30th january 2013

Today i battled to align the rulers in my magazine cover review. I also added a few touches to make it more authentic like having my name at the end of the text.

 

 

Here i am getting the recieved image from my fellow group mate so i can input the image into the film review magazine cover.

 

 

Here is the image i am going to use in the magazine cover. 

 

 

This is what i have done today, with regards to the magazine review.

 

 

This is not the finished product as i have more ideas to input and experiment with for exmple the colour and size of font and text .



29th January 2013

Today i am still working on the magazine cover page review on Indesign.

 

 

 

After i i fixed up the text and made all the text boxes equal with text. 

 

 

 

I then decided to add a sense of authenticity, to add a 4/5 star rating to make it look more realistic.

 

Here is the one i decided to use.

 

 

 

 

This is what i have done today with regards to the magazine cover.

 

 

I had some trouble firguring out the gutters and using the rulers however i will sort this out next lesson and add the still image we will use.





short film pitch review feedback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yhtj9LGLBs

After presenting our ideas to the rest of the class/audience, an issue that soon became apparent was the fact that we couldn't fit too much stereotypical content into our short film. The audience feedback enabled us to re-think our ideas of adding an african culture into the short film with regards to timing factors (not having enough time) and demonstrated to us how difficult it would be for us to show Asian and African culture together in our short film simply because of the nature of our film.

Overall, the audience thought our short film pitch was a good idea and would be successful if we produced it properly and others found it confusing with the idea of having to merge all these different themes together. In my opinion, i think the audience found some aspects of it confusing because we didn't present it in a very clear and understandable manner; instead we presented it how it sounded like to us in our heads.

The audience was also slightly confused as to where the filming will take place after we explained it will take place in various locations. For example the airport scene where the main character arrives and the park where the daydream scene will take place. We was told that we would not be allowed to film in the airport due to security reasons however we discovered bt phoning up London City Airport, we was made allowed to film under a number of circumstances.

28th January 2013

Today i worked on the print product film review,  i did  the layout and did the text of the film review. All that i have left to do is insert the stills of the actual short film itself which will then complete it. I also finished the review of the video presentations today which were a great help to us as a group as it gave us a sense of direction.

Print products - MAGAZINE COVER DRAFT

This is our first draft of our magazine cover we have produced by paper then scanned in. We pre planned to use this format from the help of magazine posters we did our case study's on and own personal preference.

video pitch feedback of print products

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp0TKE7Z4kI&feature=youtu.be

The video feedback was very helpful to us as a group on our ideas of the print products. The draft that we did was helpful as it gave the audience a good idea of how we was going to to do poster. All in all they thought it was a good idea to try use the 'East is East' and 'West is West' splash effect to preview what was going to happen in the short film but not give away the full story of the film.

Our draft magazine cover was thought to be a good idea however there was abit of a disagreement in the ue of the tagline we used in the draft 'Same Monty Different Country'. Our classmates thought it was short and to the point and made sense as to that the main character being in a London as another country however as a counter argument it suggested that there would have been a previous film with regards to to the main character and just didnt make sense and would have caused more complication. It was difficult for us to decide whether to use this tag line or not because of the mixed argument.

With regards to the feedback of the print products, it helped us to decide which still images to use in our magazine poster as we suggested ideas to the audience, they agreed that we should use the security guard scene in one of the splashes and a still of the olympic stadium. Another scene that was suggested was the daydream scene, we are still deciding to incorporate this still into it as it may give away whats going to happen in the short film. All in all we didnt recieve much criticism and the audience really liked our draft of the magazine cover and ideas we presented.

12th - 13th November

In todays lesson, we uploaded all our clips from the HD video camera to the  iMac upstairs in the editing suite. My group and i realised that there are a few flaws present in the clips that we filmed on Saturday that just went (10th november). With the help of the review from my Media studies teacher, we established that there were too many long shots and medium shots. For example the first clip we filmed while the main character is walking excitedly with his Olympic Ticket, there are two trees in the way in the middle of the screen which gives the audience the impression that theres some emphasis to those trees when all in fact theres no importance in the trees being there at all, its just that the road was curved and we couldn't film the scene without getting the trees in the way as it is, without stepping out on to the busy road and putting our lives at risk.

Also, with the feedback we recieved, we were told to use more close up shots of the main characters behaviour in order to add to the comdey aspect of our film. The fact that in all main comedies have various close up shots of their facial expression while they are doing something mischievous for example in Mr Bean there are countless close up shots that empaphises this.

 



 

We also discussed that we need to use different angles to discuss different perspectives of the character. This is so that the audience can understand who and what the character is about. Also, if we was to continue filming in the current way we are filming now then it would be difficult for the audience to understand what is even happening within the short film, so have a variety of angles would mean that it would make it easier for the audience to understand and relate back to the comedy aspect that is taking place within the short film. While filming on Saturday, we also realised that there was a few holes in our previous planning.

 

As we met up on Saturday we made ways to Pudding Mill Lane in order to film the very last scene which will be using for our credits of the Olympic sight however as we arrived there we soon discovered that the long pathway in which people would take to get a view of the Olympic Stadium was now closed for renovation; this was a major let down for us because we wasted valuable time making our journey there and to end up finding out that we could not get access to this place. So in todays lesson we decided that we would need to change this scene as it would be difficult for us to do it. We decided to use another scene instead which we could use for our very last scene of the credits rolling.

 

Also, we established another issue of the scene with the taxi driver as our driver backed out last minute. This left us in a bit of a pickle as we were thinking about what to do for a while but we could not come up with another 'plan B' driver so we decided to change this scene and get the main character to use some sort of 'Barclays bike' in order to keep simplicity. We decided to keep the previous pre production doccuments intact as we could use this for effective evaluation.