Evaluation 6 - Constructing this Product

For our film production construction we used a iPhone 6 for the filming as it has a 1080 HD camera with a 5.5 inch screen. This is effective as we had a everyday used phone for camera and we didnt need to go out and buy anything to film with.

Evaluation 2 - Social Groups

A key character from the beginning would be either me or Ellie; we start the opening 2 minutes of and we are the first people you see. There are a lot of differences between these 2 pictures: the setting is very different, the clothing that the characters are wearing are majorly different as the personalities are different. The lighting is very different from each other, the contrast and the brightness is very different  from each other. We played around with ours as it was very dark and needed to be changed. Having films that are similar to ours in a few ways is effective as it shows that we took other horror movies into consideration and we looked in detail how they made their movie and what they use in it.

Evaluation 1 - Camerawork and Editing.

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All of the above are the main scenes that were included in the opening 2 minutes of our production. I included them as they are a rough plan of our 2 minutes and if you haven't seen our movie then this could give you a rough idea of what the plot is and how the story rolls.

These 2 pictures above are the editing parts of our movie. This consists of font testing with all the names, seeing how they look with each other and then how they all fit into the opening 2 minutes and how they look with the video.

Review from the Class.

This class review happened after we had done our interview and the class had watched our opening 2 minutes. As the class hadn't seen it yet they were watching for the first time and wrote down the good and bad things about it so we got compliments but also got new targets to try and complete. This is effective as we then know the things we have to do next time to make sure that we have done it to the best standard we can.

Our Interview of our Opening 2 Minutes.

This is the interview Ellie and I done with our class and teacher. We were asked a series of questions regarding our opening 2 minutes and we had to try answering them using media terminology. It was hard and the pressure got to me as we were in front of the whole class and having them there looking at you isn't the best thing; I've never been a fan of being on a stage or talking in front of a crowd as i hate the attention and pressure given when you need to answer a series of questions.
The questions had some that were simple and there was one that we got stuck on so we had to skip one out of all of them.
Next time, to do better we could come up with answers using more media terminology and make sure they make sense as we got confused some of the time. If we were to go and do it again with ready made answers then we would have done a lot better and got more questions answered.

Evaluation 1 - Special Effects

For the opening 2 minutes of our movie 'A Day In The Woods' we didn't use any special effects in our movie as it didn't need to have any involved. As we chose the genre of a horror movie no special effects were needed. We changed the effect of the footage so that it didn't seem as dark when put into adobe but besides that we didn't add any special effects in as it would look odd and wouldn't fit together.

Evaluation 1 - Introducing Characters

Introducing the main characters is a main part of the movie and if its not done right then it effects the movie and what people think of the movie. When the movie starts playing the characters have to be specifically introduced into the movie so that it all merges together and works with the titles and sounds.

Kiera and Ellie were first introduced right at the start of the opening 2 minutes as they are the main characters and needed to be in the start as they are in the whole 2 minutes. Introducing them was easily done and when the long angle shot came up on the screen so did their names at the same time so that you know what the character looks like and what their names are  so there isn't any confusion and the audience don't get bored as they don't know the names of the characters.

Emma was introduced not long after Ellie and Kiera were. Emma played a young girl that went missing in the middle of the night during the Christmas holidays / dead body which was laying on the floor. As the close up of Emma comes up on the screen the title of her name comes up along side her so that we know her name also and this is effective as everyone would now know the characters names.

Jai first got introduced after the title of the film came up and he was introduced as the antagonist as he was the one that killed Emma and then when Ellie and I realized he was there in the bushes he ran after us and that was also a very dramatic scene. Following on from that he then caught and killed Ellie which could cause some hate from the audience as he killed one of the main characters which would effect the rest of the movie.

The rest of the crew - Annaleigh Mann, Caitlin Mann, Anna Phillips, Baily Whiting and Shannon Harrell were involved in the opening 2 minutes but weren't involved in the filming as we had all the characters we needed for the movie and we didn't want there to be too many main characters as it would be too crowded so they all helped with the camera angles and filming.