Photo evidence

Below are some photos of our group planning and walking to the locations where we would shoot.

Peer assessment analysis

Here is an example of some feedback that I gave to a group. I kept my feedback concise and to the point, in order to make sure that my advice is clearly noted.

Film poster analysis

In today's lesson we chose films that had a similar genre to our film opening and analysed the poster. Annotations were added where key information on the poster was.

Feedback Analysis

Today as a group we were reviewing and analysing the feedback we were given. With this, we would take the constructive advice and negative points to improve our final film opening.

Our feedback received a variety of both negative and positive points. Our positive feedback was mostly based around our clear representation of our genre, our titles font and placement. Also our story line was positive.

However our negative feedback was greatly based around one scene, which was the one in the van. We need to improve the sound quality in the van and make it easier to hear. The clarity of the image in some scenes also needs to be improved.

 Finally we received some feedback on how our music was a great fit to the genre and was applied in suitable areas, however the volume became distracting as it appeared to loud.

Not So Die Hard film poster

Here is our film poster for the action/comedy film opening we did.

Film opening- first draft

Below is our first draft of our film opening. It is an Action/Comedy genre film.

Not So Die Hard self assessment

Our film opening had unique camera angles and the music fit well to the genre. We decided to use "You really got me" by The Kinks and also some royalty free action music to add a happy, fun effect at the start and a tense mood towards the end. The use of both high and low camera angles added variety to  our film. The way in which the titles were implemented was creative and unique,with some reacting with what was going on in the sequence. This helped set us apart from other groups as not many had used the idea of dynamic titles.

To improve, we could increase the lighting in some scenes. For instance, in the van it is very hard to distinguish what is going on due to the low light. Also continuity was a slight problem as the footage was filmed over 2 separate days, resulting in the natural lighting being much different where 2 scenes follow on from each other.This could be overcome by using artificial light when filming, or changing the contrast of the footage in post-production.