Evaluation Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

With our main task which was to create a opening title sequence there were many processes we had to go throughin order to complete our media piece. The first process was to research examples of opening title sequences, the opening title sequences I researched into were City of God which is set in an urban area of Brazil, there are lots of favelas and slums featured in the extract which symbolises a poor community in which the characters live in. Also I researched into Dexter, Six Feet Under and Cold Mountain, They are all good examples as they all have many different aspects to a start of a film.


The next process was to start our storyboard planning, where we decided what our opening title sequence would be and how many of us would be in a group. We completed storyboards and took images of possible locations for our opening film scene.


The next process was to create target audience questionnaires to help decide what our media project would contain, and also created a profile of a typical target audience member. The next stage was construction in which we took images of the set for our media project and described the problems we faced such as lighting issues. 


The final process was the evaluation questions which we answered to conclude our media project and describe what we did and how we did it using a variety of technologies. Comparing this to our preliminary task we completed very little planning, only a storyboard. Then we carried out the filming straight after that without any research, construction or evaluation. This was improved on our main task as we knew what to do to make it better, such as how to operate the camera professionally and to carry out research into other opening title sequences.


For the planning a storyboard had been created for the preliminary task and also location was chosen and script also chosen, whereas in our main task we followed these steps in alot more detail for example, I created a storyboard on the computer using 'Pivot' as well as a hand-drawn one.


For the construction of the preliminary task, capture and editing was simply done with no music editing, whereas we carried out the filming of our media project in much more detail and editing was much complicated as extracts had to be cut and changed to our liking.


For the Evaluation stage little formal evaluation had been done for the preliminary task whereas in the main task questions were completed and answered that described the processes we carried out throughout the stages of development.

Evaluation Question 6 - What have you learn about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

I have learnt a lot from using different types of technology from the process of constructing our media project, here is a list of the technology used by our media group; 


During the research stage of our media project we used a user generated 2.0 website called Youtube to research into other examples of opening film sequences. We looked at the opening title sequences from "Dexter" and "Six Feet Under".


Here is an image of a Apple IMac which I used regularly to create and edit the stages of development of our Media Product.




I have used a variety of editing software such as Adobe Photoshop to create titles for our opening film sequence. Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program that is very useful, we can use it to create titles and other things needed in our media project

To create our media project we used Adobe Premiere Pro, Premiere Pro is editing software that allows you to edit video footage to a professional standard. We used Adobe Premiere throughout the stages of development and at first we found it hard to use and understand, but gradually we learnt how to use the software and edit our opening film sequence to the best of our ability. We used Adobe Premiere Pro to put our opening film sequence together by trimming the length of the footage we shot and also added music.

This is the device we used to film our opening title sequence, it is a Panasonic NVGS 500 mini-DV video camera and was very easy to use and operate. We also used a tripod to make the camera more steady, ensuring the picture was not blurry.


We also used Blogger to record all of our reserach, planning, construction and evaluation stages.




In Conclusion all of this technology was very important to aid construction and finish our Media project. Without such technology we would not of been able to film our project, and report back to blogger on our planning, construction research and evaluation.

Evaluation Question 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

This is a copy of our target audience questionnaire, we asked questions that were relative to our film. This is so we can obtain an understanding of our audiences view on any of the subjects featured in our questionnaire.

Circle Which Apply

• What Gender Are You?

      Male                         Female

• What Age Category Do You Fit Into?

      10-15    16-21    22-30    31-40    41-50    51-60    61+

• What Film Genres Do You Prefer?

Action   Sci-Fi   Horror   Comedy   Adventure   Romance   Drama   Musical   War

• Are Titles Important In An Opening Scene? On a scale of 1-10.

No                                                                  Yes

1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9      10

Answer The Following

• Is Music Important In An Opening Film Scene? Why?

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• What Style Of Music Would You Expect To Hear In An Opening Scene Of An Action Film? And at what pace?

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Questionnaire Results

We made use of the resources around us, who were essentially our peer group so it is no surprise that our questionnaire responses were almost entirely in the 16-21 age category, which is helpful because this is our target audience.

The average importance rating of 'Titles' in an opening film scene was 7.1/10, according to our target audience.

We gained a variety of responses when asking the question 'Is music important in an opening scene?' The majority of the answers were along the lines of 'Yes, because it creates the atmosphere of the scene' or that 'It helps build tension for the audience'. We took this answer into consideration when creating our film opening and used three different soundtracks in our opening scene. The first was one that created a soft but mysterious atmosphere in the scene, followed by a fast heavy soundtrack which helps to build the tension in the scene. We then finished with a quiet eerie soundtrack which also creates tension and an uneasy atmosphere. 

When asking the question ' What style and pace of music would you expect to hear in an opening scene of an action film?' The majority of the answers were along the lines of ' Fast paced, modern music which helps generate audience excitement.