Final Short film

This is my final product, my short film called Anonymous.

Final Short Film Poster

After making many changes to perfect my film poster, I have finished it and I am very happy with the outcome.

Final Review Page

This is my final review page.

Evaulation Question 4: Part 4

The following presentation is a visual slideshare which shows all the different logos from  the new technologies I spoke about during my podcasts.

Media Studies A2 Evaluation Question 4 from rachelmullenx

Evaluation Question 4: Part Three

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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Evaluation Question 4: Part 2

Evaluation Question 4:Part 1

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Question 3 Part 2

Audience Feedback

This audience feedback is from a friend, Bethany. She answers the questions that I have put on the questionnaire in a few posts before.

Evaluation Question 3: Part 1 Questionnaire

This third question is: What have you learnt from your audience feedback?


To help me answer this question, I have done different things. First of all, I have devised together a questionnaire featuring both open and closed questions to try get information from my audience which will help me decide if that is what I wanted to hear or not. I asked 10 people my questions and I filmed four of the responses, which I will show in the following posts. However, this is a powerpoint showing my over-all results. 

Evaluation Question 2 Part 3

Evaluation Question 2 Part 2

This is part two to my evaluation question "How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks". This video talks about how successful the review page is.

Evaluation: Question 2 Part 1

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?

Evaluation Question 1 Part 3

This is part three of the evaluation question 1 : In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of real media products?

Evaluation Question 1: Part 2

This is part two of the evaluation question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 1 part 1 from rachelmullenx

Evaluation Question 1: Part 1

This is the first part of question one: How does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Paddy Considine- Tyrannosaur

Tyrannosaur- Poverty porn? from rachelmullenx

Filming - Organising a flashback

During my short film, there are two parts where I flashback for my characters. I researched into how people achieve the flashback look in their films.

Most forums give you a few advice points about the flashbacks and whether or not your story or film really need it.

Both flashbacks are a critical part of my film, they reveal details about the character that they wouldn't have known.

I messed around with some of the transitions in iMovie to see which would make my film look like it's flashing back, I decided the white overlay transition would be best, to then show the flashback, I have put it in black and white which is a classic convention of a flashback scene.

Filming Day 8: Re-doing the ending.

I recently decided that I wanted to change the ending of my film so that Abigail actually dies, I went back down to the harbour to film this and used roses for Jacob to put down to show the audience that she had killed herself by jumping over the edge.

Building My Review Page

As part of the ancillary tasks, I had to create a film review for my short film. I used Adobe InDesign to construct this. Here are a few of my first drafts.

in this first take, I added the masthead and under credits, the reviews headline, numbered the pages and

 

 

 

 

Narrative Theory

The following is a theory that will be relevant to my short film. It is based on Todorov's Narrative Theory.

Short Film: Opening Font

Within the design aspect of my blog, I need to find a suitable font for the opening sequence of my film. The opening is dark clouds, therefore I am assuming I will need something which is bold.



Bebas Neue Font - Dafont

Steelfish Font - Dafont

Worthwhile Font- Dafont

Futurist Fixed Width - Dafont

 

Now that I have my top four fonts, I will apply these to the opening scene and record which one I like the best.

Short Film Planning: Script Ideas

A few weeks ago I posted my first draft of the script I created for Abigail's first monologue. Since then, I have altered the idea and I want to have Abigail state in the beginning that she has this one anonymous friend as this will be easier explaining the story as opposed to filming it out and the audience getting confused.

The above monologue will be what Abigail says at the beginning of the film. The next monologue will be spoken by Jacob when he is messaging Abigail in his room.



Filming Day 7: The train station

I recently went on a trip from Edinburgh to Newcastle with the Lewis, II thought this would be a good time to film the flashback scene where Jacob is travelling to the harbour the first time that he comes across the girl who is looking over the edge. This is also the scene where Jacob was ready to jump off the bridge but because he saw her, he stopped.

Filming: Day 6

Today, I decided to film a scene of Abigail and her friends just to add in a bit more about her for the audience. The filming went really well and next time I go out to film I am going to be filming the scene of Jacob laying down some flowers at the site where she died.

Filming: Day 5

Today, I went down to Hebburn Harbour with Taylor and Lewis to film all the outdoor scenes that Abigail and Jacob are in. I was really pleased with how well today went, I loved the lighting, I feel like it set the mood perfectly.

Filming Day 4 - Lewis's filming

Today, I filmed indoors for Lewis' scene where Jacob is texting Abigail. It went pretty well and I really like how some of the shots have came out. Here is a few pictures from today's filming!