Dead Silence

We got the idea for our backing track from the theme tune of 'Dead Silence'.

final cut

opening sequence board

Q3-73 OPENING SEQUENCE FINAL

Feedback

Our feedback showed the following strengths;

• greyscale was effective.
• camera positioning and a good range of shots (including match on action)
  
• font was appropriate to genre.
• music was appropriate to genre of the film.
• uses colour to add emotion - happiness in the past is in full colour whereas the present is in greyscale.
• home video was effective to setting the scene.
• strong storyline.
• good use of various settings.

Our feedback also showed the following weaknesses;

• needed more dramatic music during particular scenes, ie. the drowning scene, to add tension.
• more of a frightened reaction needed during the mirror scene.
• some scenes not fluent with the music, some scenes need more/less tension as appropriate.

Everyone thought our target audience should be 15/16+.

Below is an image of our feedback sheet, which was filled in by our class.

Sky Shots

We did most the filming in Witcham, we have some print screens of above shots, showing the graveyard we used and Hannah's house which we did most the shooting in.

Soud Track

This is our garage band sound track, for our opening sequence. We had a few problems with this as the time line across the top, it measures beats and not seconds so it took us a few attempts to get the 'Booms' in the right place. We also had to rearange and take out other parts that seemed 'tacky'.

Deadline Day

FONTS

For our titles we didn't find any on the computer appropriate so we went on a website and found one we liked that would fit our theme of the film opening.

Things That Need Changing

Looking at our rough cut over, we have picked up a few things that need changing.

For example the laugh at the beginning, may not make people take us seriously, in a way it seems very sinister, however in another it seems very tacky.

We also think the title appear for too long, its dragging on our piece. We put them over our film, as we feel we need the short breaks, it stops jumps and breaks up the film giving it pace and suspense. Also we added more titles where we felt they were needed.

We are adding some scenes of her leaving the house, and walking back into the house as she appeared in certain places, not linking scenes, therefore making no sense. however this made the film very long so we decided to take out other scenes, the ones of her walking around outside, and some of the camera shots that were shaking and tacky, for example the scene of the jumping back and forth as she walked down a long path.

At the very beginning we added a small clip of a home video of when the main actress was younger, this shows the character when she was happy and this will lure the views into a false sense of security.

Finally we changed the sound track to make the 'Booms' when the titles appear creating a powerful and dramatic effect.

soundtrack research.

We used glockenspiels and bells to create a childlike feel. We also used a piano and flutes to make the soundtrack more surreal and the occasional drum beat to add tension and make it more dramatic. The drums will play when the titles appear, and everything else will play the whole way through. We got our inspiration from the soundtrack from the film Dead Silence as this has a similar feel, and was written by Charlie Clouser.

MONDAY 9th MARCH - 9am - EVALUATION DRAFT TO MOODLE

MONDAY 9th MARCH - 9am - EVALUATION DRAFT TO MOODLE

Evaluation Questions

The following questions must be answered in your evaluation PowerPoint:

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
5. How did you attract/address your audience?
6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?