Evaluation

In this blog i am going to be focussing on three questions to evaluate the film opening that i have created with my group as our recorded directors commentry covers and answers all of the other questions.

How did you attract/address your audience?

In order to attract our audience to our film opening we decided that a particular target audience for our film would be of young adults/ teenagers that are 15+, we also felt that females of this age range would be more attracted to our film compared the male gender. We decided this because being female and at a similar age ourselves we created a film that we thought would interest us. We also found that by being part of that audience we realised that most teenagers like in watching thriller films as they like the adrenaline rush that films from that type of genre give you.
We decided on basing our film on a sterotypical event, a male stalker who is stalking a femaile victim. Also, by looking at the targeted audience we decided on making the characters within our film to be of a similar age to them, as we thought that the audience would be able to put themsleves in the characters shoes and get more emotionally attracted into the film. As we decided that a female audience would be more attracted to our film we put our main focus into this, as we felt that the scenario of a female victim being stalked could be scary to a female audience as this is an event that could happen within every day life, some people may also be able to relate to the event because of personal experiences, and this may also create appeal.
We chose to include a lot of point of view shots as we felt that this could help the audience in the place of the character to help to see from the characters point of view. We also wanted our audience to the vulnerability of the female character who does not realise that she is being stalked, which could make the audience feel for her and could create a relationship between the audience and the female character.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Throughout creating our film opening my group and i have learnt a lot about the technology in which we have be lusing. The first piece of technology we got to use and expand our skills with was the camera, although we had already used a camera to film our preliminary task, we found that filming our Thriller film opening was proved to be very different as we had a lot more shots to focus on and we had to think about what we wanted them to create. We had to experiment in using the camera in different ways and sometimes even using the tripod to get a better shot. I felt as though we done quite well with the filming process, however we did have one problem due rewinding the tape to try and watch what we had just filming and thne losing some of the shots because we had filmed by filming over them, a lesson we learnt from and will remember for the future. We also developed our skills in Pinnacle Studios and everybody tought everybody how to use different parts of the programme and we had to use a lot of team work in doing so. Also throughout using Pinnacle Studios we realised who was best at what when it came to doing the editing, as some were better at uploading and others better at cutting the clips. We found that the editing of our film opening was not overly hard and the reason for this being that we had filmed each scene in order so that they ran from one into the next and we found that by doing so the editing did not take as long as we had expected it to do so.
The music that we had used for our film opening was non-diagetic and we had found it and downloaded it from a non copyrighted site, we listened to a lot of the music clips on the website and all decided on the final one that we thought would be best for our film opening as a group.

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

By looking back at our preliminary task i feel as though that we have all learnt new skills whcih we used within the filming and editing of our film openng and we have all progressed as individuals as well as a group. We learnt new and different camera angles which helped us to create a better final film and we found that by using traditional Thriller film conventions helped to create a better film, especially by using tilted angle shots helped to create mood and unease. We also learnt about different effects that we were able to use on Pinnacle Studios which we had not known about when editing our Preliminary task, we found that these helped to change and improve shots that we had filmed, an exmaple of this would be slowing down shots created more of an atmosphere to help to fit the genre of a Thriller film, as well did the zooming in and out of certain shots, all of this helped to create a better final film opening.
We also created on other skills which were not technology based, like creating our story line and making it more in depth. As we were only creating a film opening we also needed to create the rest of the storyline in which the film would have. We also had to think a lot about the audience and how the audience would react to our final piece which made us concentrate more on how our final piece would come out. Also by making our anamatic story board helped us a lot in the filming and creating of our final piece because it gave us ideas of what we wanted from our opening and what would work and what would not. Also by making an anamatic story board was a whole new skill to us because we had not made one before as we did not do one when doing our preliminary task.
Another thing that we had to do when creating our final film opening was thinking and trying to created everything in so much more detail and having to make it all as near to perfect as we could as we did not have to do this when making our preliminary task, but we found by doing all of this really did make a difference when we finally finished our final piece.