Video Production: Evaluation

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

It represents teenagers because of the fact we included teenagers in our footage, also because it has a slight sense of humour with a subject teenagers would associate with.

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

It would be a BBC programme as it educates as well as entertains it audience who would watch this type of media production.

Who would be the audience for your media product?

It would be for teenagers or parents of teenagers who would learn from the subject of how teenagers drink excessively this would also provide answers to questions such as what to do to prevent this.

How did you attract/address your audience?

Because I used teenagers as the actors in my media production this would attract the audience also because I made it slightly humorous to keep our audience watching and also the subject matter would make the audience watch to entertain and educate.

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

I have learnt how to take shots within the 180 degree rule and to also make match on action work. This also helped me to learn how to edit in the edit suite to make the film run smoothly throughout and to make it work.

Video Production: Finished Video

Video Production: Editing

Once we had finished filming we then used Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 to edit our footage, we uploaded our footage from our tape in our camera in separate clips and put them in the timeline. We then cut the footage to make each clip run smoothly without any jump cuts. We had to make sure our match on action shot ran smoothly by making sure the foot our actor stepped through on one side had to match when he stepped through on the other side. Also we had to make sure the 180 degree worked while editing. This took us a few tries to make sure everything ran smoothly. We cut out part of one of our actors speech and put a noddy in the part we cut out to make sure there isn't a jump cut. We put the sound over the top of the noddy to make it seem more realistic. We also put in a clip of the connections sign for when one of our actors mentions connections we again put the sound over the top of the clip to make sure that it looks realistic. We then uploaded it onto a DVD and posted it into our blog.

Video Production: What We Learnt

Before we started filming we had to learn how to use the equipment such as the camera and how to set up the tripod. We then learnt the best way to film and how to do the 180 degree rule and match on action, by watching examples. While we were filming we also learnt from mistakes such as match on action, we weren't able to match it correctly during editing. We started filming in G7 and then changed the room to G8 because our class was using G7 while we were filming so we then changed to G8 because it was empty and we were able to do all our filming within two lessons.

Video Production: Planning

Before we are going to begin filming we found a room which will be available during our lessons for filming and we asked permission if we could use it. We have made a script of dialogue for our actors to learn. We have decided to have our topic as underage drinking as one actor asking another, in a documentary type film. Are actors are Dave and Matt. We also did a storyboard with where we will have the cameras and where we are going to film.