EVALUATION FEEDBACK ON WORK SO FAR

KEELEY: good so far but lots still to do, don't forget to use the AS 2010 homepage for inspiration and to incorporate images. Also, the font size is too small and you should highlight key words to help your examiner. ZOE: Q1: Your examiner may not know Wix- make it clear that there's a page to turn with an arrow and Turn the page tab. Remember to use the AS 2010 homepage for inspiration and to give you direction e.g. Use Develop Challenge should have a section each and you should explain your choices fully Q2: Good- Don't forget terminology - stereotypes, preferred readings etc Q3:V Good, it isn't completely clear that the page continues below the home screen and your excellent work could be missed, perhaps an arrow or a Read Me sign? Q4 is Who would be the audience for your media product? Don't reword it. From there onwards, progressing very well with clear understanding and an interesting array of multimedia techniques OLIVIA: q1 & 2 excellent detail and understanding q3: distribute spelled wrongly in title and make it clear that page continues downwards- great info could be missed q4- would is spelled wrongly and needs more detail and images q5: excellent, again, make it clear that the icons are links, great work q6: great video- it was the lack of memory on the pcs that was the problem, not the programme, it's still premier pro on the macs but don't change it as the rest of your answer is detailed and relevant q7: there's more to say- music etc LIZZIE: Good homepage but the tabs are tricky to activate make the box larger or point out that the link is just below the shape- an impatient examiner won't take the time Q1 - good work but add a click me tab so that the examiner can find the information Also there's an extra page between develop and challenge so it could be missed Q2: Again, point out that the booklet needs to be clicked on the corner Q3: focus on British film distributors for a British film Q4: You need to specify the certification Q5: you've mispelled audience in the title Q6: Well done for adding the turn page instruction but it can't be seen against the red and white background, place it over the white section if poss Q7 - preliminary tash? but good detail. Well done.

Keeley Stamp Evaluation 7702

http://keeleystamp.wix.com/alphabetzevaluation


Name: Keeley Stamp
Candidate Number: 7702

Zoe Essam Evaluation 7568

http://zoeessa7.wix.com/zoeessamevaluation

Name: Zoe Essam
Candidate Number: 7568

Olivia Thomson Evaluation 7714

http://oliviathomson7.wix.com/as-media-evaluation

Elizabeth Piggott evalution 7666

http://epiggott.wix.com/alphabetz

Elizabeth Piggott Wix Evaluation
Candidate number: 7666

Opening Sequence Final Cut - Losing Gracey

This is our opening sequence final cut. - Losing Gracey

Introduction and Reflection Video

This is the introduction and reflection video for our media product - Losing Gracey.

Research into Twitter and Alphabetz Productions' Twitter Account

This is my Prezi presentation including; research into Twitter, film company Twitter page conventions and Alphabetz Productions Twitter page

This is the link to the Alphabetz Productions Twitter page which will help with marketing and distribution of our product and film company.
https://twitter.com/AlphabetzProd

Website for Losing Gracey - Alphabetz Productions

http://alphabetz.wix.com/filmwebsite

This is a website created for Losing Gracey, explaining and showing what up and coming, and what is soon to be released to the auidence. Click the link to follow to the website.

Filming Photographs

In this photographic gallery is a collection of photographs taken during the filming in varied locations during the filming for Losing Gracey.
Essex: church graveyard, field
London: Thames embankment, alleyway near Covent Garden, London Eye

Photographs act as evidence towards our group as a whole's contributions towards the film and helps to display the varied locations we have used.

Barthes theory prezi

This prezi shows Barthes theories and how they are translated into our opening sequence.

DVD Cover

This is the final deisgn for the DVD cover for our film 'Losing Gracey'.

Empire magazine research

This prezi shows empire magazine and the different conventions used.

