Zixie Films name-how we came up with our film production name

We made a podcast about how we decided on our name.
Enjoy:
Zixie Films name podcast AS

Open world-how we came up with the name for our film

We decided to make a podcast to clearly establish how we invented our film name:
open world name podcast

AS Evaluation Clare and Emily open world 2013

Hello again,
we have completed our evaluation which is a podcast on Podomatic. We have discussed seven questions which cover our opening. We talked about them in this order:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
3. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
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 od constructing this product?
7. Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

AS Evaluation Clare and Emily open world 2013

WE HAVE FINALLY FINISHED...

after all this time...6 months and now everyone can see it in all its saturated glory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bJkBdgORYo

Filming and editing equipment

For filming, we really did not use a lot of material, we only used a camera, which has a lot of special effects and that helped with the editing.

For editing, we mostly used iMovie and Garageband to improve our opening.

 On iMovie, we used audio settings to change the volume and pitch to create tension. 
We also used the voiceover tool, where one can select the location of where you want to start your voiceover and you can input the volume for each speaker as shown here:


Furthermore, we used video settings to alter the brightness, the contrast and also the saturation.
We did this to make the first scene eye-catching and to give the idea of distortion. Of course we used  highlighting for cutting unwanted clips.


On Garageband, we used Male and female radio for the narration, which can be found in real instruments. We used these to give a clear narration.

 Also, we could alter the volume to fade in and out, which can be found when one selects the type of voice one has used. One can alter the points up and down to vary the fade in or fade out.

Feedback from audience

Ok, we have shown our film to a number of teenagers.
We did get a number of targets to focus on. For example:

• Our narration we used was hard to understand because we used five different people and put them on top of each other so we did change that to having only three people and one after another.
• Also, they did find that the narration was not convincing enough- they did not sound scared of even fearful so we acknowledged that and we improved it.
• They thought that the handheld shot was very effective and it did create tension which was our aim.
•  They also liked the use of saturation and that it was quite unusual.
• However, they wanted more sound used in general.

Overall, this really helped us to improve in general.

Notes on casting

Nathan played by Felix Hawlin- an experienced drama student.

Joseph played by Dante Davidson-who took drama for GCSE and has experience also.

Ruby played by Annie from year 13.