Evaluation

As media studies evaluation

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Our finished production

Today we watched our production and decided that it is now complete. We will now go on to write our evaluation.

Adding a voiceover

Today we watched our production and whilst we were very pleased we felt that some people may struggle to understand the story line. We therefore decided that we should add a voice over to our production which will then tell part of the story. We decided that the main character would be the voice over so we wrote a script telling part of the story from her perspective.
We then got a volunteer to come into the media room to read the script for us. We created the voiceover by getting our volunteer to read the script quite close to the computer. Whist they were doing this we made sure we were recording their voice using garage band. Once they had finished speaking we added an effect to her voice to make it sound slightly more spooky.
We then chose to add our voiceover to the opening scenes of the religious iconography. We then thought it would be good to break down our voice over to individual sentences which we then added throughout our production.

Editing part 4

Today we watched our production and whilst we are very pleased with it we still feel like it's missing something. After having a play around with some of the effects we found that we liked the 'blink effect' on final cut. We decided to put this effect all over our first opening scenes of the religious iconography. We thought that the 'blink effect' would be suitable for our production as it brings forward a sense of instability which could then be representative of our main character.

Editing part 3

Today we decided to watch our production from start to finish to see how it was looking. We were really pleased with how the soundtrack went with the footage but we thought we needed to make it look just a bit more special. After many discussions on what we could do, we decided to make the blood drip off the rosary beads in slow motion to make it seem just that more sinister. Once we had done this we were much happier with how our footage was looking.

Adding More Sounds

Previous to today the only sound we had on our production was the gospel style music which we found on garageband. Whilst this music works well with our production we thought we should add some other sound effects.
The first sound effect we added was a creepy style music track. We added this to our production at the beginning when the production company titles appear as we felt it would unnerve our audience straight away which is typical for a teen horror film.
The next sound effect we added was a deep bell sound. This sound was added to the production titles, the distribution titles and the title of the film. We chose to add a bell sound as we thought that this would once again reinforce the religious theme of our production.
Finally we added a piano track to the final scenes of our production. We felt like we should add enough soundtrack to our end scenes as we wanted the last scenes to make an impact.

Garageband

Today we added some eerie music to our production which we downloaded from freesound.org. However, we didn't feel like this fitted our production as well as we were hoping it would. So we then decided to see if we could make anything more suitable on garage band. After a little play around we found some music which sounded sinister and also had a gospel feel to it which fits very well with the religious theme of our production. After we had added a few more instruments to the gospel music we had the perfect soundtrack to our production.