Sunday, 10 May 2009
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Evaluation Presentation
Powerpoint presentation by Joyce Busi Ncube, Candidate number 3258
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
K6-Media Evaluation, Emily Wright 3234
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Final Cut
By using Adobe Photoshop i produced an DVD cover our film 'Kick' i think this turned out as a success since i tryed to include all various conevention a actual real media product would. Whilst researching i found that they consist of an age certificate, title of the film, blurb, images, barcode, website and many more that i have included.
Overall i think the colour use of this product is very successful since there bright, vibrant and show that the film is an exciting piece also it stands out from the crowd having the big shoe mark placed on the cover symbolising the name of the film 'Kick' with 'KICK' slartented in red in the right hand corner. By consiting of the same font on the front and back didnt make either stand out differently that they join together well. To finish the DVD cover where i left it off from last time (Rough cut) i added a blurb and some images from our actual opening sequence i then again tried to consist this of similar font for the blurb by using impact since its a readable, friendly font that everyone uses, i then added 5 images from our opening which i had to print screen whilst watching it by depicting the ones i didnt like or werent useful since then i would of ended up with 30 images so i picked a couple of eached dance genres focusing on the feet and group work. By using photoshop i could then use the brushes i downloaded to give them all rough sided edges using the colours consisted.
I am very pleased with the overall outcome and have had some great feedback about ou DVD cover, it was a success in the end even though it took a while to complete.
Feedback
This consisted of our media A level class of around 20 students viewing our opening sequence also including our teacher, we had mostly positive feedback since not many of the students in our class decided to do invent a dancing genre opening sequence. Therefore we had many different techiniques that other students hadn't included such as the spilt screening which was one of techniques that everyone had noticed and commented about because there was a contrast between two dancing genres (street and Ballet) since we thought this would give the opening sequence more of an impact and insight to the audience.
However because our opening sequence hadn't been finished we still hadn't uploaded our productions at the beginning of the opening and slotted in the name of the film, our fellow pupils commented about that since its there the two key aspects of a film knowing what your watching and whose it done by.
In spite of this overall we were very pleased with the feedback we had back and are willing to produce any changes needed.
Rough Cut
This is an rough copy our DVD cover which hasn't been finished yet, since we need add our own pictures but our DVD cover was made on Adobe Photoshop CS4 this consisted of measuring a dvd cover which came to 10.75 inches width and 7.25 inches height, we needed these measurements so our cover when printed would be exactly the same size. Within photoshop you can do anything and download many over tools for your needs such as i download some brushes, as you can see from the image below there are smudge marks in red and black they were a couple of the downloads and the big shoe step on the front cover i downloaded as a brush. By using these brushes you can place them wherever you like and change the colour etc.
On the other hand, by researching DVD covers for many films gave us inspiration and ideas for what may our colour scheme, layout, writing etc would be like, so we thought if our opening sequence is to do with dance (street and ballet) that we would focus more on street for the edgey side of it. Therefore we come up with the colour scheme of bright, warm colours such as yellow, red and orange we thought that this would make the DVD stand out from the crowd. Also we added various features such as our production name and website, age for the movie, bonus content, formation of DVD, slogan and most importantly the name on the film, but we do need to include our own images and a blurb ( this should be shown in our final cut section ). I also tried to use similar font throughtout such as the stencil writing for 'Kick' since this was a very bold, noticable font that fitted very well with the street idea.
Overall i am pleased with the outcome so far and cant wait to see how the DVD cover all turns out hopefully it is a more success than it is.
Final Mis en Scene
Final Costume
In our research we found that ballet dancers consist of wearing a traditional leotard, tights, skirt and ballet shoes. The appearance of this outfit is very neat and tidy and uniformed. Our ballet dancers, as a character, we wanted them to be quite posh characters with a generally high status so this needed to shine through in the costume.
Street dancers we found out wear baggy clothing, like a tracksuit or something like that; joggers, top and trainers. And again we wanted the outfit to show us a little bit about the character. The street characters we wanted to be quite informal and a lower status to the ballet dancers, so we needed to think about this.
From Research and personal input we finalised our costume designs. We also wanted our costumes to reflect on the characters, so thought about how we could show this through an outfit.
We kept with the traditional dancewear of leotard, skirt and tights, for the ballet dancers, because this was what we found to be the most worn within our research, also from personal input. But we wanted to think about the colours, as this would show the audience the cast’s characters.
We brainstormed colour ideas that we wanted to show purity and a higher status within the character groups. We finally decided on a baby blue, as this was a very pure and soft colour.
When picking our final Street wears outfits we didn’t want everybody to look the same, we wanted them to wear what they liked, but drawn down to a basic outfit. So we chose grey jogging bottoms, trainers and a black tank top. We chose this because in a street lesson and research we found that this was what most dancers wear. We picked grey joggers, as this would be the most typical colour that everybody would have and is quite a dull colour, showing the lower statues and decided on a black tank top to show contrast between the two groups of characters.
When consulting our dancers about costumes we had a few problems but nothing that unsettled us.
Our ballet dancers uniform was still what we wanted: Leotard, skirt, tights and ballet shoes it just wasn’t the colours that we initially wanted. We decided on a blue uniform with pink tights as we thought this would show the purity of the characters, as the colours are soft and calming. But we had to work with black. This wasn’t that bad as it was still very uniformed and neat so the purity could shine through from that. And editing could also show this to a further extent.
Also when asking our street dancers to wear a straight forward pair of joggers, plain top and trainers, they had a few constraints; some had come straight from a ballet class so instead of a top a leotard was worn under the joggers and some did not have trainers. But the baggy, informal look was still there so wasn’t a worry.
These were our final costumes:
Final Location
We had many ideas for where our opening sequence was going to shot. Our first decision was to have both settings which were a studio and the street but we realised that filming in the street wasn't very appropriate and dangerous because of the ongoing traffic within the roads of Essex so it was a big safety issue.
Therefore we still stuck to the same idea but minus the street, this was real shame since it would of set the mood for the theme and genre we was trying portray. On the other hand the studio was more officiant anyway since it was quiet and consisted of the props that we needed which was; a bar, mirrors and flooring. We was lucky enough to film within two real studios since one of the members of our group is a dancer herself and kindly asked her dance school 'Talent' which was the dance school that dances throughout our opening, whether it would be okay to film there ballet and street class within there studio numerous days, which was fine (We also got consent from all the dancers). The studios are located in Shotgate, Essex which was a easy location to travel to. Both studios were similar in the way they both had bars across the mirrors, spacious flat flooring and lighting.
Some of the filming aswell was located within our school 'Beauchamps High School' since we couldn't find anywhere with a long corrider and double dooring so our school was a great place to film a section of our opening. This consisted of brick walls, flooring, lighting, big double doors and a wide corrider, we found that that this scenery gave a more urban style to it because the brick walling kind of relates to the streets with the graffiti etc, giving a great feel to the opening.
Final Music
For this task we had to use music that is not copyrighted. We found this difficult initially but we then told ourselves its a way for us to create our own personal theme tune which could ‘stick’ with those who view it on the website and most of all the examiner. As none of us are familiar with the production of music we received help from various individuals who gave us guidelines as to how to make a song that was above average. As initially we planned to use the song 'Halo' by the Pussycat Dolls, we took inspiration from the song as well as other dance music soundtracks such as 'Is it you' by Cassie and 'Thirsty'. There after we played with many different sounds, found from copyright free sources, and finally got to what we wanted, by composing a sound we were proud of, and happy would 'sync in' with the concept and genre of our opening sequence. Being able to design our own track gave our film production a personal feeling as we worked for everything that has featured on it, all the film, the sound and the editing.
In conclusion, the relationship between film and music or any form of sound is influential and is used in all movie and film productions if not all. Thus does not make it a musical, just using ordinary everyday sound effects. As our opening sequence consists of a few dance scenes, we hope to use more sounds rather than just the song we composed, as music and different sounds could emphasis the dance moves more effectively and with a ‘sharper’ feeling.