Finals – Evaluation

Finals – Blank Pages

Finials – Online Film Review

Finals – Poster

Preparing a Green Screen!

For my evaluation I wanted to use as large a range of mediums I possibly could. I also wanted to test my technical ability to the max and I was confident in using chromer keyer from my AS foundation portfolio film opening. Therefore I decided I would have a go at producing a green screen. I research various different ways of producing one from the professional to make-shift and found points to keep in mind when producing my footage:

• An evenly and brightly lit surface – I hung my green screen next to a window so myself and screen would be brightly lit even with my lack of lighting. I used a lamp to light the bottom corners evenly.

• Keep inside the green screen at all times – Before I shot any footage i made sure what ever I did stayed inside my green screen and edited this later so I didn’t have to use a large amount of paper.

• It is hung on a flat wall so no shadows appear – I used sellotape to my wall and the sheets so they’re was no visible colour difference or shadows created (which would happen if it were mounted on bluetack).

A problem that occurred during the filming was the focus of my camera on the object (me). I filmed in an appropriate setting however the sensitivity of the camera was disrupted by things as small as dust!

Audience Feedback: Survey Monkey (web 2.0)

Here are the results I found from my audience feedback survey.

Large Screen Viewings

After posting my film on Youtube and Facebook I was happy with the success of my film. Especially Survey Monkey help let me see this however, I was never able to see peoples reactions to my film. I wanted to see how an audience reacted to certain parts and whether the reactions I saw were linked to my choice of genres.

To discover this I invited my school to a large screen viewing in our end of year celebration assembly. Before the film started I explained how the film was about a bibliophile who was a hopeless romantic for one fictional character in particular. This was all I revealed so I could let them develop their own reading like in active audience theory. The reactions to my film were just what I hoped with a hassle and whisper of many discussions after the film had ended.

Audience Feedback: Viewer Film Review

After publishing Blank Pages, I look around to find various angles of audience feedback. I sent my film to a current 3rd Year University student studying Religious Studies. Even though this doesn’t seem to be an obvious pick the reasons for doing so were due to the immense critical analysis and opinionated responses required for her course… PERFECT!

In reply from my email to her she said:

“Wow. What an innovative and creative piece. I thought the artistic ideas behind the film were extremely clever – for example, the way that words were used to describe something happening (e.g. ‘Bang’ when she threw the phone).
The narrator was first person, and because of this, it kept the audience in suspense and hooked on what’s going to happen next. We were only as informed as Maddy was and this makes the plot twist even more surprising.
The erratic camera angles were used to perfection to show how sporadic Maddy’s mind was, and I think this helped add to the implication that something wasn’t quite right. In the same way, the producer used different lighting to show when Maddy’s mind was in a ‘dark place’
The cliffhanger was an amazing way to engage the audience even further. The person watching can conclude their own story which makes this a very exciting piece.
Overall, I think this was very clever and engaging to watch. I feel the end result is of an exceptionally high quality which makes for enjoyable watching. Well done.” – Grace, University of Kent

Audience Feedback: Publishing My film Online

After what I believe is a completion of my film, I decided to gain some audience feedback and reviews. One of the ways I tried to do this was by publishing it online on Facebook and YouTube to reach my target market of 15-25 year old’s. The reason I publish it onto these two websites is because social media and YouTube’s average user is (handily) 15-25 years of age.

On Facebook I could tell how popular the film was by viewing the likes and reading the response’s of the viewers.

Sharing my Film on Social Media Websites

After distributing my film on Facebook to my friends, my leading actress Holly was kind enough to share my film unexpectedly onto her Facebook page too. This mean’t that even more people could witness my film outside of my friends and family.

As well as this, she added the link of my Survey Monkey website were people could fill out a survey about my film. This helped my to receive even more surveys than I could have.