Evaluation-Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Evaluation-Question 6

Below are snapshots of us using the different technologies:


iman jama's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Evalution-Question 7

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

Evaluation-Question 2

Evaluation- Question 3

Untitled Presentation from imanjams

Evaluation-Question 5

How did you attract attract/address your audience?


Our target audience are primary 18-24 year old, so it is important for them to relate to our title sequence 'Haram'. This is why we chose to have young actors and actresses to act in our title sequence so could appeal to that particular audience.Here is an interview with the director of the title sequence, explaining who the movie is attended for and a generalizations of the title sequence.Also with the main character of my title sequence (this may engage target audience as they may relate to her):






Also we used social media to engage our target audience as almost 95% of teenagers and adults are on one form of social media or another. The type of social media we choose was youtube, vimeo, twitter and facebook.

For example, here it shows our movie Twitter page in which we have already gained 37 followers! This a great way in spreading the word about or title sequence since we are independent.

Also from a rough cut feedback, Dan had told us that we should change the font of our title sequence so our intended audience could get a better feel of the genre. We took this is on board and changed the font to a more bollywood/arabic style.

Evaluation-Question 1

Evalaution Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Here is screenshots of my title sequence 'Haram' so you get a more in depth understand of the what conventions are and how i used them in my youth drama:


iman jama's Slidely by Slidely Slideshow

Editing of blog 6/3/15

As it comes closer to our title sequence deadline, we have used the feedback from our rough copy to help better our sequence.Now we have deciding to change our font to better suit our film, use more effects and transitions to make our film look more efficient and even decide what type of sound we are going to be using.

Skills learnt throughout the making of my title sequence

During this process i was involved and contributed in many things as I helped with filming, editing, composing, directing, making the title credits and being the main character.



Making the Music (Music Composer): I really enjoyed making music as it was a fun and enjoyable process. I was involved in picking the most suitable soundtrack for our movie as well as helping to compose a soundtrack which we placed in the beginning of our final edit. I also liked searching and listening to foley sounds as it was important we included these in our movie. Searching and composing the music gave me more freedom to explore and find the most suitable and perfect soundtrack for our movie. Which I believe I done.

Working with the Camera & Directing: During this process I adopted many other roles including filming and directing. I was involved in filming some of the major parts of my opening title sequence for example the bedroom scene,the outside college scene and mosque scene. I also made choices about how good each take was, for example if the scene i took was good enough for the editing stage. During this process i gained many skills e.g. working better in a group, where we all shared ideas and divided roles, as well as being a team leader and discussing what people should be doing, I've learnt how to use a camera, and knowing which angles are better to film at, as well as knowing which shots are suitable for particular scenes.

Acting: I had never really done much acting before so being in front of a camera was more nerve racking but, with the support of my group members I did the best I could to make my scene realistic and engaging. Acting for our movie was very exciting and fun. Before this coursework I never had directed a movie or help to script one, this coursework has allowed me to develop in many areas including all of the factors above as well as looking more in depth into the technicality of film making. Even though at some stages acting was hard, I believed in myself and knew i could pull of this role of 'Layla'.

Wix Website

By having a website on Wix, it is easier the attention of our target audience which is teenagers as they frequently use the internet and find out about a lot of news via the web.So it is likely that many of them will go on the Wix website to find out about the latest movies, so that will help us gain more popularity and possibly help us expand from our niche audience to perhaps a bigger one. A website will bring traffic to our film. We are also considering making other forms of social media that also very much popular such as a Twitter account and Facebook account to reach our audience as it is a way of interacting with them.

Here is the link so you can see for yourself:
http://ab11114.wix.com/h

araam-website

Adding Effects to Final Cut Pro

Today I learnt how to add effects on Final Cut Pro.Firstly you go on the top left hand side of the screen, and then you'll see a little tab written 'effects' as shown on the pics below:

Post Production- Thoughts and Opinions

On Friday 6th March we uploaded our final edit. After a break from filming and editing i watched my film on the blog. I am generally please with our title sequence, however it could have been further improved.It was quite lengthy and used quite alot of transitions. Nonetheless the people i have previewed the film to have praised it and have exalted the cinematography of it. They are amazed by the precision of the shots and there story itself. A friend of mine said 'it is really relatable' and 'I wish it was an actual movie'

How to pick the perfect soundtrack for our title sequence

The two soundtracks we chose so far..

Choosing the soundtrack wasn't a lengthy process. I was quite familiar with music composition as i watch quite alot films from a variety of different cultures.After watching them we found a soundtrack that we were very fond of it. 

These are the chosen soundtracks because we thought it would suit the setting and tone of film. We first experimented with these soundtracks by embedding them into final cut pro to see what they would sound like. Initially they weren't going to be used as not everyone in the group was fond of it and they didn't suit the scene the way we wanted it to look. However with some editing and audio filters it sounded perfect.

This is the soundtrack at the beginning of the our title sequence, it is non-copyrighted because it is from a non-signed Arab singer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO9EQtDiMTY

Our second sound is the Quran prayer caller, it sets the theme of the mosque and is obviously not copy-righted:

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

Camera shots / angles

We used a number of shots, movement and angles in our film to make it look as professional and interesting as possible. These shots include:

Medium shots

Close Ups 

Extreme Close Ups 

Over the Shoulder

Establishing Shot

Locked Down Shot

Tracking Shot

Arc Shot

Eye Level Shot

Editing our blog (sound) 5/04/15

We have now successfully put together the videos in the sequence that we will be putting it in our title sequence.Now we are picking the sound to go behind our title sequence to set the up-beat youth drama that we intend to potray to our audience.

Rough Cut & Feedback

Evidence of making of Title Sequence.

This image shows us in the making of the title sequence for Haram. We found it quite easy to make but at some point we had to slow down the entry of the writing which we found was difficult. But at the end we called for help and solved how to do it.

Changes to font

When we first were creating our title sequence we had the font El Valiente but as the theme is based around muslim culture we decided to have more araab style font to fit the theme. The font was then changed to XXII ARABIAN - ONENIGHTSTAND.

















 El ValienteXXII ARABA-ONENIGHTSTAND

Evidence of editing (Blogpost Task 43)

This is shows our group putting together a rough draft of our movie so we get an idea of how our title sequence is going to plan out.

We are using Final Cut Pro to edit our title sequence as it is the most efficient form editing software and it is the most easiet available to us as we are a low budget production company.

Evidence of us as a group editing

Rough Storyboard (BP33)