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Evaluation Q7

1)      From the time period between filming and editing my preliminary task to completing my final piece I have learnt a lot mainly through trial and error. Such as my match on actions have become a lot more fluent and they flow a lot better. I also have now learned how to trick the audience into thinking that they are the same place when in fact the location has changed. It is still in a similar environment which is the key factor it first has to be believable and then it has run smoothly. My time management increased great during this project because I had to plan filming on days that where of similar weather and as most of the filming was done on grass it couldn’t have been wet the day before either because it will have been too muddy and would have looked different.  

Evaluation Q6

1)      I have learnt so much about filming with a camcorder, editing film and adding sound to a sequence appropriately during this module. When using the camcorder and tripod I have learnt the best ways to keep a sequence interesting by moving the camera a lot and having different angles of shots to keep the audience entertained. This sometimes becomes difficult due to the 180 degree. I had some previous experience with editing sequences before so editing wasn’t especially difficult for me. But I did learn things I didn’t know before such as match on actions which is where the shot changes during an action so for example a long shot of a person opening a door and then cut to a close up of his hand using the handle. Adding sound was new to me as I had never had dialogue in any videos I had made in the past so it took me a while to get used to fading the music in and out during dialogue. 

Evaluation Q5

1)      I have made the film with the intention of it really relating to my target audience and I hope that they can connect with the characters within the film and feel for then and possibly even see themselves in the characters. I hope to achieve this by making the characters like the audience. Such as Edd could be related to people who may have troubled childhoods or a troubled past and they can relate to Edds story, and Iona’s story will relate to a lot of female teenagers. While Brooks story will relate to average teenage boy who just wants to live life in happiness.    

Evaluation Q4

1)      I think my primary audience will be British and American males between the age of 15 and 30. This is due to the fact that thrillers are primarily a male oriented genre as it is usually based around murders or crime which is stereotypically a more male orientated theme. The age I have decided is related to the rating of the film which is a 15 so it will obviously be aimed at older teenagers and young adults. Due to age of the characters within the film it should relate more to a younger audience and people may be able connect with the characters and have a better understanding than for example a 50 year old man whose generation is very different to that of the modern day. My audience will also enjoy watching thing such as thrillers and crime related films such as kidult hood and shank. Although these are not primarily thrillers they do follow some of the similar conventions to that of my film and therefore should make my film appealing to people of this age group, ethnicity and gender. It is aimed more at American and British audience because it is a film spoken in English so people who can’t speak English will not be interested in the film.

Evaluation Q3

1)      I think that 20th century fox is the most likely company to distribute my film as they have distributed many famous thrillers as I’ve mentioned before like silence of the lambs which is about a cat and mouse chase between a detective and an elusive serial killer and phone booth which is the story of a man trapped in a phone booth by a killer. I know that 20^th century fox distributed lots of successful thrillers.

Evaluation Q2

1)      I have three main characters in my film and these are Iona, Edd, and Brook they all are very different people in the sense of social groups fashion and morals. The character Edd is represented as a person who doesn’t care what people think of him and therefore doesn’t need to impress people by the way he dresses this is probably due to the fact of his reputation as a bit of a thief and a fighter means that no matter what Edd did or dressed like he would still be an intimidating figure to most people. Iona on the other hand who is Edds ex girlfriend is shown in this film as a fairly ordinary person. In the sense that she wears just ordinary clothes has an ordinary phone and acts no different to the average girl. But she does have a very influential family that is notorious for fighting. This makes her part of the same type of social group as Edd even though they personally don’t have very many similarities. Brook’s character is different to Edd and Iona mainly because of the way they dress and the social groups they associate with. For example Brook unlike Edd is very conscious of his image and what people think of him. I believe this reflects the youth of today very well as we are categorised into very specific stereotypical groups but really it is a very unfair and judgmental system because people are not as they actually seem from first glance and this is what I was hoping to achieve with this film to prove that even though Edd is in the wrong for his doing but that is due to his upbringing. There is a lot of close ups of Edds face which really show his emotion throughout the chase and that although he is supposed to a big hard man at the end of the day he is scared and he has emotions as well to prove that he is not what people think he is due to the way he dresses and acts.