Message to Moderator

Dear Moderator
This blog belongs to Shauna Luckett throughout this project I worked with Beth Thornton and Alex Torrens. We were asked to create a two minute opening sequence to a horror film including titles. I have ordered my blog you will find the final product at the top followed by prelim task, Evaluation, planning documents and research tasks. We took approx three months to create our film and I hope you enjoy the film and my blog.
Regards Shauna Luckett

FINAL CUT THREE

 

The video above is the final cut of our horror opening sequence named Three. After recognising the faults made in the final edit we made the amendments and added in the title and a this is the final video which has been uploaded to YouTube and I embedded it onto my blog. The final cut was made on Final Cut HD. This was instead of using iMovie which we had been currently using in the rough cuts. we were able to add sound and text from both garage band and live type or through the final cut programme its self. Editing the finals cut took in all about two weeks to complete. The feedback that we got for the final edit was much better than the comments that had been made about the previous rough cut, the feedback included;

• The storyline was now more clear to understand as the narration helped to tell the story, yet not giving too much away. 
• The lighting on the footage was a lot better and more clear than the previous footage that we had shot.
• The sound we added helped to create more of an atmosphere
• Titles that were added looked good and correct.

Evaluation of media opening sequence

The picture shown above is a link to our final evaluation website once you have clicked the image you will be taken to our website created on wix.

Rough cut to opening sequence

This is a rough cut of all of the footage put together that had been filmed. We edited the footage using final cut, we expected the final edit to be very different from the rough cut due to the fact that this rough cut is simply all of the footage put together in order without the use of any editing techniques etc.
Research was gathered from the class as they gave us feedback for the rough cut the general comments that were made are as follows:

• The footage was very dark and it was hard to tell what was going on in the scenes
• The storyline was not clear the peers in the class were unsure as to what was going on, it was suggested that narration could have been used.
• No sound had been added to the footage again making the storyline less clearer, sound could have been added to add more tension and atmosphere.
• Some of the shots were a bit shaky as some shots had been done by using a hand held camera, without the use of the tripod.

Draft Evaluation Questions

Evaluation questions

View more documents from shaunaluckett.

These were the initial answers that I had wrote up for the answers to questions 4 and 5 of the evaluation. we had assigned our selves questions to complete individually. The questions were then finalised and amended slightly before putting them on our final Wix evaluation,

Evaluation Questions

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

• How does your media product represent particular social groups?

• What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

• Who would be the audience for your media product?

• How did you attract/address your audience?

• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

• Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

These were the questions we were given to evaluated our finished media product, we had to evaluate in detail our final edit for the opening sequence of our horror clip three.

Timetoast progression timeline

This is a link to our timetoast timeline, it shows our progress throughout the project. the timeline shows the order in which we did specific tasks. This kept us organized throughout the progress of the project as we could see what we had done and what had to be done.