Craig's Evaluation

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

From the outset, as a group we wanted to base our short thriller opening on something psychological, this because when watching thriller films they are the ones that keep the audience glued to screen wondering what is going to happen next, truly what a thriller is all about.

Individually we researched many thriller films, to get into the right mind set as to how a thriller film is set up and what they employ to make the intro all the more captivating. I chose to look at The Silence of the Lambs and Taxi Driver as films I have already seen i thought it would seem logical to look further in to them. Both contain a male lead character, whose lives revolve around lonliness and seperation, leaving their own minds to be negatively altered by their isolation. Too me this really jumps out as something I would like to see, so to use it would make sense.

The idea of isolation is furthmore shown in these screenshots, 'Dr. Hannibal Lecter' (right) is seen behind bars furthermore showing how he is locked out of society and on the left, 'Travis Bickle' a taxi driver sent insane by his own company. 

The idea of isolation was certainly what we wanted in our group, some of the all time greatest thrillers were centered around this idea, and it really opens up endless possibilities - which is why we went with our final choice of insomnia.


With the idea of insomnia already in place, we had to find a setting. It was clear to us from the start that we would need two settings, one a fair simple bedroom scene and the other outdoors, somewhere vulnerable, cold and dark - from this we listed some possible locations and settled on a forest or woods as it would be an alien landscape for the character. We wanted the audience to wonder what was happening, a dream or reality and the huge contrast between the two settings really helps us create this effect.

We have tried to add something else to the film, that is different and shows we didnt copy any other films and the is the light ray effect used on all of the shots when the female character is in her dream like state.


9 Shot Sequence.
Here are 9 screen shots taken from our thriller opening.

1. She is closing the door on the viewers as if shutting us out of her life.
2. This close up shows us her full face and shows us how she is emotions much closer. She looks lost, suggesting the later woods scenes. Face is split, light and shadow, as if she has an alter personality.
3. We can see her in the mirror, which gives a great sence of her being spied on. The tablet has a dominant position on the table, almost showing dependance on it, once again showing vulnerability.


4. This shot is her waking up on the forest floor, she looks confused, and as if she doesnt know what is going on. Once again shows close up emotions. The light filter helps to emphasise the dream like state.


5. Shot 5 shows that the character is lost, both literally and in her own mind, her aimless wandering is show from this high angle where we see her just walking again. White dress is shown in full, shows her purity and innocence. The innocence furthmore backed up by non-diegetic track in the background, a nursery rhyme, which is usually associated with happiness and joy.


6. (accidently put 7 twice... so the first one!) This shot shows once again her purity, in her current state she is easily distracted and the string in the tree draws her attention, showing she is carefree and calm in the dream.


7. We are then shown her tossing and turning in her bed, she looks very uneasy and stressed, symbolising that something will go wrong in her dream.


8. This shot shows her trapped, confined to a small area, representing that she cannot get out of this dream. Shows that it could finally be too much for her, starting to get annoyed being trapped in the forest. So she could be hiding from everything.


9. In this shot, right before it cuts to black. She is paranoid hearing noises, then suddenly turns around to this shot and her face drops, she is shocked and overwhelmed and we can immediately see that something wrong is about to happen, which is then followed up by two gunshots, throwing the audience in to wondering what has happened.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Our first decision was the character would be female, this as they are stereotypically shown as more vulnerable than men.

Then it was a case of age, we really wanted our audience to be captivated by the film and have some sympathy for the character. We decided that an adolescent girl would be best, aged 14 - 18, often a time in life where peoples minds can change very drastically and have huge effect on the lives of the person.


Her outfit was chosen with one thing in mind, the purity that it represents, it makes the girl look very pure and innocent, the type of character than is often vulnerable in films. The style is very old fashioned and not something a teenager would wear these days. This could represent how she is different from other young females. 


The makeup throughout the shots is very important, from the start of the shots we can see she looks very tired, and represents that she could have somekind of sleeping disorder. Her face looks very exhausted and represents that she is tired of how she is currently feeling.

