Robyns evaluation

Camera Shy.
Our group had to produce an opening sequence to a film. In our group there were Me, Hannah and Hollie. We were all assigned different jobs during the project, which had to be completed. These included things such as research, production planning, filming, and so on. Each one of us helped out in these areas.The genre of our film is ‘thriller’. We chose this unanimously because in the film industry, they make 161.5 million dollars on each film; therefore it is a rather demanding type of film. We had to make sure that the viewers would understand the genre, so we had to have certain conventions: Such as props and lighting. We had a scalpel in the newspaper sequence, and low key lighting which hints that film is going to be a little scary! The audience knew what kind of film we were trying to portray, as the questionnaires come back with the right answers: Horror, or thriller.Unlike most typical horror films, with a male psycho killer, we had something new lined up. Our killer is a female, who is surrounded by news everyday. The latest news is about how teenagers are becoming more and more trouble, and how they are taunting people. Her hatred builds up to a point where she wants to get rid of them. So she feels it’s her job to do away with the whole generation, and make a perfect one.We emphasise the age gap between adults and teenagers in today’s society by the action that they do, and by the pace of the action. For example, in the first few seconds of the film, there is a girl running wearing modern ‘teenager’ clothes. This shows the youth, because she is scared and also because it’s what they wear. Whereas the “killer” is all slow paced. Like when she’s cutting out newspaper headings, or gluing things into the book, she does it to perfection. And she’s more or less in the same position all the way through. This shows that she isn’t as active as she once where as a child.In 2008 the demands for horror films have gone up, almost three times as much, since 1998. Going from 16 a year, to an outstanding 44!! As a result of this, plenty of major companies would be more than happy to invest in our film, such as “The British Film Council”, or “Ghost House”.
During our research of the age ranges, we discovered that 41.5% of people that regularly visit the cinema are between the ages of 15 and 34. As we are part of that group ourselves, we thought it would be easier to produce something which we knew something about: We know what we want in a film. 60% of our audience viewers said that they would possibly watch it, if it was made into a black buster!

We used the internet to gather some ideas on how to start our sequence, finish the sequence and also adding the credits in. We used www.youtube.com to see how other producers had done this, so we could get an idea of what to produce. We used www.imdb.com to get some ideas for storylines and to look at general reviews on other films with our genre. In order to update our ‘findings’ we had to produce a blog on www.blogger.com. We recorded our progression, and any other relevant information on it. We learned which way was best to record. For example, either handheld or on a tripod. After we had all of our footage, we then had to edit it. We had to cut the best bits, add transitions, change the lighting and add credits.
Our project is a lot better than the preliminary task, because we are used to the software, and can use varied effects to make it more interesting and we collected more shots, so we had more to work with.
Our project was well planned, and we had lots of research to help us with the ‘writing’ side of things. We were compatible as a group, so there was no arguing or tension between us. Unfortunately, the shots we did at the end, seemed pretty rushed, so that kind of set us back a bit, but overall, I think it’s Okay!