Full House final film

Production Logo Animation

I designed the production logo animation to fit in with our poker theme. It starts with the Ace of Spades in the centre of the shot as it is the suit we based our logo on and the card strongly resembles our logo as it has the spade symbol in the centre of the card. The cards then move out of shot to reveal the logo and then the camera zooms into the logo to emphasise it and to show who made the film.

Evaluation Question 7

In our preliminary task we had to film and edit together a conversation between two characters sat across from each other after one of them walked into the room. We did this to practise continuity and to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 rule. During this task we learnt how to use a [insert camera name here] camera and also how to edit in Adobe Premier Pro whilst keeping the continuity and match on action correct. I feel that this was useful during our main task of creating the titles and opening of a new fiction film. We learnt that when filming we’d have to film the same action multiple times from different angles for the sake of continuity and that also that when editing it together the action in the clip would have to be identical unless you wanted a jump cut effect which would make the film look disjointed and glitch. During our main task I improved on adding effects and transitions such as dissolves. We also improved on adding titles on to our film that looked like they belong in the film and didn’t just appear on a black screen but interacted with the film by appearing over the footage and alongside characters but disappearing when a character walks into the space that the text inhabits. We also used elliptical editing instead of continuity editing as we didn’t want to show the whole of the journey when the main character is walking.

Evaluation Question 6

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Evaluation Question 5

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Evaluation Question 4

During pre-production we decided that our target audience would be teenagers and young adults. We decided this as it has been shown that the 16-25 year old demographic are some of the most frequent cinema goers. 

We also decided that as we are a part of this demographic we would understand what appeals to them. During preproduction. We gave the film an age rating of 15 so that it could also attract an older audience who is drawn in by the elements of thriller used in the film as it is a popular genre. We included predominantly female characters as after researching the genre and getting audience feedback we came to the conclusion that there were not enough mystery-thriller films that had female leads and that’s what the audience wanted. Our film is targeted towards British people as we use colloquialisms that people who are not familiar with their meanings. Because of this it may alienate some of the potential demographic. Despite this our demographic is still quite large as it can appeal to both genders, this is because it has a predominantly female cast which attracts a female audience but the mystery-thriller genre also appeals strongly to males. Another way we tried to attract our demographic is by adding humour as more people want to see a film that is funny and will make them laugh compared to a dark depressing film.

Evaluation question 3

With the plot of our film being more risky as it goes against the government we decided that our film would be produced by a small independent company as they have more freedom of creativity than one of the Big Six. The Big Six consists of The Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, 20^th Century Fox, Columbia, Universal, and Paramount. In the Big Six there’s a lot of creative restriction as there’s an emphasis on making money. 

We then went on to look at two independent film companies, Warp Films and Working Title. 

Warp films make social realistic films that focus on British problems. Examples of films made by Warp Films are Submarine, Four Lions, and This Is England. 

Working Title make a wide variation of films ranging from films with a mainstream story line, such as Love Actually and Bridget Jones Diary, to independent risky storylines such as Senna and United 93. Other films made by Working Title include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Rush, and Closed Circuit. Even though Working Title is owned by Universal Studios it still has creative freedom as they are given a yearly allowance to create whatever film they want to with no limitations. Because of this we decided that Working Title would be a good company to produce our film as they have created films of a similar genre before and because of their affiliation with Universal Studios the film could be distributed to a wider audience.