THE FINAL EVALUATION

Evaluation- Part 1

The Dark Knight:
This is an example of a mentally disturbed character, i have decided to use this as an example to portray the similarities between our antagonist, this character is from 'The Dark Knight', the joker had a very disturbing childhood which resulted to him growing up to kill innocent people. Similarly our anatgonist also had a very bad childhood, we have created a similar comparison between our character and the joker.

Angle: close up shot, looking directly at the character to create fear for the audience

Costume and Make Up: The Jokers make up and hairstyle ressembles his character, the costume that the joker wears is tatty, torn and the colour ressembles joke, wierd, mental? additionally the jokers costume and make up is compared with his personality to show his personality he must be dressed to match his characteristic. For our character we were suppose to dress him in a tatty torn trench coat, however due to the time we were unable to find one, therefore if we had time we would have dresses our charcter to match his personality.

Hitman:
This is the concept we used for our film, we used Hitman as an inspiration and idea to create our story line, the idea of the tie came from hitman, however at first we were going to use a red tie but there was unexpected changes made, which is why we had to use a black tie instead of a red one. 

Angle: Medium Shot


Costume and Makeup:  The character is simple wearing a black suit with a red tie, this shows how the character is serious, this character reflects our character as we have tried to make our actor serious with a bit of mentally disturbed behaviour, we used this character as a second option for our ideas, and we tried to draw out the similarities with the costume for our character.

Sin City:
We used the editing skills from this movie to make our film similar through the different colour contrasts, we chose this film as an inspiration because this film is unique and it is different from other films. Sin city is the same as comic films because of the visual effects also we have used the similar style for our own film for the visual effects and cinematics.

Script writing

In our lesson we were introduced to celtx by our teacher, we were taught how to use celtx for script writing. Our group managed to finish the scripts and we learnt how to use this software, it was very easy and helpful to do professional script writing. I learnt what INT meant, which was referd to interior, which was shot inside and EXT which means exterior and was shot outside.

This is our script:

Unit List & Schedule

Unit List:

Name: Ayo, Martin, Paige, Najibah, Natasha

Contact Numbers:

Ayo: 07508402...

Martin: 07852645...

Paige: 07526056...

Najibah: 07957127...

Roles:

Actors: Ayo and Natasha

Cameraman: Martin

Director: Martin

Co Director: Ayo

Schedule:

Day 1

Date: 13/12/2010

 

Time: 2 hour

  

Location: Waterloo station and Banksy Tunnel

Scene: 1- roles were changed

Day 2 

Date: 16/12/2010

Time: 2hour

Location: Banksy Tunnel

Scene:  2

Day 3

Date: 17/12/2010

Time: 1hour

Location: Banksy Tunnel

Scene: 3 

Day 4

Date: 10/01/2011

Time: 1hour

Location: Banksy Tunnel


Scene: 3 and 4


Day 5


Date: 11/01/2011


Time: 1hour


Location: Banksy Tunnel


Scene: 4


Day 6


Date: 13/01/2011


Time: 1hour


Location: Banksy Tunnel


Scene: 5 (last scene)

Introduction to storyboarding

Storyboards are a series of illustration or images displayed in a sequence for pre visualising a motion picture or animation, storyboarding for films is similar to a comic strip of the film produced before hand, this process can help film direactors, cinematographers and television commercial advertising clients visualise the scenes and find potential problems before they occur. Often storyboards include arrows or instructions that indicate movement.

One advantage of using storyboards is that it allows the director to experiment with changes in the storyline to provoke stronger reaction or interest. Flashbacks, for instance, are often the result of sorting storyboards out of chronological order to help build suspense and interest.
The process of visual thinking and planning allows a group of people to brainstorm together, placing their ideas on storyboards and then arranging the storyboards on the wall. This allows more ideas and generates more opinions inside the group.

This is our storyboard:

Links to your primary audience research

For my primary research we had to create a qusetionaire for our audience, in media it is very important to ask the question, 'how will it engage the audience?' therefore it is important that we research and find out the key demographics that will appeal to our target audience, however audience resarch can be done in many ways for example; questionaires, surveys, and interviews.


This is a link to our primary research:



http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/75PMDSK




http://www.surveymonkey.com/MySurvey_Responses.aspx?sm=d1DYhoUIaeV3wzPjRQnv0F9FxuKwCZz3ATgjq6CBGDg%3d

Here is the responses that we got back from our audience

Details of previous films in your chosen genre

In my group we have chosen the genre Horror, we looked at different films that relate to the genre we chose such as Hitman, Saw, Omen, Scream and many more, for our own film opening sequence we planned to have an antagonist and protagonist as the same charcter, this is because the bad guy is the main charcter, as the story revovles around him and we see the film from his point of view.


Futhermore in our group we did a mood board containing all the films under the same genre, we researched using this method to give us more ideas, also we were able to see how some special effects and techniques that could be used for our opening sequence, additionally we based our ideas around 'Hitman' this movie inspired our group to get some ideas, for example the costume, storyline is quite similiar with what we have decided to do. We also looked at 'The Dark Knight' for some ideas on our character, the antagonist as we have decided to have him as a mentally disturbed actor who is a loner and he also had a bad childhood. Therfore we combined different ideas from different films to create a short opening scene for our film.

 The genre conventions we listed were:

• Structure (the sequnce of the ideas)
• Form (shape and layout )
• Style
• Content

The genre conventions we looked at were that many audience become rather highly conditioned to expect certain things within a particular genre, such that we can be highly critical of or even reject or distrust something that does not follow what we expect to find in the certain genre. This is the same for horror genres, many people expect to see a bad guy killing a vulnerable victim.