EVALUATION POINT 8 Audience Feedback

For our Audience Feedback we decided that we would gather it in a range of techniques, we decided that we would post it on Facebook and see what responses we would get. We also decided to ask people who are in our target market and who are not in our target market and ask them what they thought of it. We got a lot of positive feedback and some negative feedback which has helped us to know what we need to improve on next time.

Evaluation Point 7 Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

This is our group discussing how we improved from our preliminary task to our final edit

Evaluation Point 6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation point 5 How did you attract/address your audience?

In this point we have annotated our final edit and we have described how we have attracted our audience on to the film.

EVALUATION POINT 4- Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation Point 3 What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Point 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation Point 1 In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

There are 9 screen shots of our film including:

The title

The setting

Costumes

Camera work and editing

Font and Style

Story/Narrative

Genre /Suggestions of genre

Characters

Special FX

This is the title of our film and we chose to present it in this way as it fits in with the indie, retro feel of our film…the peeling paint of the wall and the muted colours. The bold font, use of capitals and white colour all make the words of the title stand out and easy to read. The viewer will realise immediately that ‘THESE STREETS’ is our film title.

The setting of our film is a town and this shot show the skyline of an urban area. There is no great detail shown but the viewer will realise that it could be anywhere and that what happened in our film could take place in any town or city.

This third shot show a homeless youth. I chose it because it illustrates all the misery of life on the streets. The costume is carefully selected and is fairly stereotypical…the hat, the inadequate clothing and a rug for warmth. He is sitting on a newspaper with a cup to collect money for his guitar playing and instead of a sign asking for money, we put the costume designer’s name on it.

The fourth shot is for extra effect and is a high angle camera shot. It shows someone about the same age as the homeless boy giving him money.  It is effective because it shows the contrast between them, in clothing and circumstances.

The fifth shot tells a different  part of the story……….

The sixth shot is important because it show more contact between the boys and hints at the importance of music to them both and to the genre of the film. The prop of the guitar is important as the poorer boy is handing it over to the other to look at it or play it. This shows that they are having more contact, through music and may even become friends.

This shot shows one of the main characters and also his name. It is a low angle shot which is in contrast to most of the shots and also gives an idea of what the view of life is like from the homeless boy’s perspective.

The last shots show the use of some special effects. We used overlapping of a scene from a festival crowd onto a shot of the wealthier boy going down a rather grand staircase. We also used a loud voiceover and the combination of screaming noise and busy scene is effective in catching the audience’s attention.

Point 38 Re-Shoots and Pick-Ups

As a group we have looked over our rough edit and decided to re- shoot some of the clips as one of them was unfocused. We also need to shoot some other clips to make the opening scene make more sense, this is because we thought that it jumped to quickly from the two different backgrounds.