Evaluation Activity 9

Evaluation Activity 8

I will always be preparing myself for the trailer ensuring that i study different camera compositions and make an engaging trailer. Me and my group have decided that we are going to stick with the same genre because it is a new and unique genre that gives us a big boost towards getting a good mark and we feel like it can hit the perfect target audience effectively i now have some background knowledge on on to do science fiction movies and how to plan ahead effectively. Me and my group are now familiar with editing and using different VFX for futuristic effects as we do star our movie in the future but i also see space to improve and i know i can learn a lot more next year.

Mise En Scene: For my mise-en-scene i would like to improve our location because for a trailer you see snips of the whole film, i would like to use a popular location and turn it into a futuristic setting, i'd like to use London because it is popular and would be very interesting to see what we could do to London to make it look more futuristic. I also want to improve the costumes we used because the two characters we used only wore black even our hero which is unexpected. We would also like to use some VFX on the costumes the characters wear to make it look more futuristic and to appeal to the target audience. We will plan well ahead on the costumes and practice until we make our trailer and we know what to do,

Editing: For editing i would like to improve and learn new things for the sci fi genre because i know we can add more effect to create conventions of the genre this will help make my trailer more appealing.

Camera: If we could do our movie again i would choose different camera shots and angles and made them more technical this is because i feel we did not have sufficient amount of a camera shots and use a lot of repeated one. Because of this i will have set targets to use a range of camera shots for the trailer adding more prestige shots.

Sound: There was not much sound in opening 2 minutes so for our trailer i hope we can use sound throughout the trailer to add suspense and to add effectiveness. I want to make our trailer more believable and it will overall help intrigue the audience.

Evaluation Activity 7

Since my preliminary task i have learnt a lot of new things and changes in terms of editing, camera shots and camera angles this is because i am a lot more comfortable and familiar when using equipment and editing on the softwares we used. When making the film i was able to explore new softwares and techniques in more depth i got better with the editing over time but the preliminary task i was editing as a beginner but over time and when it was time to edit the movie i was able to extend my knowledge and i felt ready to edit to perfection. I'm now able to understand how to use a range of and what their effect on the audience is this helped me a lot towards making the movie because it helped me appeal to the specific audience who watch sci fi movies. for example, why establishing the setting was very important to create a euphoria for the audience, i also learnt the effectiveness of shots such as close ups and when to use them and when they are over used. Editing has been a whole new subject to me and i have now learnt many different tols such as how to use VFX and how to use different techniques to me enable match on action our movie compared to the preliminary task shows how different the editing is. When looking back on my preliminary task i can see all the areas were i could of improved for example having longer shots, use of sound and mise en scene but when i look at my movie i can see that i did improve drastically.  

 This camera shot has taught me a lot and has shown me that i can improve for example the camera is shakey because we didn't use a tripod we could improve by using a tripod which is what we did in our movie. We could of also switched shots from a medium shot to close up as this would of made it more effective. We could of also used a different angle maybe a low one looking up to show dominance of this character.

I have learnt a lot since this shot i can see many different ways i could of improved for example we could have chosen a better location as the lighting is not very good and you cannot see the character on screen. There was also a incorrect use of editing and there could of been a fade of black to change scenes as it would of made it more effective and clean. 

Evaluation Activity 6

 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 We used a simple phones camera, the Samsung Galaxy 6 the camera had better quality than the cameras we were given as it has full HD we attached it to a small tripod and it worked very well but did have a few drawbacks. The tripod being small mean we had to put the stand on a few books or on a high ground and the Samsung did not have 4K HD unlike an iPhone we foudn this hard because we were unable to do different techniques for example fade in fade out we had to do this through editing instead of using camera.The phone was good because it was easy to export the filmed project to a computer and its light and unique photo ability made  things easier for us.

This is the computer we used to do all our editing for the film. We found the PC very fast and not buggy at all this computer is basic but very helpful. We installed three different programmes, the first programme is Photostage we used this to put together our clips and create transitions we found this very easy and useful we never had any problems with the software. The second programme we used was Adobe After Effects, we found this software the best of all because it helped us create a futuristic hyperreal reality and help us o all the sci fi conventions you usually see in a sci fi movie. The last software we used was Cinema 4D we used this to create the spaceship scene it helped us animate a flying spaceship flying past and we just put a space background. We partnered the software with Adobe to create the space background on a green screen. Every single one of these programmes we have used has taught us a lot and may prove to be helpful to know in the future. We learnt how to edit, import and animate different things as we explored new software each one after the next proving to be smarter than the next. It had a huge impact on the genre we chose as we thought it would be difficult to do a sci fi movie but these softwares allowed us to do things beyond what we hoped.

This is the tripod we used it was an extendable tripod which allowed us to make it taller and smaller when we needed to but it did have its problems as it was not as tall as we hoped it would be at times we had to put it on a tall platform because the tripod was not long enough. Where it wasn't tall it made up for it on how easy and useful it was, it allowed us to use our phone to record and we got a selection of different camera shots in the movie. The tripod helped us get different angles we didn't think we could get and the tripod allowed us to do perfect shot reverse shots and 180 degree rules.

Evaluation Activity 5

As you can see throughout the clip we have added little notes and annotations on each scene to explain and show our understanding.

Evaluation Activity 4

This person is an example of our target audience. He would most likely enjoy fictional stories and games and would probably watch sc-fi movies and TV shows. The person would be on the young side but not too young so maybe just the teenagers years. They would spend time with friends whilst also having a passion for superheroes and video games. The typical audience would shop at named brand stores like Hollister, Topman and New Look. They would typically listen to calm songs the songs that you can sing along to, it wouldn't just be males, because we have a female antagonist this will attract female viewers so music they would listen is probably fun and upbeat. Their favorite TV programme would be the sci fi channel or FOX because they are typically known for showing superhero TV shows like Arrow and The Flash. Our typical audience would also be in a group of friends who also like the same as he/she does and they would usually go see these types of movies together. 

Evaluation Activity 3

This is our movie production company we chose the name " Infinite M" to suggest a hidden meaning behind it. We wanted to do suggest that we would be doing movies forever hence the infinite and the "M" standing for movies. Our other production is "Horse Motion" we chose this name because had the horse running and we just had to come up with a name. A production company funds the movie so they are the people that give money to the movie to fund for all the equipment and CGI. If we were to actually release our movie we decided we would not go through cinema and we would go through Netflix as a distributor because that would mean we have a definite profit and people can enjoy our movie for free. Netflix would fund our film if we were to go with them.