Our Final Product

Here's a link to our final piece, posted on Youtube by a member of my group.
Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3OC4Q5Gfgw

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

When we started our preliminary task at the beginning of the school year, we didn’t have the widest knowledge of the things we were going to use. I hadn’t used Garage Band in quite a few years and I had no experience in iMovie. On the other hand, we had all used cameras, which meant that we got all of our filming done quickly.

When we started to edit for the first time (in the prelim. task) we didn’t use many transitions between shots. This may’ve made our production I little jumpy. We managed to pick up our game and added more effects for the final product. We also cut out more un-necessary footage from our clips which made it smoother. On the other hand, we filmed longer clips so that we had more room to edit specific sections.

We had to use Garage Band to create the soundtrack to our piece. We didn’t use this in our preliminary task, so we had to get to grips with it in a relatively short period of time. Also, we had even less time because we had two plans previous to using the Garage Band programme. Firstly, we were going to use the Macs in the music room, but we were unable to get hold of relevant cables to link them onto the keyboards in time, so we had to call that one off. We also had a song (as mentioned earlier) that went well, but we couldn’t use it because it was from a signed band.

All in all, I think my group and I adapted quickly to using different technology and computer programmes within media.

The Prelim - Then and Now

The first time we whent out with the camera, it was a joy. We got a variety of interesting shots and plenty of footage. Somehow, through doing all this work, we also had fun!

All was not as it seemed. Although we got a lot done, there was still a lot to do. We found that we didnt really have everything we needed and we ended up filming the same (or simelar) scene in two different rooms. I think this happened because we didn't really have much experience using the camera, but that wasnt all.

Looking back now, after doing both our Preliminary  task and actual coursework, I can firmly say we didnt plan enough. We found ourselves searching around forn as setting we liked when really we should've done all this before hand. I say this because, one man down to a vicious case of flu (that man being me, both one of the camera-men and an actor in the piece), we still managed to get a whole morning-to-midday's filming done in about two hours. This was all down to planning.

FINALLY - media ideas pitch

More Filming ?

When asked to give their opinion on our product, we were given nothing short of an onslaught of 'ideas' and 'constructive' criticism.
Thus, one of my group members and I (the other was un-available, as she was helping another group) took the camera out for round two of student vs. media...

We got some good shots, and more improtantly, they filled in some of the missing links in our story. All we really did if filmed the bride-to-be doing a bit of casual stalking of her future husband, but it seemed to make a real difference, so go us!

Filming.. A look back on good times

Still waiting on the powerpoint of our pitch, but I guess it's getting to the stage were the show simply MUST go on !

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As for filming, it was as much of a failure as it was a success. I would like to point out that this was no-ones fault...

Anyways, our actual filming went well - we got everything we originally planned to do done and in fact, we were finished in Peterborough (see below) before we knew what was happening... so we sat in McDonalds for about two hours (sshhh!). Equally, our filming in the 'wooded area' whent well, even if we did struggle to get there.

So, it would seem like everything was hunky-dorey, yes?

NO. Unfortunately, my crippling flu virus mixed with prancing about in sub-zero temperatures almost killed me. Sad times. But hey-ho, we pulled through and I'm all better now!

Here are the Cathederal pickies (not mine, unfortunately)

Media pitch..

Went well (I think)
slides of powerpoint will follow soon