Thursday, 13 April 2017
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
Post Production Questionnaires
These results show that overall, our audience of people between the ages of 15-17 had a very positive reaction to our film, with all our results commented that they would watch the film again. With regards to the age certificate, all agreed that the age limit for our film should be at least above 12, with no one suggesting it to be aimed for young children (PG or under) which fitted our target audience. Comments included that there was "really good cinematography and camerawork. These questionnaires also really helped us know if we achieved what we aimed for, creating a high quality start of a film clearly showing our psychological thriller genre with a creative narrative, showing tricky shots and editing. We know we die create a creepy, almost scary thriller (as we aimed) as answers said the film "scared me".The questionnaires also helped us know if we needed to edit anything about the film before putting our final product on YouTube; there was a slight sound disturbance in the film which we fixed so our end product was of the best quality we could achieve.
Evaluation-Question 7.
7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the full product?
Our preliminary exercise was, in our group's case, the first time we had had the opportunity to film using a camera and edit the product afterwards. The task, in order to pass, required the use of match-on-action shots, (this was done by filming myself closing a door and cutting the footage in editing, so that the shot flows into one action despite being filmed at a slightly different viewing perspective,) keeping continuity throughout the footage, and not crossing the 180 degree line whilst filming. The exercise taught us a lot about how to use a camera effectively and to consider lots of different aspects such as lighting, perspectives, varied shots and editing that we previously hadn't thought of. The exercise therefore helped us enormously when filming our actual media product, as we'd already taken the time to gather an insight on how to (and how not to) shoot our film.
Preliminary Task-
https://youtu.be/-WGRs0ACjgU
Preliminary Task-
https://youtu.be/-WGRs0ACjgU
For instance, the match-on action editing technique is used at the very beginning of our film. This is when O'Brien moves her hand towards the record player. The next shot then cuts to O'Brien placing the needle on the record player as a song begins to play, so the shot appears to the audience that this has been a single, continuous action.
We also included an example of the shot-reverse-shot, using the 180 degree rule ( in which the two characters engaging in the scene must maintain the left/right relationship to one another, otherwise, if the camera crosses over the 180 degree line, it will look as though the characters are not interacting with each other and confuse the audience.) We used this in the scene where O'Brien and H look directly at each other from across the street, as this was an important reaction between the two main characters, and we wanted the audience to see their interaction.
Our task again therefore gave us a crucial insight on how to shoot our film. However, creating our media product proved to be a much bigger and more complicated task that required our full attention. We had to carefully plan our media product. Our preliminary exercise's only planning consisted on creating a basic storyline and script, taking minutes to think of and put onto paper. However, we took much more time and care when it came to our media product, all of us creating our own original idea for storyline after doing individual research through existing films and video clips of what the conventions of the chosen genre were. When we narrowed down a final storyline, our group then began to plan how to shoot our film and what we wanted to include in it through audience certificate research, location shots and storyboards. This not only allowed us to be fully prepared for filming and for each group member to know exactly what was being filmed on a particular day, but also improved our effort and commitment to filming from the preliminary exercise. Our group now seemed more focused on the scene we were shooting, leading to us finishing shots and making progress at a much quicker rate.
In addition, we also had to evaluate what features actually made our media product a psychological thriller. Unlike the preliminary task, in which there wasn't a outstanding genre featured, we had to carefully consider how we could use different conventions of our chosen genre to have an effect on the audience. This required us to combine previous research with our imaginations in order to work as a team and film together. This resulted in tricky shots and editing that looked impressive and attractive to the audience, and fitted perfectly with our chosen genre. For instance, we used a variety of different types of editing to add a sense of surrealism and build-up in our media product in order to command the viewer's attention.
Here, we used editing to make H vanish once he is behind the lamp post, making him seem surreal and mystic.
We sped up this shot during editing of H shaking his head to again emphasise his element of seemingly supernatural power.
We also sped up this shot to establish O'Brien's locations and to add a sense of eeriness to the scene.
Overall, our media product was a success for a variety of reasons, and the progression from our preliminary task was an important factor. The task allowed us not only how to work the camera to ur advantage, but how to work and organise ourselves as a team. Our previous research and organisation of tasks for each person allowed us to pull together and produce what we see as a highly successful media product fitting to psychological thriller genre.
We sped up this shot during editing of H shaking his head to again emphasise his element of seemingly supernatural power.
We also sped up this shot to establish O'Brien's locations and to add a sense of eeriness to the scene.
Overall, our media product was a success for a variety of reasons, and the progression from our preliminary task was an important factor. The task allowed us not only how to work the camera to ur advantage, but how to work and organise ourselves as a team. Our previous research and organisation of tasks for each person allowed us to pull together and produce what we see as a highly successful media product fitting to psychological thriller genre.
Friday, 7 April 2017
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Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Evaluation- Question 5.
Shot with films and finding from questionnaire.
Question 5- How do you attract/address your audience?
