Audience Feedback:

For our audience feedback we decided to use the format of an online survey, as it would a.) be far quicker and easier to collate a wider variety of information, and b.) as it was anonymous, people are more likely to be honest about their true thoughts and feelings. Here are our results: 

Overall, looking at our feedback, we have gathered that our film was on the majority, well received. The majority of the votes cast would put the film in the correct Genre, which shows the success of our opening, as we were able to establish the genre quite well instantly. 80% of the voters told us that they would continue watching this film, which was what one of our main objectives was, as the whole point of the opening of a film is to entice the audience to watch it, and this, on the whole is what we achieved. 50% of the voters said that they understood the opening of the movie, and 40% said that they would need to watch on to grasp more of what the plot was about, which i believe shows that our opening is successful, as we wanted the audience to instantly connect with the characters, but also wanted to create enigma, which is evident in the feedback. The ages of the feedback that we got varied greatly; from 17 to 49, showing that we have a very broad potential audience. The gender of the feedback was both male and female, quite evenly distributed, and so shows that, again we have a very wide potential audience. 

We also asked for the viewers to list what they thought was successful about the film, these included:

• the tension and suspense that built up, the use of sound
• The opening montage of people on their phones was really effective after the opening title, and the cliff hanger really made you want to carry on watching
• the editing (quick cuts) and overall build up of enigma.
• It was thought provoking and the music worked well with the clips and what was going on in the scene.
• How professional it looked

These were all very positive comments, and made us feel very proud of our work, as we portrayed our mood and tone across very well, and created enigma, making the audience watch on.

We also asked the audience for what they thought we could improve on, these included:

• The text at the start should be left on the screen longer so people can think about it.
• Maybe music with the words. However nothing wrong with the opening
• Nothing

These, again were quite positive, as they were only small things that we would be able to improve on, if any. I think that, by watching over the opening again, i agree with the comment that the text should have stayed on the screen for longer, as it did pass very quickly.

Overall, however, our audience feedback was very positive, and so i am pleased with the final result.

Evaluation:

I am the one at the back, to the left, with the purple shirt on.

Our Final Movie:

Our Film Pitch

We had to pitch our flm to the rest of our class and our teachers, and decided to film it. This is our pitch:



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Music and SFX

Diagetic: For our diagetic sound, we had to re-record a clip of natural sounds, but without the sound of any human activity in it. For this we decide to film on our school field during the half term, as there would be no-one there to interrupt our recording. We were very lucky and were able to capture both the sound of the wind, and faint birds singing in the background, making a very eerie sound clip. We also used the natural sounds of the engine of the car and slamming of the door; heavy breathing and walking to give a more realistic feel to it. 

Non-Diagetic: For our non-diagetic sound we wanted to create the moods we desired, and so looked for sound effects that mirrored this. For the first part we wanted to mirror the very fast-paced and energetic world that the social-media run world is, so we needed a very faced paced and energetic song. We were recommended the opening song from enter the void, which we also knew would be successful in capturing the audiences attention, as it had already been used. 




We also wanted a very subtle but eerie sound effect for the "static shots" we used to establish the empty fairground/world. Nicole, who was in charge of music for our opening, found a very successful track, which was exactly what we were looking for, and worked perfectly to set the scene. We also found a brilliant piece of music for the P.O.V shots of the protagonists running, as we all agreed that we need a piece of music that was very adrenaline pumping, but we also wanted it to build up into a crescendo, as to build up the tension, and that is what it did, so we were very happy with it. 

Editing Journal

Editing:
Day 1:
On this first day of editing, we sorted through our clips, renaming and categorising them, so that it would be much easier later on in the editing process. The first thing  that we did was to get a rough cut of the initial opening montage, which shows the people using their mobile phones. One idea we had was to have the clips stating off more slowly, but then picking up pace, getting more and more quick, until they were just flashing up on the screen. We tried this out and it looked very effective, as it built up tension, and so captured the audiences attention. 

Day 2:
We put all of the clips for the second half of the opening in their rough positioning, so that we had a rough framework to work with and around, making the process a lot easier. The first thing we concentrated on was the running scene at the end, as we wanted to make sure the panic and frantic feeling was portrayed clearly. We used  a P.O.V shot for this bit, as we believed that it made the audience really connect with the protagonist, and clearly showed his panic. In between some of these shots we also put in flashes of the dead bodies.

