1. Evaluation
The task was to create a opening sequence to a new Si-Fi and fanaticy TV
show, then also to record all of the planning research and work that goes
in to iit.

2. Comparison with real media products
• The UK teen drama Skins was the one of our key
influences me and lee had both watch a lot of this
show, the first idea was to do something like
Skins as there is nothing really like it on TV. When
we started to plan It out more other influences
such as Requiem for a dream (film) and the
(game) Manhunt.

3. Here a 9 panels of Costume, Construction of characters, Props, Location,
Effects, Framing of characters, Types of action shown.

4. • When it came to it we spent more time planning
it to be like Skins with teen actors and drug use
and did not think to much about the camera
angles at the time, that was one of our biggest
problems but we got around it by having alot of
short clips of people at the party, to make it look
like there were more people there.

5. The construction process
• There were many aspects of the construction the
most enjoyable part for me was the editing.
I really like to edit film. It was a challenge taking
the rough edit and all the shots and trying to
make a film out of it. because the main problem
was that a lot of the shots were not very clear or
there was a lack of shots.

6. • This was amplified by the fact we could not go
back a shoot any of the shots again. We had to
take out a lot of the film as from the feed back
we were not going to make a 2-3 minuet long
video with a story, but make it more into a fast
passed, snappy and thrilling video.

7. • The hardest part of the process was the filming,
we had planned for there to be two other people
in the video. Jessie and Esther but then when it
came to it they could not make the only time we
could film the sceans that they were in. This was
a real problem as there was only 5 of
us instead of 7. When it came down to it I phoned
a friend who I knew could act, to see if they could
come and fill a spot so there was 6 of us which
was fine.
Planned cast list Actual cast list
James – Jamie
Lee – Ronnie James – Jamie
Leon – Lon Lee –Ronnie
Esther – Esther Leon – Lon
Jessie – Skylar Alex – Mongrel
Alex – Mongrel Chris – The Oath

8. • Working with Lee in the projectIstill think was
a good choice as we work well together. At the
very start we had a chat to see what we were
good at and what we went at. I told him that I
love filming and editing and the practical side
of it. He said that he was good at the
written side of it. we seemed like a good pair
and I still think we are.

9. Legal and ethical consideration
• The song Petrified Forest by Ed cox is the song
that is playing over the back of the video, we
could find no reason why there would be
any copyright issues, so this song is perfect.
Something that we should have done was put a
credit in for Ed cox. The song its self is quite long,
repetitive and slowly gets intense through out the
song. Then when editing I found 3 points in the
song to cut away at, this has made the film build
up tension.

10. • In the opening sequence there is drink and drug
use, we did this as this sort of thing is appealing
to watch as a teenager. We knew that the drug
use could not promote drugs in anyway, so we
added the “bad trip” idea. So after the drugs had
been taken they are meant to look like it is going
well, but after a while it starts to go terrible for
them. With the target audience being teens they
are at the age were they could be potentially be
involved with drugs, the whole bad tip side of the
video should shock the audience into not wanting
to taking drugs.

11. Skills development
• In this project there has been as much if not more on
the Macbooks working in Photoshop editing in Final
cut then all of the research on the internet. One of the
big things that I enjoy is editing film, all though I had
never used Final cut before this unit. In the past I have
used other editing suite such as Adobe Premier, Sony
Vegas and Imovie. A lot of the skills from them I could
use in Final cut.

12. • There was a lot of work in Photoshop for the research
and for the planning. At the start I made a mood board
the the themes of the film, I spent a lot of time then
cutting out images to make something that looks
betting then what I had done in the past. I also
made character mood boards. The other large thing
that we did in Photoshop was the text for the credits in
the film. We did not want to use a font from Final cut
or Photoshop so we looked on the internet at sites like
Fontspace and Dafont.com. Next was to make pages of
the same word “sketch” in different fonts. Doing this
was good as we could see very quickly which ones did
not work.

13. • The editing was a challenge from the rough edit where
there was almost nothing that made sense, it took a lot of
work to get it to what it is now. The big thing was cutting it
right down,
taking out clips, rearranging them then cropping clips to
make them have more of an impact. Once the film was
around 1 minuet long we started adding filters to the clips
where they hallucinations [ look on final cut and name the
filters here]. Something else that I worked on was the
cutting of the music. I did it so it would sound
more intense the more drugs that where taken, this makes
the film more powerful towards the end.
After
Before

14. Quality of final product
• Over all I am very happy with the final product. From
all of the rushed and uninteresting shots, that we made
a video that is some what good compared to the rough
edit that we did. The biggest problem we had when we
were editing was that we kept falling in to the habit of
putting in to much detailed, at points with the story
that we had made we could have made a few TV
episodes out of our ideas, so we were always cutting
out ideas that would not fit in or taking shots out as we
meant for a fast passed snappy video which is what we
wanted and not the long story opening that we kept
ending up with

15. At the start we planned for the target audience was
to be around the age of 16, looking at the video I
think it would be more appropriated to
be aimed at 17-18 as the drug and swearing in
the video. I no longer think that a 16 year old
would understand the video really, but then may
see it in a much different way.

16. • To conclude, this project has gone well there was a few
hic-ups along the way with some of the actors
dropping out, to the lack of shots when it came to
editing.
But then when it came to editing we improved
everything about the film as when we had at the
start, adding music and all the effects, and getting
feedback from people saying it should all be shorter.
Which we fixed as well. I think if we were to do this
same task again I would have made sure we had more
of a plan for the story as we kept changing it around to
make more sense, when we should have just made the
story then left it as that.