How did you attract/address your audience?

Here is a youtube video of our finished product with annotations referring to the source material we used and the inspiration we got.

Rating for Film Opening

On the SBBFC (Student Board of Film Classification), there are guidelines for rating a film, and even though we have not had it officially rated, we can get a very good idea of what it would be rated.

Our film would have been rated '15', for strong violence, frequent strong language, strong verbal references to sex, and drug taking.

In order for our film to remain a '15', it must not encourage or promote the drug taking, which would not be the case in our film, as references would be brief.  

Another reason the film would be rated '15' is because of the general dark tone of the film, and it's complexity, which younger people would not be able to understand and grasp.

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

This was our Timeline at the end of our project.

using Final cut i found it to be a very exciting and easy to use program with everything set out for the user.

Other online and computer programs we used were: youtube, flickr, blogger, final cut,photoshop and vimeo

Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

The main technique that we used from the continuity task was the match on action shot. We didn't have any direct dialogue so the 180 degree rule and the shot reverse shot wasn't needed.

Below is the match on action we used. The shot was me walk up to the door and opening it and showing it being opened from the other side.

Match on action is when someone does an action lasting through two chots and it looks smooth as it runs through both shots

This is the match on action shot we used in the original continuity task.

Overall i am glad we learnt the match on action shot as it gave us a wider range of activities our character could be taking part in.

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Christina and angelica's rough cut

Strengths:

• Establishing shots are well placed
• Good use of natural light to give an eerie feel
• Text effects are impressive, the way they jitter in gives the viewer the sense of a horror or maybe supernatural film
• Font used also gives of supernatural feel
• Placement of props (drills, blocks of wood) describe a gritty, workshop environment
• Doesn't give away too much of the story and not too little

Weaknesses:

• Music is good at the beginning but loses dramatic effect when the strings come in
• Shot after the title "something wicked" doesn't seem to have a lot going on or anything interested to catch the eye compared to the other shots

Recommended changes

• Replace shot after main title with new establishing shot or remove the shot
• Keep the music nice and simple without the need for strings or find a way to make the strings fit more with the overall loop (i'm not sure whether you guys made it with garageband or not)
• Maybe more shots of the protagonist entering the room (more foot shots?)

There doesn't seem to be anything missing, only tweaks are needed. Overally i thought this was a good opening.

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