Our interviews and audience feedback

Our final opening. DUSKWOOD

Pitch and Audience Research

Presentation1

View more presentations or Upload your own.

Evaluation Task 2 Audience research OH

Task 2 Audience research questions.

1) Did you like the film opening, if not why?
2) Did u think the film conformed to the conventions of a thriller horror film?
3) Could you relate to the characters, since they were your own age?
4) Did you like where the film was set?
5) What was your favourite part of the short film?
6) What would you improve if you had the choice?

We are going to ask atleast five people these questions shortly after watching our film opening, hopefully we will get a good amount of market research. We will also answer the question after with a voice over beforethe filming to state who our target audience is, stating our demographics and so on…

Evaluation- planning Task 1 OH

Task 1- group discussion and proposal.

After going through our evaluations, and discussing improvement where need be amongst some of the questions we came to the decision that jack and eddy would combine their two answers for questions one through four and that i would answer the questions six and seven and that jack and myself would answer question five after all of the viewings of our opening sequence so we could get good feedback from an audience about our opening.

Method of presentation
We have decided to present our first four questions as a directors commentary over our film opening, if need be add in some text for more detail. Question five is going to be made up of video responses, of atleast five responses, we will ask them five questions, all the same and put it on premier and possibly annotate them with extra detail. Then finally on questions six and seven I want to present them as a PowerPoint presentation, with pictures and possibly some videos embedded into it.

End piece write up. OH

Write up of the editing and creating of our final piece.

After the filming was complete and we had all the parts of footage that we needed to create our film opening we imported all of our seperate clips that we needed giving time to allow us to cut it easily, however this took us some time since we had quite alot of fast cutting shots and this caused some problems with gethering the right clips, however we were able to get the clips eventually, our next task was to gather the clips in their correct order, this led to a great idea of having cut to blacks and importing heart beat sounds, showing eddys stress after running, which would eventually reveal the killer.
We played around with this idea for a while, until we managed to cut the clip in such a way that the clip was cut perfectly in time to the sound of a heart beat. after we had all of our clips in the right order we then cut them down to size and shuffled them all next to eachother, we created a fast cut rate at the beginning since a few of our shots were quite long so we cut them down, also to create a faster cutting rate we added titles, the font we used was similar to the one from se7en, we cut these in time to the sounds of days and the boot closing to make it look more smoth and professional. after all of this was done we just had two seperate chase scenes and a car scene, to increase enigma, suspense and to give the clip more meaning we merged the car scene with the first chase scene, this increased the cutting rate even more to create tention during a chase scene, we hoped this would show creativity during editing. however our film on its own was only about one minute thirty seconds, at this point we added the titles and a montage, to show we could do montage and continuity editing to show we have a wider range of skills. we created a montage connoting death and implying that it had been in a woods, we added a sound to it which was in tone with the insanely fast paced montage, however the montage didnt look to good in alot of coulour so we toned the colour down and added a "old silent movie" effect which gave it a effect that it has happened before. we also made the clips more "blue" getting rid of some of the colour so that it looks more ominous, and since we shot on quite a sunny day it wasnt as in tone with the genre as we would of liked, so that was the main reason for tuning the colour down and increasing the contrast.
after this was done and all of the shots were cut correctly and in placewe decided to play around with the sound and editing, we decided to tackle the editing first, we tried to have our titles filcker to some extent but it looked very amature so we just left the titles since they looked ok just on their own anyway. then we added an effect to my face as there was a close up of my eyes to make it seem almost like i was in a daze or day dreaming. we then added fades in to when it cuts back to a POV shot of the killer looking down at eddy showing that i was remembering it again. then this lead to our second chase scene, we added a sound of a hit and a white flash to add emphasis to the hit. Then we created our "Duskwood" title which originally just was a still image, however it then zooms in in it and a sound effect adding emphasis was entered. then it cut to the beginning of the film. where at the and the clip fades to black. those were the effects that we added. we then played around with sound, we wanted something semi fast paced and to finish with something more fast paced for the chase scene on its own. we wanted to use the se7enopening scene music however we werent sure if it was coppy right free or not. after some research we found out that the first 45 seconds was coppyright free, however after that it starts to merge with a song from "nine inch nails" which was copyrighted so we couldnt use that. so we just repeated the first part. we then put that through the hole film and cut it and faded it out when need be, we were then advised to add some fast paced music, so we looked on the D drive and the first piece we listened to fitted the chase scene well so we imported it and placed it in the right part. we then added way points in the sound to make it more pronounced in places that it needed to be. then we went through and sorted out all the little bits that didnt look quite right.

Write up of our filming: part 2

filming part two of our chase scene

The second part of our chase scene was shot on thursday the 4th of march at 4:30 Pm and lasted for about an hour, although the lighting was different and there was less shadow, it was of since we planned to put a filter on it during the editing process. This scene is going to be placed after some montages of newspaper front pages and when the fade back into my imagination.

The shots with this are also rather creative, they make the killer look increadibly sinister and scary which adds enigma, we have managed to make the killer seem less human, bringing terror to the scene, a nice overhead shot adds to the creativity of our shot angles and also. over the shoulder shots, close ups f faces when eddy meets the killer to show his emotions and fear which has come upon him.

over all the fact there was less light making the killer more sinister was used to great affect, we have been vey lucky with our lighting and weather, no risks of rain r any complications like that came into our filming. so over all we are very pleased with our work.

Risk assesment and problems with our second shoot.






This is our risk assesment for the second shoot that we went on, it haled us to identify the dangers and problems we could be encountering while shooting, which might prohibit some of our more inventive camera shot. however we would look at our risk assesment and work around it to create interesting shots without endangering ourselves or the equiptment.