Q5. How did you attract/address your audience?

Feed back received from people out of out target audience and students vied after the screening.

                                         

                                          

                                          

Script

Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

                                                        Link to Tyrone's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tyroneismyname

Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Ident for Seventeen Productions

These are the idents for our made up independent production and distribution companies.

Ident for Deadline Entertainment

We decided to make our compaines independant because of our inspired companies that we got form our research and planning.

Q2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Q1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

              

Here are some examples of the inspiration we got for our titles in our title sequence and comparing them to the actual titles themselves.

Inspiration;

Our Titles;

Deception Promo

Here is a link to our website: http://candia2set52014.wix.com/deceptionfilm

The title sequence is soon to be added on to the website. Our website gives explanation to what the deception film is about, who we are (Seventeen Productions) so viewers can learn more about us, and also contact information if there arew anymore enquiries or information needed.

Evaluation of Planning & Production

The planning and production of deception was a long journey of mistakes and learning. Many skills that I never had before was learnt through the process of the deception planning and production. During the planning stage, I had to use my research skills to investigate and get inspiration for what title sequence we would like to carry out and to what target audience. This involved watching a variety of title sequences and teen dramas ranging from urban, gang youth dramas, to high school, love-plot dramas. After that process when we figured out what type of title sequence we wanted to carry out (which was youth drama), we took to the storyboard and started to create some ideas, drawing illustrations and captions so we can figure out where we wanted to go with our title sequence. There were many ideas and topics brought up as ideas we wanted to portray for our title sequence, such as gang violence, drug abuse and rape. However, we felt these topics were a little too sensitive for our 16+ target audience so we chose the topic of internet safety, involving a murder of a young girl when meeting up with a stranger from online. Many storyboards were conducted and we had many drafts and changes in our storyboard and production schedule due to problems such as bad weather conditions for filming and lack of equipment for filming. During the editing process it was difficult but rewarding as even though we all had different ideas on how we wanted to construct the sequences together and the effects we wanted to add, the end product was very satisfying and would hope portrays the hard work and effort that was put into the entire process. If I were to make another film project, the main thing I would improve on is the planning process. The planning process is where everything starts to come together and hard work has to be put in, so if it is messy and out of control it is extremely hard to come out with a quality piece of filming in the end. During the process I learnt how to use programmes such as Handbrake, Final Cut Pro and Garageband. These were all fully utilised in the production of our film project and helped devlope my skills in film making.

Director, Soundtrack and Editing Interviews

feed back of deception final rough cut

Michella's feedback on the rough cut
Michella wasn't asking for sound as it would help set the scene
The camera at the beginning was shaky
Why was there fade in and out?  jump cuts
Flashback not clear
Fix gaps and renders
Flashback of gravestone and then start in past.

Feedback Evidence

Evidence of Editing/Changes to be made

changes to scenes

Our Initial idea was to use a house however owing to everyone in the group having a free house or room we were forced to change the scene to a cafe

However we found out that the scene couldn't be used because there's talking and title sequences ideally don't have speech in them.

 

So we had to change our ideas to the main character messaging the supposed guy she's meant to be meeting  

Film Credits

Production Company - Seventeen productions
Directed By - Dilem
Camera By - Malachi, Dilem & Zahra
Distributed By - Deadline Entertainment
Edited By - Group 17
Soundtrack/Music - Malachi
Soundtrack/Music Co. - Ernestina
Cast - Zahra as Sarah
Ernestina as Mother
Malachi as Father

On the titles, because the credits will be on the gravestones, we want to make the background of the titles dark and dull by using sepia and discreet colours with echo effects to create an eerie and fatal atmosphere.

Target audience

As it's a youth drama it's only right for the target audience to be the same age group as me.
The core audience will be my age group of 16+ this is because it'll be easier for them to identify with the storyline. It makes it easier for titles to convey the storyline as i know what my age group would like to see.
The wider audience would be 13-15 as the storyline also promotes internet safety and around that age more teens are using social media and are taught awareness of the internet and cyber bullying.

Evaluation of Draft

Evaluation of the draft edit;

The draft edit overall didn't come out how we originally planned. There were many scenes that had to be edited, some that even had to be completely deleted and taken out from the title sequence. One main point that needs to be targeted in this evaluation is the transitioning. The transitions were really rough and didn't flow very well, they left many blank spots and made the flow of the title sequence feel really discontinued, as if there was something missing. This is a good improvement point for us as in the final draft we'll be able to work on this by adding transitions and specifically ones that fit with the feel of the title sequence so it flows well.

Production Diary

Day 1 - We shot the scenes in the park where Zarah (playing Sarah) was shot in multiple camera angles walking down the park trail. She then views her phone and we get close ups of her concentrating on the conversation. Whilst she's viewing her phone, her murderer is secretly watching her behind the tree and this is shown from behind him to add a mysterious feeling to the title sequence.

Day 2 - The graveyard scene was shot. We travelled by bus down to south London, where we visited Abney Park's cemetery and we shot scenes of the mother and father walking down the muddy pathway in despair. They are going to visit their dead daughter Sarah (Zahra). I played the father and the weather conditions affected the recording a lot that day as it was very cold so it was hard to act and record the scenes so the footage also came out shaky.

How I used creative commons to add soundtrack

 The site we used was creative commons.

Firstly: Type creative commons into your search bar and  the page you searched should look like this 

                                          

Secondly: Click onto your preferred site to get your soundtrack from in our case it was sound cloud

Thirdly: Type in any song you want to find a remix of in our case it was frank ocean 

Finally: Search a song of your choice and play any remixed version 

The reason for this is because we aren't allowed to use any song due to copyright laws so we find ways around it by using remixed versions that have no copyright laws.

Putting together our draft piece

On Wednesday 25th February we created our draft copy of Deceptions' title sequence. We split our group in two and took on different tasks. Myself (Zahra) and Dilem chose the clips we wanted to use and put it in the right sequence according to our storyboard. This included cropping the clips in appropriate places in order to create match cuts, we also had to use steadycam and blur effects to add to the atmosphere and feel of the film, this added tension. Malachi and Ernestina worked on the soundtrack for our film this included tense music for the graveyard scene, and music for the rest of the sequence. We then had to put the film and the music together, and ensure they were in time with each other. Once we had done this we had to shrink the file through Handbreak in order to post our sequence on blogger.