She is quite the contrast to the usual teenage girl, she appears very submissive and shy and dresses in an older style, adding to the vulnerability.


Her facial expression throughout is often as if she is lost and confused, this helps the viewer to feel empathy for her in her dream state, as it becomes clear something is about to happen to her.

What kind of institution might distribute your media product and why?

Distribution.

It is the distributors job to get the film from the final product to in the eye of public, they need to make it look like the best film of its kind and to get it as much in people faces as possible.

As films are only be released once it is important that when they are finally revealed that there is as many people as possible wanting to watch it. 

The producers put a certain amount of money in to getting the film advertised, then when the profits from cinema viewings, dvd sales and other incomes come in they are split, so it is important that the producers do as much as possible to make a lot of money, a good example of a symbiotic relationship between the two parties, as it benefits both financially.

These three pictures are of some of the most well known distribution companies in the world, many top films have come through them, hence the huge reputation they have, becoming household names through the films they have represented.

 
There are many ways in which films can be advertised, almost all big budget films capitolise on these and use any means possible to advertise the movie, some examples are as follows:






Magazines, they offer interviews with the stars involved in the films as well as reviews written by very good writers. These magazines are very popular amoungst women, so this creates a lot of fuss if a film is represented in one of these magazines.





Billboards and outdoor adverts. Seen a lot in urban areas, anywhere there is a blank space not filled, an advert can often be seen. Distributors pay for the right to have there product shown out in public, often seen on busses, sides of building etc.

Movie premieres. 'The red carpet' a term often used to describe them. The big names in movies come to 'strut their stuff' on the famous red carpet infront of, as you can see, photographers, often hundreds, this is a huge advert for the film and a huge publicity stunt for the film.

Merchandise. As you can see in this picture, there is a whole shop dedicated to one film series thus showing how popular it is, children often want to replicate there screen heroes so selling any kind of merchandise is huge business for distributors, it also makes more money, as people see the film and want the gear afterwards.


Talk shows. The big name stars often appear on prime time TV to talk about there recent role, the viewers get a sneak preview of the films best bits and want to watch the rest of the film.

Possibly the most traditional, Film Posters. They highlight what the film is all about in one shot, showoff all big name actors in the film and capture it in a well presented tidy poster. People see poster and if they like the look of it, will draw them in to the film. They are often seen at cinemas, so if someone does not know what to see, they could choose based on what the poster looks like, so it is important that it appeals to the target audience.

Other methods include TV adverts, shown on most TV stations they show some action from the film to induce the audience. In past times newspapers were often the main source of cinema listing, before the people had the internet, more recently film adverts are seen online to the side of webpages.

It is fair to say that advertising is everywhere, to go through a normal day without seeing an advert of some kind would be impossible, this is why it is very important for the distributor to advertise well.


In recent times, films are not only seen at the cinema, they are also availible online, through games consoles and smart phones and in other ways such as DVD and eventually TV.

As for our product, i think i would like to see it distributed and seen only on the internet, as we embark through modern times it really is where everything can be seen, it would make us very unique and it could prove risky but I would prefer something different for our product than entirely similar to every other film at current times, making ours much more unique.


Who would be the audience for your media product?

The target audience for our film would ver much be for people aged 15 - 25, one reason is that this is the age of the main character, so would appeal to them most.

It is aimed at both males and females, as it female character whose personality is not revealed a lot, neither males nor females can relate overly to her, but people would like to see how the rest of the story pans out, and can relate to the character via empathy.


Other similar films are:

Inception is somewhat similar to our movie as it uses alter realities to confuse the watcher and question reality, something that we wanted in our thriller.

The Blair Witch Project is similar to our 

film as its setting is in a forest, using some

of natures creepiest and most unknown 

This is the 15 certificate logo.
Would be displayed on any box containing
the disk and all advertising means used.

areas to keep the viewer on the edge of  their seat

                                                                              

As a thriller, it would be given a rating by the British Board of Film Certification or BBFC, they are responsible for setting the age restriction for all British films. There are a number of criteria that alter the certificate, such as swearing, sex and nuditiy, violence, drugs and fear.

