Final finished film

Evaluation task 7 - 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?

Since we made our preliminary task our skills and knowledge of editing and camerawork has vastly improved, to start with we used different editing software, therefore we gained knowledge in different software and editing techniques.

In our premilary task we were taught about the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and about match on action.  we used both shot reverse shot and match on action,  Nearly the whole of the title sequence was made up of shot reverse shot, as the camera cut form the driver to the teenagers walking along.

When we produced our premilary task we used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit it however in this task we were lucky enough to be able to use Final Cut Pro on a Mac computer, this software is a professional editing software used by top editors.  This held and hindered us, it helped as it gave us more effects to use and more choice as to the editing techniques, but it hindered us as we had to work out how to use it properly as i had had a small experience of this software but not good enough to be about to edit the film, so we had to teach ourselves as to how to use the software this took up some of our editing time.

The camera work was what we used to create most of the horror genre techniques like not showing the drivers face throughout the title sequence.  The location that we choose gave us a lot of freedom to get plenty of different shots and angles.

This is an example of how our group did match on action in our preliminary task and then in our horror film, you can clearly see the difference in the video quality as we used a standard definition camcorder for our premilary task but a HD one for our horror film.

Evaluation task 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

For our filming we used a SPEED HD-120Z High Definition Camcorder to record our footage on set. We use a tripod where possible to make sure it was a smooth and stable shot.











We used a Apple Mac to edit our software.  We used the software was Final Cut Pro X. This is because it was top of the range editing software and it gave us a broad range of editing techniques.

We used YouTube to publish our video as this was a good place to upload it and the quality of the uploaded footage was the best we could find.

Evaluation task 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

This is not the marked version as the marked version was deleted off of youtube by youtube as can be see the comment that my teacher left was of the 17th of February the video Ive just posted I posted on the 7th of March. (The annotations are as best as I could remember)

Evaluation task 4 - Who would be the audience for your media product?

We conducted a survey to find out the target audience for our film, from the answers we found out that:

We know our age range would be 16-24 so we gave our questionnaire's to a group of year 12's and 13's aged 16/17/18/19 so they fitted into our age range and from the results we concluded that our film would be aimed more at males.   we also asked if they enjoyed the 2 minuet extract, if they would watch the rest of the film, if the characters are represented well and what changes they would make to it.

Our answers told us that all of the people we asked enjoyed the extract and would watch the rest of the film if it was made,  they agreed that the only changes needed to be made were the title and a small wind interference problem that was sorted easily, they also all agreed that all the characters were represented well.


Demographics
Our films demographic is male young adults,  but our film is aimed at a broad audience so if women want to go to see it then they may well be able to relate to it as there would be some teenage boys and girls later on in the film, but our main aim is at middle and working class males as they are the most likely to be able to relate to the film. We also have not directed our film to any race or geological areas this allows us to keep our film open to all geographical areas.


Pyschographics
We chose the age range of 16-24 as this is stereotypically the most likely age group to go and see a horror film, also this age group is usually a very social age group so when they do go to the cinema they usually go in groups so therefore producing more revenue for the film they go to see as people might go that might not normally go as they are socialising with there friends.  This target audience might also be gripped by the music and editing as we used dramatic music and sounds to make the audience feel as if they are actually there in the action.  we said our film was based on rue events to make it easier for the audience to relate to what goes on in the film.

Evaluation task 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

This is our commentary of our film.

Evaluation task 2 - How does your media product represent particular social groups?

The character we chose to compare Jon to is Billy from Jeepers Creepers 2. 

 we chose to compare Jon to this character as they both find themselves in grave danger early on in there respective films, and both die early on. 

We also chose to compare them due to the fact that they are both of similar age and height, they are both also wearing a white shirt, this represents there innocents.