Evaluation 7-

Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Evaluation 6-

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

Evaluation 5-

How did you attract/address your audience?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk9dkuUa1Zc


In the link above you will find a video of me interviewing my sister Tasha O'Connor. She is 18 years old so fits into my target audience perfectly. (You will also see Meg the cat however, she refused to answer any questions so just lay there.) Tasha is a English Literature student so even though she hasn't taken media so doesn't know the terminology i know that she has an exemplary critical eye as she has to pick apart books in the way we pick apart films. I am very happy with Tasha's comments about my work and i've taken the criticism on board for when I go ahead to make my A2 piece.

Evaluation 4-

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation 3

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

Directors Commentary script: 

Today i will be discussing the key features of my opening and then why they're key features but also why why chose to do them as we did.

The first thing you hear is an old film reel noise, I think this is a key feature as it implies that our film is an old film which we really wanted to make clear from the offset. It also worked really well with the transition of the production logo as the logo enters and exits the film in a way that looks like a going film reel.

 The sound continues into the first scene and merges with our first song. We chose that song as the song is about finally finding true love and settling down, it is also a very common wedding song (we looked into it when choosing what songs we wanted to use.)

 Next we decided to use the zoom, we did this as we thought it added more of a personal touch to the film but also brings the focus even more so onto the to characters facial expression and emotions. We used it also for the scene where they're leaving the church for the same reason. Another key feature is the effect on the whole film, we used an effect called Aged Film I think its a key feature as it runs throughout the whole film but it it is like the old film reel noise at the start it is there to remind the audience that it an old film and together with the filming style of tracking it makes it look like an old home filmed which is the effect we really wanted.

 In the second half of the film where he beings to abuse her we heighted all of the colours to make the film I chose to do this as I wanted to make it look like a heightened sense of reality almost like a dream state, dabbling with the colours during the editing stage was such fun it started off being a joke and just to try and test out what IMovie could do but it ended up working out really well for us. So we decided to try and enhance the sound on the film too which I think worked really well it again highlights what hes doing with opening the vodka and drinking it too but it also makes the static sound more prominent so again helping with the old film style.

The next key feature is where the film turns to the colour blue, I again was just messing around with tints over the film I wanted to originally use a rose colour or a red but due to the poor quality of the footage it blurred out all of the film almost into a moosh. So I did some thinking about the different connotations of different colours and I remembered that blue is a cold colour and we could use to it show the brokenness and the coldness between the two signifying the breakdown of their relationship and when I looked up the colour blue and its connotations it told me that in German to feel blue translates into alcoholic which also fits in with our theme. We decided to change it to blue when he walked round the corner into the bedroom until she sits on the sofa as that is the abusive scene. 

We put it in slow motion when our male character walks round the corner because I really wanted to show off his body language and how he's walking. He is almost bobbing up and down, I asked him to do this as it reminds me of how a boxer prepares for a fight, psyching himself up i wanted it to look like our male character wasn't done with his wife that throwing her up against a wall wasn't good enough and he wanted to hurt her more.

We used a fade to black after he says 'don't you fucking pick that up' because I wanted it to show the change in his personality, him being abusive verbally and physically to his wife to nice and polite to her mother on the phone.

Finally the last key feature is the title at the end Rose Tinted. We chose the title rose tinted because of the expression 'Seeing the world through rose tinted glasses' it means that you only see the good in something/someone that you ignore all of the bad things focusing on the pleasant things. which is exactly what our female character does, she ignores the abuse and  violence by focusing on what their relationship used to be like hence the wedding scene being shown at the start of the opening.

Evaluation 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation 1-

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? (i.e. of film openings)