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Evaluation question 4

Media eva 4

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Evaluation question 3

Audience feedback

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Evaluation question 2

A2 media evaluation question 2

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At the top is our media product with our two ancillary products below which are a radio trailer and an advertisement poster, as you can see I have kept our main product not linked to our ancillary products shown above, this is because I feel that the effectiveness of our ancillary products combined with our main product is only partially effective. This is because our product “Two Steps Behind” is a suspense film about someone who is feeling fear as they are being followed. I believe that our ancillary products only work well with the plot of our film, because they show some elements of suspense. For example in the radio trailer footsteps are played in the background, so it gives the audience a sense that someone is being followed by foot, also on the poster we deliberately used an over the shoulder shot, as most of our film uses these shots and emphasises someone being watched.

However our ancillary products are not effective with our main product, because when you look at our poster and hear our radio trailer portrays the film as a dark, scary and threatening; however our product is not like this as it is filmed in broad daylight. We discussed this in our “behind the scenes” post explaining that we do not have the effects and abilities major camera crews have, because we tried to film in the dark but it was difficult for us to see. As our film genre is suspense it does not necessarily mean that our film had to be dark, because the whole point of suspense is creating feelings of uncertainty and anxiety, which we did by creating a stalker film. However our ancillary products made it seem, that our film was a horror instead of suspense. This is because our poster is dark and menacing so when we asked people they thought our film would be shot in the dark and was surprised that it was filmed in the daytime. Our radio trailer also made people expect our film to be different to how it was portrayed as the background music is scarier then suspenseful.

Evaluation question 1

I do believe that my media product develop the codes and conventions of short films, as when I have researched short films the codes and conventions are:

Short films usually only have one or two main characters: My product only has two main actors through out the whole film, we kept this convention as we felt wanted to keep our film simple so our audience would be able to understand it.

Short films usually last 1-5 minutes: My media product 4 minutes 23 seconds, so we do not challenge, We found it a struggle to gain the extra seconds as we are so new and inexpereienced with creating our own short film.

Short films always have a twist in the end: My product shows that it meets the codes and conventions, as when our main actor opens the wallet he discovers that it is empty which the audience was not expecting, we did this as we wanted to leave the audience wanting to know more.

Not much dialogue in short films: We kept this convention, as when we were planning our film our teachers emphasised the importance of minimsing dialogue, as we are being assessed on our range of camera skills, not the actual plot in our film.

Voice overs are highly used in short films: My media product challenged this convention, as we wanted to make it seem urban that it why we used urban background music, however a voice over could have been used in our product.

Editing 3

We showed our teachers how far we have gotten on our film and them seemed quite impressed that we have almost finished and didnt let our disruptions hold us back. They said that they wanted us to make our film more longer and to try and experiment with the music, for example speeding it up or slowing it down. We were also told that our walking scenes when on for too long and we need to add more cuts to increase suspense.

So today we were just looking at our left over footage and seeing if we could put more time and suspense in our film. We used slow motion in our film to show that our main actor dropped his wallet previously in the film, this helped us gain some extra length.

We also asked some people to watch our film and they replied with the following:

Taneshia: It's really good, I love the ending, it was really funny.
Daniel: The music at the beginning makes it seem like the film is going to be humorous
Asher: The change of music midway works really well because it makes the film seem casual at first, but as the tension builds and the other music kicks in, it makes you wonder what is going to happen next creating suspense.

When I look at my film I agree that my film does have some comedic value to it, but as I've been researching some suspense films, I've seen that they also incorporate some comedy, typically towards the end when the twist is revealed, so I don't feel to bad that people may find my film as funny, here are some examples below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGA6UclVd

"@ReinspiredFilms Hahahahaha Hilarious... nice camera, definitley been looking into purchasing this camera... is it easy to operate?
OnyxCMB 6 months ago

ahahahahhaha i was super confused at first but this was really funny!! and the guy that stole the bag is hot!! (:
KelseaTee 6 months ago"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxGWvhqvWpk
'hahahaha that was legit :) your hilarious'

Progression from AS to A2

There is a major difference between the technology used from AS to A2, this year I have found the technology more complex and requires more planning then when I needed in AS, This is because in AS I did a music magazine so the main equipment needed was a digital camera and a school computer, which had Adobe indesign, also I was working individually so I did not need to have production meetings, audience research was very important.

However in A2 I am creating a short film this was more time consuming as I had to plan when I wanted to shoot, the weather played an important part of our film, because I had to film on multiple occasion where as with AS I only needed to take pictures which were done inside so the weather was not important.