Questionnaire on our opening.

After the film was complete I had someone to answer a few questions.
I am pretty shocked about what she commented about it, saying
that she thought our camera work was amazing! and that she would
love to watch the rest of the film if it was made. The rating on the sound
was just as I expected as we didn't really have much time to work on
that. I am very pleased with her feedback though. =D

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Feedback after first showcase =D

There were a lot of positive comments on our camera movement from this group. They also commented on the fact that the storyline is confusing, after getting this feedback it's fine as our group hasn't put our sequence into its actual proper order yet. They also commented on the black screens in between our sequence, but obviously my group and I are going to edit it so our storyline makes sense, and so there are no gaps in between our sequence.











There were some comments on the lengths of the shots, and some people commented how they thought they were too long. My group decided that we might as well cut the walking shot out completely, as it's not very important to our sequence and it would just drag on and make the audience lose interest.















Most people from this group commented on our lighting. Of course my group are aware that we need to do something about this. So I guess using final cut and the colour balance tool, we could use this to adjust our lighting, but we are going to make sure that the realistic feel is still there. We don't want to take away the realistic looking lighting, but obviously as for the nigh time scenes, it is quite challenging to get the lighting to be proper clear.







Someone in this group commented how we had no sound and that we should put some in, this is fine for our group, and this feedback is ok and understandable, as my group have not yet produced our sound for our opening sequence. We have many comments saying "good shots" .."good use of camera angles" and we are pleased with this at least, as we worked hard on our shots and getting them to look interesting.












From all of the classrooms feedback, we have decided as a group that cutting out the long walking forest scene would probably make a huge difference to the length of our sequence, and the overall understanding. It's pretty clear the walking in this sequence would just lose interest in the audience pretty quickly. We were happy with the rest of the feedback though,and I am very glad that there are no major changes needed. ^^
Our group are going to work our absolute best to cover all these areas, and to hopefully get a more positive feedback next time!

Using final cut for the first time

In our last meeting I learnt how to edit using final cut. This was a very hard process and was very hard to get used to, but eventually I learnt the simple things and hopefully will learn the more exciting and better things later on when editing. This is the very first time I became familiar with the software but not the first time using Imovie, or learning how to import our shots. Hopefully my editing skills will keep on improving.

My article for our film.

Introduction to myself

Hello, my name is Lauren and this is my AS Media studies blog. I am definitely glad that I get to design my very own website to keep as a Media portfolio. I have made many of my own websites before, so therefore I do have some kind of experience. I consider myself a very creative person, and a very multimedia person. I will be sure to take pictures, rather than just typing, that way I can keep my blog looking interesting. I am really looking forward to recording my work on here, and I will work my hardest throughout the course. I own my very own YouTube channel, and have been editing slide shows and animated video's since I was just 11, so I am excited and  prepared.

Updates

I will be updating my blog over the upcoming days with new pieces and old pieces of work onto my blog that I have produced for my AS Media course.