Evaluation

We looked at the film this is England for our analysis. Similarly like the opening sequence of the film, we also put a soundtrack over it so that it had more or a montage feeling. But differenciately, instead of doing a montage of the history, we did a montage of one persons day and the events that occured during that day. 

Our opening sequence represents a teenage audience of all classes and backgrounds because it is associated with school life and how external factors can impact on your school day.

For the distribution of this media product, we would use very conventional methods such as tv trailers and in magazine posters. We would also go for a more new age method in the same way as the film Atonement and use multi-media messaging because our audience is that of a young teenage one and we would market in this way because it is a good way to capture the correct target audience that we would need.

Our primary target audience would be a teenage audience because the conventions used in our film would relate to the audience because the characters are of the same age group and in the same situation because they are in school (ages between 13-18). As predicted, our audience responded positively to the media production because they could relate to the characters, we would like to see an expansion of the audience to a more mature adult audience if it were possible because we would like to broaden our productions potential. 

This is the questionnaire for our production

The questions i asked were:
1. Did you like the sequence?
2.Do you feel like you can relate the main character?
3. If not how do you feel this could be improved?
4. Did you feel at any point that anything in the sequence was unrealistic?
5. Being the target audience for this sequence, do you feel it was suitable?
6. Give 3 thing i used within the sequence that addresses you as the target audience for this film?
7. What area of the sequence do you feel needs improvement?
8. What scene looks the most professional?
9. What scene looks the most unprofessional?
10. Would this be a hollywood, art house or low budget film, in your opinion?

After asking 10 members of my target audience the results recieved from this questionnaire were:
1. Did you like the sequence?
Yes - 10
No - 0

From this questions results, i am able to see that all of the people i made watch the sequence liked it, however i am not able to interpret too many details from this question since it is an overall generalised question.

2. Do you feel like you can relate the main character?
Yes - 6
No - 4

the reslts from this question shows that from the entire 10 people that i asked about the sequence previously filmed, 6 people were in actual fact able to realte to this character, which is good as i previously explained my target audience as having things in common with James (the main character) e.g. social class and urban/city lifestyle as well as age. Although 4 people that i considered to be my target audience wasnt able to relate to James in such a personal way, the majority of my audience did.

3. If not how do you feel this could be improved?

The 4 people that couldnt relate to James all said that the storyline was far too stereo typical, and therefore could not relate because its not necessarily true always true. Because of the fact that not all children from working class families who live in urban areas will get into legal trouble like James so suggested the idea of something that every teenager goes through in life e.g puberty.

4. Did you feel at any point that anything in the sequence was unrealistic?
Yes - 2
No - 8

According to these results, 8 people from the total 10, had said that all of the sequence was in fact realistic, however 2 said they both thought that the interview scene with James an dthe police officer was unrealistic. Although the situation was real, the setting wasnt and made reference to the lights used in the scene, suggesting they were 2 dark and is not usually what is seen in a normal police staion interrigation room.

5. Being the target audience for this sequence, do you feel it was suitable?
Yes - 10
No - 0

These results show that, from the fact that all the candidates that filled in the questionnaire knew that they were the target for this film they all felt it was suitable for, especially in the areas that i previously listed through the fact that certain details about James like his age social class and living in urban areas although not all of them could relate to knowing James had done something wrong that got him into trouble with the police, presented through the results from question 3, however did understand why they were the target audience for the film.

6. Give 3 thing i used within the sequence that addresses you as the target audience for this film?
Age - 10
Environment - 10
Social class - 9
Music - 1

Due to the fact that i had questioned 10 people, and in this question requested they give me 3 different answers, the total number of anwers i would have recived would have been 30. This information above illustrates the variety of answers i recieved. Beginning with age all candidates noted this as one way they were addressed, secondly through the environment, which similarly all people noted down, when it came to social class only 9 out of the entire 10 put this as a reason, however the one person that didnt pick social class decided the music that is played throughout the sequence was the way they felt addressed. These results are good because i previously stated 3 ways which my group members and i felt we addressed the target audience, and all accept the music factor matched.

7. What area of the sequence do you feel needs improvement?
Interview scene - 8
No areas/ Not sure - 2

The results from this show that 2 people werent sure or didnt feel that areas of improvemet were needed however , 8 people did feel that improvement was need, specifically within the interview scene, which they all feel needs to be made more realistic.

8. What scene looks the most professional?
The running scene - 6
The classroom scene - 4

The result from this question illustrate the fact that more people thought the running scene looke the most professional at of the entire film with the amount of 6 out of 10 people, however the other 4 thought the classroom scene looked the most professional out of the entire sequence.

9. What scene looks the most unprofessional?
Police interview scene - 10

Every person who filled out the questionnaire felt the interview scene looked the most unprofessional saying it did not look realistic an did not fit with the other scenes filmed in the sequence.

10. Would this be a hollywood, art house or low budget film, in your opinion?
Hollywood - 0
Art House - 0
Low budget - 10

Everyone that watched and filled out the questionnaire felt the film looked like a low budget film in comparison to Hollywood and Art house Film which nobody picked.

I would like to thank Cheryl for conducting the questionnaire and finding and recording the information in this way.

This positive feedback shows that our target audience responded quite positively to the production and we are extremely pleased with the results from the data we have gathered. 

We attracted our audience by the relationship to the main character by making him seem like an average teenager who has done something tragic and making the audience want to know what happens next.

 

Looking back to the preliminary task up until the completion of the final product, i have learnt that the editing process and filming process require time and patience to complete up to a good standard. The environment that you are filming can have a detramental impact on the outcome of the shots you are trying to get because there are many external variables that may interfere with filming which may demand that you repeat certain things and constantly have to re-do. 

Overall, i believe the final production to be a success because we achieved what we set out to do which was to appeal to our audience and captivate them in a media production that wouls leave them wanting more.

shot list

establishing shot

extreme long shot of person 

pan of feet walking

track of person running for the bus

closeup of watch

close up of face

midshot pan walking through school

slow mid shot zoom of character sitting down

v for vendetta

there is a digetically intended whooshing sound when the fire comes up on the screen, the flames symbolize the gunpowder treason and a pheonix rising from the ashes. they were created using cgi and done so cleanly.

it uses a wide angle shot in the scene with the crowd to show the whole scene. parallel editing is used to create a sense of relationship between the 2 main characters. fast takes are used to create a sense of action in the scene. continuity editing is used to create a sense of realism in the film.

it opens with  a poetic voice over that describes the gunpowder plot as a beautiful thing which sets up the romantic ideal. the cross cutting of v and evey is done through the tv soundbridge.

the budget for this film was $54,000,000, it was produced by silver pictures, warner bros is the copy right holder, it was filmed in london, it was produced by the same people as the matrix.

continuity editing

me and my group filmed a shot piece of someone walking into a room and sitting down in a chair where they then proceeded to engage in a few lines of dialog with another character under a spot like (like an interrogation). we used the 180 degree rule, and an eye line match as the basis of the project and it included over the shoulder shots and pans in the piece. i think it went well because it flowed well and had good continuity, it was brief and easy to interoperate. it could have been improved by a better use of lighting and more effects and effort put into the editing process. It created a sense of the genre because it was dark and mysterious without being scary or eerie. it gave the feeling of a detective mystery story. 

construction preliminary exercise

in this exercise, we filmed a short exercise which involved the use of an eyeline match and the 180 degree rule. It involved someone walking into the room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character and then exchanging a few lines of dialog. the exercise was only about 15-20 seconds long and i think that it met the criteria.