Question 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? -

A lot of what we have learnt from our preliminary to our full product we feel was time managment. We feel our preliminary was slightly rushed which meant when we noticed mistakes or had a last minute idea that we thought '' This would look better if...'' . At the time of our preliminary we left no time to go back and do this. Where as in our full product we enabled plenty of time to go back if we made mistakes and also to re-film in order to perfect certain shots.

Our skills of using continuity editing were a major part of our full product. Because we chose to film in a house, extreme camera shots would be very hard to pull off without looking unbelievable, so we went to for more 'clever' transitions. We concentrated on mise-en-scene and lighting to give off the enigma and contrast of the two houses. In our prelimary it looked very amatuer because there was nothing much which connoted the conventions of a crime thriller.

Another key skill we all learnt was effecive editing. In our preliminary we literally cut the bits we felt were not needed and kept the ones that we wanted. In our full product we cut every little part we could that may make our film 'drag-on' this made our film flow a lot more smoothly with very sharp cuts.

Group - Final Cut

Here is the final cut of our opening scene:

Film Pitch

This was the pitch that we gave when we wanted to gain approval to shoot our film. It includes our audience research, images of our location reece, some shot types that we wanted to include, and the films treatment. 

Pitch

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Evaluation Q3 - Distribution

Once a film is created the producers negotiate a distribution deal with a company. In return for a cut of the box office and DVD sales, the distributors market the film, and print copies of it to distribute to cinemas. It is very important for the distributors to define the films target audience.


I think our film would appeal to a mass market and so I believe it should be screened in a multiplex cinema such as ‘ODEON’ or ‘VUE’ so that as much of the target audience as possible have an opportunity to see it.

I believe that our finished film would have such as mass appeal that it could go on general worldwide platform release, as it would be such a mainstream film.

Audience Research

Before we started filming our final piece we carried out some audience research, so that we had an idea of what our target audience wanted, and expected from a film of this genre. We set up a series of questions that people could answer on SurveyMonkey, an  Internet site that allows people to carry out free surveys. 

We used that data that we collected to influence our plot. When we asked questions such as "What do you feel best intensifies suspense in thrillers?", so that we could try and incorporate the answer into our plot. The answer to this particular question was "Music (quick beat)", and so we used fast paced music within our opening sequence.

Here are the other questions that we asked as part of our audience survey:

Audience Research

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Group - Risk Assessment

This is a copy of one of our call sheets. We filled out a call sheet before each one of our shoots so that there was a record of exactly what equipment we had taken out. This meant that the school always knew exactly where there equipment was, and allowed them to plan when each of the various groups would be able to use the equipment.

This is a copyof a risk assessment sheet. On this sheet we listed all some of the main risks that we, and the equipment would face when we were shooting. We did this so that when we got to the set, we had already identified the risks that we would face, and so that we would know how to deal with them in the best way.

Group - Preliminary Task

This is our Preliminary Task. We created this as a test, so that we could try out various camera and editing techniques that we would need when we created our final piece of footage. The criteria for this preliminary task was to film someone going through a door, and also a conversation. We were not expected to use any fancy techniques, other than camera angle and continuity editing.

Once we had filmed our preliminary task we felt that it has helped us as a group to learn what was expected of us, and how the creative process of creating a piece of footage actually worked. It also allowed us to see what camera angles looked good, and what ones would suit our final piece.

Group - Blog Proposal

For our evaluation with each question we have decided to use different for mats to answer them. Here is are proposed order, form in whic we will answert it and who is going to do it.

Question 1 & 2: Directors Interview: Within here we have set up questions in which one of us will answer posing as the director this will be scripted so will enable us to answer everything needed for the questions. I.T. will be using the editing software and camera.
James Cork has created and answered these questions.

Question 3: Blog Entry: For this we will do some background research as to what kind of distibution companies have worked with our genre of film. So that means looking back at our initial research at the kind of films that are similar to ours e.g. the Bourne series, Taken etc. Answered Jamie Cutts and George Douglas.

Question 4 & 5: Audience Interview/Survey: Here we have decided to use both these methods so we can achieve both qualitative and quanitative data and cover all areas of the question. The I.T.involved will be done with the editing process, filming and creating charts from the survey. This is answered by the whole group.

Question 6 & 7: Stills with a voiceover from both our prelimenary and final cut to show technologies and equipment used. Also we shall use this to explain any problems encountered and how we overcame them or improved from the prelimenary. I.I. will be used with editing and using a dictophone and blending these two together to form a DVD extra style commentary. This will be answered by George Douglas

Group - Storyboard

This is the storyboard that we drew when we were planning the story line of our final piece. It shows the main scenes that we think we will shoot, along with the characters involved, and the camera angles/movements. We will have this with us when we are shooting to use as a reference, however if we feel that we need to shoot other scenes or change some of the shots then we will.

James C - Possible Sound Effects

Here are some of the sound effects that we could use when we come to make our final piece. They could be used in conjunction with continuity editing to heighten the sense of verisimilitude within the opening:

Letter coming through letter box:
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Grandfather Clock:
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Ambient Noise:
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White Noise:
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