Q2- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We discuss how we have represented particular social groups in our film by doing a directors commentary. We discuss each character in depth then compare to other real films. 

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

We made a collage of visuals to represent the types of audience that our film is most attracted to. 

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

Q6- Technology

How have you learnt about technologies from construct your film?

In this video Sophie and Megan discuss how and what we learnt from using technology such as camera, final cut, Photoshop, YouTube and Go-Animate.

Q5- How did you attract your audience?

We added annotations to our film which we published on youtube on how we attracted our audience. We discuss the choice of sound,  mis-en-scene, enigma code, certificate and our justification as to how we have attracted particular types of audience. 

Q7- Framing, continuety and camerawork

Final Cut Feedback

This is the feedback we got for the final cut of our film, 'Chasing Shadows', which is a mid-level 4. We discuss the reasons as to why we believe this is, having looked at the mark scheme. 

*Sophie was absent this day 

Final Cut for Chasing Shadows

This is our final cut for our thriller film, Chasing Shadows. 

Filming Evidence

Editting evidence

 Megan as she was adding titles to our group rough cut.

 

 

Sophie editting and colourgrading the extra scenes we added.

Debbie searching for foley and sounds to use in our film.

Group Rough Cut

Video Diary: Update with Group rough cut.

A quick update with the progress of our group rough edit.

Individual Edit Evaluation

Here we discuss and compare our individual edits and how we aim to improve our film in our final edit and how we will split the workload. 

Difficulties whilst filming

Whilst we were filming we came across some difficulties which prevented us from filming. We discuss the problems we face and how we have resolved them. After shooting part of our film we were asked to leave so we resolved to finishing our shoot in the school parking lot without making the location known. Although the lighting is different in these shots we can adjust the lighting and make the locations blend using colour grading. 

Filming and Rehearsal Evidence

 

Re-shooting and extra- Shots:

 

 

Permission evidence

These print screens are evidence that we have contacted persons in order to recieve permission to shoot on the location and whether we receive our missionhave contactted Katrina, the head of reception, in order to recieve permission for shooting in the corridoors. She was unable to give us this permission and we are currently awaiting a reply as to who we need to contact to get permission. 

We have contacted the head of the art department to get permission for shooting in the lighting room but we are still awaiting confirmation as to whether we can shoot. 

We have got permission to shoot in the small room beside admin as our backup to the lighting room, as well as the Chaucer Corridors and stairs incase we do not recieve the permission for the stairs by reception.

We have contacted Bexleyheath Council so we  can use their parking lot to feature in our film, as well as Dartford, as our back up location, should bexley refuse our requrequest. 

Risk Assesment

   This table shows that I have considered what risks may occur during our film shoot,            whether we are inside a building or working in more 'local' areas. I have also measured the severity of any of the presumed actions, and given a solution, to stop any unwanted risks to occur. So far I am only able to think of a certain amount risks that could occur.

Vox Pops

We interviewed three people who hit the target of our audience range on what they felt was the ideal aspects of a thriller film. We will take these interviews into account when creating our thriller film so we know what features would be best to suit our film around. 

We were all there for the interviews, however it was only Sophie and Megan editted the sequences.

Video Diary- 2 weeks until planning deadline

It's 1 week until our planning deadline and we are still behind schedule, but have continued to catch up. We have got alot of work done this week but not as much as we hoped. We must, and will ensure that, all our planning is completted by this Friday in preparation for shooting our film in January.

*Sophie was absent for this meeting but she has contributted into the asset list etc. this week

Movie Locations

The Office Scene

Ideal location: The school lighting room

We believed that the school lighting room would best set this scene as we wish to capture the scene in a dark enclosed location and lots of lighting equitpment is provided to create a mysterious effect. There are curtains which we can slide across to hide the white walls too. Although it is messy, we can easily clean this up and bring the table, chairs and other props into the room to use. There is plenty of room to set up the camera equiptment and shoot.

Back up location: The box room beside Chaucer Admin (At school)

We chose this room as our back up location as it is small and enclosed like a personal office. Although this room is currenly already used as an office and much of the props we required are already within the room, we decided not to use this location for multiple reason. Our first concern was that there was not alot of room for the camera equiptment to be placed and to shoot our film. Also the decor is alot brighter and there are features on the wall which we would not be able to move that does not suit the dark effect we are trying to portray as they are happy and bright designs and images.

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The Corridoor Scene

Ideal location: Exam Office Stairs and corridoors (At the School)

 Lucky for us we already have tight corridoors and tight staircases within out school which we could use. Although the walls are of a bright white shade, once colourgraded, this could be made dark. There is no colourful designs that could possibly ruin our dark setting either. There is also plenty of room to set up our camera equiptment and shoot. This area is usually not very bussy either so it should be easier to get permission for and shoot this scene. Strait at the bottom of the stairs, there is also a door which the viewers can see leads into a plain, bricked and what could pass for, a car park area. The doors in this corridoor are also similar to the door of the

Back-up location: School Plaza's and Stairs (At the school)

Although the colours are bright this could be made darker using colour grading. There is plenty of room to shoot but the corridoor could be very busy depending on when we shoot so it is best we shoot this of an evening. If we shoot here we should also ensure the colourful banners are not in shot, and if possible, cut the coulcony out of shot as we preffered it to be enclosed. The corridoor is still however long and narrow as we had liked. When the corridoors open up onto the stairs the area widens so the area is more spacious and not narrow like we wanted. The stairs are also wider and the doors from the stairs do not lead into an open empty space like the other location. There is also a risk of distruption in this area, unlike the other location.

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The Car Park Scene

Ideal location: Bexley Heath (by Cineworld)

Our Bexleyheath was a far better location, as it suited the idea of it being an underground parking lot for a detective, and we all agreed that it was suitable due to its dark, tired and grey decor. The car park is also emptier so it would be easier to set up and shoot this part of the scene.

Backup location: The Dartford Orchard Theartre Car Park

Although more convient in terms of travel, we decided that Dartford was not suitable as it was too "Airy" or had to much "light" for us to use the place. There was also alot of bright yellow colours within the car park which made it too bright. However, since we will be shooting at night, we believe that this bright effect will fade and we can easily colour grade the image to make it darker.