Evaluation

Questions to Whitney Thompson. (Age 16)

what do you like about it?
what do you dislike about it? 
Is it in line with the genre 'Thriller' if yes, how has it made clear? 
Was the story line clear?
Would you carry on watching the film and even go to the Cinema to watch it?
What needs improving? 
On a scale 0-10, where would you place it?
Leave personal/extra comments:


Response.
what do you like about it?

I like the music you have chosen

what do you dislike about it? 

Dislike the beginning of the two actors

Is it in line with the genre 'Thriller' if yes, how has it made clear? 

Hmmm in line with thrill sort of

was the story line clear yes to a point. I mean about a girl being kidnap

Would you carry on watching the film and even go to the Cinema to watch it?

Personal, no I wouldn't

What needs improving?
Hmmm get to the point quicker and make it would have been better if your saw her get taken and have more powerful reactions
On a scale 0-10, where would you place it?

I would place it as a 6

Leave personal/extra comments:

Additional comments I would say it was a nice idea but it wasn't straight to the point quick enough. The opening to the film is really good, the animation works well and the music is perfect timing for each scene. the only thing is the beginning scene is a little bit confusing.

Evaluation

Looking back at Voki:
This is Andrea age 15, she has similar interest and hobbies as my Voki, my Voki represents her so well as they both enjoy the same thing.

This is also Naheem, age 18, he has similar interest and hobbies as my Voki does, my Voki is a cartoon version of Vic.

Naheem and Andre match my Voki, because they are within the age range  in their spear time they enjoy going to the cinema and would prefer a thriller movie, to most other movie genre, simply because of the adrenaline rush they get from it that ,most other genre wouldn't be able to provide genre such as comedy.

Evaluation

LOOKING BACK at preliminary task.
The preliminary task was to film a two way conversation using the 180 degree rule.
doing that it has taught me about the different types of shots,angle shots. we focused more on the 180 degree rule which helped a lot when filming the opening because I had full understanding of what the 180 degree rule was and know not to break it and the impact  it could have on  a film. 
Editing my preliminary wasn't as much work as editing my opening film. but having  the experience,I was able to fall back on it  different rules.

Evaluation

Characters profile.

Aaliyah smith

Age- 17

Aaliyah is a 17 years old shes ordinary mainstream female. She’s in her second year of college. She prefers to keep herself to herself as she doesn't like to social with a lot of people. She’s a much closed person also very hard to read as she’s a complex character. Hero in thrillers are often portrayed to be an outsider, isolated, secretive but moral. all this attributes are what we wants this Aliyah character to be.

 

ref: -Maliya sheekh-

Evaluation task- Equipment

For our opening sequence, we used a Canon digital DSLR camera which belongs to my partner to film with regular lens, with a regular size tripod that belong to the media department and a dolly to film and Adobe premiere pro for the editing. I have had access to video cameras before the course and applied some of the skills I've gathered and to shoot the opening sequence. However I dint have enough understanding to the diffrent shot types but during the lesson, I gained full understanding and applied it to the Film opening; from the diffrent camera shot, mise-un-scene,sound and editing. Me and partner played around with diffrent camera shots, this way we identity what shot was best for which.
 Using the Canon DSLR was totally new to both of us, seeing that we've never used it before to film(the camera type), we had several difficulties, the attempt to get some scene out of focus to make it look interesting and .......... was a fail, we had previously done some scene and found out that we had to redo them because most of the scene that were meant to be in focus were out of focus due to our lack of understanding of the camera tools. Redoing it, we had help from our media teacher, who then taught us how to use the 'automatic focus',which we quickly applied and got on with film, apart from that, also the microphone from the camera picked up a lot of ruffling which was sorted with the editing machine (adobe premiere pro), the lighting was very poor so we had to improvise and used natural lighting by opening the windows and Turing on the lights and also making sure that were shooting at daylight this manage to improve the lighting not so much but it was better, every other things was okay plus the picture we got were very good quality.


We used the tripod to help hold the camera in other to get good still shots, we got variety shots from adjusting the tripod height and angle. we also used the dolly track to help us get a smooth tracking/zoom shot.This was used when we zoomed into the the computer, it was better this was rather than using the zoom in tool in the camera the quality wouldn't have been as good as it would be using the dolly. The devices was used with the tripod strapped to the dolly so the camera remains supported with the tripod, also for getting the diffrent angle shot and heights to help achieve the diffrent shots.
 we used(Adobe premiere pro)editing software on a dell computer to edit our work, I had little understanding of how to edit, however I wasn't entirely confident with software machine, not only did we seek help from teachers and assistance, we also messed about with it to try and get the feel, and learnt the diffrent tools before finally editing our opening. the software allows you to import movie files from the computer however they type of files it allows very, some files you'll need to covert before importing i, this was not the case for us, we were able to import staring from media file, it then has a software where you can drag your chosen clip and trim, cut change duration and add effects the same process applies to adding  sound.

Evaluation task 3

Paramount picture is an American film distributions company, founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor.
Why: Based on my research, Paramount are well known to distribute thriller films such as shutter Island, and The talented MR Riley, with the association to thriller and experience, it would be appropriated to chose them to distribute it, as they're well known for it and it will reach the target audience and also might have a chance of it making it to the cinema. Paramount is such a huge and successful distributor that's been around for many year and is known worldwide, so really there will be nothing to lose, seeing that they made all four Paranormal activities very successful with their distribution power. with a big name distributor labeled to out film, will eventually attract more a wider audience.