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Evaluation: Question 8

  Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you feel you have learned in the progression form it to the full product?

Comparing our preliminary film to our real thriller film, we have improved a lot as Filmer's, and editors.. I am going to explain the comparisons, improvements between the both.

Titles:



In our prelim film, (above left) the titles were short and rushed due to the amount of time that we had left to complete it, we did not follow a conventions of a normal film... we tried but it didn't work,  for example in our prelim we put the title of the film before the stars/ cast.. This was wrong because the people starring in the film are supposed to go first and then its supposed to be the name of the film. 

Camera shots:

When we did our prelim we (above) we used two point of view shots consecutively, and this looked really awful when we watched it after. however in our real film we used a variety of different shots together and we didn't make that same mistake.. this shot (right) id very good because the camera is at a low angle looking up.. which make s a scary mysterious affect. and this worked really well with out thriller! 

Sound:

The sound was good but was really repetitive, i think that if we had some more time than we could have added more sounds and and had more variation in it.  it was better than the prelim in the fact that we made our own sound track for the opening..my singing, with some other sounds from soundtrack pro.. i recorded myself singing 'Twinkle twinkle little star' using her my phone and then we imported it into our film. I think that this was a really good thing to do as it will get us marks for showing that we are capable of making our own sounds to use in our film.  

Transitions:

To make our edits fit and be more interesting to watch we wanted to include transitions to go from one shot to another.for example fade in, fade out, dissolve, Cross dissolve etc.... I really think this helped to make our film flow nicely and made it look more professional. However in our prelim we used no transitions, it just cut from shot to shot

Below it shows how we used transitions to make it look really creepy and Erie... 

As you can see the clip before is still visible while the next clip is coming one.. this makes it feel like the dolls is still present in the next shot. 

Technologies: 

our group didn't just want the normal conventional opening where its all acting, so we decided to do something different, we were inspired by Sherlock Holmes.. we decided to add drawings with acting instead of just acting..  we wanted our  film to be unique and different from others, therefore drawings were a really good way to go about doing it. we did this by drawing some of the key scenes in black fine liner, this will give it a very stylised and classy look. I went home with the chosen scenes and drew them, we then scanned the pictures in so that it will look exactly as i drew them.. this worked because they looked very much like the scenes in the opening clips .  

I realised that when making our prelim, we did not think about using the opportunities we have to make our film more interesting and unique. We simply filmed, edited it and then added in titles. However, when making our film we knew we had to do something different and it turned out that our decision was good because everyone really liked our unique and creative idea!! 

I think these main things that we have improved on has helped our film to be much better than our prelim and we have learned a lot on how to make a good suspenceful, sucessful thriller film!!!!!!! 

                                                                  

     

Evaluation: Question 6- part 4

Today we went to the green on the screen, we watched everyones films!!! It was soooooo embaressing to watch our one on the big screen!!!!!!!


After we watched the film we got some feedback from other students that watched the film.. here are their responses:

Evaluation: Question 3

Who would be the target audience for your media product?


In class we had a discussion about who our target audience for our thriller. we finally decided that our target range would be rated 15.

However we would be targeting 18 to 30 years olds.  we have decided this becasue they are more mature, we think that it would be too scary for younger children. We dont think it would be suitible for them.

this would be our range:

We went on to this animation website where you can create characters and scenes for the to be in.. we have used this website to make one to help create a montage of our typical target audience..

We have made this animation of some of the things that our target audinece member would do on a regular basis...
GoAnimate.com: Kim 18 by ethelafrane

Like it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!


This is the typical things that they would have in their bag..

Evaluation: Question 6- part 3

After the feedback about the film Phil asked the class what they thought was the target audience.. the video below shows what they said:

We have to think carefully about who were aiming at because if we get the target audience wrong then on one will watch your film because all our promotion and distribution would be aimed at that target audience.. we also did a show of hands to see how many fo the people from the class would pay to go cinema and watch it.


Five people out of 20 said that they would actually to go and see it, which is a good turn out. they also said that it would be raed 15 but it would be targeted for 18 to 30 year olds.

This is the link below of our feedback, at 9:27 phil askes the group who he thinks its aimed at of you want to see the discussion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1OOD9IYYrM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Evaluation: Question 6- part 2

When we were watching our films, eveyone filled in these sheets and gave them to the groups they wrote about at the end....

We then had to go to this website called http://www.wordle.net/ we had to type up the feedback and put it into wordle and it would create a word cloud for us.. herer is how it looks:

You can change the colour, font, and the design of the cloud:

The more words you put in the busier it looks...

This is our word cloud:

This is what everyone in ur class said about our film, this is what we used to create our word cloud:

Annabelle’s whisper’s, I think that the editing was really good, with the drawings matching the camera shots. I thought that the sound was very repetitive and got annoying but at first it was really creepy/ haunting. The editing from the real clips to the drawings were excellent. I thought that the sounds could have variation and not the same throughout the whole thing. Pictures were awesome! Close up of the dolls= good and creepy. The pictures want to make us know more… really well edited, slow pace meant that it was Eerie. Titles were clean, which meant that they were readable. The singing ad music was out of time, slightly too dark on the 2nd half when drawing. Very good camerawork, lighting could have been better. The volume of the soundtrack could have been lower. Singing good but repetitive.  The sound went well with the film the drawing that comes after the film works really well the shots were good lighting and titles needs to be improved it was suspenseful the drawings were wicked the editing and music was good the lighting was too dark i think the two soundtracks flowed well especially the sound track which is played during the lullaby singing some of the shots were too dark and i couldn't really see what was going on it could have been better it was suspenseful the drawings were fantastic it made you film really unique and different i was really impressed the sound wasn't so good it could have been better some parts of the film were too dark and it didn't look good that could have been improved suspense it was a bit confusing i loved the drawings the way it cut between cartoon and real life that was impressive i liked the sound it was okay the titles were good and i liked the font some shots were dark you could have brightened it up overall the film was okay i liked the drawings they were really good and unique the titles were good too but i didn't like the sound it could have been better the lighting was dark the lighting was too dark in some shots i liked the pace of the film it helped to build suspense.      

Evaluation: Question 7

What have you learned about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Here is a animatic of what we learned about the technologies that we have used:

Here are all the technologies that we used:

         JVC camera

        Memory cards

                Memory card reader

 Final cut pro

     Sound track pro

Live type

                                Hand brake

                 Quick time recorder

 Stills camera

 Lighting

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Video drive

We also used a flip camera to record the voice over in this animatic: