Our First and Final video

The second video definitely impacts you more not because of the music but because of how the video looks. It is much cleaner and the flashbacks don't look tacky. It clearly shows which one is our main video.

These are our two video's of Anamnesis project. The first video is our first opening with no sound because our music was not yet created. When you watch the second video, it is clear that i definitely mastered editing because i was a bit sloppy on the first video. A lot has changed mainly the flashbacks as you will see.

Evaluation 7

This is our group watching the first half of the prelim. We only watch the first half because thats where all the problems were.

Evaluation 6

This is what we have learnt about technology from our product

Evaluation 5

Evaulation Task 4

Evaluation 3

Evaluation 2

Evaluation 1

Audience Feedback

After posting our video onto YouTube , facebook, twitter and blogger.com, we have had only positive reviews. That statistics from our YouTube channel video shows that our demographics and pyscholgraphics were accurate and we have attracted our target audience.  Also the twitter page has shown a positive response with even people such as Universal studios following our page. The Facebook page has also been left with a few comments complimenting our work.

Personally I have been given back positive feedback, as well as questions about what was going to happen next and asking about particular moments such as the flash backs. A lot of people have asked about the significance of them ; this interest in the film tells me that people are intrigued and if the film were to continue many people would like to see the finished product. 

The only negative feedback was about the music, one person felt that the chimes were not right for tone of the piece, however after explaining why we chose to use the chimes they could understand the reasoning behind. 

Problems With Our Thrillers

We had many problems with out thriller, like constant change of location or continuity. The main problem which bothered our group was when our actor Jack Davies takes out the pamphlet and places it onto his chair, the pamphlet then appears on his lap. We could change this, but it meant that we had to get back up to the car pack with Lewis car. There were a lot of problems with our filming when we filmed at the Mary green Manor. For example you could see Tom Williams in one of the shot which would have been perfect but we were not allowed to go back in there to re-film. You could also see us in one of the shots but only if you were told we were there. The light came through the windows which distracted our camera. We tried to cover them up with jackets and such but light still came through and it looked really bad. Apart from this we didn't really have many problems

Editing Diary and Making the Opening Sequence

This is me summarising how i made the opening sequence.

This is the editing diary for Anamnesis. It is sped up and the colours dont always look good.

Music

I used two different songs and put them together to make our final music for our thriller.

The first video is a massive file which includes a large amount of music. I just took parts i needed and put them with the second video. As soon as you listen to it you will notice what part i used.

Anamnesis Raw Footage

This is the raw footage for our Anamnesis opening. This is all the waste and real footage that we used. All I did was take every video we used and put them in this video. None of this is edited.

Studio Logo

The above logo will be our studio logo. The shape of the curves are a reference to our company name (Helix). Looking at other companys there is none which uses waves such as ours. This gives us a company identy. The waves also give a referance to our company's media background (ie sound waves).

Promoting our film

Camera Angles From Filming

These are the camera angles we used throughout our film. They go from the top right round the square until the last one which is in the middle. We did not want to repeat the same shot a lot because it could look repetitive and bore the audience. We wanted to keep using interesting camera angles in order to keep  the  audience engaged. The Close up shots can make the audience feel they are involved with the film allowing them to be part of the film which may add tension for the viewer. However, long shots of such as the shot where jack is walking from the lift to the car keeps the audience on the edge of their seat as they may not know, where jack is going or what he is going to do. Camera angles can definitely change the way the audience enjoy the movie, for example if it's a horror there are usually more up close ups to capture more facial expression which show fear, which in turn are making the audience feel the same emotion. 

Importance Of Font

Font takes a big role within the production of a film as the producer needs to think about the conventions of the film, for example an action thriller should have a bold font whereas a romantic comedy would have a more rounded bubbly font. If the wrong font is used it will look out of place and may make could change the audiences opinion of the film. Below are 2 of our posters we created for marketing our film, it is clear which one of the fonts is better because the one on the right implies that the film may not be as scary as what teh poster portrays, whereas with the bolder, and jagged font on the left it makes the audience aware that the thriller may be scary with complication.  .

We had to explore many different  fonts before we finally decided which font to use in order for it to look effective. We chose Charlemagne STD, as we thought that this looked the best on video. It also looked effective on the poster as well, as it gave a sense of continuity for the film. Fonts can completely change the way the audience looks at the poster/film and in order to promote our film we would need the audience to be intrested in the poster in order for them to watch the final film. The Font can also manipulate the viewers emotions, if it is a text that is dripping you assume that the film will be gory or scary to whether it was a block font which could make it look very Sci-Fi. 

