Zoe Essam Evaluation 7568

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Name: Zoe Essam
Candidate Number: 7568

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.

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.

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.

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.

Music for opening sequence

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

Follow the link for the opening sequence music.

After Effects

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

Poster Promotion for Losing Gracey

This is our poster promotion for our film '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.

Production Titles

Production Titles

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These are production companies titles.

Shooting Script

MOODBOARD

This is our Brain storm for different things that would relate to our film - Losing Gracey

Research Into Opening Sequences - Part 2 - 5 Opening Sequences

5 Analysis Slides

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This is the second part to my film research analysis.