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To the examiner

Welcome to my blog. Below is my work for media As. I hope you enjoy!

Opening sequence final

Opening sequence final piece.

Below is my final opening sequence video. I hope you enjoy!

Questions 7

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

To answer this question I used prezzi  as it is a creative and interactive way to present my answer.


http://prezi.com/7arqjboiuica/present/?auth_key=0avjxlh&follow=8toohpsbijpq&kw=present-7arqjboiuica&rc=ref-135134785

Question 6

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

I have learnt a lot over the period of time taken to produce the opening sequence.


I have learnt how to use a camera stand. I used this especially when we where filming our preliminary task. It was very useful, however during the filming of our opening sequence, I didn't use a stand very often due to the fact that we wanted a handheld camera effect with its unsteady nature.
How to accomplish certain shots was another thing I learned. I found how to tilt or where to hold the camera for certain shots. this was a learning process that meant that we had to film the same piece a few time from different places or angles to enable a wide variety to choose from when we where editing.


Editing together the piece was one of the harder things that I learnt. It took patience to select and cut down each individual take so that the sequence as a whole flowed well. I had to ask quite a few questions in order to accomplish certain things, such as the treatments to make takes seem older than they where. I also manipulated to lighting and contrast to create the effect wanted.


Learning how to do sound and how to build up a track was simple once we where told how. I enjoyed layering the sounds to sound realistic but also be able to put our own interpretations on the piece.


I enjoyed learning how to use the different pieces of technology and expand my knowledge of media processes.

Question 5

How did you attract/ address your audience?

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Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

for this question I created a mood board of sorts to demonstrate the type of audience reactions that we aimed for, as well as the ages of the audience. the mood board is on the link below.

 http://www.gomoodboard.com/boards/n_pR2Wra/share

Question 3

What kind of media institution might describe yout media product and why?

Media Question 3

Question 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our media production represents those who enjoy horror and those with abnormalities. It also presents old ideals about people with differences to the average person. We used stereotypes to our advantage by using costumes and make-up
the ring master costume was stereotypical so that the audience are easily able to relate to who he is.
 we used makeup to change our appearances so that it looked like we had abnormalities.

Question 1

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

Evaluation questions

Questions

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
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, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Outtakes

These are our outtakes that where made whilst filming our opening sequence.

Run away freak

Main Character

Our 'main' character of the opning sequence is Ben who plays a run away freak. As this is the opening seunce we wanted to include a slight bit of the story. This involved us filming ben running away from the ring master, who is the villan in our plot. The picture below is of ben dressed as the runaway 'freak'.

Opening sequence -make up

Opening sequence make-up 

For our opening sequnce we needed to do make up in order for our characters to have individual identities. As our opening sequence involves 'carnaval freaks' we had to ensure that the make up we did was abnormal and an usual. These costumes and make-up where decided before we bagan filming in the pre production stage.

This is the final product of Seskas make-up 

This is near the begining of my make-up for my character

This is the end product including costume

This was near the begining of Charlies make-up

This was Charlie in full make up and costume.

 These make-up and costumes ideas helped to creat the atmosphere we wanted in our opening sequence.

Opening Titles

One of the first things you see in a movie are it's tittle. Though there are many other aspects aside from titles that help to show the genre of the film such as the colour treatment, the tittles are ofthen similar in style to those of other genres making it a distinctive eature of any film. To show this i will be looking at action adventure genres i.e marvel movies.

Story Board

Story board

In pre production we developed a costume idea sheet that we have mostly stuck to although we had to make a few changes. Theses are the designs we all agreed on. we also made a story board, although you canot see it very well. I belive we stuck to these costume ideas fairly well.

This was the story board ide for the ring master. We changed it slight but kept the main idea.

This was the costume idea was for the run away freak.

This costume idea was for the skelital freak, similar to a skeliton costume.

This was the costume idea I used, it was a atype of wild almost anamalistic freak.

This freak costume was based around a snake.

This was one of the first story boards that we made.

Abnormalities mood board

This mood board shows the rough lines we will be working on to help us produce our "freaks"