As our film is only an introduction, I feel that, if continued to completion it would involve most of these criteria, which i think would make our film a 15 certificate. 18 would be too high, as it is older than 
our the lower end of our target audience.

How did you attract/address your audience?

We used a number of means to attract our audience.

 The young character would appeal to our target audience, someone that people could relate too, and possibly to the emotions expressed throughout the film.

The setting is very uni sex orientated, the bedroom for example is very plain, this so that it does not represent one gender more than the other. Thus keeping both genders as primary in the target audience.

I asked a few of my friends and colleagues what they thought of the film, as they fit in to our target audience they are the right people to be asking what they think of it.

'I enjoyed the opening, very eerie! Loved some of the shots used especially the mirror shot.'

'I like the effect used on the shots in the woods, creates a fantastic dream like effect, some good and original shots.'

'The music goes well with the sequence, but is a little too loud i think, title sequence looks very fresh too!'

'I like the mirror shot, but not too keen on the title sequence or the shots of her wriggling in bed'

I was fairly happy with the comments, they seem quite fair. And they mostly agree somewhat in the way i feel our film has ended up. You can tell that we ran out of time on the whole thing and it is shown by some time saving cuts we made, which with some more time we could definately polish off some of the mistakes.

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of contstructing this product?

Planning:

We firstly got introduced to the equipment we would be using for the preliminary task, a small scale film to get used to the camera equipment and see what roles would best fit us. We quickly established that Amy Z would have to be in the film are managing to break two light stands in 10 minutes!

Next up was using the equipment, it was established that i was the going to be incharge of the camera, so learning how to use white balance, how to frame shots etc was very important. We spent quite a while practicing tilts and panning shots so that we wouldnt have to film to many takes when doing more complex shots.

We then had to test with lighting, as none of us have any major filming history this was all new to us, we had to discover lighting techniques and use them well to create the right scene, in the final product, our first set of shots inside filming in the bedroom were very bad quality, and the camera - which was different to the one we origanally wanted - was not set up properly..

Filming:

When we initially started filming, i dont think we realised just how long it took, we then started to rush shots, partly due to the freezing weather, and the quality was duely affected.

It was during filming that we were tested most, the lighting had eluded us already, so it was important to get right second time round. We tried a different camera, as the one before was not of the best quality, but as we set out for filming, discovered that we had not got the tape to film with, so had to do the ring around to find someone local with a camera, luckily a friend of Jacks had one, and we completed the filming, bettering all of the mistakes made in round one of filming.

Another mistake we made with the lighting was the filters, we set the white balance when it was in, when it should have been the other way around. A mistake that we made up for on the second time of filming.

Editing:
The editing side of the project was particularly challenging, it was a very long winded process for us that took a long time to get used too. Final cut pro was very hard to use, especially the long winded rendering process, with not having any experience on editing software, i couldnt get any of the ideas i wanted on the screen with out having to explain what i meant rigorously.

The macs were also something that i could not get used, having used windows computers all my life, the little differences and things im used to did not work well together and it was hard to use them. However we got it done in the end, and looks almost how we wanted it.

The title sequence was another thing we didnt have enough time to complete, and ended up doing a few simple effects, i was quite persistant in how i wanted it to look and I am happy that I made them continue to add more effects too it and I feel it is quite good.

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

Looking back at our preliminary task, you can see some big improvements in what we have done, our overall knowledge of how to use cameras to a visual benefit have come a long way with the practice we have done, barriers overcome and the lessons we have received.

I will present some screenshots of both of our products and see how far we have come along.

Firstly, here our the two title sequences, the first on the left, we had no experience on what to do, so opted for the simple option, not a lot of originality and a very simple font that has no meaning at all. The frame is not as nice as the new one, the title is one of my favourite parts of the film, the expanding text mixed with the slowly rotating background gives a great effect, very eerie, and with a bit more tweaking, i believe could look very proffesioanl.

