Last minute change!!

After going through an examiner's report on Wednesday, the fact that we didn't put specific credits in 'Mourning' came to our attention.
Luckily, the deadline we had to meet a few weeks ago was a personal one, set by Miss Foster, to allow time for things like this to be rectified and, I'm guessing, so she doesn't lose her hair due to the stress of no one getting it done on time.

So yes, here is the vlog on what we changed and why:

Miss Foster being ever-so mature with a USB lead...

How it looks now:

MOURNING

I know this has been greatly anticipated since our fabulous prelim back in September/October, but the wait is over. It's here.



Athena, Lucy and I are so proud of Mourning and it's been so much fun!
The idea was originally just going to be a feel-good film about a girl on a train and now it's intricate, deep and damn right amazing, don't you think?
That maybe a little big-headed but I cant even elucidate how proud I am of Team Mac 1 for actually pulling it off. It's better than we expected and now I sound like I'm accepting an Oscar so before I go, shout out to my mum and dad for supporting me and Foster for her media-ness.

Peace.

Final film vlog!

Completely forgot to put this on at the time!!

The vlog Athena and I did after we uploaded our film (which will follow tomorrow)

COUNTDOWN

Strangely enough, I'm not scared about these countdowns! (Show me a countdown for my History exams, and I will cry you a river)

I think it's because I've been enjoying Media since September and had just great fun, so revising won't be a chore! I'm really confident in both Section A and B in the exam so that's always positive! My mock results gave me an extra boost too - where I got an A!! - so I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully I'll come out with the grade I want :)

So yeah, the countdown:

 I can feel myself counting down the seconds as I write this... 

Done and dusted!!

And so, the film is done and evaluating must begin.
Here's a quick vlog of me looking my finest and chatting media gibberish, as per usual.



  The questions I promised:  

• In what ways does your film opening use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?    
• How does your film opening represent particular social groups?   
• What kind of media institution might distribute your film opening and why?   
• Who would be the audience for your film opening?   
• How did you attract/address your audience?   
• What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this film opening?   
• Looking back at your prelim task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the final film opening?

Nearly there!

The shot Lucy and Athena got today was absolutely fantastic and the changes they've made to the film made me cry with happiness when I saw it - I'm not even joking. 

They took my advice and put the font in lower case too and it looks absolutely stunning. I am so incredibly pleased with it!! Roll on Friday!

Here's a picture of the font!! All of our names are in the lower right hand corner of the screen and, like Being Human's credits, they're simple, effortless and simply amazing. 

I cannot explain how happy we are as a group with how our film has turned out! :) 

Update!

I was away all week on a geography field trip so I haven't been in media since last Friday!
However, my wonderful team have updated me on what they've changed, which, as always, is just improving our film even more so; which I didn't even think was possible.

Music-wise
We've decided to scrap Kings of Leon's 'Closer' for when Athena walks round the corner into the lift because it proved really difficult to mix the two songs together without the change sounding too dramatic. So now we're just going for Foals - Blue Blood. The ending of the song is just as good, if not better, than 'Closer', so Team Mac 1 are very happy bunnies.

Filming 
Athena and Lucy are going to film the last little shot of Athena actually putting her headphones in at Oakwood. Even though she has her headphones in the whole time, they aren't particularly visible and we just want to reduce all chances of any marks being taken off of the final film. I am not going because I have a history lesson (yay) but as always, I trust them to get exactly what we need.

VERY exciting times.