Our finished film opening

Evaluation - Question 7 - Evaluation of whole progress

Evaluation - Question 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

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

Evaluation - Question 4 - Who would be the audience of your media product?

Evaluation - Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Our film would be firstly shown at a film festival around England and America so that we can get the feedback of the audience if they liked it or it wasn't up to scratch. If the film got a good review it would be distributed through Crystal Clear Productions and Warner Brothers who would be partners in distributing the film out.

Distributing our film would include that we make a trailer which will be posted on websites, mostly YouTube as this video sharing website is one the worlds largest so a lot of viewers will be able to watch the trailer and be interested in the film. Another website which our film would feature is Facebook which is one of the worlds fastest social networking site having up to 500 million user active from July 2010. this site is used by people all round the world which can see the Facebook page for the film and also comment on what they think about it. Other ways which we will distribute our film by is making movie posters for online and billboard based.

Once our film has got enough viewers interested in it, a date will be given out for the release and a premiere will be held.

Evaluation - Question 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Evaluation - Question 1/part 2 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or change forms and conventions od real media products?

Seven

1.The effect of the writing over lapping each other gives the effect of a blurry vision or the screen being shaken up. Also the number 7 used instead of V is a good technique shown. The film titles straight away get the audience hooked on to what is being shown as it makes people question what does it mean.

2.The medium shot of the drawing of the hands could connote that it is to do with faith, that maybe the film is about religion.

3.The flapping of the book pages connotes mystery in to what has the book got written in it.

4.The fingers introduces the character to the audience. They show dirty fingers which is making something connoting either he is up to something or that he's committed a crime due to the dirty fingers.

5.The tiny font style and it being in lower case and caps at the same time makes the writing look devious and also how it is shown fuzzy on the screen connotes crazy which can refer to the film being a crazy and out of control.

6.The tools being used in the opening can connote murder weapons as we can yet see what they are being used for.

7.The close up images suggest that this person maybe stalking them of the people in the images are someone who they care for. A relationship between them which may have not gone so good.

8.This close up suggests that the setting it in a workshop as there are many tools being used by the person.

9.The effect of the pen writing on the page as it is then seen fading like a shadow of the pen.

Evaluation - Question 1/part 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or change forms and conventions od real media products?

1.Our title of our film already gives a mystery to the film through the words used, “Don’t look back”. Like other thriller openings our film title also appear at the end of the film opening. The use of the colour's signifies what sort of genre it is such our film title colour is red as it is a horror thriller or conventions such as blood or death.

2.The setting suggests where the film is set. I used a high angle shot to get the view of the street and then it went in to a panning shot which shows the rest of the street. Many thrillers start off showing the scenery of the film at the beginning of the film such as in the film “Mirrors” the camera went across New York City.

3.The mask is our main prop as it features a lot in the opening in the newspapers. This gives a mystery to the film because it questions audiences what does the mask have to do with the film. The camera zooming in to the mask makes it look dominant to the audience to make them feel a bit scared.

4.We’ve used many different camera works such as this one which is a long shot of the character. The camera follows her behind in a long shot to signify that something is following her.

5.We used red for the colour's of our titles because is connotes death and also horror which is a main part of our film. The style of our titles is a red colour which then goes in to a white glow giving the titles a blurry effect.

6.The story is mostly told by the newspaper clips at the start as we zoomed in to the headlines of the newspapers to show what has happened so far.

7.The zoomed clip of the heading “Young girl” suggest that it’s a mystery type film also that is could be murder. This shows the genre of the film as a mystery film also a thriller as these genres have story lines where murder takes place.

8.Our character is first introduced in a close up of her face to show her expressions as she is worried someone is following her. Having a female character as the lead makes the film relate to most of our audiences who are women from the teen ages to adult age.

9.We made our production logo shatter as one of our effects in our opening. We made our logo shatter just like how glass would shatter as our logo name is Crystal Clear.

Rough Cut

Facebook comments:

• I like the start of the film kept me engaged on it

Newspaper clip of opening

This is the newspaper clip which is the beginning of our opening which will have a creepy nursery rhyme playing along with it and the credits will appear.

Student Film Research

Strengths

It was very catchy the background music of the clock and how the camera spinned in a circle just like the hands on the clock.

Weakness

Some of the camera works were shaky.

 

Strength

The effects used to speed up the walking in he woods was very clever and the way it was used gave it a creepy feel to the opening. Also the colour's used to change some of the frames.

Weakness

There wasn't any thing wrong with this opening that I can see.

Preliminary Task

Out preliminary task was to video an interview where we use 3 camera shots to show that we understand how these camera shots work. The 3 camera shots which we had to use was a match on action shot, a shot reverse shot and a 180 degree shot used once in the interview including the normal camera shots and angles such as a establishing shot, a close up, a medium, a long and also if we wanted a panning shot of the room which we filmed in.

The task went well but we had a few problems on knowing how the shots were used which got us mixed up. The interview we did was a formal job interview where we used a medium shot of doors which our interviewee came through then the camera following her across the room to the desk where the interviewer was sat. Then we used a 180 degree shot on the characters going on to a shot reverse shot of the 2 characters speaking their dialogue.

Unfortunately out match on action shot was not very good so we didn’t put it on our preliminary. Also our shot reverse shot was not perfect as we shot from a long shot instead of a medium shot of the characters faces as they spoke. Another mistake we did was that out 180 degree shots were not 180 degree as we shot from the same shoulder of each character.

Match on Action shot -

A match on action, a technique used in film editing, is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. By carefully matching the movement across the two shots, filmmakers make it seem that the motion continues uninterrupted. For a real match on action, the action should begin in the first shot and end in the second shot.

A video which explains the camera technique

Shot reverse shot -

Conventional technique of cinematography and editing for the filming of dialogue. In the shot reverse shot sequence, the camera frames each speaker in medium close-up as he or she recites a line of dialogue. The shoulder of the listener can often be seen, slightly out of focus on the edge of the frame, while the camera is focused on the face of the speaker then cutting to the the next person as they speak.

A video which explains the camera technique

180 degree shot - 

The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.

Video Diary

Video Diary

Well so far in our film opening project we have just finished out rough cut of the film and have up loaded it on to YouTube and now just waiting for some feedback from people to put on our blog. It’s been a tough project as mostly I’ve done most of the work while my partner hasn’t helped much except give ideas. I hoped that she would at least know how to use the soft ware’s on the Macs but she hasn’t so I was left to edit out film and make the music for it. I still find it hard to use the soft ware’s such as final cut pro and after effects because there’s so many different technical things on their which I don’t know how to use so most of the time I need the teachers help to guide me through the applications but I soon pick up on to use them. I’ve still got a lot of amount of work to add to my blog which I have done but I have used PowerPoint for most of them so I just need to upload the work to slide share which gives me the embedded codes to transfer them on to my blog. After that I’m ready to start on my evaluation which I hope to finish my the 17^th December.

Opening Titles

A step by step of how my credits/titles appear on my film and how they disappear off.





Firstly the titles appear in red fading in.
 

The titles then starts to go blurry in a white glow which makes the titles hard to see but gives a good effect

After the glow the writing appears back in red with the blur fading our along with the white glow.

The writing appears fully back in the red colour which then starts to fade of the screen.










 The writings fully disappear fading out for the next set of titles to appear.