These two shots differ greatly, yet you can still see the progression made, the prelim shot on the left has quite bad composition, not centered enough and too far out. You can also see things in the background that we did not want there, something we really worked on in the final piece, so that everything in shot, we wanted. The composition in the right frame is a lot better, and again we see a lot more originality. The lighting is a lot better than before, even though we did use it, just not efficiently enough.

Here you can see the huge contrast in shots, although the prelim has good framing, we have used no post production effects, so looks quite boring and not proffesional at all. Again notice the junk in the background, which we did not want or intend to be there. The shot on the right looks a lot better, and really conveys the dream like state it looks like a dream, and that is what we intended.

These two shots are to show the continuity editing that we used, both are part of a sequence of shots, the prelim task we did not try anything extravagent and provided not close up shots, just long and boring sequences, somewhere that we have definately improved on. 


Other things:
Sound. We have improved somewhat over the year, as the prelim had no non diegetic sound added whilst editing, whereas the final piece had numerous non diegetic sounds incorperated. 
Ideas. We had a lot more original and creative ideas in the final piece, whereas the prelim was a standard nothing flashy sequence. Something that we wanted to improve a lot when discussing how to progress our ability.


What we could improve.
If we could re edit our sequence, I think there would be a few things i would change, firstly, I would change all of the sound in the film. The non diegetic music is good, but i think the opening music isnt perfect, and the soundtrack when she is in the dream could be tweaked. However, we have not incorperated enough foley sounds, and the ones used arnt up to scratch.

I would then improve the title sequence, I like it, but it is very short, and has a lot of potential to be made better. We should have included some more titles and names and made the whole sequence longer and bolder.

We could enhance the visual effects, they are the effect we initially wanted, but perhaps seem to strong, it is very apparent she is dreaming. So maybe adding a few shots that dont have the effect would confuse the viewer. They also need to tweaked as in some it gives great effect, e.g. the spinning trees shot and the string in the tree pan shot. Then in others it just comes on too strong and overpowering.

All in all I feel it was a big learning curve, and next time, the final product will run a lot smoother, we made some big mistakes which can be avoided next time, and then hopefully we will develop in our movie making skills and could make a better movie opening.

Evaluation- Amy Zimmermann

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challange forms and conventions of a real media product?

How this relates to conventions of a thriller
Shot 1
It follows her feet as she walks upstairs and there is alot of empty space to show that she is alone, and isolation is one of the main themes that is used in thrillers alot.
Shot 2
In this shot yopu can clearly see her pill and water and soon see her taking the pill through the mirror this shows her dependancy on the pills and her weakness and power and status is other important theme that is used alot in thrillers.
Shot 3
Her facial expression looks nutural showing no emotion which is used in alot of in thrillers for example hide and seek as the central character Emilie doesnt show much emotion to show she is lonely and has lost something in her life and doesnt know how to deal with it so has given up.
Shot 4 
You see her lieing on her bed about to go to sleep some thrillers use a bedroom at night as some people are scared of the dark and feel that bad things can happen to you in the dark and at night and and feel insucure and unsafe which is way many thrillers are set at night.
Shot 5
The title sequence is used dark which relates to the fact that she might just be waking up so her eye sight is not fully normal yet which also suggests this might be a point of veiw shot, but also an establishing shot of the forest, the fact that the title is a bright light is was also used in a thriller opening we saw called 'The Silence' which used bright lights expanding as the title sequence which gave us the idea.
Shot 6
Her lieing on the floor and her facial expression shows confusion shows that she probally hasnt planed to be here.
Shot 7
Long shot used to show theres no'one around her, shows loneliness and isolation a main theme used in many thriller.
Shot 8
Body language is tight and she is hugging her knees to suggest she is frightened and scared and also again show loneliness.
Shot 9
Footsteps make the audience wander where shes going and what she's doing, makes them concerend as they don't know whats haoppening.
Shot 10
Facial expression looks worried and scaredm, the camera is at a close up shows something bad is about to happen, camera is also at a high angle to show her weakness which is a main theme in thriller. It is a point of veiw shot which means the protaonist is higher than her to show they have the power and the higher status.

