! After watching our opening sequence, Mary told us there were only a few things left for us to change;
- The consistency of sizes in our titles
- The sound effect of the phone falling on the ground
- Adding sounds into our idents
We were able to do all of this and even worked on making a few more tweaks to the soundscape. We changed the soundscape so that  during the bathroom scenes, only the drones are present and as soon as the character leaves the bathroom the music comes back.

Unfortunately, Jeannie and Jessi weren't able to make it to the session today but we made sure to contact them, updating them about the changes we would make. Once we were sure we had a final title sequence we were happy with we ticked our group off on the wall:

We finally finished our title sequence! Can't wait for the premiere😊

A photo posted by Official Movie (@hiddenmovie) on Jan 22, 2017 at 11:57am PST

Rough Cut 2 - Class Feedback

After receiving our feedback, everyone liked our music choice and said they thought it went really well with the action. However, at some parts of the sequence there was no non-diegetic sound, so Mary advised us to not use any  non-diegetic  sound in the bathroom but at the end when she receives the text message, we should use dramatic music to give a better ending.

We also were told we have to have effects or transitions for our titles, so we will be working on this over the next few days.

Overall we received positive feedback and showed how much of an impact was made by putting sound in our title sequence, which everyone enjoyed greatly.
Next steps:
1) Add transitions or effects to our titles
2 Add more sound layering.
3) In the bathroom include no music and at the end there should be dramatic music.

Rough Cut 2

 Below we have uploaded a rough cut of our title sequence, we have done this so when we finish filming we can look back at the work that we completed. For us, we only have a week left to completely finish the title sequence for the film 'Hidden'. Although this is a daunting prospect for us as we still have some more things to do before the deadline, we hope that we will be able to complete our coursework to a high standard allowing us to get a good grade.

What we have to do before the deadline:

• We have to layer more sounds on to the title sequence so can suspend disbelief and intensify the atmosphere that is in the title sequence 
• We need to edit the last section of the footage we are using in our title sequence
• We need to finish and our our idents for the beginning of the title sequence
• We need to add some effects to the footage and credits so we can create a more sinister atmosphere in the title sequence 

Filming Session 06/01/17

On Friday 6th, Jeannie, Jubida & Jessi set off to the filming location of the characters house. We had to reshoot all of the house scenes due to bad lighting, we were also unhappy with a part of the plot where the character is sitting and watching TV. To fix this, we made this scene a lot shorter and added another scene where the character is panicky and sits on her bathroom floor thinking about what she has done. This adds an element of worry in the character and the audience will wonder about what she may have done. The bad lighting in the last shoot was due to the ND Filter being left on without us realising. We made sure to avoid this problem by always checking the camera to check if we didn't accidentally leave the filter on.

Our star Jessica working on camera positioning📽

A photo posted by Official Movie (@hiddenmovie) on Jan 9, 2017 at 5:37am PST

At first, starting filming was a bit slow as the three of us were trying to think of new ideas we could add to the sequence to make it more interesting. By a happy accident of leaving fake blood on the walls, we decided we should have a shot where the character leaves blood behind on the bathroom door as she enters.

We decided we also wanted a lot more fig rig shots where the camera moves during certain shots like the close ups of the characters face. Overall, we had a successful day of reshooting, and by looking back at the footage we see great lighting and a variety of shots being used.

Camera girl Jubida getting prepared for the close up on our character's hands

A photo posted by Official Movie (@hiddenmovie) on Jan 9, 2017 at 5:39am PST

Updated Storyboard

Our Updated Storyboard

During our filming process, a lot of our group members had different ideas on how to make the sequence more interesting. Because of this, the footage turned out to be a little different to our original storyboard. A lot more different ideas and shots were added to the storyboard which made our sequence much more interesting. This is our updated storyboard, which may be changing again after our next filming session.

Sound layering

For our title sequence, I browsed through suspense music. After searching for a while, I found the following videos that we could use for our title sequence:

We will be using drone suspense music, which we be getting from the Media AS resources folder. We have decided to use the drone dark suspense 01 music for our title sequence, as it would go with the situation of our character is in and it will also fit the thriller genre.

Evaluation of our Rough Cut by NADIA

My SMART targets by NADIA

I went to MY progress and decided on the following SMART targets shown below:

Christmas Homework by NADIA

After completing my audit, I have realised we do not have enough work on shot-lists, drafting and our storyboard. Whilst filming our title sequence we changed quite a few shots around, thus we need to update our storyboard and say why we made the changes we did. 

Looking Over Our Footage 14/12/2016

When we got back to the editing suite, we looked over the footage that we filmed. We were really happy with how the park scenes turned out because the lighting appeared to be consistent with our other shoots. However, we realised that the scenes that we filmed inside of the house were too dark to use, which means that we are going to have to re-film those parts so that we can insure our title sequence being successful!

Rough Cut 1 - Class Feedback