Group 4 AS Foundation Production: 2012

Include a link to audience research post- SurveyMonkey
Clips of responses from the screening
Use of young characters- core horror audience, creates empathy for characters
Use of motifs and ideas similar to romance films which have a similar core audience

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

G4: Final Cut

This is the opening of our film, Ditched, that will be shown on 29-03-12 to an audience who we will ask to fill in a questionnaire on the effectiveness of our opening.

CdL; Reflections on 26/03/12 and 27/03/12

RB and CdL stayed after school on 23/03/12 and exported the finished version of our opening
This week will be spent completing some individual and collaborative evaluations of the work, which we will post on here
Final changes to the opening included turning down the soundtrack at the point of the doorbell ringing and replacing this with an extended version of a reverse cymbal sound effect from Freesound.org which RB found and we considered particularly effective in building the tension.

FK: Audience Question Postproduction

We had to make a questionnaire to distribute during the screening on the 29/03/2012
We used a mixture of scaled, open and closed questions in order to get sufficent and useful feedback from our audience.
We are all asking some peers and staff to come along to view our film.
Here is an example of the questionnaire

Q1) Would you say the girl was an antagonist or protagonist?

a) Protagonist

b) Antagonist

c) Not sure

Q2) On the scale please circle your understanding of the narrative

4- Understand fully

3- Understand

2- Not sure what’s going on

1- No idea

Q3) Which of the following aspects of the title did you think were effective? (Please tick the appropriate box)

	Highly Effective	Effective	Neither	Ineffective	Highly Ineffective
Title
Font
Colour

Q4) Would you be interested in viewing the full feature film if it was available?

a) Yes

b) No

c) Maybe

Q5) On the scale please circle the effectiveness of the sound track

4) Goes very well with the film

3) Good, but could be improved slightly

2) Satisfactory

1) Does not work well at all

Q6) Do you think the flashbacks give enough information about the murders?

a) Yes

b) No

Q7) If no, what other information would you include?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Q8) Overall how successful would you say the editing was? Please tick one answer.

Brilliant	Good	Some problems but majority works well	Poor

Friday, March 23, 2012

FK: Reflections on 23/03/2012

FK came in during a free period, and made the titles fade into black
FK also turned down some of the sound (the door bell) in order to make it fit with the piece
During the class lesson we recieved feedback from Mrs Johnson who said we needed to change the contrast on some of our dining room scenes.
CdL and RB did this by creating a "my preset" option within edit and dragging this onto the clip.

CdL; Reflections on 22/03/12

All took turns editing together some more of the flashbacks to lengthen the opening
FK and RB added fade effects to the flashbacks which add to the disjointed sense of the piece, and also helps to make it a little longer
FK and RB also synced the soundtrack with different events on screen, however this is quite complicated as none of us are experienced with the music side of things, and is not yet finished
RB changed the titles so that they are now in our chosen font, Face Your Fears, from Dafont.com, and CdL and RB discussed adding motion or a motif to the actual title of the film which appears at the end of the sequence. We also considerd the sizing of the title, as havng it filling the screen seemed childish and out of place with the rest of the opening.
CdL and RB experimented with extending the radio static at the beginninmg of the sequence, as we didn't want the sound and title screento start at the same time. However we experienced some compliactions with the actual length of the sound, and so have had to copy parts of it to make sure it lasts for long enough. This can be changed after we receive feedback from teachers and technicians.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

CdL; Reflections on Fifth Shoot

On 20/03/12 we were advised to either include more flashback shots or CUs, or to film some additional footage to make our opening reach the required time stated in the brief, as currently it only reaches one and a half minutes
I took the camera and tripod home and filmed shots of JdL through the frosted glass of my front door, as this creates a sense of enigma when the audience sees a character who may well be the antagonist's next victim, but cannot see his features as they are blurred through the frosted glass.
These shots will only be used for maximum three seconds of the sequence, however when coupled with slowed down flashbacks, and the titles, as well as the fact we are opening with a black screen and the sound of a radio being tuned, it may be very effective in extending our sequence to meet the time specified in the brief
This shot will be included towards the end of the seqence and, with the non-diagetic sound of the doorbell, sourced from Freesound.org, will drive the action of the antagonist hiding the album and leaving the room.

RB; Reflections on 21/3/12

We chose our final sound effects and music to be used in our opening and put them into our opening. With sound effects like the mach strike and the door bell we had to be careful to insert the sound so it was in sync with the actions.
CdL filmed a final shot which we were advised to include by Mrs Fernandez.
We continued to edit our opening and look at what we could improve. We had been advised to change the montages of our flashbacks and to spread the shots out more throughout the opening.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

FK: Timetable of the planned hours for editing

	MONDAY 19^th	TUESDAY 20^th	WEDNESDAY 21^st	THURSDAY 22^nd	FRIDAY 23^rd
LUNCH	CdL, FK, RB	CdL, FK, RB	FK, RB	CdL, FK, RB	CdL, FK, RB
FREE	RBCdL		FK	FK, CdL, RB
AFTER SCHOOL		CdL RB	FK,RB	CdL, RB	RB CdL
ENRICHMENT			FK

Here is the timetable of the planned hours we are spending outside of lessons on editing.

(Black is unavailable)

Group 4 AS Foundation Production

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

CdL; Contents Page- Candidate Number 6409

RB; Contents - Candidate Number 7040

FK: Contents

Monday, April 23, 2012

FK's Evaluation, Q1,2,3 &6

Friday, April 20, 2012

G4; Questions 4, 5 and 7 Evaluation

RB; Questions 1, 2, 3 and 6 Evaluation

Thursday, April 19, 2012

CdL; Survey for evaluation of "Ditched" opening

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

CdL; Questions 1, 2, 3 and 6 Evaluation

Saturday, April 14, 2012

CdL; Question 5: How did you address/attract your audience?