Day 3:
We focused on the middle section of the opening today, putting in the establishing shots and ensuring that a deserted setting was created. We decided that we needed to have more of a contrast between this static section, where the fair is deserted, and the frantic running when the lead comes in.  In order to do this we cut up the P.O.V shot and swapped them into different orders, making it far more choppy, and inserted in a number of different shots of the dead bodies and close ups, but very quick flashes. We also decided to cut out some of our shot listed establishing shots, as to make the remainder longer, and so creating more of a juxtaposition between the fast and slow paced shots. 

Day 4:
Today we focused greatly on the titles of the film, originally we planned to have the titles overlaid on the film, appearing in "typewriter" mimicking the way a text would appear when typing, but we decide that this looked very amateur  ad so decided instead to have them on a black screen. This not only looked miles better and far more professional  but also slowed down the pace of the establishing clips, again adding to the juxtaposition i mentioned before hand. We also decided to try putting in a few facts and figures about mobile. social networking usage at the beginning of our film, to further reinforce the theme of technology, which worked very well. 

Day 5:
We focused on the music and sound effects on this day. we decided to take inspiration from the various films that we had watched from our genres for the music and sfx that we used. We started off with complete silence, as to engage the audience with an almost shocking factor, as they are not used to silence. We then cut to a very fast paced loud song to shock the audience and to juxtapose with the other sounds however this song did not fit with the montage we had put together, starting slow then picking up pace, and so we ha to alter the clips so that they were all very fast paced. We also found some eerie quite subtle music to use alongside our diagetic sound of silence, wind and birds singing, all adding to the eeriness of the setting, and a track that created tension and created a high adrenaline mood for the running scene.


Day 6-Deadline day:
As this was the final day for production we only had a few minor details to do. we had to add in our company logo at the beginning, as to make it seem more professional. We also tested out using some colour correction, trying to add warmer hues for when the humans were all still alive, and colder ones for when it was deserted, but discovered that our clips did not need the colour correction, as they were already lit correctly, and if we went to change it any more it just looked too drastic. We also added in an aspect ratio to give it a more cinematic feel, and we wee done 

Shooting Journal

Test Shots:
We decided that in order to get a feel of how the camera worked, and to experiment with some of our ideas before we stared filming for our final product, we would try out some test shots.
These test shots included:

• How to portray our post apocalyptic setting:
• Times of the day and weather conditions
• How our actor(s) worked on camera
• Camera movements and shots/angles.
• How to protray our dead bodies

This process helped, as we decided that we needed to use only static shots when we were representing the deserted fairground.

We started filming at 10:00, as the fair opened at 12 o'clock we had to be done filming at 11:40, so that the fair could be prepared to open, and to ensure we did not get anyone, be it customers or workers, in shot. This gave us just over an hour and a half to do our test shots. 

Day 1:
On our first day of "proper" filming, we took a variety of still shots of different parts of the fair, these included:

• Close up of a Galloper horse.
• A shot of the coconuts with varying depths of field.
• Close ups of the swings on the chair-o-planes
• A panning shot of the fair (which we later decided not to use, as it gave the impression that there was movement, and thus living people in the fair)

Day 2:
This was a very productive day, as we got a lot of filming done. We started filming at 8:30 in the morning, and continued filming until 10:30, as the fair opened at 11:00.  Today we filmed:

• We did a few test shots of how the dead bodies should look, which went well, as we could work out how they should be positioned, how the blood should be on the bodies etc.
• We got a variety of different establishing shots. We also were able to capture a few practise shots with the actors, and tested how they should act/move/look etc.

Day 3:
This day was again, very productive.

• We filmed more establishing shots, to give us more variety to use in editing.
• We filmed the shots of the dead bodies in a variety of different locations on the fair.
• Close ups of the phones and blood coming out of the ears.

Day 3:
On this day the rest of the group were not able to make it to the fair to film, so

• The reshoot of the protagonist getting out of the car/driving, as the set up of the fair was different to how it was the first time we filmed him, and so would have to reshoot to keep up to continuity(weather conditions, lighting etc.)
• Tracking shots of the protagonist
• The variety of shots of the car.

Day 4:
We filmed the shots of before the apocalypse, when the people are on their phones. We filmed:

• several different shots of a teenage girl using her mobile
• several shots of a man in a shirt using his mobile
• and several shots of another man using his mobile phone.

This days filming went very successfully, as we got a variety of different shots that we could use for the representation of our technology aspect, and also the social representation, as we are representing a variety of different social classes here.

Overall our filming process was very successful as, not only did we get all the footage we needed on time, but it was also a  huge learning process that really helped me to understand more about the production of films, and how important pre-production work is.