Evaluation: Q6. What Have I Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing My Teen Film?

Evaluation : Q7. Looking Back At My Preliminary Task What Do I feel I have learnt In The Progression From It To The Full Product?

Overview On Media, Teen Films !

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Jacked: Film Completed!

Film Completed!

Here you can see Cristian writing on the groups check list to signify that we have finished our teen film opening. As a group we watched it several times to make make sure that all the shots were in the right order,  making sure that we had the right sounds at the right time of the action happening and credits were correct and in the right order in which you'll see in a professional film. We also asked our teachers to watch it before we said that we were finished so we could get their opinion as to how it looks and to see if there was any improvements that we could have done to make it more effective for the viewers. 

The whole experience has been really interesting to go through all the stages of what film makers have to go through to get the end product whether it be a low budget film that expresses a directors views or a Holly blockbuster, that has everyone talking about it. During the time there was problems and situations that we had to resolve about the film so that it could be as strong as we wanted it to be, also to make sure that what we had reflected our story line, not only for the opening but the whole film is we were to make it. 

Jacked: Changes Made

As we went on to editing there were a few changes made to make it better and what we thought was right.

1. Starting with the title. It wasn't until the last day of filming where  we decided to change the name due to the narrowing down of the 2 minute opening. After brainstorming names which included Conviction, Non Conviction, Stop and Stolen we came up Jacked. After the last scene we needed a powerful word but was youthful so someone suggested Jacked.

2. Another thing we changed was the way the the opening ends. When we was looking at the rough cut we felt that there was too much action happening in it, it felt as it was the first scene after the opening. We changed the plot of the opening by having a bag in Raheem's (Rojal)) room full of stolen goods but he wasn't aware of it, Noah (Ismail) bring the laptop to show Raheem and Vince (Cristian). Vince is pleased with Noah and places the laptop in the bag. Noah and Vince then decide to go back out to do more looting but Raheem is against it and stays at home. Just as they are about to leave Vince decides to leave the bag in one of the cupboards, as he is stuffing it in that where the film ends. 

3. We also decided to change the music that we was going to do, instead of using mellow reggae we decided to use a drum and bass reggae beat as it was more up tempo with the pace of the editing and the running. As we was editing we felt that we needed to create more suspense and one way of doing that was with music, for this we found a copyright free track of sound cloud that gradually picked up in pace to show the tension of leaving the bag in the cupboard. 

4. The shots we decided to use as well changed to make it more engaging for example, we decided to use more close ups of the Ismail pressing the buttons continuously to get it, and of Rojal shaking his head in disappointment as Cristian and Ismail are about to go back out to loot.

Jacked: Editing The Final Cut

Jacked: Editing the final cut

Jacked: Editing

Once we had put our rough cut together, we then began with our final cut. This was a long process that we had to do and we had to make sure that we done all these things:

• Shorten the clips from the rough copy so that the were the right match cuts, continuity and to make sure that we had various different shots types.
• Add the Production and Distribution motions at the beginning of the opening to as that is key for making a film so that they get recognition for the funding that they have given. (although the production and distribution companies are made up it shows how we're following the order of credits).
• Made sure that the credits were in the right order. 
• Had the right sounds in the right places, as well as making sure that the background music was at the right pace to go with the pace of the running and the action. 

As we was editing we got advice from our peers and our teachers to get their opinion on how they felt the editing was going, there was positives and negatives feedback, but we use the negative to make our film more successful in what we're trying to achieve. 

Jacked: Making Of The Production and Distribution Companies

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Originally we thought we could use other professional distribution and production companies for our 2 minute film opening however it turns out we had to do our own ones, therefore we used a software called 'Motion 4' which allowed us to create a production and distribution company from scratch.

When doing our companies we had to be very patient and vigilant as the slightest mistake could mean we have to restart. We first had a tutorial on how to use the software as this was the first time we had ever tried or known about the software however it became easy as we had a few goes around it.

When we understood how to use the software it became quite natural. We first started with our production company. As soon as we started we had a bit of an argument with what the background and name would be as it needs to reflect the film. Each one of us had a unique but different ideas. Starting with the name, suggestions include ; 'Myers Productions', 'Studio 41', 'Insight/Inside Films' however when we all though about it realistically we came up with 'Mural Films' because when we were shooting in hackney we went to the mural wall which was our inspiration for the way the film would be constructed. First we had to check that the company wasn't already taken due to copyright. Fortunately it wasn't which means we went ahead with designing the background.

To choose the background wasn't hard there were templates already installed into the system and we previewed nearly all of them to see which background would suite the purpose. Then one stood out for us. It was a ribbon going around, making its way to a house where we then inserted 'Mural films' as if it was a sun rise. We were happy with the final result as it was everything we wanted and more; the feel, colours, background and the animation itself.

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The next step was our distribution company. This was easier to complete because we had played around with the software and we were now experienced. We were drawn to a template which looked like a circus theme which lead us to the name "Fun House". It consists of the colours light orange and white and then spins till you see the name (Which is isn't long). It spins quite a few times before it stops. There was an idea that we would make it in 3D which we knew how to do however because of the final product- the way it looked. We decided it was best if we left it the way it originally was.