evaluation

final film 2

Question 7 from evaluation

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Since we filmed our preliminary task we have made many changes to our full sequence and have used many different tools in order to improve the film opening and make it better than our preliminary task. In our preliminary task we used many different camera angles such as over the shoulder shot, close up and pan, these shots were again used in our opening sequence. However in our preliminary task there was no music or sound added in and we decided thia must be included in our opening sequencve in order to heklp create a suitable atmosphere and to make our sequence more intriguing and realistic. The editing in our preliminary wasnt very good either as there were many continuity errors and thsi could get us a lower mark overall, so we worked hard on editing to make sure there were no errors and our clip made sense with scenes flowing better between each other. From our preliminary to our actual sequence we learnt how to manage our time better for example, in our preliminary we edited once we had all our footage whereas in our actual sequence we edited whilst we filmed each scenes as this gave us more time and helped us correct mistakes.

Question 6 for evaluation

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?


Firstly, we learnt different camera techniques which helped us get better shots in our sequence, Such shots we used were over-shoulder-shot, pan and POV shot which was essential in our clip as it showed how the psycho teacher grabs hold of the dead student to lift him in the teachers' chair. During this scene, we used a fade in the background music being played which creates an eery mood and this fades out well when the camera pans over to the students. In an earlier scene when the first two students are walking in to the classroom, we had used another background music fade out as dialogue is used in this scene. We used Garageband to help the music blend in with the scene as the dialogue begun. Throughout this horror sequence of ours, we have leant in detail more about different technologies, such as; Final cut Pro for editing our sequence, Garageband for our background music that is played and the camera itself for when filming throughout.

Question 5 For Evaluation

How did you attract/address your audience?

Before we begun anything major for our short horror sequence, we had already planned that our audience were indeed a niche audience of school students to university students. One of the ways in which we attract our audience is through making our actors in the same age bracket as our audience so that they find it easy to relate to the characters' lifestyle and make it seem believable to the audience. We did this by dressing the school kid characters in school uniform and we shot it at The Windsor Boys' School and a majority of the filming took place in a class room as this makes the detention seem more realistic.

Another way of how we were able to address our audience is through again making the characters in the horror sequence have a similar demographics to divide people up to the targeted audience we have set out to. We have done this through targeting our horror clip at; the class E people, as the characters in the clip relate to the same class. 12-30 year olds, as most people in this age bracket are either school students, or even university students. Giving our genre ratio a 65:35 to men to women. It features a stereotypical argument between men and women since we have no female characters in our sequence, as we felt it would be more suitable for a psycho teacher to attack males.

Question 4 Of Media Evaluation

­­­Who would be the audience for my media product?

For our opening horror sequence, we established as a group that we are going to aim our product towards the age range between 12 – 30 year olds and also doing team research on the BBFC we decided to put a rating on our film as 12+ as it is a ‘young-teen-friendly’ horror as there is no foul language used or either any use of drugs, sexual abuse or gore in our horror sequence. Also another reason for giving an age range between12 – 30 year olds is to attract young school students as the characters in the sequence are wearing their school uniform, talking in slang and also has the general atmosphere of the school setting. The class we have aimed for in our product are those in the C2 and mainly E class people as E class people are students. The gender ratio we have set as a group was 65:35 between men and women as all the characters in our horror opening are all male as it is preferred that way, and we have also found that recently a wide range of females have begun to watch of horror movies as been checked on with recent cinematic gender counts. Our product gains the attention of ‘The Aspirer’ within the ‘Seven Kinds Of People In The World’. The Aspirers are very materialistic and acquisitive people who are driven by others’ perception of them rather than by their values. Meaning that with aspirers, it is the image that counts when engaged in a movie, or in real life terms. We believe that our short horror sequence reaches out to these people because of the roles played within the characters are in the clip, as you have the typical rebellious and brave character, the two quiet and humble characters and also the psychotic, murdering teacher. From our targeted age range, we are hoping for students to have a strong aspiration towards the heroic and brave student who confronts the psychotic teacher.

end of filming

We have finally finished filming. We adapted to various possibilities for our opening to get the best possible combinations of our theme, camera angles/shots and actors.  However we did stick to the original theme of the psychotic teacher in a classroom who murders a child.

We also had theme music which we made on garageband, which was essential to our opening to give it it that edge of an actual horror opening.

Lastly we had to edit the footage together. We decided to use final-cut pro to edit the footage and add in our logo, production names, sound, also we needed fades for certain parts which also added.