Unhinged final film

Radio Trailer

Final film poster

Evaluation Question 1

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Evaluation question 2

Evaluation question 3

3 What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Response to the original brief with the audience in mind

Originally when we started out from our storyline we decided a prominent genre. From our chosen genre (psychological thriller) we began researching other films with the genre thriller or psychological thriller by looking at conventions such as the types of shots used, the music and the editing. After creating a story line we then interviewed people based on their views in the questions asked. We embedded video clip examples from YouTube into our blogger page and we analysed and picked out key features. We also analysed radio trailers and posters of the genre. When filming we had to keep referring to the conventions of the genre to ensure that we were using a similar style. After creating a rough cut we then went on to get feedback from our audience to see if we had conformed to the genre conventions adequately.

Achieving meaning and creative decisions made in planning

When editing we used an overlapping effect and by changing the opacity of one layer, in effect creating a blurred image; this effect made the characters point of view seem intoxicated. When filming the poker scene we needed to have a dark room to create atmosphere to do this we covered all of the windows and used a white lamp light to maintain the exposure. Unfortunately the methods that we used to block out the natural light made the room appear more orange, this created a warm feeling which we did not want so in editing we used the colour corrector to change this by using the colour wheel.

When planning the costume for the main character we knew that we needed to have something that made the character look more common and urban, this adhered to the financial situation. The costume for the villans was designed to look darker and borderline professional creating a larger contrast for the viewer to see obviously. Some new shots were required, especially close ups because we needed to show character emotion and show clear points of interest.

Trialled aspects reactions for your film. (interpretations)

We put our rough cut of our film on YouTube for the audience to see and comment on. Some people may be able to relate to the main characters financial struggle and may be interested to see how the character handles it. Or perhaps the viewer is financially secure and would like to see life from another perspective. 

The audience responses helped to alter the film to adhere to the conventions. Once we had our feedback we could ensure that we had the correct audience changing things like adding in music, and changing length of the shots to fit the genre and atmosphere. We even added in new new scenes to make the film more understandable creating a better narrative.

Unhinged rough cut

Evaluation question 4

Responses from our questionnaire

When creating our film we had to consider the audience in both pre production as well as postproduction. To ensure we always took the audiences views into consideration we made questionnaires and collected responses from our target age using Google docs and asking people to fill them in via social media.

We found out from our research that the storyline of our film was easy enough to understand and people could follow it.

The responses concerning our film genre are exactly what we wanted and most people agreed that our film was being marketed as the right genre of film. When we asked people what they would change in the film the answers conflicted to a degree so we made a decision as a group not to change any aspects of this other than to add more shots of the chase/car scene in editing. We also hit our goal in relation to people’s views on our main character “John”, other than the one comment saying they viewed him as ‘aggressive’ we managed to portray him as a victim rather than a villain.

 

We also found that the main target gender would be more male than female. This meant that we could cater our advertising and editing more towards a male audience. We did this by editing from a male gaze and catering our advertising for males the best we could.

People also agreed that the films age range was around 16-24 this is suitable due to the fact that our films age rating is 15 and also our advertising is catered towards this audience.

Shot list - Draft

Questionnaire link

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1iIr_E6XmYu_DhaJMzqCwafniTp3UhbHBN0vcnaYuRs0/viewform?usp=send_form

Film Rough Cut

Film pack day 5

Characters Needed

Name 
 John Mathews -  actor Cameron Farrell
Age 
 33
Appearance

• Brown Hair
• Height 6ft
• Blue/brown eyes
• Average Build

Apparel

• Informal Casual clothes
• Scruffy Hair
• Facial Hair

Accent
Barnsley Dialect
Family/Friends

• No Wife - Dead
• One child - Daughter - Dead

Race
British White

Current Job Status
Laid Off

Health Status
Alcoholic
Smoker

Name 
 James Wright -  actor Joseph Conway
Age 
 31
Appearance

• Brown Hair
• Height 6ft
• Blue eyes
• Average Build

Apparel

• Casual clothes
• Long hair back
• Facial Hair

Accent
Barnsley Dialect

Family/Friends

• Unknown

Race
British White

Current Job Status
Business man

Health Status
Social drinker

Name 
Andrew Black-  actor Arron Bettley
Age 
 34
Appearance

• Brown Hair
• Height 6ft
• Blue eyes
• Average Build

Apparel

• Casual clothes
• Short hair back
• Facial Hair

Accent
Barnsley Dialect

Family/Friends

• Unknown

Race
British White

Current Job Status
Business man

Health Status
Ex drug dealer

Props

• Poker chips
• Cards
• Money - Notes and change representing all in
• Car keys

Equipment

• Camera 
• Tripod
• Light

Shot Plan

• High angle (establishing) - Showing table
• Mid Shot - people sat at table
• Over shoulder - showing cards
• Shot reverse shot - difference in cards
• Pan of table showing props
• Close-up of reactions/ money/ cards/ chip

Radio Trailer Example- The Book of Eli

Book of Eli Radio Trailer

This is the Radio for Book of Eli. This includes when the film will be released, reviews of the film, how many ratings it has got, a rough outline of what the film will be about, key actors and the age rating.

