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R&P = 15
Production = 30
Evaluation = 12

Total = 57 D

Targets:
Complete evaluation activities. Make sure the titles for these posts are 'evaluation task 1' etc
Make sure you discuss explicit examples of where your skills have progressed from preliminary to final piece.
Add to audience profiling posts, explaining how you intend to appeal to your target audience in your opening 2 minutes.
Consider filming additional scenes to show range of shot types  and ability to produce material appropriate to the task set.

evaluation activity 7

The preliminary task was a tester for us to understand which camera angles were appropriate for making are two minutes to look realistic and work well. I learnt the different types of camera shots and what they are mainly used for and that using a variety of shots will make the footage better than sticking to only two camera angle shots. I learnt about 180 degree rule that if you cross the line it will confuse the audience and will lose interest. We struggled to keep the 180 degree rule because as we was focusing on the different shots and occupied we had to remember that the person controlling that camera was only allow to move in certain points or it wouldnt work well and the perspective would completely different. We had some faults in the end footage of having props appearing and disappearing.

The preliminary task was a tough one for my group because we wanted to use a variety of shots but we needed to make sure that when editing them and getting them combind that it wouldnt jump and we wanted to have a good story line to stick to so that we could expand it and experiment with camera work. We wanted there to be conversation as we wanted the effect of over the shoulder shot. We used a variety of shots that i wouldnt of before used such as high angle, low angle, canted angle which is an extraordinary angle such as slightly tilted. We used alot of medium shots, long shots and close up shots depending on what stage we was shooting such as when they were speaking we wanted to be close to them so that they were the main focus that having them in a long shot and that they were hard to see and the background obstructed the person as they were filling the shot more.

We did very well when it came to editing, we made sure that we cut the shots at the right points so when it went to the next one it would smooth go straight into it like that were two different shots. We  had to problems with the camera work where the person shaked a little bit but it wasnt that obviously but that is something we learnt that we needed to keep that camera sure to make it look professional. We also knew that background sounds that werent ment to be included were bad because it wouldnt be right and would be unprofessional so we made sure we did the filming at a time that no one would be around to effect it. We didnt add any music because we hadnt learnt about how to include it and the use of no sound tracks worked but we wanted to experiment in our opening two minutes as we were chosing a genre which needed to some music to fill the atmosphere.

With the dialogue part of the filming we went along with it as we was shooting and it was a short shot proceedure because if we shot them for too long that the person would start babbling and wouldnt making sense so we chose the right choice of short shots which would then be combinded together through editing to make about a 30 or more second discussion. We knew that to make it safer that we would script what the person says than doing it then and there because we wanted her to say the right thing which would make an effect and understand to what was happening in the that point in the opening two minutes.

The similar thing between our preliminary task and the opening two minutes is that we used mostly the same camera shots but we should have been more daring shots because we stuck to something we felt comfortable with than going out of it and trying to get more exciting shots which could build more tension but we did use some good shots that did bring tension to the opening two minutes. Another similarity is that we focused on one character and then another one introduced at the end aswell we had a walking theme because walking is simple to shoot and you can use many shots with that high, low, close, medium and long and it will wont look weird.

The difference is that we used more effects in our opening two minutes than our preliminary tasks because i found out you could fade in and out of shots that also cutting the shots because we knew that in some shots cutting it will just cause there to be a jump so using the effect of fading out black and back in to the next shot looks like weve skipped a few seconds of the film and got to a different point which worked well. I knew that we would need some effects like i decided using black and white theme would fit perfectly with our genre horror its a dule appearance which gives a negative atmosphere for everything thats happening we want it too look negative.

evaluation task 6

 

This is the equipment which we used to create our opening two minutes, we didnt use much all we used was adobe premiere elements 10 which is accessed on a computer in our media classroom, blogger and a SLR camera.

 

With the camera it was effective because it was a good quality picture which ment that it looked professional the shots were more HD when using my personal camera than a camera it also ment that i knew how to use it and play around with the settings on my camera and change things to fit the shots. I also was able to use zoom on my camera and still have a decent shot when with the school cameras you would have to move around with how close you wanted the shot to get a non blurry picture.

 

I then went onto adobe premiere element 10 which is where i took my completed shots and organised and edited on adobe this software is the best to use as it is personally for film footage and creating a short or long movie. I think that it was hard to use because i hadnt used it before but with help i got the gyst and was able to cut the shots to combind them and make the follow through smoothly and add effect which would help the shots look more realistic.

 

I then used blogger which is where i recorded everything that i had done which led me up to my final piece of film my opening two minutes. I used it to keep notes and testers of ideas which if i wanted to change remember what i did and why. If i changed my mind i would include it in a post and then could understand why it was a good choice not to proceed with including that piece, prop or character in my work.

 

 

evaluation activity 5

evaluation activity 4

 

My target audience which my film is aimed at is teenagers, both male and female which mean it will be a wider group that will want to come and watch it. The reason we chose this as our target audience is because that we are the same age which means we know what appeals to them. Both genders enjoy horrors its a popular genre that most people go for because they like the thrill and exciting which is bought throughout the films that have been shown before.

We have also put characters in the film similar age and it means that we can get the audience to relate to the character and be part of the film. We also thought about who are the people that would have time to go and watch a film in the cinema and teenagers go to cinema more frequently than any other audience. We also made our film a 15 so that we could get more teenagers in and that it wouldnt cause any fear or harm to them as some horrors give teenagers nightmare and put them off.

We also thought that teenager tend to go in groups to the cinema which means were be getting big quantities going. We could appeal to young adults aswell because they aswell enjoy horrors just as much as teenages do. They are still young and going out having a good time they would also take to go see a good horror film. We needed our opening two minutes to really leave them wanting to find out more because opening two minutes really sells the film because if they are not interested in the first two minutes than they might not enjoy the rest of the film. We need scary creepy characters and a setting that is stereotypically a place of killings and kidnappings.

Evaluation activity 3

with the voice over commentry was unable to put the film footage with the voice over but we was able to answer the questions needed to be answered.

evaluation activity 2

I have chose this screenshot to evaluate because it shows the two characters which are shown in the opening two minutes and i can explain why they were chosen to be shown in the opening two minutes than any other. 

 

I wanted to talk about the pale one which is the character in the background the miss figured male figure that follows this young innocent girl home. In most films there's a vunerable female character alone in a open area that can easily be attacked. We wanted to relate our opening two minutes on a character called slenderman a  faceless figure that makes people disappear without a trace and have no explanation of what happened to them. We chose this character to relate to that person because our social group which is our own age 15+  and audience would understand what its like at that age how shy and vunerable females under age 15 are like and would know that they are an easy target to attack because they are defenseless and especially in a open place like the mill pond which is why i chose it than place it in a town or a school. Even if they do not know who the person is most horror films have mysterious killers that attack in certain points and we stuck to the tradition of stereotypes such as young innocent females and having countryside alleyway types to have the attackings in. 

 

here is a example of slenderman his always hiding in the shadows and always folowing someone but they are oblivious of his presence. The similarites is that they both are wearing similar costumes as they are wearing black suits and have white faceless appearances which means that people can identify who it is in our opening two minutes. The difference that we did with our is usually he doesnt get too close to his victims but with ours to bring more impact when she turned back around he was up close which ment that the audience could analyse his appearance and see that he was the villan.