Evaluation-

Evaluation final from Priyanka Chawla

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Survey- final piece

A survey has been created to gather feedback regarding our final piece.

Below is the link to the survey:

https://chanceasmedia.typeform.com/to/uKwbAN

Creating a survey regarding our final piece is beneficial to us as a group as it will make answering one of the exhalation questions, considerably easier.

Titile sequence

Within a title sequence, there is a particular order that is followed, in terms of when each job should be shown and who stars in the movie. 
The orders as follows; 

• Name of the studio
• Name of the production company
• Starring
• Filmed by (cinematography)
• Sound (if necessary)
• Editor
• Producer
• Director

We have followed this order so that we stick to the rule so that it is clear who the most important people within the film actually are. In our case, all titles up until the end of the actors/actresses names (starring), are on a black background in white writing. They appear using a film dissolve and when they come on and off I have made sure in editing that they appear to the sound of the audio. Obviously at this point, working with the sound, a few changes can be made, in order to create as much tension for the audience as we can.

From our research, and focusing on the psychological thriller genre, these opening credits are shown in the beginning of the opening sequence (usually within the first quarter but in only some cases the first half), as the codes and conventions of this genre show this is a normality. We have set these opening credits fairly and have explained through them the workload that has been completed by the team.

Our titles appear as below:

Name of studio
motion cube pictures presents

Name of production company

a PCLA film

Starring
Aman Dhillon

Luke Mayes

Lisa Machin

Filmed by (cinematographer)

Priyanka Chawla

Sound

Luke Mayes

Editor

Chelsea Wilson

Producer

Priyanka Chawla

Director

Chelsea Wilson


This blog post was done by Chelsea


My Evaluation
Identifying the order of the titles, enables us to either determine whether we are following a the codes and conventions of our genre, or if we are challenging them, if we are challenging the, then why are we challenging them? 

CHANCE- Final cut

Final Cut of our opening sequence 'CHANCE'

By- Priyanka Chawla, Chelsea Wilson, Aman Dillon and Luke Mayes 

Sound

By tuesday all our footage will be cut and ready to add sound and our title sequences.
Today I was doing the final bits of research regarding the use of sound in our sequence. We have to ensure that the sound we use is copy right free. Therefore I visited this website called 'freeplaymusic.com' on this website there is a search bar, where you enter a keyword, e.g. the genre of sound you require, and you will be provided with a list of sounds that a relevant to your search.

The use of sound from this we site is free for educational purposes, therefore there will be no additional costs for us. 

my progression

Throughout this media course I have developed a lot of personal skills that have helped through the final stages of my coursework. At the beginning of the course, I was not completely sure of the amount of work that was involved with the project. As I became more and more aware, I started to change the way I worked. My level of commitment has increased, in terms of how I managed my time with getting the filming and editing complete. instead of waiting until next week or the weekend I learnt that there is no time like the present, filming needs to happen today, editing happens today and blogging also takes place today. By starting your work then and there allows your grow more time for changes and improvements if needed- in most cases this is needed.
Another large aspect of this media course is communication skills- therefore taking this into account and I created an iMessage group chat, therefore any ideas or plans that needed to be made would be clear- leading to less chance of misunderstandings.

A crucial skill I have developed is, my skill with the camera. at the start of the course when we conducted our continuity task, using the camera proved to be a lot harder than we had projected. however, when the filming process for the final piece had begun, the process of re filming certain scenes, really helped improve my skills with the camera. For example the execution of a pan shot is a lot harder than it looks, to get the camera to work in sync with the actor is a process that needs to be accurate. This shot requires the character to be in the middle of the shot throughout the pan. initially i found this difficult, because I couldn't keep the camera still whilst panning. however as they say, practice makes perfect. At this stage I now know how to keep the camera steady and execute various types of shots.


Overall as a group, we have defiantly made a vast amount of progress from where we began. We initially started off indirectly working against each other, there came a point where as a group if we did not pull together, we would have failed our coursework. This really bought us together as a group and highlighted everyones rolls and responsibilities within the group.

21st March

Today I re-filmed the pan shot in Aman's scene. I also got various other shots, that will enable us to have a variety of footage to play with, that way if later on during the editing process we decide that the pan shot does not work, we will have the other scenes to take place.

over the weekend the a re shoot of the alley way scene will be recorded, a re shoot is required because the feedback we received regarding the shots I had gathered, was that there was not enough variety within those shots.

overall at this stage the opening sequences coming on swiftly and I believe that the title sequences shall be complete within the next week.