Evaluation

1.       My media presentation has several real movie traits, such as a production company (Showering Man productions) and several movie shots often seen in a real movie such as panning where your run along with the actor, this happened when we had Nathan running through the woods, as he passed the camera followed him and when he got to a certain distance we ran after him with the camera, when he stopped by the tree the camera caught up to him and circled him and a low angle so the camera was looking up at him as he looked up and around and said his line. Cuts two and from both the actors points of view, this happened when lee was about to give Nathan the kill shot we see a shot of Nathan looking at lee from lees point of view, and then we see a shot of lee about to shoot Nathan from Nathans point of view. but also we use there is a lot of things we use but the major films don’t, such as constant cutting and ability to make use of two different backdrops to look like the same area, this happened because the original woods which were a great location for filming where too far away for some of the more lazy people of our production team, so we had to find another set to film in on short notice but luckily for us there was another woods not far from where the school is located, it was only a small cluster of tree’s but it did its purpose, so we was able to get away with that, whereas a normal film would constantly use only one area for fear of it not looking professional if they did not, so we managed to pull that off whereas a major film company wouldn’t dare try. I feel the film will have a positive effect on the people watching and will draw them in making them want to find out just what will happen, it will also keep misleading them to make sure that they can’t tell what’s going to happen or when, so they won’t get bored, they will think, “what’s going to happen here, oh I know what’s going to happen here that’s going to WOA WHAT JUST HAPPENED THERE!!! It I can keep that up throughout a film if I were to make one then I would have no trouble holding a captive audience.

 

2.       Our group represents different social groups such as people who like action and mystery but don’t like to many big shot actors, and those who like to see something that could actually happen in their area by using middle class actors and backdrops witch actually make for a good film setting because they look like something that could happen in real life instead of a big expensive back drop with is difficult to find. We went with what we had and turned it into something great witch I think is a great accomplishment. This shows that a good film can be made with the simplest of backdrops because then it looks like something that could happen in real life, it’s very rare that you here on the news about there being a psychotic murder in The Black Woods, more often or not that sort of thing goes down in Stratham. If we can get this feeling over to the viewers that the things in the film, gory as they are, can actually happen in their community then we have a good chance of making one of the most bone chilling horror film ever seen. The film users child actors so there is a very limited range of what we can pull off on our own, the types of people in our film are killers, in both good and bad ways, they are obviously from a suburban group as seen by their clothes, accents and surroundings, so like a said this is something that can actually happen. That’s what frightens the public, when they realize this could happen near them at any point and they could wind up involved in a deathly sinister plot. If it can get around that this film is doing this then more people will what to go and see our film.

 

                            

3.       I think that pinewood studios would take a good look at our film and maybe look into it, I think this because they have not made a film for a while and perhaps if they find the plot good enough they will have a go and try to get back on their feet, and maybe if they were a bit dry for new ideas Warner brothers might take a crack at it, but as I said only if they were having a bit of a dry run because they often have some good ideas. I consider our film something that would be made if a major film producer was getting bit desperate, so it could be made in that situation and then actually turn into a major film with lots of good reviews. This is something that often happens with films, they see the plan officially and think, “well this won’t pull in that much views”, and then it turns into something spectacular, a cult classic at least

                                 

4.       We think the audience for us would be people who like action mysteries and things that make you think one thing happened when really another did, so the movie is unpredictable, we also provide things that our audience would respond to, action, violence, mystery, suspense, we know that these would go down well because our research shows that films with these tendencies have gotten good ratings. A popular television show which uses this premise is ‘Life on Mars’, often you are led to believe one thing when the truth was something far more complex and unexpected, this happened in most every episode and elements in these where building up to the final episode

5.       We attract and address our audience by dragging them into the plot by getting them interested in finding out why all this shooting is taking place and to find out who the mysterious man is who saved the man who just go shot, and who the hell the man wedged up the tree was, these are the things the audience will want to know and why they will keep on watching. It’s their curiosity that we are tapping into. One thing we did to gain interest was that we used P.O.V shots and we managed to get two of these in, one was an idea of Lee’s when he thought to use his perch up the tree to film Nathan running along, and when it’s the P.O.V of the man who shot Lee, this gives the audience a feeling that there in with the action.

6.       I learned from this project that there is a lot of different technologies that go towards making a film, such as camera tricks, computer editing, sound effects and dubbing over places where the audio is impaired, like having lee film from up a tree or using the stand to make some pretty smooth pan shots, all of these which we used to make our film contributed to it in some way which gave us something we are quite proud to put our name on. We overcame many issues such as trying to find a suitable tree for Lee to climb up and where to position the camera so it didn’t fall, and working around the rainfall. It took us a great deal of time to find a suitable place to film but found it up in the woods near the pit.

7.       From the preliminary task to the completed task I have learned lots of different film techniques, like having lee film from up a tree or using the stand to make some pretty smooth pan shots and I feel that these will help me out in future projects where I may learn more still. Techniques include panning, high angle, low angle and cutting.