Final Cut

This is our final cut. We did three rough cuts and got lots of feedback before getting to this point of a final cut. 

Evaluation Question 1: Forms and Conventions

This is my vodcast answer to question 1 : "In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?"

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Evaluation Question 2: Representations

This is my vodcast answer to question 2: "How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

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Evaluation Question 3: Distribution

My Prezi answer to question 3: ''What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?"

Evaluation Question 4: Audience

This is my vodcast answer for question 3: "Who would be the audience for your media product?"

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Evaluation Question 5: Attracting/Addressing Audience

My answer to question 6 is added as annotations over my final cut. Please make sure you have annotations on on YouTube.

"How did you attract/address your audience?"

Evaluation Question 6: Technologies

My vodcast answer to question 6: "What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?"

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Evaluation Question 7: Prelim

This is my video answer to Evaluation Question 7: "Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?"

Feedback from Rough Cut #3

We asked three/four classes to look at our video and gave them this sheet to write down what they thought of the video (Rough Cut #3). We got lots and lots of feedback which we have summed up in this video.

Film Opening Rough Cut #3

TBC

We have edited the second rough cut and this is the third rough cut.

LIAR: Rough Cut #2

TBC

This is the second rough cut for our movie opening Liar. We have added music to the first part to get a feel for what the music will be like. We have re-edited some sections to make it a faster cut. We have added sound effects to the end when the scream queen runs into the CCTV footage and it is an audio bridge to the main title. 

We still need to add more music on to the second part of the movie opening. We also need to re-think the stabbing section as it looks fake and loses verisimilitude. We had feedback from a class of about 30 students and many of them mentioned the stabbing scenes among other things. (You can see the full feedback post here). We also need to continue editing it and cutting sections still to make it faster and a cleaner cut. 

Rough cut #2: 

Feedback from Rough Cut #1

We asked two classes for feedback on our rough cut. One wrote down on post-it notes what they thought, and we filmed the other class speaking about it. We summed up the post-it notes feedback in a video linked below. We also posted the full video of the class video feedback too.

Summary of notes feedback:

Class video feedback: 

Practice Shoot

Me and Sarah have shot and edited our practice shoot. We did a practice shoot to test angles of the camera and as a practice for the real shoot, so we can see where we can improve on the real shoot. This helps us make a better film and link better to our genre.

Here is the practice shoot:

Intertexuality vodcast for our movie opening

This is our vodcast talking about intertexuality in our movie opening and how it links to other movies (such as Scream) that also involve intertextuality heavily in their movies.

Intertextuality: the relationship between two texts.

SDB: Location and Props

Before...

... and After

We chose the bedroom location in our film opening, based on the main character - the blonde scream queen. We needed the bedroom to emphasise the stereotype behind her character, by using a pink, teenage, girly room. The room is almost entirely pink, however the bedding was not pink before so we changed it to a pink duvet. The room was also quite cluttered with school work before hand, so we tidied these away as they would not of worked well in the mis-en-scene, as it did not fit with the representation of our character- as she is not perceived as studious, but a more "dumb blonde" character.

SDB: Actors

For our film opening there is five main characters; a girl running in the opening scene (film within a film), the murderer also for the opening scene, the scream queen for the actual film, the scream queen's boyfriend, and the masked killer. 

The outfit used for the second scream queen

Firstly for the girl running in the opening we needed a blonde scream queen, who was willing to wear figure-hugging clothing, heavy makeup and would run through a field. We actually chose Poppy Potts to do this, the producer of our film opening, as she fits the scream queen representation and was willing to act. Poppy also knew of a good location to film this opening scene so this was very helpful. For the murderer who chases her, we needed a fairly tall, lanky actor (preferably a boy) to represent an initimidating character, even when masked. Poppy decided to use her brother for this, as he fit the representation and was accessible easily, and is also knowledgable with filming, so was able to help film the footage aswell.

 

For the actual film, we needed a blonde scream queen who was also willing to wear heavy makeup, revealing clothing - and also needed to be confident with acting skills, as this role includes a lot of speech. Poppy and I wrote down a list of possible girls to fit this role, we had a choice from about 5 people. We then asked the first girl on the list, Kathy Allen, and fortunately she was willing to participate. We tried out a practice shoot with Kathy and her acting was a success.  Poppy and I both agreed we would not need to ask any of the other girls.

  We used the same technique when choosing the actor to play the scream queen's boyfriend, and fortunately again, the first boy we asked was willing to take part, Alex Osborne. For this character there wasn't too many specifics required for representation as the actor is not shown up close, but only on CCTV. We just made sure Alex was wearing suitable 'teenage' clothing, such as a t-shirt, jeans and trainers. This was easily acssesible as Alex himself owned many of these clothes.

Genre Research: Scream

Scream  
Wes Craven, 1996
Dimension Films, Woods Entertainment (prod.)

Budget: $15M; US box office: $162M

Rottentomatoes.com 80%; IMDB 7.2.



Synopsis: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the "Rules" of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.


The film links very closely to ours, in the plot, and in other ways too. Here are the ways in which our film links to Scream:

The film is post-modern, and so is ours, it has a film within a film.

It has lots of strong intertextual links to other movies, such as Halloween and Terror Train.

In the opening, a scream queen and her jock boyfriend gets killed off by a murderer with a mask on.

The murderer contacts the scream queen via a phone with a distorted voice.

Narrative vodcast for our film opening

This is our narrative vodcast, discussing the narrative (storyline) of our movie opening, characters in our story and how they are represented, and clothing and props choices.

Mise-en-scene vodcast for our movie opening

This is our vodcast talking about mise-en-scene in our movie, and what we would be doing to make it appropriate for our movie, and locations.

Mise-en-scene: the arrangement of scenery and props.

Treatment for movie opening