Evaluation update

We were aiming to film a directors interview for our evaluation. We planned to have Tom acting as an interviewer and then changing costume to answer the questions posed. However, we decided that it would be more effective to use the style of a radio show.
Tom read the questions and I (saskia) read the answers, 3 of the questions were written by me and the other 3 by Tom. As Georgina is not currently at school, she has written a longer answer for the last question and when she returns she will record a voiceover for this.
We then plan to present the whole piece as a radio show. As the questions are being answered and talked through, depending on the question, we will show stills, screen shots and video clips from our preliminary task, final piece and any research that we completed.
Our whole evaluation should come together as one piece combining a range of technologies using the questions that we answered to narrate.

TM,SL and GD- The Pitch

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Evaluation of Pitch

The point of the pitch is to get green light for our media idea. We succeeded in this as we then went on to film and edit our piece. I believe we had success in this because we planned and practiced the pitch before hand, this enabled us to say exactly what we needed to say without messing up the lines and being confident with what we were saying. Our lines were backed up by a powerpoint which gave our audience and teacher something to looked at and helped them understand what we ment.

All in all I believe our pitch was a success and helped show others our media concept and gave us the confidence to go on and film our media product.

Evaluation Proposal

We used our brief evaluation questions to film a directors interview. We are going to use premiere elements to use clips of Tom posing the questions. We will then use his voice answering the questions as a voiceover to put over still images or certain clips from our opening which he is describing.

Final Piece

Final Piece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZmLEs_QBDY

Here is the link to our final opening which is now exported and on youtube.

Update. 29/03/10

During the editing process we have made many changes and the shots are in a different order. We have also used different sounds to the ones posted below on the blog. We will explain what we have changed in our evaluation.
We also did one more shoot where we shot at our school. This included girl#2 walking around the school after the title '3 days earlier'. This starts the film and during this the song 'White Horse' by Taylor Swift will be played.
The deadline is tomorrow and we simply need to sort the final sounds tomorrow and make any final adjustments in our lesson and lunch hour if needed.

Changes

We uploaded the footage from the montage that we shot and decided that it was not necessary for our plot and was not effective. We therefore decided not to use it. As stated previously, we also made the decision to re-shoot the river parts. The storyboard has completely changed now...
1. The montage at the beginning has been removed, although we have one part of the montage at the very beginning which is mud being washed down the sink.
2. We have different shots in the river location than before
3. The party scene has stayed the same and in the same order although it will not appear alltogether in the opening.
4. We will use the river scene and the boy will have many flashbacks which will be all the flashback footage in parts in each flashback in chronological order.



Here is a basic outline of our new storyboard...
MCU of plug hole with mud washing down
Fades to shot of the sun behind the clouds
Cuts to a jump cut of the boy walking
Pan up the river
See girls feet
Pans up the girl
Close up of her face
Close up of side of face
POV of girl from boy
MCU of boy closing eyes
FIRST FLASHBACK - walking to party
MCU of boy opening eyes and breathing heavily
MCU boy closes eyes again
SECOND FLASHBACK - walking into party
CU flash image of girl
THIRD FLASHBACK - flirting scene outside party
MCU of dead girls face
MCU of boys face
FOURTH FLASHBACK - MCU of girl#s face at party
POV from boy lifting up phone
XCU of phone with background picture of boyfriend and girlfriend, dials 999
MLS of boy on phone
'hello'
MCU of boy looking up at sky, camera pans up to sky
Glass smashes
Credits.

(This is just a rough outline of the new storyboard and I am sure it will change as we continue with the editing).