Evaluation Interview with the Director

Here is the interview my teacher had with me about my final piece. For twenty minutes my teacher asked me questions referring to my video and loosely based them on the actual evaluation questions that I am required to answer for my project. It was fun to be able to tell him all about my ideas and everything that inspired me to create my final piece. It was very laidback and informal so it was easy to get what I wanted to say across and for him to understand. It was set out like a real director interview and i found it much easier just to say everything rather than writing it all out. I decided to edit the interview video into black and white to link well with my film video and create a unique style to it.

Evaluation Interview with the Director from Charlotte Greaves on Vimeo.

Editing my Interview video

For my interview video I have done a quick edit and added a few things to it. I have changed the colour of the video to black and white to link with the idea of using the effect in my film. I have added my screenshot of my title that I used in my film opening sequence, and added an extremely short section of of the music that i played in the second scene of my opening to the beginning of the interview before I start talking. I have also added another title saying 'Evaluation Interview with the Director'. I thought that it might make it look a little more professional and realistic. 

Here is a few screenshots of how I have edited my interview:

 

 

Interview

Today I had my evaluation interview with my teacher to answer questions about my film and my entire media project altogether.I was extremely nervous but once i was in the room and the camera began recording, it was really easy to talk to him and answer the questions. It was just like a normal conversation. He asked me various different questions about my film and how my ideas firstly came about. He asked questions such as what inspiration I got and from which kind of films, why i chose to research the British Film industry and what interested me about the whole concept of it etc. It was videoed and I plan to do a quick edit and upload the interview very shortly.

Plan For My Evaluation

For my evaluation, I will be ansering 7 questions.

The questions are the following:

1. How does your media product:

 

a. use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

b. represent particurlar social groups?             

 

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

 

3. Who would be the audience for your media product?

 

4. How did you attract/ address your audience?

 

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

 

6. Looking back at your preliminary task,  what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

 

For my first question I am going to voice record me answering the question in an audio commentary and play it over a video that I will make to demonstrate what I mean and how I represented a particular social group.

 

For my second question I am going to perform an interview where I will be asked the question by an interview and use my camera to shoot it in different camera shots. Here I will discuss what distributor I researched and the reasons as to why I chose it for my own film.

 

For question three, I am going to make a video about my target audience. I will film a documentary style video about the target audeince. It will include me talking about my choice and how I tried to aim it as closely as possible towards that certain age range. I will perform short interviews with a few of my cast aswell, as I would like their opinion on the target audience as they are all teenagers and wht they thought of the way i approached the idea. Use of wardrobe, storyline etc. I will ask them questions such as if they think it is an accurate representation of teenagers and if they feel I have succeeded in doing this.

 

For the fourth question I need to answer, I will combine this with my third question in the documentary style video. Explaining everything about my choice of audience.

 

For the fifth question , I am going to make a video about the different types of technology I have used throughout the project. I will include the cameras I have used. I will also talk about the different things I have experimented with during the project. Like the different aspects of editing I used and the particular editing software I used, the blog I have maintained throughout etc.

And for my last question, I am going to use screenshots and clips of both my preliminary task and my final piece task and compare them. I will talk about the area I have improved on and the progress I made during the whole process.

 

                                        



FINAL PIECE 'SOBER'

Here is the link to my finished opening sequence final piece on Vimeo. I decided to upload it on to there to get a better high definition image instead of it being blurry and grainy on here. 

 

SOBER Final piece from Charlotte Greaves on Vimeo.

Editing clips

I've been editing my video for a few weeks and experimenting with different things. I have tried out a lot of different effects to add into my video as I thought it would be very effective on the audience and link very well with whole concept of the story of the film. As the character is into taking drugs, I wanted to add in effects on certain clips of the sequence to make it look disillusioned and 'trippy'. I decided to add the echo effect to a few of my clips to emphasise the feeling the character gets when sniffing the drugs during the video. I also decided to speed up some of the clips to give a different effect to the video and represent the rush of the party scene. I have cut up some of the clips and made them jump to the beat of the song that is playing over the video, I have done this to also try and achieve an upbeat feel in contrast to the first half of the video dragging out with slow music, representing a depressing and miserable feel. Here is some screengrabs of the different video effects I have included in my video.

Testing the video out with the target audience

Before finally completing my finished final piece video, I decided to test it out on people of the age range of the target audience. I thought that by doing this it would give me an big indication as to whether my ideas and final video would cater to teenage viewers. I asked a few people of that age range to watch my video and then I have voice recorded myself asking them a few questions and them answering with their own opinions. I found this quite useful as it has helped me and reassured me that what I have created has met the target audience and is of interest to them. The feedback was overall positive which I am very pleased with.

Opening Credits

On my video I have put in quite a few credits. I have included the main and extra actors. I decided to include all the actors as there was a lot of spare room on the clip to add them in and I wanted to include all the names as I would have planned to have them feature quite regularly throughout the rest of the film and not just in the opening sequence. For the Director of Photography, the Editor, the Screen Play and the Producer, I wanted to add other names, not just my own and I decided to research people who did these roles in other films that are similar. I decided to look at the crew on Trainspotting and included their names as both films are British and have similar style and genre.

The Use of Smoking and Cigarettes

I included cigarettes and the character smoking throughout the first half of the opening sequence as I wanted to strongly highlight his personality. By him smoking, I wanted it to be direct message instantly to the audience that he has bad habits and acts like a typical teenager doing things that will get him into trouble. Also another representation I wanted to add was in society today, many people smoke as a form of stress relief. The character may be smoking due to his troubled life and his bad emotions and this may occur to the audience as they begin watching the film.