Trouble that may effect the deadline

As it has been drilled into our heads several of times, that our deadline is this Thursday. With only a very short amount of time to do our evaluation, we created a plan of splitting the questions up to help us reach this deadline. However, no one in our group thought about the situation with the computer.

We are currently sharing a mac computer with another year 13 group who are also working towards the same, tight deadline. This means that both groups are fighting for the same computer. Over the past couple of days, Jade and myself have planned to go and get a head start on editing, however, the computer has been in use. This means that we are going to need some sort of system so that both us and the other media group, get the same amount of time use for the computer, as this is the only way we can all have a chance of finishing for the deadline.

To help us near completion, we are all giving up some of our free time and I, along with others if they don't mind, maybe staying late after school on Wednesday so we wont have to rush the editing during the lunch hour.

Evaluation editing

So today's lesson, we uploaded mine and Jades questions, the audience feedback and what Rachel and Roisin had filmed so far. This took all lesson so unfortunately not much editing got done. However, I did find out that as we filmed all the questions without stopping the camera recording so it all came out in one clip, it wont actually take that long to find the parts we need and edit out what we don't need. This is very good news as we were worried that it would take a long time. But with little time to achieve a full evaluation, it is nice to hear, that finding the extracts that are needed, will be easier than expected.

News about the digipack

This is an email from Quadraproof explaining that they made an mistake saying that they could print our digipack as they didn't realise completely how big it was. They then went on to explain that to print this size, it will cost around £60. After discussing this with Roisin and Rachel (as unfortunately we were missing Jade today due to a art trip), we decided that we were not willing to pay that much. To see if we can get a printed, we are going to see if the art department can print it in A3 for us.

Planning Parts 1 and 2 of our Evaluation

So, Roisin and I are in charge of parts 1 and 2 of the evaluation, which are:

• In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
• How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

We have decided to plan and script most of the answers to the sub-questions that we have. We also made a storyboard of how our section of the evaluation will look, so all we need to do now pretty much is actually film it and then add all the effects and stuff and basically make it look great! So below are the roughly drawn up scripts that Roisin and I will be using to film tomorrow, as well as the storyboards that we drew up last week.

Digipack

Here are some pack shots of our digipack. This isn't the final digipack, just the first draft, as it is a miniature version of what will hopefully be a really cool CD case in the end! However, what we have here is enough for the mark scheme, but it will be nice to have a finished, proper version for ourselves!
We all agree that it looks really good, the pictures are really effective and it looks really professional!

Starting our Evaluation

After planning and briefly scripting the answers to questions 3 and 4 on Friday, Gemma and I decided to set about filming the sections of the evaluation we appear in. Differing from last year, the group has chosen to 'split' the evaluation in half as such. This is because we have a much shorter timescale than before, and deligating particular sections will help us condense ideas and take on multiple roles, eg, we are able to have one part of the group capturing footage whilst the others upload or edit.
Also changing from last year is our use of scripting. Both Gemma and I decided to opt for a looser script with more improvisation as we think this will look less artificial and more natural on screen. This was a risky move (considering our track record of delievering lines to a camera!) but amazingly, we managed to cover all of our filming requirements in the first lesson meaning we are bang on schedual.
Once Roisin and Rachel have shot all of their footage too, we plan to sit together as a collective and pool all of our energy into editing it together; we have all of the materials to hand on the imacs so it simply is the construction that is going to be the most time consuming.

Some very good news

Today we received some very good news. Quandraproof, the digipack company in which Ceri suggested to us, answered the email which I sent to them yesterday and said that they will happily print us off a copy and only for a small fee.

This pleased us all as we were very worried that if we were able to get it printed, it would cost too much. With printing with this company, they did say that they couldn't print it on photo paper as when folding it up? It wouldn't work. Therefore, they said that they would kindly print it off on card for us and even print off a couple extra copies just in case there becomes problems while folding, however, they did mention that we will have to fold it ourselves.

However, we are all extremely pleased with the offer we have been made and we are very excited to see the final product.