Final blog

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Q1-Conventions for film openings (comparing uncompleted)

Question 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and convention of real media products?

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Q2-Representation of social groups

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

Question 2- How does your media product represent particular social groups/?

Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Question 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

Question 5 : How did we attract/address the audience?

After revealing our title sequence at the Everyman screen on the green,we were able to ask the audience for some feedback and how they were attracted to it.

Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the constructing this product?

Q.6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation,Q6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Question 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full production?

Evaluation,Q7 Looking back at your preliminary task,what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Question 7 - looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product

Final hours vlog

This is a vlog of the final hours editing our title sequence. Final touches, placing titles and rendering.

Changes to title credit

 As shown above the order of our titles changed as we realised the order in which we had planned for before what not typical of an small independent production company.

Blogging Health Check 3

My grade has gone up since the last health check. I still have many different things to change in order to make my blog stronger. I will complete these to ensure my blog is complete.

My Personal Progress

My Personal Progress 2

Today was extremely challenging for me as I found making the titles in After Effect very fiddly. But after repeating the steps a couple of times the process became easier.

I was very proud of myself for completing the titles alone as it was one of the things I was sceptical about as I knew i would struggle as I had never done it before. The outcome of the title credits was a success all my group agreed. That was one less thing to worry about I wet from feeling like this

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Having been able to complete the titles showed me that my ICT skills in media have developed and improved from when I had first started. It also gave me the confidence to know my abilities were improving. 

evidence of editing 2

Blog health check 3

filming and evaluation update 3

Yesterday 11th Jan.

Foziya and I went to one of our four locations NW6, Peel Precent to film a couple more scenes. 

It was successful and effective use of time.

We managed to film another one of the overview shoots to fit into the title sequence.
Although we were filming at  very busy time we still managed to communicate effectively with each other to get the best shots that we could produce. We followed the shots types from the storyboard.

Overall I think it was a success as we came out more shots that could be edited into of film opening. It was also fun while doing so.

evidence of replanning

filming and evaluation update 2

For our second day of filming we filmed in Edmonton.
Despite the bad weather we still manage to do a lot today. Most of the scenes captures were good enough quality to be put into our film opening. We managed to get many roads signs and high streets.
Everyone in our group took turns to film and became more familiar with the equipment using different angles and shot types.

Sounds - Copyright

As a group we have wanted to use music that we believe the audience would associate with urban youth drama.This included fast paced rap that is mostly listened to by teenagers in London.

When choosing the music we had wanted to use,we had listened to the non-diegetic sounds which were used in films similar to ours like Kidulthood and Adulthood.We found that police sirens we a constant background noise so we searched for police sirens on Youtube and picked the one which sounded most realistic and suited our idea most.Fortunately we didn't require copyright permission to use this sound effect
However,for the actual music we had wanted to use,it was vital for us to gain permission.To make sure we had a range of choices to choose from,I had listened to multiple drill/trap music,which is often used in urban youth dramas and then messaged various popular artists via social media apps like Twitter and Snapchat. As the music we had wanted to use were created by artists who were at a similar age and were popular,it was quite easy to get a hold of them for permission.
Here are examples of some of the songs we had considered using before we had chosen a specific one.

Moscow March-GB X LOOSESCREW X TIZZY T

67 Loose screw

Harlem Spartans 

 Loski- Hazards

67 Lets Lurk

To get permission,I had contacted the through social media.

 

 After,we had realized although this may be the music we had wanted to use,we may have not been able to use it as it may have been deemed inappropriate as it may be found to promote violence.We had then chosen to use  instrumental which were fast paced and suited our genre.These were quite easy to use as many instrumentals on both Soundcloud and Youtube didn't not place copyright.

However having a range of music to choose from after getting permission from multiple artist did serve as a back up in case we didn't find the right music we wanted to use.This allowed us to be prepared for any problems that could of occurred.

-Foziya

Planning our next steps

Blogging Health Check 2

To improve this grade I need to be more consistent with my blogs and post at least 2 blog posts a week until the final deadline. I also need to catch up on the missing pieces of work and keep up the consistent level of detail in my work overall.