- Coursework 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? -

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

Here is Question 6. If you can't view it there is a screenshot below with links for the YouTube video and Soundcloud link. To view the entire image, please click on it.

Created with Padlet

https://soundcloud.com/as-set-five/group-22-maria-wordsworth-voiceover

- Coursework Evaluation - Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience? -

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

https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/buG958h78sP/question-4-group-22/#/

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

Question 3 By Group 22 from Group_22

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

Here is my Question 2 for the coursework evaluation. Please follow the thinglink from left to right, from the top to the bottom.

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

Final Evaluation Question 7 - 25/01/15

Since my group made our first preliminary title sequence, we have gained and developed many filming techniques. The first thing that my group improved on was the title display of the film. In our preliminary clip, we only used on of the default texts that are available in the program, which were simple, plain and quite boring looking.

During the lesson we learned how to film using the 180 degree rule. So because we were quite new to this skill, we made some mistakes where we didn't film some scenes following the rules, which resulted in the scene looking quite confusing. Fortunately, what we had to do to fix this issue was to reverse the video, but the downside was that the letters in the video also were inverted which was quite obvious.

- Titles and Credits for Grey Area Title Sequence -

Here are the names of our titles in our film sequence.

Actor 1 - Thabiti Aubeeluck
Actor 2 - David Olomata
Actor 3 - Tristen Henry
Actor 4 - Kehinde Ekundayo
Casting Director - Elise Monroe
Costume Designer - Sharlene Anderson
Music Supervisor - Jeremy Sanchez
Music By - Sasuke Kamada
Edited By - Yvette White
                 - Christian Foster
Production Designer - Ebony Gonzales
Director of Photography - Harry Graham
Executive Producer - Emeka Sokunbi
                                - Maurice Eisanberg
Director - Jean Pierre Gardinier

- Rough Cut 2 Feedback -

- Feedback for Rough Cut 2 - By Kenny -

- Feedback for Rough Cut 2 - By Kenny -

- Editing sound -

Today we worked more in the sound design of our title sequence. We used sound effects to fit the transitions to the voiceovers and transitions to the next scenes. We experimented with different horn sounds.

- Evidence of Filming -

- Filming Date Changes -

As we still have a few more shots to film, we planned to shoot them today. However, due to the weather change, we had to postpone filming to another day. We aim to next film on Friday when the weather will be better.

- Evidence of Editing -

Here is the evidence of us editing our title sequence. At this particular moment we were creating a 'shaky' effect on the shot.

Rough Cut Evaluation

For our mock exam for media, our group had to edit the clips that we recorded to make our first rough cut.

In my opinion our rough cut worked well because we all collaborated equally. although we didn't need to use many effects and transitions we chose to do so anyway so that we had a realistic expectation of what we want our final edit to look like. We also tried out different effects and transitions to see which ones suited our genre best. Our use of lighting consisted of a dark setting but we used filters to brighten certain parts so that the characters and the background were actually visible. Our location also complimented our lighting as there were active street lights. Our camera work was steady becasue we used a fig rig and our camera man had to run in order to keep up with the scene. Because of this it was much easier to edit transitions and add effects in the scene.

- Maria Wordsworth (Psychiatrist) Voiceover -By Kenny -

As we do not have the correct equipment for an effective dialogue between our characters we've decided to use voiceovers instead.

Here is the voiceover for Maria Wordsworth.

Rough Cut Evaluation - Thabiti

Part of our mock exams includes putting together a rough cut of our title sequence. The rough cut is made to be a slight representation of what we intend our final product to look like.

I believe we excelled in many area's such as our choice in location as well as our use of lighting ( considering the time of day we need to record in ). Although we do well in some area's and have demonstrated that we are able to create a title sequence that looks professional and does its job of introducing certain characters and setting the tone of he film, there are still loads of area's we can improve. We managed to use a variety of different shot types , but the recorded footage didn't come out as smooth as originally planned , and some of the scenes even turned out to be darker than we expected. To combat this we had to add an effect to the video to brighten the image slightly, as for the shakiness of the camera ... we attempted to use it to our advantage by adding in transitions that seamlessly blend between shots using the camera shake as distraction.

The rough cut still doesn't include certain aspects of the title sequence that we hope to include in the future , for example the voice over of one of the main characters , explaining what he is experiencing as the viewer watches to ensure that they are able to clearly understand the introduction to the rest of the film.

