Evaluation. Question 1..

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

Titles..

As we came to the end of our two minute opening sequence, we decided to use LiveType to make our credits and titles more interesting. In previous lessons we had been practicing and playing about on it and we really like some of the fonts and animations that were on there and thought that they would look good on our opening. We had to import the still frames we wanted into LiveType to add the title; we also changed the colour, font and added an animation. However, when we imported it back into our opening on iMovie, the quality of the still frame had changed and it looked very unprofessional and it was really obvious that it didn't fit in with the rest of the opening. To get around this, we realised that we had to import the clips before and after the still frame into LiveType. Even though this took us quite a long time, we managed to add exciting titles to all of our freeze frames before the deadline! In addition to the titles, we decided to create our title in Live Type. The title of our film is 'SnapShot'. We chose the font 'Manic', which looked really cool. We used bright colours, orange, red and yellow to make it feel fun and upbeat, which reflects what our film is like.

Re-filming..

When we uploaded the footage of the zooms in and out of the book, we found that they were a little wobbly; this is because it was really hard to try and zoom in, without moving the camera to fit the frame of the picture. So we re-filmed it and this time we put the camera on a tripod, and on some tables, as we did before, but instead of zooming into the book, we started with the frame that we wanted (the camera zoomed into the picture), then we zoomed out. After we imported the clips, we reversed the zooms so that it looked like we were zooming in. It looked a lot smoother than before and it was a lot less wobbly.

Filming Session.. Geek..

This was the last bit of filming we needed to do. We filmed it in the Art Room in our school because we liked the desks in that room and we were able to use it after school. This was the longest filming session as we had to get everything filmed; we had to film the Geek (Luke Groszewski) turning the pages of the book, gluing this down into the book, writing our names, and also the only bit of speech in our opening. We took several different shots of the 'And That's Me' shot because we wanted plenty to choose from. I think we're going to have a hard time choosing which one as they were all very funny!
I'm pleased with what we filmed and I think we have everything we need to start editing!

Ideas..

Recently, Cindy came up with a very good idea; she suggested that we speed up the beginning of the clip. This will work really well because otherwise it would be very boring for the audience to spend a very long time looking at the geek stick pictures down! Also, it means that the opening sequence won't be really long and we can get more in.
In addition to that, she also thought it would be a good idea to create still frames of the short clips we have taken and have writing popping up with a funny sentance about each one.
All of us agreed that they were really good ideas and we're including them in our final sequence; we will do this in our editing stage.

Filming Session.. Football & Showoff..

Football:
We had originally planned to film our school football team, however, they didn't want to be in our project. So, in the half term, we met up to do some editing and borrowed a camera from school. I volunteered to film the Kent County Under 18 Football team, who my dad manages, as they were playing against London FA. I got permission from both teams and filmed it on the Thursday evening of half term. The lighting was really difficult; it was filmed in the evening so the floodlights were on. But i think that some of the film has got some good lighting.

Showoff:
Whilst at the football, I asked my dad to choose one of his most skilled players to be our 'showoff'. Ben Lockett volunteered himself and he did a few skills for me. He's very talented and I only needed one shot as I was very pleased with what he did.

Yearbook..

We have finally finished the yearbook! It took a very long time and we are very proud of it! It was mainly Cindy and Hannah that put it together; I'm not very creative so I stuck to cutting out whereas they glued it all down and have made it look very professional! It's exactly how we wanted it and it has all of the pages we need to film the Geek!