The Final Cut

After a lot of hard work and tears we have finally finished our film opening. The only major change is the re-dubbing of Annas's voice so enjoy:

Audience Feedback

7 Evaluation Questions

1. In what ways does your product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real products?

Overall our film follows the traditional genre theme as we have a main character who loses his memory and another character who works for a secret organisation who is interogating him. To help with this and after a very long time we found an appropriate piece of thriller music that fits in with our scene. The locations we used also fits in as well as it is seen in a gloomy dark location which helps to set the mood as well as costumes etc.

1. How does your product represent particular social groups?

 Our individual product does not target or represent a specific social group and as such we tried to make so that it could suitable for all people (by this we mean 15+). We tried to make an opening that we felt that everyone would would enjoy however as we were making it we took into consideration our target audience who were our peers so that was an important factor.

1. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

 I believe that the media institution who would best distribute our film might be Vertigo because they distributed films such as The Pusher and The Escapist and our film seems like it could fit in with those kinds of film. However there were other choices such as Columbia pictures as they distributed  The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons.

1. How did you attract/address your audience?

 To attract and address your audience we made a series of questionnaires and surveys for the general public and students to fill in. We used the results of these surveys to base our film on thriller as it was seen as the most popular genre. we also compared our film to others such Indiana Jones and Seven and our target audience is 15+.

1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

 From constructing this product I have learnt to use technologies such as Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects. It was these two programs that we used the most and because I and the group as whole have a good knowledge of how to use the programs.

1. Lookin back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Lookin back at the preliminary task I know what it takes to make a good opening film. While having the footage alone is good and well you need a lot more if you want to rake in your target audience. Things such as special effects, sound, even keeping to a good production scheldule are important tasks that we should all follow. By being able to follow all of these tasks you can make a good piece of work that can be considered be good by your target audience.

1. Who would the audience be for your product?

I have decided that the audience for our product would people who are 15+, I believe this mainly because of the tone of our film. The film we have made is clearly not suitable for children because of the use blood and violent themes. I feel that making our film 15+ is a logical deduction as a lot of people around that age group will want to watch a film such as ours

Annas Is Not Here

Basically the video says it all:

Ignotus Opening 4th Cut

This is the fourth cut of our film opening. The changes we have made with this are that the film overall no longer feels like a trailer. There are few things that we need to change and final product will be uplaoded once we finish these small changes.

Ignotus Opening 3rd Draft

This is the third draft of our opening and the difference between this draft and the second one is the inclusion of an echo effect and updated voices:

Ignotus Opening 2nd Draft

This is the second draft of our opening, some issues we adressed was the credits of the opening, making them easire to read, we also changed the music, re-arraged the clips and and tried to voice over the sound.

Film Location Ideas

For our film opening we need three different locations:

An interrogation room

A random street for the main character to be waking up on

And a room for the artefact

The random street was the first and easiest location to acquire, as we simply used east Corydon and it was filmed on a clear Saturday morning.

The reason for it being in the morning was due to the difficulty of having to use the pavement as a set and so we needed to film early in order to secure there was little people around.  

The second location we used was the assembly hall in school to film the scene where the “artefact” was found.

We figured that if we were able to acquire some flashlights and have access to the assembly hall we could turn off the lights and film the scene in there.

The only problem with using this location is that we had to make sure it was not being used by other people due to the fact that we needed the entire space and we needed to have the lights turned off.

Fortunately due to the fact that we were filming during our media lesson the hall was unoccupied so there was no problem.

The final location which would be the interrogation room was difficult to think of where to use, at first we had the idea of using one of the school rooms that had a glass wall in order to look inside, however this proved to be a problem due to the school hours that we had and our ability to make it seem realistic, so in the end we decided to use sachins bedroom one Sunday afternoon and the result turned out to be a success.

Production scheduling

Production scheduling:

We met every Monday, Thursday and Friday for an hour and a half during our media lessons.

That will total to at least four and a half hours of planning, filming and editing.

