EVIDENCE AUDIT

OUR RESEARCH INTO SIMILAR PRODUCTS AND AUDIENCE

LOOKING BACK OVER MY PREVIOUS BLOG POSTS I CAN IDENTIFY THE RESEARCH AND INFORMATION I DISCOVERED ABOUT FILMS (IN PARTICULAR THE OPENING SEQUENCES) TO THE SIMILAR GENRE OF OURS. SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT TOOK PLACE WAS INVOLVING TARGET AUDIENCE; AS A GROUP WE THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A VITAL PROCESS THAT SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT FIRST AS WE NEED TO IDENTIFY WHAT THE AUDIENCE WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND WHO OUR AUDIENCE IS MOST LIKELY TO INCLUDE IN ORDER TO SUIT THEIR PREFERENCES AND APPEAL TO THEIR LIKING. IN THE BLOG POST TITLED ‘TARGET AUDIENCE RESEARCH’ WE VISITED YOUGOV TO FIND OUT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROFILES OF PEOPLE WHO LIKED SIMILAR GENRES TO OURS, INCLUDING ‘BLACK SWAN’ AND ‘DONNIE DARKO’. OUR FINDINGS FROM THE ‘DONNIE DARKO’ PROFILE WAS VERY USEFUL TO US AS IT FALLS UNDER THE GENRE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER (THE SAME GENRE AS OURS); AND IT GAVE US THE AGE RANGE OF THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO LIKE THE FILM – 25-39. THIS MADE IT MORE CONVENIENT FOR US WHEN CARRYING OUT SOME PRIMARY AUDIENCE RESEARCH AS THERE WAS A SPECIFIC AGE BOUNDARY OF WHOM WE SHOULD ASK. MOVING ONTO THE MICRO AND MACRO ANALYSIS OF ‘DONNIE DARKO’ – THERE ARE SOME THINGS WHICH I IDENTIFIED AND WANTED TO COOPERATE INTO OUR OPENING SEQUENCE.  FOR EXAMPLE, THE EDIT ON THE TITLES WERE VERY SIMPLE AND MINIMALIST WITH A DISCREET FADE IN AND FADE OUT; THIS WAS SOMETHING I FELT WAS VERY EFFECTIVE AND WOULD HELP SET THE OVERALL TONE OF OUR OPENING SEQUENCE. WHILST ANALYSING ‘FIGHT CLUB’ I DID FURTHER RESEARCH INTO THE ORDER OF CREDITS AND THE REASON FOR THEM; WHILST MAKING AN INDEPENDENT FILM, THERE WOULD BE MORE PRODUCTION COMPANIES IN ORDER TO FUND THE FILM. ALSO THE TITLE OF THE FILM WOULD APPEAR BEFORE THE ACTORS AS THEY WOULD NOT BE WELL-KNOWN, MEANING THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SELL THE FILM BY THEIR NAME – THIS IS ALSO SOMETHING I’M GLAD WE RESEARCHED AS IT GAVE US AN INSIGHT INTO HOW OUR OPENING CREDITS SHOULD LOOK. OVERALL I’M CONTENT WITH THE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH WE CARRIED OUT HOWEVER I DO BELIEVE WE SHOULD’VE TAKEN SOME TIME INTO RESEARCHING A BIT MORE INTO IDENTS AND THE INSTITUTIONS. WHEN IT CAME TO PRODUCING OUR IDENT AND PLACING IT INTO OUR FILM OPENING, IT WAS A BIT RUSHED AS WE COULD’VE THOUGHT IT OUT A BIT MORE TO ACHIEVE AN IDENT SIMILAR TO OUR FILM GENRE.

ORGANISED USE OF ACTORS, LOCATIONS, PROPS AND COSTUME

ON THE BLOG YOU CAN SEE I CREATED A PADLET INCLUDING THE MAJORITY OF THE MISE EN SCENE IN WHICH WE WANTED TO INCLUDE. THIS PROPS WE INCLUDED CONSIST OF THE ALARM CLOCK, THE DIARY, AND THE MEDICATION. THESE WERE THE THREE MAIN PROPS WE WERE EAGER TO INCLUDE AS WE KNEW THEY WOULD BE SIGNIFICANT IN SETTING THE TONE AND GENRE OF OUR FILM IN THE OPENING SEQUENCE. THE COSTUMES WE THOUGHT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE INCLUDE THE SUIT AND THE TRAINERS FOR THE TWO PROTAGONISTS WHICH WE INCLUDED WITHIN THE FILM. HOWEVER, ORIGINALLY WE WANTED TO FILM IN A DOCTORS WAITING ROOM IN ORDER TO SET THE SCENE EVEN FURTHER FOR A GIRL DIAGNOSED WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA; HOWEVER, AFTER BEING DENIED ACCESS FROM TWO DOCTORS WE DECIDED AS A GROUP THAT WE COULD JUST ELIMINATE IT FROM OUR SEQUENCE. WITH BETTER ORGANISATION SKILLS WE MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO INCLUDE THE SCENE, SO THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE DEFINITELY LEARNT FROM AND WILL THINK ABOUT NEXT TIME.

WORK ON SHOT-LISTS, LAYOUTS, DRAFTING, SCRIPTING, OR STORYBOARDING

I BELIEVE THIS IS ONE AREA OF THE BLOG THAT SHOULD'VE BEEN GIVEN MORE ATTENTION IN THE PLANNING PROCESS. ON THE BLOG YOU CAN SEE A POST INCLUDING OUR STORYBOARDS WITH A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING IN EACH SHOT, WITH SOME SHOT TYPES - HOWEVER THIS IS THE ONLY PIECE WE HAVE. IN OTHER POSTS WE HAVE BRIEFLY DISCUSSED CERTAIN SHOT TYPES WE WANTED TO INCLUDE BUT NOT AS A WHOLE. THIS WOULD'VE BEEN A SIGNIFICANT THING TO TALK ABOUT ON THE BLOG AS IT WOULD'VE MADE THE FILMING PROCESS RUN A BIT MORE SMOOTHLY AS WE WOULD KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE DOING AND WHAT WE WANT THE OUTCOME TO BE. HAVING SAID THAT I DO BELIEVE THE CAMERA WORK WAS HANDLED VERY NICELY IN OUR GROUP AND WE DID ACHIEVE A NICE RANGE OF SHOTS; BUT NEXT TIME LOGGING THEM WOULD'VE BEEN THE BEST DECISION. 

PRESENTATION OF IDEAS

OVERALL, I THINK THE BLOG IS LEGIBLE AND EASY TO READ AS EACH POST HAS A CLEAR TITLE. HOWEVER, SOME OF THE POSTS ARE NOT IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. FOR EXAMPLE, OUR FEEDBACK FOR THE ROUGH CUT IS POSTED BEFORE THE ROUGH CUT ITSELF DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES; BUT I DEFINITELY BELIEVE WE NEED TO SWITCH SOME OF THE POSTS IN ORDER FOR THEM TO MAKE SENSE. WE HAVE ALL LABELED OUR POSTS MAKING IT EASY FOR THE EXAMINER TO SEE WHO HAS PRODUCED WHAT. THERE IS A RANGE OF DIFFERENT MEDIAS USED ON THIS BLOG INCLUDING EMAZE, PREZI, CAMTASIA, SOUNDCLOUD ETC. THIS TESTED OUR SKILLS EVEN FURTHER AS WE WERE CONSTANTLY LEARNING HOW TO USE NEW SOFTWARES EFFECTIVELY.