evaluation Q4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?




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evaluation Q3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

 

Audience Names	Male character	Female character	Comments	Overall film idea
Matt H	×		“I think using a male character to play death will work better in a sense of the audience will be more afraid.”	I think using the idea that the old woman is still alive is very clever. However I still think that it needs to be clearer on how you are going to show death.
Gilly H	×		“I would have liked to see women to play the role of death in a women’s point of view. However, I think that using a male will represent death better because he will have a bigger presence.”	I would say that the film is quite sad in a way that someone has died. However, I think that using the women’s memories to show her life is a good way to let the audience know what will happen at the end.
Amy H		×	“I like the idea of a woman playing the character because I think this will surprise the audience of the appearance of death. This could also symbolise that death could be anyone.”	“Overall film idea I would say its interesting contrasting death a human, but also the women is still alive in her head.  If this is shown correctly I think this will be a fantastic film.”
Jack R	×		“The representation of death is to be a male. So I think this would be more suitable to do then having a female playing the character.”	“I think the whole film will be interesting if filmed right. My only concern is how you are going to show death in the film.”
Amy R		×	“I think having the female character playing death will give the audience enigma when watching the film. They will be surprise because they think that death would be more of a manly scale”.	I love how it’s based in the nans how’s. This will give more of a sense of realism to the short film.

 

This, I put on the blog so that as a group we could find out who should be the best person to play death in our film. This example showed that more people would prefer death as the male character. The reason why I chose this for this question was because I think that this was the turning point on how the film was supposed to go. By getting this feedback we used this to then to grow the story of the film knowing that the audience would enjoy it. Also without the feedback we couldn’t of make the fatal chose on the character. This then could of made the film worse and the audience might not of liked it. This was a risk we didn’t want to take!

Other ideas like costume and the name of the film was also asked to the audience so that we could send a message to the audience of what the story is about but not giving as much away.

Lastly we asked the audience about our two story lines, this was one of the most important research and planning we had to do. Without the data showing what would be the best short film to make then we would have never had the knowledge of what would be best for our audience.  

evaluation Q2

 

Through our ancillary tasks of making a poster to promote our short film, I decided to use the colour of darkness to represent death but also not giving anything away. By using a hint of light to make a shadow I was trying to create a bit of light to show heaven. This was to portray that the women in the film was running out of time in her life. The hourglass we used in the film and in the poster was used to create the same effect.

(picture of poster )

 

This I wanted to make sure that the audience was drawn to the poster so that if this was the case the enigma would already be brewing in their minds. This then would make them excited to see our short film. Like in many poster, they will always have the main characters face and the big title to show and stand out when people look at it.

 

The review stars our also eye catching in away so that if it’s a 5 star film you are going to get more audiences to watch the film, this was our aim. However to make our poster to be the best so that more views would see and like it would have had to use the appropriate construction and codes. We was successful in doing this and this made sure that our poster was linking in to film but also creating enigma throughout.

 

evaluation Q1

Before even beginning our project we as individuals had to go away and search up other short film. This then would let us know what genre we were going for but also the plot of the story.  When looking at the short film i was trying to pick out the real key codes and conventions so that we could put this in our film. However with our film “The man in the suite” we haven’t got a class for this type of film. For i short film to work for the first time in the two years we had to start thinking about a exciting beginning, so that it would bring the audience in but also we wanted to leave the audience wanting more at the end of the film.

After finishing the research we now needed to start planning for the film. As the leader of the group i gave out the roles. Everyone was included in the story board ideas, but we also had individuals roles to fulfil. My roles were Storyboard Artist/ Location Setting / Animatic Director / Screenwriter and sound.

Video of story bored ideas

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soon as the story bored was finished then we could start film in the setting based in Elsa (the main character in the film “ The man in the suite”) home.  While Kayla and Claire started to plan on the camera angles.

 

Me and Alex started to work on the sound and this is what we found

We used Soundcloud to find out what was the best music track that would fit in our short film.

The ones we have chosen are:

Dafydd Bullock

https://soundcloud.com/dafydd-bullock/string-quartet-18-1

When listening to Dafydd Bullock's piece of music i feel this doesn’t link to our short film. Originally we thought that it would link with our short film due to the relaxing tone it has. However when we played the music next to the short film we found that they did not flow. This is due to the lack of enigma that led to this track to not work for the short film. This is because the enigma does not come through the track due to the strong relaxation it gives off. Furthermore the purpose of the music was to create the connection of the characters to our target audiences this is vital when creating a short film. The reason for this is that we only have a certain amount of time to bring this connection between the film and the audience, so it is vital that the track and film work well together.

Hummel

https://soundcloud.com/mu-sic-88/lose-oneself

 

When listening to Hummel's soundtrack we felt that it they were both on the same style of music of classical they both different as Hummel's track of tempo is slower compared Dafydd. Because of the track been slow this did not meet to our expectations. Our expectations for picking the music is that it needs to flow well with the film, its needs to be able to create the link of the film to the audience and it needs to create the specific mood of our film which consist of themes such as death and memories. Originally we thought it would link with the film due to its tone. However it was not able to because of its tempo being slow this made the film and the specific track not flow well with each other. In conclusion it was a potential track but due to its slow sound it was not the final outcome of music for our film.



 

 

Alexander Krichel

https://soundcloud.com/alexander-krichel/oberons-zauberhorn

When listening to Alexander Krichel's soundtrack we felt that this calming track did not fit well to the fil. The reason for this is because the music gave different mood to what we expected. However what I liked about the track was that the combination of the orchestra and piano makes the soundtrack flow well together. But the tone when put next to the film made the film not connect well.

The storyline of the film is about an elderly woman called Elsa   re- establishing her life with death. Show death photos from her past

And tells stores about her adventure of her life. However the audience still doesn’t know that the male that Elsa is talking to is really death until the very end when her time is up, this was to establish enigma through throughout the film.  To portray this we used an hourglass with black sand to communicate this to the audience.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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