Sunday, 31 March 2013

Feedback on titles

 After editing our titles onto the final film, i showed it to a group of 10 people for feedback. 

The feedback was that the titles had a good font and were interesting with the different sizes. The different colors has a positive feedback as they stood out on the screen and the transitions made the titles stand out more. However the group did say they weren't on the screen long enough to read. To fix this problem i will just simply make them longer using after effects but keeping the fade out. 

How we used Garage Band

Poster Research Follow Up

Poster Research

Editing and Effects

Our films Barthes code

Barthes code research

Theme Research

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Conventions of a Thriller Film

Music: usually starts off slowly, then building to a crescendo to add tension and dramatic effect to the climax of the shot. The music will sometimes take to an oppositonal mood where for example there will be a happy tune playing while someone is getting murdered but this is something that happens in more edgy, independent films. Mystery: There will be an unanswered question or an 'enigma' all the way through the film, only to be answered at the end of the film. Pace: The will be quick during the action scenes but slower when the protagonist is figuring out what to do Mise - en - scene: Thriller films usually take place in cities, where lots of action takes place where there is lots of diversity and a very high population, this makes the place where the crime happens a normal place where the audience would live themselves so the can relate. Costume is casual to show that the main characters in the film are also just normal people and that the protagonist has been unwillingly thrown into the situation. Props are always used in Thriller films, they can be weapons used by the antogonist or clues of some sort given to the protagonist. Themes: Isolation, Vulnerability, Betrayal, Revenge, Love/Passion, Troubled Childhood, Jealousy, Obsession etc. Gender: Sereotypically, the antagonist is mainly played by a male and the progtanist is usually a mixture of male and female. Characters: The antagonist is usually intelligent and scheming and the protagonist usually encounters some help along to way usually a sidekick.

Transitions Questionnaire- Results


Transitions Questionnaire- Questions

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Robert Dougan- Research


Music Research

Music Questionnaire- Reults


Music Questionnaire- Questions

Poster Research

Editing Questionnaire Answers

Editing Questionnaire

Todorov's Equilibrium Theory in 'The Final Deal'

How I Made The Opening Titles

What Our Film Titles Will Be

Monday, 25 March 2013

Film Title Transitions Questionnaire Feedback

Film Titles quesionnaire

To find the best way to put our titles on The Final Deal, i've researched other films openings. From these films i've created a questionnaire to find feedback from people to help me create titles that the public find interesting.

These are my questions:
1) For an action opening sequence do you think the titles should be quick?

 2) Do you think they should have a simple bold font or a more interesting one?

 3) If they were small in the corner do you think you’d pay attention or should they be in the centre?

4) Do you think titles in the centre distract you from the film?

 5) Should the titles move or stay in one place?

 6) Do you think it will look better with the titles fading in and out of one spot or moving to different positions of the screen?

The Final Deal- Twitter Page

Propps's Theory


Film Titles Transitions Research

Todorov's Equilibrium Theory

Todorov's suggested that conventional narratives are structured in five stages:

A state of equilibrium at the outset.
A disruption of the equilibrium.
A recognition that there has been a disruption.
An attempt to repair the disruption.
A reinstatement of the equilibrium.

This type of narrative structure is familiar to us and can be used on many 'mainstream' film narratives.

Location

Twitter Research

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Facebook link for The Final Deal page

 
This is the link to our official Facebook page for our film. As our target audience is teenagers, we have created this page on a popular social networking site for teenagers in order for our advertisement to be in places teenagers use most:
 

Advertising


Thursday, 14 March 2013

Audience Feedback of Rough Cut




The Final Deal (Revamp)

We have decided to change our film plot because once we saw the rough cut we found that it didn't really make sense and it was too obvious as what was going to happen...
Ieva kidnaps Charly because she needs money for a visa. The kidnapper wants Charly to get rid of her. Ieva is a false hero because she doesn’t really care about her friends she’s in it for the money. The friends are at a party that night wandering where Charly is Ieva receives a phone call where she reassures the head kidnapper that the ‘deed is done they don’t suspect a thing’ the head kidnapper promises her a visa and an Immigration officer is coming over the next day . 
Head kidnapper – Georgina Griffiths
Immigration Officer – Divine Mckengo

The Pitch for The Final Deal


The Pitch

Film title: The Deal

Film Genre: Action

Group: Sitting Duck Productions.

Cast:

Ben Blunkett, Tommy Nutt, Daniel Jackson – Paolo and his posse.

Divine Mckengo – Sheniqua Clark

Samuel Pinner – Nicholas Menage

Demi Rainford – Charly Goulding

Francesca Knight – Ieva Liskus

Georgina Griffiths – Dead Body

Plot – 4 people who have been friends since junior and decide to buy a house together, however one (Charly) takes a dangerous path in life and they’re worried about her and her so called ‘friends’, then on one evening when a drug deal goes wrong and Charly gets kidnapped and her friends get a phone call and it’s up to them to get five million pound and save her, when they’re on the phone they ask to see her alive ... this is where friendships get tested. The friends decide to rob a bank in order to help pay to get their friend back, however not everything goes to plan, as they can’t get the money to pay to get their friend back. When they are about to give up they get a parcel at their house and it contains one of Charly’s fingers, and a note that says “if you do not pay up something bad will happen” the friends then stop sitting around and travel to Southend Pier where they have arranged to meet one of Paolo’s gang member (Dan), to try and reason with him, however while they are there they encounter even more trouble as, Nicholas gets spotted by the gang member which results in Ieva getting stabbed and the man runs off and Sheniqua carry Ieva back to the house they decide to take matters into their own hands and travel to then gang’s Head-Quarters, an abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of London, where there is a dead body. The friend then hatch a plan to rescue Charly, by sending Sheniqua undercover as promiscuous lady, and then seduces Paolo and stabs him, Charly is then found screaming in a room.

The End