Our group evaluation

Evaluation - question 9 - Luke Bull

What was your contribution to the process during the planning, production and post production stages?

During the making of this film, I think I main a good contribution in all parts, the planning, production and post production. In the planning I did parts of the storyboard as it was split between the group, I also did several pages of the script which was also split between the group. Mainly all of the planning was equally split between four as there is four people in our group and I did my part which involved stuff like the recee sheet, also me and dale researched target audiences on IMDB.



This is the recee sheet and below are the pictures for the recee sheet, these are the pictures of scenes used at the location, I took the pictures.

  

This is part of the storyboard i had completed, i had also done the last few pages of the final storyboard.

The production or the making of the film was also equally divided, the main parts i took part in was the filming, directing and the final editing. Whilst on set I would talk through what we would film and what needed to be done, I also took camera role alot of the time. When we had finished all f our filming we imported it onto the macs at college here me and dale did the editing of the footage as sancha and sarah concentrated on the sound by using garage band, me and dale took turns whilst doing the editing, and when it wasn't the other persons turns we would be sat next to each other guiding and helping one another.

Luke Evaluation - Question 8

How are the films different? Looking back at my preliminary task and comparing it to our final film you can immediately see a difference between the two. In the preliminary task our main mistake was the lighting, it was a huge problem for us as the location was shadowed out by the building surrounding and we ended up filming during the evening which didn't end well as majority of our shots turned out too dark. For example this is a shot from when we filmed our outside scenes.

As you can see its way too dark, we changed our filming tactics when it came to our final product as we realised it was easier to darken a shot than it was to actually lighten one, hence we filmed during the day instead. Also the street light in the shot makes a good effect however the light coming from it can sometimes make a weird line going down the screen, for example.

On the far right of the picture you can see a vague blue line, this was caused by the street light, to prevent this we decided to film inside when it came to our final product.





Straight away you can see changed in the two films, especially with the writing, as we changed our techniques on how we used the lighting and we decided to film in the day instead. Not only did we change the lighting but the whole camerawork in general was different as in our final film we experimented more and was more adventurous in the shots we used for example in our final film we used shots like canted angle instead of the conventional over the shoulder/long shots.

Our second picture shows our preliminary over the shoulder shot, as the first picture shows our more intriguing canted angle shot. We used this to help us improve our final horror film by allowing us to experiment and try different things, after the task we now knew what worked and what didn't work, we used this to our advantage whilst filming the final piece

Overall i believe that as a group and individually we have all learned how to use lighting effectively and how to use different camera angles to give off a certain effect, i think if we was to do it again i believe we would be able to make it even better due to the knowledge and experience we have gained from doing both the preliminary and final task.

Contribution to planning, production and post production - Dale Horton

I took on the role of editing once we had complete filming and inputted my ideas to the group. We split storyboarding across all of us in the group and few of other planning pieces. I didn't provide much input into the planning but did a lot more later on in the project. I did some filming when it came to others being in the shot and in few other shots. I also found the actor to play the lead role in the film and was the communicator between actor and the group.

 I did the majority of the editing as I quickly became familiar with the software and could edit it together efficiently. I edited it each time we shot and another members of my group also contributed to the editing. I believe my contribution to the editing helped largely into the final product of our horror film.

What was your contribution to the process during the planning, production and post production stages? - Sarah Carter

Throughout the entirety of this project, I feel I have taken an active and important role in the planning, production and post production stages. I feel that along with my other group members, I was largely involved in the planning of our film - it was a combined effort to come up with the initial idea for our film and I feel I contributed several very valid ideas in the process of developing and inevitably creating a final plot and storyline. The role of storyboarding our film was split equally between the four of us and I completed my contribution to the best of my ability.

 

I completed the character design sheet myself, along with the BBFC research sheet and I also contributed an equal part to the creation of the script, along with my group members.

With regards to production, I feel that I was very involved in the process of making our film. On several occasions I contibuted with the act of shooting the scenes.I shot several of the initial shots included in the film and tried to have as much input on this front as possible.

I also had a short acting role in this film - this did not restrict my involvement with the production of the project and it meant that we could achieve exactly what was required from the character with ease.

When it comes to props and character design, I contributed a lot of the props involved in the film whilst I also helped with make up and costume.

When editing was involved, I took a less active role whilst still keeping a creative input and opinion with regards to the film. I made sure that I voiced what I thought was good and what I disagreed with openly, along with the rest of the group, so that as a whole we could each have our own opinions and try to make our film as successful as possible. I did, however, contribute towards a large part of the sound production using Garage Band.

Throughout the production process, I made progress on the soundtrack to our film (along with another member of my group) and attempted to create a good, appropriate track worthy of a horror film. Towards the very end of the project, I made sure that the soundtrack was perfected and matched our final edited film well, making final tweaks to the sound. I feel this turned out very successfully.
Overall, I believe that I had a significant role in the entirety of this project and had an effect on how successful out film turned out.

Question 5 Evaluation - How did you attract/address your audience? - Dale Horton

With us choosing our target age we used a teenager as our victim to make the audience able to relate to it. We targeted them well by minimizing gore and making it fast paced as teenagers don't want to watch a film which takes a long time to get into. Our questionnaire showed we reached our target audience as the person who answered the questions agreed with our age which we chose before creation. Also with the person who did the questionnaire in our age group showed that we had met the target audience as they liked the story line and the soundtrack. From this I believe we succeeded in matching our film with the target audience.


We used a teenage actor to match the target audience which caused the film to appeal more to a teenage audience. We also used a creepy sound track which attracts our audience. The way we used mise en scene to target audience was to have the girl in a teenage girls room which matches with the actor and in turn can be related to the audience. In the clip in which the victim is going down the stairs, we shot down her from behind going down the stairs which makes her seem small and in turn follows generic conventions. The Exorcist also shows a young female victim which shows insecurity and fragility.

Evaluation Question 6: What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why? - Sarah Carter

For films such as ours, I think that British production companies such as Film4 and the UK Film Council would be interested in taking a producing role.

By using a British production company to produce, there is a much larger probability of our film being produced than if we were to target our film at much larger companies such as Universal etc. With regards to audiences, British companies tend to target a much more specific and perhaps niche audience that will be interested in a specific type of film - in our case, this would be under the genre of Horror. The film would probably only be shown in specific places and to a certain extent it will recieve a more direct and select audience viewing, unlike global blockbusters which will be aimed at a mainstream audience. This will often lead to a lack in originality, and therefore by pitching our film to a smaller, British production company, the originality will remain, attracting a niche audience. It is likely it would only be exhibited in the UK and that it would be distributed to a lesser extent than if it were to be produced by a large corporation.
Film4 have often produced films that have only been released in Britain. An example of this is in the film "Hunger". This film was released in 2008 and premiered at Cannes film festival. It went on to be released only in the UK and Ireland in October 2008 as opposed to globally.