Evaluation 5, How did you attract/address your audience?

                                                         How did you attract/address your audience?                   

The opening to our film, Viet-Con, is very similar to the opening to the James Bond films. This is because they both open with an action scene (a fight scene, chase scene or shoot out) and then show the titles after. We adapted this method and followed them because we believed that our film and James Bond were very similar as they are both action films and follow the typical conventions of an action film.

First of all we used fast paced music to link with the editing and with what is happening in our film, for example we used non digetic sound during the chase scene to help aid the audience through the scene. We also used music at the end to link with the end of the scene and the introduction of the titles-we did this because we wanted our film to end with a cliffhanger and keep the audience hooked and wanting more.We did this because it follows the typical conventions of an action film as it had the traditional fast paced music and traditional action scene as the opening.

I believe the unique selling point to our film was that our film was different to others; it had a sinister setting with high intensity aspects. It also had well known actors such as Graham Burgess, James Hill and Patrick Cowley.

Overall i believe that the sinister theme and opening action scene attracted our audience as we predicted, this is because our film is very similar to James Bond and the James Bond franchise was very successful.

Evaluation 6, What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

I have learnt alot about technologies from my product(Viet-Con). I learnt about making blogs, and using the website Blogger and using all of its features effectively by using tools such as spell check to increase the quality of my blogs and the google plus button to try and expand my viewing base . I also learnt how to use new editing techniques to increase the overall quality of production towards our film for example the speed up tool effect on mine and james's eyes to give the audience a dynamic POV effect of both characters using this tool.The last main thing i learnt in regards of technology is the power of camera angles, and how important it is to look into choosing the correct setting for shooting because of the instant representation a setting can give off to the audience sub consciously and we also tried to edit a title, but we couldn't quite find the right software to use for our titles.Overall i have learnt alot about the process of creating a product through technology.

Evaluation 7, Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

 I feel that I have learnt a lot in the time between filming my preliminary and my final film. I have learnt about the importance of camera angles and choosing a location which is best for my situation (action). We created our AS preliminary task film "Viet con" using adobe premiere elements because of the efficiency of Creating short clips with effective techniques such as the fade in fade out tool which was used in the begining and end of our film. I have also learnt a lot about the general conventions of films, as I have looked at many types of film during my planning so i can now pick out certain aspects and conventions of films in any clip i watch/analyse for example suspense in horror, and fast cuts in action films which we used in our clip.

Evaluation 8, What targets will you set yourself for G324 next year – when you will make a trailer?

 
                                                                              Targets for G324

I have set myself a range of targets for next year in G324 which i believe will let me progress further in A level Media Studies.For example to progress i will take more consideration in lighting and camera composition in the filming stage as my G321 filming process was slightly disrupted by the over toned dark lighting throughout the film which was supported by other audiences views on our opening 2 minutes,Also our camera composition was a bit shaky in areas of the filming which could be improved by using dynamic angles on the tripod to steady the camera in difficult positions.

If there was anything i would do differently it would probably be my length of blogs because although my blogs are full of quality information it is not quite as long as i hoped for which was confirmed for me when i saw the length of my class peers blogs length compared to a percentage of mine and i believe you have to have a good length throughout all of your blogs as well as quality throughout.
In my next production that i will create in G324 i will improve my film creation skills dramatically by concentrating more in the edditing proccess of the trailer as i was more focused on the blogs and acting side of hte film whereas cory was more a part of the ediiting stage then me however i did come up with the plot and sounds to use in our opening 2 minutes.

The one last thing i could improve and take into G324 with me is the higher standard of Mise-En-Sceane i and cory can use next year; when we were filming we were oblivious to the fact that we had no real dynamic costume and prop usage.this is why we are going to use props such as a gun or knife as well as a wider range of costumes for each character to improve the dynamic view for the audience which our film lacked.

Disscussions about our film

                                Disscussions About Mine and Cory's film "Viet-Con"

Discussion about our film