This is my media evaluation presentation on a Wix website. Here you will see seven evaluation question presented in many different multimeda forms. In contribution to this are pictures and extracts from my opening sequence-Chroniker. Click on the link below to see my evaluation.
Here is a direct link Madihah WIX Evaluation
Tuesday 27 March 2012
Monday 19 March 2012
Final Film
Our Final Film
Finally we finished our opening sequence after 2 months of planning and researching, 8 hours of shooting and 2 months of editing. I have had the best and most stressful time whilst making this opening sequence. I am happy to say I got to work with great people; thanks to Ella Baker, Sam Haines, Tom Malins and our actors Matt, Jack and Patrick. Its been amazing making an idea a some what reality.
Enjoy :)
Finally we finished our opening sequence after 2 months of planning and researching, 8 hours of shooting and 2 months of editing. I have had the best and most stressful time whilst making this opening sequence. I am happy to say I got to work with great people; thanks to Ella Baker, Sam Haines, Tom Malins and our actors Matt, Jack and Patrick. Its been amazing making an idea a some what reality.
Enjoy :)
Sunday 18 March 2012
Changes to the Sound
- We decided to choose a sound that would be consistent throughout the whole video. This is as many opening sequences have one particular sound that doesn't change very frequently. unlike the sample soundtrack. This consistent sound is an underlining tone which we could overlay different sound upon with different shots, such as the clock ticking, the change in location and events taking place; where the narrative begins.
- Along with amending the sound we also thought that we should incorporate some main feature credits when the voiceover occured. We felt that the screen was blank for along duration of time; although we were inspired by the 'Children of Men' opening sequence. We thought this would be effective as it would be a subtle way of getting the audiences attention to continue to watch further.
Saturday 17 March 2012
The Sound
This is the soundtrack that we had sampled to see what the feel of the sequence would be. I like the sense of Si-Fi within the sound/noises. I feel that it is very repetitive and the sounds start to get to the point where you want the sound to change as they become slightly irritating to hear.
This is the sequence with the sampled soundtrack:
As we had tested this soundtrack we decided to change the sound to something less techno/electric to a sound of mystery, which would intrigue our audience more.
This is the sequence with the sampled soundtrack:
As we had tested this soundtrack we decided to change the sound to something less techno/electric to a sound of mystery, which would intrigue our audience more.
Friday 16 March 2012
Week 10 12th-16th March
Editing 7
After having a big beak through last week with getting a lot of thing done and the progression of our sequence is finally starting to feel as though it will be finished.
Voice over
We had done a voice over this week where we used the voice of a Matt. We thought he would be most suitable for doing this voice over as he was very clear and aliterate and his voice contrasted the appearance of the tramp, which we really liked as the tramp had more depth to him than realised. We had recorded Matt's voice of him reading the script, we had previously written, on Garage Band. We then used a software that we didn't not know of called Audiocity. This was a good software as we could change different things within Matt's voice but we had liked the way it was initially recorded. The process of the voice over was much simpler than i thought because it was importing and exporting the sound extract, which we needed to only change the file type of.
Now having the voice over as a sound file and imported into Final Cut all we had done was create a black screen as, which the voice over would go on top. We then placed the voice over on the time line and al that was left was to place and perfect the timing of the voice on the screen.
Sound
The sound for the sequence was one of the last thing that we needed to do to make the sequence complete. This was a bit hard as our genre of film didn't require any particular sound. We had done the sound on Garage Band, as we were not able to copyright any music. We had selected a few sounds that we thought were best suited to our sequences. These were mainly an intense continuous beat and note. This became boring and we were told by our teachers opinions that this would make our opening seem boring although that wasn't the case. We didn't want to footage to be long and dragged out neither with the sound. We had then with the soundswe had selected combine a few to make the rhythm of the each split screen different. We had chosen the sounds, it was now a matter of putting them to the right timing of the visual footage. This took a little while but the sound was the finishing touch on this long process of finishing our sequence.
Our opening sequence to Chroniker was finally FINISHED!
After having a big beak through last week with getting a lot of thing done and the progression of our sequence is finally starting to feel as though it will be finished.
