flow chart

Ideas generation

idea –

• dealer asking if someone wants to buy
• possible mugging
• trip to police station
• fight scene
• empty medical pot
• walks away but gets chased
• ending of a get away
• many of outcomes end badly
• followed home
• hands a £10 note to dealer in one outcome
• run scene home
• confrontation

target audience

our target audience is aimed towards the demographic of 16-18 year olds. we believe this is a target audience to approach as we aim to educate the audience on the dangers of these actions whilst also entertaining them. we also believe our production is mature enough for this audience.

interactive video research

 

 

 

this interactive video seems to be aimed to younger audiences to educate them on being sensible with money and to not get yourself into debt with people. there are many child based themes in this production and it catches onto trends to attain views from its target demographic. i think this production was made well as it entices and entertains the young audience. i think this could have been improved by accommodating more adult themes to broaden their audience. for our production i would like to facilitate and incorporate their intuitiveness on how they made it interactive.

 

 

this interactive video was aimed towards a more mature audience such as 16+. i believe this is so that the producers can convey a serious message and educate the target audience on the repercussions of their actions. this video production could possibly change someones life and turn their life decisions around. i think this production is relevant due to a recent rise in knife crime and this is a serious subject. this video could combat this recent spike. personally i think this production is good however i would develop this more to include more choices and to show more impacts such as drugs etc.

shot list

Opening scene – first person camera shot as person A walks towards dealer, cuts to long shot to show both dealer and person A talking.cut to mid shot and first person to listen to the conversation. first person view of examining empty pot.chase cam of dealer running after person A, interchangeable with first person views.first person for exchange of money. fight scenes first person with black screen for the punch. we will need a tripod to keep camera steady in the long shots and mid shots

 

Final production

 

in conclusion, i believe that our interactive film went well and that the outcome is something that we didn’t expect. although it didn’t go exactly to plan and is shorter than we hoped for, i believe we tackled a controversial topic in a way thats educational and informs our target audience of possible things that can go wrong if you get mixed up in business you aren’t really a part of, the theme we aimed for came across in a way that showed danger and kept the audience entertained, we aimed to have more options to choose to keep the audiences attention and to make the way of consuming the product more active, however due to time constraints and problems with equipment we could not accommodate all of our initial idea into the final product. over the course of the project, personally i learnt a lot such as how to direct scenes to achieve a more professional product, i also learnt how to edit an interactive video. although i struggled to initially create the interactive video due to changes in YouTubes policies, i believe what we achieved as a group was good. In future, i will be sure to check all the equipment before moving to an offsite location to ensure everything is in a working order to make sure the filming schedule goes to plan. in my opinion I’m happy with my final outcome, considering the problems we ran into, i believe we managed to convey a serious message in a way that kept the audience watching throughout our short film. As a group we believed it could have gone better but we are still happy with our final outcome.

diary

monday – on monday i was put into my group and unfortunately i was on my own for the day so i chose to do some research and gather possible photos and videos. i also began to plan the project.

tuesday – on tuesday i started producing the short clip and editing together the sound and photos. isaac and i made a voice recording to read out the verse of the poem.

thursday – on thursday we decided to edit the clip again and change it from photos to a short video from the war. we then finished the project.

overall i think this project went fairly well however i thought that the work wasn’t very engaging and there wasn’t many things we could have done. i didn’t see a way to be creative about this topic so i thought it would be best to be respectful and do it like a voiceover with a clip. i thought about playing ‘the last post’ in the background but i then thought that that wasn’t appropriate seen as that is the signal for the moment of silence.

Overall, i think the final product came out better than expected, as a group we was still coming to grasp how to edit in a professional manner that looks presentable. i think we put across an important message to the viewers about situational awareness and to look out for yourself, that if you feel like your putting yourself in danger then avoid it. throughout this project i have personally developed many skills, at the beginning of this project i wasn’t very experienced at editing or filming with cameras, this project has helped me broaden my ability and given me the chance to develop a range of editing skills. in the future i would plan the idea more to gain a better understanding of our overall idea and to choreograph the scenes more than we did, we had a general idea but it wasn’t very specific. i think we successfully expressed our message throughout this film by keeping the audience entertained and on edge, there is a sense of danger throughout most of the clip. Overall, as a group we was very happy with the final outcome, we never expected our idea to be translated into a film so well. as a group each of our edits give a slightly different story to the point where you can watch all 3 and feel a different kind of entertainment and emotion to the short film.