After establishing the main aim of the feeling we wanted to embellish in our audience, feelings of thrill, suspense and fear, we very carefully planned out how to do this through mise-en-scene, shots and cinematography, by using shot lists, location shots and a storyboard pre production. Like in most psychological thrillers, we wanted the attraction to be the tension and unknowing build up for the audience, they needed to work out the mystery for themselves. One of the answers from our post production questionnaire stated that this was achieved through the sped up, close up shot of O'Brien, zooming out to reveal that half of her face is marked with H's skull makeup. This shot, teamed with the non- diegetic audio whispering "nothing is the same", represents H's full take over of O'Brien, she is now hardly herself, and he is in total control of her, leading the audience hanging in suspense and allowing them to interpret the rest of O'Brien's fate for themselves.
The overall result of our questionnaires seemed to be a success- some of our comments being "great special effects and camerawork" and "really good cinematography" with only a little difficulty with occasional stability of the camera in some area, making it appear a little shaky, which could have been improved by holding the tripod over stable ground. The most popular attraction seemed to be editing we used to make the film seem more thrilling and exciting of the audience. Examples of this include the sped up shot of H at the very end of the film, creating a scene of surrealism and chiaroscuro, and the filter used when O'Brien is being tortured, creating a dream-like state. Overall, the believe the most successful aspect of media product was our use of editing and cinematography, it successfully established our genre to our audience, and seemed to noticeably be the thing that that attracted them the most.
The overall result of our questionnaires seemed to be a success- some of our comments being "great special effects and camerawork" and "really good cinematography" with only a little difficulty with occasional stability of the camera in some area, making it appear a little shaky, which could have been improved by holding the tripod over stable ground. The most popular attraction seemed to be editing we used to make the film seem more thrilling and exciting of the audience. Examples of this include the sped up shot of H at the very end of the film, creating a scene of surrealism and chiaroscuro, and the filter used when O'Brien is being tortured, creating a dream-like state. Overall, the believe the most successful aspect of media product was our use of editing and cinematography, it successfully established our genre to our audience, and seemed to noticeably be the thing that that attracted them the most.
All of our results seemed to have a positive outlook of our film, with all saying they would watch our film again and stating positive comments such as "good cinematography."
Monday, 3 April 2017
Evaluation- Question 4.
4- Who would be the audiences for your media product?
Our target audience is aimed at anyone over the age of 15 years old. Our film contains scenes that younger viewers may find distressing, such as violence, threatening objects and language and imitable actions, so we made sure that our media product was targeted at an audience that would be mature enough to handle scenes demonstrating this sort of behaviour.
However we also aimed our film at a significantly smaller group of people with an interest in psychological thrillers. This audience may enjoy similar films such as Black Swan, Fight Club and Psycho, (films that are complex and clever, but not necessarily easy going or light) and may have a strong interest in films that delve into subjects like the how the human brain works and how it can be manipulated.
Our film also contains a large amount of cinematography (we wanted our film to look atheistically pleasing as well as have a strong storyline with a twist) so an audience with an interest in the art of photography or filmmaking would also be a possible audience with regards to our media product. Overall, our media product may not fit the mould of a mainstream film and would instead be targeted at a smaller group that would find appeal from a psychosomatic film containing complex shots and a darker form of cinematography.
To get an insight of our target audience, we conducted questionnaires handed out to teens/young adults (people that would fit our target audience.) All of our questionnaires we handed out were returned to us stating that the age certificate should be 15, which is what we decided to give our media product. This confirmed to us that we had chosen the appropriate certificate for our film. We also had some helpful suggestions on how what sound to use for our media product. Since the majority of the audience we handed out questionnaires to successfully identified our film as in the psychological film genre, song suggestions such as creepy, haunting music building up the pace when action occurred.
All of our pre post production results correctly identified the genre of our film as a thriller, stating that the music that would be appropriate for our film should be scary and "tense."
Our target audience is aimed at anyone over the age of 15 years old. Our film contains scenes that younger viewers may find distressing, such as violence, threatening objects and language and imitable actions, so we made sure that our media product was targeted at an audience that would be mature enough to handle scenes demonstrating this sort of behaviour.
However we also aimed our film at a significantly smaller group of people with an interest in psychological thrillers. This audience may enjoy similar films such as Black Swan, Fight Club and Psycho, (films that are complex and clever, but not necessarily easy going or light) and may have a strong interest in films that delve into subjects like the how the human brain works and how it can be manipulated.
Our film also contains a large amount of cinematography (we wanted our film to look atheistically pleasing as well as have a strong storyline with a twist) so an audience with an interest in the art of photography or filmmaking would also be a possible audience with regards to our media product. Overall, our media product may not fit the mould of a mainstream film and would instead be targeted at a smaller group that would find appeal from a psychosomatic film containing complex shots and a darker form of cinematography.
To get an insight of our target audience, we conducted questionnaires handed out to teens/young adults (people that would fit our target audience.) All of our questionnaires we handed out were returned to us stating that the age certificate should be 15, which is what we decided to give our media product. This confirmed to us that we had chosen the appropriate certificate for our film. We also had some helpful suggestions on how what sound to use for our media product. Since the majority of the audience we handed out questionnaires to successfully identified our film as in the psychological film genre, song suggestions such as creepy, haunting music building up the pace when action occurred.
All of our pre post production results correctly identified the genre of our film as a thriller, stating that the music that would be appropriate for our film should be scary and "tense."
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