Evaluation activity 5

This is activity 5, we used the annotations tool on YouTube to highlight key parts of our film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wTD0S_4pZ4

Evaluation activity 3

This is our directors commentary it provides some insight into our film production company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1crpNeXLD4

Evaluation activity 6

This is the editing software we used Adobe Premier 10, this was relatively easy software to use, and it made the editing process very easy to understand, but we did struggle at times to fully understand what everything did.

To view our film and other clips, we used YouTube because it is the biggest video-sharing website in the world and it is the best place to upload our video as it is easy to access and is available to almost anyone, anywhere, it is also easy to upload our videos to as well, and linking them to our blogs was relativley simple as well.

To create our blog page we used Blogger, this is was simple to set up and is much easier then I thought it would be. I have learnt how easy it was to create a blog, because before I thought it would be quite hard.

Evaluation Activity 8

In this task I believe we did very well, the why I will try and improve for next year would probably be to develop the skills such as 180 rule and match on action, this I would try and develop through making my own films over the summer. This year there were several things I think I would have done differently, I would have probably used a much wider range of shot types as I believe that we relied on medium shots too much throughout the film and I would have liked to see some more close ups and long shots, we tended to just use the camera in different ways, like moving it about and changing the angles, we were more reliant on the editing to make each shot look good. I would have also done some of the editing differently, because I feel at some moments the film kind of stops for a second then moves on, I feel there is very little flow in the film. I would have also done far more scripting in the film because at the time we had very little scripting which meant the actors weren't sure what to say and it was also very difficult trying to get the right emotions for the character, so I would have done far more research on detectives and how they behave around crime scenes, just to have some kind of idea on what to say and how.

In our next production we will try and use a much wider range of shots, this should be particularly easy as the next project in A2 is to make a trailer which can make it easier for us to use different shots.

Targets:
Mise-en-scene, I believe in this project we got most of the props and costumes very accurate, however there were several instances throughout that didn't fit in, I think that some of the objects that were in the background shouldn't have been there and next time we should try and remove these objects.
Camera composition, We will try and add more variety of camera shots and use them to add more effect like showing the actors emotion using close ups and providing an establishing shot with extreme long shots and long shots.
Editing: I think we should try and make the project flow better by making more cuts and providing transitions between shots to make it appear a bit more like a movie. However sudden shot cuts would probably be necessary in the next project as we are creating a trailer.
Sound: We will probably add a soundtrack to our next project to add a sense of tension and build excitement in the audience, as it is a trailer, I think that it probably wouldn't have worked in this project because it didn't really require any need for tension build up and it would have been very over the top to use it in the two minutes.

Animatic of Storyboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-mBpyBEDA

This is the animatic of our storyboard, this makes it easier for an audience to understand what the initial ideas of the film are going to be, it also helped us figure out what the film will feel like and we did make various changes because of the storyboarding, such as the panning of the camera at the start began with the animatic, it also helps us figure out how long each scene should be.

Evaluation Acitivity 7

This is were we capture our match in action, this was our first attempt at it and it wasn't the best, some of the continuity was wrong such as the hand position in the door was wrong, back then we initially believed this was a good preliminary task however now I see things wrong with it since filming our opening two minutes. I would probably now use a shot closer to the door then what we used, so it flows more smoothly. I think the editing could have also been smoother, with a slower pace instead of an instant cut, this could be solved by having the actor step further into the room making the cut more seemless. We also used the 180 degree rule in this clip, this was very well done, even now it was good, we felt more confident using the 180 degree rule in our filming because it was a pretty basic use of camerawork, along with this I believe that our use of the shot reverse shot could have been improved, through the use of editing, to cut the space between and there is lack of continuity between Luke entering the room and him being sat down in the shot reverse shot this could be improved by improving the directions and telling him to come in and sit down instead of instantly cutting when he is standing up, this could have confused an audience as they would not have seen him sit down, so they might think the movie is not properly down.

In our actual opening two minutes, I believe we used these techniques far more effectively, we used match on action very well to show the throw between the two detectives, to show the continuity of the scene, the medium shot we also used for it helps the audience focus only on me catching the object, although if we were to do this again I would probably have used a close up shot of my hand catching the bag(like later in the clip), because this would have provide a mystery to what was inside the bag and made it the audiences main focus instead of me. We tended to focus on medium shots in this opening because we wanted people to mainly focus on the two detectives and this was the easiest way to gain speech, background and the character speaking, all at once.

Evaluation activity 4

Our target audience consists of mostly 15-25 year olds, this is because they would be because a lot of young adults like thrillers and are age certificate for the film is a 15, this was to allow a much wider audience that we would be targeting, to go and see the film at a cinema. This target audience would be particularly interested in our film because they would hopefully be captivated by the mystery of the murder, and they would also be expecting things like car chases, antagonists and gunfights, all of which would be in our film if it was feature length. We would have been targeting mostly amale audience as they would like theuse of bloody murders and killing people, as well as using macho detectives, but this would also attract a female audience as they might find the detectives attractive, and they could also be captivated by the interesting story.

Evaluation Activity 2

Similarities:
Both our actor and Morgan Freeman's character in se7en are wearing similar style in suits with the jackets over a jumper/waistcoat.
They are both confident characters, in there films and they both very good detectives who are able to read crime scenes.
They both have detective partners, who help them with there investigation, or in the case of se7en personal investigation.

Differences:
Our detective is able to develop his theories on the murder by simply looking at the evidence at the scene and coming up with a plausible timeline of events, while Freeman's character is more reliant on evidence and eyewitnesse accounts.
Whereas Freeman's character is considered the sidekick to his partner, our actor is the main character and we would see the film based around him.