Ideas we got from other thriller we've seen
• When we started learning about thriller opennings one of the first examples we watched 'The Killing' which began with a women in a forest, trying to escape from a group of dogs and people as they chased after her. This developed our idea of setting our thriller openning in a forest.
• The women in 'The Killing' was running away from someone and is scared and doesnt want to be in that situation, we changed this idea as in our openning instead of running away she just ends up there, she is a little cofused at first but is then quite happy to be there and instead someone finds her and only then does she want to run away.
• The idea of starting with forest scene in 'The Killing' was that no'one knew what she had done and who she was which created enigma which is what our openning creates as no'one knows why she's there and what is happening which makes both opennings restricted narrations as no'one knows whats happening.
• but as 'The Killing' continues we might have found out that that was infact that was a flashback so therefore may turn into slight unrestricted narration as we know that during the film she will do something to cause a chase and then end up in a forest. As in ours if we were to continue the film we may find that as the girl has insomnia it may become a repetative routine, so therefore may become unrestricted narration as the audience know whats to come.

How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The disorder
• Our openning revolves around the issue of insomnia as it's about a girl who suffers for insomnia. There are many writter and directors that base their film on someone suffering from insomnia. This shows it is a comman and important issue that writters feel they need to address. Film such as:
*Wide awake- directed by Alan Berliner
*The cure for insomnia- directed by John Henry Timmis
*Insomnia directed by- Christopher Nolan
*Dreams of an insomniac- directed by Tiffanie DeBartolo

Gender
• We used the gender of a female as females are sterotypically known as being the more vunerable sex. We made the character feminine by using the mise en scene:
*The costume of the white nightdress shows her innocents and purity.

*The prop of the tablet shows she depends on that to get her to sleep which shows her vunerablity, making the audience feel sorry for her. This also shows her dependency.

*In the bedroom scene her facial expression is sad and tierd showing she isn't looking forward to this nights sleep again to make the audiece feel sorry for her.

• But in the majority of the forest scene her facial expression is happy and excited to discover whats in the forest showing her more "masculine" side as she is adventurous and willing to explore.
• by using the prop of the log and her throughing it also shows her "masculine" side as she isn't afraid to get her hands dirty ect.

Status
• The camera is used to show her status as after she gets up in the forest and begins to walk around, the camera is at a very high angle to show her weakness.

• But as she continues walking in the forest the camera is normally at eye level, or at a low angle for example when she walks passed the strind and looks up at it, to show she is now familiar with her surroundings and has become stronger as a person.

• Then when she goes into the tunnel it goes to a high angle again to show she is vunarable which is also shown by her body language as she is curled up in a ball, hugging her leg.

• The high angle continues still when she gets out of the tunnel as the camera is at a very high angle.

• Then again in the antagonist's Point of View shot to show that the antagonist has the higher status. This is also shown by the girls facial expression as she is shocked and scared. It is also a handheld camera to show its a POV shot.

Protagonist and Antagonist
• All these things also show the audience the girl is most likely the protagonist as she is bought across as being vunrable. She is the lower status character and in the majority of the forest scene her facial expression is happy to show the audience she wouldn't harm anyone.
• There is also a antagonist but only comes at the very end of our thriler openning but their face is not shown we just see a point of veiw shot, through their eyes, and see the facial expression of the girl who is shocked, then we here the diagetic sound of two gun shots. The fact you don't see who shot her creates enigma. This has happened in many films were you don't find out who the antagonist is untill the end, such as:
*Hide and Seek, who is Charlie?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9uEkTPchIo
*What lies beneath, who killed Mrs Spencer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm4Fw2QElA4
*The Box, who kills the stranger when the button is pressed?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFHa-ygkF_M

Age (of character and time period)
• The age of the character is a teenager about 16 years old
• She is clearly a fairly modern teanage as she she has a modern house, her staircase has carpets, she has a dartboard on her wall ect.

