Final Film

Evaluation

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)

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 (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Final Draft

Film Fonts

When planning our film we realised that we needed a sortof scary/mysterious font for our credits. This would be our production name And names of group members and what they did. For the fonts we lookded on the sony vegas pro 8()default fonts but we didn't feelstrongly with any of these So we looked online for a free font download website and found www.dafont.com a free font download website with a large variety of fonts. We downloaded 4 or 5 fonts for our film but in the end only chose two; 'BASE 02' and 'El & Font Gothic'. BASE 02 which is a slight army styled font which also had a nice distorted effect that we were looking for, and at the same time it still stands out well whcih is fairly easy to read. El & Font Gothic is a fairly dark font which fits in very well with the horror genre as it has a distinctive gothy theme and we thought it worked quite well for our film title.

Editing

For our films that we have done throughout our Stages in our group we have used the editing of Vegas Pro 8 (). This is a very good software for editing and it made light work for our film. Altough i wasn't familiar with the the software myself. Mikey was very good with it. He was able to teach me and the other members of our group to us the software and therefore we came up with what i think a well edited film. The video effects and media that was avalibe for the software helped a lot with as when the making of our film. We didn't have to add in the effects ourselves but we could chose from the range available with the software.

Film Sound Track/Effets

When we first started to look for the Sound track for our film we thought that it would be easy and that we wouldn't spend much time doing it. We soon came to realise that it was going to be harder then we first thought. Firstly we tryed looking on royalty free websites to see if we could find the right music to match our film. We then later realised that this wasn'tgoing to give the right effects that we needed. so We did research on "youtube" looking at past media projects to find if anyone had found relevent music to what we wanted. We luckily came across a short clip which had the music we wanted. We then emailed him asking permision to use the music that they had used.Fortunatly for us they did reply with the permision and the link to the site with the music. If we were to refil again i would suggest that we found the music first before we filmed so that we could match the music to scenes in the film. For instance getting the right tension when there is a thrilling scene.

Below is the video we found with the music in.

This is the video we got the camera sound from again we looked on youtube to find the sound and again contacted the creator to get premission to use it in our film.

Ident

For our ident we had originally tryed to have footage of a TV in a a dark and mysterious room. we tryed this by putting one of Mikeys TV's in his celler. This looked when we came to edit but then realised that it wouldn't be possible to edit our brand on the TV, "HELM Productions". so unfortunatly we couldn't do this idea. So what we did is got a picture of a TV then edited the Fuzz on to the screen to creat a TV picture with no signal. For a back ground we used a blank black colour to add contrast. In the insprational Ident the music was almost perfect for what we wanted our Ident to sound like when the TV is turnedon. So we emailed the Person who had done the Ident then and asked for permision to use the sound. Which they gave us. This saved uslotsof timethat could of been wasted finding a copy right free sound.