Audience Feedback for DVD Covers

DVD Cover feedback

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Research into DVD covers

DVD Cover Research

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Losing Gracey - Rough Cut

This is our rough cut of the final production of Losing Gracey. It documents our progress towards the end product and we can take into consideration all comments and feedback from the audience reviews to help us improve.

Research Into Posters

Research Into Posters

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This is my research into posters and the conventions needed.

Audience Feedback From The Transition Survey

This is the feedback I gained form my survey on transitions. It helped when editing our opening sequence as we developed an idea of what people expect from a thriller film and what fits the genre better such as fades and dissolves as the transition shown. Although, with the five people I asked, the feedback for when the transition should start was a bit mixed and hard to see the initial decision for what fits a thriller best. To sort this out I could produce more surveys with a larger pool of candidates and add more specific questions, using the current survey as a pilot survey. A majority of people said that they don't notice transitions made when watching a thriller and think that they should be subtle to enhance the vibe of the film. I also found that all five people said that they think the transitions should be similar to each other.

Alphabetz Productions Facebook Page Analysis and Content

This is my prezi presentation exploring the content of the Alphabetz Productions Facebook page which I have previously researched and taken inspiration from other various film companies.

Research Into Advertisement Through Social Networking: Facebook

Here is my powerpoint presentation including research into advertising through social networking on Facebook. This will help me to create a realistic and professional looking page of our own that fits in with typical concepts of a film company fan page.

Research into Film Certifications

Levi-Strauss Theory

Film Poster for Losing Gracey

This is my final draft of a film advertisement poster for Losing Gracey.
I have taken inspiration from the other thriller posters in my film poster research post and have used a close up of the protagonist's face as the main feature of the poster in order to introduce the character. The lighting on the close up is very high key which contrasts to the black background, something that was inspired by the film poster for Black Swan.
I have added the tagline 'Am I losing my mind? Am I Losing Gracey?' that is actually a line from the voiceover in the opening sequence. By adding it to the poster it creates an enigmatic code yet also introduces the name of the film. I made sure to distinguish that 'Losing Gracey' is actually the name of the film by making it the largest piece of text on the poster and slightly darkening the colour to make it bolder.

To fit in with the colour scheme I used a selection of netural and negative colours and used a colour selector tool on photoshop to make the text the same colour as some of the colours I wanted to highlight within the picture.

Propp's Theory

Shot List

Shot List:

1. Extreme long shot - Gracey in a field
2. Close up - Gracey
3. Two person long shot - Gracey and the nurse struggling
4. Low angle long shot - Church and graveyard
5. Mid shot - Gracey in the graveyard
6. Close up - Posters in Gracey's room
7. Extreme close up - Big Ben
8. Extreme close up - Drain with blood on it
9. Mid shot - Gracey sitting alone in her room
10. Close up shot - Nurses shadow
11. Mid shot - London eye turning
12. Mid shot - Gracey running in London
13. Close up - Sink full of blood
14. Low angle mid shot - Gracey standing on the edge of the river
15. Extreme close up - Hand pint in blood
16. Low angle pan - Trees
17. Low angle close up - Graves
18. Low angle close up -Gracey
19. Low angle long shot - Big Ben
20. High angle close up - Gracey holding a key
21. High angle, two person shot - Gracey and Lucy in the hospital
22. Zoom from close up to extreme close up - Big Ben
23. Two person extreme long shot - Gracey and nurse standing still
24. Extreme close up, panning - Hospital posters
25. Dolly zoom - Hand covered in blood
26. Birds eye view - Gracey on some dark stairs
27. Establishing shot - London
28. High angle, two person, mid shot - Gracey and nurse in the hospital
29. Panning mid shot - Graveyard
30. Mid shot - Gracey sitting by the river
31. Extreme long shot - Empty field

 

How to use GarageBand

This is a short prezzi showing how to use GarageBand, and what the key things you need to edit your music.

