A2 Media Evaluation

Evaluation of A2 Media Production

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Film Poster- Ancillary Task

Filming report

After deciding that certain shots needed to be re-filmed and that we need a wider variety of shots we set off to our filming locations the next weekend. luckily for us the weather was very dry but not too sunny giving the abandoned church a dim lit effect which we would have otherwise had to edit into the final cut as this was the desired effect we wanted in our production. secondly we needed to re-film a lot of footage that was damaged by the tape as the filming was overlaying footage we had filmed over and sounds and lines of previous footage was permanently imprinted on to our work during playback which was a shame and a real step back for our group, especially in terms of morale. Once we began re-filming we encountered no real problems and was satisfied with the improvements made on the original footage.

Editing for our rough cut

When we attempted to capture our footage we encountered a selection of varying problems. First we tried on several separate occasions to capture our footage using adobe premier, but each time we encountered the same problem again and again. The problem came in the form of an error message which said 'Media Offline'. To try and solve this problem we tried all the conventional methods of dealing with a software issue; we turned the computer off, restarted it, open and closed the program. Due to our unsuccessful attempts to fix the problem we asked our teacher what was wrong, it turned out to be a problem with one of the software's default setting being changed preventing new footage from being captured.

Despite the minor set back that occurred we where still able to get a good amount of editing don; in this lesson we where able to use our variety of quick shots to build a tense atmosphere, these shots were further complemented by the use of snappy transitions which are frequently used in horror trailers. We also included the use of dips to black and a selection of different shots featuring the killer. However we all agreed that we certainly did not have enough variety of shots that included the victims of the killer. Although we had the quantity of high quality shots we did not have enough time to edit the shots into the production. unfortunately I was unable to help edit outside of school hours before the showing the class our rough cut due to a work commitment. Therefore it was up to Will and Lyle the other two members of the group to edit the shots together in order to produce a respectable rough cut for our film trailer to present to the class. The rough cut shown was enough to present to the class as the 'rough' cut but we were still far from producing and presenting our final product

Re-filming shots to a higher quality

In order to make our production look more professional it became apparent that some shots should be re-filmed to a higher quality as the shots were too dark or blurry. One shot in particular was an establishing shot inside an abandoned church where you can see the word "Help" written in chalk on the wall, however once played back on the computer you could barely see it so we decided to go and re-shoot that shot along with an establishing shot of the woods which was simply a bit too blurry, as the shot was done in the early morning in the woods it is possible that there was some condensation or moisture on the lens distorting the filming. The church is on public land so we re filmed that shot straight away and the shot in the woods we received permission to film on the land again at the weekend.

Changes to our schedule

In order to have our final production up to the highest standard by the deadline we had to up the output of work so we had to adjust our weekly schedules and each of us was working on the production every minute we weren't in other lessons. Every free period we had and time outside of school at home was spent discussing changes to be made to our production, we had created a message on Facebook allowing us all to add to the message as we had each added to the final product. As we all have smartphones which can be linked to our with Facebook accounts we were all able to instantly know when an update had taken place and allowed easy communication simultaneously between the three of us and allowed a kind of written record of who has done what in the production preventing any duplicates being made.

Weekly timetables

As the final deadlines approach in order to make sure we use our time appropriately we have created weekly time tables that show which group members are working when and what part of the project said individual will be working on. An example of one of our time tables is shown to the right.