Evaluation QUESTION 1

Evaluation QUESTION 2

I made a typography image about how I felt our opening represented certain social groups using only key words on a website called "TAGXEDO." as I had a few technical issues with "Wordle." I decided to make these words create an image of a bomb because the black bags used in our opening (Mise-en-scene.) create an aspect of danger as you aren't told what these bags contain and I figured that a bomb was a likely possibility in terms of being realistic especially with the use of a train station and ethnic minorities.

Evaluation QUESTION 3

Evaluation from Mido Mido

Evaluation QUESTION 4

Our age range for our target audience is 15 – 24. Our subject is a 15 year old boy called Jack Davis who attends The Petchey academy; he is very in touch with his technical side having owned a minimum of three Blackberry smart phones and spending majority of his time when he's not doing school work on his computer game console. I located his “Facebook.” Page and took a few screen grabs of his activities that suit his characteristics making him a suitable representative of the target audience for our thriller.

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 6

During this project I have ; with the assistance of my group member learnt the basics of using various technologies, for example sound track pro and blogger etc. out of all the different programs I found Final cut pro the most difficult to use, and started to notice later on during the task that my editing skills were not up to par compared to be team mates, and decided it would be better for me to focus my energies on something a little easier and created both soundtracks included in our opening. So instead I used a software I could access on my personal laptop called "AVS video editor." which in appearance is less intimidating than FCP where I learnt how to convert video files into .avi and edit videos in the most basic way possible. this, along with my "Wacom Bamboo" graphic tablet is the program I used to create my video for one of the previous questions. I also learnt that online blogs are useful to keep track of any work you might have done as it keeps everything in one place and can be changed and edited to suite you and avoidable accidents like spills and tears are ruled out. It also gave us the opportunity to look at other groups work and also members our our own. In terms of our film opening we had to use many of these programs at once, for example FCP,STP,Blogger,JVC camera, memory cards and the Video drive.

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 

Feedback on Soundtrack

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.