EVALUATION - Question 7

Preliminary:

EVALUATION - Question 6

EVALUATION - Question 5

We have completed an interview with one of the members of our year group, who fitted some of the boxes of our target audience member, but who is not our 'ideal' audience member.

MONIQUE:

• AGE - 17
• GENDER - Female
• CLASS - Middle
• ETHNICITY - Mixed Race
• LIKES/HOBBIES - Cooking & swimming
• FAVOURITE GENRE OF FILM - Horror/thriller

EVALUATION - Question 4

Who would be the audience for your media product?

EVALUATION - Question 3

EVALUATION - Question 2

EVALUATION - Question 1

Final Main Production Task

Here is our final opening sequence. We have taken into account our feedback from our questionnaires and have edited accordingly. We have made the editing smoother so that there are no lags and so that the pace is fasted to suit the tension of the sequence. we have also added the most voted for font for our 'Schizo' title to make it more appealing. To make the music more effective, we have stopped it at certain times and on top of this, added a drawing sound effect over the title so make it resemble someone drawing it out. I am very proud of what we have accomplished with this piece and I believe that we have produced it to the best of our ability.

Additionally, we realised that we made a spelling mistake for 'director of photography' in our other drafts for our opening sequence, and we have corrected it in our final piece. 

As well as this, we have decided to create an ending that creates more anxiety, so we have cut out the last 10 seconds where Lauren says "you?". This has made the sequence shorter and has made the audience more on edge because of the abrupt ending.

Second Draft - Opening Sequence

Here is the opening sequence that we showed our class and took feedback from them on how to improve it and create our final cut.

The main topic that came up was the ending of the scene in which the character says "you?". Some students said that they thought the editing of the ending was quite slow and it would be more dramatic if it was cut shorter.

We also got feedback to not use fake names, as we used here, and instead create the credits using our real names, so the opening is more personal. This would hopefully make the credits more effective in the opening sequence.

Here is our second draft for our opening sequence.

Storyboard Analysis

Storyboard analysis from Sarah Nurse

Bibliography for Research and Planning

Name of Source	Hyperlink	What  information was used	What post I used it on
(WEBSITE) Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits	Common opening credits order	Extensive research on jobs appearing in credits
(WEBSITE) Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opening_credits	History of opening credits	Opening credits research
(WEBSITE) New England Film	http://newenglandfilm.com/magazine/2012/08/credits	How and why opening credits are used	Opening credits research
(WEBSITE) Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)	Themes and characters	Codes and conventions of the thriller genre in film.
(PDF) Correspondence analysis of genre preferences in UK film audiences	http://www.participations.org/Volume%209/Issue%202/4%20Redfern.pdf	Cross-tabulation of interactively-coded gender-age variable with genre	Relationship Between Age, Gender, and Genre: SECONDARY RESEARCH
(WEBSITE) Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock	Main page information	Alfred Hitchcock - Suspense and Thriller
(WEBSITE) Wikipedia	http://www.bbfc.co.uk/	12A/12 and 15 information	The BBFC Certificate of Our Film
(WEBSITE) Twyman-Whitney	http://www.twyman-whitney.com/film/essentials/music-history.html	History of film scores	The History/Elements of Film Scores
(WEBSITE) Wikipedia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_score	Elements of a film score	The History/Elements of Film Scores
(WEBSITE) Scaruffi	http://www.scaruffi.com/history/film.html	First rock song appearing in film	The History/Elements of Film Scores

Analysis of Questionnaire - Audience Feedback on Opening Sequence

Here is my analysis on the feedback we got on our questionnaire about the film opening:

The Filled Out Questionnaires - Audience Feedback on Opening Sequence

We asked 16 students, aged 15 to 17 of different genders, ages and ethnicity's to watch our opening sequence. We then gave them a questionnaire we created for them to fill out. 