We also organised to have skype meeting for one hour every Friday evening adding the time to five and a half hours a week, and also we would have production meetings every Thursday during our study period for fifty minutes.

In total that meant that we was working on our coursework for six hours and twenty minutes every week.

Film Treatment

Treatment

Film Opening Treatment

The film will show how a group of archeologists find an artifact that they have been researching for decades and have gone to look for it after tracking down the location and attempting to take it and study it further. The protagonist is part of the group of archeologists and he is with them as they discover the exact whereabouts of the artifact. The protagonist reaches out to take it but then wakes up tied to a chair with blood stains on his clothes and a bright light on his face. He is being interrogated by another man but he can’t see his face, only his shoes. He is also being forced to look at pictures of the artifact and being made to remember the events leading up to the discovery of the artifact. The majority of the film will be shown through the flashbacks the protagonist has in order to retrace his steps and find out the mysterious power the artifact holds.

Film Preliminary Task

Notes:

 Italic writing is voices

• * indicates sound
• inside brackets indicates text on screen (smoke effect) (clearer text)

Script:

Scene 1:

(Outside from persons view, unfocused)

*Heavy Breathing

Protagonist looks down at hand: noticing symbols on it before falling unconscious.

• Fades to black

*Theme music starts

1^st set of credits:

(Director : sachin Ishmael)

• Voice emitting throughout darkness: “Wake up, tell me now!”

• Protagonist opens eyes and those closes again – falling in and out of reality.

2^nd set of credits:

*Heavy breathing starts up again

(Produced by)

“Im sorry, I don’t know what you want”

(Nathan Larkin)

“Just try and remember!”

  Scene 2:

• Dark room comes into focus.
• Protagonist registers images of artefact

Antagonist: “Where did you find the artefact?”

• Protagonist once again looks at symbol covered hand
• Antagonist slams hand down on table

Antagonist: “Tell me! Now!”

Protagonist: I cant remember everything, everything is a blur”

Antagonist: “TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!”

3^rd set of credits:

(sound editor)

(Robert Kerr)

Protagonist: “the last thing I remember was”

• Screen changes to artefact and protagonist reaching out for it.

4^th set of credits:

(Starring)

*heavy breathing starts again

(Robert Kerr)

Antagonist: “Damn it! Just tell me!”

(Annas Elfarsi)

Scene 3:

• Looking from antagonists eyes onto sub-unconscious protagonist

 Protagonist: “Look please, I really don’t know what you want”

• Antagonist slaps protagonist

Antagonist: “Just try and remember!”

*heavy breathing as theme music starts to fade

5^th set of credits:

(Ignotus)

(Ignotus)

Movie Survey

Monday, 28 March 2011

Survey results

1) What is your favorite genre of film:
Horror : 2
Comedy: 3
Thriller: 3
Action: 2

2) Would you like the theme tune to play during the opening credits?
100% : Yes
0%: No

3) Would you like the opening credits to play first and then the movie start or have the movie playing whilst the opening credits are popping up?

Credits First		40.0%	4
Movie and credits together		60.0%	6

Credits first : 4
Movie and credits together : 6

4) Would you prefer the credits to follow the shape and colour scheme of the movie?
Yes: 8
No: 2

5)  Do you like when the opening shot is an Aerial shot of the city/town/setting?
Yes: 6
No:4

6) Would you prefer the introduction to the movie to keep you guessing?
Yes: 8
No: 2


7) Would you prefer diegetic or non-diegetic sounds for the opening scene?
Diegetic: 1
Non-diegetic: 4
Both: 5


8) Do you like long opening scenes or when events progress quickly?
LonG opening scenes: 4
Progressing quickly: 6


9) Do you like it when text pops up to show the name of the place and time of day?
Yes: 9
No: 1

10) do you prefer the credits to simply pop up ir perform some sort of animation as it appears on the screen?
Simply appear: 1
Animated credits: 9

Survery

.        What is your favourite genre?

..................................................

2.        Would you like the theme tune to play in the opening credits?

Yes          No

3.        Would you like the opening credits to play first and then the movie start or have the movie playing whilst the opening credits are popping up?