This is something to consider when making our own Radio Trailer.












Our Radio Trailer we need to include:

• The name of the film
• Age Rating 
• Rough Outline of the Film
• Actors
• When Released

Shooting Pack- Girl

Characters Needed:
Name: Scarlett Mathews - (cameron's sister)

Age
10

Appearance

• Brown Hair - long
• Eye colour - Blue
• Small height
• average build

Apparel

• Girly bright clothes
• Well Dressed
• Long hair

Accent
High pitched tone ( female )
Barnsley Dialect less common than father.

Family
Mum and Dad

Race
British

Props

Bag

Coat

Missing Poster

Girly Clothing

Equipment
Camera
Tripod

Shots and locations
Girl Entering House
Kitchen
Bedroom
Flashback from Argument
Dad following her

Sound effect library

Creating a sound effect library will allow a range of sounds to be added in to the film during post production, some have already been recorded but the ones needed for the film are as follows:

• hitting body - method of replication - Simply record the sound of the a fist hitting the body using the side of the hand so the boy isn't physically harmed. If you hit the upper leg the sound will be short and flat as there is allot of muscle. If you hit the chest the sound will be longer and resonate slightly.
• body hitting car - method of replication - The sound should combine the body hit and a metallic sound, and could simply be a hands hitting a car, if the sound is lower pitch it may sound like a full body.
• money being played with - method of replication - moving money around in a hand ( must replicate the same movement)
• main road ambience - method of recording - Have a microphone next to a road with cars passing and trees moving in the wind. having a good length of a sound recording means that there can be a range of sections to be extracted, instead of being limited to what I can use.
• nature (birds/trees/wind etc.) - method of recording - Leave a microphone outside to record the sounds of nature, including birds singing, wind and trees blowing in the wind.

Altering the pitch of sounds such as the body hit would mimic the depth of the body and perhaps the clothing, this can also apply to the hitting of the car. The additional sound added in will give a sense of realism as the sound is expected in the film. The way that we shot the film meant the microphone was too far away from the audio to pick up.

Film Day 5 (includes risk assessment)

Friday 5th December

On this day we planned to film the extra scene due to watching all our previous stuff and seeing it was very long winded. We needed something to happen in between the walking home scene. We decided to include a scene involving a car and two men who the character owes money to. This scene would be incredibly hard to film as it contains some serious risks.

Changes to Storyline

Due to this added scene there was a slight change to storyline as to how the daughter would die, due to him being an alcoholic we decided to make him have a money debt with a gang who he gets drugs from and these people have killed his daughter but you don't find this out until the end. Lots of foreshadowing is placed to show his daughter has been killed but this adds suspicion to our film.

Shotlist

• Close-up
• Low angle
• Long shot
• Canted angle
• Over the Shoulder
• Point of View
• Tracking

Risk Assessment 

•  Car scene -  issues are actor could get incredibly injured from the car if not done properly so we had to plan out how we would film this scene so the actor would have minimum possibility of being injured. To do this we filmed the car driving up to him and then another shot from behind the car so the car never actually hits him so the scene actually worked well.
• Filming on a road so we had one group member stand watch for cars as we were filming fight scenes in the middle of the road.
• Fight scene -  if acting went wrong someone could get hurt.
• Car when driving around the bend couldn't see what was round the corner so someone had to shout when it was clear to actually start filming. Due to the bend the car could possibly have an accident not knowing whats around the corner.

Character Profiles - Bad Guy 1/2

Bad Guy 1

Clothing - Black coat, Black T-shirt, Navy blue suede Shoes

Height - 6,2"
Age - 20
Occupation - Drug Dealer/loan shark
Personality traits - Agressive
Role in film - "gangster 

Race - Caucasian 

Sex - Male

Hair Colour - Light Brown

Bad Guy 2

Clothing - Black Hoodie, Bandana, Black Jeans, Trainers

Height - 6,1"
Age - 20
Occupation - Criminal/loan shark
Personality traits - Agressive
Role in film - "gangster 

Race - Caucasian 

Sex - Male 

Hair Colour - Brown

Elliptical Editing

(Possible) Shots Needed Update

Thursday 4th December
After the scenes we filmed, we began editing. Since editing we gathered the missing shots we need next time we film.
Shots Missing

• Close-up of bottles clashing 
• Re-do waking up shot
• Every shot needed for the Chase Scene

Watching over the film we decided we need to add something in between the walking to the shop scene to make it more interesting. From an audience perspective the film is currently just the character walking with very little action.  Therefore we decided to add a scene.

Possible Ideas

• Guy steals his bag
• Car pulls up revealing the secret to his depression (they killed his family)

Editing Day 1

Friday 21st November

We had practically filmed most of the scenes needed to begin editing however one scene is still missing due to actress issues. All the beginning scene is coming together well however we are finding a few issues with props being the wrong way and also some shots are missing which you would expect to see if you were watching a professional film.

Shots Missing

• Close-up of bottle due to it being the wrong way round.
• Close-up of actor placing posters.
• Close- up of face when character falls.

The shots mainly missing are close-ups, adding these will keep the shots flowing and not too boring. So the plan next would be to film the argument scene and all the missing shots.