Adam Marshall - Evaluation

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The first, second, fourth and sixth frame show characterisation very well

• The first shot identifies that the protagonist feels isolated and lonely from everyone else.
• The shallow depth of field helps back up this theory, as he is the only one in focus, everyone else looks as they are one group, and he is completely alone.
• This protagonist looks like someone who can be trusted, as he is using the "Black Hole" to steal food and money.
• He watches a couple kiss, and the look on his face after shows that he wishes he had someone to spend time with.

The third, seventh, and nineth shots so a good use of mise en scene

• In the third shot he is holding one of the signs he was showing to his friend. the people in the background look like office workers in a meeting.
• The nineth shot shows that the man lives in a rural area as he isn't bothered about how he looks.
• The baby is newly born and wrapped in a pink blanket, this is probably done to make the baby seem innocent.
• The crow in Lovefield impies a dark film full of death.

The seventh, eighth and nineth show a brilliant and smooth narritive throughout the film.

• The whole narritive of this film is very clever, it imples that a farmer has just murdered a baby.
• At the end of the film there is a big twist when the farmer lifts up a baby, and the woman comes into shot aswell. The woman has just given birth with the help of the farmer.
• The non diagetic sound is parrallel to what is happening on screen.

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3.Our target demographic is young adults from the age of 16 to 25. This is because we think that the older and younger generations would not fully enjoy the concept of the narrative.

To get our audience feedback we used Facebook. We uploaded our ideas that we weren't sure on (for example the title sequence) and asked our friends to make constructive comments on how we could improve the ideas, or get them to vote on the part that they think works best.

Here is some feedback on our poster idea.

Example of some feedback

There are some advantages and disadvantages of using Facebook to get our feedback.

Advantages: 

• Facebook is easy to use, therefore it is simple to upload videos and photos and to comment on them.
• Most of our friends are in our target audience, so the people watching it are the people who are the key demographic.
• We are able to get hold of the feedback very quickly.

Disadvantages:

• As it is our friends giving the feedback, some of it may be biased.

From our audience feedback about the title sequence, it is easy to tell that the first sequence was more popular as it didn't have the title jumping around the screen.

The feedback for the poster states that Jordan and the background look too separate, we tried to sort this out but nothing we did try worked.

4.My Prezi Presentation

My Film Poster Idea

Fake Blood

Our film includes a bloody T-shirt and hands. For this we needed to make some fake blood, for a long time we were convinced we were going to use red wine, but after trying it out on a white T-shirt we decided that this didn't have the effect we wanted. Our next idea was tomato puree, again we tried this on a T-shirt but the viscocity was too thick. We mixed the puree with water and tried that on a T-shirt, thankfully this is exactly what we wanted. We tried a couple of shots to see what it looked like on camera and it was what we were looking for. So this is what we used on the T-shirt and the hands.

Filming- 22nd December

Over the holidays we decided we were going to re-shoot some of our film, using a different actor and trying to show more skill using the HD camera.


We started out re-filming some of the first shots. Our first problem came when we were attempting the tracking shots outside near the garage. The dolly (a dolly is a device you can attach the tripod to that has wheels on so you have more movement in the camera) that we had borrowed from the college didn't have big enough wheels to make the shot smooth. We tried a method of putting down planks with grooves in them for the wheels to sit, but unfortunately the wheels kept sliding off. In the end we got a trailer from Rory's garage and he climbed in with the camera and tripod. We had to check it was safe first so we pulled it along with just Rory to see how stable it was. It seemed fine so we tried it with him and the camera. The shots were a lot smoother and we managed to get some smooth tracking shots that we have decided to use in our film.


The rest of the filming went a lot smoother and we managed to get all the shots we wanted, as well as some backup shots if we need them. We are now in the process of editing.