Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Candidate Names and Numbers

Candidate Numbers
Steven Bourner- 3027
Sam Morris- 3142

Beauchamps High School
Centre Number- 16137

Monday, 15 March 2010

Evaluation- Sam Morris

Evaluation- Steven Bourner

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Sunday, 14 February 2010

Decision Making

Throughout our production, we had lots of important decisions to make regarding the editing of the teaser trailer. The largest decision that we had to make involved the final shot where Agent Morris and his operative are talking on the bridge. The footage is meant to represent a villain watching the two agents, which is why they suspiciously look over towards the camera (villain). After including this shot we didn't know whether or not the audience would understand what is happening. In order to know what others thought of this, we conducted some audience feedback.
The feedback we receieved was suprisingly positive. We initially thought that a lot of the audience would just think it was a shot that wasn't held steady, but this wasn't the case. A large majority of the audience stated that they thought it was surveillence, and because the government are the villains, they could be watching the Agents via the surveillence cameras. This is what we wanted to achieve and get people to understand that it was a shot that showed Agent Morris being watched.
The other large decision that we needed to make regarding this piece of footage was the sound. A small amount of people did ask why the wind sound was left in. We believe that this represents an authentic CCTV/surveillance camera, and it shows why the camera is not completely steady. The vast majority of the audience understood this. We were very happy with the positive feedback on this shot, and glad that it is understood by our audience.

iDVD

We have created a DVD menu for our trailer via iDVD on the Apple Macs. The menu was an ancillary task which we wanted to include in order making our production look more realistic and authentic. iDVD was completely new to us and it didn’t take long for us to understand how it works. We found some outstanding features within iDVD which we have used and also included links to extras and the credits in order to make an authentic DVD menu. All of the links have been tried and tested and they now all work together. As well as this the menu is extremely easy to navigate around.

There were numerous layouts to choose from and various colours. This meant that we could customise the menu to the way that we wanted. As our film website and DVD cover follows similar colours because of the film genre, we used the same colours to keep consistency and to portray to genre to the audience.

Overall, I feel that the DVD menu for our film which was made through iDVD is very realistic and works very well with the genre. We are happy with the end product of this ancillary task.