AS FOUNDATION PRODUCTION, EVALUATION

My Evaluation of our Final Product

AS FOUNDATION PRODUCTION, EVALUATION

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Fonts for our Title and Credits

We tried out many different fonts and colours for our title and credits. We put all our ideas onto a piece of paper and got as many people as we could to vote on which font style they liked best.

As you can see people liked Papyrus and they said to us that it looked scary, but not 'horror' like. They also said that they thought it fitted well with the thriller genre and the title of our film.
Therefore we used it as the font for both our title of the film and for the credits.

We discussed many colours that could potentially fit with the font. We wanted something that would stand out and look mysterious. Therefore we looked at other colours of titles n other thriller films and they all had something in common, this was that they used two colours. Therefore we decided to use two colours to go along with the thriller idea of using two colours.

We tried Red and White, but we could not really see it as it was getting lost in background of our scenes.
Therefore we tried many more and we found that yellow and white worked well. We got our inspiration to do this from the film Layer Cake. It worked very well, and we were very pleased with it as it stood out without distracting you from what was going on in the scene.

Here is a screen grab of what our final font choice and colour look like in our opening sequence.

Planning and Research of our Soundtrack

We decided that we wanted music that created tension and anticipation. Also music that kept our audience on the edge of their seats.

We did not want music that was very loud and we did not want the music to overpower the scenes that were going on. Therefore we wanted a soundtrack that was mysterious and eerie.

We searched on many websites and we found it very hard to find music that was copyright free. We asked many people that had made their own music to see if their music would fit, but most of it did not fit the genre.

We came across a website called Freeplay Music and this was very good as it allowed us to play and use music without any problems.

We searched through the website many many times untill we finally found a peice of music that fitted our opening sequence perfectly, it is called 'Thrilla' which is just a very good coinsidence!

Here is the description that the peice of music gave us .... " Moving ""Tribal"" percussive piece that features an eerie ""bowed"" guitar and pan flute with modulations. Sections of war drums interrupt the groove for a heart stopping effect."

We especially liked the 'heart stopping effect' and the music fitted brilliantly with the timming of our film and it gave us the feeling of anticipation and tension, which is what we wanted.

Problems that we Encountered

These are the problems that we encountered and how we overcame them, They are refering to the rescheduling that we had to do on our shooting schedule.

Problem we Encountered;

• The day that we went to film at codicote bottom: our bus to take us there was very late and therefore when we eventually got there to film the light had faded dramatically. Also when we decided to film what we could, the camera died and it ran out of battery. Therefore our first filming slot did not go so well. We then decided to ask our actors when they were next free to help us film.

How we Overcame the Problem; RESCHEDULE 1

• We had to find new actors and actresses as our previous actors could not do any of the days that we could reschedule to. They could do a few weeks in advance but unfortunatly we could not wait this long as if we did, we would be very behind in our schedule for the project. Therefore we found different actors and actresses to help us film at the rescheduled place and time, (woods near our school, around 4 o'clock). We changed the time as we realised that we needed more time to film in the light.

Problem we Encountered;

• When we went to film at the woods near our school at the rearranged time, unfortunatly the camera broke and it aslo killed our tape aswell! that had most of our footage on that we had fillmed.

How we Overcame the Problem; RESCHEDULE 2

• Therefore we had to go and ask the technition to fix it for us. He found that our footage had gone. Therefore we had to again reschedule to another day. We asked if our actors could do another day. The girls said yes and our boy said he couldnt

PROBLEM Therefore we had to find another boy to play the man part. This was very hard, but in the end we found sam and he said he could do it and we were very pleased.

Dialogue for our Actors

We decided to do a script for our actors, we gave it to them a few days before we were scheduled to film so therefore they were prepared and knew what they were doing.
This was also a good idea as we knew what we exactly had to film. It also made the filming process a lot quicker, smoother and overall more organised.

· Girls Walking down path

Annie’s Friend: you’re so lucky to have George.
Annie: Ah well, I think I deserve him J
Annie’s friend: do you think so? (laughs), why do I never get the good ones!
Annie: I’m sure we could find you someone. I think I should have another party, as last weekend’s was SO good! Possibly next weekend?
Annie’s friend: Yeah sure, text me later, (looks at watch) Oh look at the time, I must go see you tomorrow!

(Annie’s friend walks off down a path, Annie carries on)

· Flash back scene

Annie: talks to Man

Does not matter what they say to each other as will be muted when edited.

Order of Shots

To make sure when filming, we had got all the shots we needed we did a tick list to take our with us when filming.

Order of shots;
1. Over the shoulder of Eiben of Robyn X2
2. CU of watch
3. Then Robyn leaves down path ESABLISHING SHOT
4. TRACKING SHOT of Eiben back walking away
5. OVER THE SHOULDER setting the scene
6. POV spinning the camera, Camera falls, WORMS EYE VEIW of path
7. Hooded man in the trees, behind Eiben walking of
8. Flashback, walking down the street
9. Flashback, Looking in the window of party scene
10. Flashback, POV looking into letterbox
11. Flashback, Looking at mans eyes in letterbox
12. ESTABLISHING SHOT of man following girl
13. CUT to BLACK SCREEN, Distant scream
14. Man folding over picture to just looking at Eiben
15. Falling leaves and twigs, with name thriller on one of the twigs

Shooting Schedule

See the Post 'Problems that we Encountered' for descriptions on why we had to reschedule.

Storyboard for Blind Corner

After we had done our storyboard we decided to watch a few more examples of opening sequence's. We soon discovered that our opening sequence was missing some vital conventions of a thriller and that it also was not going to be long enough. Therefore we decided that we should add some more scenes. We thought that a flashback scene would fit the opening sequence well, without changing all that we had already planned.

Add to Storyboard
Shot 8a: Camera moves into man, OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT of him looking at picture.
Shot 8b: Cuts to black and white flashback of Man walking down the street,
Shot 8c: Then stops at house looks at address of the house on a piece of paper.
Shot 8d: Walks up the the house down path. Stops at window and looks through window
Shot 8e: Then looks through letter box. Close up of mans eyes looking through letter box.
Shot 8f: end of flashback and folds picture over to look at Francesca.

The end product does not look exactly like the original plan and this is for many reasons, for example the watch scene just did not work when filming and we did not think it was needed. Therefore we cut it out of the original idea.
We also did not exactly do the spinning camera shot and this was because again it did not look very good, this was possibly because of the camera as it was technically built to do what we wanted it to. Therefore we changed it to the panning scene near the end.

We also did not add any timings or transitions into our original storyboard this was because we were not initially sure about what transitions we wanted. We did not write in any timings either as we did not know exactly how long each scene would be until we actually filmed it. We had rough ideas about transitions and timings and we made sure we were open to each others ideas about timings and transitions when editing and filming our opening sequence.

To go into the flashback scene we use a transition called 'ripple' this worked well as you did know that he was having a flashback. It looked professional.
For most of the other transitions we did a simple fade in shots and this was because we wanted it to be easy to watch, without many different transitions. These transitions made the film flow a little more.
At the end of the film we did a fade to a black screen, which we had originally planned to do. This was because we had watched many other thriller films and a fade to black worked very well as it made you jump! and was quite scary and got the audience more alert. We also thought this worked well with the end of our film as it created even more tension and mystery, as it made the audience wonder what was coming next.