EVALUATION

EVALUATION CRITERIA
Candidates will evaluate their work electronically. This MUST contain an element of audience feedback and may be either integrated with the presentation of the research and planning material or may be presented separately. Where candidates have worked in a group, the evaluation may be presented individually or collectively but the teacher must allocate a mark according the contribution/level of understanding demonstrated by the individual candidate.

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

Level 4 16–20 marks
Excellent understanding of issues around audience, institution, technology, representation, forms and conventions in relation to production.
Excellent ability to refer to the choices made and outcomes.
Excellent understanding of their development from preliminary to full task.
Excellent ability to communicate.
Excellent skill in the use of digital technology or ICT in the evaluation

Costume research (wolverine)

Looking at super hero films and comic all super heros have a signature outfit/costume. However Wolverine, In the X-Men films, does not wear a costume most of the time in favour of wearing casual clothes. I really liked this look as it kind of kept him more human as what you were seeing was the human not the mask! Also his outfit really went with his "badass" attitude which I quite liked as he isn't so much a hero but almost an anti hero where he does good things but not nessicarily for the right reasons. For my super hero i think i am going to keep them in normal clothes as well because like wolverine my charecters super powers do not make him toooo un normal because except for the fact that he can extend claws from his hands he still retains all other normal human charecteristics (except regeneration which my charecter has also!!)

New Idea??

Whislt creating the set for my project i realised that crateingthe whole set that i originally was going to make was over ambitious because of the time it takes and the power of my laptop. What i have at the moment allready takes a while to render every time i make a small change so i've decided to leave it as it is. With this decision though i realised that i would no longer be able to go ahead with my original idea! So the Auditor has been scrapped! I then had to think what I could do with the set I had created so I though why not do my own take on a super hero film. My original idea was centred around a human (the auditor) with super powers using them in a bad way so why not make a super hero film. I started thinking and I soon came up with a storyline with charecters! My new idea is to show a teen boy who lives in an urban slum where the crime rate has rocketed so high not even the police can cope with it anymore. This boy is out late around the outskirts of the city one night when he is attacked by one of the cities many thugs. The boy is struck in the face and realises he has powers when the wound on his face heals almost instantly after it is inflicted. He then goes on to throw the attacker over a wall, down into the city and to his death. Fairly typical super hero story where there is a sudden realisation of the charecters powers who then turns these powers into a way of fighting evil.

3D set

I've just finished building my 3D set to be used in my film! Here it is...

There's a few refinements which need to be made still but nothing major! This is practically the finished thing!

Creating a Set

I knew what i wanted from the set but obviously I needed to create it. To do this I needed realistic textures from the area i was basing the set on. To do this I went out with my camera and took some HiRes photos of textures such as concrete, granite walls signs etc. I then put them all into photoshop and because the pictures were not all perfectly straight I had to straighten them out so they would be useable in aftereffects using the "distort" function.
Using textures such as the ones above and basic modeling techniques in Adobe After Effects I am currently in the process of creating a set fory film which i will post here on my blog when i have finished!

Re-Think

On Wednesday 15th April at aprox 5:45 filming started for my film intro for the Auditor. At approx 6:30 filming was ground to a halt after one annoying individual from the public called the cops on us as wearing a balaclava in public areas is technically not legal because of issues with intimidation and the fact that balaclavas are often used in crime! With this problem in mind i had t either change my idea or green screen the whole film. So I decided to green screen the film (much like Sin City or The Spirit).
Yesterday i started work on the 3D CGI set that I was going to have to use. I wanted to keep the same set (Pier Road Carpark) but obviously with creating the set I can tailor make it to exactly how I orignally envisioned in in my storyboards.