Evaluation

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final Production (OTS Task)

OTS Task Retribution final version from Adam Anderson on Vimeo.

Hansel and Gretel(Continuity task)

from Wil Allen on Vimeo.
Reviewing my own work:
Looking back on our finished version i feel that overall it was a success as it included the 180 degree rule and used match on action. Throughout the video we used many different camera angles to make the scenes and cuts more interesting. We also made our own music, which was composed by Wil Allen, so it fitted our film rather than using an already existing soundtrack that wouldn't fit our story and style. There was a few small mistakes within the final version, for example one scene was a little too dark so you couldn't see the character. In some scenes the dialogue was a little too quiet which we attempted to fix but there was only so much we could do by editing it, so if we were to improve it and had more time we would re film some scenes so the dialogue was decent.

Evidence of filming

Evidence of filming from Adam Anderson on Vimeo.

This is evidence of my role as lead camera man. There are also clips of scenes we decided to remove due to our feed back on them.

Production group update

As a member of group has left we have re-assigned the roles in our production group.
Roles:
Adam Anderson = lead camera man, lead mise-en-scene role
Ishaaq Tolentino = Lead editor, lead sound editor

Target Audience (OTS Task)

Our intended audience for our production is aimed at men between 18 to 30 however other audiences may also enjoy it. This is because men typically enjoy action and crime films more than women. As the film is quite violent it will be watched by adults and as the rating of or production is a 15 we chose to aim it between 18 and 30 as other age groups are usually not interested in action or crime films.

Looking at Pete Buckinghams theory on audiences we decided to aim our production at youth of today and film fanatics. as they fit our age range and are usually males.

We have kept true to most of the Noir conventions but we have modernized it to attract a younger audience as well by using modern props and scenery like computers, watch etc. This is why we have decided that men aged 18-30 will most likely watch our production

Questionair responses

We showed our first draft to our class then asked them to answer our survey to get somne feedback to help improve the final production.

First version of our OTS (OTS Task)

OTS Task Retribution from Adam Anderson on Vimeo.

This is our first version of our opening title sequence and will be using this version to get feedback.
We encountered some problems when uploading as the program we were using, Final cut pro, had problems with rendering our ident as it was created on photoshop. Due to this we had to remove our Ident for our production company "IshBanDam Productions" as it would not render but in our final version we will include the ident.

Questionnaire for our first version of our OTS (OTS Task)

 This is a questionnaire for our first version of our opening title sequence.We will be showing our first version of the opening title sequence to our class to get some feedback and see what we can improve on or what does not work well. I will also post the production on another post to allow anyone to answer the questionnaire to get a variety of responses from different people and age groups.

this was created by Adam Anderson

Story Board (OTS Task)

This is the storyboard i created for my group. This is only a rough idea of what we want our opening production to be so we will be using this as guidelines when filming.




This was created Adam Anderson

Ident soundtrack (OTS Task)

Ident Soundtrack for ISHBANDAM Productions:






This is the non-diegetic  track we have decided to use for our ident. The tack is upbeat and fast at the start giving it a good effect on an ident. The track however will need to be cutdown and slowed as we do not want the entire song only the beginning as the text fades in. This will be done in the final cut pro and edited onto the ident.


This was created by Ishaaq Tolentino

Mise en scene (OTS Task)

Some of the props used in our OTS Task:

The Gun: To represent the realism of violence we decided to use a gun which will be  used in our hostage scene.

String: In the planning and prep we originally thought we wanted cable ties as it would have been more realistic however it was not accessible so as an alternative we thought some string or rope would work just as well to give the effect of a hostage situation.

Plastic sandwich bag: We used this in our detective scenes to replicate a evidence or DNA bag. This prop would create tension a suspense but also to create an Enigma like how did the detective find it? or was it meant to be found?

Gloves: To make the criminal more aesthetically dangerous we used black gloves which are commonly used by criminals so they don't leave any finger prints.

This was created by Adam Anderson

Film Certificates (OTS Task)

As our film will include violent scenes int needs to have a reasonably high film certificate. When researching the different film certificates on the "British Board Of Film Certificates" if found that the 18 certificate may be the correct certificate for our film. I feel that as our film will include murderer and mild torture that it should only be appropriate for adults. The opening title sequence will include a hostage scene and may be unsuitable for people under 18, However during my research I also found that the 15 certificate may also work for the film but as the actual film may include more scenes that could be distressing to the viewer we decided 18 would be the best solution and people under 18 might not find the film interesting to watch.

18 works are for adults and can contain strong issues such as:

• very strong violence 
• frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***') and / or very strong language (e.g. ‘c***’) 
• strong portrayals of sexual activity 
• scenes of sexual violence 
• strong horror 
• strong blood and gore 
• real sex (in some circumstances) 
• discriminatory language and behavior 

Though 18 films and videos may cover difficult and strong subjects and themes, harm is still a consideration. Very dangerous or criminal behavior (for example, behavior which if copied poses a credible harm risk) may be cut.