Research Into Typical Content Of A Thriller Film Poster

In this Powerpoint presentation I have researched the typical content found in thriller film posters. This will enable me to create a poster fitting to the genre we have chosen and help me to include all of the relevant information expected to be found.

Film Composer Research

Transitions Survey

Transitions Survey

When watching a Thriller genre film, what transitions are most likely to appear?

Fade into the next clip     Fade into white/black        Swipe        3D box effect      Iris Effect  

What transitions best suit a thriller?

Do you think there should be a variety of transitions or ones similar to each other?

Do you think a transition such as a ‘dissolve’ should start when the clip starts, start half way through or start at the end?

What transitions would you use if you were creating a ‘Thriller’ genre opening sequence?

When watching a film, do you pay attention to the transitions? Are they noticeable?

Out of subtle transitions or bold transitions, what is better? Also, what is better for a thriller? 

This is the survey I created to ask five different people about the transitions of films.

Todorov's Theory

This is my research into Todorov's Theory and how it compares to our storyline.

Editing, decisions and transitions

This is how and what we used when editing and adding transitions.

Re-Touched Poster

After creating my first version of the promotional 'Losing Gracey' poster, I realised it did not meet all the conventions needed of a professional film poster. Therefore, I re-touched the original poster and added the conventions needed such as, the tag line, 'Is your mind reality or imagination?', the production logo and the age rating image. This is now more of a professional film poster and meets all the conventions needed.

Logo Research

Thriller Film Fonts Questionnaire Feedback

As part of the research into thriller film fonts, I decided to carry out some primary research in the form of a questionnaire to help gain an idea of what kind of colours, fonts and time lengths (on screen) of titles people would be expecting from a film of this genre.

I gave the questionnaire to a small group of people age 16+ as this is our targeted audience age range.

I found that although some answers varied, there was a majority answer in questions such as 'what colour font would you expect?'. The only colours that were given as answers were red, black, silver and grey. This may influence our colouring decision for fonts within our film as it is what people believe to be a conventional thriller film font colour.

Another popular response was that titles should remain visible on the screen for around 3-5 seconds and that rather than being shown over a block colour, background OR over clips of the film, there should be a mix of both to create variety within the opening sequence.

We will take other answers and suggestions into consideration when creating the titles for our film as the aim of the film is to try and please the audience which is why asking them beforehand what they would like is very beneficial to the production of our opening sequence.

Thriller Film Fonts Questionnaire

Thriller Film Fonts

Primary Research

What kind of fonts would you expect to see in a thriller film’s opening sequence?

Out of these selected fonts, which do you think would be most suitable to use in our thriller film, Losing Gracey?

1. Losing Gracey

2. Losing Gracey

3. Losing Gracey

4. Losing Gracey

5. Losing Gracey

Which colour font would you expect to see?

Should the titles be on a separate screen (i.e a cut to a block colour background), be written over clips of the film or a mix of both?

How long do you think a title should be visible on the screen for?

Do you have any suggestions for the titles in the film? 

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As a way of increasing audience satisfaction and general authenticity for our film, I feel that it would be suitable to use this questionnaire to gain an idea of the kind of things people would expect from the titles in our opening sequence. I will ask a variation of people, all aged 16+ as this is our target audience and use it as guidance for our production.

Opening sequence Music results from class survey

Opening sequence Music results from class survey

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This powerpoint shows the class survey results for our opening sequence music.

Opening music questionnaire

Questionnaire –music
For Losing Gracey

Question:	Yes	No
Does the music fit our opening sequence?
Do you understand what the music is trying to portray?
Does the music allow you to understand how the character feels?
Do you think the music adds confusion to the opening sequence?
Does the music add suspense to the opening sequence?
Is this something you have ever heard before in a similar film?
Do you think that this music is for a thriller film?
Do you think the music is loud enough?
Do you think we should change the music?
Do you like our music for our opening sequence?
Comments:

This is the questionnaire that will give us feedback in order to improve our music.

