Final Film

 

This is our final film, we have made alot of alterations and are finally happy with our final outcome.

Final Poster

After receiving audience feedback for our film posters, we decided that this would be our final poster. We felt that it had more relevance to the narrative of the film because the phone is one of the main reasons which causes the main character to judge Sam's character. We also felt that of the other posters we created, this one looked the most professional because of the effects which were used in its production. 

Teaser Trailer and Radio Advert

This is the trailer i made for our film, we found it was best to do individual ones as we both could come up with different idea's on what we want to present our trailer as. I wanted my trailer to be in black and white as this edit is in our actual film. Also due to the sections of our film, it allows more mysteriousness to what our film is about, this also sets up the girl in the hoody to be portayed as a "trouble maker" which is what we would want our audience to think to allow the ending to be a suprise.

This is the Radio Advert i made, i didn't want to give much of the story away and so the advert it short. I played our non-diagetic music as a background track in this as it gives a more upbeat sound than our mysterious trailer as that has no soundtrack to it. This sound gives our audience the impression that although our film is mysterious, it is not a dark film and emphasises the "drama" genre apose to a crime/thriller genre. Also the music is played in the actual project so the audience would recognise this sound, conventional to a radio advert, also included character lines from the film which was limitted as we didn't have many lines for our characters.

Final Evaluation

Media Evaluation Question 1 from NIKKIBURTON123

Media Evaluation Question 2 from NIKKIBURTON123

3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

We used audience’s feedback in our planning stage in order to reach our final treatment for our project. We made a questionnaire for our audience research; we tried to interview as many different people as possible to find out what appealed to them and what they didn’t like. We did this so we could include/take out some of this feedback and put it into or take out of our film. The feedback was useful due to our questionnaire being mostly qualitative, we set our questionnaire like this as qualitative is the most efficient and helpful way of getting feedback. It allowed us to gain detailed feedback instead of questions that only lead to ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers which doesn’t give us much to evaluate. This method of audience feedback helped with creating an effective film idea.

After the research into what our potential audience may like, we got them to view our two ideas and give us feedback to which we should use as our final project. We found that our audience liked that our ideas were 'interesting', had 'depth' and the plot was something they could 'associate with'. Also they said they liked the 'unexpectedness' of the outcome on idea 1. click here to view our final treatment

This feedback from our audience influenced us to merge both our ideas as it would suit a more mainstream audience. In doing this, we took into account the constructive feedback we were given, and came up with a storyline that appealed to a range of different people. This was useful in our planning as we knew what the audience wanted and what we had to do next was film. click here to view our audience feedback video!

Using these important words from the first feedback given, we made sure they applied to our final project as this showed these appealed and interested our potential audience. As for any film, audience feedback is important as films are made for audience’s pleasure- to watch, without them, there is little point in making one.

We knew the audience liked films that they could relate to/associate themselves with; we applied this to our film through the characters, the narrative and location of our project. Characters are believable and one character includes a common stereotype which people are always guilty of- thinking people in hoody’s are trouble makers-stereotyping people or prejudging them. People can associate with this as they are the ones judging or the ones being judged. Our narrative is also relatable as it is based around people “jumping to conclusions” about others before knowing facts, a common thing that most people are guilty of. Also, the crime in the project is something that could happen which makes it more relatable. The setting is also important as it wouldn’t be something they could relate to if it was in a different setting, such as in a castle or in the desert, we used a local setting and a real home to make it all believable and relatable.

I think that the unexpectedness involves the depth and the interest of the audience into the film, as the audience has to have an interest for the film in order to allow it to have depth. Also, the audience has to be interested in the plot to expect something from the film in order to be surprised at the end. We filmed and edited our project to lead the audience into thinking that the hooded girl

was a trouble maker. We did this until the ending, to then show that in fact she was the “hero” and returning the stolen phone from the unexpected girl who she had just bumped into. We think that this is a surprise to the audience and something that they didn’t expect and also that was interesting for them to watch as they learnt something had more in it that what they thought. click here for our trailer

Not only were these words important in the planning and editing of our film but they also influenced our advertising product, because the main aim for advertising is so to make your potential audience want to watch our film after seeing posters, trailers, adverts ect. We made character posters, teaser posters, official posters, two teaser trailers and a radio advert. We included questions, parts of our film to lead the audience into wanting to find out what it’s about and wanting to know more.

We used Facebook to gain audience feedback from our teaser posters, we asked which they liked the most in order to have their favourite as our main poster idea. This was successful as we were able to be creative in different ways and have the non-biased opinion of an online audience to tell us which they thought would be the best idea for our official poster.

This feedback gave us confidence that we were doing the right type of film and that we were making it exciting for the audience to watch.

