evaluation pics

Pictures for evaluation

Final Thriller opening

Draft cut

Title

We chose to call our thriller 'Rushed' as it is qick and catchy, and it is the sort of thing that a thriller would be called. 'Rushed' suggests fear and urgency, which are some features of the sort of thriller that ours is.

Audience

Our thriller opening, appeals to a different kind of audience, we got ideas off the films Kidulthood, Adulthood, Harry Brown, Shank. All of these films appeal to a younger audience because of the content, the actors are young, or look young, and they also dress with the young london style. Also the audience we are appealing to isnt just youths, its a certain type of youth, from the underground, or someone who experiences bad behaviour in everyday life, and someone who witnesses, or is involved in youth gang crime.
In our evaluation we will have to reinforce this, by explaining in further detail.

Difficutlties

One difficulty we had was that it took us a while to edit the film, and get everything to look right, so as this took us a long time, we couldnt get on with the music and get the timing right for the music. So in the last two lessons we had to rush the music, and make sure everything went well,

I feel our music really suits the genre, it sounds upbeat, but at the same time its creates a dramatic, tension building atmosphere.

Voice overs

As some of the sound of the characters speaking was hard to hear, we had to do voice overs and add them to final cut so you could hear them.

I recorded Gabi doing a voice over for the last scene when she is in the phone box on the phone to her boyfriend. The one problem with doing a voice over is that the background sound is going to be different, so it will be hard to fit all together and flow correctly. The voice over for Gabi fits well, and looks correct.

Here is a screen shot of Gabi editing the voice over into the film:

Credits

list of credits

A fish in the shoe production

A funky kid film

Cast

Gabi Ping

Louka Hue

Dan Sawyer

Sam Britton

Reuben Ebanks

Kizzy Ebanks

Mari Schweitzer

Costume design- Sophie Tim

Film editing- John Davis

Cinemaphotgrapy- Sid Jones

Original music- Kizzy Ebanks

Production design- Olivia Smith

Produced by- Sam Cohan

Directed by- Davis Oakley

Main title- Rushed

Deadline

Today is our final lesson to finish off our thriller opening. We have to do the following things:

Put the music and the footage together, put the voice overs in that we recoded last lesson, and put in the credits.

Soundtrack

Kizzy was was working on the soundtrack throughout the last few lessons, we looked at the non digetic sound that was used in other thrillers and we tried to imitate the style to make our thriller as realistic. Here is a sample music at the rough cut stage before it was properly edited.

Feedback from draft

Each group showed their draft cut to the class in lesson, and we all gave each other feedback. The feedback for our draft thriller opening was as follows:
Positive comments:
-Good camera angles/ shots
-The punch looks good
-Easy to understand what is happening

Negative feedback:
-It is not a thriller
-The sound is not very good

We discussed the feedback that we received and we thought that people said that our sound was not good because we have not finished editing, and have not yet put the music with the clip, so when we are finished, the sound will not be a problem. We also thought about the the criticism that it was not a thriller. But we still think it is because our thriller opening, as it is an opening to a crime thriller, concentrating on the fear fear of crime amongst youths. We thought that people may have not categorized ours as a thriller as the rest of our class are all doing different types of thrillers (such as psychological thrillers).
Here are the posters to two different types of thriller, a psychological thriller, which many people chose to do, and a crime thriller, like ours:


Just from looking at the two posters, we can tell how different the two types of films.

Editing

We are still editing our thriller opening, are final cut draft deadline is due in Friday. Today we have edited our film, but have faced problems such as we think our opening is going to be longer than 2 mins, because it is nearly 2 mins long and no way near done editing, to fix this problem we are cutting out unnecessary scenes we had before to shorten our opening. We have also used the blur effect for when after Louka punches Gabi, because we thought it would give an effect of Gabi's senses being confused, and her vision being blurry. Also we have used the cropping effect, we used this at the beginning of the opening, because the scene of Gabi walking was too long, so we arranged the scenes differently and had them com-binding with each other to save time and still establish.

