Children's Film Opening Sequence Evaluation Questions

Children's Film Opening Sequence Evaluation Questions

In your evaluation, you must answer and illustrate the following questions:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?

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

4. Who would be the audience for your media product?

5. How did you attract/ address your audience?

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

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

Peer Feedback

Constructive feedback

• Story didn't make sense.
• Missing dialogue made it confusing.
• Dropped map didn't work.
• Didn't get a feel for the rest of the film.

Positive Feedback

• Music worked well.
• Could tell it was an opening to a film as it showed they were going to a place on an adventure.
• Variety of different shots used.
• Liked the over shoulder shot.
• Liked the jump over the river.
• Looked like zelda.
• Liked the perspective shot/point of view shot.
• Looked really professional. 
• Continuity editing worked well in places.
• Needed a lot of walking to show it was an adventure film/quest.
• Titles looked professional/consistent.

we chose this image to be the background for our company logo with 'silver universe Productions' taking the place of the shooting star.

Final Video

Our Original Aims

When we began this project these were our aims:

• We wanted to create either an animated or real life piece that portrayed a moral.
• We wanted our piece to have music and audio that we had created ourselves.
• We wanted our piece to have a "magical" element as our research had shown that this appeals to a young audience.
• We wanted our piece to take place in a non-descript location so that it would not be recognisable and would be as realistic a childrens piece as possible.
• We wanted our piece to have several characters.
• We wanted to use a range of camera angles, pans and tracks.
• we wanted our story to have a simple storyline so that it would be easy to follow for the younger generations but still kept the audience engaged.
• We didn't want to use too many sound effects that might sound "cartoony".

What we've done so far

• Finished all recording
• Uploaded the footage
• Created titles
• Check the footage to know where to put the music
• Made most of the music, some needs extra loops
• Made the company logo
• Cutting and editing footage

Everything has been made but we still need to finish off putting everything together to create the finish product. 

October 20th

Today we finished filming our piece, all we had left to do was the conversation between josh and a tree.
We also filmed a couple of extra shots, should we need to include close-ups.
Today we also tried (and succeeded) in making a couple of pieces of music for our childrens film opening, loosely based on the research into music that was uploaded yesterday.
The two pieces we made reflected the weather and lighting conditions in different parts of our piece. The first is quite lighthearted because we are in a sunny location but we change to a darker piece when we enter the woods.