Showing posts with label Kiah Wauchope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kiah Wauchope. Show all posts
Monday, 19 March 2012
Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final product?
Loock back at the skills you had when you made the preliminary film; in terms of pre production. compare those with the skills you displayed in your final film. Try to sum up what you have learnt across both productions.
In the preliminary we were introduced to storyboards, so in the final film we knew more what we were doing with the story boards and how to show types of shots and zooms in the storyboards. We were given a task to follow in the preliminary wheras in our film it was completely up to us, which gave us a lot more freedom but also made it harder because we had to come up with the ideas on our own.
During the production of our prelim we learnt that you should always check the focus of your clips, because this ended up messing up our clips. So in the final production process we made sure to do this. In the final version we learnt how to eastablish more of the scene using the camera whereas in the prelim we only used a few types of shots. In the final version we recorded a lot more clips than we would ever need, we learnt that it was good to do this so that we would have more footage if we ever needed it.
During editing we hadn't learnt much more in the final process than in the preliminary except how to use Live Type to create titles. In the prelim we had learnt how to edit sound and audio using final cut and how to edit sound using soundtrack pro.
In the prelim We learnt about the 180 degree rule, which means only filming within 180 degrees, if you go over this you may end up confusing your audience as the characters and objects will be on reverse sides.
We also learnt about the 5 second rule in the final production in that you should film for 5 seconds more than you need in the beginning and ending of each shot to make sure you have enough footage. We learnt in the prelim how important Mise En Scene can be as it can influence the audiences view completly, so in the final version we tried our best to use oriental intertexuality where we could for example Zaiba's white costume showing a ghostly figure.
In the preliminary task we learnt how important it was to match cut during editing, so that the clip would flow nicely and as to not confuse our audience, we carried this through into the final project.
Here is a vlog for some more of my answers to this question:
You may have to click this link to view it... The video may be out of sync due to problems with the youtube uploader
In the preliminary we were introduced to storyboards, so in the final film we knew more what we were doing with the story boards and how to show types of shots and zooms in the storyboards. We were given a task to follow in the preliminary wheras in our film it was completely up to us, which gave us a lot more freedom but also made it harder because we had to come up with the ideas on our own.
During the production of our prelim we learnt that you should always check the focus of your clips, because this ended up messing up our clips. So in the final production process we made sure to do this. In the final version we learnt how to eastablish more of the scene using the camera whereas in the prelim we only used a few types of shots. In the final version we recorded a lot more clips than we would ever need, we learnt that it was good to do this so that we would have more footage if we ever needed it.
During editing we hadn't learnt much more in the final process than in the preliminary except how to use Live Type to create titles. In the prelim we had learnt how to edit sound and audio using final cut and how to edit sound using soundtrack pro.
In the prelim We learnt about the 180 degree rule, which means only filming within 180 degrees, if you go over this you may end up confusing your audience as the characters and objects will be on reverse sides.
We also learnt about the 5 second rule in the final production in that you should film for 5 seconds more than you need in the beginning and ending of each shot to make sure you have enough footage. We learnt in the prelim how important Mise En Scene can be as it can influence the audiences view completly, so in the final version we tried our best to use oriental intertexuality where we could for example Zaiba's white costume showing a ghostly figure.
In the preliminary task we learnt how important it was to match cut during editing, so that the clip would flow nicely and as to not confuse our audience, we carried this through into the final project.
Here is a vlog for some more of my answers to this question:
You may have to click this link to view it... The video may be out of sync due to problems with the youtube uploader
Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about the technologies from the process of constructing this product?
I have chosen to answer this question using a powerpoint presentation on sliderocket. The presentation can be view above, if not here is the public link: http://portal.sliderocket.com/BQHIO/My-Presentation-1
Evaluation Question 5: How did you attract/address your audience?
What aspects of our opening to the film appeal to the target audience (Of 16 to 19 year olds)?
