Evaluation

Here is the link to my evaluation website:
mlevesley.wix.com/mediastudies

Finished The Secret Final OTS

The Secret RabbitHole Productions from Matthew Levesley on Vimeo.

Public Feedback

To receive further feedback from the general public rather than simply the media class, me Josh and Heather tweeted the above tweet and we showed our class in form. In form we presented the video and asked people to go onto SurveyMonkey; for social media, I attached the finished second draft of our OTS from Vimeo and a survey for people to fill out on Survey Monkey on a tweet (shown below). Unfortunately to embed a survey you have to pay for SurveyMonkey premium so I can only attach the screenshot and link of the survey.

The tweet to 506 followers on Twitter

Public Survey

Below is some of the feedback that we received:

Unfortunately, we did not receive a large amount of feedback. If we were to do the process again I think that we should force the survey onto people; as we were really lenient with the survey, a lot of people did not do this and on Twitter people probably did not want to click on the links.

Positives and Negatives

Vlog Positives and Negatives from Matthew Levesley on Vimeo.

In this video we outline the positives and the negatives of the Film Noir experience.

Actors Profile

After casting the Actors (as stated in the previous blog post)

Josh Coe:



Date of Birth: 16th November 1998 (aged 17)

Height: 5'9"

Hair Colour: Brown

Gender: Male

Role: Tony

Reason for Hiring: We needed someone with a great deal of Film Noir knowledge to perfectly fulfil the needed role; I therefore decided that the leading role should go to either me or Joshua. After an informal audition, Josh suited the character's role better as he was able to be serious and portray emotion almost effortlessly.

Positives when filming: 

• Took directions well
• Acted with a straight face, never broke character
• Suited the clothing and props

Negatives when filming:

• Body position at times could have been more appropriate

Heather McDonald:

Date of Birth: 14th May 1999 (aged 16)

Height: 5'5"

Hair Colour: Brunette

Gender: Female

Role: Victoria

Reason for Hiring: As stated before, actors were needed with strong Film Noir knowledge to perfectly portray the characters. A female character was needed and Heather met the criteria we were looking for.

Positives when filming:

• Effectively used the props appropriately and realistically
• Took directions well
• Looked like a genuine Femme Fatale

Negatives when filming:

• Many scenes took more than one take to complete

The Feedback Received After The First Viewing

After the class watched our first draft as shown below:

Each student filled out a questionnaire (as shown in previous blog post), below is an Emaze presentation outlining the feedback that we received:




I personally found this experience very helpful as we asked people with experience of Film Noirs and as others viewed it, they spotted errors that we did not notice (for example Heather's trip whilst walking) this allowed us to edit the errors out before the holiday break which is really beneficial and time-efficient for us.

The Secret First Draft Unfinished

To complete the film by next week, we decided that we need feedback. The unfinished version does not include a gunshot foley sound but we would like as much feedback ready for next week.
Here is the embedded video for viewing from the class:

The Secret RabbitHole Productions Draft 1 (unfinished) from Matthew Levesley on Vimeo.

Please take your time to fill out this questionnaire (created by myself):

Unfortunately, after embedding the survey within this post, it closed after 24 hours and it was not able to be viewed. I have simply included a screenshot from Google Forms and the feedback will be posted at a later stage.

Voiceovers Playlist on SoundCloud

Attached is the voiceovers that me and Josh recorded on my iPhone. Me and Josh found an empty classroom and, with the script on his phone, Josh spoke into the microphone on my phone sentence by sentence. To easily place them into our movie, I set the name as the sentence number in order (other than "Hey Victoria"). This went well as there was minimalistic distractions and Josh was able to easily read off the script from his phone. From this, I have learnt that if you prepare well (by effectively producing the script) then the rest of the production will be easier and less stressful; in future tasks, I will ensure that the planning has been done to the best of our ability.
On the day of recording, this is the blogpost where I outlined the recording of the voiceovers.