Survey Results

We decided to leave out question 10 about the flashback, as we hadn't yet added it in before the viewing, and also lots of people didn;t answer question 12, as they probably didn't know what cinamatograpgy was. In looking at the results of our survey I chose to layout the questions then the answer to the questions so we, and other people, can see what the results for each question were, I also put questions 4 and 10 together and 7 and 8, as the answers people gave linked those questions together.Overall the feedback we got from the survey the audience, of our first viewing did, was reasonably positive.


1. Do you like our film? (circle) YES     NO   They all said they enjoyed our film

2. How old are you?  Most of our audience were teenages, so obviouly have different views than other age ranges.

3. What age do you think our film is aimed at?  The rating they gave our film was 15 or 18.

4. What do you like about our plot? 
10. Did you like the music in our film? Do you think it suited the film?    A number of our audience said we had an iteresting polt and it was intense, it created suspense and tension which was helped by our choice in music, Another person said they liked all the points of view from the camera of the characters.

5. What genre do you think our film is?   A crime/gangster genre.

6. Does our title suit the type of film? And why?  They all said that they liked our film title - 'The Captive', as it suited our film because in the beginning the people are being held captive/hostage, they also said it made it mysterious and it complemented the setting.

7. Is there anything you think we should change? Ideas of how we could improve our film? 
8. Do you think the camera is steady? And could you see our film clearly?    They did have ideas of how we could improve it, with the stablity of the camera, as in some parts it was jerky, others thought that we should have had blood when one of our characters (Nico) got shot.

9. Did you follow the plot of our film? Do you think it's realistic? All of our audience said that our plot was realistic and believeable.

11. Did you think our location went with our film?   Our audience liked the location as it was isolated, though slightly dark

12. Did you think our use of costumes were appropriate? They liked our use of costume as it was appropriate for our plot and genre.

Survey

Survey - Out of Sight Pictures by reedsmedia

Fonts - Title/Credits Analysis

After reviewing our film one of the thing's we thought we should change was our title colour and font, as we felt it didn't match our film, so i've looked at other font of the gangster genre to draw inspiration, and see similarities. First off they mostly all have black backgrounds, with bright or writing that stands out, like white, red or yellow, they then each have their own personal touch:

The 'American' has a city silhouette and Gangster in
red, which could represent blood that has been spilt

The writing is made to look like its made out of metal,

it too also had a city in the background

                                                                       It has elegant looking old style writing it also has hands playing with puppet strings - implying manipulation

Has an explosion of a lighter background on top of the dark main

backgroud and has a kind of cartoony style, also

the only other one that has a person properly in the background.

Has a city on the gun - could show they control the city
the 'The' is is white, which matches the background and
'Departed' in blue, contrasting with the black of the gun

                                       

    Shows jagged typewriter font with white writing, 

contrasting with the black background, so making it stand out.

                                          Has animated writing which stands out against

 the black background 

It had blood spatters in the background, with silhouettes

of the gangster 

It has made it the logo look like a signpost, it then has 

a picture of a diamond being stolen, roughly telling us 

what the film is about.

It had shadows of the letters extending out, it has

 a gloomy background, the dark at the top and the bottom

of the screen make it look mysterious.

First Draft Results

Results:

After viewing our first draft we have decided there are things we need to change like:

• Make our film longer
• Change "The Captive" colour to a colour that matches and stands out in our film, like the glow sticks, so bright yellow and green
• Change our titles font, to one that matches our genre, rather than our generic font
• Have more shot types in our film

We have already included: 

- A Pan from ceiling to floor showing glow sticks 

- A Close-up of some glow sticks  

- A Pan across and up the wall with a glowy texture dripping from walls. 

- A Pan of medium shot eye level from Nico to Alexis slow (music begins and builds up tension.) 

- A Close up of Alexis with a steady shot, shows her struggling

- A Birds eye shot of floor and glow sticks (door banging sound as it opens you see light and can see Scarlett for the first time.)
- Blurred focus as X walks into room from Alexis' perspective ( as she's dazzled by light, hear heartbeat pick up.) 

- Watching from view of Alexis (this is an undershot as Alexis is looking up at X)
- An Over the shoulder shot of X as he kills Nico, 

- Camera pans still a high shot now onto Alexis as she cries and screams.
- Camera again at view of Alexis (hear a really loud heartbeat)

- Gun is pointed at camera to symbolise it being in Alexis' face (so from point of view of Alexis, heartbeat continues for 4 seconds, signalls she is killed.)

We plan to add more footage to expand our storyline more, also to make it more tense and have a better build up. Within the footage we are goin to have different types of shot aswell. We have decided to add in flashback, but only in small snipits, as if people are remembering the past, so for example, people running through a forest, the shot of just the peoples feet. Also shots of just close up faces, with expressions to show what they were feeling at that time, it should hopefully also make the audience want to know whats going on at that moment, therefore having a build up, like why that character looks scared or shocked, etc.


We have added:
- A Pan of the location (woods)
- A medium point of view shot of X stalking Alexis (see X through trees)
- A close up point of view shot  Alexis running away from X (see ground moving)

First Draft

Filming

FILMING

This is a Facebook entry of when our filming will be, to let all our cast know where and when it is, we decided to do it via Facebook, as people would probably be more likely to forget if we jsut told them all the details, and most people check their Facebook all the time, so they will definatly see this.

After filming today we have had to make a few changes as our extras didn't turn up and one of our character 'The Muscle' was unable to make the date and out 2 extras didn't come. We had to cut the script off before the flashback, as we didn't have enough people to make the film worthwhile, so we just added in more footage of the location and characters, and we basically stuck to the first half of the script.

Location

Props

 

 

PROPS WE HAD:

PROPS WE BROUGHT:

Casting Actresses and Actors