Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Friday, 19 April 2013
Evaluation Question 7
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Evaluation Question 6
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I now know how to use Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects. Whereas at the beginning of the year I had no idea how to use these software packages I know feel more confident when using them.
I wanted to copy the editing from the amazing Alfred Hitchcock as he used a lot of blackouts and cross dissolves. This I think adds a bit of mystery to the story and it helps with the continuity.
Also I think that the effects of the unfolding of the words on the tablets add to the slow process that I wanted to create throughout the film opening and helps with the flow of the continuity.
I wanted to add an essence from the eras 1920's-1940 this was portrayed through the mise-en-scene and the editing (specifically the tablets explaining the story). This was very hard to create but in the end I think the final draft came out pretty well.
When I was thinking about the audio, I started to look up the silent movies and found that they had no speech, no Foley it was all just a non-diegetic playlist. So going back to the 1940's era I wanted a song from this time and a slow one as the actors were going to be slow dancing. So I thought of the song White Cliffs Of Dover by Vera Lynn Below:
But getting my hands on this audio footage was pretty hard in the end I was able to get it but putting the audio onto premier pro panicked me but in the end it was all sorted out.
I now know how to use Adobe Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects. Whereas at the beginning of the year I had no idea how to use these software packages I know feel more confident when using them.
I wanted to copy the editing from the amazing Alfred Hitchcock as he used a lot of blackouts and cross dissolves. This I think adds a bit of mystery to the story and it helps with the continuity.
Also I think that the effects of the unfolding of the words on the tablets add to the slow process that I wanted to create throughout the film opening and helps with the flow of the continuity.
I wanted to add an essence from the eras 1920's-1940 this was portrayed through the mise-en-scene and the editing (specifically the tablets explaining the story). This was very hard to create but in the end I think the final draft came out pretty well.
When I was thinking about the audio, I started to look up the silent movies and found that they had no speech, no Foley it was all just a non-diegetic playlist. So going back to the 1940's era I wanted a song from this time and a slow one as the actors were going to be slow dancing. So I thought of the song White Cliffs Of Dover by Vera Lynn Below:
Evaluation Question 3
What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I think that a British film institution would most probably be the likeliest to produce my film like ITV because they have done wartime drama series in the past like Downton Abbey and Mr Selfridge. Seen below.
I think that a British film institution would most probably be the likeliest to produce my film like ITV because they have done wartime drama series in the past like Downton Abbey and Mr Selfridge. Seen below.
Downton Abbey
Mr Selfridge
Also I think that my film is made for Aficionados, so for it to be produced by a Hollywood production company like Universal Studios I think it wouldn't have the essence of loss caught and the plot would be over-dramatised. Also an American Production Company may use an American cast so for a British film to have been made by a British Production Company the likelihood
Evaluation Question 2
How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I think my media product being set in the 1940's I tried to represent a patriarchal world with the main character Thom leading the main lady Vera to the dance floor. Also I thyink that the lack of people that were at the 'dance' represents the social life that the women had in the 1940's as the men would've all been out to war so the men would've been scarce and when they did come home on leave they wouldn't have wanted to go out much. So it would've been harder for women to be engaged or married etc.
I think that if you compare this social group to the one in Pearl Harbour. The group is totally different but the director is trying to represent a loud and crazy life that had brought these two lovers through and how they didn't know when their lives were going to end. Whereas I'm trying to represent a social group who have been torn apart by the war and that all they can lean on is each other.
I think my media product being set in the 1940's I tried to represent a patriarchal world with the main character Thom leading the main lady Vera to the dance floor. Also I thyink that the lack of people that were at the 'dance' represents the social life that the women had in the 1940's as the men would've all been out to war so the men would've been scarce and when they did come home on leave they wouldn't have wanted to go out much. So it would've been harder for women to be engaged or married etc.
I think that if you compare this social group to the one in Pearl Harbour. The group is totally different but the director is trying to represent a loud and crazy life that had brought these two lovers through and how they didn't know when their lives were going to end. Whereas I'm trying to represent a social group who have been torn apart by the war and that all they can lean on is each other.
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