Task seven: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do youfeel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

You can see from our screen grabs that in our prelim task we used very basic shots and they were given to us. The story board was very simple and had no interesting shots they were all simple. We did however use a point of view shot. This was our most interesting shot.

With editing we did not know how to use final cut pro or any other effects including after effects, sound effects and transitions, like fade etc. this helped us however gain a basic understanding of how to cut shots into the appropriate places.

In our final task we used a lot more effects, including coloring, transition effects, and sound effects from soundtrack pro. We used shots of a much more complex way like a tracking shot and extreme close ups. This is very different to our prelim task. We spent a lot more time on the editing process and after effects.

With the editing and after effects we used none of this on our prelim task. We were very new to final cut pro so we didn’t use any of the complex assets. in our final task however we used all of the ones we thought were necessary, for example the text tool to explain to the viewers all the necessary points to our film. We used soundtrack pro over the title sequence or a radio.

Judging both of my prelim and final tasks I have seen a big improvement with my final task, this was all down to the time that the group and myself spent on it, adding sounds, coloring and a more sophisticated cut, using more interesting camera angles and a story line.

I really enjoyed doing the final task a lot more than my prelim because the whole process was our own; we could choose our own set, story line and cast etc. we had a much more professional set, using a brick wall room and an electric chair. For our prelim task we only had a room and a table. This made the whole final task process more exiting than the prelim task for me and the rest off the group.



Picture of the set of the main task which has a especially made set

Screen shot of the basic set and camera shots in the prelim task

In our main task we made opening credits and a main title cards, which we did not do in the prelim task.

Screen shots of a mid shot in the prelim task and the main task. You can see the difference between the two shots because of the after effects used in the main task.



We used tracks in our main task. So that we could make more interesting shots.







Task six: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Task 5: How did you attract/address your audience?

Who would be the audience for your media product?

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Task four: Who would be the audience for you media product?

How did you attract/adress your audience?

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Task three: What kind of media institutional might distribute your media product and why?

We thought resurgence would be distributed by a small low budget production company. A appreciate production company would be Vertigo films.

Established in 2002 by Allan Niblo, James Richardson, Nick love Rupert Preston and Rob Morgan. Vertigo distributes and produces small British films with a low budget and unknown or up and coming cast and crew. Its current goal is to produce and distribute four films a year.
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Thease are examples of some of Vertigos films

I think Vertigo would be a good media institute for Resurgence for different reasons. The first being Vertigo Films is a vertically integrated Finance, Production and Distribution company. This means they can fund and cover the budget of the production and shoot the film using the production studios. Also Resurgence would not have to find a distributor because Vertigo is cable of that too. Also Vertigo films are far more likely to produce a film with unknown actors in unlike major Hollywood film production companies such as universal studios

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Task two: How does your product represent particular social groups?

I think "Resurgence" sticks to stereotypes of each social group involved. This allows the audience to have a 'two dimensional' understanding of the characters and what they represent.

 An example of this is Randall Merritt; Merritt represents a younger 'redneck' strange character. You can this by his appearance and the way he acts. He shows no emotion through out the sequence and his appearance is very similar to the cliche red neck representation.


 


The character Randell Merrit who is the subject of
the sequence is very similar in
Tums of characteristics to Edd Bundy.



Edd Bundy.

A well known serial killer. Who was executed by the electric chair




Amber Herd
Amber Herd is an actress who in terms of characteristics
who is similar to the girl in the resurgence sequence.
She has also played a similar character.





An unnamed character in the sequence who is
younger, blond and pretty. This conforms to
the usual 'damzel' in distressed stereotype. She is
clearly identified a Ran dells next target.

  



W. Lee O'Daniel was the Governor of Texas
 in the early 1940s. He is an example of the sort of
 character we were trying to represent.

   




The Governor. Who's sentences Randell before dies
also conforms to the stereotypical Texan pollution.



Task one: In what does your media produce, use develop or challenge forms and conventions and conventions of real media products?

Our media product conforms to and challenges real media conventions. We needed "Resurgence" to do both of different reasons. We let it conform so that the audience could relate or recognize the sequence. We did this by using normal opening sequence credits in the usual order of usual opening sequence conventions. We also immediately used central character of the film in the sequence so that the audience could establish a connection with the character. Resurgence is a in the thriller genre so we also tried to break some of the conventions. We did this because we believe a thriller should try to make the audience feel slightly uncomfortable and uneasy with what they are seeing. We did this by cutting to a shot of a character clearly being executed in the early 1900s to him in the modern-day looking the exact same age.

Usual film opening credits starts with the film distributor; we chose Vertigo films because they specialize in low budget feature films.

The credits then move on to the production company and after this the more creative roles in the sequence, for example director and main actors.

We used after effects so the audience could relate the sepia almost black and white tint to the era of the 1930s.





We also assisted media conventions by making sure the characters dressed in to date costume.




This is a shot of a sponge and bucket. It is an extreme close up

This is an extreme close up of our actor Hectors eyes. This indicates the pure evil inside him, no remorse or fear that we should be able to see in another character using the same situation



This shot is of one of the police officers, it is a shot that helps indicate the general surroundings and sets the serious scene.






The last three screen grabs are more visual reinforcement on how we convade real media products.

Account of post production

There are similarities and differences between the prelim task and the foundation production task. They are similar in the way that both tasks were approached, the difference is the level detail. For example our prelim task had two days of planning whilst our foundation production task took 28 days. This was because we did lots of pre-production planning, we needed this planning so that once we had shot the sequence , in post production we had something to work with.

Printable rules such as the 180 degree rule apply in both prelim and the our main production.

We started the editing process by selecting the appropriate shots to use from camera. We would decide which shots to use by analysing the camera work, authenticity and actor performance, we used certain shots to show who was speaking or convey the narrative or plot. Once we have separated the suitable shots to be in the finished piece we have to decide which shots to use, this meant that we had to use shots with out breaking rules such as the 180 degree rule. Once we had the appropriate sequence to convey what we wanted to visually. We concentrated on sound by cutting the sound that came with the video to make sure the sound is always in sync with the video or it continued fluently from shot. We also used sound track pro from there we could bring in sound effects such as electricity, this added an extra aspect to the sequence.  In order to create the the title effect we used a layering system to create a glowing effect. We then separated the letter so that we could move them to different sides and invert them to give the title a sense of abnormality. We also recorded a radio news bulletin to show the narrative of the sequence we recorded this because we wanted to show the plot and setting of the scene realistically with out forcing it through the characters to the audience.

This is a screen shot of final cut pro.
The top left window shows potential shots to use in the finished the sequence. The top right window is the current sequence which plays off the time line in the window where you can edit, move and manipulate the sound .

This is a screen shot of Adobe after effects. Using this program we changes the colour tint to  manipulate the feel of the sequence. In the first half of the sequence we gave the shots a darker sepia tint to convey a 1930s atmosphere. This produced a big contrast with the second part of the sequence to show the difference in time and culture