Blogging Health Check 3 Thabiti

Thabiti, whilst you work very hard and with focus in class, your blog is really disappointing. With 35 blog posts, you have one of the lowest blog counts in the AS cohort and have only posted 8 tasks in 4 weeks. This is really disappointing and doesn't reflect all the work that I see you complete in class and could really jeopardise your chance of attaining an overall coursework mark that reflects your potential and real talent in this subject. Please can you read through the feedback below and the complete the to do targets at the bottom of the page:
strengths:
- some evidence of good planning
- when used, effective use of ICT to present work and ideas

weaknesses:
-lots of key posts missing - storyboard / pitch evaluation / no evidence of
-filming or editing
- mostly group posts so very few individual posts
- time management and haphazard posting to the blog

to do:
- post essential tasks such as Storyboard and pitch evaluation
- post up evidence of research and planning
- complete a greater number of individual (and independent) blog tasks
- improve frequency of posting to the blog - at least 3 or 4 times weekly

- Rough Cut 1 Feedback -

Blogging Health Check 2 - David

David, you have worked hard over the last few weeks to catch up with your research and planning tasks and your blog count of 35 posts shows that you are mostly up to date with the checklist. However, many of your posts are quite brief and lack detail, rely on just text and the order is a little haphazard, which affects the mark that can be awarded. This is a pity as you work so hard in class and clearly have lots of potential. Please read through the feedback below and complete targets at the bottom of the page:

strengths:
- caught up with most of the research tasks
- some evidence of planning for your title sequence

weaknesses:
- lots of key planning tasks still missing (see below)
- ICT - reliance on text and some images to present your learning / evidence
- time management - lots of binge posting rather than posting work with frequency
- level of detail - posts are very short or minimal and need to have more developed detail in them - why are you doing this post? what do you hope it will help you with? what have your learned as a result of it? how will it help you to develop your coursework / title sequence etc...? This is where you are dropping the most marks

to do / targets:
1. complete missing key planning tasks 27/28/34/35/37/39 (can be done as group posts)
2. be more creative / experimental with your use of ICT - aim to use prezi, emaze, padlet, camtasia videos, and youtube photoalbum to present your work visually
3. aim to post your work with more frequency - 4 times weekly (2 lessons and homeworks)
4. - provide as much detail as possible in your responses - give the context (why are you doing this post - what do you hope to find out?) and provide some evaluation (what have you learned, is it useful, how does it help develop your title sequence and planning for it etc...) Detail can also be shown in how the learning is presented using ICT rather than the amount of text you write.
5. go back and add in the correct titles of posts - these are just numbered but the moderator won't have the checklist so you need to give the correct title for each task using the checklist as a guide. You can still give the number but there needs to be a written title too.

- Blogging Health Check 3 - 4/1/16 -

David although your blog has lots of potential and you have a respectable blog post count of 42 posts, as we have moved into the production phase of the coursework your blog has become weaker and you have only posted 8 blog posts in 4 weeks, which is a pity and doesn't reflect all the hard work I have seen you do in class. Please can you read through the feedback below and complete the to do targets.
strengths:
- beginning to use a range of ICT
- some evidence of planning
- some evidence of research

weaknesses:
- titles for the blog posts aren't always clear
- there are lots of key blogging tasks missing - storyboard, evidence of filming, evidence of editing
- need more detail in your blog posts - they can be quite short and brief

to do:
1. upload your storyboard
2. upload evidence of filming and editing
3. improve your frequency of posting to the blog - post tasks when in lesson
4. make sure that your titles for each blog post are clear and correspond to the blog check list where relevant.

- Blogging Health Check 3 Feedback - 4/1/16 -

Feedback

Tristen, whilst you work very hard and with focus in class, your blog is really disappointing. With 36 blog posts, you have one of the lowest blog counts in the AS cohort and have only posted 8 tasks in 4 weeks. This is really disappointing and doesn't reflect all the work that I see you complete in class . Please can you read through the feedback below and the complete the to do targets at the bottom of the page:
strengths:
- some evidence of good planning
- when used, effective use of ICT to present work and ideas

weaknesses:
-lots of key posts missing - storyboard / pitch evaluation / no evidence of
-filming or editing
- mostly group posts so very few individual posts
- time management and haphazard posting to the blog

to do:
- post essential tasks such as Storyboard and pitch evaluation
- post up evidence of research and planning
- complete a greater number of individual (and independent) blog tasks
- improve frequency of posting to the blog - at least 3 or 4 times weekly

- Setting Targets - 03/01/16

Setting Targets

- SWOT Analysis - 03/01/16 -

SWOT

- Audit Evidence - 03/01/16 -

Audit

- Evaluating rough cut - 03/01/16 -

- Audit, SWOT Analysis and Targets for blog -

- Evaluating the rough cut -

Practical Remake activity Evidence - David -

- Grey Area Website - By Kenny -

To promote our title sequence we have created a Wix website.

Here is the link: Grey Area Website