Evaluation : Question 4

Throughout this production I feel I have progressed majorly. Since AS I feel that not only have I learnt new skills and increased my ability to use a variety of different programmes but also my creativity, I managed to brain storm a variety of different ideas, narratives, location etc. and I did my research to support my ideas, unlike last year when Eva and I decided to go with our first idea. I struggled to use the apple macs and certain programmes this year but have come far compared to AS with a lot of help and support from Eva who continued to help me when I struggled but I feel this is evident in our film in comparison to last year. I feel that this years project has been hugely successful compared to last year and I feel that this is due to our organisation and commitment to the course. Eva and I both worked extremely hard on our trailer this year and I believe this is evident on our final product and our dedication has paid off. I feel extremely pleased with what Eva and I managed to accomplish this year and felt that all our preparation, organisation and determination paid off.

 I personally struggle to use advance technology and have experimented with different editing skills on iMovie such as; transitions, effects, text, layering footage and synchronicity between our audio and visual clips. Not only did this positively impact on our products, but I had enjoyed increasing my knowledge with these features but I would of been unable to do so without Evas help. We both played to our weakness and our strengths, for example Eva was better at editing but I was stronger when using garage band. Despite this Eva and I both spend an equal amount of time around the computer and we only did what we both agreed on.

 Now having finished the course I can not only see how far we have come as a not only individuals but also as a team we have both learnt to listen to each other and have both come very far with our organisation skills, but these can still be improved as due to our organisation not be perfect our post and Magazine cover suffered because of this. Eva and I have both learnt what is worth spending a large amount of time on and what is not, an issue at AS was we would create something it would be good and yet we'd still focus on making it better instead of focusing on things that needed a large amount of improvement.

 We both was careful when choose actors as we wanted people who was reliable, we know that choosing our friends car to film could possibly be a risk encase we was ever to need him and him be unavailable, but we was lucky in having picked friends who we also committed to the role they had been asked to play.

We have ensured that all of the work that we applied was to our best standard and hadn’t at any time went off task or was distracted, this was a huge improvement for both of us as during A2 we were often distracted

 I feel that Eva and I have both matured majorly within this last year, meaning this has majorly improved all areas of our work, especially when compared to last years final product. We have ensured all of the work submitted we have tried to complete to the best of our ability. We feel that by not allowing our selves to be distracted by others and making use of the time we have in and out of class has benefited us and our final piece majorly.

 I used excel to show the results of my questionnaire, by converting my results into charts I feel these were easy to read and understand, and I continued to use these charts trough this product referring to them when carrying out other research and also when making decisions, often wondering what do we think the audience wants to see? In doing this I think It did make a difference as they were accessible and easy to read we referred back to them often.

 Eva and I both used Photoshop to create our Poster and Magazine, Eva was a lot more advanced at using this programme in comparison to myself, due to the fact she is currently studying Photography, where as I have never before this used this programme. With persistence I eventually got the hang of it, learning how to cut certain images and move them, and also to touch them up and change certain aspects, and adjust certain things.

 I also advanced my skills on the apple mac, although I already knew how to use an Apple Mac due to my previous experience during my time studying AS media, but this year I haven't learnt a lot more due to the help from others and using my incentive, I have used Google and also watched YouTube tutorials on how to create different effects on clips, how to include different font and also how to insert different transitions. 
 I also spend a lot more time on the camera, the camera is pretty basic and there for along h my previous knowledge from last year I found pretty basic to use. I experimented to see which shots and angels would benefit our film and what we are trying to achieve. We also used the camera to help research, we recorded focus groups that we held to gather information that would help us to create what our audience wanted to see, in recording this we always knew we had it to refer to encase there was a possibility we needed a reminder of what they said. We took the responsibility of the camera on meaning we had to be extra careful about damaging it and our main concern was water damaged due to the constant raining, but we persisted and always did our best to shield the camera, and this is one of the many reasons we would decided to stop filming if the rain got to heavy.