evaluation

2. In my film sequence the main character is an older woman in her forties who is battling with a physiological problem, this problem is due to past events. The social group represented in the sequence is middle aged women. Our character is similar to the character in the 1987 film ‘Fatal Attraction’ where a man who has a family has an affair with a colleague, the colleague is then obsessed by the male character and ends up having lots of physiological problems which lead to lots of terrible events.

This image represents the same social group and also is very similar to the character in our sequence, fed up, mental confliction, on edge and also it looks like she has done something terrible and she is now plagued by guilt. One way the social group we have used and from the film fatal attraction have been represented is as being weak minded and obsessive. Even though events which have occurred are bad and should leave characters guilty should their whole lives come crashing down upon them because of it?

The lady pictured above was a serial killer in the nineties and ended up being executed in 2002. Although her actions and personality do not match exactly to our character, I feel that her appearance is just what we were looking for in representing our character as deranged, psychotic and unstable.

3. I feel that if our film were to be distributed by a company it would be 20^th Century Fox, this is because they are a well known, popular and have experience within the thriller film industry with films such as ‘In time’ (2011) and ‘Chronicle’ (2012).

4. The audience for our film would be all ages but mainly aimed at the older audience 30+ and particularly women (because of the main character, it is relatable) however the film is aimed completely at one audience social group so a male teenager will be able to enjoy the film. I feel that it relates to an older audience easier as it deals with lots of physiological issues which may be hard to understand for a younger audience.

If our film were to be publicised by means of media I think that the best way by using magazine would be to publish a copy ‘Empire magazine’ with our film as the main article/cover page. This publicity would be a great way of advertising as it would reach all of Empire’s established audience from all around the world. This is proven from the company’s slogan “the world’s biggest movie magazine” this is one of the best selling magazines in the world and its reputation is of the highest standard. Any film they publish on the cover page will be known across the world just through this form of media.

Another way in which an article would be good for publicisation would be that the publishers of this magazine have a lot of influence over the audience that read it. Therefore if they write a review about a new film (for example ours) and their critics call it bad and don’t recommend it then the readers of the magazine from all over the world will not go and watch the film/buy it because of what they read. However if they write a positive review then all of the readers will go and watch/buy the film and in this way we would have to be very careful about our film and whilst shooting/editing make sure there is no points that are easy to criticise and will end up making the overall sequence as being bad and amateur. 

If Empire were to include our film in their magazine they would write a review and it would be something like “ After watching the film “Delirium” I feel that I no longer know the way a human mind usually functions, this is partly due to the fact that the main character in this film is having a lot of physiological problems and also partly due to the fact that a lot of the scenes in this film are uncomfortable to watch for me personally as there is a lot of parts which make me feel unstable and insecure about my own way of thinking.

However this film is a good watch and I would recommend it to any of you reading this now, the plot is very simple: an ordinary woman ends up getting in a situation were killing someone saves herself. 6 months down the line she cannot bear the guilt and is plagued by thoughts of what happened, she is about to dive off the cliff of sanity which will no doubtedly end unwell. The main character in this film is portrayed in the opening sequence as being deranged and crazy, the transition into the main body of the film is simply the text “six months later” then for the first section of the film we are shown the lady as she was before this terrible event happened and as a spectator you forget that when you were first introduced to her you thought she was deranged and crazy. You build a relationship with her character and you feel comfortable watching her go about her routine but then it all changes and you ask yourself how would you cope in her situation. A must watch.”

6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?

I have learnt lots from using different technologies to create the opening sequence. The two main applications I used on the computer to create the sequence were Final cut and Garageband. Without these there would be no video.

Final cut: From using final cut to edit our actual video I have learnt lots of techniques. The first being how to slow down/speed up clips. For example when the camera goes sketchy in the scene where the audience is purposely disorientated I had to speed this up because we had split the clip up into around 100 parts and deleted half of them. This slowed the clip down by half its original time and created the ‘sketchy’ effect.  I also learnt how to add custom text but with a transparent background to create a professional effect. I done this by typing the specified text in on Photoshop (using a chosen, downloaded font) I then deleted all of the white space and saved it as a .png file. This was added to final cut and played over the appropriate clip. After I did this I learnt how to animate the text so that it would appear as the page was turned and look like the text is on one page of the book. One drawback I found with final cut is that it had a very limited number of fonts available and when writing a lot of text it would be very hard to get it all to fit in a small box meaning I would have to condense what I was trying to write. However I did learn how to zoom in on final cut which made editing clips a lot easier because at first I was struggling to find the right moment to edit and it was frustrating to work with.

Garageband: I learnt a lot of techniques from Garageband also. I learnt how to incorporate our video from final cut into Garageband so that creating a soundtrack is a lot easier. This is because we could watch the clip and add sound effects/edit background music whenever necessary. I also learnt how to finely edit the soundtrack by opening a menu which would enhance the visual of the soundtrack allowing me to precisely cut/edit the clip. This was helpful with timings for sound effects/background music. Another technique I learnt from Garageband was how to edit the volume of a clip/track. This was helpful as I could now make certain noises louder than others or increasingly get louder and the main reason so I could fade in/out clips making the whole transition process a lot smoother and comfortable for the audience.

Equipment: We used lots of pieces of equipment when creating this sequence. The main was the HD video recorder which would capture the video + sound of our clip (although the original sound was not used) this video recorder was very easy to use and once we were finished filming we would plug it into the computer and sync it with final cut. We also used the fisheye lens attachment for the recorder  this would created an effect that would look circular to the audience we didn’t get to use this in a final piece which was unfortunate but it was still a new feature for me and I will be using it in the future. Another piece of equipment we used was a voice recorder, we used this to create our own sound effects (screaming, whispering and moaning) these were uploaded to a computer but unfortunately lost or deleted.