Our target audience liked the idea of the girl who turns into an onryo in the forest, and the location of the college. Since our target audience are mostly in education, an educational centre brings in something close to home during the thriller. Our target audience liked the music from the Jack in the box that ran throughout our film as well as the sound effects of the wind.They also liked the use of the jack in the box, although it was slightly colourful. As well as the white costume that the main character played by Zaiba wears and the white ribbon in her hair which conveyed innocence and purity. The oriental-horror genre appeals to our audience as it it thrillingly scary, and has similarities to other oriental-horror films such as Ringu and Ju-On: The grudge. Our target audience also showed interest in the revengeful storyline and wished that the opening clip was longer!
Our media teacher Dan gave us feedback on our rough cut a while ago. We took into consideration his comments about the two girls not really linking together, in response to this we filmed another scene to show that she was being bullied at school. We feel that it helped appeal to our target audience as many teens have witnessed bullying or even been bullied themselves so they might understand why the character may have committed suicide. However i feel that we could have done with a longer time period to film and edit with so that we could have attempted a suicide scene. If we were able to produce a 5 minute opening we would be able to shown all the essential scenes.
So far we have reached our audience via CInema Screening, at a Cinema local to our college. However no member of group 3 were able to attend so we do not have any feedback from that event. Our thriller will be available on a 250 DVD release, however since the DVDs have not yet been made we cannot collect feedback through the DVD either. So instead I have shown the video to my friends and this is the feedback they gave me Via the social networking site Facebook. We would hope to reach our audience again through Cinema and DVD.
This feedback was given after the final cut of our film. If we were able to re-edit parts of it we would definitely try to respond to this feedback. We would use a different Jack-in-the box, however this was the only one we could get in time... and afford as they are quite expensive. We had to use our own money for this project. We would also spend more time editing the scene and take into consideration the comments on the slow motion effects. We would also need make the link between the two girls more clear. Although it is quite difficult to show so much in a 2 minute video clip.
Our target audience liked the idea of the girl who turns into an onryo in the forest, and the location of the college. Since our target audience are mostly in education, an educational centre brings in something close to home during the thriller. Our target audience liked the music from the Jack in the box that ran throughout our film as well as the sound effects of the wind.They also liked the use of the jack in the box, although it was slightly colourful. As well as the white costume that the main character played by Zaiba wears and the white ribbon in her hair which conveyed innocence and purity. The oriental-horror genre appeals to our audience as it it thrillingly scary, and has similarities to other oriental-horror films such as Ringu and Ju-On: The grudge. Our target audience also showed interest in the revengeful storyline and wished that the opening clip was longer!
Our media teacher Dan gave us feedback on our rough cut a while ago. We took into consideration his comments about the two girls not really linking together, in response to this we filmed another scene to show that she was being bullied at school. We feel that it helped appeal to our target audience as many teens have witnessed bullying or even been bullied themselves so they might understand why the character may have committed suicide. However i feel that we could have done with a longer time period to film and edit with so that we could have attempted a suicide scene. If we were able to produce a 5 minute opening we would be able to shown all the essential scenes.
So far we have reached our audience via CInema Screening, at a Cinema local to our college. However no member of group 3 were able to attend so we do not have any feedback from that event. Our thriller will be available on a 250 DVD release, however since the DVDs have not yet been made we cannot collect feedback through the DVD either. So instead I have shown the video to my friends and this is the feedback they gave me Via the social networking site Facebook. We would hope to reach our audience again through Cinema and DVD.
This feedback was given after the final cut of our film. If we were able to re-edit parts of it we would definitely try to respond to this feedback. We would use a different Jack-in-the box, however this was the only one we could get in time... and afford as they are quite expensive. We had to use our own money for this project. We would also spend more time editing the scene and take into consideration the comments on the slow motion effects. We would also need make the link between the two girls more clear. Although it is quite difficult to show so much in a 2 minute video clip.
Evaluation Question 4: Who would be the audience for your media project?
Above is a Prezi to show my response as to who is the wider audience, the sub genre audience and audience specific to our film 'Vengeance'.
Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
In our opening to our thriller, the distribution company used was Candi Studios, and the production company was 19 Productions. Both of these are local studios. Which means we probably would not be able to market our film to a large audience. However the film will be produced on a 250 DVD release. As you can see the distribution company logo and Production company logos below. They would be good for distributing our film in the London area as it is where we are based, or ideally locally in Korea.
For the distribution of our film we would use the Korean distribution company Showbox/쇼박스. Showbox are one of the larger distribution companies in Korea, which would mean we would be able to distribute our film through the whole of South Korea. Unfortunately I can not find a copy of their distribution company logo.
However if we decided we wanted to produce an English subbed version we would use Palisades Tartan is a UK and US film disribution company which help to distribute Asian films to a wider audience. This would mean that our film could be distributed to the western companies and possibly world wide.
Our ideal production company would be the Korean production company CJ Entertainment/씨제이엔터테인먼트, Who are a large compnay. This means that they might also distribute for us. CJ Entertainment are a large enough company to distribute our film to the whole of South Korea. I doubt that the film would be shown in north Korea. CJ Entertainment are probably one of the largest production companies in South Korea, if they produced and distributed our film, it would definitely become a well known and talked about film in Korea.
Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent particular social groups?
I have presented my answer to Question 2 of the evaluation using a 'Go Animate package' and a wordle which represents the stereotypes and emotions used in the opening to vengeance. Below is the wordle.
Here is the 'GO Animate' Animation on the Stereotypes shown in vengeance. The main stereotypes shown were Onryo, Students, Youth, and Females. All of which were portrayed negatively throughout the film opening.
GoAnimate.com: streotypes for vengaence by aa42425
Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
Here is the 'GO Animate' Animation on the Stereotypes shown in vengeance. The main stereotypes shown were Onryo, Students, Youth, and Females. All of which were portrayed negatively throughout the film opening.
GoAnimate.com: streotypes for vengaence by aa42425
Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
What are the conventions of film openings and titles sequences?
Conventions of film title sequences
Titles sequences of film opening generally follow this order:
3. Zaiba, Vanessa, Kiah from 283goswell on Vimeo.
The password is student.
Conventions of film openings
- introduce production company logo; used for the company to brand what they produce some well known companies inlcude: Universal, Dreamworks and 20th Century fox. Korean production companies include: CJ Entertainment/씨제이엔터테인먼트 and AKOM
- introduce distribution company logo; Used for the company to brand what they distribute. Most of the big companies promote and distribute by themselves however a well known distribution company is the American Film Institute. One of the Korean distribution companies is Showbox/쇼박스. Palisades Tartan is a UK and IS film disribution company which help to distribute Asian films to a wider audience.
- often carry a title sequence; as you can see in the opening of Chakushin Ari the opening carries a title sequence to introduce they main actors and important people behind the film.
- mood and tone established with sound; through sound tracks/effects and dialogue.
- intended to hook the audience into the film, done through narrative
- introduced to key characters, in the opening of the film.
Titles sequences of film opening generally follow this order:
- -Production and distribution company logo.
- -Director, Producor, Top actors.
- -Film title.
- - Main actors
- -Film Directors
- -Film title
- -Executives, Editors, Music, Costume, Screenplay.
- -Director/Producer.
Our film
3. Zaiba, Vanessa, Kiah from 283goswell on Vimeo.
The password is student.
The conventions of our title sequence:
Friday, 16 March 2012
Vengence Final Version
This is group 3's final project; Vengence.
The password is student.
3. Zaiba, Vanessa, Kiah from 283goswell on Vimeo.
The password is student.
3. Zaiba, Vanessa, Kiah from 283goswell on Vimeo.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Thriller Titles in English.
Although we had originally planned to use Korean titles, our titles are now in English. This is due to the fact that my group were editing whilst I had a late class that could not be missed. Since I was away, and am the only Korean speaker in my group we were unable to use the Korean titles. Although I had written them out, my group were told in the final stages of editing when our Media teacher Mary told them that we could not use the same people as actors as the directors producers editors etc, even though our project had just been the 3 of us.
