Audience Feedback

Joseph Shared the video on facebook for us
and here s a few of the feedback given from the audience

Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?

We used tags including our names, schools names and etc; so if anyone searches our names or Gordonstoun they will stumble across our video.



We attracted most of audience by letting Joseph share the video on facebook rather than me; because its better if one person did it rather than both, so that we get a feed back

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

The perfect audience for our media would be townies because they are the biggest stereotypes which includes everyone

But as we have evolved so we have a slightly wider range of people who might be attracted to come and watch this

I mean out media film can be related to any audience type

It doesn't have a perfect audience memeber

Q3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

I can’t really relate m film character from another movie because there hasn’t been a movie similar to this yet. The closest movie character; from a movie that has been released, is probably Hancock. His personality might not the anything like this character, but he is a homeless type of guy with powers.

Another character that my character can relate is to is probably the new Clark Kent from the upcoming “Man of Steel”. I obviously haven’t seen the movie yet; but from articles and the trailer is meant to be lonely and stays away from a big society; which is a similar personality to my character.

I wouldn’t stereotype my character as anything yet, because at the moment he is just a loner. And usually you expect loners to be emo and goth characters with long hair; but this character is different.

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

The Title:  The title of our film comes in at around 0:56. We placed it here because this was this makes it looks more like a film intro, because the title is at around the start of the video. We originally had it at the end of the video in the rough-cut, but we decided it looked too much like a movie trailer rather than a film intro.

I think our movie title looks quite professional and could be used in a “real media” product.

Setting: You can get a good view of the setting from the 4^th shot up to the 9^th shot. The setting is around a very rural empty area near the coast. In the 5^th shot, there is another earth in the sky; this is because our film is set in an alternate reality.

The setting usually can be compared to a real media product, because a real media product could be filmed anywhere.

Costumes: The costumes we used are just clothes. We used colours that blend in with our background and setting; for example, grey, brown and etc. The 6^th shot up to the 9^th shot gives you a good idea of the costumes used.

The costumes is the same issue as the setting because, you can use about anything in a real media product.

Camera Work and Editing: We did most of our camera work hand held because we wanted to do a tracking movement. We also used a tripod in quite a few landscape shots. I think all of these shots looks quite excellent once put together.

In all of the images you can see all of them have been edited quite well. For example all of these have 5% Gaussian blur and a lot of changes to the saturation, brightness and contrast. We also used three way colour corrector to give this film intro an attractive looks. For video transition we used a lot of film dissolves and cross dissolves to give the transition more depth. We also used dip to black and dip to black. Before the last clip there was a scene and it used a lot of fast cuts to change the sequence quickly.

Font and Style: The font we use for our “EdgeClub” title is called “Liffey Script SF”. We actually found it quite hard to find an ideal font for our tittle; and accidently we found this font and it worked perfectly. The font we used in image 2 and all of the casting is called “Adobe Arabic”. I think simple font work well to make the point clear; more example the director and etc. We also used the same font for our movie title “IMMANENCE”.  

Story/Narrative: Honestly the story isn’t that clear usually in the intro of the movie. From all the images you can work out that the protagonist is actually all by himself; quite alone and in image 5 you can see another Planet (New Earth), which shows that this film has a ideas of science fiction and fantasy involved in it.

Genre/Suggestions: The basic genres are meant to be a drama, independent, sci-fi and fantasy. As I said before in the narrative image 5 shows another planet which has hints of sci-fi and fantasy.

Characters: You are able to first see the back of the character in image 6. You can’t exactly make out the character until image 7. As you can see he looks alone and you can also see that he is pondering. Joseph and I felt the character should have special abilities and is sent stays away from society because of it. He is a loner and that is the one word that sums it up. He dresses quite up in a casual state; but does have a few effects in his appearances that makes in looks a bit homeless, for example the beard.

Special Effects: We quite a bit of effects including colour correction. We have used a lot of special effects in our movie title and our “EdgeClub” title; we have used curves, optical flares, colour corrections, clouds and a whole lot of other effects using “Adobe After effects”. We were going to add a flying scene with after effects and green scene, but we felt a movie intro wouldn’t have it that soon throughout the film. I think the flying scene looked really realistic and we used keylight to give the best green screen effects possible. Another part we used special effects was in image 5; where we added another planet onto our sky. We just used a picture and blended it onto the sky; and tracked it using a null object so it would stay in place as the camera panned along. We also used a stretched optical flare for effect.

As you can see special effects did play an important role in our intro.