How does your media text use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media texts?
Friday, 6 May 2011
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Evaluation question 3
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Our feedback events took place after our presentations of our work to the other members of our media class and our teacher. We used a variety of methods to gather our feedback such as audio recording, as well as a question and answer, and a video of feedback with question and answers.
Below I have posted the audio recordings or our feedback sessions, they are feedback for our animatic, treatment, film and ancillary tasks.
Our feedback events took place after our presentations of our work to the other members of our media class and our teacher. We used a variety of methods to gather our feedback such as audio recording, as well as a question and answer, and a video of feedback with question and answers.
Below I have posted the audio recordings or our feedback sessions, they are feedback for our animatic, treatment, film and ancillary tasks.
Evaluation question 3
Important changes that were made due to feedback:
As soon as the film begins there is no ident, it looks as if there is no official starting point, due to this feedback we added an ident with our brand name 'cherbub productions' so it follows the conventional sarting point of a short film; as well as looking more professional this way.
The soundtrack that accompanies the rough cut is conventional of a supernatural thriller; but our soundtrack promoted an uneasy feel right from the start, when the scenes seem quit happy. We decided to change this and add more uplifting sounds to accomopany these types of scenes.
Changes were also made to the sound effects, becaue of the criticism we received. At reference point 1:50- 2:00 Gregg disappeares from the window in this scene, our peers pointed out that the sound effect that accompanied this did not have the right impact. We chnged this so the audience received the correct feel for when Gregg is around. We created him a leit motif, the new sound effects are far more compatible and our audience they appreciated the scenes more.
The scenes of Charlottes death show her in a close up shot time reference point 3:30- 3:35, In this frame she is taking a photograph as she dies. This part of the plot is important yet our peers described it as not completely apparent. To make the scene easy to understand we added a sound effect to make it clearer that a photograph was being taken. Also we used a special effect on screen of a whit slug; this was used so that it looked as if a flash photograph was being taken. All of this helped to make the audience follow the plot, as the scenes worked much better this way.
As soon as the film begins there is no ident, it looks as if there is no official starting point, due to this feedback we added an ident with our brand name 'cherbub productions' so it follows the conventional sarting point of a short film; as well as looking more professional this way.
The soundtrack that accompanies the rough cut is conventional of a supernatural thriller; but our soundtrack promoted an uneasy feel right from the start, when the scenes seem quit happy. We decided to change this and add more uplifting sounds to accomopany these types of scenes.
Changes were also made to the sound effects, becaue of the criticism we received. At reference point 1:50- 2:00 Gregg disappeares from the window in this scene, our peers pointed out that the sound effect that accompanied this did not have the right impact. We chnged this so the audience received the correct feel for when Gregg is around. We created him a leit motif, the new sound effects are far more compatible and our audience they appreciated the scenes more.
The scenes of Charlottes death show her in a close up shot time reference point 3:30- 3:35, In this frame she is taking a photograph as she dies. This part of the plot is important yet our peers described it as not completely apparent. To make the scene easy to understand we added a sound effect to make it clearer that a photograph was being taken. Also we used a special effect on screen of a whit slug; this was used so that it looked as if a flash photograph was being taken. All of this helped to make the audience follow the plot, as the scenes worked much better this way.
Thursday, 28 April 2011
Evaluation Question 4
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
For this question we will be posting various images and screen captures of the new technologies we used, including softwares and evaluating there usefulness and how they contributed to our project. We will be explaining what we used them for and the reasons why we felt they were the best for the task we chose them to do.
Blogger
The application Blogger is a new technology presentation tool; Blogger is the application that we used to host all of our research and planning, along with the ancillary tasks, and the evaluation.
Blogger is a very useful application and the most efficient way to present our work. The advantages of using Blogger are: Blogger caters for multimedia artefacts so our group was able to embed our film, animatic and other videos and we felt relevant to our research. Along with being able to upload images from photoshop, and google etc. It can be accessed all of the time and automatically saves our work, so there is no loss of work; it is also easy to edit using Blogger without having to re write a whole post if it were hand written. The information can be shared through Blogger as well, so my other group member could see my progress and like wise I could see theres.
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