My Evaluation

Please note that in this Video Evaluation I mentioned the thrase "Jibber jabber" reffering to a famous saying in a 80's TV series by that I mean that the language that my actors were speaking wern't actually russian they were trying to replicate russian by using a similar accent and similar form of words.


 How does my media production represent particular social groups?

In my opening I have a few different social groups

• Ultra nationalists
• Hostages
• soldiers

Each group I have represented by the clothing and acting that the my actors have done I used clothing such as Balaclavas and toy guns to give the audience the idea of a villain then using my prologue to state they are Ultra Nationalists they act like bad guys by there use of body language and voice also them torturing the hostage (slapping him) They represent Ultra Nationalists/ Terrorists well as they establish that they are after money "a ransom" for a hostage, they are armed and they are speaking a foreign language. this creates your stereotypical Ultra Nationalist and they present that well to the audience.

  Hostages are my other main social group that I have in my opening and I present him as a tied up, taped mouth and tortured person. an audience will instantly recognise him as a hostage as he is very well represented as a hostage because he is tied up and tortured. also fear is shown in some of my shots such as my high angled point of view before he gets hit and he represents a pretty good hostage.

  My last socail group is soldiers, although there is only a brief shot of my sniper you do get a presence of professionalism from it as he is hiding in camouflage and is scanning the building for threats so he presents himself as a professional type of soldier and that is all you get out of his shot.

Socail Groups are the differant types of groups that media products try to represent or compare with to give the audience a better understanding of that socail group or identify key charicters as part of that group.

What have I learned about the technologies from process of constructing this product?

When i first started this project I knew nothing about the technologies such as Photoshop, The vedio camera and Apple Mac software so from nothing to nearly everything you need to know how to produce a good quality media production I have learned alot. Mostly I have learned alot about photo and video editing software as I knew the basics behind filming a video and could get good footage but editing was a new step for me.  Using the Apple Mac computers was hard as I knew they were differant to ordinary computers and I struggled to ajust to a Macs systems as it is almost completely differant ot a computer. I enjoyed editing more than the filming as it let you alter everything about your footage from specail effects to lighting and contrast aswell as audio editing and adding music and sound effects to your movie.

Over all I have learned alot about the technologies used in the film industry and I have to say I enjoyed making my Opening.

My evaluation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5CNquL0B2Q

Editing software "Final cut Pro" & "Garage Band"

  When I made my preliminary i used an Apple Mac with two pieces of software called Final cut pro and Garage band. Final cut pro was my video editer this let me upload footage that I have taken and then put it inside a Editing screen that lets me select parts of a film that I like and want "basically getting rid of bits such as excess footage" it also allowed me to put this individual clips together and view them to see if they work together. final cut pro also allows for some intresting effects for footage such as my super imposed shot in my preliminary, it has other features aswell as fades and blurs to create differant effects.

Garage Band is a piece of software that allows you to produce your own music from using either samples that are pre installed onto the software or upload your own recordings and then combine and change the sounds to produce your own music. this is similar software used to make proffesional music e.g. Dr Dre used garageband to combine some samples to sing over.

 Garage Bnad isent the best software in the world as you have to either upload or dowmload your samples then place them all in a play bar to hear and change the sample to your liking.
From garage band I got sounds such as my mobile phone ring tone and sound track. Garage band has a load of diffault sounds installed on it which is what I used in mine
My sounds include

• mobile phone ringtone
• regect call button
• sound track
• suspence music
• slap noise

Actually editing the footage then playing the sounds from garage band over it was simple all I did was import the sounds from garage band into final cut pro and then place it on the final cut play "sound" bar

My film location's

To film my opening I had to find an ideal location for my scene and I had two planned out
1. was my uncles barn which was a old barn he is converting into a house
2. was a hill side spot were I live for my sniper shot scene.

The hill scene was needed for my shot with the sniper and this hill side just fitted the scene nicely as it does replicate an out back untouch piece of earth similar to the sort of land you would find in chernobyl.


But as I have mentioned there is a problem
 About at the start of March "two weeks prior to me starting filming" the barn that my uncle said i could use for filming was no longer available to use as he decided to start work 2 months early and said i could no longer use the barn
 these images below are from 23rd of April

this is the outside of the barn which now is covered in scafolding and has ne windows fitted. At the time when I was going to film there it had old smashed windows which was ideal for the window shot I was going to make

This here was the room that I was going to use which had the broken window and the old styled walls, but now it has new plasterboard, window and is full of building eqiupment. the original scene would have been ideal but it was no longer available
so what I then had to do was find a similar location in a two week period but failed to find a locate nearly identical to do so so I had a re think and changed my script a little from it being an old farm house to an old worn down building which made my search criteria little bit more flexable and I managed to find a similar but more accessable and easyier to get my eqiupment too so i went with a local closed  primary school in the holidays which I had access to thanks to friends and the it was an old boardroom/classroom that I used and changed slightly to make it more suitable but it still wasent the best of choices as I had more of an oldish styled building but its what was avalible at short notice and was easy to get my gear, props and cast too so I used it to film my hostage room.

My 2 Minute opening Thriller "EXTRACTION"

Here is my finished 2 minute opening thriller of a hostage film called extraction Hope you enjoy....