I am extremely happy with the group I was assigned with, and I can comfortably say the others are happy too. The reason being is because of how well and effectively we all worked together as a team. We managed to all share ideas and give consistent constructive criticism wherever needed, which is a great help to the whole team.

This is our first working version of our film opening, The Delivery Boy.

Things I liked:

• The calm and mysterious tone of the narration.
• The black and white scene at the end, which correlates with the narration "people see in black and white".
• The 180 degrees turn when Daniel's character is putting on his tie in the mirror.

Things I feel we need to improve or change:

• Some of narration doesn't make sense, and I feel is pointless.
• There is a short period of time during the car journey where nothing happens, and I feel should be cut.
• There are some rough transitions that need to be edited.
• We need to add a film company logo somewhere during the film.

I will make another post next week with the feedback we got as a group from our class.

Rough copy completed

Our group has now completed a rough working copy of our film production, and our teacher has arranged a showcase for us next week on thursday (31/03/11), during lesson, so every can present their rough or completed media films. This will be really helpful for us personally, and everyone else in our class, because as a class we can then discuss, give, and receive feedback back to each other about each others productions, so then we all have honest opinions on what people liked, and what needs to be changed.

Admittedly, there is a lot of things that need work in our film (tweaks, cuts, effects, etc..), however it will be good to see what people don't like and what they do like.

I will make a new separate post including our film opening, along with some factors i feel we need to improve.

Today in theoretical media class we learnt about the concepts of reality, and how our sense of reality is extended when we intake information from a film, documentary, or news show. This in a way gave us a group a few tips on our production as we want our character show normality so he can relate to the audience. I feel the narrative does this very effectively, and i'm glad we decided to use narration in our production.

Today in lesson Mrs Thrasher called us over as a group and showed us a few of her favorite scenes in a couple of gangster films (Snatch and others) and elaborated on what made them so effective. We took notes on what she was saying and compared them to our media film and added a few tiny edits to give a little bit more of a dramatic effect.
We did this by re-recording a few of the narrations and made them more abrupt so it adds more of an edgy effect towards Daniel's character.

This is the Ident we made for our film intro.
It was made using one of mine and Daniel's horror still images which we created earlier in the media course. The sound was created using garage band, we used low frequency cellos and violins to create a deep bass sound, and then a jumpy phaser sound we found to add a nice little outro effect, which related well to the image slowly fading to black.
The text 'Phantom productions' was made on final cut express, and fades in and then out during the Ident sequence.

Edit #4

Today we finished our product to a basic structured level.
All that needs to be done now is to meet up as a group again and review it and add any finishing touches that we feel will be effective.