Keeley Stamp Evaluation 7702

http://keeleystamp.wix.com/alphabetzevaluation


Name: Keeley Stamp
Candidate Number: 7702

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Research Into Possible Props for Losing Gracey

This is my Prezi presentation of possible props to use in our production; Losing Gracey. I hope this will help us to select suitable props to use, help to create mise-en-scene and a believable and realistic set up.