Group Discussion - 14/3/13

Today our school had an academic mentoring day which we spent in media finishing off editing our opening sequence. We spent most of the day finishing the opening sequence but towards the end of the day we started on our music for the opening.

Editing - 15/3/13

Today we spent the day doing our opening credits, we did these on Adobe After Effects, we managed to find a template to work from on the interent which gave us a basic start, which we then worked with and added things to make it our own and suitable for our opening sequence.

Re-Editing

Our group has finally finished editing our opening sequence for the second time. We managed to do it a bit quicker as we knew which bits we needed to edited or change. A set back to our editing was that we had to learn to use a different program 'Adobe Premier' but we managed to learn how to use it fairly quickly.

 

Here are some photos:

Group Discussion 4/12/13

I am posting some group discussions from previous dates as I have not yet put these on the blog. In today's lesson Me, Kiah and Rianna looked at a choice of different songs to have in the background of our behind the scenes video. We came to an agreement of using Azealia Banks - 212, we chose this song as it is a new song that a lot of our target audience might listen to. It is also very upbeat so anyone who hasn't heard it before will already know what sort of music it is and that it suits our behind the scenes video well.

Group discussion - 11/2/13

Today when we got into school we found out that all of our mac computers had been stolen, this meant that all of our coursework and our finished opening sequence had been lost. It was a terribly unfortunate day but luckily the head phones had not been stolen. We now have to start our opening sequence again from the beginning. We hope that we can make out sequence as good as it was before. If anyone can report 17 stolen macs please get in contact.

Group discussions - 4/2/13

In today's lesson we worked on the behind the scenes video, we looked for some music to put in the background and took some more photos to add to the video.

Group Discussion - 31/1/13

In this lesson, Me, Kiah and Rianna had a look at the software Livetype and attempted to create the titles for our opening sequence. It helped us get used to the programme so when we are making the real titles it will be easier for us. We also came up with the name of our film, which would be called 'Abduction'. At the end of the lesson we showed our progress to three other students and they said they enjoyed it and understood the sequence well.

Group Discussion - 12/01/13

Today we filmed our opening sequence, we made sure we shot lots of different shots of each scene so we have a choice of shots to use for each part. Overall the filming turned out well and everything went to plan.

Group Discussion - 10/01/13

In todays lesson we did our audience research. We interviewed three students who were in our target audience and not media students. We asked them questions about what sort of films they watch each week and what sort of films they watch. We recorded their responses and uploaded them onto the group blog. We also planned our filming day for the 12/01/13. We got our cast members ready and decided the times of which we should film.

Group Discussions 9/1/2013

In todays lesson Me, Rianna and Kiah wrote the questions that we would ask our target audience, we also uploaded all of the photos to our group blog from previous discussions. 

Group Discussion 7/1/2013

In today's lesson Me, Kiah and Rianna discussed and wrote down the risk assessment, we came up with the costumes for each character to wear when filming. We also discussed the script and how much needed to be said by each character. We then worked out casting and asked people if they could act in our opening sequence. Finally we sorted out the day we would film it and then booked when we were going to take the cameras out.