Voice over
We had done a voice over this week where we used the voice of a Matt. We thought he would be most suitable for doing this voice over as he was very clear and aliterate and his voice contrasted the appearance of the tramp, which we really liked as the tramp had more depth to him than realised. We had recorded Matt's voice of him reading the script, we had previously written, on Garage Band. We then used a software that we didn't not know of called Audiocity. This was a good software as we could change different things within Matt's voice but we had liked the way it was initially recorded. The process of the voice over was much simpler than i thought because it was importing and exporting the sound extract, which we needed to only change the file type of.
Now having the voice over as a sound file and imported into Final Cut all we had done was create a black screen as, which the voice over would go on top. We then placed the voice over on the time line and al that was left was to place and perfect the timing of the voice on the screen.
Whilst having done this we also imported our production title sequence at the beginning of the opening.
Sound
The sound for the sequence was one of the last thing that we needed to do to make the sequence complete. This was a bit hard as our genre of film didn't require any particular sound. We had done the sound on Garage Band, as we were not able to copyright any music. We had selected a few sounds that we thought were best suited to our sequences. These were mainly an intense continuous beat and note. This became boring and we were told by our teachers opinions that this would make our opening seem boring although that wasn't the case. We didn't want to footage to be long and dragged out neither with the sound. We had then with the soundswe had selected combine a few to make the rhythm of the each split screen different. We had chosen the sounds, it was now a matter of putting them to the right timing of the visual footage. This took a little while but the sound was the finishing touch on this long process of finishing our sequence.
Our opening sequence to Chroniker was finally FINISHED!
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Audience Feedback
This week we had the first show case of our opening sequence to students in our class. This was an interesting experience as we were showing what we had done so far to people that didn't know anything about our story.
The only opinions that we had gotten so far was from our teachers.
Through doing this exercise we realised that the feedback we got consisted of a majority of people not really understanding the storyline. This was predicted as the opening sequence was not finished and the vital part of the story was not seen as of yet. Anna commented on the fact that the split screen had a really good effect and was interesting but by then end, of what she had seen not he end of the sequence, it had gotten slightly boring. This was something that I really took on board as we didn't want our sequence to be boring although we now we have a lot of the same action.
The positive outcome of this was that a majority of people complemented us on the editing of the split screen. I think that our sequence relies on the split screening so the fact that the audience liked it and thought it was unique and interesting was really good. Lucy commented on the fact that what we shot could have been boring but the way in which we had edited it made it more interesting. This was a comment that i was pleased about because the main thing we didn't want to do was to bore our audience because it is a lot of the same action of a Tramp walking through London. She had also mentioned that she was able to clearly see who our main character was, this was another one of our objectives.We also had a few comments on the continuity which they thought was good. A lot of people came back writing that there was a good use of location. Eva also illustrated that the costume and mise-en-scene was nice and complemented our story, even though she was unclear of what it was.
As mentioned before it was interesting getting everyones feedback to what they had thought so far. I think some of the comments we would really concentrate on as we have now realised were the person was coming from and saw certain aspects of shots differently.
The only opinions that we had gotten so far was from our teachers.
Through doing this exercise we realised that the feedback we got consisted of a majority of people not really understanding the storyline. This was predicted as the opening sequence was not finished and the vital part of the story was not seen as of yet. Anna commented on the fact that the split screen had a really good effect and was interesting but by then end, of what she had seen not he end of the sequence, it had gotten slightly boring. This was something that I really took on board as we didn't want our sequence to be boring although we now we have a lot of the same action.
The positive outcome of this was that a majority of people complemented us on the editing of the split screen. I think that our sequence relies on the split screening so the fact that the audience liked it and thought it was unique and interesting was really good. Lucy commented on the fact that what we shot could have been boring but the way in which we had edited it made it more interesting. This was a comment that i was pleased about because the main thing we didn't want to do was to bore our audience because it is a lot of the same action of a Tramp walking through London. She had also mentioned that she was able to clearly see who our main character was, this was another one of our objectives.We also had a few comments on the continuity which they thought was good. A lot of people came back writing that there was a good use of location. Eva also illustrated that the costume and mise-en-scene was nice and complemented our story, even though she was unclear of what it was.
