Making our Titles...

In my group we decided to FILM our Titles. So after choosing which Titles we wanted to include in our opening.

We used the same JVC Digital Camera we used to film our product, we cut out LETTERS from Newspaper articles - this fitted in with our story line. We then placed them down on a piece of paper spelling out the different names of each Title we decided to use.

Then using a FAN

we blew the NEWSPAPER CLIPPING off the paper.

After uploading it onto our Video Drive, we used FINAL CUT to reverse the filming and slow it down.

This made it look like the TITLES were being blown backwards onto the screen.

This create an eerie atmosphere, and it was unusual as nobody else had done this.

EVALUATION Task Six

In this project I had to use many new technologies and sometimes be able to use different ones at the same time. I used websites such as 'Youtube' & 'google' to help me research my thriller opening. I also used other sites to help influence me with ideas and themes of what a thriller should be like; for example 'Artofthetitle.com'. This website has screengrabs from other thrillers which hav already been realeased into cinema and been successful.

We used a JVC digital Camera to film our media product, i found this product easy to use. While using the camera we used a mic called a 'boom', we used this to help enhance the sound as some of it was crucial to our video, eg. the phone ringing. The camera took a memeory card which helped when downloading our film onto our video drive, helping us to transfer it onto an apple mac. This helped to keep all our projects safe, as it minimised the risk of us losing work. We also used a digital recorder inorder to record our Voice Over.

We used:

Final cut to edit all our filmed clips to create our media production.

Soundtrack pro to create a soundtrack to add to our film.

Once we made our soundtrack we had to import it into Final Cut.

Although we didn't use LiveType, as we filmed our titles, we still learnt how to use it.

I found all of these programme quite easy to use, and so did my group. We liked the idea of how much we could play around with different ideas helping to improve our film.

EVALUATION Task Five

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Our audience for our media product would be a young audience

I would rate our film as a certificate 15
Our film would most probably attract a wide Female Audience as both the victim and villain in our film were female

Ways in which we would attract an audience:

-Using the internet (Website Banners)

-Websites such as; Google, Facebook, Twitter & Bebo

-We could add a trailer/shot clips on Youtube

-We could also use Magazines, to help attract our Female Audience

VOICE OVER

We used a voice over along with our soundtrack to create an eerie atmosphere and for the voice to act as narrator.

EVALUATION Task Three && Four

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I think my film should be distributed by WT2. Similarly to Shaun of the Dead our film has a small budget but the potential audience is large due to the themes involved in the film. For our film to reach its full potential the marketing and advertising strategies has to be on point. I hope that our film follows in the footsteps of Shaun of the dead in terms of success. Shaun of the dead is a British home grown film produced on a small budget yet the film was quite successful because it was able to appeal to a wide audience range.

I think my film has the ability to appeal to a wide audience range with the right marketing and advertising.

Although the film has a small budget I think 'pen Friends' has the potential to make it to the red carpet and hit the wide screen globally.

The release strategy of ‘Pen friends’ is going to resemble the release strategy of paramount’s star trek 2009 and Shaun of the dead. The trailers for this film will be released o the Internet 3 months before its planed release date this will create an international hype. A months before the release the trailer would be released on national television. Like Star treks ‘Pen Friend’ will have three different trailers so the film attracts a wider range of audience. Each of the trailers would show a different aspect of the film.

The Internet is going to be key in the advertisement of our film. Because our film is ’home grow’ and it is being produced on a low budget we are relying on support and participation from the audience. On the web site the audience is going to be able to subscribe to the site ad keep up to date with the filming and the progress the film is making. Again this will help create a hype ad cause a lot of people to talk about the film so when it is released their will be a large amount of people wanting to see it. As well as the website we will also use social networking site such as facebook ad twitter this will appeal to a younger audience. We will also have various billboards’ in different locations such as train stations. Our advertising campaign will also will also involve radio adverts.