Credits first          

Movie and credits together

4.        Do you prefer the credits follow the colour scheme and shape of the movie?

Yes          No

5.        Do you like when the opening shot is an Aerial shot of the city/town/setting?

Yes          No

6.        Would you prefer the introduction to the movie keeps you guessing?

Yes          No

7.        Do you preferdiegetic or non-diegetic sounds for the opening scene?

Non-diegetic

Diegetic

Both

8.        Do you like long opening scenes or when events progress quickly?

Long opening scenes

Progressing quickly

9.        Do you like it when text pops up to show the name of the place and time of day?

Yes          No

10.     Do you prefer the credits to simply pop up or perform some sort on animation as it appears on the screen?

Simply appear

RANSProduction Opening Sequence

Media AS RANSProduction Opening Scene

This is the unedited version of our opening scene. At the moment it seems more like a trailer than an actual opening scene and we working on that as a group.

The name of our film is called Ignotus which is Latin for mystery. We as group chose latin because we felt that it had a mysterious feeling to it and it fitted to the purpose of our film.

 

Ignotus Mood Board Version 2

This is the second and complete version of our mood board:

Film Mood Board

These are some of the various ideas we had for our artifact:







We talked about how we thought the artifact might look, whether or not it would any strange symbols etc.

Idea's for Costume

                                



Idea's for Location





     

• We were also considering whether or not to use a white room for one of our scenes

1st Production Meetings

These videos are of our very first production meetings that we had for our opening

and contains the ideas of our original film opening.

After watching the videos you will notice that a lot of things that are mentioned are not in our first draft.



Production Meetings V2: Editing

This is the final production meeting and is based on editing:

Production Meetings V2: Locations

This is the production meeting for location:

Production Meetings V2: Actors

This is the production meeting for actors:

Production Meetings V2: Costume

This is the production meeting for costumes:

Production Meetings V2: Credits

This is the second version of our production meetings concerning the credits:

Production Meetings V2: Sound

This is version two of our production meetings which is on sound and is based on our new film treatment:

Preliminary Task

Analysing existing products and market research

We are going to create an adventure mystery thriller hybrid. The film will get the audience asking questions such as ‘where did the artifact come from?’, ‘what does the artifact do?’, ‘what kind of people are after the artifact?’ and so on. Films such as Indiana Jones, National Treasure and Angels and Demons. These films are what we are trying to model our film around however more mystery than action adventure.

The majority of the film would be watched by the audience through a series of flashbacks. The flashbacks will be triggered by the protagonist being interrogated and forced to remember his events starting from how he came into contact with the artifact. A good example of this method in use is from the film Slum dog Millionaire. The audience sees the protagonists past and come to realize how he won the TV game show. Likewise, the audience will see flashbacks that will answer questions relating to the storyline and the final outcome.

We would like our credits animated in some way that relates to the spooky and mysterious effect we are trying to achieve. Examples of this are charmed and Supernatural. They both have smoke mixed in with their text used for the opening credits.

Indiana Jones :

We have chosen to model the idea of involving artifacts from this film because in our film we use one as the main source of attention.

Silence Of The Lambs:

We have chosen to model the idea of having an interrogation scene. The cannibal in Silence Of The Lambs is questioned in the film to reveal answers and help progress through the storyline.

Se7en:

We have chosen to model the idea of using symbols and other text flashing up during our opening credits.

Codes and Conventions

We will conform to things such as:

·         Smoke effects relating to mystery

·         Clues and Evidence

·         Touch voice for interrogator

·         Flashbacks

·         Victim/Protagonist feels weak

·         Dark rooms for interrogation

·         Blood on protagonists shirt

·         Pictures of object of attention around the protagonist

·         Not being able to see the interrogator’s face

·         Bright light on protagonist’s face

·         People fighting for possession of object of attention

We are not subverting from anything as such because we think it works well without having to subvert to anything. Although not subverting, the genre of mystery thriller it is still a popular genre and the stereotypical things are what make it really good in the first place.