FINAL A2 PRODUCTION

A2 Trailer Procure from Megan Hayhurst on Vimeo.

EVALUATION: Question 4: Who are your audience & what have you learned from your audience feedback?

Audience from hassankhan95

EVALUATION: Question 3: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

EVALUATION: Question 2: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? What particular camerawork techniques & editing tools were used and to what effect?

EVALUATION: Directors Commentary: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? What editing decisions were made? How did they inform the production?

ANCILLARY TASKS: Procure Website

http://mlh12media2011.wix.com/procurethefilmpproductions

ANCILLARY TASKS: Poster

This is our poster made by Louis Pring in Adobe Photoshop.

SHOOTING: Rough Cut Edit Analysis

After receiving feedback about our rough cut edit, we made some changes to our production. We were also told what the best aspects of it were.

The main criticism was the fact that the story wasn’t clear. In order to make it clear, we will either add a voice over or dialogue. However, this may be difficult, as we have both a recording of a wedding ceremony and music with lyrics in our production. There was also criticism in regards to the sound used. We will change the levels of the vows and the music, making the former louder, as it is of more use to the viewer in terms of creating meaning. We will also attempt to edit ‘Angels’ down so that only parts of the tracks without vocals are used. Failing this, I will opt for our initial idea of recording the guitar and bass parts myself in Cubase. However, we were told that lyrics did work with the institutional information, whereas for the rest of the production it is just confusing when combined with the wedding recording.

Our shots appear to be well composed and there is a variety of them, flowing smoothly due to good editing. We were told that this, along with the use of the Green Pearl filter in and saturation adjustments in Magic Bullet, made it look more professional. As well as our use of post-production special effects, we were also complimented on those created in-camera, namely the car bailout scene. However, the editing pace needs to slowly increase in order to create tension, diegetic noise needs to be added to the aforementioned scene, the earlier car scenes need lightening and more transitions need to be used.

SHOOTING: Rough Cut 1

SHOOTING: First Shoot- Saturday 3rd November

In order to film shoot some of the earlier shots of Tom waking up we thought it would be more realistic if we filmed Adam in his own house and room as it would be more believable. Therefore on our first shoot we all met at Adam's house in Burnley and shot 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 13, 15, 16 including some of the difficult shots of Adam in the shower which proved difficult to frame and film working in such a tight space as a shower. The shoot proved very successful and we are optimistic to see how the shots are going to appear on the computer and we are keen to start editing them soon.

PLANNING: Preparation for driving shots

We used this video as a guide to help us to complete the shot which required us to film a drive-by scene. This is the scene where Adam has to jump out of the car as it is driving past at a fast pace.