Our final opening

42. Derya, Elisha, Emma, Ola from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Film Poster

Evaluation Question 4:

Who would be the audience for your media product?

Audience is the most important part when a film is distributed. Genres like thriller perhaps targeted more vaguely than others as there are thriller that have different sub-genres involved. for instance the film opening i made with my group is a Psychological thriller.

 

Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at the Prelim that was created, the skills i have learnt has advanced enourmously and i have now become aware of the process it takes to create a film.

Evaluation Question 6

My moodboard I used from Beeclip, on the technologies I used:



The main type of technology used, was final cut Pro and soundtrack Pro. Using these applications at first was a struggle, but as time went on i came familiar with the effects, techniques, styles and designs etc, both products have. It also helped with my creativity of processing data and information. Other technologies like Beeclip, Go animate and Prezi brought out the creativity in the project.In addition using Livetype for title sequences and poster animation was very inspirational.


How I used this?

 Using these types of technology taught me how to edit and re-edit projects, and gained knowledge towards making an actual film (Film cut pro) and making sound (Soundtrack Pro). the way in which i used the cameras and the recording equipment also is another technological experience that I can add now towards my skills when using Macs, or any time of recording instrument.


Like the Cam recorder and the Flip cam.

Evaluation Question 5

Aspects of my film opening:

Mise en Scene

  I used this very wisely in the film opening. Props used like fake blood,and the Globe, had a significance in the product, when made into a whole movie, the globe will gain more meaning as to why we see it occurring in the film.

Storyline

The audience felt the story line in my film product was very convienient, as the Psychological impact it can gain from the audience and their understanding will be at great effect, as the character protrayed in the film, does the unatural, and the supernatural after 03:01 pm. This is significant tto the title. In addition the chracters whereabouts is displyaed (bedroom) just like Pranormal Actvivty to give off that thrill effect. The audience commented also that what would have been better is if, we make another character in the film visable so that we can know where our chracter is based, if she is living on her own, or with parents, to make it clear no one around her knows what happens, except her victims.

Genre

This Genre is a thriller, its sub-genre is a Psychological thriller, which the audience again commented and said that it appeals to alot of people their age, 17-25's roughly because making the audience want to know more about the characters state and what that charcters Psycholohiocal state makes them do is quite interesting. This feedback was said by both male and female feedback.

Location

The location was very obvious here as majority of the audience knew where it was based (Hackney0 and said that it was very funny that if it was reality, a girl living in Hackney like the one in my opening will be very weird and not normal because the location is a very different atmosphere that most other areas. Other than these statements, i believe the location was a great choice.

  

A few other statements were made by the Sound. Some of the audeince stated that they liked the choice in sound, and the freaky, weird, lullaby that was dimly played in the background gave that 'Pyschological' and 'mysterious' effect. then the use of what sounded like a demening and dismal feeling. also  a few comments on the film name came to notion, and some people thought it was a smart choice in title choice, as our storyline was obviously ' After 3am the supernatural things come to life'.

Rough cut

When uploading the rough cut, issues came across as we had problems seeing the actual images, by then our sound was not ready and a few more scenes had to be added in and edited. We were still behind on this at that time, which did bring stress and worry on the group but we got through it.
Heres and example of the rough cut:

As you can see there was a lot to do. From taking accounts and influences from friends suggestions and from watching more and more movies at home, the film improved a lot and our audience slightly changed to mid aged teenagers.

Feedback

Here is a few clips from the audience and their Feedback from the film.

Also in our spare time one of the girls in my group created a advertisement poster like other films in the media now as an example of what it would look like as a real movie, with everyones ideas and help Emma made this and published it on facebook:

NOTE: There is another question 5 that my whole group and I also made to explore more feedback clips etc.

Evaluation Question 2

In this question I chose to use a Prezi to show representation through a presentation, on social groups, and how my product used representation, negatively and positively.

