Evaluation!

How does your media product represent different social groups?

What did you learn about new technologies?

The rest of the evaluation: 

Evaluation planning.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

We will use Facebook to have a conversation which answers this question. Then we will screen-shot this and include it in our evaluation. This links to the question as it is using social media which is a key media platform for social interaction.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? 

We will make a drawing and writing time-lapse video explaining the answer. 

Who would be the audience for your media product? 

We would present using pointing stick and wipe-board, as if to an audience. We would film this and add cheering sound FX. 

How did you attract / address your audience? 

We would make posters with the answers on them and make a video of stapling them to things.(3 x canted close-up, and then 1 long close-up of it. )

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We will use "Perezinception". This is a prezi about the technologies we learned about (AKA prezzies among other things.)

Looking back at your Preliminary Task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

We will make a video commentary of both video, inter-cut together to compare them. 

Another Update

We have decided not to continue with the Lego stop motion idea. Instead, we will return to live action filming but incorporate a child playing with Lego to foreshadow the films eventual outcome. We chose to abandon the stopmotion technique because the result was not of the quality we had hoped for and it was taking a long time to complete.

However, we liked the idea of incorporating an aspect of childlike media into our film opening as it can be juxtaposed greatly with the horror and zombie theme. From this we developed our idea of playing out the original story with Lego, to a child's game of Lego reflecting the 'reality' of the live action elements of our first draft.

We are trying to find a child to play the part, and we plan to film on Friday 2nd and edit on Sunday 4th.

Filming Stop-Motion

On Thursday 23rd February we began filming our stop motion opening using Lego. We filmed for around 3 hours after constructing a set out of Lego, which included building a Lego house to replace the pole in the original film and making zombie warning posters on the computer to add to the mise-en-scene (approximately 11mm by 8 mm). We also set up professional lighting softboxes and a green screen behind the set so we could include more mise-en-scene, relating to Western films.

After choosing the best Lego figures available of zombies and cowboys, we began to film using the original storyboard and taking around 600 frames in total for the session. We used a variety of shot angles and camera movement in combination with the stop motion technique, as we had done in our live action first draft.

This technique is not ideal, as it is very time consuming and we may not finish it by the deadline.