As mentioned before it was interesting getting everyones feedback to what they had thought so far. I think some of the comments we would really concentrate on as we have now realised were the person was coming from and saw certain aspects of shots differently.
Sunday 11 March 2012
Week 9 5th-9th March
Editing 6
This week has been extremely productive as we have done a variety of things. As we had Academic Mentoring Day during the week it enables us spend a whole day editing and progressing more with finishing our sequence.
After a long and frustrating battle with the map we had gotten them all PhotoShoped and ready to put on our opening sequence. Besides from getting the pictures onto the map this was another area were problem occurred. The map would appear on screen in which the way we wanted it to. This made it difficult for us to try and think of an alternative. We had chosen to use a zoom setting to make our map appear on screen.
In our initial idea we wanted to have a voice over at the beginning of the sequence, this was an idea that we al still liked as wi thought there was something missing at the beginning of the story. On this day we all realised the exact aim of the story which inspired us to write the script of the voice over, which made the complex story easier to understand. As well as writing a script and making a clear outline of our story we had also come up with a name for our film, which we had all struggled with doing in the past. After many unusual suggestions and chats we had concluded with 'Chroniker' which relates back to our story.
Within this day we also had established that the map was not as well constructed as we had hoped> when planning we all had an idea of what the map would look like. Once having achieved the closes alternatives to what the map looked like in our sequence we all concluded that we didn't like how it looked as t was very quick and unclear of what was happening. After contemplating we had chosen to scrap the map and only use one aspect of it. This meant that some of the time we spent editing and PhotoShoping the map was useful but we did spend a large amount of time trying to figure out how to do the map.
Once having made this decision it felt as though we had made a major step in finishing our opening sequence. From the beginning when planning we had always wanted our credits to be a bit different and funky so we still tried to intend to do so. Making the credits was slightly longer than I thought but i think this was due to us doing something a bit more complex than usual credits. It was slightly easier to do the credits as Tom had previously made a list of names needed. We had done our credits on Final Cut because they were incorporated with the different frames and shots.
I felt very excited after this week as I feel as though we are now coming close to finishing our sequence and a lot of our the hard decisions had been made and many of the problems we have had for a while have been resolved.
This week has been extremely productive as we have done a variety of things. As we had Academic Mentoring Day during the week it enables us spend a whole day editing and progressing more with finishing our sequence.
After a long and frustrating battle with the map we had gotten them all PhotoShoped and ready to put on our opening sequence. Besides from getting the pictures onto the map this was another area were problem occurred. The map would appear on screen in which the way we wanted it to. This made it difficult for us to try and think of an alternative. We had chosen to use a zoom setting to make our map appear on screen.
In our initial idea we wanted to have a voice over at the beginning of the sequence, this was an idea that we al still liked as wi thought there was something missing at the beginning of the story. On this day we all realised the exact aim of the story which inspired us to write the script of the voice over, which made the complex story easier to understand. As well as writing a script and making a clear outline of our story we had also come up with a name for our film, which we had all struggled with doing in the past. After many unusual suggestions and chats we had concluded with 'Chroniker' which relates back to our story.
Within this day we also had established that the map was not as well constructed as we had hoped> when planning we all had an idea of what the map would look like. Once having achieved the closes alternatives to what the map looked like in our sequence we all concluded that we didn't like how it looked as t was very quick and unclear of what was happening. After contemplating we had chosen to scrap the map and only use one aspect of it. This meant that some of the time we spent editing and PhotoShoping the map was useful but we did spend a large amount of time trying to figure out how to do the map.
Once having made this decision it felt as though we had made a major step in finishing our opening sequence. From the beginning when planning we had always wanted our credits to be a bit different and funky so we still tried to intend to do so. Making the credits was slightly longer than I thought but i think this was due to us doing something a bit more complex than usual credits. It was slightly easier to do the credits as Tom had previously made a list of names needed. We had done our credits on Final Cut because they were incorporated with the different frames and shots.
I felt very excited after this week as I feel as though we are now coming close to finishing our sequence and a lot of our the hard decisions had been made and many of the problems we have had for a while have been resolved.
