Final Movie

Feedback 2

Production logo

Our Production Logo is very bright and very recognisable. We edited this on photoshop to make it so bright. It has our production company name clearly stated in the middle that is easy to read and very in your face.

Rough Cut 1

This is our first rough cut, we decided to get feedback after our rough cut so we knew the things we had to change.

Positives/ Negatives

What we did well
I feel as a group we worked very well together. We each did a bit of acting and we all contributed with ideas on our filming. Our editing went well including adding the soundtrack, although we could have got better sound effects if we used a different program that was available to us.


What we would change if we did it again
As we now have experience of making a film I think we would get a clear idea when we are storyboarding and try sticking to it as much as we can including all the camera angles and dialect as when we went filming our idea on our storyboard we changed it many times and when we went out filming we didn't have a clear idea what we had to do until we were actually there so this slowed our filming down. We would also probably use a better camera with more mega pixels are our film looks very unprofessional because of this.

Camera work

We varied our camera angles throughout our thriller sequence, specific ones we used were; extreme close up/close up/medium shot/long shot. The close up shots complimented certain parts as it was crucial for the audience to know what needed to be emphasized. The med/long shots were used when we needed to show more happening in one shot. More examples of camera work we used were establishing shots, point of view shots and an enigma shot with the close up of the kidnappers eye.The majority of our thriller was filmed using a tripod. However, we filmed hand held on the parts where the kidnapper was watching the two boys as this made it more clear to the audience that they were being watched. We also used night shot mode on the camera to make it more obvious to the viewer its a point of view shot.

Lighting

We didn't use specific lights to change our lighting as all of our film is outside. We aimed to do our filming in low key lighting but this was difficult as our filming is done outside so we had to choose quite a dark gloomy but clear day so the lighting would already be situated for us. On our camera we used to night mode to do our point of view shots as this changed the colours slightly so it's obvious they're point of view shots. We were rushing to meet filming deadlines so one of our shots there is frost on the ground as we had to film over the 'big freeze'. We did the majority of our filming at this time but we decided it wasn't working at all well with our film ideas so we went back out a few weeks later when the lighting and conditions were better. This slowed us down by a few weeks but fortunatly we hadn't got too deeply into the editing.