• You can tell she is an isolated girl though as her room is very simple as it doesn't have lot in it.

• Also the clothes she is wearing is not the normal style of clothing a modern girl would wear to bed. Showing she's not "fashionable" and may have lead a shelter and lonely life. A modern teenage girl would normally wear something like this:

• But instead she wears a full length nighy:

• She has clearly had insomina from a young age as she has tablets and a glass of water beside her bed when she enters the room so has obviously been perscribed them. Now taking them before she goes to bed as part of a repeated daily routine.

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
• Producers who are us, get money from the distributors in two ways
* upfront- because they want the right to your film
* percentage of sales, showing and tickets
• Because you get paid a percentage of the sales you want to get as many people to see your film as possible.
• The timing of your film and when you bring out your film in the cinema is really important
*It is normally bought out on a friday so it can catch the weekend or in the school holliday so you get more students coming to see it
*There shouldn't be too much competition already out there, for example if you bring it out the same time as the Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part 2, there would be less people coming to see your film.
• There are many ways of that a distributors can avertise and promote your film, for example:
* Merchindice of your film but because this is a thriller and isn't a commical or happy storylined film merchindise is highly unlikely to be used as people would rather have 'happy' things on there T-shirts or pencilcases ect. Marchnidise is normally only used for cartoons or very popular films.

* Reveiws in magazines such as Empire, as our target audience is 18-25 year old they would most likely be reading Empire as it is eye-catching and picture orrientated with alot of big bold titles, colours and solgans.

* Viral messages, word speading and distributors planting things on google

* Premieres

* reviews on TV programmes such as film 2011

* Trailers

* Posters

* Bus posters and poster on bus stops

* Billboads

* Film festivals

* Talk shows/ interviews

* Radio advertising

Who would be you audience for your media product?
• For our media product we have worked on the opening to a thriller
• There are loads of different types of thrillers such as psychological thrillers, mystery thrillers, political thrillers, action thriller and paranoid thrillers.
• I think if we were to continue with our thriller it would become a psychological thriller as one of the definitions of a psychological thriller is, the suspence often comes from two or more characters preying upon one another's minds, either by playing deceptive games with the other or by merely trying to demolish the other's mental state.
• Another one is a characters battle against ones own mind.
• This relates to our thriller as the main character suffers from insomnia so therefore is constantly battling against her own mind through her dreams and nightmares.
• Also at the end of our opening she see's the anatagonist who shoots her and if we were to continue with the thriller. It might be a repatition where the antagonist constantly destroys her dreams and turns them into nightmares, which shows that antagonist is trying to demolish the main characters mental state.
• The main audience for a psychological thriller is males and females so your not being sterotypical towards females suggesting they can't handle watching them.
• around the age 18-25 as many thrillers have an 18+ age certificate on them.

• who enjoy watching films that mess with their minds, keep them guessing, and includes a twist. This is essential because if you dont like these you don't like these things then you wont like the film.
• Psychological thriller with an age certificate of 18+ include films such as Seven, Fight club, Sweeney Todd, Hard Candy, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Hannibal Rising and Unthinkable.
• Are film should be given an 18 certificate because as it progresses the shooting may become clearer and might be more voilent as everytime she has this dream the protagonist might killer her in a more painful way than just shooting her and blood and gore could be seen and as it is a point of veiw shot you could she him tourching her more and more with would not be appropriate for a younger audience to see, also something might have happened to her in the past to make her suffer from insomina and the protatonist might be someone from her past or from a nasty experience with might be sexual for example rape, so therefore would have a sexual content with again would not be appropriate for a younger audience to see.

