Foundation Portfolio Evaluation: Question 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? (11.03.11)

Looking back on our preliminary task, I feel that I have learnt so much about producing your own piece of work. During the progression of that task, to our opening sequence I learnt that it is harder to produce something that looks good, more than what I thought it was. This is because it's easy to visualise something in your head, but it's hard to bring that to life, and put it in a piece, making it look effective and good. In our prelim task we learnt the match on action rule, the 180 degree rule, and shot reverse shot. We was then able to take on this knowledge when producing our opening sequence, and apply it to our footage we used in this. Now we have our full finished product, I have learnt that while producing a media piece, like ours, you need to make sure you set objectives to reach your final goal. These objectives need to be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timed. This is so that you can organise, and plan out work that needs to be done to get to your final piece i.e our opening sequence. For our opening sequence, we needed to make sure that we measured and timed ourselves because we had a certain period of time to film all our footage, then a certain period of time to edit all our footage and get our final piece complete. We needed to set ourselves a piece of work we could achieve that would be specific, attainable and realistic, so that we weren't trying to produce something that was impossible.

Foundation Portfolio Evaluation: Question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Here is a mobile phone. We all used our phones to communicate with each other when we needed to film or meet up.

Here is the blogger webpage. We used this to update and record all of our work. It enabled us to show work we have done and helped us to keep up-to-date with what we were doing.

Here is the camera we used to shoot all of our footage.

Here is GarageBand, which we got our 'audience' sound clip from.

 Here is the iMac which was the computer we use in media, and the only one we used to import all our footage on, and create our opening sequence. we had a group login on one specific iMac which stored all our groups work on it.

 Here is iMovie, which is the programme we used to create our opening sequence.  We uploaded all our footage, created our effects, transitions, and edited everything in iMovie. 

Here is iTunes which is where we imported our music we used in our opening sequence. We originally got our music from youtube, and then downloaded it from youtube to mp3, and then into iTunes. 

 Here is the wire/lead that connects the camera to the iMac.

 Here is the programme LiveType, which we used when trying to create a piece of animated text, for our title.

 Here is SurveyMonkey, which we used to create our audience feedback survey. to get feedback from our opening sequence. 

 Here is YouTube, which we used when researching films with dance genres before we made our oepening sequence. 

Foundation Portfolio Evaluation: Question 5. How did you attract/address your audience? (08.03.11)

Foundation Portfolio Evaluation: Question 4. Who would be the audience for your media product? (07.03.11)

Here is someone who fits the appearance of our typical target audience. They would be interested in music and dance and likely to have dance as a hobby or enjoy watching it as entertainment. Our target audience is teenage girls and boys, however is most likely to attract the boys because of the violence involved, which is why i have chosen to draw a teenage boy. 

Foundation Portfolio Evaluation: Question 3 (07.03.11) Question 3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?