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Media showcase: unique responses 3

Upon collecting this information I have found that for question four, there were six unique responses that did not fit into the other 3 groups I split the answers into.
These were:

"More shots of the boy investigating"
"Re-think about how to end the opening"
"When the video clips are bad quality looks like snapchat quality"
"Film landscape, not portrait"
"Better environment maybe? - More of an office would be cool"

"n/a title fonts?"


"Better environment maybe? - More of an office would be cool"

Again, another comment that it has been made just because this is an opening sequence. What I mean by that is that if they were to watch the rest of the movie, they would know why it is not an office and it is in fact a bedroom. 

"n/a title fonts?"

This seems to be a critic that was entered just because they feel as though they needed to put some in, but we had no other complaints about font. 

Media showcase: unique responses 2

Upon collecting this information I have found that for question four, there were six unique responses that did not fit into the other 3 groups I split the answers into.
These were:

"More shots of the boy investigating"
"Re-think about how to end the opening"
"When the video clips are bad quality looks like snapchat quality"
"Film landscape, not portrait"
"Better environment maybe? - More of an office would be cool"

"n/a title fonts?"


"When the video clips are bad quality looks like snapchat quality"
This is an interesting comment, because it shows us that not everyone in the audience will understand. That it is purposely a lower quality of footage, just to specifically make it look like snapchat.


"Film landscape, not portrait"
Again, another comment that did not understand the reasoning behind using phone footage that way, but that is okay, because in real movies and movie productions, not everyone understands what the movie is meant to mean or portray.

Media showcase: unique responses 1

Upon collecting this information I have found that for question four, there were six unique responses that did not fit into the other 3 groups I split the answers into.
These were:

"More shots of the boy investigating"
"Re-think about how to end the opening"
"When the video clips are bad quality looks like snapchat quality"
"Film landscape, not portrait"
"Better environment maybe? - More of an office would be cool"
"n/a title fonts?"


"More shots of the boy investigating"
This comment is hard to dispute or explain, this person simply just did not like how we set up our video, how ever, if we to add more shots of him investigating it would run over our 2minute allowed time. If we added more shots of him investigating, it could become boring and stale, as that would just be footage of him looking at paper.

"Re-think about how to end the opening"



This comment is hard to dispute or explain, this person simply just did not like how we set up our video, which we did.

Media showcase: Unique responses

We have received the answers from the media showcase.
These four questions were given to the audience to answer about every video they watched.

1. What did you understand about the narrative? (Quick synopsis, please):
2. Did the chosen genre fit its conventions?
3. How did the "ending" make you feel?
4. Any suggestions for improvements, if we were to shoot the whole thing again?

Upon collecting this information I have found that for question four, there were six unique responses that did not fit into the other 3 groups I split the answers into.
These were:

"More shots of the boy investigating"
"Re-think about how to end the opening"
"When the video clips are bad quality looks like snapchat quality"
"Film landscape, not portrait"
"Better environment maybe? - More of an office would be cool"
"n/a title fonts?"

I shall make posts disputing these comments.

Media showcase question 1,2,3 responses

We have received the answers from the media showcase.
These four questions were given to the audience to answer about every video they watched.

1. What did you understand about the narrative? (Quick synopsis, please):
2. Did the chosen genre fit its conventions?
3. How did the "ending" make you feel?
4. Any suggestions for improvements, if we were to shoot the whole thing again?

Upon collecting this information I have written up some statistics.

All together we received 38 filled in and partially filled in responses.

For question one, 32/38 said that they understood the narrative, 6 people left this blank

On question two, 32/38 said that the film DID fit the conventions, 6 did not provide an answer

Question three, 33/38 answered this question with answers like  "suspenseful", "wanting to watch the         end of the movie" ,"wanting to know what happened".  Again, 5 people left this question blank.  

Media showcase stats: Suggestions and complaints

We have received the answers from the media showcase.
These four questions were given to the audience to answer about every video they watched.

1. What did you understand about the narrative? (Quick synopsis, please):
2. Did the chosen genre fit its conventions?
3. How did the "ending" make you feel?
4. Any suggestions for improvements, if we were to shoot the whole thing again?

Upon collecting this information I have written up some statistics.

All together we received 38 filled in and partially filled in responses
Out of these 38, 23 had suggestions of some kind


I was able to group the suggestions/complaints into 4 catergories
1. Lighting issues
2. Bad camera quality
3. Speech quality
4. Unique suggestions

This piechart that I made shows the percentage of suggestions we received

Media showcase video responses

These are responses from some of the people that watched our video today.

Media showcase

On March 20th we had a media showcase, this is where both AS and Alevel media classes shows an audience their work. As we are group 1 from the AS class we were the first to show our work. People in the audience had four questions to answer upon watching our video.

1. What did you understand about the narrative? (Quick synopsis, please):
2. Did the chosen genre fit its conventions?
3. How did the "ending" make you feel?
4. Any suggestions for improvements, if we were to shoot the whole thing again?

Rough edit

 Rough edit

On the 15th of December, we filmed our desk scene of our movie opening. On that same night I decided to go through the footage to check that is was useable. Because if we waited until after the school holiday and found out that the footage was not up to scratch we would be even more behind than we already are. So using Sony Vegas pro I did a quick mock up edit in around an hour and a half .

Henry Gambles birthday party

My breakdown of the 2016 movie "Henry Gambles birthday party". This is NOT spoiler free.  Firstly, here is some information about the movie :
Independent drama • 5.8/10 - IMDB • 80% on rotten tomatoes • Director, screenplay, editor - Stephen Cone . Estimated $25,000 budget.

This film is set at the birthday party of a 17 year old boy named. This movie does not explicitly explain itself, nor does it have a resolved ending, or climax. Things just happen, but it's how they happen and why, which made the movie so gripping and memorable to me. The movie introduces all of the characters at around the same time because they are all coming to the house for the party. Henry is a preachers son, and the theme of religion is heavily present in this movie. Everything they do, they do it with their religion in mind. In juxtaposition to that, everyone at the party sinns

Evaluation questions

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Evaluation 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 of 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?

Walk through and explanation!!

This is a video in which Alisha, Yasmin and I go through every choice we have made in our editing process and why. 

Class response

Class response 

This is a video of the first time we showed anyone our finished piece. From this video we took advice and changed the way the mobile sounded and other issues. These changes can be seen in our "voice over walk through vlog".

Vlog, half term editing

Vlog 2!! Half term editing