Main task film 'SHORTCUT'

https://youtu.be/Odgqv-pozcA

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

Hello, here is my answer to question 7.

From my preliminary task to now the main thing that I have learnt is that you need your group's help for the whole duration of the task because it is a lot harder trying to do a lot by yourself than working with your group as a team. However this is not the only thing that I have learnt from the preliminary task to now. 

Another thing that I have learnt from the preliminary task to the main task is that you can make a good film providing you think the whole production through. In my opinion the most important and crucial stage of production is the pre-planning production because it can either help you create a masterpiece or a disaster depending on how you do in this stage. With the set genre type of film you have to create makes it a little easier but you still have to make a film from scratch and it has to start from the pre-production stage or it can't be done easily at all.

A third thing that I have learnt during this time is that I know what the hardware equipment is called and what each one does and how to use it or set it up. This allows me to teach others as well as knowing how to do it myself means I can get on with certain things and spend less time wondering how to set up the shoulder mount for example. 

In my preliminary task I feel as though the quality of the film was good however we left our filming a little too late and close to the deadline but luckily one of our group is a common user of the editing software Premier Pro and managed to get it done. This time for our main task we did our filming at a much earlier time than before which enabled us to give more time to the pre and post production so we could make adjustments to our film to make it better than before. 

I also felt as though this time round the group was more organised due to the way everything was done, the outfits were fixed and everyone knew what was happening and when. This helps in terms of the happiness of the group because it lowers the frustration of the individuals in the group and any kind of disruption or falling out. 

In our main task I felt as though it was more of a team effort than in the preliminary task because everyone contributed in a different way and jobs were shared out equally and everyone got to do a bit of something. For example everyone did a bit of editing to help create the film therefore each group member should feel as though they have done their bit in the film. 

Although I feel like some of the shots used in the main task film were not as good as some of the shots in the preliminary task, this may have been because it was difficult at the time to get a good shot, or the scene may have not been appropriate for some specific shots. In the future we will look back on this and think of how we could improve the film itself. However the film went well and I think we was successful in the production of 'SHORTCUT'.


 
My blogs have also improved in depth and detailed description. As well as the understanding of the platforms, as you can see teh photo is unavailable to view, previously I would not know how to fix this problem, but now I know how to do this and would be able to solve the issue. It would be a simple case of saving the photo onto my computer then import the photo from the blogger. Clearly showing some of my improvements from the preliminary task up to the main task.

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

Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

https://youtu.be/RPdGdKCO76c

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

Here is my response to question 4 which will take you to my bubbl presentation.


https://bubbl.us/?h=3389ba/670f54/33OYMejZcuBtg&r=903011963

Q3: What kind of media institutions might distribute your media product and why?

Here is my answer to question 3 for my evaluation, containing numerous ideas and thoughts as to why I chose specific media institutions who may or may not distribute my media film product. Enjoy!

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

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

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

Here is my blog on conventions of a thriller; within the research that I did I looked at some previous AS media students work and observed what they put, I then researched a few definitions related to conventions of a thriller. This helped me to understand the genres and sub genres and allowed me to put this into practice on my main task – horror thriller opening ‘SHORTCUT’. We as a group thought that some thrillers took place in a very natural environment and so we used our nearby surroundings like the location we chose to our advantage to create the setting and scene of our film.

http://www.slideshare.net/danwinn1/conventions-of-a-thriller-55732649 - Conventions of a thriller.

This had an impact on my final film because it allowed me and my group to assess the background to our film and see whether it made sense and had a realistic feel to it. Therefore the pre-production stage was massive in terms of the creation of the film and together our ideas were put as one and we progressed to the production stage.

This is a screenshot of our film on the Tupton Hall Media YouTube channel. This is the official film release on the internet, whenever you are free please don’t hesitate on viewing our film. As you can see it is nearly two and a half minutes long, within a good time zone where it keeps the audience attached without losing any of their attention.

My film is based on a schizophrenic teenager called Max and takes a shortcut home where he comes across something rather unusual, but what is it? In our film we like to keep our audience guessing therefore have the sub genre of mystery.

This is the storyboard for our film, it contains the different varying scenes during our film, this is also my blog which contains more information on this final film as well as my preliminary and other set tasks. Link to my storyboard -

http://danielwinnasfoundationportfolio.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/storyboard.html.

Storyboard

Here are my groups storyboard for the main task, the film should be coming out soon on Tupton Hall Media's YouTube channel so be on the look out for that and for now the storyboard. (sorry if some of them aren't very clear).