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

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

What have you learnt about technologies from the from zahraamin

Evaluation 5. How did you attract/address your audience?

We interviewed members of our audience about our title sequence and this is the feedback we received. This was after a cinema screening aimed at students only.

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

Evaluation 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product? Why?

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

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

Promoting Deception

I have created a website for Deception: http://candia2set52014.wix.com/deceptionfilm

This explains what our film is about and explains a bit about 'Seventeen Productions.' It also allows viewers to be in contact with us to give us feedback and ask questions.
I will soon upload our title sequence on here too.

Evaluation of Planning and production of Deception

Throughout the planning and making of Deception I feel I have learnt and used many skills.

Throughout the planning stage I had to use research skills to decide what kind of title sequence I wanted to create. This involved looking at numerous title sequences of teen movies and making note of conventions. We then had to come up with a plot for our film and draw out our storyboard and plan what and when we were going to film. This involved carrying out risk assessments etc. 

In production we came across problems such as unexpected weather conditions and realization that it was just not feasible to film some shots or go to some locations as they were to far out or sufficient equipment was not available. This meant many changes to our storyboard and production schedule.

In editing it got very frustrating as some of the ideas in the group conflicted and these needed to be settled, the editing were also thrown off a little when audience feedback said out original sequence was not clear so changes had to made to make the sequence more seamless and clear.

If I were to do this project again, I went invest more time planning, planning is essential in a project like this and things run a lot smoother when sufficient planning has been put in. I would also allow more time to edit and make sure my story line and shots are more simplistic and clear,

During this project i learned to use Handbrake, Photoshop, Garageband and Final cut pro. We used final cut pro to edit our sequence and garageband to produce our music; We used photoshop and Motion to produce titles for our sequence. Handbreak was used to shrink files such as our draft sequence so it could be posted on blogger. We also used websites such as Scribd to post power points e.g. The Deception Pitch

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.

Evaluation of rough cut

Upon completing the rough cut copy of Deception, we noticed many things we want to change and add to our title sequence. This included the addition of transitions in between our clips, this is because the transition between clips was very jumpy and it did not seem seamless, this meant our title sequence did not appear as professional, therefore I think adding cross dissolves and other transitions would improve our title sequence.
We also have to extend our music throughout our sequence. Our music cut out about half way through the clip so we need to sync our music to our clips properly and extend the music to the end.
We watched another groups video who were also doing a flashback, they showed this by playing their clip and rewinding it in fast motion. We may take up this idea and use it in our own to establish what is past and present more clearly.
We also obviously need to add the titles and credits to our clip, we think we will put these on the gravestones to add to the effect and make the titles more inetresting.
We are also considering putting filters on different scenes to add to the effect and add to the atmosphere.
Other than this we feel our title sequences is clear and makes sense.

Further inspiration for title sequences

I was looking on www.artofthetitle.com for further inspiration for our title sequence and how we can lay out our titles after seeing our completed draft. I saw this gravestone/monument with the name of the executive producer on it in the title sequence for Six Feet Under (2001) As we have a graveyard scene as our first scene I feel this is appropriate and would suit our title sequence. I think we should do something similar to this for our sequence as we have similar/appropriate shots to do this.

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.

Complete rough cut 1

A rough cut of the first scene was done and blogged then the second scene was edited and then the third. Afterwards we put the edited shots together and produced this.
editing tools used:
Some of our footage, specifically the graveyard had footage which was slightly shaky due to weather conditions. We smoothed this out with smoothcam, however it supposedly added to the effect of the filming.
blur to blur out the person's name on the gravestone
in the future cut we plan to sepia and distortion because it adds to the eerie effect and sets the atmosphere for the movie.




This is a screenshot of our rough soundtrack

DECEPTION DRAFT TITLE SEQUENCE