Costumes

For Jack's costume we chose a dark black suit as he was going to a romantic dinner with his lover, this is sterotypically a normal outfit for someone going on a date, therefore making him an unsuspected killer. A full suit is associated with celebrations such as weddings; however black suits are also associated with funerals. This could make the audience think the flash back could go either good or bad causing suspense. His hair is loose, without styling, suggesting that he is low maintenance and does not care about appearance. We also kept it loose but slightly parted to show he has a slight control issues in the fact that he needs to keep a clear parting, resembling a clear plan in his mind. We kept his face pale to show that he has an illness, but we did not make his face white as we wanted a subtle distortion.

For Vicky’s costume we picked a cream, satin summer dress, with tan detail, cream high wedged shoes, a cream and gold scarf, used as a shawl. We chose the cream dress to symbolise her innocence, and her naivety as cream is a feminine colour that is associated with honesty and purity, which we were trying to portray as Vicky’s character. The use of the gold scarf covering her shoulders acts as a layer of protection to cover her skin symbolising, the covering over her modesty. For Vicky’s hair we kept it long and down with a slight wave, with the sides pinned up. This hair style is again feminine and is trying to portray her innocence, also her childish, simple views, symbolising she is not ready for a commitment such as marriage. We kept her make- up as natural as possible, with slight brown eye shadow with bronzer on her cheeks, to brighten her face up and create a subtle contrast from Jack.

Scenery Shot's

These are the setting pictures that i have put together. Starting from the top left this is a picture with the house in the background behind the car we used to film in. Next is the building that we pretended to use even though we used a different room. We didn't want to use the school building as an establishing shot so we used this. Next is Jack getting ready to film, you can see he is wearing exactly what he wore before. The next picture is the room we used and the photo was taken from the other side of the room. The middle picture is our set-up dinner table. We could of used the other room but there was loads of tables and looked much like a conference room. The picture to the right is jack sitting down in the chair. We decided to move him to the other side of the table because we wanted to film away from the light so we didn't catch his face in the shots. The bottom right picture is Vicky sitting in her seat. We thought this looked much better because it captured the way she looked. The bottom middle picture is during filming where Jack took Vicky to the table. The far right picture is a shot we took when we weren't filming.

Second BBFC rating

We have changed our target audience from 15 to a 12 as we felt our film would fit this category better, as there are no extremely gory or frightening scenes or the use of drugs. This will of course affect what will be on the screen, however our film focuses more on psychological disturbances, for example in The Woman In Black the director wanted it to be a 12 so he could attract more of an audience and appeal to Daniel Radcliffe fans (Harry Potter films at the highest rating was a 12). The director James Watkins wanted to keep the genre the same  so he could scare the audience but needed to keep in mind that it was a 12. We discussed this in our group and thought that this was a good idea because it would appeal to a wider audience. Also recent films classified as a 12 have in opinion, become more scary over time.

Our Poster Ananlysis

This was the original photo we took for the poster, taken on set. 

We knew we wanted him to have a rather sinister smile on him to make it look like a thriller poster more than anything but I had to make it look more professional than this. 

I cut the sides off, then carefully cut his face exactly in half to make it look professional, then i darkened the image then making this...

After this i needed to make it look more eery, so i darkened the picture and added a gradient to the image to follow the light pattern coming from his left side, image right side, so it looked realistic but still 'thriller-esk', i then added the text and changed any minor tweaks we had and that gave me the finished poster product

The Woman In Black Opening Analysis

The Woman In Black Poster Analysis

The Woman In Black poster is a very good poster that clearly resembles the film. It has a massive image of Daniel Radcliffe which personally I think is the unique selling point. The image takes up half of the poster which shows that the poster creator wants you to notice that it is Daniel Radcliffe or as the audience know him as ‘Harry Potter’ The film was a 12a so I think they were aiming on bringing all of the fan’s from the Harry Potter film’s into this to maximise profit. If the Woman in black was a 15 they wouldn’t get all the fans from the Harry Potter films. In the image Daniel Radcliffe looks scared and worried. Towards the back of the poster there is the main house from TWIB. The house is towering over a man who I think is Daniel Radcliffe because he is holding a suitcase and looking towards the building. He is all in black which could show resemblance to the ‘woman in black.’ The significance of the massive house in front of Daniel Radcliffe was the fact that the house is a massive building and it shows what’s more to come and it’s what Daniel Radcliffe least expects. There is what looks like a storm over the house and thunder shows destruction. When there’s Thunder all your sense’s can notice, for example you can hear and see it so you will know about it. The font suits the poster well because the poster is deteriorated and can symbolise the woman in black. Daniel Radcliffe’s name is in a different font and is across the top of the poster which could show dominance of the film. The font that is placed along the house is quite hard to read and ironically says what did they see. This is because you don’t see the woman in black well you only see her for a brief looking.

Poster after focus group

The focus group said that the slogan was a little small with the faded effect on it, and was a little difficult to read, so I changed the set up of the text and piled the text instead of having it straight so we could make it larger and easier to read simultaneously.

Poster

We decided that this would be a better poster for the film because the previous idea resembled the woman in black poster too much so we thought we would keep it simple with Jack's face on it and nothing else.