Final Film Opening

16. Elinor Ritchie, Melissa Riffen-McDonald, Victoria Skopouscenko, Ella Fusco-Fagg from 283goswell on Vimeo.

Evaluation QUESTION 1

Evaluation QUESTION 2

I made a typography image about how I felt our opening represented certain social groups using only key words on a website called "TAGXEDO." as I had a few technical issues with "Wordle." I decided to make these words create an image of a bomb because the black bags used in our opening (Mise-en-scene.) create an aspect of danger as you aren't told what these bags contain and I figured that a bomb was a likely possibility in terms of being realistic especially with the use of a train station and ethnic minorities.

Evaluation QUESTION 3

Evaluation from Mido Mido

Evaluation QUESTION 4

Our age range for our target audience is 15 – 24. Our subject is a 15 year old boy called Jack Davis who attends The Petchey academy; he is very in touch with his technical side having owned a minimum of three Blackberry smart phones and spending majority of his time when he's not doing school work on his computer game console. I located his “Facebook.” Page and took a few screen grabs of his activities that suit his characteristics making him a suitable representative of the target audience for our thriller.

Evaluation QUESTION 5

Melissa R-M and Ella F

by Melissa Riffen-McDoanld.

Terrible quality- apologies. Guidelines for if you cant read what it says.

  We attracted our target audience in terms of location by selecting one of the widest used form of transport so that they could relate to the storyline slightly better as they'd be able to relate to the characters understanding their choice of location as they would know what to expect when they enter a train-station as they are used every day to take our target audience to school, to visit family and friends etc. Our production company is also linked to our demographic as a high majority of people aged 15-24 are still students, so in more ways than one “Candi studios.” and our group 16 IDENT will appeal to them significantly as being students also, we create some common ground between ourselves and the people watching our work. Which is useful as audiences like to feel like they have a connection with the people who create their entertainment, both on screen icons and behind the scenes people.

I think the burning candle is quite symbolic as the flame, to me represents life and it is shaping the candle as life shapes us as people however this flame burns quicker during adolescences. Our title is a main contributor to the attraction of our target audience as we decided to stick with the numeral idea to show clear inspiration for films such as Collateral and SE73N which I think our audience will appreciate. Base-9 is a good title as it has several meanings which could keep potential audiences interested in what the title means and how it relates to our film which could get more people interested in our opening.

The several  methods of distribution we used to reach our target audience were extremely effective as social networking sites are used widely by people who fit our target audience and new technologies now support these sites being used on multiple portable devices, such as tablets, phones and netbooks.


Interview with cast member

Evaluation QUESTION 6

During this project I have ; with the assistance of my group member learnt the basics of using various technologies, for example sound track pro and blogger etc. out of all the different programs I found Final cut pro the most difficult to use, and started to notice later on during the task that my editing skills were not up to par compared to be team mates, and decided it would be better for me to focus my energies on something a little easier and created both soundtracks included in our opening. So instead I used a software I could access on my personal laptop called "AVS video editor." which in appearance is less intimidating than FCP where I learnt how to convert video files into .avi and edit videos in the most basic way possible. this, along with my "Wacom Bamboo" graphic tablet is the program I used to create my video for one of the previous questions. I also learnt that online blogs are useful to keep track of any work you might have done as it keeps everything in one place and can be changed and edited to suite you and avoidable accidents like spills and tears are ruled out. It also gave us the opportunity to look at other groups work and also members our our own. In terms of our film opening we had to use many of these programs at once, for example FCP,STP,Blogger,JVC camera, memory cards and the Video drive.