Evaluation - What have you learned from audience feedback?

For our evaluation we did three questions as a group (this being one of them). We felt this was easier as throughout the production process we had made decisions as a group. We combined all of our ideas and created a final cut video for each question excluding the ancillary question. 

Evaluation - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

For our evaluation we did three questions as a group (this being one of them). We felt this was easier as throughout the production process we had made decisions as a group. We combined all of our ideas and created a final cut video for each question excluding the ancillary question. 

Evaluation- In what ways did you use, develop, and challenge forms and conventions of real media products

For our evaluation we did three questions as a group (this being one of them). We felt this was easier as throughout the production process we had made decisions as a group. We combined all of our ideas and created a final cut video for each question excluding the ancillary question. 

Evaluation - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Film

Here is the final film in its' entirety

Film Review Page

I made some changes after my focus group suggested that the page would look more authentic with three columns as opposed to two, I also added some more information to the footer and removed a picture based upon focus group feedback (that the page looked too cluttered and busy). The final improvement/change is that I added a website to the page.

Film Poster

Here is the final version of the Film poster

Film Review Page Draft 1

Film Poster Draft 1

Here is a possible version of the poster which we have created for the film, we will allow our focus group to choose the most effective poster and will then refine our ideas based upon thier criticism for the favored poster.

Teachers Comments

Teachers Comments;

I had a thought today about the jump cut in your film. Especially if there are lots of them. You could find a way to make the video glitch, even insert some wierd frames of something else on a regular basis, to make it more horrible and have more of a found footage feel.

Changes During Filming and Editing

Recently we have been working on our production, of which entails editing and filming the first part of our film. Some of the challenges that we faced were putting our initial ideas into practice and doing what the screenplay suggested to a level that we were happy with. Throughout the filming process we decided that some minor changes would need to be taken into effect such as multiple different shots all edited in to one scene such as when the protagonist gets a call on Skype as opposed to one shot with little movement. We decided that it would be more effective to have around three different angles ranging from a mid-shot, to a high angle shot in the corner of the room to a low angle shot of the protagonist. As a way to document these potential changes after the fact we will create a third screenplay which will follow the final product to the letter, the changes we have made will be evident in the comparison between the second and the third screenplay, a document will accompany the third which clearly lists the changes made.

Production Decision

During the editing process of our film it became clear that it would be necessary to include static to represent the fact that the video camera is turning on initially. We decided to do this by including a royalty free stock footage of static to place in front of the first section that is filmed off of the supposed antagonist’s video camera. It may be possible to incorporate this in other sections of the film such as having the camera stutter to give off more of an impression that the killer has taped over the original film, this both shows the antagonist as more of a villain and establishes the fact that this kill is not isolated. This reinstates what it is we would like the scrapbook to present to the audience.

We presented our focus group with two different pieces of video static and from this they decided that this static is the most effective and fits the film the best:

This static was also considered but rejected by the focus group as they felt it was less effective than the aforementioned video static.

REC Symbol for film

After having consulted out focus group to see which REC symbol would look best for the handheld camera scenes, the images abvove were chosen to be the best, as opposed to these two images below;

Short Film Theory

Total Film and Empire Magazine Review Pages

Here is a Prezi that looks in detail at two pages from Total Film and Empire magazine. the Prezi attempts to explain the codes and conventions in which we have looked at as well as informing to what is possible and would work well with our own film and its subsequent review.

Empire and Total Film Review Pages

Chosen Film Title From Second Title Ideas

After having consulted our focus group they decided that they preferred this title as opposed to the other as they felt it was darker and easier to read than the other, they also felt it carried an eerie feel.

Film Title Ideas 2

Here are the other film title ideas we had, we will consult our ficus group to see which one of these titles they prefer, in order to go alongside the other film title our focus group have chosen.

Chosen Title From First Title Ideas

After consulting our focus group, this was the title that was chosen. This title had the most positive reaction and recieved the majorioty vote from our focus group. However we have also created another selection of titles that we will present to our focus group to find another favourite to be used for our film. This will then narrow our title choices down to two titles favoured by our focus group, allowing them to then decide upon a favourite to be used primarily for our film.

Film Title Ideas

Here are a few ideas for the title of our film, we decided to call our film "DOCUMENTED" and these are the ideas that we had for the title on our film poster.