Evaluation

The link to my evaluation is below:
http://joshcoe161198.wix.com/mysite

The Secret - Finished

The Secret RabbitHole Productions from Matthew Levesley on Vimeo.



This is the final piece for our media studies. We have done all of the editing we need to and are happy with the final outcome. For further audience feedback, we have tweeted the link to our piece along with another link to a survey we created for feedback. The link to our survey can be accessed from the link below:
https://wwww.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/J9GHJSF

Further Feedback

To receive further feedback, we each tweeted a link to our vimeo post of our final piece, along with another link to survey monkey containing a survey we created. Below, you can see the tweet from my personal twitter, along with the survey that goes along with it:





















By doing this, we got even more feedback for our piece which allowed us to see what the audience thought about the Film Noir, and what aspects in particular they liked. We also decided it would be a good idea to show our piece in our forms, and get the members to fill out our survey on online to receive ever more feedback. Below is the record of feedback we got:

   










Unfortunately, we didn't receive a huge deal of feedback, but from what we got we were able to get an idea on what people thought about our piece. Generally, all of the feedback we got was really positive and people were giving us good comments about our piece. We are very happy with this, and feel our piece as a whole is now completely finished.

Feedback - Credit to Matthew

After the survey we did, Matthew made an Emaze presentation that summed up our answers and talked about what we need to do for our nest steps. The presentation can be seen below:

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Reflection:
Having the feedback that we received for our draft all in one place and easily accessible was very good and useful for us, because it meant we had an easy way to access and view the feedback when it came to further editing our piece. We can now cross reference the feedback next time we edit, making it easier for us to understand the aspects of the film that we have to change.

Production Log - Final Piece

With a few days left to complete our Film Noir production, we need to change a few things from the draft we previously did to make our production complete. For example, we need to edit the voiceovers to remove the sound of Matthew's voice. When we originally recorded the voiceovers he spoke and it is clear to hear in the film, so editing that out will improve the quality of our sound. Another thing we have to do is edit the footage shown in our first draft so that Heather's stumble is not noticeable. We've already re-filmed some of the footage so adding that in will eliminate our audience noticing Heather's trip. A final thing we may experiment with is where in our production the titles come up. Currently, they appear midway through the production, but after the comments we received from our survey we may analysis how it works at the start of our film instead.

Production Log

Last Friday, we decided to show our first draft to our media class. Because we have managed to get a draft done before our final piece, we thought it was a good idea to show everyone and get some feedback. To record the feedback, Matthew made a quick survey on google forms which we handed out to the class. This allowed us to get some enhanced feedback as people gave us ideas on different ways that we could improve our film.
The google form Matthew did is below, as well as images of our class watching our production. We will now bring all of our feedback together and find an interactive way to embed it onto our blogs.

The Secret (First Draft)

After completing all of our filming, and a considerable amount of editing, we've successfully made a draft of our final piece. Bear in mind that this is not a completed version, and we plan to edit the piece more to improve certain aspects of it. For example, there are a few foley sounds missing that we need to record and add, such as the gunshot, but the purpose of this draft is to get a reaction from people. We will be showing it in class tomorrow, and handing out questionnaire's for people to fill out. This will allow us to see what the general reaction is from our class, and allow us to see the piece from someone else's perspective, giving us further ideas on how to improve it.
Our first draft is embed below through vimeo:

Below is the questionnaire we are going to show the class. Matthew created the questionnaire himself using google forms, so credit goes to him for it.

Reflection:

We feel that showing our draft to our class is a good idea because it allows us to get some quick feedback using the printouts Matthew created. Our next steps are to look in detail about the feedback we received and use it to further edit our piece to turn our draft into a completed piece.

Our Filming Location

I previously did some research into locations, and took some pictures of possible locations for our filming. As it turned out, we ended up using a completely different location for our filming, which I've taken some pictures off, they can be seen below.
The post I did previously can be seen here.

In the end, we decided that this location was better as a whole for our Film Noir recreation. After discussions and previous research carried out, we knew that our location needed to follow certain conventions. After analysing the possible locations I'd looked at, and looking at the pictures taken, we came to see that it came across as being far too modern. There were a lot of houses around the area, not to mention the fact that it could get quite busy, which would have been an issue for us when it came to filming. The location we actually filmed at wasn't far from the ones I'd previously researched, but this one gave our production much more of a Film Noir feel. The long dark alley way that the third picture shows was a big factor for us when it came to matching the conventions because the lamp post allowed us to create shadows down the alley way, as well as enhancing the cigarette smoke.

Reflection:
Overall, we are very happy with the location was chose, and we all think it works very well with our production. From this, I learnt that the easy option isn't always the best one, because we could of quite easily have used some of the locations that we'd already got in mind, but we took a risk to try something new, and it worked really well. The production has been given an extreme Film Noir feel thanks to this location. It made the lighting very easy to for us to work with, and naturally enhanced the cigarette smoke for us.

Production Log

Last night, me Matthew and Heather met up once more to film the final pieces for our Film Noir recreation. We didn't have much filming to do, as we got most of it done before when we met up, we simply just had to film about 10 seconds of our production to tie up some loose ends in our film. The filming process itself went very well last night, we got everything done that we needed to do, and we've now added these scenes into our final production which makes it better. Now that we have the scenes we need to finish our piece, we plan to compose a draft version of it to show to our media class. Matthew is also going to create a questionnaire for the class to fill out so we can get some feedback on our piece.

From our filming process, I've learnt how important it is to be well organised, and how we need to plan ahead with our filming to ensure we get it all done. I think that we've done this very well, as the scenes for our film are all completed with over a week to go before our deadline. Our next step is to analysis the feedback we will get from our class, and discuss our next steps.

Studio Ident - Credit to Matthew and Heather

Here is the studio ident we used and created for our final piece. It is a screenshot from Matthew's blog, because him and Heather were mainly responsible for creating it.





































Reflection:
We had split up the tasks at this point, so whilst I was carrying out some research, Matthew and Heather were able to spend some time designing and editing a studio ident to embed into our Film Noir. The method of splitting up tasks is again shown as being useful here because we were able to get more work done and move further towards completing our film. To improve this task, perhaps they could've spent a bit more time on it. Having said this, I think the studio ident is very good and fits the convention for a Film Noir. Although the rabbit makes it seem slightly childish, the way we have presented it makes it appear more sinister which allows it to fit in our Film Noir.

In Depth Research of Opening Title Sequence

I previously did some research on an opening title sequence of a Film Noir. Having filmed and partly edited our piece, we've decided that we should do some more in depth research on the opening title sequence of a Film Noir. The post I previously did is here.

With this research, I'm going to analyse the same title sequence as I previously looked at before. However, this time I plan to analyse each part of the opening title sequence, and look at how the opening credits are shown to give us an idea an how we are going to edit them onto ours. The Film Noir I am analysing as before is the film 'Fallen Angel' from 1945. I've decided to show this as an Emaze presentation so that it is easier to view. The presentation can be seen below.


Reflection:
I think that this analysis of an opening title sequence of a Film Noir will be very useful to us when we are editing our piece because we will be able to use this Emaze presentation I have made to look at each title shown in a Film Noir. To make this better as a whole, I'd of liked to made the writing a little easier to read, but I am still new to the software of Emaze so am very pleased I've managed to create a full presentation and embed it on my blog successfully.