Update

Looking at our resualts from our questionaire many people thought that it should have been an 15 in stead of an 18 which I agree with as there are not any really violent scenes shown within the opening title sequence.


Created by Adam Anderson

sound research (OTS Task)

Sound Research

As I have the role of head of sound I have been doing a lot of research into royalty free sound tracks and into different websites i could use to find the right sound track and piece of music/sound to go over the whole production. I was looking for a piece of sound which was around 2:30 minutes and was filled with suspense and tension.













These are some of the sound websites and sounds inside them which I have been looking at and saving for possible future use in my groups final cut for our OTS task.


this was researched by Ishaaq Tolentino

practice scene drawing (OTS Task)

Hostage Scene Rough Drawing





This is a rough drawing in which we did as a group to outline our scene and to try and include as many of the props in which we think will be in the scene. The camera at the front on show was used to show a possible split screen/live feed which may be used to capture the scene to reflect in other scenes to come.


this was created by Ishaaq Tolentino

final production planning (OTS Task)

our job roles

Me(Adam)-lead camera man
Ish T-lead editor
Jack B-lead sound editor

We will all help each other out but these are our basic roles in which we will be the most involved in and responsible for. I decided that camera man was an appropriate role for me as I am the most experienced with different camera angles and techniques.

I have decided to work with these people as in our practise and the continuity task I thought that their production worked well and as we know each other well we would be able to work well together in a group.

We have thought about our film title and we decided that the name of the film should evolve and the word revenge. We used an online thesaurus and came up with a lot of different names like vengeance, retaliation and reprisal. The name we decided to go with was Retribution as we felt this sounded the best and fitted with our plot for our story. Evidence of us researching for this is in the picture

We decided to create our production name and ident which Ishaaq was in charge of. The first idea was an outline of each of us which worked out quite well and the second was evidence of turning into a video by making the picture and name fade in and out. When thinking of a name for our group we came up with 'IshBanDam productions' this was crated by using three letters of each of our names for example 'Ishi came from the start of Ishaaq and 'Ban' came from Jack Banhma and 'Dam' came from Adam.

For inspiration we looked at a few images of crime scenes and terrorist scenes in other films to give us an idea of what we want to create. For one of our props we decided to create a suspect board which will be used in our  opening title sequence

created by Adam Anderson

The Narritive (OTS Task)

This was created by Adam Anderson

Foleying part 1

we were set a task to create sounds based of an extract we watched in class. These are a few sounds that I created to experiment at foleying and I think some sounds went better than others so for the next part i will focus on the editing and perfecting the sounds by using a better recording device.

Hansel and Gretel evaluation

Evaluation

My group consisted of me, Wil Allen and Jude Clark. I was the lead camera man and co editor along side Wil. Wil was also co editor and composed and edited the music to our video. Jude was the lead character role and created and edited his narration. Overall I think the group worked well as we got the task done within the time given and the final production went well. I think if we were to do it again we could do with a little more planning and we could spend more time editing and perfecting it.

We decided to use the basic story of Hansel and Gretel but include the stock characters of a noir film. We made The Witch the femme fatal which seduced the Hansel which was the every-man. Gretel was the girl next door which rejuvenated the every-man from his 'bad decisions'. We also added our own characters which were  the 'horrible' parents which sent them off into the woods for some 'sweets'. I feel that in the final production we were able to show who was who and that it was clear to the audience which character they were and what role they had, when we were given feedback we were told the story and narrative was 'easy' and 'clear' to understand.

During the making of our task we chose to film in the woods to keep the original theme of Hansel and Gretel and we decided to use a drama studio to film for the witches house however we thought that this location did not work well with the theme so we instead used Jude's house which fitted with the modern/noir theme. For the editing, the software I used was imovie as it was able to do everything we wanted like add filters. For one of the scenes in the woods I found that the camera was not steady so i had to edit this but there was only so much I could do using the software so if we had more time i would re-film that scene so the film flowed together more. We decided to compose our own music so it fitted our style more. Wil was in charge of the composing the music as he was experienced in that area, this worked well as it built up tension leading the gun scene and kept the scenes flowing together.

Overall I think it went well as our classmates enjoyed the film but to improve we could re-visit the editing as one or two scenes had a few mistakes but I feel that it was a success and we met the brief which was to include the 180 degree rule and i think we kept continuity throughout the production.

media evaluation from adam on Vimeo.

Hansel and Gretel Bloopers

Hansel and Gretel(Script)

Hansel & Gretel

Characters

Hansel=Jude

Gretel=Wil

The Witch=Adam

Dad=Wil

Mum=Adam

Opening title sequence

(Hansel is being cooked)

 Hansel: I guess you want to know how i got here don't you, well it all started with my parents

Flashback to house

(Hansel walks into a room with parents)

Hansel: Hi mum and dad

Dad: His son, we need you to get us some sweets

Hansel: But what-

Mum: Head to the forest and don't bother coming back unless you have any sweets.

