EVAUATION QUESTION 6- Audience feedback and comment

EVALUATION QUESTION 2:Does your media product represent particular social groups? REPRESENTATION

Question 1, Evaluation

behind the scenes

This was our first title however, as a group we weren't very too happy with it and sought the advice of our teacher who also agreed that the title wasn't effective enough. 

Final Edit - Delilah

Enjoy!! :)

Social class in the media

In terms of the media in the UK, there are usually two or three types of classes that are portrayed on the media; the Upper Class, the Middle Class and the Working Class. 
The Upper class usually consists of the peerage,gentry and landowners. These people were traditionally the wealthiest in the land having inherited money and position. 
The middle class usually consists of Middle middle class in Britain often consists of people with a tertiary education.They would be engaged in owning and running businesses; working for larger corporations in management and middle management; teaching, social work and engineering, accountancy, information technology, as doctors and other skilled jobs, but they also often work in the traditional professions (law, the military, finance, the clergy, and medicine) 
The lower class/working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs (as measured by skill, education and lower incomes), often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes. Working classes are mainly found in industrialised economies and in urban areas of non-industrialised economies.
Eastenders is a great example of how this is portrayed, they have a middle class doctor and a working class single mother.  

EDITING

Kudiwa prepared our credits on live type to put into our film, we then imported them, placed them in correctly, and changed the speed accordingly

Non digetic sound

For our opening we wanted to include voicemails for the husband. We thought this would be a good way to set the scene of the story and give the audience an understanding that this man had not been in contact with anyone for a while.

In order to do this we needed to somehow record record messages off of a phone, Kudiwa and I thought the easiest way to do this would be to use a video camera to record one end of the line on loudspeaker, whilst I got various people in other rooms to leave messages depicting various scenarios the husband had missed.

Music

Music is important for the opening. It is able to create suspense or create a calm atmosphere, helpful in order to shock and 'grip in' the audience. The music had to be calm but also with an eerie and suspenseful tone, we left the music decision to Greg as he had most experience with making music.

Rough cut evaluation:

I watched the rough cut and think that it is relatively good for a rough cut opening, many things will need to be improved however, the basic layout of what we wanted is there such as the inclusion of many different camera shots(such as extreme closeups) I think more titles need to be added but the text of the titles is quite suitable for our opening and the music fits quite well with the fim. However, small improvements may have to be made still.

Editing

Editing is a tricky process but essential to create an effective title opening. Editing requires a lot of patience. For example fitting the many scenes we filmed to look smooth and natural is hard to do, and making the music fit well with the camera scenes was very difficult also.

Mis-en-scene planning

In order for us to create our opening effectively, we had consider all aspects that came with creating a film, including the mis-en-scene.
We decided that Kudiwa's house was most suitable for filming due to factors such as its location and also that it was the easiest to create our desired setting for the opening.
We decided that we wanted our setting to take place in a house/ flat in order to create the impression to our audience that the house is not a place of safety; hoping to cause intrigue  in the audience and also to ensure that they want to see how it came to be that someones place of refuge, or home, has been invaded and the followup to that.
Furthermore,  for our opening we had to ensure that the audience is able to gain a hint of who or what the character's are to cause interest, to deepen their knowledge of the film but ensure they do not receive too much knowledge so that their interest in the film is deepened; the main aim of the title opening.
We decided that the use of stereotypes were helpful in creating an effective impression to the audience of who the characters were and what they did. For example, we wanted to represent to the audience clearly that the woman was successful and a working woman, so we decided to dress her in a suit as she is a focal character in the film and so some knowledge of who she is  is needed in order to create a successful title opening.

Credits list

·                Distributer -Stephanie Attoh 

·                Production company- The Angel

·                Director - Annabelle Andrews

·                Producers - Albana Aruqaj, Theodor Ashwell

·                Actor - George Lan, Harriet Lukes, Stacey Kay, Gregory Fishers,  Eda Yuzudick, Stavroulla Econmou, Kyle Graham, Saydul Ahmed.

·                Director of Photography - Edit Petkova

·                Sound by - Greg Smart

·                Editors -Kudiwa stacey Makarawu

·                Casting by - Leanne Peter

·                Production design - Habiba Ahmed

·                Director 

Recording voices for Opening sequence

For our film, we decided to record the actors voices in order for our audience to perceive the voices as part of a telephone answering machine. We have done this by recording with a camera and placing the audio as a voiceover in the opening title.  This is so that we are able to show to our audience that somebody (the person revealed at the end of the opening sequence) is missing but still creates an element of mystery as we do not know why or how they came to be missing. This is done so that  enough knowledge is enabled to be gained by the audience, but not too much so that the audience is still intrigued by the opening title.

Pictures from Filming

These pictures where taken during the filming process.

Rough Cut Submission

Titles in our final opening film

In our final opening of a thriller film we need to have different production titles and credits. To do this effectively we watched different thriller openings on Youtube, to get an idea of how we can do this.

We first watched the opening credits of The film, 'Seven' from this: 

• Distributor
• Production company
• Director
• Cast
• Title
• Casting by 
• Music by 
• Costume designer
• Edited by
• Production design by
• Director of photography 
• Co-producers 
• Executive producers
• Written by 
• Produced by
• Directed by

For our film we will have the credits:

• Distributer 
• Production company
• Director 
• Producers 
• Actor 
• Director of Photography 
• Sound by 
• Editors 
• Casting by 
• Production design 

PRODUCTION: Shoot photos

to b uploaded

PLANNING: soundtrack inspiration

We really liked the sound of this and felt like it matched with our sequence..