Q4 - How did you use media technologies in the research and planning of your film

Q3 Ancillary technologies

This video shows the different technologies and tools we used for the creation of our ancillaries.

Q3 Audience feedback

This video shows two people who watched our short film now answering questions on the short film as well as the ancillaries.

Q2 Emaze

Question 1- How do our short film and ancillaries use develop or challenge forms of conventions in comparison to real short film and ancillaries

Audience Feedback- Double Page spread

We showed our double page spread to our class to get some feedback. Our double page spread is a magazine review based of another real life poster from Empire magazine. We showed our class mates to get a fair review.

Overall our double paged spread got mixed reviews. The majority said it looked good and was well done in the layout as well as the image working well with what our film represented. However 3 people believed that the image could look just a bit more professional. We are now going to alter our magazine spread just a bit to make it look more professional.  We will look more carefully at professional spreads to try and end up with a higher standard of review page. We believe we can do this by filling in the small details which will hopefully make the review page that bit more professional.

Double page spread inspirations

I have found some examples of double page spreads of films from the movie magazine empire. We our using these designs for inspiration for our double page spread. As they are from all the same magazine, most of them have a similar layout.

1). This design is very much graphic based. It has a simple design but with bold text which goes nicely with the colour scheme and texts.

 2). This design is dominated by one image and has a simple layout on the right. It has a nice colour scheme and a little box of facts about the film which is nice.

 3). This design is very similar to the last one except it has one slightly smaller image so it can add an extra image in the bottom right. This one is goob but I find it doesn't seem as affective as the last one

 This featured in the last two double page spread. I am going to use this in our double page spread as it is simple but looks good and professional.

4). This is similar to number two. It is dominated by one image but has different colour scheme and visuals like the iconic gun barrel designs around the 007. This is a nice affect and we want to try and use something like this.

A change of plan

After having an attempt at the bucket list idea we realised that the film that we had created was rather boring and just wasn't good enough. We spoke to our teacher about this and she agreed. We then proceeded to come up with a new idea as the previous bucket list idea didn't really have too much potential. The new idea that we have come up with is about a teenager who has just passed his driving test and can now drive his car independently. He then picks up two of his friends but at one moment he has to choose between seeing them and a girl who has had a crush on but has never been interested in him, until he could drive.

Photos

We took photos to record our progress during filming.

Audience Feedback Poster

We showed our film poster to the class to get feed back. It was so we could get some non biased feed back so that we could improve our poster. Our film poster got mostly positive reviews but also some negative feedback and this is what we must do to improve our poster

This is the poster we are using, We got some good feedback for our editing and the text we used was suitable to the mood of our poster.

The only thing that people picked up on was the relevance to the film. Some people believed that there wasn't a strong link between our poster and our film. However others did and we got mainly praised for our effort into the poster.

Audience Feedback Video

In order to get feedback we showed our video to the class. Then at the end of the viewing the class then gave feedback on the film. Our first draft of the film received mostly negative reviews with a lot of people noticeably looking bored throughout the 6 minutes and questioning whether the ideas we came up with where actually life changing. To be fair the audience was correct so we sat down with our teacher and then we spoke about what should change.

We came to a conclusion of that we should start over on our film. This means that we will have to: Plan, Film and Edit our film in a smaller amount of time. We were fine with this as we weren't pleased with what our last film was like in the end.

What we learnt from the audience Feedback

We learnt from the audience feedback that we should take into account the weather on the day of shooting. We will be looking at the weather now for both our main task and for the ancillary task. Not only for the quality of the Mise en Scene. But so that the equipment doesn't get damaged. We may also want a particular type of weather such as Overcast or Sunny. As well as coming up with better bucket list ideas which are not only more enthralling and interesting for the audience to watch but to also actually be life changing which is what a bucket list is all about.

During the Editing stage we will have to incorporate the: Actors names, Title, and Release date. Previously we didn't do this as we where running out of time. Hopefully with a bit more time we can input these things which will greatly improve the opening of our film.

6 Bucket List ideas for our film

These are the 6 ideas that we have came up with for the character to take part in - 

• Ghost pepper challenge with others
• Sightseeing (Windsor Castle)
• Driving
• Learn to say hello in 5 different languages
• Conquer a fear
• 11-a side football

Garage band Research and Planning

 Garage band is a free music on software OS X and iOS that allows to create a piece of music. The music is usually very basic and is restricted as it gives you pre-made pieces of music to string together instead of creating your music from notes. This makes it easy for beginners or people who don't play an instrument to create a piece of music. There are a list of genres on the right of the screen, this makes it easy for the user to navigate through the different types of music and to find the right sounding clip for their music piece.

We are using this program as it is easy to use and free, also

Feedback

(date from when I gave you feedback last week)

I met my new teacher this week, we discussed my coursework and she have the following feedback:
-Learn more about conventions
-Come up with 10 bucket list ideas
-Three new endings
-Add more posts to our blog
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Therefore, I will change/do the following things to improve my work:
-                                                        by __________ (date)
-We will change our storyline by improving the ending with our three potential ideas to make our film more interesting.
-Look up bucket list ideas so we have at least 10 ideas
-Revise our genre and short film conventions 
-More blogposts to reach at least 100 posts
-FInish ancillary tasks
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Actor Planning for Ancillary

We will use our main actor (Liam Hodgson) in our poster. Most films use their main actor to not only promote the film but also to promote the actor. Usually films will use main character as the main character is usually a well known actor so this will promote the film further as people will recognise the actor and look into the film. As Liam is not a well known actor we will just use him to stay relevant to the film.

Film posters are used to tell the audience roughly what the film is about, so we were thinking that we should put on of the bucket list ideas.

Task 2

http://www.emaze.com/?emazehome
This website is for presenting. I think this website is a good website to use in the future as it is simple and easy to learn but the outcome is very good and looks professional. It is very similar to Prezi so we would already know the basics.

http://apps.pixlr.com/editor/

This is a website for photo editing. This is a good website as it is very simple to use but it doesn't go in as much detail as photoshop, so if we want just a quick job on a photo we would use this site but if we want a professional job then we would use photoshop.

Ancillary Location

For our posters and other ancillary we are going to use our main location for filming so the posters stay relevant to the film. We are hoping to get a picture of someone going down the road and we are hoping to get a clear road so the best time will be to shoot at night when the road is clear but if this is not possible then we can always take photos inside the house.

This is the road we want to take photos as this road is more quite that the others so we would be able to use the road with out cars getting in the way.

Mood Board

Our mood board is more focusing on the niche audience side of our film. Short films aren't very popular and definitely aren't mainstream so we have gone for more of a hipster mood board. It includes songs and films that are popular amongst the hipster community but also includes dramas and comedies to stay relevant to our film. We added Dumb and Dumber and Downton Abbey because although they are mainstream they stay relevant to our film as one is a comedy and one is a drama.

Research 2

This film is a comedy/drama. It has the generic conventions for both genres. For example the second half of the film is where theres more comedy and is in a higher key lighting, typical of a comedy film.

Whereas in the beginning of the film, where most of the drama takes place it is in low key lighting. This is typical of the drama convention.

  In comedies it is typical to have some sort of duo, as the storyline will follow the relationship of the two main characters. This is counter typical of a drama as in dramas it focuses on one character and their story.