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Evaluation- Question Seven

Evaluation- Question Six

Evaluation- Question Five

I showed my opening sequence to a group of my friends who matched the target audience i was aiming for.

This was their comment after watching my piece...
The title of the film at the end, clearly showed the imagery of an elevator, and linked in with the title 'elevation'.
Provided an enigma code of who were the people? And what would happen when they meet?
Close ups of the floor levels on the lift built tension and excitement, as the two men and one man come closer and closer to meeting.
The continuous music track made the sequence more exciting, and had an 'Italian Job' feel about it.

I felt that this was great feedback, they saw what i was aiming for in certain parts of the opening sequence like with the elevator and the Italian job was our first inspiration for the film, they were a group of 16/17 year olds and this showed that it was interesting the target audience I was aiming for. They asked what happens next once this had finished which also was a very positive affect as it shows i gave the enigma code.

The other way we gained feedback was that we went into the town with an IPad and showed our audience the opening sequence we have made, we did not get alot of feedback from this as there were not many facial expressions, i feel this was because it was not a horror or comedy.
When i asked the audience after about feedback the majority wanted to see the film and enjoyed what we had made.

Evaluation- Question Four

My target audience

Aspirers
People who want to change their class and want to be higher, different.
Achievers
Believers who like a challenge and search for a thrill or adrenaline rush.
Succeeders
If they feel like they have got where they wanted to get in life, all that they wanted.

These are the sort of people I think I can attract with my opening sequence; this is because this is quite a fast pace film involving crime and action. Aspirers may like action because it shows things they could want to do in life and a way to be different, giving them a hero or somebody to aspire to.
Achievers would like my opening sequence because the film would show things that would only be attempted by the brave and I believe that achievers would be brave people. Succeeders for many of the same reasons but maybe they have already experienced the thrill so enjoy watching others have theirs.

If you like thrills you have experienced or want to see others experience theirs or are still seeking thrills then I think this film is ideal, it includes crime, stunts, action and a lot of personality. I would say the dominant audience would be between 16 and 30 year olds, this is because this is where I see the majority of the achievers and aspirers being. I feel that this film may be inappropriate for the carer audience and traditional audience as it shows modern and rebellious attributes in the film.

Evaluation- Question Three

Who will distribute my media product and why?


The big mainstream film producers include companies like paramount and Walt Disney, these companies have a lot more money so they can make more copies of the film, and they can do more advertisements and marketing so they can capture all audiences.
These bigger companies also own a big chain and have easier links to cinemas and other smaller film companies.

Because America dominates the film market its harder for a British film to become available on the market, a lot of British companies are actually owned by the larger companies in America.

Or company Tristan productions is a small company and this is their first film onto the market, they had a fairly low budget and targeting on making thrillers for a dominantly young adult target audience, I was inspired by films like the Italian job and ocean’s eleven.

Big companies are unlikely to invest in a low budget British film as the return will not be as great and they probably would not release it into a cinema, to get this film to a cinema it would be easier to go to a mainstream company as they have business chains therefore own links to cinemas. Without this is it expensive to get a film into big cinemas including Odeon and Vue.

Internet distribution is another idea for our film, for less money you can sell digital copies to companies like ITunes to sell on their store, this removes the DVD manufacturing costs and delivery costs.

Evaluation- Question Two

Evaluation- Question One

Title sequence

Opening sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRxJkTmg6UU

Update

We chose to go out again to do further filming so we could add some more technical shots, this meant getting out driver back out to help us with the filming. we have kept on time throughout and are working on all ways to improve before the deadline.

This is where we got the sound clips for our opening sequence.

Credits

Productions (sponsorship)= Tristan Productions 
Actor= Alex Rumsey, Matt Masters, Sam Morris, Spencer Specs
The creator = Matt Myers
Name of the movie =
Casting = Jack Perri, Charles Jones, Sam Parker
Producer = Tristan Procuctions
Assisted producer = Jack Perri, Charles Jones, Sam Parker
Set design = Clive Wood
Costume design = Debra Wood
Make-up artist = James Muhammad
Director = Jack Perri
Effects = Tristan Productions Edits
Editing = Tristan Productions Edits
Screen play by = Tristan Productions (Gordon Lewis)

Shot list

Shot 1: Very long shot – Establishing the view of a car park that is not too well known.

Shot 2: Long shot – The hero stood in front of the elevator facing away from the camera, with a jacket flung over his shoulder.

Shot 3: Close up – The hero’s bare hand pressing the elevators buttons.

Shot 4: Extreme close up – The finger actually pressing the button and the button lighting up.

Shot 5: Long shot – The hero stepping back from pressing the button and then waiting. The diegetic ding is heard and the door opens, the hero checks his bag and then walks in.

Shot 6: Close up - Inside the elevator the man presses the floor number.

Shot 7: Medium long shot – The hero stepping back after pressing the button and as he does the doors close, but without his face being shown to the audience.

Shot 8: Long shot – A car drives through the car park, the car is coming towards the camera and turns off to the side of the screen.

Shot 9: Long shot – The camera is positioned behind the car, it drives up the next floor ramp and then goes off screen.

Shot 10: Close up – The hero’s foot is shown, he is wearing a smart shoe.

Shot 11: Close up – The floor indicator in the elevator changes floor number.

Shot 12: Long shot – The camera drives through the car park, the car is in front of the camera.

Shot 13: Close up – The hero puts on a pair of leather gloves, the camera is positioned by the side of the hero and can see up to his arm.

Shot 14: Medium long shot – The car is seen reversing into a parking space from the side.

Shot 15: Medium Close up – The camera is in front of the car looking through the front windscreen, the men put on balaclavas.

Shot 16: Close up – The hero is adjusting his sleeves and sorting out his cufflinks.

Shot 17: Close up – The hero puts on his jacket, zips it up half way and then adjusts and checks himself.

Shot 18: Close up – The camera is then waist height and the hero’s hands are on his belt in a manly way.

Shot 19: Long shot – The men are out of the car and walking to the door of the elevator lobby, the camera is watching them from behind.

Shot 20: Close up – The elevator floor indicator number changes.

Shot 21: Over the shoulder shot – In-between the head of two of the men, the elevator door is seen. The Dietetic ding is heard again and the door opens, revealing our hero. 

This is where we got our sound effects from.

Update

We have been exploring sound affects in the library we were given but there is no elevator sounds so we signed up to soundsnap.com where you can pay for sound affects Copyright free, we are still unsure whether to use the diegetic car sound or a non diegetic sound for a car as the sound in the car park is not very clear.
We had to re-arrange the filming schedule as the original driver became unavailable.