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Evaluation question 7: Technologies

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Here is the sound cloud file, where I talk about the technologies I have used and what I have learnt...

Evaluation question 6: What has changed since the preliminary task?

We created this video for evaluation question six, it discusses the key differences between our preliminary task and our final product. This helped us see what we had learnt since January.

Evaluation question 5: attracting target audience

I created this Prezi presentation to look at how successful I was in attracting my target audience. Not only did I conduct a survey which concluded that 92% of my target market were intrigued enough to want to watch on, but evaluated my title sequence against a list of requirements I set up after conducting my market research.

Evaluation question 4: Target market responses

Evaluation question 4- Who is my target audience?

Here are a few posts from earlier in the year where I identified my target market. I thought these may prove useful for this question.
Refer back to these posts about 'Identifying my target audience' using the links.
The other part of evaluation question 4 can be found on the next post.

http://georgihonnorasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/identifying-target-audience.html
http://georgihonnorasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/identifying-my-target-audience.html
http://georgihonnorasmedia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/identifying-my-target-market.html

Evaluation question 3: Distribution

I created this article to appear as if it were in the 'G2' supplement of the Guardian newspaper.

Evaluation question 2: moodboards and evaluation

Evaluation question 2: Social groups

Evaluation question 2 asks how we represent social groups in our opening title sequence. This lead us to think of all of the social groups that appear in our video. We separated them into the following groups:

1. 1950s children
2. 1960s teenagers
3. Old people
4. Teen horse girls
5. Young horse girls
6. Gypsy horses

We then decided to create six moodboards to look at the common representations of all of these groups and will compare them to the characters that appear in our sequence.

Evaluation question 1: Introducing genre

I created this presentation to look at how genre is introduced in a 'real opening title sequence' and then compared it to my own.

Evaluation question 1: Camera shots and angles

I first looked at my shots from my opening title sequence and then searched the IMDB website for photos/stills from other horse films. This has given me a visual comparison of shots of both my own  and "real media products". It is evident that there are some similarities as well as differences in the shots, but due to the limited locations you can take a horse to and the kind of shots you can get with a hand-held camera without compromising safety, my shots (although a range) could be seen as simpler.

Evaluation question 1: Location

I created this comic on the Pixton website to show the most used locations for the scenes in my opening title sequence.

 

I then compared one location in my opening title sequence to that of the film. As seen below is first a still from the film Flicka (2006) this particular shot was in a field. This is the same to part of my opening title sequence which has been shot in a field.

Our film doesn't really challenge location settings of a typical 'horse film' opening title sequence as getting horses into a location that they aren't used to can be a difficult, not to mention dangerous task.

Evaluation question 1: Editing

I looked particularly at the dream-sequence editing and how it was similar to other dream sequences.

Evaluation question 1: How characters are introduced

I learnt that in our opening title sequence we introduce characters through the use of narration as well as through our continual storyline. This is similar to some opening title sequences as well as different. This is explained in this video. how characters are introduced by georgihonnor on GoAnimate

Animation Software - Powered by GoAnimate.

Evaluation question 1: Props and costume

I created this video to look at the significance of the props in my opening title sequence and if they were similar to other films.

I learnt that the costumes we created were similar to other opening title sequences, and were key in setting the time of that particular scene...
E.g - The newer TV in Old Nancy's scene tells us that it is set in recent time whilst Young Nancy's costume with the shawl and old dress with patches of odd fabric sewn on to it shows that the film was set at an earlier date.

We featured a saddle as a prop in our opening title sequence which showed that the horse was about to get ridden, this prop is common to other horse films.

One way in which our opening title sequence is different to others is one of our most significant props is that of the photo frame, this is used to help tell the story and connect the same character at different life stages. I haven't seen this in any of the opening titles that I have analysed.

Evaluation question 1: Sound

My group partner and I had a conversation about the sound used in our opening title sequence and how it used, developed or challenged forms of real media products. This conversation is presented in the form of a transcript, on Slideshare...

Evaluation question 1: Style and font of titles

I created this to investigate the style, font and colour of my titles and the effect of that and how they can be linked to the genre and main themes of my opening title sequence. I compared and contrasted them to the other opening title sequences that I researched.

Evaluation question 1: Placing of titles and what I have learnt

I created this Prezi presentation to evaluate my choices and investigate my decisions about the placement of my titles. I also compared my choices to my production context which was an essential influence during the film-making process.

Evaluation question 1: Comparing titles

I created this easy-to-understand table comparing the similarities and differences between my opening title sequence and the ones that I researched earlier in the project. I looked at factors such as the time when different people are credited and who was credited.

Table comparisons from GeorgiHonnor

Evaluation question 1: Placement of titles

Much like in my research process when I created timelines to look at the placement of the titles, I created a timeline to look at the placement of titles for my own opening title sequence. This can be seen in the following presentation. The pictures below show my timeline I created for "Walks of Life" and the one I created in January for the independent film "Napoleon Dynamite".

Approaching evaluation question 1

Evaluation

Our next step is to complete our evaluation. This consists of a total of seven questions which we will have to present in a creative way. We have made a group decision to complete one question each separately and then work on the final five together.

FINAL FILM!

We've finally completed our opening title sequence! After editing we had to convert the Final Cut file into a movie file. This is the finished product...

Editing- video commentary

I made this video to go through aspects of out editing process with the use of images. I have used text to describe what is happening in the pictures...

Editing- sound

Editing- titles

I created this video to talk about how I edited and created my titles on my opening title sequence.

When creating the titles I thought about a variety of presentation techniques such as font, text size, colour and the positioning of the text and the connotations of them. Here are some pictures of my titles...

This is using the software 'Live Type' as you can see the actors names are in bold to show their significance. I also credited the actors oldest-to youngest which is something I noticed when conducting my research.

 Here is an example of where I tried to put titles into 'free space' as not to ruin a shot.

Here is an example of where I was experimenting with the layout of titles. After conducting my research I found it common for different parts of the text to be on different points of the screen. This inspired  me to do the same...

Editing- video transitions

Editing- first steps

When beginning to edit my opening title sequence I had to simply place all of the clips into the correct order according to my storyboard...

Behind the scenes!!

I compiled all of my 'behind the scenes' material and evaluated/looked at each day of filming individually by creating a website.
You can view the website using this link...
CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW OUR FILMING WENT

Making other props

After filming Sam and Tj's scenes I got a still from the shot, printed it and put it in a photo frame to use for Bette's scenes.

I then hand drew this logo, I scanned it on to my computer in case the only image I had of it was ruined in the tea-staining process.

I then tea-stained the edges of the paper to make it look old...