FINAL FILM OPENING VERSION "GRIND"

EVALUATION QUESTION 7

QUESTION 7; Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?...

 

EVALUATION QUESTION 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

EVALATION QUESTION 5

How did you address/ attack your audience?

EVAUATION QUESTION 4

Evaluation Q4: Who would be the audience for your media product?

Theory:

EVALUATION QUESTION 3

Q3: What kinds of institutions would distribute your media product and why?

EVALUATION QUESTION 2

QUESTION 2; How does your media product represent particular social groups?

EVALUATION QUESTION 1

QUESTION 1; In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Difficulties when editing:

When editing we came across the following difficulty's.

• Diegetic Sound;  Our filming picked up a lot of noise that made our opening look less professional. To work our way around this we spent a lot of time cutting, and clipping clips, and ensuring to reduce the background noise and it other sections, by enhancing tother sounds, to ensure the continuity and fluency between the visuals and sound wasn't effected. 
• Non digetic Sound : We used a wide range of sound effects that were layered over the lullaby that we created. This helped to collaborate the different pieces of work together. Ensuring that the timing of the sound effects were well fitting and matched to the lullaby's strict melody and pattern of tune took a long time to edit the two together. 
• Font size and colour:  A lot of the colours of the font we either felt was too bright, to dark, or either to vibrant to fit to the genre of or opening scene, so were not appropriate. It also took a long time to find a relevant font that added creepy mood. However, when watching back the scene and receiving feedback, we felt that with the comments, the font was not appropriate as it was not noticeable enough, so we changed the font again to best match our narrative.
• The brightness and filters: When editing this was a big problem we felt as a few of the different clips were shot with very different brightness's, and we didn't want this to effect the continuety. Therefore, we edited the brightness of the different clips to become darker, but roughly the same darkness to fit the eerie mood and atmosphere. Then layering with different effects after, we decided was very effective and helped add to the eerie atmosphere. 

Film opening deconstruction and analysis

Development from the Preliminary:

From the preliminary experiment, Our group has made a lot of progress, visually, standard of clarity and focus, narrative development, and we gained more understanding of how to use different camera angles. 

Applying techniques to the narrative:

We strongly focused on the Mis en scene of our opening scene. The idea behind horror is that it is meant to play with your fears and create an effect of the audience being scared or uncomfortable, and create dark, gloomy, and eerie to fit the horror scene. We correctly chose an isolated brick garage location, to help show the girls are very isolated and hidden.

Lighting:

Horror themes often, have a stereotypically dark setting, whether outside in a dark forest, or inside a dimly lit house, as this helps the audience to feel on edge and frightened. When shooting in the garage we had to cover the two windows too prevent lots of light shining through. We used a slightly tinted yellow light in order to cause shadows as an effective. 

Props:

Props that we used all related to the stereotypical theme of horror, and linked to our narrative such as a kidney dish and fake blood,  screws, smaller plyers, books and skeletons.

Makeup:

When looking at the makeup we bruises to the girls faces to portrayed them being abused. We tried to make the victims look like they have been in captivity for ages by making their hair scruffy.

Angles

Our camera angles we used from our preliminary, our use of angles expanded. For example, we used POV shots, as if it was the vision of the protagonist to build the atmosphere. We ensured all of our shots were in focus and clear. 

Rule of thirds: 

We decided instead of using the rule of thirds, we kept the model in the mid shot so she wasn't portrayed as the dominant character. When the girl is screaming there is a zoom, leading away from the protagonist to show more about her being in captivity.

Montage/ continuity:

The majority of our opening scene is a montage, which consisted of a variation of shot that were all edited together to show a passing time and different scenes all in one. Therefore, when looking at the continuity we focused more on the placement of objects.

Dissolve:

When looking at editing we used a dissolve method where one scene fades to the next.

Filters:

As a group we used a lot of different filters to change the darkness and colours of different shots which helped added to the narrative and create more eerie vibes. 

Sound:

When looking at the sound used we used a range of sound effects and non diegetic effects along with our lullaby. We did not have any dialogue so the sound effects and lullaby helped to balance out the negative sound. A very short sound bridge was used right at the end, when leading into the forest scene and linked with screaming to help the scene flow smoother. 

Certificate Rating of film "Grind"

After researching the BBFC's age classifications it was clear that our film would have a certificate rating of 15. This is because it best-fits the category's including; imitable behaviour, language, nudity, threat and violence.

Highly scary or gory horror films that might upset younger children are unlikely to be found at U, PG or 12A/12. Along with scenes with harmful material or which children are encouraged to do dangerous things. The British Board of Film Classification(BBFC) was founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas etc. When aimed at a younger audience horror movies must be treated very cautiously to match the public audience’s approval. This is so they don’t break the guidelines if it had a recommended to an age too low it wouldn’t be appropriate. In 1993, the BBFC hosted series of test screening of a film 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' to which they observed the audience’s reactions. After analysing the reactions, they decided the age rating was appropriate at PG (parental guidance). After this, many films could use light horror elements with it being appropriate. However when we looked at this we still felt that our horror film would not be deemed “Light horror”.

The categories of a 15 rating our film falls under;

• Imitable behaviour: "Dangerous behaviour (for example, hanging, suicide and self-harming) should not dwell on detail which could be copied. Whether the depiction of easily accessible weapons is acceptable will depend on factors such as realism, context and setting."
• Threat "There may be strong threat and horror. A sustained focus on sadistic or sexual threat is unlikely to be acceptable."
• Violence "Violence may be strong but should not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury. The strongest gory images are unlikely to be acceptable. Strong sadistic violence is also unlikely to be acceptable. There may be detailed verbal references to sexual violence but the depiction of sexual violence must be discreet and justified by context."
• Language "There may be strong language. Very strong language may be permitted, depending on the manner in which it is used, who is using the language, its frequency within the work as a whole and any special contextual justification."
• Nudity "There are no constraints on nudity in a non-sexual or educational context. There may be nudity in a sexual context but usually without strong detail."