How does your media product represent particular social groups? on Prezi

Representation has been varied through my film opening,  I showed the comparison of the movie Th Grudge, representing my film opening as both negative and positive stereotype as seen in the Prezi above.

03:01 (Movie product)

Although the lighting was not very good in my media product, this image is a comparison to the image below, a picture taken form The grudge, as my group had the idea of this type of intertextuality of both characters.

The Grudge

Evaluation: Question 1

Film conventions
I showed this using final cut pro, by playing my original film, and talking about using a voice over and ishowyou piece.

Question 5 FOR WHOLE GROUP

FEEDBACK

Evaluation Question 3

In this post im talking about production and distribution companies that would have been useful in the film opening and what i've already used.

Some of these companies are big distribution  companies, and some are independent.
My film product can be both Mainstream and Independent.


Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.  is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures is owned by Sony pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate sony. It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a member of  Big-six


Ghost Pictures Production was established in 2002 by Sam Raimi, who is the founder of Reniassance Pictures, and Robert Tapert to produce high-concept horror films. Most of its theatrical films are produced and distributed by Mandate Pictures. 




NOTE: there was a problem with my Beeclip account so I could not save my work, so  I had to print screen it.

Editing credits/Influences

Our influences on editing came from the film Insidious and Orphan we liked the way it was styled and its editing. The  speed was also convenient and the way the music also gave way for the title sequence and how the both merged together. It was inciting to see how producers can do so little with title sequences, although it is the first thing you see.

Editing Process

This is a screen grab of the editing process, i used LiveType to create the title sequence, LiveType was very easy to use and the effects were great as they added a more gothic feel to our opening. The different fonts defined our opening more. This screen grab is of our title we used two effects so that the title stand from our other titles. 

Inspired Movie

Our opening was inspired by Paranormal Activity. We tried to create a scene similar to it, form the first movie where the actress is in her room walking around etc.We were thinking about using a timer, but we thought it would seem more like a trailer than an opening to a movie

                                Paranormal Activity                                                               3:01

The scenery is slightly different compared to ours but we did try put best to make it as good as PA1. As you can see the bedroom in PA1 is bigger and ours was smaller. They were both set in bedrooms mainly and the night camera effect was used

We did have problems with the lighting, but we were still able to shoot the scene of her walking around the room. 

Roughcut

Opening of thriller: Editing so far

Personal Review of the filming so far

I think that we all have made so much progress in our week of filming, although it was challenging, we also learnt a lot of team work and encouragement helps.
The whole process of this was an eye opener as media work is not always easy to everyone. Filming also helped us learn different skills as we all took turns using the Camera and taking different shots, seeing how we can experiment with them.

Planning Story Board & Animatic

Planning our story board was challenging as we had so many ideas, but could not include them all. The story board consisted of our opening scene , and what blank spaces needed, till the end of the film. As we went on with our planning each picture was drawn accurately to how our scenes in the opening will occur.
In addition the animatic was an easy process as we have done it before, the only challenging thing is getting the timing right  and the speed correctly.

Planning Costume & Props

Although our initial idea of costume was a victorian white dress gown, to be very creative. It did not come together and we had to find an alternative which was a plain white shirt and leggings.

                                                         





Here is a snow ball/crystal ball we used to emphasise the character in our films innocence, and the progression of it, though it is slightly ironic. we also used it as it had a useful lullaby that could be used in our background sound.

Here we used a snow globe/crystal ball emphasising the  Actresses innocence, giving off a theme of slight innocence as well, which is fairly ironic. Also it has a lullaby with it that will come in handy with our sound.

These are other props we used, like the drawings, pencil, make-up etc.

Thoughts on the filming process.

Day 4 of Filming

On the fourth and final day of shooting the thriller opening we shot the two very last scene, which is also a vital scene as it shows what the main character is capable of.

The mixture adds a gory feel to the peice.

We then filmed a final panning shot of the room.

We used acrylic paint mixed with water so that the colour would resemble blood, we then did a pan of the room in the morning, so that the audience could see that the bedroom was different to how it was after 3am.