FINAL OPENING SEQUENCE

QUESTION 7

This series of images have been taken from the Preliminary Task which we completed at the beginning of the year, we had to include a shot reverse shot, match on action and the 180 degree rule. While doing this Preliminary Task I found that the camera work in some parts were shaky and unstable, this is because I hadn't used the equitement in a while, and had become unfamiliar with it, therefore this resulted in it being unstable which leads onto the editing. When editing the footage, we noticed the unstable shots, and also shots where people had fallen out of character, we then thought that to get rid of these things, we should just cut them out and make the shots shorter. We also used editing to include the shot reverse shot, cutting these shots made the shot reverse shot stand out more and look more effective. The 180 degree rule comes in when we are both sitting at the table, this helped me to further develop as I wasn't familiar with this term before this task. Overall, after producing this task I then took these skills and developed them further so that I could include them when producing my own opening sequence.

After developing my skills in these areas, I then went on to produce my opening sequence with the other members in my group. We all tried to find different ways in which these skills could be included to make our opening sequence a stronger piece and to present the skills we are capable of. My editing definatly improved since then, as the editing of my opening sequence was more complex, using different things like photoshop to develop my skills further in my opening sequence as successful as possible. Things like shot reverse shot, match on action and the 180 degree rule all came easily to me after doing the task, therefore making it easier and more simple for me when constructing my opening sequence. I stated that I had to use PhotoShop, this is because of the titles which we wanted to include, we thought using this would convey the different skills each member of our group are capable of because each member took it in turns to make sure we could all develop our skills in that particular side of things. Overall, all of these different programs and skills have been used during the development of our opening sequence making it something we have presented our different skills with.

Audience Responce - Vox Pop

Directors Commentary about Opening Sequence

Here is my Directors Commentary of me explaining how my opening sequence targets my audience of 16-20 year olds, with all the different conventions in which we have included.

Questionnaire Results

Questionnaire Results

QUESTION 5

QUESTION 5- HOW DID YOU ATTRACT THE AUDIENCE?

QUESTION 6.

QUESTION 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

In the process of planning then creating our opening sequence, we had several different ways of conveying our planning, although we had to make certain our posts were supervisual to the viewer, therefore we could not just post a page full of text, we had to include some sort of visual material. I thought that would be challenging, but as I got to know all the different softwares available to me I began to find it interesting as I didn't know about various different things previously. Various different ways I carried out my planning for my blog was using different services which were available to me from the internet. Firstly, there was scibd, this is a site which allows you to insert a word document into your blog, and this was beneficial for more informative posts which required less visual and more statistic material. Whereas other site such as, go animate which allows you to create your own characters and basically you instruct them what to say, this type of website was made for me to include more visual and its more amusing for the viewer of my blog. The type of information I would mainly include in this kind of service could only be short and snappy, as I couldn’t include too much text into it. Lastly, there was the option of using screen-o-matic, this is basically, where it records what you are doing on the screen, therefore it gives the viewer the chance to view what you are talking about, it’s not as dull to look at and it’s defiantly more visual.

While filming and doing the editing for my opening sequence, I developed further skills in using the cameras and macs as I studied Media previously. While filming I discovered that I could use and hold the cameras more firmly and didn't need much help with handling the camera, whereas before I wouldn't of felt comfortable with filming someone helping me. Whereas with the editing side of things, I developed more skills with using the macs. I advanced with using programs such as PhotoShop, iMovie and Final Cut. These programs I had to use several times in the making of my opening sequence to bring all the pieces together. We used PhotoShop and Final Cut to make our titles look like they were being typed into the actual scene, we chose this sort of effect so that it would lin to our theme of technology and people would realise in the first couple of shots what the storyline would be based upon. I was not aware of this program before now, and I believe that I have certainly developed my skills in this field, I wasn’t intending on using this program but we was advised to use this as it would bring the effect that we wanted to our opening sequence, making it reflect more than just having basic titles. Before inserting our opening sequence into Final Cut we had to edit and cut in iMovie, to make sure everything looked perfect and that everything on the editing side reflected what our film was based about.

I think learning and developing these different processes helped me to construct the final product as it wouldn't include several things which make it as successful. For example, if I didn't use PhotoShop then I wouldn't have the titles which we specifically wanted to give it more of a technology feel, this required for us to use PhotoShop. Also other things like without the different sites on the internet I wouldn't be able to present my work in a super visual way, therefore wouldn't show my understanding of the different techniques available.