Monday, 28 April 2014

Note to the Examiner

Dear Examiner,

Since September 2013, I have been constantly working on constructing this blog for my AS Media Studies coursework, which is hopefully evident in the posts below.

My coursework starts at the very bottom of the blog with my Preliminary Task and works in a reverse order as my blog ends with the more recent task which was my Opening Sequence.

This blog is equipped with navigation tools on the right hand 
side called the 'blog archive' which allows you to easily move through the whole blog and find certain posts. 

For the Opening Sequence task, I have done a draft followed by a final copy.  The difference between the draft and the final is small but is hopefully noticeable. 

I hope you enjoy it all!

                                                                             Roop Arora

Opening Sequence - How I improved the final project from the draft

Between the draft opening sequence and the final opening sequence, I have included a few extra features and aspects including differing camera angles, an extra soundtrack which I made on Logic Pro X and improved synchronised editing between the soundtrack, titles and video.

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Opening Sequence - Audience Feedback

Omar (16) --> 'Soundtracks are good, the costumes are really well suited to the characters and a good variety of camera angles throughout.

Camille (16) --> 'Good range of shots and I like how the beat of the music is synced with the footage'

Milo (16) --> 'I like how the music fitted the titles and the costumes are great'

Louis (16) --> 'Great choice of music and is well synchronised with the textual insertion and there are a good variety of camera shots'

Sophia (23) --> 'Really good choice of music and I would watch the the rest of the film it was made

Toby (17) --> 'The unique music was nicely complimented by the well stylised opening sequence which had a good variety of camera shots'

Max (17) --> 'Great variation of shots and a fantastic choice of non-diegetic sound to accompany them'

Anita (39) --> 'I'm not too sure if I enjoyed it or not, I did like the editing and the music though! Well Done!'

Alex (17) --> 'It seems like two opening sequences in one'

I asked a handful of people from my target audience about their opinions of my opening sequence. I was contented with the feedback I received because there is a fine balance between criticism and praise. 

Also, I asked one person aged 39 and they said that did enjoy it but I feel 40 years of age is the limit in terms of target audience as the storyline would be mainly out of their interests.



Here is a collection of the comments I received on YouTube and it seems all positive. This tells me that people enjoyed my opening sequence. The comments have a theme running through them about how the shots, titles and music were synchronised together during the editing process.

I am overall very happy with the feedback I have received across all forms.

Opening Sequence - Directors Commentary for the FINAL

Opening Sequence -- Final Project FINAL

Saturday, 29 March 2014

Opening Sequence -- Behind The Scenes


This is the video for my behind the scenes. It comes across that filming was very fun in which it was and I really enjoy it and cannot wait to do another project again. I have included interviews and a commentary from me about the basic plot of my opening sequence. The song I used in the background was the instrumental version to 'Rather Be' by Clean Bandit.