Final Film Opening

16. Elinor Ritchie, Melissa Riffen-McDonald, Victoria Skopouscenko, Ella Fusco-Fagg from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation QUESTION 5

Melissa R-M and Ella F

by Melissa Riffen-McDoanld.

Terrible quality- apologies. Guidelines for if you cant read what it says.

  We attracted our target audience in terms of location by selecting one of the widest used form of transport so that they could relate to the storyline slightly better as they'd be able to relate to the characters understanding their choice of location as they would know what to expect when they enter a train-station as they are used every day to take our target audience to school, to visit family and friends etc. Our production company is also linked to our demographic as a high majority of people aged 15-24 are still students, so in more ways than one “Candi studios.” and our group 16 IDENT will appeal to them significantly as being students also, we create some common ground between ourselves and the people watching our work. Which is useful as audiences like to feel like they have a connection with the people who create their entertainment, both on screen icons and behind the scenes people.

I think the burning candle is quite symbolic as the flame, to me represents life and it is shaping the candle as life shapes us as people however this flame burns quicker during adolescences. Our title is a main contributor to the attraction of our target audience as we decided to stick with the numeral idea to show clear inspiration for films such as Collateral and SE73N which I think our audience will appreciate. Base-9 is a good title as it has several meanings which could keep potential audiences interested in what the title means and how it relates to our film which could get more people interested in our opening.

The several  methods of distribution we used to reach our target audience were extremely effective as social networking sites are used widely by people who fit our target audience and new technologies now support these sites being used on multiple portable devices, such as tablets, phones and netbooks.


Interview with cast member

Evaluation | Question 1

These two videos are related to the 'Pace' post.

Question 1 from asmediaset

Evaluation | Question 2

These are some of the representations that viewers have established about our film;

16 to 25 is the target audience decided by people that have seen the intro.
Spy relates the the nature of the film as we went for a spy sub-genre, we believe that our film is aimed at the slightly older side of teens and young adults due to its complex and mature content.

Evaluation | Question 3

Candi Studios and Group16 productions helped produce the film, they are both very independent and could devote time into the film, we didn't use a conglomerate as our film isn't high budget and we aren't expecting masses of audience to see it.

Kaleidoscope Distributers allow us to get our film out there. They are locally based therefore we wont need to spend so much money on the distribution, also they specialise in low budget film distribution which is exactly what kind of film we are.

Using these three companies our film will be able to be distributed using social media sites and small advertising posters at select theaters. This will allow a small amount of the population to hear about our thriller, also they will be able to target it at a certain audience and it wont be mass targeted.

Evaluation | Question 4

Evaluation | Question 6

Evaluation | Question 7

Editing: Soundtrack

Editing: Rough Cut Movie

This is our rough cut without sound, as we put the sequences and titles together to see how well everything will fit.

Production company IDENT

In our pitch we mentioned that our desired production company would be "Paramount Pictures." due to their positive reputation and history in working with thriller films. So here's the IDENT.

Screenshots/MYSPACE

Social Networking/MYSPACE

Screenshots/FACEBOOK

Social Networking/FACEBOOK

 

We decided that as distribution is vital when creating a successful film we would create several social networking accounts to promote our opening, just as we did with our swede for Twilight. :P 

Screenshots/TWITTER

Social Networking/TWITTER

We decided that as distribution is vital when creating a successful film we would create several social networking accounts to promote our opening, just as we did with our swede for Twilight. :P 

Hicccups

During  this project we did come across a few sticky patches along the way that we did overcome through teamwork and compromise some which were admittedly due to lack of preparation but others that were out of our control. For example we had to change our story board twice due to the fact that due to traffic I couldn't make it to one of the storyboard creation tasks, we had a strict deadline because Victoria had a lesson after lunch and needed to be back at college before 1:15 with all the equipment so they had to proceed on without me adding a green stick man to represent myself in places where I would have been if there which proved to be comical during our pitch to Marissa unconventional in terms of a serious project. Then to make matters worse on the first day of filming as a group we forgot to bring a physical copy of the story board we had presented and thus had to take time in creating a new one based on our new shots. In the end our second storyboard proved to be better than the first however if we'd taking the proper precautions in terms of organization we could have saved a great deal of time that we could have invested into editing or perfecting the soundtrack of blogging.

Editing/ Finishing touches

After a significant amount of time attempting to perfect our ideas, going out to film and bringing footage back and so forth we began to realize that due to timing and the strict limit of how long our open can and should be we had to cut out half of our ideas for a stylized opening similar to SE7EN's. Therefore we were unable to make use of the props we originally wanted like the passports, news paper cut outs etc and focused all of our energies into perfecting our narrative with the bag swap idea. in the end we had to improvise using left over and thought to be "useless" shots to make up for the stylized shots we were now missing. Thanks to Ellie's brilliant editing skills and background in film studies she managed to use a number of effects (Red colored and deliberate shaken shots.) to make our shots look as weird and distorted to match the soundtrack I created using Soundtrack pro.

Research | Using Soundtrack

We tested out sounds in soundtrack pro in order to understand the use of background music and foley sounds.

I used the tracks to overlap sounds and see what works and how they interact with each other and the volumes of each in order to create my own track with the provided sounds. This was very useful when it came to doing our own soundtrack for the opening because we understood how the program works.