We also used Facebook to reveal teaser trailers, this allowed our audience to make their own minds up to what they thought our film is about as we have not made any direct link to what our film is about or what it involves. We’ve added ‘text’ into our trailers to add mystery and hints to what happens but it is open to interpretation, however, once the film is revealed it shows to have a closed ending. Looking at our audience’s feedback they like the open to interpretation of what’s going to happen in the film as they like the ‘mystery’ of wanting to know what is going to happen next.

Once we had completed our final project, we conducted a final questionnaire in order to find out if we had used our previous audience feedback wisely and to see if our film was understandable and easy to follow, due to the last minute alterations of adding a narrator to our film.  We found that 100% of the audience understood the message we were trying to achieve as this was our main worry, this was crucial that we knew this so we knew that we didn't have to re-look at our film at try to change it. We also know due to the feedback given, that the majority liked the film and understood the message, through the question of asking why did they enjoy the film, not just if they did. This made the answer more evaluative as it is not a straight yes or no answer.

To view more of our questionnaire and the feedback given click here

Overall, the audience’s feedback was crucial in the planning, making and even after our project was finalised. We applied what the audience thought was good about a film into ours, in the planning, in hope that our audience would enjoy it. We took simple ideas from the feedback and used our creativity and imagination to both come up with a story inspired from the feedback. We also used their opinions into our adverts; we kept the mystery and unexpectedness to tease the audience so they want to find out more. I have learnt that our feedback is important because if you’re planning a film that your target audience aren’t going to enjoy, there is no point carrying it out. Feedback is important as you know what to and what not to include and also you can get ideas from other people’s opinions which we learnt to do in putting both idea’s together to create one. Even after our film was finished, we still felt it was important to ask the audience's opinion on if we had successfully achieved what we set out to do, after encouraging feedback we believe we had. Here is our final film:

 

YouTube was particularly useful as I found the TV advert for the guardian that gave me the idea of the twist in the narrative about jumping to conclusions, this allowed us to be creative and use what we had learnt and give us an idea on how to carry out our production of our project.

Click here to view our audience feedback video!

 

Once we understood the narrative of our film, I then looked into sound for our film to include in the production of it. This website was really useful as it had a variety of sounds/music/effects which allowed us to be more creative when making editing it together. However, this website had limited sounds and we were limited to what we could chose which restricted us being too creative with our film as we were only able to choose what was available.

This sound is used both in our project and in our trailes, it is used to introduce the title to the film and also to show tenseness in our trailers. Click here to listen to the sound

 This sound was used in our Radio trailer and in our film to show the journey of the girl. This brightened up the project as it clashed with the tense atmosphere brought by the previous sound. Click here to visit the website and listen to the sound!

                         Click here to view our filming diary!

Also, this captured all our mistakes when filming and were able to make a blooper through FinalCut Express, which allowed our mistakes to be something positive contributing to our film project and allowed us to use our imagination and creativity to present it how we would like. Click here to view our blooper video

Click here to view our evaluation video

Final photo Storyboard

Final script

Script of our added scene

*This is the script we have made to allow the message of "jumping to conclusions" to make more sense as we realised our film was too short to allow the audience to understand the message we were trying to get them to realise.

Photo Storyboard of additional scene

This is our additional scene, this allows the audience to show how the main character, Millie, is prejudice and this additional scene also introduces the other character's such as Sam and Millie's mum. This will be added to our original storyboard to have our complete film.

Costume and Location photos for our Additional scene

Street

We wanted to use the same locations that we use later on in the film so that the style of our film is consistent. This way the film makes sense all the way through and there is no break between the additional scene and the rest of our film. The lighting was also perfect, because of the nature of the scene (judging people and being suspicious of someone) we wanted the location to look dark and not too sunny. 


Millie's house and garden

Again, by using Millie's house at the beginning of the film, the additional scene seamlessly fits with the rest of the film because the location is the same.

Costumes

We decided to keep Sam's character in the same kind of outfit that we see her in the main part of the film later on. This way the audience knows straight away  that this is the character that Millie questioned the day before. The dark clothing naturally makes her seem suspicious, and is the stereotypical kind of costume that is used in films for gangsters and 'bad' characters, so this will make it easier for us to challenge the conventions of the genre. 

Millie's character is wearing a similar outfit to the one she wears in the main bulk of the film - a trendy outfit, yet something an average teenage girl might wear, nothing too extravagant.

Similar to Millie, her mum dressed fashionably yet comfortably. We chose a similar outfit to the one she wears in the rest of the film to keep a consistency with the character.

Research into closing credits

Closing Credits

This section provides information we got from the BBC website on what categories may be used in Closing Credits. We researched this as we did not know all the categories that are included in credits. We chose the appropriate categories that applied to us and added them to the ending of our film. For a closer look onto this website click here!

Filming Photos from Production Day 3

Here are some photos we took during filming on Day 3 of Production as we were setting up the kit and lining up the camera angles before shooting.