Linking to previous questions - Task 5 and 6

As a small theory task as a group we had to answer some questions separately and all together. On my own I answered 2 questions about how society affects our views on the media. This relates to our work because we need to know what the audience want to see. As I answered in the question, some people prefer to go to a cinema to see a film because it has a bigger dynamic. However, we need to make sure we can capture the audiences eyes just with our O.T.S. Basically what we need to do is make sure that society doesn't influence our film in a bad way. They need to see it for themselves and decide whether to like it or not themselves. We won't be able to influence their views on it but we could help change that by drawing them in to watch our film. (I feel like I'm writing a campaign!)

FILMING

Today we finally got sorted and filmed for our O.T.S. I emphasise on the finally. So overall I think it was a very productive day. We re-recorded shots if we had doubts and all worked together to make sure it was great. Being camera operator I felt very pressured to make sure I held the camera straight (as we forgot the tripod ERGH), also I wanted to make sure that I recorded each shot for long enough. Personally, I think I did alright. We wouldn't have been able to do it without Lauren Newby and Thomas Wilson, they're acting was spot on. I am proud of what we achieved but now it's up to Melissa to be in charge of editing. We're on a roll if I'm honest!

Dummy Run

Untitled from Ellen Lowe on Vimeo.

This is the dummy run that we completed to get an idea of what we needed to do on the actual day of filming. This helped us get an idea of shots, angles, the lengths of shots and basically the overall mise-en-scene. There were plenty of mistakes in this and we are fully aware of it. However, this is the point of a dummy run and we are very ready to film the real thing.

15/01/2011

On Saturday Kieron, Jessie and myself went to our location (Elm Hill) to rehearse angles and shot layouts for our film noir O.T.S. Unfortunately, Melissa was unable to join us as she was at work (work ruins lives, fact?) Anyway, we found this a great way to get a clear idea of what we wanted to do and how we could run the filming quickly without few mistakes - but we all know that would be impossible. We plan on filming the real thing tomorrow morning so fingers crossed it will be a huge success!

Google Forms and Questionnaire

Jessica has made a post about how the group created the questionnaires. She got up Google Forms and from there created the questionnaire (simple!)
Here is a screenshot of Jessica starting the questionnaire..

And here is the link to the detailed post she made.

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RESULTS

Here are the results to our questionnaire. After lots of feedback from our chosen target audience: 18 - 25 we were are now able to conduct the project even further. Jessica has all the details of our results on her blog.

Questionnaire

FACEBOOK questionnaire has been posted and the results have been taken. Jessie has posted this so on her blog you will see this.

Here is the link to the hand outs we did -  Initial Hand-outs.

Mise-en-scene while filming. How do I do that?

Basically my two roles are camera operating and sorting out the mise-en-scene. Camera operator is pretty simple, I'm doing what it says in the name. But mise-en-scene seems slightly more confusing. But to make sure that I do my job right I have done some research on it. Basically, I will be making sure everything in the shot is okay. If something is out of place then I will sort that out. It stands for 'placing on stage' Mise-en-scene consists of everything in the shot, lighting, props, clothing etc. Obviously as Melissa is doing lighting I will work fairly closely with her on that one.

Questionnaires and Research on Audiences

As a group we thought it would be best to do a few questionnaires to really get a feel of what our audiences would like. Look on Kieron's blog to see the results of our hand out questionnaire.
Facebook questionnaire will be done soon. Watch this space.