Link to A2 Blog

Here is a link to my A2 Blog, where I will be creating my A2 media portfolio. 
http://jessrichardsa2media.blogspot.co.uk/

'And So It Happened...' Final Opening Sequence

Hi and welcome to my AS Media blog! Below is a video link to my final product- "And So It Happened...". After this post, you will find all of my portfolio work and my evaluation questions, enjoy!

Evaluation #1

Here is my answer to evaluation question #1 in the style of a group directors commentary, please click the video below to watch and listen!

"In what ways does your media product use, develop and challenge forms and conventions of real life media products?"

Evaluation #2

Here is my vlog style answer to evaluation question #2, Please click the video link below to watch!
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"How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

Evaluation #3

Below is my directors interview style answer to evaluative question 3, please click the video link below to watch!

"What media institutions might distribute your product and why?"

Evaluation #4

This is my powerpoint presentation answering question #4:

"Who would be the audience for your media product?"

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation #5

Here is my cartoon style survey answer for evaluation #5 Please click the video link below to watch!

"How did you attract/address your audience?"

Evaluation #6

Evaluation Question #7

Below is our group answer to evaluation question #7. Please click the video/link to view!

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

Evaluation Analysis and Planning

Here I have created a PowerPoint presentation analyzing my evaluation process. I have come up with 7 different creative ways to answer my evaluation questions, and creating a formal plan will help keep me on track and reinforce the meanings of the questions being asked. Throughtout the process of my evaluation, I most likely will change my ideas on some evaluation questions, this is just a quick brainstorm.

As Media Studies Evaluation Analysis

Time Lapse of filimg

Below is a time lapse of our filming days. We found that this was the easiest way to document to filming process as it shows exactly how we used different techniques to build our atmosphere. We used our phone torches and matches to create a scary lighting. We were constantly going upstairs, downstairs and outside to find the perfect treatmkent for our production. We tried lots of different shots and angles to get the best results of the days as we could not keep returning to the location.

Titles

For the main titles, we have included them in the creepy scrapbook, as we do not see these as majorly important within the film:

For the main film title, I have created one for our film using http://coollogo.com/ :

Costume and Actress Planning

For our main character, we have a good idea of what outfit and style we want her to have. The character will be the only seen person, and she will be a reporter. We have come up with a good idea of what outfit (below):


In our filming, we have dressed our female character (me) in a very similar outfit, as seen below:

We have chosen this style of dress as it adds a more mysterious but professional edge. It makes the audience wonder why a reporter is going to, what seems, a 'normal' barn.

Sound Edit- Main Task

Below is our sound edit of our opening sequence. This edit has the sounds we will be using in the correct places within the sequence. By doing this, we can see and our tacher can see that we need to now concentrate on the volume levels of sounds. We also need to add more natural sounds to our piece at the start such as wind to reinforce the isolation of the setting. We also need to add a main soundtrack to our title piece to add mystery but also add the sense that it is only an opening sequence. 
Please click below to listen!

Rough Edit- Main Task

We have put together a rough edit of our film. This is going to change as we still have to major edit and add sounds, transactions and treatment. We have put together this edit roughly to show how our opening sequence is going to run. To watch this, please click on the video clip below or click the link to open in a new window:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q76QHCplNdU

Shot List

We have created a shot list to help make our filiming run more smoothly, this list will enable us to check if we collected all the shots we originally wanted, whilst allowing us to have additional shots from the filming process; below is our shot list:

• pan/360^
• close up
• medium shot
• extreme close up
• over the shoulder shots
• POV Shots
• high angle

StoryBoard

Before our filming, we produced a storyboard to help us visualise the acts in the sequence. This helped us whilst filming as we could follow the story and know what shots we wanted. The shots we have drawn in the storyboard will create a suspensful atmopshere, and without the storyboard, we would not have been able to visualise it.

Production Meeting #4

In our fourth production meeting, we focused on our main scenes in our opening sequence (how many and what they include).

1. Our first scene includes a voice over of the main character, remembering what happened. We all decided that we will do a 360 degree shot circling the character as the voice over plays. 
2. Our second scene has been decided that it will start the flashback of the happenings. This scene will include the character walking up to the barn and through the door into the ground floor of the barn, looking around. 
3. Our third scene will be of the character entering the upstairs room, looking around, finding the mysterious book and reading through it. She will then hear a noise and look up and see the barn door open/ close and hear footsteps coming up the stairs leading to her.
4. Our last scene, the screen will cut to black as the upstairs door opens. It will then fade out from black either to the single rocking horse or the ballerina in the jewellry box. This will be where our main title appears.