This is the final evaluation for my re-submitted media course
however, sometimes the prezi doesn’t work properly so i’m uploading all the videos as well
So after my exam and getting all my grades back, it turns out i was 4/5 marks of the next grade up.
So I decided to re-submit my coursework after evaluating it and changed a few things, hopefully for the better.
This involved editing the final video slightly and re-doing my final evaluation.
Re-editing the video included changing the title sequences, which we felt needed a bit more work. After looking at some other thriller openings, the main influence being those for the filom Seven, I chose on a simple white, slightly creepy text, and then made them jump around the page whilst a static noise played over the top. This was to parrallel the radio jumping and cutting out during the thriller.
I also editing the bit when you see the doll, giving a motion blur and cutting it shorter in order to give more of an effect.
At the end, i also cut down the amount of time we see the antagonist in the mirror, as i thought it was too long and lost some of the dramatic affect. However, it was now too short, so i decided to go with a freeze frame of it in order to get the perfect length for the audience to see him, but as it was a freeze frame, the obviously wouldn’t then see the reaction of the protagnoist or what happens next, leaving them on a cliffhanger.
My name is Rachel Haywood-Percival and I am currently studying media at The Cooper’s Company and Coborn School.
I am in my final year of my A-levels and the current coursework to be completed is to create a music video.
I am writing to you now to ask your permission to allow me to use your song, [Insert song name here] for my media project.
After a long and arduous task of finding a song that inspires me to think of an interesting video, I found that [Insert Song name here] created the most amount of excitement within me when storyboarding and coming up with initial ideas. I believe that, with your permission of course, I can create a video that would certainly make me and hopefully even yourself proud.
Thank-you very much for giving up your time to read this letter and I look forward to your reply.
So here is the final cut for our thriller opening. As you can see some time was spent on chaning the opening credits to make them more interetsing and attention grabbing, and all the original sounds were completely taken out and replaced with artifical ones. I think, although it’s not as relistic as i would have liked, it sounds a lot better as there is no background noise and it doesn’t keep on lapsing from silence ot background noise to silence. Everything flows better.
The main difficulty in the editing process was trying to change it from day time to night, like we had originally planned. Unfortunalte the programmes seemed to not be compatable, so we ended up having to leave it.
Overall i’m pleased with the opening and i think out group has done a really good job with it, depsite some difficulties such as not being able to change the lighting.
