Final Post

So here is my absolute final post! It's quite sad to think that this year of media is finally over, I've had so much fun with not just the people in my group but with all of the the girls in the rest of the class too! We've had some good laughs, many involving small insects, singing old chart toppers to get us through the editing stress or just sitting back and watching a film to help us relax. It's starting to feel like we're a large family, of sorts, and it's sad when I realise that not everyone will choose to take media again next year. I want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Miss Foster for all of her help and guidance throughout the year, without her offering all of her 'constructive critisism' I don't think we'd be where we are today! As a group we've gone for a very bumpy ride to say the least. However, I don't think I'd change Khadija or Eleanor for the world, even through all of our creative differences we've still managed to come out as close as we were at the beginning of the course, if not closer! 

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Question Three

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Question One

Deadlines

So this is what our deadline countdown looks like now, nobody panic! It's bank holiday Monday tomorrow and I'm going to the beach so fingers crossed it stays sunny. 

We all had a very eventful editing session on Wednesday when a wasp decided to join in all of the fun. Let's just say the majority of the class ran for their lives through the door! Me and Rachael decided to stay and try and waft the wasp back through the tiny media room windows and then we lost it... Everyone came back in and it was all well and good for about ten minutes. I then went home and on my way out heard a huge commotion, so I can only assume the wasp came back to exact its revenge.

Everybody was frantically still writing their evaluations or editing their evaluation videos during Friday lunchtime after our lesson. Hopefully everyone will be done in time! I still have four evaluation videos left to edit so hopefully I'll be okay if I stay after school on Tuesday!

Recording my evaluation videos

I am now recording my evaluation videos. It is becoming very stressful because I have very little charge left on the camera and the memory card has decided it wants to lock itself! I am finding it hard to remember what to say so I have resulted in sticky taping my answers to the tripod!

Evaluation

I have finally finished writing out my answers to the evaluation questions, it took a lot longer than I had anticipated and it involved a lot of trips running down to get feedback from my mum!

These are the questions we were asked:

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

• How does your film opening represent particular social groups?

• What kind of media institute might distribute your film opening and why?

• Who would be the audience for your film opening? 

• How did you attract/address your audience? 

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this film opening?

• Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to your final film opening? 

Final Film

Here is our finished product! As a group we've had many ups and downs over the past year. It was incredibly stressful trying to get our filming and editing schedules sorted but we still managed it, next year we'll spend time organizing everything much further in advance so that no excuses can be made! I am so very proud of what we have achieved and I wouldn't have wanted to go through it all with anyone other than Khadija and Eleanor so hopefully we'll all get onto the A2 course next year! 

Countdowns

So this is what the countdown now looks like, this both worries and excites me. It's hard to think that only a few months ago we were making a preliminary video of me running through the door screaming "I'm going to have a baby", we've all come so far! 

Final Film Outtakes

Luckily I had study time this afternoon so I spent my time watching through all of the footage to find all of the funny bits! It was really hard to choose what bits to add in because I think we had more shots of people laughing and joking than actual footage that we could use! There was a lesson going on while I was editing this so I was trying really hard not to laugh too loud :S. After watching this through a few times I'm starting to feel all nostalgic, I can't believe that this is the end! Now for the music videos next year, I can't wait! 

WE HAVE FINISHED!!!

Background sounds

These are the two different background sounds we have chosen to add to our film opening. Luckily we managed to find the perfect music! We have aquired permission from the owners of the sound (refer to screenshots)

Vlog

Vlog

Vlog

Outdoor scene draft

This is some of the footage from our outdoor scene, Khadija has edited it to save us some time. On Wednesday's lesson we just need to tweak the footage to make sure we're using the best parts of the filming session, cut the edited outdoor footage down so that we can put it with our indoor scene (40 seconds) so that it isn't too long! Oh, we also need to get the sound organised. I'm really pleased with this footage, even if I do look a bit gormless in most of it. It's such a relief to have finally managed to get it together. Commence stress of trying to film the actual title of the opening...