Evaluation of 'Pushing Buttons' opening sequence - Progression from preliminary to final full product (8)

Progression from my preliminary task to my BSR opening

Above is my preliminary task. Thinking back to this task , I can recall what went well and what went wrong.

The match on action was much easier to film than anticipated. I filmed the actor walking into the room twice. Once from one side of the door and the second from inside the room on the other side of the door. This was then edited to make it look like you could see the actor walking into a room , it shows a shot from behind , the actor making her way through the door and then once into the room. This was a good example of continuity editing as it was clear with no transitions or not jumpy editing present.

During production there were very few problems , but there was still some things that could of made filming and editing much easier. In a more technical approach , the tripod wasn't always at the right height for filming as we wanted to originally include a birds eye view shot , but this was difficult to do so , so we cut this out. The lighting of the drama studio was often too lowkey and dark in certain angles , so we had to make the lighting more brighter but this often took away the mood of the setting, but we overcame this by using the studio lighting rather than artificial room lighting.

The biggest problem was the 180 degree rule breaking, during editing we had realized the rule had been broken.We tried to re-film but the person who played the interviewer was not able to re-film due to their own schedule, so the 180 degree was therefore broken, so If I had the chance to re-film I would shoot the 180 degree rule again. In my opinion, breaking this rule may have theoretically given me a disadvantage but in real life film industries, not all plans work out , and I have made a good job of editing regardless and did the best I could in my situation , so although this may have been a problem I had faced, I had learn alot from it and it has given me an insight on how filming and editing problems can easily occur but can just as easily be concealed.

                              

                              

                              

Post-production was personally my favorite part of creating 'The encounter' as I enjoy editing, but if I was to edit again , I would of used more of the footage I had.I was very adamant on making my work short and to the point but I could of edited in more shots to add to the story line.
I would rather  re-film these parts because I felt like the parts I didn't use were not put in because they could of been made better, for example , the interviewer was meant to throw her chair , but the chair was out of shot too quickly which was too hard to edit smoothly for continuity without looking like the camera was out of place, so if I had the chance to work on this again , I would re-film this and also re edit it.

One of my overall strengths of my work , is my creativity.My theme and my ideas were much different than the others in my class which made my work stand out more.I was creative with my props ,such as creating the newspaper article myself, using fake blood and making an outfit for Sally.
Another strength I had was with my digital technology because the cameras were very efficient to use and the iMacs had iMovie already installed so editing was sleek.Logistically I needed different lighting than the average natural and artificial and low-key type, so it was my idea to use the studio lights for colour ,such as red, to give our finished work an edge and set a much darker mood. This made my location a strength as it was easy to work with and had all the necessary equipment such as the blocks and curtains and studio lights.

Comparing my work to my british social realism opening , alot has changed and improved in terms of my filming and editing.I have developed my camera skills drastically in comparison to my preliminary task. In my preliminary task I had not managed to do my match on action as accurately as I had wanted, but my opening sequence had  not only successful match on action , but I also had shown much more impressive camera angles and movements. The planning for my bsr opening was much more thorough also. The shooting script was more detailed compared to a storyboard so my footage was much fluid like planned. I also feel like this production was much more creative because we got to develop our own desires instead of following the scene we was told to create in the preliminary task. 

Evaluation of 'Pushing Buttons' opening sequence - What have I learnt about technologies (7)

Evaluation of 'Pushing Buttons' opening sequence - How did I address my audience + feedback (6)

Evaluation of 'Pushing Buttons' opening sequence - Representation of particular social groups (5)

Evaluation of 'Pushing Buttons' opening sequence - conventions of real media products in my production (4)

Evaluation of 'Pushing Buttons' opening sequence - Impact of the media institution Film4 (3)

Eval 3 final from flowerpoolamp

Evaluation of 'Pushing Buttons' opening sequence - My audience! (2)

Here is my video where I talk about my target audience. I have also linked the pre production planning I did on my target audience slide here.

Evaluation of 'Pushing Buttons' opening sequence - The Brief (1)

   Back in September ,we were introduced to our brief. In my production log one (which you can view here) I began to research the idea into British Social Realism films.

The title for my opening sequence is 'Pushing buttons'. Pushing buttons denotes the concept of how women feel when they are harassed, pressured and discriminated against, to the point they feel trapped and imprisoned within their own mind. The emotion of fear and vulnerability further prevents the woman to seek help and express their inner feelings because they fear losing their job and the opportunity to become independent.They have been cornered into depression which could have severe consequences physically and mentally.

The narrative behind pushing buttons highlights significant themes concerning British social realism such as harassment, isolation and vulnerability which creates enigma as to what caused the protagonist to be associated with such themes. The title mirrors her persona and her actions which is a typical way of portraying BSR. The strong link between the protagonist and the title will demonstrate how her buttons are being pushed to the limit in the workplace thus revealing key themes in the narrative. This fits perfectly with the BSR theme as the structure of BSR exploits the title to narrate the characters situations and the later implications. This was demonstrated within the title ‘fish tank’ which explored the situation of a character being portrayed as a fish, trapped in a fish tank but in reality , is trapped in society and wanting to escape to achieve her aspiration of becoming a dancer. Thus the title name demonstrates to the audience, clear themes of aspirations and escape. 

Here is an example of where I have shown my protagonist fitting the dark theme. We denote a young woman in a dark room , her face lacking any happiness as she is trapped and yearns to be somewhere else. 

The opening sequence also highlights her mundane journey to her office job.

Pushing buttons final production

Production log 17

I have finally finished my production! 

Overall , my production process went brilliantly and I am very pleased with the outcome because it is just as I had envisioned, in fact it has come out better than planned.

The planning really payed off because my production is concise and fits the BSR genre well.

The post-production did take longer than I expected as when adding the graphics on final cut pro along with the footage, you had to keep waiting for it to render!

 I feel as though I have made a big contribution to my production and I am looking forward to executing further work in this style.

Me and my partner did a great job together and we had the same expectations which helped us work greatly.

In my opinion, creating the shooting script was the best part of the process because it pulled the whole production together, it was helpful when filming and it was helpful during post-production also as I could also refer back to it to make sure my production was fluid and ran as planned.

Production Log 15 and 16

Production draft

Here is the first draft of my production, 'Pushing buttons'. Once I have been given some feedback , I will make some improvements to complete my production :-)

Production log 13 & 14

Graphics

When editing over the superimposed graphics , I decided to give the text some effect to make it more interesting.I chose a 'Type' style because it is associated with the work place which is the main theme I want to connote to my audience.

Music

I have also chosen the music I will be using for my footage which a link will be provided for in the youtube clip. The lyrics match the first scene rather well of the protagonist feeling alone which is what I am trying  to show to my audience as they begin to familiarize with the character.




Next week...

Next week I will upload my footage and start editing. The only issue I am concerned about is if  the music timing will be too long to match the footage length I have planned. If it does not , I can fade out the music at the end.

Production log 12

Graphics
This week we started to produce our graphics.We used a programme called LiveType.


I used this programme to choose my typography that will be used as superimposed graphics over my footage.

Props



I also made fake medication (shown above) which will be a prop used in my opening sequence for my main protagonist.This prop will be used to highlight the controversial theme of depression to set the dull mood that is commonly connoted with the British social realism genre.

Lighting

 In terms of lighting , we have decided to keep it  lowkey with the exception of a lamp as a source of artificial lighting .The lowkey lighting will represent the mundane lifestyle and the lamp will be small with minute brightness to give the impression that there is not much availability for brightness both physically and mentally.However, when I edit I will be using a grey-blue colour pallette.