My media evaluation on Prezi

Ben Goulder Media Evaluation on Prezi

Our final Product

Out Of Time from Ben Goulder on Vimeo.

Here is are completed final product. All the editing has now being finished and the titles are now in place.

Evaluation

On Thursday the 18th march we did our evaluation infront of the class while being filmed and having the audience being filmed as well. We played our movie once to the audience and then the second time we paused it at specific points to tell the audience why we used that certain type of shot or camera angle ETC. We had alot of feedback pointing out specific areas that we needed to change. We learned that if we left our film without titles then we could not acheive no high than a Grade C. The changes were then made and the other two memebers of our group (Jamie and Martin) Will present the film again with the made changes.

Male conventions of film noir

The typical male conventions of film noir is that he is portrayed as being strong and fearless but does not say much in his role. Sometimes they are shown as being the hero and saving someone from danger. In film noir he gets into trouble but mostly gets out without being injured or killed.

In our 2 minute opening title sequence we did not use a femme fatale because she wouldn't have fitted the story line and if we used her instead of our main character it wouldn't have looked as creepy only males. The typical conventions of a male in film noir are perfect for our all male cast.. We are going to use this type of male in our OTS (Opening title Sequence.) This is because we are doing a film noir style OTS but with a modern twist to it. This means that the usual fearless hero who always survives the odds is changed in our modern Film.

Our Opening title sequence update

Our opening title sequence has nearly been completed. We are just making a few final adjustments and then it shall be uploaded to our blogs. We are also going to get other peoples views from outside the classroom. This should help us with our final evaluation and to change anything that needs to be changed

Femme Fatale

A femme fatale role is usaually to seduce the men and get them to fall at there feet. Femme fatale means deadly women in french and most film noire films use a femme fatale because she can get the hero of a film noire to do her bidding by either using her charm or sexual ways to seduce them. She is a very intersting character which is also why they are used in film noire alot.

Even though a femme fatale is common in most film noire movies we decided that we didnt want to use on in our opening title sequence because it wouldnt have fitted in with our story line very well and we may have had to change it if we involved a Femme Fatale

Our OTS review

Today we shew our edited OTS (Opening title sequence) to our teacher. She gave us some positive feedback but pointed out a few contaniuty issues that she said may have to be corrected. Overall she was very pleased with the film and gave us some targets to hit. We must now put our credits and titles in the OTS and also upload it to our blogs.

Filming our opening title sequence

Today we filmed the second half of our Opening title sequence. The filming went well but as we played it backm to ourseleves we noticed that there are some obvious contanuity errors, like when we filmed the body seen the bodies hair changed length when me and jamie switched places. In all the filming went well and now we must edit the filming to the correct amount of time needed

Links to my groups blogs

This is a link to conors blog. He has covered Film role, Mise-En-scene and Sound, Timing

http://conorasmedia.blogspot.com/

This is a link to Jamies blog. He has covered Location, Representation&Stereotype, Cinematography, Editing methods, drafts

http://jamiesasmediablog.blogspot.com/

This is a link to Martins blog. He is covering Lighting, Character, Market research, Evidence of compartive research.

http://mcampbellmedia.blogspot.com/

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study of signs and there meaning. They can be an object or a symbol that have a meaning and have been placed there for a reason. Semiotics can have two meanings signifiers (which is the actual image, physical apperance etc.) and the second is signified (Is what the sign refers too.) There are two other meanings as well these are Connotation and Denotation. Connotation is what you and others think when the sign is on the screen. The other one is Denotation this is when you say what you see.