FINAL FILM OPENING

Evaluation Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Evaluation Q3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Evaluation Q1. I what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Q1. on Prezi

Evaluation Q2. How does your media product represent particular social grous?

Evaluation Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Q6. on Prezi

Evaluation Q5. How did you attract/ address your audience?

Evaluation Q4. who would be the audience for your media product?

Q4 Audience for media product on Prezi

FINISHED OUR THRILLER!!

FINAAALLYYYYYY!!

Prezzi about Audience

Feedback From Dan on Our Final Rough Cut (Part 3)

In this video, Dan (Teacher) talks about the Sound for our Opening. Sound is effective for our Opening as it will not make it seem as a thriller film if sound is not added so this feedback is helpful.


Good:

• Sounds like Drones and the screechy sounds work as it sets a gloomy effect.

Bad:

• We have added footsteps onto our film, the feedback we got from this is that there were too loud and should use it more for the girl in shot but at a lower sound.
• A heartbeat was also added and was said that it is not effective as the sound heartbeat is associated with someone dying and our film opening doesn't indicate that.

Suggestion:

• A suggestion Dan brought unto us is we should include Static phonic sounds as it will give a better effect onto a certain clip Dan illustrated.
• As a dog was used Dan said Dog sounds could be effective.

From the previous clips including Part 3 of the feedback we got from Dan we are going to now make the changes that was made for us and from this it will make our production better.

Soundtrack Pro

After the video is edited i had to put the video in soundtrack pro and add sounds to make the video more effective. I chose many scary, tension building sounds to make the audience shocked and scared. This meant the purpose of the sounds worked. Diegectic/ Non diegetic sounds where added to the video. In soundtrack pro we can add many different sounds, from happy moods to negative/dark moods depending on what kind of video you want to make.

TimeTable Scheduele

This is our time table, our scheduele shows the days and the times we filmed from and too.

Friday 10th of February from 10 am - 2pm  at Finsbury Park

- We filmed the opening close-up shots of the protagonists walking into the park.

Saturday 11tth of February from 10am - 4pm at Finsbury Park

- We filmed most of the bench scenes with Talia and the opening shots of Patrick.

Sunday 12th of February from 10am - 2pm at Finsbury Park

- We filmed the house/bedroom scene with Talia. And all of the book zooms.

Our New Title

'The Diary of Sarah-Louise' is the new name for our thriller opening. The title suits our opening as we feel it is more relevant to the actual film. The title makes more sense as in the film we are exposed more to Sarah-Louise and her diary about the man she has an obsession with Robert Green. The title is also more appealing to a wider audience as the title is more of an eye catcher. The title 'The Diary of Sarah-Louise' lets the audience understand that the film is about a woman and her thoughts. The films title also calls out for a female audience as we are told the films protagonist is a woman - i.e the name "Sarah-Louise". Another thing we are told is that it is about the thoughts (Diary) of a woman, which also appeals to women as a lot of women have diary's - and the topic of obsession is relevant in the current day.

Feedback From Dan on Our Final Rough Cut (Part 2)

In this video, Dan (Teacher) talks about the second half of our Opening. The feedback Dan gave us was helpful as we made changes to the video afterwards to get and shaper and more effective second half.
Good:

• Throughout our clip we have slow motions for effect, this transition is effective as a close up is used also however was told to match them up to make the clip sharper. 
• There are clips of the diary where zoom is added to make it more drastic. What works well with this effect is that it gives a story of the diary and gives the audience a idea of whats going on in the clip as it gives them a sense of obsession from the woman as the zoom shots and information indicates this.
• Towards the end of the opening, there is a cut which is really good as it cuts the diary footage and into a still shot of a girl that gives a scary effect to the end as the audience feel theres something wrong with her.

 

Bad:

• One bad point on this clip was that a character was shot too many times, a decrease on the number of clips used on this character will be more better as it will develop the clip more instead of cutting back to the character again.

Suggestion:

• The second half of the opening should not start at full view of the zoom out. If it starts before it will set pace and movement more, by changing this in our opening it will be smoother and tell a story more.

Feedback From Dan on Our Final Rough Cut

This video shows Dan (Teacher) giving us feedback on our Final Rough Cut indicating what works and what this helped us as it gives us more to work on and how to produce a stronger opening in order to get a better grade.

Good: 

• Slow Motion is added in the beginning shots of our opening which is effective as it gives a suspense feeling as everything is slowed down and gives the audience a felling something may happen.
• Towards the end of the opening, the girl sits on her bed when a voice over is added and the sense of obsession is effective however the clip is too long but is a good effect to the end of the opening that indicates to the audience what the movie is about and how the character has a crazy persona to her.

Bad:

• The opening shot is said to be too long and usage of slighter closer shots works better with the shot. This is preferably for the girl as she enters the park and gradually comes up. Mid shot is more effective as she is seen better and speeds up the shot.
• Dan mentioned that one of the clips looked handheld which may effect the opening as it looks wobbly and will should be smoother and sharper.

Suggestion:

• To match slow motion with normal, footage as it looks more better.

Rough Cut

This is our Rough Cut of our Opening where we will receive feedback on how to improve it and what sounds work and what doesn't along with certain clips. This will help us sharpen our opening and see what needs improving or not.

Intertextuality of Our Film Opening.

In our film we have aspects from a film that we have watched in previous lessons, the film is Seven, the idea we used from this film is the cutting up of the pictures and placing them onto a photo album where it shows that the character is obsessed or gives an idea that there's a connection between the pictured character and the character that has taken them.

                     

We also got aspects from He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not where it is about a woman who is interested in a man and buys him a rose, however, although the film does not show a man in the clip the audience get an idea that the woman is in love with someone through the mise en scene.

These two pictures indicate that she is buying a rose for someone as the subtitles say "to celebrate a meeting to surprise him". this to the audience gives them an idea that a man is involve and she must have feelings for him as she is buying something for him.

Here shows the woman picking out a rose for someone - could be for the man she is obsessed with.

Here shows the man receiving a rose from someone to his workplace. this shows towards the audience that he may have a secret admire.






Another film that we watched was Mezine where a woman is walking her dog and in our production, it shows this also so we got aspects from this film also. However in our production a man is walking a dog instead of a woman.

   

Progression In Editing

Here are some still shots of what we done today, we worked on Editing and getting the right clips together. This is showing our process towards our final production.

Here are screen shots of our timeline on what we have produce so far.

Above is our clips that we have filmed put onto the programme final cut. this also gave better access for us to get different clips in order to but onto our timeline.

Review

Clip on First Day of Recording

We have recorded a part of our filming to show you what we have been doing. We can see how our day went, and see the things we had to go through. You can see how we recorded and the people that supported us/helped us throughout our filming. 

Clip of First Day Back After Half Term Holiday.

In this clip we tell you about what we are doing during the lessons, and describe what our next plans will be after we have filmed outside. We are starting the editing of the clip.