Sunday, 27 April 2014

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

Q2 How does your media product represent particular social groups?


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

Q4 Who would be the audience for your media product?


Q5 How did you attract/ address your audience?



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


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

Question 7 - Media Evaluation


Our preliminary was to film a short conversation with 2 people, whilst including match-on-action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Final Product:
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Preliminary Task:
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Looking back at this, we have used the same techniques in the opening scene of our film. We used match-on-action during the editing stages of the production. I think match-on-action was one of the most important things to into place as, without that, the film would not flow well and would look unnatural. It also helps with the continuity of the film, as if the audience see something happen in one shot, they then need to see it carrying on in the next one.


Preliminary Task:                                                      
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Final Product:
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The 180-degree rule also adds to the realisticness of the film as it would seem odd to see what would have normally been behind the camera, so we thought this was also an important rule to put into action.

 Final Product:
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Preliminary Task:                                                      
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We have also used the shot/reverse shot for the majority of the conversations in our opening scene.This is a good way to keep the film flowing and make it more interesting to watch.


I think i have improved on all of the techniques that we have used. I got a lot better at editing the shots so that they would look more continuous and natural. We got used to sticking to the 180-degree rule, and also got better at doing different kinds of shots and how to execute them better. Our time consumption also reduced as we progressed throughout the filming.
I think we also got better at editing the sound of the shot/reverse shot conversations, as we didn't want the sound and the shot to change at the same time, we made sure some of points did not change at the same time, which gave it better continuity.