Evaluation(Part 8)- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Strength: I think that a strength of the preliminary task is the continuity, as when the character was walking from the park towards the other male character the camera had cut from a long shot, to his feet then to an over the shoulder shot and I believe that when we had cut each shot we had cut and changed shot in the correct place. (0.13)
I think that another strength of our piece is that we had made an original narrative for a preliminary continuity task, as due to the music it feels more romantic, yet the surprise is that our main character (walking) wants to buy concert tickets.
I think our general rules were met, and were not broken, such as the rule of thirds and the 180 degree rule. 

Weakness: A weakness of the practise exercise is that when one character is speaking there is no wind and the dialogue is clear, and when the second character speaks there is a lot of wind, making it harder to hear him speak. (0.21)
I think that some of the continuity was damaged, as we had not ensured that all of our possessions were out of sight, as at 0.20 we see our bags, where we had not seen them when our main character was walking up to character B.

Improvements: The improvement that we could have made was watching over the shot to see if the shot was good quality, and then refilming to ensure we have a contingency/back up shot if needed.

How the preliminary task affected our main opening sequence:
In our main task, we had taken care with the continuity, as we had a lot of scenes where we needed to use match on action, such as when our protagonist Jay is opening the gate, walking down the stairs and opening the main door into the boiler room. In our main task we had kept out possessions out of sight and had kept items in the same positions, such as when Jay puts the box down, we had made sure it was in the same position for all of the shots.

Targets: 
Next year my targets will be to evenly spread my workload out, and to create a plan of when to complete certain pieces of work to the best of my ability, and taking feedback from my teachers on boards instantly, to improve my work. I would also like to try out different shots, and learn how to use more advanced features within Imovie and Final cut on the Macs. 

Evaluation(Part 7)- What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Evaluation (Part 6)- How did you attract/address your audience?

Evaluation(Part 5)- How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation(Part 4)- In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation(Part 3)- What impact did the media institution Film4 have on each production stage and why?

Evaluation (Part 2)- Who would the audience be for your product?

Evaluation(Part 1)- Brief

The brief that we had worked to was;
"You have been approached by Film4 to make a new British Social Realist film aimed at British 16-24 year olds. To give Film4 an idea of how your film will develop they have asked you to produce the first two minutes of the film, providing a clear sense of the graphical, editing, and musical style of your film will use. To protect Film4's reputation as a leader in British cinema the film must conform to the conventions of the Social Realist genre, and meet all audience expectations for this type of film. Finally, to keep costs low, all visual and audio material used in the film must be entirely original, with the exception of stock sound effects."

Our title was "Framed", clearly this relates to an event set up, that will put them on the wrong side of the law, another meaning that the title has is that physically a frame consists of four boarders, and this could symbolise a prison cell, connoting that this character is trapped and the picture is already painted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG89tcElrN4
In our opening sequence (0.11) we see Jay (our protagonist , who is played by an actor who is 17 years of age- so that he relates to our 16-24 year old target audience, working delivering packages, we see him looking slightly puzzled about where he is going, he walks down some stairs (0.21) into a dirty, dark, empty, enclosed room where he delivers the package (1.02), he then receives a phone call from his anonymous boss (1.20), where he is told to "run", instantly a undercover police officer bursts through the door (1.29) and finds Jay with a box full of drugs (1.42). We then see Jay though a CCTV camera in a interview room... (1.43)

We had met the brief as we had conformed to the conventions of a BSR movie, we did this as we had kept it low budget, as we had used a unknown actors, we had used locations that were locally available to us and we had used themes that personally relate to British 16-24 year olds, such as poverty and drugs.

Our film "Framed" contrasts to the film "Ill manors", as the main theme is poverty and drugs, here we have a similar shot where the main theme is established, the theme being drugs, but we had decided to show it from a different perspective, that being, people who are indirectly involved with drugs and face the consequences of someone elses actions.