Screen Shots for Evaluation

Here are some of the screen shots that we took to include in our evaluations.

feedback by u266

The music was very suitable for the genre and very different from all of the other groups. They held the shot steady and the framing of the shot was appropriate. They used a variety of of shot distances and selected an appropriate mise-en-scene. The only difficulty we have with the film in general is that we didn't understand the plot of the film and what the point of Andrew in the car park and in the office was. However, they used a variety of shot transitions and effects whilst using sound with images and they also used titles appropriately.

Final Project

Feedback

After showing our project to the class we received the following comments.

• The use of props worked well such as the photograph shots
  
• Changing the colour on the clips helped it make sense and looked good
• Our main protagonist was clear
• The locations were well chosen as they didn't look like we filmed in college
• Lots of different shot types and angles. One particular shot that worked well was the over the shoulder shot of the agent at his desk.
• The ident matched the genre well
• In order to improve our project we shall have to add sound and make sure the low angle shot of the agent remains clear for it's duration

Rough Cut

Target Audience

Our target audience is 17-30 year old males. Their viewing preferences would be action, thriller and political films. Because of the political theme in our film it will attract an older audience as opposed to young teenagers. Examples of similar films that attract this audience are; Se7en (1995, David Fincher), Identity (2003, James Mangold) and Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón).

Dark aspects of the film such as murder may also attract fans of crime the horror genre.

Rough cut deadline

As today is the rough cut deadline, we've had to make credits for our film and do as much editing as we could with the 1hr 10mins of the lesson. We have finished editing all of the film clip itself, and started adding more to our soundtrack. This involved ambient as well as non-diegetic sound. The film at the moment is 2minutes, 10seconds, with the editing.

09/03/2010 lesson

Today all we did was start to make the soundtrack

Targets

Today we were given the following targets for our film:

• Add an earlier shot of the clock to give meaning to the audience
• Begin garage-band soundtrack today

We've completed the first target of adding the clock, and started some research into what we will have in our film using garage-band

Today's Filming and Editing

Today we filmed the extreme close ups of the evidence photographs and incorporated them into our project. Following our targets we then added some more footage of the clock showing a different time to show the passage of time. We then moved on to Garage Band in order to create a sound track for our Thriller opening. We wanted to create a sinister atmosphere through non-diagetic sound.

Evaluation Questions

The following questions must be answered in your evaluation PowerPoint:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

1st lesson only editing

We are keeping the flashbacks blue, and are making the contrast/brightness high to separate it from the rest of the 'present day' footage, and make it obviously different. the rest of the film, not the flashbacks, was left as it was when we filmed it. We will/ have used dip-to-colour fades and a lengthened fade, along with cuts and animating the ident.

Props and Costume

Here are the props that we used:

A criminal reference file that we mocked up

3 Other documents of random text to bulk out the file. These had coffee stains on in order to make the scene look more seedy and to show that the agent doesn't care about being neat

A clock

A coffee mug

A folder

2 grey-scale evidence photographs that Jennie took in her kitchen and edited using Adobe Photoshop

We chose to make them grey-scale so that they fitted in with the dark, cold lighting and tint that we used on our footage. Using black and white also connotes that the images were taken a long time in the past and that they are from the criminal's earlier crimes. This hints that the criminal has since moved on to more dangerous criminal activity. For the second photograph Jennie used ketchup as blood. In black and white it is less obviously ketchup and it becomes easier for the audience to suspend their disbelief.

Finished photographs with post it notes

Unfortunately the photos printed out a bit blue but our present day footage has a grey tint so that is almost monotone so the blue wont be noticeable.

A Suit

3rd day of filming

Today we managed to get nearly all of the required filming done, with only the extreme close ups left to film. We also started editing the filming we had done.

Our Time Line so Far