Wednesday 6 April 2011

explosion of uploads

now here is a long set of uploads to finish off our project in it's entire form. Example shot - editing previously i loaded up a shot on this blog which showed a clip that i myself directed and what i thought it was. now here is a shot that i have personally edited.

this is the shot in it's final edited form. the main thing that i had to work with here was the lighting editing, because this shot was film when it was particularly sunny and we aimed the film to be around twilight/night time. because of this i had to turn down the lighting effects like in many of the other shots, one of the main concerns was the shaft of light coming from the archway on the right hand side. this part required additional lighting effects, i feel that i did this very well and managed to turn it from sunlight into a sort of moonlight effect which works fairly well in my opinion. Test Screening: this test scrrening was for our rough version of the film before the final editing stage, with it we decided to provide refreshments for our audience. https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoczCgCcjdEfdE9IcXVRUFExVHIxZkk0WTVCMlpneUE&hl=en#gid=0 these questions are in order for how the results are set out on the spread sheet. age + gender: our audience for this test screening were mostly 16 - 17 year olds with the exception of our teacher who was also there (i won't divulge her age). this fitted in with our target audience type of between 15-25 year olds as the averages fitted in between it. the gender side however we had slightly more females than we did males, this isn't the best thing in the world as our primary target audience were males while our secondary were female. do you like watching films?: this section of the questionnaire was merly a formality, luckily 100% of the audience said they liked watchiing films. what is your favourite genre of films?: this section was to determin what type of films they already enjoyed. luckily for us around half of the audience were already fans of the thriller/horror genre which was a hybrid of the two genres we were aiming at, if that hasn't become apparent. what was your first impressions of our film?: approximatly 80% of the audience gave our film either a good or very good rating, none of our audience gave the film a bad rating. Would you go to see is film in the cinema?in the feedback it shows that over half of our audience would go to see the film int he cinima, this would leave just under half saying they wouldn't. at first this would seem like a bad thing, but it has to be taken into account that this is only a rough ersion of the final product. Is the plot clear so far? seeing as this is only the opening 2 minutes of the film it can be considered understandable why around a third of the audience didn't actually understand the plot. Do you think the setting was appropriate? around a quater of our audience thought that the setting we used wasn't sinister enough, in the planning and developing stage we thopugh we would rather go for a settign in which people ould be more familiar with than actually think was sinister. What did you think of the music used?all of our audience thought that the music in the film was of good effect, only one comment was made about the diegetic sound and that was the first thing we fixed. Does the editing make it flow? this area of the feedback we got the most information in which to change about it from. this section pointed out many areas which we had to tweak to amke wotk properly. What age group do you think this film is aimed at? this question was added in after we made all the other questions, it was mainly to see whether our audience thought that the film was aimed at them or not. luckily the auidence thought that it was aimed a slightly younger age. due to the fact that this is 2 minutes of the opening more adult themes would have been added later. final cut: this is the end result of all our hard worka nd the long hours put into it. hope you enjoy =D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WGboXo3XnY&feature=channel_video_title like all film projects we did an evaluation of it, to be different we decided to do it as a video interview style. evaluation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU5lt2IlN-A&feature=channel_video_title These links are to the video clips, this is because the uploaders are not working properly. i think technology is getting it's payback for what i said in the evaluation.