Friday 2 March 2012
Week 8 27th Febuary -2nd March
Editing 5
Map
This week Michael had taught us how to PhotoShop pictures onto our map into our opening sequence. This was a very hard long and time consuming process. From this week I now know how to do a variety of things on PhotoShop and I now have gained knowledge on the software. The map is a major part of our storyline as hard as it has been to incorporate it we have tired our hardest to make it look the way we had envisioned it.
Production Title
This week we had started to design our production title that would appear at the beginning of our opening sequence. We already had the name of our production company, which was 'Aftershock Productions'. We now needed a symbol/logo to go with it and some form of a small extract that we could insert at the beginning of our sequence.
We had done our production title on a software called LiveType. This was a software we would possibly used when doing our credits. LiveType was slightly difficult to use as no member in our group had used it before. We used the process of exploring to self teach ourselves how to use it. We had now gotten a background and our production name done and we needed to import our symbol, which is a black lightening bolt onto it.
Split Screen
We continued to split screen al of our shots and all the shots we wanted to be split screened were now done. We had also chosen to only do the shots that would work well to split screen as we didn't want the split screening to look drag along for our audience. We had only done the shots we had thought would either look good and work well as a split screen or the shots that we thought would be boring to look at.
Now we were coming to see our opening sequence starting to finish we thought that we would try to cut down the time of the sequence as it was currently at 3 minutes 40 seconds. Tom was no in the lesson when we had thought of this so Sam, Ella and I had to become ruthless to which shots we were definitely going to keep and which we were going to completely scrap. This was a difficult decision for all of us to make as we all liked different shot but as we came to realise it was about the shots that the audience wouldn't miss out on and the shot that if not there would the audience still understand the story. Once having done this we had cut it down to 2:40. This was still with spaces for the title of the film and where the map was going to be placed.
Alongside doing this, Tom though it would be good start to think about credits. He researched into all the necessary names that would appear on our credits so that when it came to the time of doing our credits we had a list of titles that we need to use. I thought this was useful as when it came to the time when we needed to do our credits we would be very efficient and prepared.
Map
This week Michael had taught us how to PhotoShop pictures onto our map into our opening sequence. This was a very hard long and time consuming process. From this week I now know how to do a variety of things on PhotoShop and I now have gained knowledge on the software. The map is a major part of our storyline as hard as it has been to incorporate it we have tired our hardest to make it look the way we had envisioned it.
Production Title
This week we had started to design our production title that would appear at the beginning of our opening sequence. We already had the name of our production company, which was 'Aftershock Productions'. We now needed a symbol/logo to go with it and some form of a small extract that we could insert at the beginning of our sequence.
We had done our production title on a software called LiveType. This was a software we would possibly used when doing our credits. LiveType was slightly difficult to use as no member in our group had used it before. We used the process of exploring to self teach ourselves how to use it. We had now gotten a background and our production name done and we needed to import our symbol, which is a black lightening bolt onto it.
Split Screen
We continued to split screen al of our shots and all the shots we wanted to be split screened were now done. We had also chosen to only do the shots that would work well to split screen as we didn't want the split screening to look drag along for our audience. We had only done the shots we had thought would either look good and work well as a split screen or the shots that we thought would be boring to look at.
Now we were coming to see our opening sequence starting to finish we thought that we would try to cut down the time of the sequence as it was currently at 3 minutes 40 seconds. Tom was no in the lesson when we had thought of this so Sam, Ella and I had to become ruthless to which shots we were definitely going to keep and which we were going to completely scrap. This was a difficult decision for all of us to make as we all liked different shot but as we came to realise it was about the shots that the audience wouldn't miss out on and the shot that if not there would the audience still understand the story. Once having done this we had cut it down to 2:40. This was still with spaces for the title of the film and where the map was going to be placed.
Alongside doing this, Tom though it would be good start to think about credits. He researched into all the necessary names that would appear on our credits so that when it came to the time of doing our credits we had a list of titles that we need to use. I thought this was useful as when it came to the time when we needed to do our credits we would be very efficient and prepared.
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