Evaluation

This is my Evaluation for the Media Foundation Production Portfolio.

Audience Feedback Survey Results

Unfortunately not many people were willing to fill out our survey, we did however get a few results so we will base our feedback on what we did get.


 With the site we used for the survey, we could see what each persons results individually. In order to take advantage of this I created a graph to display the results and to what each person answered.

	Gender?	Age Range?	Did you enjoy the Film?	Appeals to what gender most?	Rating out of 5?
1	Male	15 - 17	Yes	Males	3
2	Male	15 - 17	Yes	Males	4
3	Female	15 - 17	Yes	Males	4
4	Female	25 - 34	No	Males	1

From this we can see that we were right about our films age rating. We can see here that the three that were in our targeted age range were the ones who enjoyed our film. The female within the targeted age range also said she liked the film, however they all agreed the film was better suited to a male audience. From this we found that members of an older audience would not enjoy our film. The ratings we got from the ones who enjoyed the film were at 3 and 4 showing that we made a good film in their eyes, just not the best. 

Our survey also returned a few feedback opinions from our audience, which are as followed:

"I thoroughly enjoyed the opening, I felt it was eerie but not too scary, also built a lot of tension and was good to watch"

"I felt it was intense and kept me engaged throughout"

"The storyline left me wanting to see more and engaged me very well especially the scene with the woman in it who appears to be the evil character within" 

Chance - Feedback Survey

To get feedback to aid in with the Evaluation Questions, we created an online survey using a site called TypeForm.

Link to Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqjgHebiQbA

Link to Survey: https://chanceasmedia.typeform.com/to/uKwbAN

The questions for the survey are as followed:

Chance - Final Cut

This is our Final version of our Thriller Opening 'Chance'.

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqjgHebiQbA

Evaluation Question Further Analysis

As a group we came the the decision of each working on an analysis of each question, and analysing our film to relate it to a question each. 

I decided on working on the question: "How does your media product represent particular social groups?"

This means that I have to describe the different age, gender, social and ethnic groups represented in our film and why.

Most of our characters (With the exception of the drunk) all fall into a classy, or fancy group as they all are dressed in smart, casual clothing. They are seen as being classy group and belong to the upper class.

In terms of ethnic groupings, they are all represented on an equal level.

[WORK IN PROGRESS]

Opening Titles - Positioning of the Titles

One of the decisions we had to make was where to place the opening titles.

Our options were:
- At the beginning in a block of all the titles
- At the end in a block of all the titles
- Throughout the film, overlaying the footage.
- A combination of two of the previously mentioned ideas.

In the end we decided on having it start with a block of the of the titles, however have some of the titles play during the first half of the footage. We chose this as from our prior research into the thriller genre, we had found that this is the best flowing option which suited the film well.

Coursework: Sound Editing

For the film we needed some sound to play alongside the video. We ideally wanted some instrumental music, preferably as dramatic as possible without being too upbeat or falling into an action sound track. We found that using a sound bridge would be a good way of improving the fluidity of the film. We also made the decision that we would need two pieces of music for the film, to help signify a shift in scenario.

We started by searching for sounds to use on the copyright free music sites which the school had provided us.

The main site we used when searching was:  www.freeplaymusic.com, a site recommended to us by the teachers. It allowed us to easily search for specific music genres and try to find the most suited one.

In the end it was Chelsea who managed to find the best sounds to use during the film. Better yet, she had been taught how to manipulate the sound within Adobe Premier, meaning she could make the found sound even more suited to the footage.

The names of the sounds we used were:

- Digital Info

- Army Angels

- So Focused