EVALUATION Task Seven

Looking back at our preliminary task we can see that we have made massive improvements in or editing skills. One aspect in particular which quality has improved was our match cuts. In our 1st task our match cuts were very fast and did not particularly 'match'. They jerked and went too quick - giving a 'blur' as the end result. However, by looking at several match cuts in our final movies you can tell that we have learnt many new skills and have enhanced our technique. Our new match cuts are very precise, for example the character turns the page at the right spot just as we chose a different camera angle to show this, allowing it to flow easily. The easy flow made it easier to watch and gave quality to the film. The issues we encountered with our match cuts in the preliminary task was that we did not have enough clips to choose from and the ones we did have was not of a good enough quality. This proved to us that we had to take more shots and many angles and camera positions for our final film in order for us to experiement and produce match cuts of a good standard.

EVALUATION Task Two

Comparing our thriller opening to the opening of 'Se7en' you can see that they are both similar and that 'Se7en' influenced us in making our opening. The film language in both opening are also similar and represent particular social groups. To show off our Villain we used a variety of close-ups showing off her hands cutting, which is like the extreme close-ups used in Se7en', this helps to create a sense of unease and mystery. Not seeing the character of the baddies face in our film helps creates suspense as the audience are unaware of who the person is and what exactly it is their doing and why. The close-up shots of the hands help to emphasise how much time and effort is being put into whatever it is the character is doing.

In 'Se7en' it is quite obvious that the characters fingers belong to a man whereas ours belong to a female - which is fully revealed at the end of our opening. This contrast with other thriller villains as normally its not a women who is committing the crime.

Another way in which our thriller opening is similar to 'Se7en' in how they represent a particular social group was the unknowing victims sleeping. These shots help to show the vulnerability of the characters. This also helps contrast of what is going on, everything seems to be 'normal' and relaxed, as the character is unaware that they are about to be a victim. However, at the end of our opening there is a twist as the audience realise that the victim is actually aware that someone is out to get her, which contrasts with 'Se7en' as we our unaware of the relationship between the victim/s and the villain.

Audience Feedback Task 8

Audience Feedback Task 8

Audience Feedback

audience feedback.

EVALUATION Task One

The titles of both of the films are not in a set position and they are kind of scattered on the page. I think this is to represent the unpredicted natures of the films.

Similar to 'Se7en’ we overlapped our footage, we did this to help creates an uneasy atmosphere.

The titles is quite important and it can change the audiences’ perceptions of the film therefore it is vital to have a good title for your film. In ‘se7en’ the title has a black background and white shaky writing. Although this title is quite plain it makes you think because it seems like something is not right. In ‘pen friends’ we created the title in the same way we created the others but we put a negative filter on it and the effect ‘bad TV’. Our other titles are ‘shaky’ and they make the audience feel unease.

Like in 'Se7en' we used a variety of close up shots of hands. This helps to introduce the villain crimes.

Both our shot and the shot from 'Se7en' help show the villains committing their crimes, and introduces the audience to the story.

This image from 'Se7en' actually influenced our shot, even though we used more shots than 'Se7en' did it was still very similar. Doing shots like this helped to show off our groups match-cutting skills.

Both of these images have a high camera angle, which helps the person in shot to come across more vulnerable to the audience.

On the left side of my split screen, the image contrasts light and dark, the still image from 'Se7en' also contrast light and dark.

Rough cut edit

Changes in light of feedback from rough cut

Our rough cut edit was incomplete as we had less time to edit our movie than others because we had to re-film at the last minute due to location issues. To improve our rough cut we made the match cuts more precise by placing the 'input' and 'outputs' at the exact spots - we did this by looking at the timings of the film rather than the film itself. Also, we took out any unnecessary clips so that we could reduce the duration of the film and so that it did not drag. Another reason why we had to take our more clips was because the opening duration had to be approximately 2 minutes long and ours was way over!

PITCH

This was our original idea but due to location and actor problems we decided to change the whole thriller idea. Our new film is called 'Pen Friend' and is about someone threatening another person through poison pen letters.

On Shoot Photos

Evaluation-Audience feedback and comments

STORYBOARD

Animatic Storyboard

Preliminary task - Matchcut