Final Evaluation - 'Commitment'

Media Evaluation

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Finished Opening Sequence

This is our final sequence.

Music Research

The original music we had in the opening sequence, we felt as a group, didn't fit in well with the genre as it sounded quite oriental and was sounded annoying after a few times of listening to it. Me and Sareena sat down and researched through websites providing copyright free music. Eventually after listening and downloading several tracks, we found the perfect track which we later fitted into our opening sequence.

Filming - Reshooting 9/3/11

From the feedback we recieved from Mr Michie, we all agreed that we needed to shoot some establishing shots as we didn't feel the sequence doesn't make sense. The filming we did went well today. It took us much longer than anticipated similar to the out attempts at filming but we did expect this. We feel the length of the filming was mainly due to the fact that we hadn't tried these shots before so it took longer to film from various angles in order to have various shots to work with and to include in our footage. We also realised that as we went along, some of the shots we had planned on using wouldn't work so we needed to adapt them and shoot them from different angles. We had a better advantage this time shooting thoough as we were using a better camera and tripod than the school had and what we used in our first shooting session.
After filming, I converted the shots into different files using a newer macbook which we had taken home and transfered the shots on the mac we were using to edit.
Stephanie has now began adding in the footage that we had just filmed into the footage that has already been edited.

Rough Cut

Teacher's Feedback

Stephanie, Sareena and myself sat down with Mr Michie and showed him our sequence. We were happy with the feedback as it was mainly positive but Mr Michie suggested to do some more establishing shots with the character walking in and out of the rooms which we felt would be good to put in because when we were filming, Stephanie and myself felt unsure of the lack of entrance and exit shots. Mr Michie also suggested changing the font style because it didn't fit into the genre of our film which is horror/thriller. This is something we also agreed on but was easily changeable in the editing process.
We have decided to film the extra shots on the 9th of March.

Editing

Stephanie and myself found editing a lot harder than first anticipated. We faced problems with the macbook as the files were not in the correct format for Premiere Pro to recognise which I had to resolve by changing the file format using a newer macbook. Another issue was that we did need some help with editing and seeing what transition effects would be best. This advice was harder to achieve because one of the teachers didn't know how to use the macs. We overcame this issue by having to research and look through Premiere Pro, testing out different shot transitions and audio effects.
Editing the footage took longer then we all expected but Stephanie took on the majority of the editing as this was her assigned job. I think having to work out how to use most of the program by ourselves effected the length of the editing process. However, this will benefit us as now we are confident with the program and will be able to confidently edit footage in the future. We looked through the footage which we were happy with in comparison to the previous footage Stephanie had tried to edit. There are still a few things that need resolving in the editing process and I feel there may be some reshooting to be done but overall, editing the second lot of footage was much better than the first shots.

Filming - Reshooting 18/2/11

Stephanie and I sat down to look at our footage and have decided was need to reshoot everything. We have decided to do this using a better quality camera and to reshoot some shots with a different angle. We also had some continuity issues we needed to sort out with would be achievable when doing this reshoot.

These are the results of the re shoot -

Stephanie and myself filmed all of the footage again at my house which we felt much more confident with after filming than the first time. This is because we had learnt from the previous mistakes me have made and we made sure everything including continuity was correct for each shot. We also learnt that the equipment we used in the first shoot was decreasing the quality of the shots so we used a much higher quality camera and we resolved the crooked camera angle by using a different tripod.
We spent another seven hours filming which was probably because we have taken much more care and consideration over what we were doing which meant we had better results at the end of the shooting schedule. We have however come into a problem with the Macbook because of the better quality camera using AVI files which Premiere Pro wasn't connecting with. Eventually, I found out that we would need to convert the files to MOV files which we needed Quicktime Pro to complete. We found it very frustrating because the Macbook we collected from school didn't have Quicktime Pro to convert the files. Finally, after finding a macbook which did have Quicktime Pro, we converted the files and were able to start editing. Stephanie and I found that our project would of run a lot smoother if we had had this extra week editing instead of waiting to collect another mac but it couldn't of been helped as we didn't expect this to of happened.
Overall, the shooting went well and the end result was much better than our first shots. We were very pleased with the filming as the quality and continuity was much improved in comparison to the first set of shots.