Audience Response

Audience Response

At the end of the Easter term we conducted a showcase, for staff and pupils to view our films. After it finished we conducted various interviews to find out what people thought of our film. Below are the responses (unfortunately our camera broke half way through and we were unable to upload our film) below are the responses of those interviews.

Question 1.  What do you think are the the positives in our film? 
     
      Question 2. What do you think were the negatives in our film?

Rhys

The positives for the film were that we used a variety of shots including high and low angles, close-up's, medium shots etc. Also he liked our location

The negatives were that the camera could be of a better quality, but that wasn't really our fault because we given a camera at the start of the course, we were going to change to a High Definition camera but another group were using it at the time.  

Teacher

The positives we got from our teacher that we used a good use of variation of shots, she thought that it was a good idea that we used ideas from the T.V series 'The Fall' e.g., paper cut outs laid upon the bed spelling out 'I LOVE YOU' with a gift of a ring.

The negatives were basically the same as our friend Rhys said, that the camera needed to be of a better quality, but as I said before that is not our fault, she also mentioned that  we could have used a better location, because she didn't think that the house was scary or eerie enough.

Evaluation Question 7

7.  Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

If i was to be honest i would say that our preliminary task was much easier to structure and plan out compared to our production of 'Intrusion'. I thought this because in the making of Intrusion, we would do it one night, which we (Me and Alex), would think is good, but then the next day when we would show our teacher, it would be wrong and we would have to go and 
re-film. Which i thought was a bit stressful and we also had to give up hours of our free/spare time to complete this production but all in all i really enjoyed filming it!. 
      
          I had learned a lot of new things in the preliminary task that i did not know before, for instance how to put up the tripod, how to set the camera up on the tripod, which button to press to record/stop the film, that you had to rewind the camera to the beginning of the film before you could start recording the new footage and how to upload the footage on to 'Imovie'.

  Also the time it took to complete each task was completely different, with the preliminary task it took us less than 4 hours to complete, but with the production of Intrusion it took us more than 3-4 months to complete which was a staggering amount compared to the continuity piece, which you can see on my blog.

       The amount of things that went wrong in our production of 'Intrusion' were unbelievable, the first thing that went wrong was, when we had decided our roles and our film idea there were three people in our group, but then the third person in our group left Media Studies, so we had to think of a new idea and new roles considering that there was only two of us. So we went with the idea of a stalker thriller, we based our ideas on the Television series 'The Fall'. We planned to do it on one of my relatives farm, but that was another thing that went wrong. We also planned to have a woman in the actual film but also we didn't have a woman living with us, and we couldn't draft one in at such late notice. But in the film the roles were the camera man (Alex) and the main character of 'Harry'. We decided the roles pretty quickly because Alex didn't want to be the main character so i stepped up to take the lead.

Evaluation Question 6

I have learnt a lot to do with "technologies from the process of constructing of this product", during the course of making this media film i have learnt techniques to use 'Imovie' these techniques include;

• Splitting Clips
•  Voice overs(even though we didn't use any)
• Adding sound effects
• Transitions
• Adding text; such as titles
• Adjusting the volume/Contrast/Length of clips

I found the use of 'Imovie' easy and understandable, i don't know why i found it this easy because i haven't used the software before. The easiest thing i found to do on 'Imovie' was to do the transitions there is loads of already setup transitions that you can use for free on 'Imovie'. 

The other thing that i was taught to do was to set up my own blog on this site called 'Blogger', blogger lets you write updates on your blog like on 'Facebook' or 'Twitter' where it lets you tweet and write status updates.

We also learnt how to use a camera properly with a tripod and a clip where the camera sits upon the tripod. we first got introduced to this when we done our continuity piece, when we were doing that i found quite easy to man the camera and also quite easy to be in front of the camera acting, in our film that we have just completed i was thew main character 'Harry', because i think that the other member of our group was a bit camera shy.

      The tripod helped us greatly in the making of 'Intrusion', it helped to do essential pan shots and keep to keep the camera steady when we were doing regular shots.

Evaluation question 5

         How did you attract/address your audience? 

Our film is quite stereotypical because there is a teenage male stalking a teenage girl, the costume of the male is quite stereotypical for this type of genre (thriller) he is wearing a black coat and skinny blue jeans which is a pretty normal clothing for a 17 year old teenage male.

    Also our film is targeted at people aged 15-20 years of age, typically male. this is because this type of age group are generally the people you would associate with going to the cinema, to keep up with the latest and upcoming films, they know about these new and upcoming films from social media sites such as 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' and also 'YouTube' by watching trailers online.  

       If we were going to bring propps theory into this film it would sound and read like this.

