Final Question Seven

Final Question Six

Final Question Five

Final Question Four

Final Question Three

Final Question Two

Final Question One

Full Evaluation Plan

Finally got around to doing the full plan of my evaluations!

 



Beginning Evaluation

I decided that for the first evaluation question, I would create a stop motion video assisted by voice over to explain.

 

After briefly planning my key ideas, I printed off pictures to use including the title of Drive and our film opening Dazed. Following that I had to take numerous photos of them, changing their position each time. I may need to re do some photos to make it appear less jumpy but also ensure my phone is in the same fixed position to take the photos. I will edit them all together, possibly change increase the speed and once I'm happy add ,my voiceover. Here are just a few of the photos I took to use:

 

Evaluation Questions

The questions that must be addressed in the evaluation include:

1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? 

2) How does your media product represent particular social groups? 

3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

4) Who would be the audience for your media product? 

5) How did you attract/address your audience? 

6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

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

 

Isobel Evaluation (Focus on Contrast)

Sound Poll Results

After asking numerous people to watch both versions of our glitch sequence, one with whispering and one without, we came to the decision to have no whispering. The absence of sound enhances the contrast between the party and being alone already established through the lighting. The partial awkwardness of the silence was what divided opinion, however after watching the opening in full, the silence proves effective. We asked numerous people to come and watch the full opening finalised without the whispering. Isobel, who had voted for whispering, said that in the full 2 minutes the only absence of sound being in the glitch actually made the whole sequence stand out and emphasise the use of lighting. Blog post about this evaluation in further detail to come soon. 

Class Feedback

After finishing the editing of our film opening, we decided to show it the class for feedback and possible aspects to improve that we may not have been aware of. Sharing our film opening with the class for the first time highlighted to us how opinions vary heavily from person to person regarding the editing. Sophie questioned the quite jumpy nature of the film, which we had intentionally placed emphasis on, whereas Alisha said that she liked the straight cuts between scenes and locations. Abbie questioned Helin being at the party then outside in the next sequence however the shots are not continuous. Similarly, the glitch sequence at the party is followed by a full body shot of the character running out the flat but there is in fact time between the two occasions . Within the party, my character is never tracked to the door or leaving so this signifies the time difference with the following shot. A key piece of feedback came from Yasmin regarding the quality of the follied sound onto the black screen, the only dialogue in the opening. The shot prior to the black screen is outside whereas the sound was in fact recorded inside which she said she could tell by the background noise or lack of. Will we re record the sound outside and re edit it in as we had previously overlooked sound quality. 

Overall, the ambiguity and suspense created in the opening appears to be effective and we also gained useful critiques to encorporate as they may have gone unnoticed otherwise. Hopefully we will be able to show the film to the class again closer to the deadline to fine tune any small details. 

Sound Poll

As mentioned in my Editing Sound blog post, we have been focusing on sound experimentation with regard to what suits the mood and intensity desired for the opening. In doing so we have struggled to decide upon the sound for the glitch within the scenes without with party. The absence of any sound, we believed, made it appear unfinished and reduced the level of intensity. However, the use of a whispering sound effect may not allow for a big enough contrast in the glitch similarly detract attention from the concept of distressed sound of mind. To resolve this, we edited two versions of the glitch to upload to YouTube, one with the whispering and on without out for people to give their opinion. Which ever version proves most popular, we will edit into the final cut of our opening.