Evaluation Task 9

Evaluation Task 9: Director's Commentary

Below is our director's commentary for Return of Kezia.

Evaluation Task 8

Evaluation Task 8: Our Improvements for G324:

Even though I thought that our G321 Film opening was successful and was an effective horror film opening, there are several aspects of our filmmaking that we need to improve for next year.

Mise en Scene:

One way in which we can improve for next year is mise en scene. For this we can make our costumes clearer so our audience will find it easier to identify with our characters by seeing if they are a protagonist or antagonist. I feel that because all of our characters wore similar costumes, the audience could have found

Camera:
A target that we have set ourselves as a group for G324 next year is to include a wider range of camera angles. This can enable us to get higher marks for our trailer next year. I feel that we should film scenes more than once as it will give us more choice and have more likeliness of picking the right scene for the trailer.

Editing:
To improve our editing for next year, we need to add a larger variety of cuts between separate scenes, as well as making sure that all cuts are smooth. This will make sure that our film will be easier to watch for our target audience.

Sound:
We can improve our sound for our trailer next year by making sure that our dialogue is clear. This will make sure that our audience can clearly understand what we are saying when we are filming. I feel that we could also add more non diegetic music to our piece, as it adds and intensifies the emotions in the scene.

Evaluation Task 5

Evaluation Task 5: How did we attract our audience?

    

Above is our annotated evaluation of our final project of Return Of Kezia.

Evaluation Task 7

Evaluation Task 7: What progress have you made since your preliminary task?

After completing our preliminary task earlier in the year, one thing that we have made progress in is our camerawork and editing skills. For example, one error that we made during our preliminary task was following the 180 rule. However, we learnt to overcome this by making sure that we didn't break the 180 rule by switching the cameras position. This was useful and effective as it wouldn't confuse the audience when they were watching our film.

Another way in which we have improved since our preliminary task is by adding sound to our work. When editing our preliminary task, we didn't add any non-diegetic in the background over our scene. So when we edited over our opening scene to our film, we wanted some non-diegetic sound to play over the top of our scene. This made our film better as soundtrack can affect the mood that is set in the scene.

We were also more adventurous with camera shots and angles that we wanted to use in our film scene. For example we used two shots in our final product, to show relationships between characters, which we did not use during our preliminary tasks. On top of this we also used several over the shoulder shots, which gave the effect of looking from a character's point of view.

Here is an example of an over the shoulder shot that we used during our final film. It gives the effect of being in a characters footsteps, and what they are doing

Evaluation Task 6

Evaluation Task 6: What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product? 

One piece of technology that we used to film is an Iphone 7. We used the camera on this phone to film the majority of scenes in our film. One of these scenes was the final part to our film, where the scene is filmed in the dark. Because of this, we used the torch feature to create lighting in the scene, so the audience can see what is going on in the scene.





Another piece of technology that we used for our                              film is the Canon EOS M10. This camera was used to film other scenes in our film that we felt the Iphone wouldn't be suitable for. One part of our film that we used the Canon for was when we filmed the scenes where the full cast of the scene are sitting on the sofa. This was because we felt that the camera was clearer when we put it on that scene.






The editing feature that we used for our film is Adobe Premiere Elements 10. This editing software was very effective as it has a range of different features that we could use to make our film better. One feature on this program that we used was the zoom feature. We used this when Me, Baily and Shannon were sitting on the sofa and Anna's character of Kezia is staring through the window. We used the zoom feature to focus on Kezia's face. This was effective as it highlights the emotions on Anna's face. Another feature that we used was cutting. We used this to break up scenes, so the film flowed well, as well as to make it easier to watch for our audience.


We also used the online computer program, YouTube to distribute our film opening. This will mean it is available to a large audience as YouTube is used my millions of people across the world.

Evaluation Task 4

Evaluation Task 4:  Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience for our project is teenagers and young adults. This is because the age rating for our film is 15. There tastes of films include action films for boys, Romantic comedies for girls, as well as horror films for both genders. Our film will therefore conform to their film taste, as it is a horror film. As for music, boys tend to listen to rap or rock music, whereas girls mainly listen to pop music. They are into fashionable clothing as well as casual clothing. Hobbies of teenage boys include sports and gaming, whereas hobbies of teenage girls include doing makeup and going shopping with their friends. We felt that we'd attract our target audience by portraying our protagonists as stereotypical teenagers

Because stereotypical teenagers are very sociable and enjoy going out as a group of friends, they may like to watch our film together. This is very common for teenagers to do, as it means that they might enjoy the film more. They may also watch our film as the genre is horror, which is a conventionally popular film genre for teenagers.

Evaluation Task 2

Evaluation Task 2:

For our character analysis I have chosen Anna's character of Kezia. A character that she is similar to is the antagonist from The Woman in Black. This is because they have a similar mise en scene by wearing a dark costume, as well as having something over their head. Another similarity of the two characters is that they are both possessed women who are looking to kill innocent victims. However a difference between these two characters is that Anna's character appears as a human form, whereas The Woman in Black is in the form of a ghost. Another difference between these two characters is that Anna's character plays a larger part in the performance does than the antagonist in The Woman in Black. We tried to base Kezia's character on The Woman in Black, because the character had the traits and personalities that we wanted for Kezia.