   Propp's theory is the ability to give each character a role e.g protagonist and antagonist as there is only one character in the film 'Harry' would have to come the antagonist and the girl would become the protagonist, even thought we only see her but don't hear from her. 

      Our location was in Heol-Y-Cyw, at my dad's house, Heol-Y-Cyw is a rural village just outside Pencoed.  We chose this location because my partners Alex's house wasn't suitable, because it was easier to film down there mainly because i am always down there. The other reason we chose my dad's house was because it was quite a modern house, we chose a "modern" house because it's a flip on the convention of having a scary/eerie house.

  In the instance of 'Dialogue', we did not use any because we thought it would have been less scary if there was speaking in it, because if there was speaking in there it would have just been me speaking to myself, because it was only me in the film because my partner Alex is a little camera shy.

Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 4-
How did you attract/address your audience

Our target audience for our film is 15 and 30 year olds, we chose this because an under 12 wouldn't be suitable to see our film.

This is the typical target audience for our film;

This is Stefan, Stefan lives in Bridgend, he enjoys programmes such as Scorpion, The Flash  and Celebrity Juice, he also enjoys films such as The Fast and Furious franchise, 127 Hours and the Marvel franchise. Stefan enjoys playing football, he also likes to walk his dog along costal paths around South Wales.


The teenager standing next to Stefan his is good friend Craig. Craig also lives in Bridgend in the same neighbourhood as Stefan, he enjoys television shows such as Mastermind, University Challenge and Question Time, Craig also enjoys films such as Terminator, Alien and The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman. He also enjoys playing football with Stefan. He also likes sports such as Snooker and Darts. When he is not playing sports he also enjoys walking to keep fit and active.

Evaluation Question 3

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation question 1

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

  Introduction
 The typical codes and conventions of a thriller are low lighting, fast cuts, a variation of shots including action shots (e.g weapons). Also a variety of camera angles e.g close up's, tilts, long shots, medium shots. The use of enigma codes and conventions and also non-digetic and digetic sound.

Use Of Titles
 In our production of 'Intrusion' we used a few types of text in our production including who it was filmed by, who monitored  the sound, what our production company is called, who it was edited by, who it is starring and finally what our film is called.

Mise-en-scene
In the production of 'Intrusion' we used quite a few props such as letters, a hairdryer, teddy's, picture of the girl, a mirror, brush, lamp and a tablet. We used these props to make the setting of our production to look like a teenage girls room who Harry(the protagonist) was stalking. Harry was dressed relatively normal he was wearing a black coat, skinny grey jeans, grey shoes and a hat. We chose these clothes because we thought that they looked quite dark and creepy. 


Titles
When it came to deciding the titles for our production of 'Intrusion' we knew that titles were extremely important in the thriller genre, well in any genre really, so we had a look around 'Imovie' but couldn't find one that we liked;

so then we created a title on photoshop and thought it looked really good so we decided to keep it. Here is the title that we picked;

Use of narrative 
Our media production of 'Intrusion' uses many codes and conventions of the thriller genre, we have interpreted some these from the hit T.V series called 'The Fall'.

    'Intrusion' follows a teenager who is stalking a girl which he is desperately in love with, it follows him as he finds her house, goes inside and leaves her a special present on her bed, we took this idea from the hit T.V series called 'The Fall' in one episode where the actor Jaime Dornan placed underwear on the bed belonging to the woman that he is stalking. In our film the main character Harry places one of the girl's dresses on her bed and on top of that dress he leaves a ring and a bunch of newspaper letters that he had cutout spelling the three words "I LOVE YOU" and a ring which he leaves as a special present, which we thought would be quite creepy and spine tingling.

Photos from the production

Here are some of the photos which we took during the filming of intrusion;

 This is the camera man Alex

Here is the main character 'Harry' in action.

Third Day Of Filming

Fourth Day Of Filming

 The fourth day of filming was productive, we had managed to get some props to make the room look like a teenage girl's room. We had managed to get props such as a hairdryer, hairbrush, a mirror, posters and a dress.

       We had managed to film 7 scenes, these scenes were; 

 1. Looking through, finding and taking the dress out of the wardrobe.

2. Placing the dress on the girls bed carefully.

3. Shot of Harry looking at the dress on the bed.

4. A collection of shots of the girls possession's 

e.g posters, hairdryer, hairbrush and the mirror

5. Shot of Harry picking up a photo of the girl

    that he is stalking, and rubbing his finger 

    over the picture.

6. A close-up of Harry reacting to noise that he heard

    coming from downstairs.

7. The last scene we filmed was Harry climbing out of the window

    to get out of the house.