Evaluation Question 5

Production Team

Nour: Editor

Ramsha: Camerawoman

Sasha: Made questions

Response To The Video

I was pleased to see this type of response for our film opening. We had the desired emotional effect we wanted to have originally an am glad we were able to pull it off.

The shots that were unfocused was a mistake on our side as we didn't really pay attention on the day we were filming. Due to us being unable to film again we had to go with what we had and just made sure they cut quickly. It annoyed me as it was very unprofessional for us to do but the people who acted for us on that day were able to find a day free to do it for us again so we decided to keep the shots in.

I was quite disappointed when it was mentioned that some things were hard to understand due to how they were laid out, but I understood their perspective as we told a very important plot line at the beginning of the film itself, so it would be quite difficult to understand. I do believe we could've improved some of the ways we told the story, by for example, having the flashbacks in a more coherent structure, but once again due to us not being able to film again we had to use what he had, and tried our best to make sense of that.

Their thoughts on the pace, editing, and audio was positive which made me glad as those were the thing I personally was the most worried about. I agree that the audio quality was not the best, but it helped the audience understand more of the character which is exactly what we were hoping it would do.

In terms of the font and film title, I do agree that they didn't follow the normal boxing conventions, but it was the best we could do given the late time we finished our film at.

Overall we had a positive review which I am thankful for. The impact we had on our audience was exactly what we wanted, and I'm glad we were able to pull it off properly. 

Evaluation Question 4

How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project? 

Production Team

Nour: Voiceover (blogger, lighting), script

Ramsha: Voiceover (camera, internet), script

Sasha: Voiceover (final cut pro), script, editor

Evaluation Question 3

How did your production skills develop throughout this project? 

Production Team

Ramsha: Voiceover/drawing (preliminary task, day 2, day 4), script

Sasha: Voiceover/drawing (day 1, day 3, conclusion), script, editor

Evaluation Question 2

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text? 

Made by me using prezi

Evaluation Question 1

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues? 

Production Team

Ramsha: Script

Sasha: Editor

Final Product

Production Team

Eman: Actress, camerawoman

Nour: Camerawoman

Ramsha: Camerawoman, editor

Sasha: Camerawoman, editor

Deconstruction Of Shots

Soundtrack

The hardest part for us while editing our film was looking for a soundtrack that would go along with our film opening. We didn't want to use a soundtrack that would contain lyrics in it so we were limited to just instrumentals. It was hard to find one that suited our film opening as some that we found were either too intense or just weren't enough.

At the beginning, we had decided to just use a soundtrack and not have any narration at all. This is shown in our film draft. As you can see it made our opening seem very trailer-like, and made it and for the audience to understand what was going on. The soundtrack we used for that one was Sleeping At Last by Saturn.

We still kept it even after we added a narration but once again the film opening became too dramatic and too trailer-like. Knowing we had to change it our teacher advised us to look for ambient tracks rather than actual instrumentals as they'd help our audience focus more on the diegetic sounds than on the non-diegetic sound.

Due to the addition of the narration we needed sound that would be faded into the background but would still have an impact on the audience. Something that would increase in intensity as the opening played but would not make it too dramatic. So in order to do this each of us decided to look for a soundtrack until we found the best options for ourselves.

After searching around on youtube, Nour and I found this soundtrack.

It was exactly what we were looking for. The sound has just the perfect amount of intensity and sadness we needed and also wasn't taking anyone's attention away from the narration like the previous ones did. I'm glad we found something suitable to the genre of our film opening, it really helped convey the feelings the protagonist felt even better than before. Because of this we are one step closer to finally finishing our film.