Music for opening sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaZu31urbFQ

Follow the link for the opening sequence music.

Research into Title Fonts and Movement

This prezi presentation contains research into title fonts and movements from films in the thriller genre.
By researching this from films of the same genre I can take inspiration and create a more effective title sequence for our production.

After Effects

This is my Prezi on After Effects and how we used it.

Meanings Behind The Character Names Used

Meanings Behind The Names Used

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Research into Thriller/Horror Film Composers

In this Prezi presentation I have researched two composers that are relevant to our genre of film. (thriller/horror) and the importance of music within a film. By doing this I hope to take inspiration for the soundtrack of our film production and help to create an effective and suitable piece of music for the opening sequence.

Shooting Schedule

Alphabetz Productions Shooting Schedule:

Thursday 15^th November 2012

10:00am: All meet at St Mary’s church in Runwell to film establishing shots of the graveyard and shots of Gracey in the graveyard.

11:00am: Walk to Runwell Park to film Gracey in the empty field alone and then with nurse.

12:30pm: Get train to London

1:30pm: Filming the shots of the London Eye, Big Ben and Gracey running through the streets of London with doctor and without at Waterloo and Trafalgar Square.

4:00pm: Come home.

Monday 19^th November 2012

11:00am: All meet in Beauchamps High School’s West Hall and film shots on the hidden stage stairs.

12:00pm: Use the black stage screens for the background when filming the shadow shots.

1:00pm: Finished filming for the day

Tuesday 20^th November 2012

3:00pm: All meet at Beauchamps High School’s first aid room to set up the room so it looks like a mental hospital room.

3:30pm: Filming Gracey’s scenes in the hospital room alone, with Jane her imaginary friend and with the nurse.

5:00pm: Return room to original state and go home.

Poster Promotion for Losing Gracey

This is our poster promotion for our film 'Losing Gracey'.

Magazine front cover for Losing Gracey

 

Empire magazine front cover for our opening sequence - Losing Gracey

Music Composers for the Thriller Theme

The Pitch

The Pitch

A young woman, Gracey, suffers from mental health issues, this results in her mental state shown in the film. The idea of the film is to portray and present the struggles she faces as she tries to fight against her own mind.

Throughout the film, we see her self conscience in the form of another character named Lucy who has been conjured by Gracey's imagination. The character manipulates Gracey and Gracey does not know who to turn to and does not know if she can trust her own mind. Gracey harms and abuses herself at the start of the film, this is the works of Lucy also, which ends Gracey up in the mental asylum.

Gracey has flashbacks of certain locations and of certain people, like the doctors and nurses who are trying to treat her problem. But she feels she can not trust them as she is paranoid that they are going to betray her. This is her main downfall within the film. This finally leads to a twisted end as Gracey eventually bludgeons one of the nurses to a violent death, after being convinced to do so by Lucy.

Shots

 Gracey is shown through very fast, quick shots. This will enhance her psychotic state of mind to the audience; this connotes the panic and unstable mentality within her life.

We will use a range of shots varying from extreme close ups to long shots and establishing shots of locations. This will render interest and excitement for the audience and keep the pace of the film fresh.

Photo Storyboard

Class survey results for ‘Losing Gracey’

losing gracey

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In this Class survey for ‘Losing Gracey’ we took a survey of 14 people in the class who then gave us feed back on how we could improve our film. This power point shows the results and explains how we will use what the results showed us.

Credit Titles

This prezi shows why titles are used and which credits we might use in our film.

Research into Mental Health

Mental Health Research 2

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Production Titles

Production Titles

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These are production companies titles.

Shooting Script

Research Into the Opening Sequences of Three Films

This is my second power point presentation on research into titles and opening sequences of relevant/similar genres to the one we are hoping to create.

Sketched Storyboard

Character representation

Character representation

This power point shows characters and how they are represents to the audience by us. It also shows and explains what we wanted the camera to capture for a representation point of view.

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