(Hansel walks out of the room)

Flashback to Hansel and Gretel walking in the forest

Hansel: Why did mum and dad tell us to come out here we're never gonna find any sweets out here

(Gretel nods)

Hansel: I Brought some bread just in case we get lost

Gretel: That's good, i also brought dads gun just for protection you know?

(Hansel and Gretel get lost)

(A twig breaks)

Gretel: What was that?

Hansel: Come on lets get out of here

(They come to tow paths leading to different directions)

Hansel: Hey look the paths splits into two, i can see a house down there

Gretel: It could be risky

Hansel: They could have sweets that's what we need

(Gretel shakes her head)

Gretel: It could be dangerous we shouldn't go there

Hansel: Well fine I'm going this way without you

Gretel: Fine!

(They split up with Hansel heading towards the house)

(Hansel sees a lady outside and is draw to her)

Hansel: She looked beautiful standing there

(Hansel follows the lady inside the house)

The Witch: Take a seat

(They both sit down next to  table)

The Witch: Are you looking for these(Holding up a bag of sweets)

Hansel: Where did you get these

The Witch: Does it matter, try one

(The Witch gives a evil stare hoping Hansel will try one)

(Hansel gives in and takes a sweet and starts to chew)

(Hansel gets a sugar rush and starts hallucinating)

(As Hansel is slightly unconscious she Takes in into a oven)

Flashback to furnace 

Hansel: So this is how I got here

(Gretel picks up here phone and starts to ring Hansel)

(Hansel picks up his phone)

Gretel: Hansel I should have never of left you

Hansel: No Gretel there's no time for that, I need to to come and save me 

Gretel: Wait what?

Hansel: Quick come to that house and help me

Gretel: OK I'm on my way

(Gretel enters the house with her dads gun ready)

Gretel:(She whispers) Hansel, Hansel you there?

(Gretel slowly walks through the corridor, and comes to a room. she sees the Witch as she enters the room)

The Witch: Who are you what are you doing here

Gretel: I'm looking for my brother Hansel, Where is he!

The Witch: Hah your too late

(Gretel shoots the Witch out of anger, she then walks over the Witches body and finishes her off)

(Hansel screams to Gretel for help, she runs over and pulls him out of the furnace and they both hug)

Gretel: Come on lets get out of here

Hansel; Hang on, not without those sweets

(Hansel picks up the sweets)

Hansel: Now we can go

(They both leave the house and head home)

The End

What is a Sweded film

A sweded film is a recreation of a popular film using a very low budget. The rules of a sweded film are:

• It  must be already based on a popular film produced within the last 35 years
• It must be between 2-8 minutes long
• It must not contain any special effects or sound effects using a computer
• Special effects is limited to camera tricks and hand made props
• Sound effects must be made by human means only
• You cannot use clips of the actual film

Sweded film trailer(Ouija Board)

This is the trailer me and my group are going to swede and recreate.

Sweded film script

OUIJA Sweded film script

(FRONT PORCH)

Heather
what’s going on? 

Lydia
I just don’t wanna go out tonight

Heather
Are you sure you don’t wanna come? 

Lydia
I'm good. 

Go, go have fun (voice over)

(TABLE)

Heather
Never feel like even after someone you love has died there’s still a way you can talk to them

Matt
you want to talk to Debbie?

Heather
Yeah

(FRONT PORCH)

This is where Debbie died

(DINING ROOM)

Matt
I don’t think this is a good idea

Heather
As friends we've gathered hearts are true, spirits near we call to you

If you can hear us, Debbie I miss you

Jakey
Calm down it’s an old house

Josh
this is a joke

Matt
Come on you guys who’s doing that?

Heather
Sarah cut it out

Josh
I'm not pushing

Ish
It just spelt "hi friend"

Matt
Okay this is freaking me out, I’m done with this

(BEDROOM)

Lydia
I found something. I found something. I want to get this on camera... 

(Camera) I found something in my house,

 Weird things started happening as soon as I found the board (voice over)

(LOCKERS)

Heather
Debbie found the board in her house, she woke something up

(TUNNEL)

Jakey
is somebody there? 

(LOCKERS)

Jakey
this thing, it’s haunting us 

(INDOORS)

Heather
Hello? 

(Scream)

(TOILET)

Jakey
it’s coming for all of us (voice over)

So who's next? 

Matt
Mmmm

(OUTSIDE)

Josh
how do we stop this?

(LIVING ROOM)

Cam
you have to break the connection or it will keep coming for you

(INDOORS)

Heather
we have to play the game again, one last time (voice over)

Everyone
as friends we've gathered hearts are true, spirits near we call to you (voice over)

(DINING ROOM)

Heather
Can you show us a sign? 

(Scream) did you kill Debbie?! We’re done. We’re not playing anymore

Josh
it’s not even real ok? Cheers to them

Everyone
(scream)

This was created by Ish

Sweded film props

For our sweded film we needed a few props. This was the process and making one of the props in our film.