Looking back on a post I had done during class in January which analysed the titles on The Grudge we were able to choose the order of the titles accordingly. If we were able to create and Korean release and Western release we would keep the western titles in English and Korean Title in Hangeul - the modern Korean alphabet
Our college then added the CANDI Studios logo.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Last minute changes ... !
After our rough cut thriller was viewed by our teacher we realised that some aspects of our thriller needed to be changed so that the quality overall would be better . One of the points our teacher made was that the plot didn't make sense , he suggested that we film another scene .
Plot (Before) : Theres this main girl who get's bullied by other pupils at her school constantly , she get's to a point were she can't take it no more so she runs away to the forest , commits suicide and comes back as a Onryo Ghost . We have a jack in the box which she winds up to suggest how what the bullying is doing to her . When she turns into the ghost she goes about killing all the people who bullied her at school.
Dan our media teacher said he didn't get the plot from looking at our rough cut edit therefor we realised that we had to change our plot to something less complex and film another bullying scene to make our plot more clear.
We decided that we weren't going to film a suicide scene as it's only our beginning however after we filmed another bullying scene he commented saying "Now i can tell that she gets bullied and that's what turns her into that ghost"
Plot (Before) : Theres this main girl who get's bullied by other pupils at her school constantly , she get's to a point were she can't take it no more so she runs away to the forest , commits suicide and comes back as a Onryo Ghost . We have a jack in the box which she winds up to suggest how what the bullying is doing to her . When she turns into the ghost she goes about killing all the people who bullied her at school.
Dan our media teacher said he didn't get the plot from looking at our rough cut edit therefor we realised that we had to change our plot to something less complex and film another bullying scene to make our plot more clear.
We decided that we weren't going to film a suicide scene as it's only our beginning however after we filmed another bullying scene he commented saying "Now i can tell that she gets bullied and that's what turns her into that ghost"
Editing Summary
Through the course we have learnt how to edit Video and Audio using Final Cut Pro, How to edit Audio using Soundtrack and how to edit text using LiveType. (As you can see in our skills audits).
We overlaid a few clips to give the scenes a ghost like effect. We put two of the exact clips on top[ of each other. We lowered the opacity of the higher clip.
We edited our production company l
ogo using LiveType. We were able to change the font just by chosing the text track and double clicking a font. Text could just be typed in.
Effects could be dropped and dragged onto the track by dropping the effect into the effects tab. The effects could then be edited by clicking each individual attribute of the effect in LiveType.
We could edit the length of time the text appeared, the length of the effect and the keyframes/key-points of the effect in the timeline. With the Yellow bar being the text, and purple bar being the effect on the clip.
We could change the alignment of the whole text track or individual letters, as well as size an placement on the main board of LiveType.
For the Visual part of Vengence we used Final Cut Pro to edit.
We've added filters to most of our clips, and flashes to indicate flashbacks. We desaturated clips in the flashback to help the audience view the bullying scenes as flashbacks. After adding the effects into the clips we were able to edit the effects ourselves to choose how they would effect our clips. To add filters and/or fades all we had to do was drop them onto the clips we wanted to use them on. Filters included negative, grayscale and desaturate.
We overlaid a few clips to give the scenes a ghost like effect. We put two of the exact clips on top[ of each other. We lowered the opacity of the higher clip.We added colour dips to fade between the forest scenes and flashbacks to bullying scenes. The majority of our colour dips were white.
We used fade in fade out dissolves between some of our clips to create a smooth fade between them.
For the text we used the modern Korean script Hangeul with English translations.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Uploading to YouYube
Due to posts having been deleted Group 3 have decided to upload their work to YouTube as a back up. The AS Coursework playlist can be viewed here. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1CC59D6197F03432
Friday, 24 February 2012
19 Productions Company Logo
This is our Production Company Logo, it is in Korean first and then English, this was done to shown intertexuality of Oriental Horror films.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
How do you say ____ in Korean?
