Other Class Room Feedback

To help evaluate our thriller piece, we swapped classrooms and watched the other groups (Q2) thriller sequences and gave them feedback vise versa. However some of the groups did not give helpful critcial feedback such as ' shoelace untided - so could trip' which was NOT helpful, but some were.

For the main titles such as : Sound, Editing, Mise en Scene and Cinematography we also wrote questions for the other group to answers to help us write a varied evaluation.
For example, the topic Sound we asked, Is it appropraite for the style/genre of the sequence? We got some constructive feedback such as - yes, it fits well the action, the soundtrack gives a eary feeling. Although one group thought the beginning bit was too friendly but picks up at the end. But that was the whole idea for the begenning!

The Mise En Scene topic we asked the following questions.
Does it look authentic, and which bits achieve this? And a group thought the hand held camera was a good idea. Lastly the other question was How do you think the Mise En Scene creates a sense of genre? And we did not get any useful thoughts at all, which was very unhelpful :


Editing, we asked these following questions.
How has the editing been used to create meaning? and groups agreed on the name of the sequence 'Captured' the title fonts and size, however on the second question What do you think of the transaction types? They thought the font size was too small, even though our teacher advised us on that particular size.


Cinematography, again we asked these questions.
How do you think the cinematography affects the viewer? The camera being shown in some shots spoils the tone. And we think this answer does not make any sense, as the purpose was to watch someone recording a murder.
and the last question did not get answered on Which piece of cinematography did you think was particularlly effective?


Overall effectives?
Makes you ask questions such as where are they running from or too?
and one group did not like the fisheye but we do as we think it gives the look of someone watching them.


Overall we think that the feedback was notvery helpful.

Rough Cut

Feedback from Groups on our 'rough cut'

All groups agreed that our Mise En Scene was good with the wood settings.
(Cinematography)The Framing was good and the final shot with our main character running, held hand camera was favouritised. For Editing they liked the titles and good cut from clip to clip.
The Sound was good, and bulit up tension and suspense. However a group question the genre and one didn't understand the sequence and the other groups thought the sequence was appropiate and effective.
All of the above will help us finalise the thriller sequence.

Test Footage

This is our test footage. Doing this we realised that the music doesn't quite go with the footage, as it makes it look like the guy is marching. We have decided to re-do the music once we have finished shooting, as then we can look at all our footage, and see which music suits it best.

Animatic

Rough Storyline

We have come up with a rough story line for our whole thriller movie. We thought it would be best to have it writen down, because it will help us figure out the opening sequence.

After witnessing the murder comitted by a governemnt election runner and running for his life the main character hides the tape and decides to go abroad to protect his family. Whilst abroad he gets a head injury and can only remember what has happened up to the murder. He does some research on the murderer and discovers he has recently won the election. When he goes back his family believes he has been found dead and have all moved on, when he runs into an FBI agent who is trying to arrest the murderer but cannot get to him as he is a government offical. When she meets our main character she tries to get the tape off him but due to the head injury he cannot remember where the tape is and has to find it before they do. When they have located the tape the government official coners them both and the FBI grabs a pen off her desk and stabs him in the leg to avoid getting killed and plays the tape on public television.

Filming Preporation

Cast

• one man
• one woman
• two kids- one boy and one girl

Props

• Tripod
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• Camcorder
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• Poster
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• Pen
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• Picnic blanket
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• Glass full of coke that gets knocked over
  
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• Jacket
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• Car
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• Cam corder Tape
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Sets

• Ely nature trail
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• In a car down the motorway
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