Deadlines

We have two lessons in which to finish the rough cut, so we still have got a bit to do, we have to edit the whole film, add credits, and finish the music for the film.

As we are all working on different things we should have everything finished quicker, By the end of next lesson, Gabi should have the editing finished and we should have the music finished and then we can add the credits in, and polish everything off.

change

One idea that we had at the beginning when we started planning was we were going to use to different cameras, so one still camera filming everything, and then a hand held camera that me and kizzy were going to use to mess around with and film the Cribs idea that we had, the reason we wanted to use the hand held camera is because we thought it would make it look more realistic, and the viewers would see our point of view.

But as we changed the story line slightly and we wernt using the bit of me and kizzy filming ' the cribs thing' we decided to take the hand held camera bit out.

One thing we decided to add in, is when the gang are mugging gabi, one of the boys are filming it on there mobile, so we have the footage from that, which we felt look really interesting , as you get to see the fight from there point of view, and as that what some teenagers do, they film fights and post them on the internet, we felt this brought in the aspect of teen reality.

In todays lesson we all decided to work on differnt things, Gabi started with the editing, Louka and Kizzy were working on the music and i was working on the blog.

With the editing Gabi started by cutting everything up so it would be easier to edit, and piece together, we filmed quite a lot the other day and i think we got everything filmed in one night, but what she is doing in todays lesson is seeing if we missed anything out, to see if we need to film anymore another night.

Louka and Kizzy are working on the music, for inspiration they looked at the theme songs for tv programes like Skins and Missfits, they tried to get ideas from those. They were working on the programme garage band to create music. Garage band also has effects such as footsteps, that we could use in our film, to make it more realistic.

Filming - day 1

Today we have started to film, we all met at Kizzys house, because this is the location we have planned to film. We have already researched the area, so we know when, where, and how we are going to film. Firstly we filmed Gabi, we took a long panning shot of her, as if it was a CCTV camera, we thought this would add dramatic effect, and also it shows the mise-en-scene, aswell as establishing Gabi's character. I filmed Gabi from on top of a garage roof, she was standing near a car pretending to have just come put of it, she then turns and walks up towards the stairs i am filming from. The first time we took this shot we looked at it and thought we should add Kizzy and Mari, walking past her, to again establish the characters and show they are all living in the same area.
We faced problems whilst filming, because we started filming whilst it was still dusk, and the later scenes where darker, but we have a solution, because the later scenes are mostly inside a carpark, and the other scenes are outside, but it makes sense for it to be darker, because would be later in the day.

Change in plot

We visited the location the day before and looked at the areas we were going to film, we decided we wanted to film in the dark, to give it a dramatic effect.

One of the shots we were going to film, was the shot from kizzys window looking out on the boys beating up gabi, but from the window we couldnt really see the carpark, So we decided to change the storyline slighty, so instead of Mari and Kizzy finding out by looking out the window, they find out by louka posting the video on facebook, while Gabi is getting mugged one of the gang members films them. As the video has been added on facebook it adds modern culture and youth, as these days its all about social networking.

Plot.

Gabi is walking through a carpark, you can see that she is wealthy and posh, as she leaves a nice car and is walking around in heels, louka and his gang then approach her and start to mug her, they steal her phone, and shove her up against the wall and punch her. Whilest this is going one of the boys films it on there phone so they can put it on the internet later. After they mug Gabi they all run off and run around the corner. They then say bye and louka says that he needs to go and meet the girls meaning mari and kizzy, louka then posts the video on facebook from his phone. It then cuts to Mari and Kizzy in Kizzys room, trying on clothes and on facebook, Louka was supposed to meet them a while ago, and is really late, they try and ring him and go on his facebook, Kizzy then notices that louka has posted a video on facebook they watch it and its the video of them mugging gabi, Kizzy and Mari reconise Gabi and are really shocked at what they are seeing, they realise that Louka is going to be in a alot of trouble, Louka then knocks at kizzys door and they go and answer it. The last shot is of Gabi in a phonebox crying on the phone to her boyfriend Tommy who has a big reputation of being a nutter.