Opening Sequence

Opening Sequence

Here is our completed opening sequence. After days of filming, and many hours of editing, we have finally got what we could get into a two and a half minute video. Despite taking very long to film, due to our constantly changing ideas, we are happy with what we have produced.

Rebellion - Outtakes

Along with our opening sequence came our blooper reel. With a lot of filming, came a lot of mishaps, and many of them may not be recognisable from the actual opening sequence because that was when it was more in the style of an opening sequence. Nevertheless, it came out quite funny.

Evaluation question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to your full production?

In the video above, the four members of our group discuss question seven of the evaluation.

We decided to film it in that manor so that any point we thought of would be talked about. We did this as we thought if we were to type up an answer we might leave out any good points which we thought may be irrelevant, even if they aren't.

Evaluation Question 6: What have you learnt about technologies and the process of constructing this product?

The Prezi above shows which computer software we used and how they helped construct our product.

Evaluation question 5. How did you attract/address your audience?

During the production stages of our opening sequence, we carried out a survey in which we asked a random group of people, what they would like to see within an action film, for example, gun fights, fist fights etc. After collecting our data, we were able to incorporate a few of the factors that were asked for from the group of people we asked. We managed to include a fist fight within our sequence, as well as a gun battle. These are to items that the survey participants asked for. These are the main ways we attracted our audience during the production of our opening sequence.

We also asked 2 members of our class, which songs we should use for which part of the sequence. We used one of their choices, and one which we selected. We used a slow, mellow style of music for the introduction of the main characters, which was chosen by our classmates. We selected Power by Kanye West for the main fight scene and gun battle. Kanye West is also a popular artist who's music is favoured among teenagers and young adults, who make up our target audience. We used Power as it is one of his more famous song and will be easily recognised. These were the two most popular choices for music, making it another way we attracted our audience.

Evaluation question 4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

In the video above, the four members of our group discuss question four of the evaluation.

We decided to film it in that manor so that any point we thought of would be talked about. We did this as we thought if we were to type up an answer we might leave out any good points which we thought may be irrelevant, even if they aren't. For example, our discussion of about social class could have been left out as we were  not in agreement about the topic.

Evaluation Question 3: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? (think about the companies you learnt about for institutions and audiences)

In the video above, the four members of our group discuss question three of the evaluation.

We decided to film it in that manor so that any point we thought of would be talked about. We did this as we thought if we were to type up an answer we might leave out any good points which we thought may be irrelevant, even if they aren't.

Evaluation Question 2: How does your media product represent different social groups?

The Prezi above highlights the main points we thought about while answering question 2.

We felt that we couldn't put our characters into more specific social groups as we haven't learnt enough about them in the short opening sequence. We also included Males, even though they aren't a social group, as our opening sequence only features male characters and everything they do is stereotypically associated with males.

Evalutation Question 1: In what ways does your media product (opening sequence) use, develop or challenge forms and conventions from real media?

In the video above, the four members of our group discuss question one of the evaluation.

We decided to film it in that manor so that any point we thought of would be talked about. We did this as we thought if we were to type up an answer we might leave out any good points which we thought may be irrelevant, even if they aren't.

Target Audience Feedback

The video above shows our target audience (teenagers and young adults aged 16-21) answering questions about our opening sequence, which they just watched.

They all enjoyed it and said they would definitely watch the film if it were produced into a full movie. They stated that they were really impressed by the editing, especially the gun shots and the soundtrack.

We also showed our opening sequence to some of our male audience and they seemed a lot more enthusiastic and excited to see the full film. They were mainly attracted by the fight scenes, gun shots and the scenario of a group friends who were caught up in a war.

Logo Feedback

We selected three pairs from our class to review our logo.

The logo was played to them on a laptop and their initial reactions were recorded. They were then asked the three following questions:

What did you like about the logo?
What did you think of the colours?
What didn't you like about the logo?

The main thing they liked about our logo were the smoke grenades and the smoke effect. We added that as we thought it suited out Action genre, and they agreed.

We used orange as our main colour for our logo. The reviewers said it was vibrant and bold. This also fits in with the Action genre.

There were two main issues that were identified. The first was that the smoke suddenly cuts out instead of fading. We were able to fix it so it fades away slower, however it would always cut towards the end due to the certain smoke effect that we chose. The other problem the text under our logo was too spaced out. We reduced the spacing as much as we could while still maintaining our original idea of having the text far apart to replicate other logos such as Disney Pictures and Columbia Pictures.

Challenges and Achievements

We faced A LOT of challenges while filming, mainly due to the fact that we chose a school as our setting. This meant that it was difficult for us to find empty classrooms to film in. We also couldn't film much during school times as our costumes and prop guns would scare the younger years, which unfortunately did happen a couple of times. To prevent this from happening we created signs (such as the one below) which we put up on doors of classrooms and in the corridors which we were filming in.

Time was also another massive factor we didn't anticipate when filming. We assumed it would take us  unto 30 mins to film each shot, but in reality we had to stay behind for hours to film a scene which we decided not to include. This is mainly because of our high hopes and vivid imagination, we wanted everything to be perfect.

The most difficult scene to shoot was the fight scene. This is because we got our friends, who weren't media students, to act for us after school. After getting the first two shots wrong, we all grew impatient and frustrated. It ended up taking almost 3 hours to film that scene but it did end up being one of our greatest achievements.

Blog Feedback

We feel that this is a fair judgement as, although we put in a lot of time and effort into the work, we do have tasks to catch up on. This is mainly because we keep going back to previous tasks to improve them and make them as good as we possibly can.