Questionnaire

We created a questionnaire after touching up out film to ask the general public what they thought of it after watching it. This was then sent around to a random selection of people who's ages ranged from 6 to 60 years old. This was created in order to achieve more accurate results and find out whether our target audience and other research was in fact correct and to get a better understanding of the direct audience and their interests.

The questionnaire itself was created using survey monkey : 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BQ3JJ8R

We also selected a few students from our school at random who we believed fitted our target audience. We showed them our film and asked them the following questions:

• Was the genre obvious?
• Did the film engage and sustain your interest thought?
• Is there anything in particular you liked about the film?
• Is there anything you didn't like about the film?
• What about the music, do you think it worked?
• Is there anything about the film that you would change/improve/how?
• In general out of 10 how high would you rate the film?

Evangeline Final

This is our final draft that we came up with after altering after receiving various bits of feedback. Compared to our first draft we changed quite a lot of scenes and shots in order to make the story more understandable. We also cut out several shots including the library shots, in fact we got rid of all library shots as we thought that they didn't fit in with the new edited version.

I think our final version was a lot better than our first draft, I think it looks a lot more professional than it did before because of the effects and editing we did after.

First Draft Feedback

Today we recieved feedback from our first draft after students had peer assesed them and wrote down what they thought about it. Overall, there was a wide range of different opinions.
We have established in our group that we need to improve the:

• music
• titles
• camera movement
• length
• acting
• sound

One of the regularly occurring comments that we received for our film opening was that the audience 'didn't get it' or 'it didn't make a lot of sense'. This therefore made us have a rethink of how we can make the opening more clear and easier to understand. We would need to shoot a few more scenes and re write parts of the script and go over parts of the storyboard. The plot had to be changed to make things a little more understandable.

Blog Reflection

Technology - have you learned new online programmes for sbowing off work? Have you tried new premiere effects?

After adding more and more blogs I have tried to vary the programmes I have used  in order to become more familiar with a variety of programmes, so in future tasks I have more options to use when deciding what programme would be best for the specific task. I have used programmes like SlideShare when researching for my film opening when blogging about things like. I also used as a programme called Prezi in order to create a powerpoints for my research towards Evangeline. I liked Prezi as it was different compared to Microsoft Powerpoint in the way you can present your powerpoint. Throughout our filming tasks I would say I have spent most of the time on Adobe Premiere editing our footage and using different effects to make it feel how we wanted it to. I have become more and more confident in using premiere after using it for several tasks now.

Mark out of 20 so far?

I think I would rate my blog at around 13 or 14 out of 20. In order to improve my blog I should add a variety of photos to make my blogs more visual and maybe more understandable.

Where could you be a little more thorough or little less complacent?

If I'm being being critical I do think there is room for improvement throughout my blogs. I think I could add more information on my representations blog because after looking at it I realised that it is lacking information. I don't think I've been complacent during the time that I have been blogging as I have tried to fit as much as I can into each post without cramming it.

Is it fun to look through?

I think that my blog includes lots of useful information however I think to improve the look of my blog and make it more visual and fun I could add things like photos. I could also alter the texts by either changing the colour of the font I have used to make it a bit more interesting and aesthetically pleasing. Furthermore, I could change the design or background to make it stand out that bit more.

Is the learning journey evident?

From the start of my blogs to then end I think that there is a distinct improvement in the fact that I have started to include pictures, headings, labels etc. The more recent posts include more detail and show more of an understanding about media. 

Three targets to improve blog - research or planning (have you thoroughly covered all key media concepts - forms and conventions, audience, institution, representation.