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When using the camera I built on my skills. Before I started shooting I could only take basic shots however now I have finished shooting I can now use the pull focus feature on the cameras. I also learnt the importance of using a tripod in order to achieve a steady shot. As I do not own a mac I was not that confident about using it and the software. Now that I have used I am more confident dbout the programs it offers, but I found that the systems were lacking some more basic programs for example paint, or a equivilent. I used a PC to upload my pictures from my camera. The program to upload and edit the photos was easy to use which was helped by the fact that I already had experience using PCs helped. After using the program imovie to create our prelim task I had ironed out most of the problems I had experienced with using the proram, so when it came to editing our real task I found it considerably easier although I did have some technicle issues. I found that when I was assembling our animation peice the program had cut either side of our pictures which I had problems trying to retrieve because the program is not designed to work with animation but with video instead. All together I found that garage band was an easy program to use because I mainly used the pre-recorded sound tracks of 8 and 16 bars to create our peice of music however sometimes the different sound clips didn't tie together propably so I had to edit the pitch and notes slightly.

I used a microphone to recored the narration. The microphone I used was rather quite which ment that even when I turnt the voulme up on the sound clip it still wasn't loud enough. However the microphone I used overall worked to an ok standard, dispite problems with volume.

I used youtube to upload the prelim task, our presentations, our animatic and our film. By using this video site I found that it was easy to acess different films whenever I needed them even if I was not in school. Our final film took a long time to upload onto the site because it is a large file size however now it is up there it is easy for us to use whenever I need it.

Answer to evaluation question 5

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Answer to evaluation question 4

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Answer to evaluation question 3

What kind of institution might distribute your product and why?

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 A distributor's role is to release films to the public either in a cinema or for home viewing, e,g, dvd. A distributor may release to cinemas directly if they own the cinemas or through theatrical distributors. In the UK New Line Cinemas do not distribute their own films, instead they used work with Entertainment Film Distributors, in 2010 this independent distributing company was taken over by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros is a major company in the world of entertainment which proves that for smaller films to get the distribution they need they will need to approach the large companies. In the past the major companies did not support many small films but have recently widened their nets to have a greater spread across the markets.

Answer to evaluation question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

This is my main character Olivia. In our film she is wearing a pink jumper and jeans which represents the stereotypical teenage girl. Also this look is similar to what the character Kate wears in the film 'My sisters keeper'.

This casual style is representative of a stereotypical teenage girl because teenagers generally do not yet have jobs which require smart clothing nor are the young children who love to dress up. With the character I tried to connote this because I felt it was important as a way for our audience to connect with our character and therefore follow the characters story.

Another stereotype I tried to play on is that teenagers are generally stroppy and up to no good. Although this is not common in all teenagers I know this is a strong stereotype that I have decided to use to connect our audiences to our character. Also I believed that this will give older women something to connect with as they can relate with the experiences that they had when they were teenagers or the experiences they know other teenagers are having whether its their daughter, their sister or just a friend of theirs.

One character theory I purposely subverted was Laura Mulvey's theory that stated that film places women as subordinates who are inactive. I wanted to subvert this because I felt that the theory was dated and I wanted to feature a female in our film. Also women now have equal rights compared with men so I wanted our film to be up to date and current.

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My film opening

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Editing day 4

My fourth day of editing was our final day. I did not have to much to do as most of it was just recording the narration and applying it to our film. I experienced a few problems whilst recording our film because the microphone picked up alot of background noise. To overcome this I recorded after school when there isn't any background noise. Once I had applied the narration the film was finnished and I was able to export it as a complete opening.

Preview of our rough cut

Unfortunately when I had to show our film to our class our sound was not working so I could not show them our film so far with our sound track that I had previously created also I had not yet recorded our narration. This was the main criticisms from the class. Another criticism I received was that in one close up shot of our film our character looked as if she was smiling where I was trying to create a sad feeling. To correct this I swapped this clip for another one which I had previously filmed. Overall the class said that they liked the idea of the the film and would like to see the whole film if it was made.

Editing day 3

At the begining of the day I had the first minute of our sequence which is the falling pictures. I also had the last 30 seconds which is the sequence of shots that will occumpany our voice over. Today I finished editing the animation shots and placed them into a sequence. At first I struggled to get the right speed for the animation however after speeding up the pictures I found the speed which I wanted.

Editing day 2

On our second day of editing I worked on the begining minute of our film. This minute features photographs falling onto a surface. The photos are shown in a chronological order to tell the story of the girls life up to now. I found that the speed that I dropped the pictures was to slow so I had to go through and cut after every picture had fallen.
I also started to cut the pictures for the animation titles. I found this as a long process because every picture had to be edited and cut to the correct size. However I was not to accurate with our editing because I wanated the titles to feel as if a child had created them.

Editing day 1

On our first day of editing I uploaded our clips off of our camera on to the apple macs. Once I had done this I started to edit them into a sequence. After I put our clips into the sequence I noticed that their were two jump cuts which I had to remove. To solve this problem I used one of the close ups I had already shot for a different part of the sequence and inserted it into the space. However I could only do this for one of our jump cuts so in order to correct the other jump cut we had to shoot another close up of the characters face. This proved to be a problem because the new close up I shot had natural lighting where the rest of the sequence was shot in an artificial light. Se I had to go back and use a shot I had taken before.

Production day 3

On the third day I captured the scenes for the titles where we try to create the allusion that flowers are growing. I found this shot difficult as I am not very artistic however once I got the design I was happy with the process was rather simple. One problem I did find was that the card I was using reflected the light from above as I was just shooting it in my dining room. Also to prevent shadow I had to take the pictures on a slight angle this made part of the table show around the edges of the picture however I hope to correct this on photoshop. Overall I believe this day was successful as I got the shots I wanted and I can correct the problems.

Production day 2

In the second production day I shot the first scene which is the sequence of pictures falling onto each other. To ensure I didn't get the same problems as on the first day I collected an extra lamp to balance out the shadow of the camera. I conducted this shot in school as I had some spare time in the lessons. I found that shooting in a classroom limited us as I didn't have a great amount of space, nor time as I found that I had to be quiet whilst other people were filming which slowed our production as I had to wait to discuss our ideas. However overall I found that the day was successful and I got the shots I wanted.