Here are the filled out questionnaires:

Analysis of Questionnaire - Font of Film Name

Here is my analysis on the feedback we got on our questionnaire about the font of our film name:

The Filled Out Questionnaires - Font of Film Name

We were undecided on a few fonts for the title of our opening sequence. We asked 16 media students of different genders and ethnicity's, who were all the ages of 16-18 to fill out a questionnaire to help us decide which font suited our opening sequence the most. 
Disclaimer - we accidentally added a ninth option to tick, however it is discarded because we did not add one to choose.

Here are the filled out questionnaires:

Mapping of Our Opening Sequence

Here is the mapping of our opening sequence, which shows all of the credits which appear and what time they appear in. We didn't add in many credits because we didn't want to overload the sequence with a lot, which could potentially distract the audience. These titles are based around the three mappings of title sequences that I have previously completed.
In the first cut of the sequence, we used fake names, but we ended up changing the names to our actual names. All together there are 14 titles, which is not a heavy amount like a Hollywood film would be, but it is enough to be effective.

Final Animated Production Company Logos

Here are our final animated production company logos that we have created using Serif DrawPlus X6. Some of them are a bit blurry and not very clear, however we still think they are still usable and we will ad some sound effects to them when we add them to our final piece so that they are more effective.

Logo For Production Company

We have taken our initial sketches of our production company logo and have turned them into our final production company logo using the program 'Serif Draw Plus X6'.

These are our options for our production company logo, however we have changed them from sketches into suitable logos so that we could accurately decide which one we like out of them all.

After seeing how the designs looked, we decided upon this design, as it is simple, yet effective. We have then animated the logo so that we can include it into the beginning of our opening sequence.

Lighting, Editing and Sound - Research

Lighting:

• HIGH KEY - The lighting is bright and may include mixed white colours. We won't be using this lighting because we can't to create a somewhat unsettling atmosphere for the audience.
• LOW KEY - This lighting is dark and may include shadows and dark tones. We might be using this lighting because it will create a dark vibe, but we don't want our sequence to come off as a horror so we might opt for something else.
• COLOUR FX - Different colour combinations depending on the atmosphere of the film. Examples are black and white or sepia, as well as blueish effects or warm yellow effects. We might use this lighting as opposed to the low key lighting. This is because we can make the sequence dark and creepy but not too scary so it can be seen as a thriller and cause suspense.

In this video I have used an effect from iMovie called 'Day to Night', which includes bluish but dark tones and makes the lighting low key.

EDITING:

• CONTINUITY EDITING - Film sequences normally follow this type of editing in order to make them flow and transition in a believable way. Only cuts will be used in order to make scenes more realistic.'Cross-cutting' may also be included, which is when two different pieces of action are shown at the same time during a sequence, but it still maintains a flow to make it have a 'real life' affect. This is the main common editing style in film, so we will be using it in our opening sequence, however we may add some fades in and out of the sequence to create more variation.
• MONTAGE EDITING - The opposite of continuity editing, whereby the cuts in the sequence are noticeable and don't have a flow of time.
• CUT - An image is instantly replaced by another without a noticeable transition. We will be using this because it is used in continuity editing.
• CROSS/DISSOLVE - One image dissolves into another.
• FADE UP - An image fades in from black. We will be using this to transition from the quote to the start of the scene.
• FADE OUT - An image fading out to black. We may use this after the title of the film is shown.
• WIPE - One image replaces another and the border between the image will move across the screen.

 SOUND:

• DIEGETIC SOUND - Sound that is involved and is part of the film world e.g. cars or birds. We will be using this for our phone sound effects.
• NON-DIEGETIC SOUND - Sound that is not part of the film world and is not part of what is happening on screen e.g. a soundtrack. We will be using a soundtrack in our opening sequence.
• SOUND BRIDGE - Linking two scenes together through sound. We may use this in our task.
• SOUND EFFECTS - Sound which is added on which is not dialogue or music. Sound is added during post-production e.g. our phone ringing sound effects.

Logo for Production Companies Planning

Here are drawings of our initial ideas for what we would like our production logos to look like. We will choose three of these for our final production and animate them to make them more attractive.