Use of Music for film

Soft yet dynamic sounds were used in our soundtrack at that start of our film. This created a sense of emotion and intensity atmosphere.The music used also signifies to the audience the emotional state the protagonist is in. The sting sound effect used changes the scene to a flashback scene, we used this to keep our film flowing and not confuse the audience. The change of music used when the protagonist enters the graveyard scene creates a more urged tension. It changes the atmosphere from being warm and soft to a hard up beat tense mood. The change in the music is the first thing that reveals our twist to the audience, leaving them puzzled.

Evaluation Notes

·         Interviews

Our Products:

·         Abstract Short Film

·         Film Poster

·         Magazine Review

Camera Shots Notes:

·         Close up tracking shot

·         Flashbacks

·         Ambiguous

·         Long shot

·         Close up shot of her face- shows the emotion sadness (viewers show sympathy)

·         Manipulates the dream-like effect 

·         Depth of field - deep shallow focus

·         Intrigues us 

·         Connects the audience with our character

·         Transition

·         Extreme long shop

·         Ariel view

·         Mid-shot

·         Focus pull

·         Pan shot

                                 

Costumes:

·         Characters main costume is all black to represent her grieving

·         Her other costumes shown are basic everyday casual clothes.

Location:

·         Kensal Green grave yard

·         Embankment

·         Paddington station

·         Liverpool street

Dialogue and Soundtrack:

·         No dialogue was used

·         Soundtrack playing in the background

Characters:

·         A conventional heartbroken lady

·         Sysco acting normal- stereotype

·         Conveying emotions without the use of dialogue

·         Finding a character that can relate to our target audience

  

Magazine Review:

·         Inspiration from  ‘You kill me’

·         Colour schemes paranormal – Blue, white and red

·         Images are interpreted in more than one way

Poster:

·         Inspiration taken from existing posters

Audience Feedback:

·         Questionnaire

·         We gained feedback on what the audience expect to see in the film 

·         Helped us adapt the production to meet the audience's needs

·         We focused on keeping the brand identity similar within all three productions

·         Feedback before and after production

·         Interviews

Creating our film title

In order to create our title we used the programme 'Motion'. We chose a black background as it created a dark sinister effect. We decided to have the first letters of 'Guilty grieving' in a crimson red colour and the rest of the words in white. We also animated the first letters in a dripping effect which suited our colour choice perfectly as it represented blood dripping hence foreshadowing danger.

Poster Image and background

After taking our poster photo, we mended it in the background we chose to use. We used Photoshop to crop out the image and we pasted it on the background. The composition of the image was centred as it is the main subject.

Creating our final Poster

We used photoshop in order to complete our final poster. We put the names of the actors starring in the film at the top of our poster. We darkend our original background image and added the title in the middel of the poster. We used the same title used in our film.

Poster Inspiration

Our inspiration came from the poster of the hit movie 'Dream House' we used the layout for this poster as a foundation for ours. We used this by making the names of our actor & Actress at the top of the poster, while the image was in the middle large enough to cover up the whole page. also we used the idea of 'From the makers of' to effectively relate to our previous media texts.

Poster background

We chose this image from the internet as the background for our poster. It’s a landscape image of the Embankment. The image we chose linked to our film as we have filming footage from the iconic places shown in this image.

Rough poster test

We created a rough poster to check composition, the type of shot, weather to have the poster portrait or landscape. This gave us a basic vision of our final poster. We also played around with effects.

Process to create our evaluation

All in all  our evaluation, was a form of going through in detail of how we created the production to post production. We had to discuess every aspect of our production to give a overall judgement on pro's and con's and alsothe chages we could have altered, furthermore it was essential for us to achknowledge the needs of our target audience . Going into deep detail  in terms of what we discussed in our evaluation, we covered aspects from planning to camera shots, what our audience thought of our first draft, to covering our suitable location as well as much more to were we end at an overall discussion on how the use of technology helped us to produce all three products.
To conclude, our evaluation was a method of linking together all the projects we did to have a finalised presentation ; achknowledging the process of creating our final peice of media text.

Rough cut of Guilt Grieving

This is our first rough cut of our film and there are many things that not only need to be improved but need to be removed or added. Also, we didn’t take the sound into consideration as it will be dealt with in later stages. When I finished editing this film we conducted audience research from peers, my teacher and our target audience through feedback after viewing our film.

There were many things that we needed to change or add. The first thing was to re film the opening scene in the station as there was heavy movement and it wisent stable. Secondly, the walking out the station scene was too long and the continuity wasn’t appropriate in both taxi and bridge scene. I was also told to shorten the part where Duha walks to the London eye and slow down the part where we see a long shot of the London eye. There was also concern of the train seen as our team member Shalimar was in a shot and we didn’t seem to notice his appearance. We were told to crop him out. We also needed to add the transition of the knife and add a scene in the end where she walks away from the grave, looks back and the credits appear.

From this I conclude that there is allot of improvident to be made and I will take each constructive feedback into consideration.

Final credits