Since we would like to show our opening credits in both Korean and English, we will need to be able to write the Korean for the following.
vengeance 복수가
A film by 필름에 의한
19 Production 십구 프로덕션
19 Productions 십구 프로덕션스
Group 3 그룹 3
Director 디렉터
Directed by 감독이
Directed by Group 3 그룹 3 감독이
Producer 생산자
Produced by 생산
produced by group 3 그룹3이 생산
Editor 에디터
Edited by 에 의해 조장
Edited by 그룹3에 의해 조장에
Casting 캐스팅
Music 음악
Music By 에 의한 음악
Production Designer 프로덕션 디자이너
Executive Producer 큐 티브 프로듀서
Executive 큐 티브
Producer 프로듀서
Co Producer 주식 프로듀서
Our names in Korean?
Western format: Vanessa Silva 바넸아실바, Zaiba Hakim 재바하김, Kiah Wauchope 가이야와쳡.
Korean Format: Silva Vanessa 실바바넸아, Hakim Zaiba 하김재바, Wauchope Kiah 와쳡가이야.
And or with? 그리고 or 하고. Their uses are different that that of English, 하고 means and but is usually used to mean 'with' for example 와쳡가이야하고 실바바넸아하고 하김재바 (Kiah Wauchope and Vanessa Silva and Zaiba Hakim). It must be attached to the end of the last word it can not be a word on it's own. 그리고 would be used to say something like it is red AND blue, where as 하고 would be used in the context of I am going with him AND her.
vengeance 복수가
A film by 필름에 의한
19 Production 십구 프로덕션
19 Productions 십구 프로덕션스
Group 3 그룹 3
Director 디렉터
Directed by 감독이
Directed by Group 3 그룹 3 감독이
Producer 생산자
Produced by 생산
produced by group 3 그룹3이 생산
Editor 에디터
Edited by 에 의해 조장
Edited by 그룹3에 의해 조장에
Casting 캐스팅
Music 음악
Music By 에 의한 음악
Production Designer 프로덕션 디자이너
Executive Producer 큐 티브 프로듀서
Executive 큐 티브
Producer 프로듀서
Co Producer 주식 프로듀서
Our names in Korean?
Western format: Vanessa Silva 바넸아실바, Zaiba Hakim 재바하김, Kiah Wauchope 가이야와쳡.
Korean Format: Silva Vanessa 실바바넸아, Hakim Zaiba 하김재바, Wauchope Kiah 와쳡가이야.
And or with? 그리고 or 하고. Their uses are different that that of English, 하고 means and but is usually used to mean 'with' for example 와쳡가이야하고 실바바넸아하고 하김재바 (Kiah Wauchope and Vanessa Silva and Zaiba Hakim). It must be attached to the end of the last word it can not be a word on it's own. 그리고 would be used to say something like it is red AND blue, where as 하고 would be used in the context of I am going with him AND her.
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Pictures taken while filming - Intertexuality
These two pictures shows us taking pictures of Zaiba after she got her eye make up done , we wanted to take some close up pictures of her face and work/try with angles before we recorded her .
At first we were hoping to use a samsung mobile phone as part of the korean intertextuality as it's a korean make and korean films usually are mobile phone/technology based.However we found out that it didn't go with our plot so as a whole we thought the hair , eye makeup and white outfit is strong enough intertextuality to carry of our korean inspiration .
At first we were hoping to use a samsung mobile phone as part of the korean intertextuality as it's a korean make and korean films usually are mobile phone/technology based.However we found out that it didn't go with our plot so as a whole we thought the hair , eye makeup and white outfit is strong enough intertextuality to carry of our korean inspiration .
Monday, 20 February 2012
Analysis of statistics
Coming close to the end of our project we have decided to analysis the statistics of our blog. Doing this we can view what has been popular and who has viewed our blog from where.
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VLOG - Final Filming day
We decided to make a VLOG , we weren't prepared for it but we thought it would be a good idea . Overall though we've concluded that we should make a Summery VLOG of all our filming days with set questions and detailed answers .
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