About me

Candidate name- Ricardo Da Silva

Candidate number- 1219

Evaluation Question

Follow this link to see my evaluations questions
http://www.wix.com/06rdasilva/evaluationquestions

Unforeseen Emissary opening sequence and feedback

How will attempt to answer my evaluation questions

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

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

 I will make a copy of  our final piece and add annotations during the video showing the various ways in which we have represented social groups.

3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Prezi

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

Voki- I will use an avatar I have created as a means of answering the question

5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Glogster poster- The poster will show the two phases taken from

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



Prepare a script ready with what I have learnt and write on Cards keywords that have relevance to what I'm saying.

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

Pixton- I will create a comic that will depict the journey from beginning to end with lessons learnt in between.

Rough Cut

This is our first draft of our opening sequence

Audience Reaction- Rough Cut on Prezi


Audience feedback- Class

Today as a class we took some time to get reaction from our fellow classmates. We sat around as a class and devised questions as group on what we wanted to find out. My group divided it up into Camerawork, Music, Titles, challenging conventions and other general points.

Camerawork

Good

• Good variety of shots that make the story easy to follow. Especially the low angle shot of the protagonist in the bathroom and the high angle shot of him walking on the road. 
• The shots for each scene were appropriate and allowed us to see the characters emotion. Also allowed us to spot any important features such as the blood on his hand.

Improvement

• Shake of camera before entering the building is unprofessional and distorts the audiences view of the film.
• Shot reverse shot is needed in order to make the exchange between the two characters more realistic. Also there needs to be a cut to another image while they are talking.

Music

Good

• Original and well constructed music. The fact that you did not add pre-made Imovie songs made it look authentic.
• Background sound in exchange of dialogue makes it hard to follow the conversation.

Improvement 

• It is important that your Non- diegetic sounds like the alarm clock sync in perfectly or it makes it look a tad 'tacky'

Titles

Good

• You added Imovie ones whihc are ok for now.

Improvement

• There were non and they need to be added. The title of the movie came up as a separate frame on a Imovie background and that is a shame as you have worked hard to make it look original.

Challenging conventions

Good

• Murder and blood make it look and feel like a thriller film.

Improvement

• Cuts are too slow

General points

Good

• You have grasped the general aspects of a thriller and it genuinely looks like a thriller

Improvement

• Scripting is bad, 'killer is on the loose'
• Acting needs to be sharper as the supporting character doesn't look a genuine character in the film.

Batman Dark Knight- Action Thriller

The Dark Knight is a superhero thriller directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Based on the DC Comics character Batman. Christian Bale plays the lead role of Bruce Wayne, with an additional cast of Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The film introduces the character of Harvey Dent, Gotham's newly elected District Attorney and the cohort of Bruce Wayne's childhood friend Rachel Dawes, who joins Batman and the police in combating the new rising threat of a criminal calling himself the "Joker".

Inspiration
The fact that this movie was amazing helps us form an opinion about it. Although i believe technically it is a masterpiece of what cinema can achieve with great talents. The use of non diegetic sound (See sound post)

Location shots

There are a few reasons why we have decided to use this first location in our filming. Firstly it is free and available meaning that we wouldn't have to rely on help or favours which can tend to be unreliable. Secondly my room is large enough to film and allows us to create the right feel to our film that is needed. While the actual building can be considered quite ugly and aesthetically unattractive, this does not matter as the exterior will not appear in the opening sequence. Furthermore filming at my house allows us to have a lot more freedom in moving things around and changing it to suit our needs. Furthermore we are not tied by time constraints and it is of easy access to everyone in the group.

12 Lambeth Towers Kennington Road, London, SE11 6NJ

 

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Our second location we have chosen is our school for very similar reasons to our first location. Our school is willing to help us with the any assistance needed in terms of classrooms and timings. Furthermore we wouldn’t be reliant on others to help us and we could easily communicate with our teachers to aid us in our accessibility to certain areas. We are trying to use that fact the school has a very corporate look and feel to it. In other words it doesn’t look like your typical school. This will allow us to give off the illusion that it’s a secret spy headquarters. In continuation we have an abundant amount of resources at our disposal from computer to chairs and so on.

Chelsea Academy Lots Road, London, SW10 0AB