Screenshots

Not very good quality, but I just took some stills from the YouTube version. Feel free to use them (and post your own).

I'll be deleting this post on Monday, so take them now.

FEEDBACK SUM UP

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Other Interesting Information
Rating
5 people said 7/10
5 people said 8/10
9 people said 9/10
1 person said 10/10

• Improvements
  Suggestions for improvements were very consistent. The one reoccuring suggestion most people made, was to sort out the noise on the camera! Of course, we know, sadly there is nothing we can do about that


• Favourite bits
  People loved the font for the credits and the foley sounds layered with the music. Many people commented that they thought the plot was original and interesting

Screening

We had our screening yesterday lunchtime and we had a really good turnout, which was great as this means more feedback to use in our evaluations. We gave a questionnaire to everyone who came and Bisma will soon put up our findings on the blog. Our feedback seemed to be generally quite positive. Our audience was made up of 16 and 17 year olds of both genders, so we have received feedback from our target audience. More importantly we have got feedback from non-media students who will have looked at our sequence from a non-media perspective. They will not be focusing on continuity editing for instance, but will watch it as they usually would watch and enjoy a film. - Bhavika

AUDIENCE FEEDBACK SESSION

I'm pleased to say that our audience feedback session on Friday was a great success with a huge turnout! The end is nigh, with our evaluations nearly complete and our feedback piled up.

Guys, I'm just about to post a very thorough and informative sum-up of the feedback on Friday seeing as i have the questionnaires here...so keep your eyes peeled and look forward to a very interesting post :P

-Bisma

Screening Promotion..

We decided as a group today on Friday for definite as the day we hold our screening [we also finished adding in the new credits], so I thought it would be a good idea to start promoting it as soon as possible to give people enough notice, so we can get as many people as we can for some super-duper feedback :]

I set up a group on Facebook, the current favourite social networking website - I literally just did it and we already have a few members! Here's a link to the group [I'm not 100% sure it'll work so I may have to change the link later].

- posted by Mia

Screenings

Once we add in our new credits tomorrow, we're officially (although we've said it before and been wrong..) finished on the production side of things! Then we just have to screen our opening, both in school and at home for other feedback, which'll help us with our evaluations. Wooh :)
I think Facebook advertising is a PLAN and a HALF, so we'll set up a group once we're all certain & decided on the date, which'll be some time this week.
- posted by Mia

Finished!

We have now finished all our editing! I have to say it’s been lots of fun and our group in particular has learnt a lot! I will just add/emphasize a few things to the list that Bisma made and Mia added to. - We definately have learnt that it is SO important to keep filming after the action you want for each take as this makes continuity editing so much easier. - The storyboard is REALLY important and really does save time when on the actual shoot as you know exactly what needs to be done. - Lighting was a big issue. Perhaps could have been avoided if we had planned for it in advance. Or we could taken some shots in a variety of different light intensities on our first re-shoot so as to avoid another re-shoot. Now it’s time for one last regretful goodbye to my amazing group. What good times! I will miss all our shoots and the much time spent editing! -Bhavika xx

FINISHED - reflections

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can u believe it guys? The practical is all over! The many, many, many shoots. The happiness, the tears, the revolting amount of outtakes! WOW...
Well done guys, I'm pleased that we managed to do EVERYTHING on our to do list, and all the final changes that Miss Blackborow suggested.
I think now it's high time we start thinking about question 2 of the evaluation, and tomorrow's lesson should get the ball rolling quite nicely! Also, i have compiled a list of things to reflect upon, irreversible mistakes and vital lessons, in our evaluation. Here it is!
-Sound! We needed diegetic sound on every shot, which didn't seem important when we were filming but turned out to be QUITE necessary!
-In a few places continuity was tricky (RE: stairs sequence) because we needed to have started filming a bit before the footage we needed.
-Keeping lighting consistant! We managed to deal with this pretty well by editing, but definitely something we faced a problem over!
-Sound! (again)...I know this wasn't our fault, but the whirring of the camera was quite difficult to edit down. Still quite nicely dealt with.
Overall a great success forty4 productions.
I'm so proud of us!

EVALUATION..please respond! =]

Hi everyone!
Okay, so i was thinking about our lesson today on EVAULUATING our final piece. So, i thought we could start a discussion. Lets begin with Question 1, which asks how we challenged, or conformed to conventions. So, I thought we could brainstorm some ideas and then publish a collective posts of all our gathered ideas. What do you guys think?

I think the most obvious convention, which we BRAVELY challenged, was the fact that we used a female antagonist. I think its pretty evident that with the majority of Slasher horror films, which we gain our inspiration from, its the 'surviving girl' who is the main female character. (For example, Scream.) It is almost always only the victims, which are young pretty girls.
However, i felt that we did not have any problems when portraying Mia as a murderer with our 2 minute time restriction. I think challenging this particular convention will work to our advantage, as it will make our product different and more uncomfortable for the audience.

So, what do you guys think? Maybe you should respond with your ideas, and maybe anything you want to add or change to what i have said.

Bisma