How do you attract/ address your target audience?
• We had to ensure the film reaches the target audience which in this case is around 18-25
• I got people who are around the target audience to watch our thriller opening and comment their thoughts on it. Here is some of the feeback:
- I don't like it, it creeped me out! Haha. Well I liked it I thought it was wicked but cos it scared me, I got all goose pimpley! I love the bit at the beginning when your sat on the bed and your in thee mirror on the bedside table - genius! And the bit where you suddenly go to the woods and the camera is all blurry and stuff. Looks all good!! When's the next part coming up?
• I also really like the shot in the mirror as I feel it is something different and shows a variety.

- very good indeed very eerie. I feel the ending should have been more sudden and louder but it did make me jump, also I thought if the toss and turn was slower it would have been effective, but i enjoyed it a lot.
• We never considered or thought about making the toss and turn bit slightly slower but personal I think if we were to do it again we could test that out and see what it looks like because I think its a good idea

- I really like this well done i love the music choices that you made it added a really good effect LOOKS REALLY SCARY
- it was a little creepy. Could have played around with the level of sound in the hushabye mountain bit.
• I personal don't feel we really needed to change the level of non-diagetic sound because we wouldn't want it to quite so we couldnt here it but we didnt want it really loud to distract away from whats happening on screen, but maybe we would have had it start of quiter and then slowy go up until it reaches the point where it is at the moment.
- From the moment you walk up the stairs it has an errie feel to it, I liked the lighing when you were coming out of the tunnel as it was different and effective. I also liked the extreme close up as it looked really scary. But I feel there was too big a jump between the bedroom and the forest scenes as it didn't feel like you had gone to sleep
• I agree with this as I feel we could have done one more shot to show me falling asleep to make it more obvious that I had gone to sleep.

-very nicely done :) great range of camera angles and cuts really kept me guessing, sound, very clever no diegetic sounds but just that one eary version of hushabye as a non digetic, really built the suspense..great effects on the dream to make it obvious its a dream.
• I also feel the effect on the dream worked well as it showed the audience it wasn't real life and made it seem more abstract and out of the ordinary

- i love it! its really good, and really scary! aha, i also really like the music choice :)
• I also love the non diagetic sound choices but feel we could have done more with the diagetic sound and added more foley affects in there
- It shows a good use of film techniques and uses archetypes well I think it creates a clear but also mysterious story with a sense of confusion as to what world is real. A really good piece!
• I agree that we did use archetypes as we had the white dress but we also could have used more by getting a blonde actress to do it instead.
- The shot the glass and tablet where you can see your face in the mirror is a really good shot, but what happened at the end? Who shot you? I want to know more.
• I like the fact there so interested and want to know more as it shows we have achevied atticipetion and angaziaty to the audience members.
• The main note that people have been saying is that they like the choice in non-diagetic sounds, but felt the pace in some parts needed improving for example it needed to be slower from the falling asleep to the dream and a quicker pace at the end.


What do you feel you have learned in the progression from the preliminary to the full product?

Shot 1 and 2
• How we improved on our framing as in the first shot is poorly framed as we are not fully in the frame at all times, but in the second shot I am fully in the frame.
Shot 3 and 4
• The title sequence in the thrid shot the writing is quite simple and is just the words fading in and out of the screen as the scene continues, but in the forth shot is a new shot almost like an establishing shot of the wood and the title expands to a white bright light that fills the bottom half of the screen. This makes it more eye catching and interesting to watch.
Shot 5 and 6
• The use of lighting in shot 5 is quite dark and you can hardly see the shadows on the wall but can still slightly see shadow and whats happening in the scene, but in the sixth shot the lighting is alot brighter and the shadows are alot clearer to see on the wall. Showing we have become more experienced using lighting and know where to place it in and how bright to have it order to show clear shadows.
Shot 7 and 8
• The use of lighting in the eighth shot is alot clear than the lighting in the seventh shot and even though the effect in both is the same as they both have half the face light and half the face dark, to show that the character has a dark side. But you can see this effect more in the eighth shot.