Storyboards

 Here are the storyboards for our opening sequence:

Zaq

Preliminary task

Below is our preliminary task, we had finished it before the Final task, however we forgot to add it to our blog. We thought the task went very well considering that we had had no experiance at all at filming or storyboarding a 2-3 minute film. We found that some shots were lacking good continuity as shirts and jackets changed position and hairstyles grew and got shorter in different shots due to it being filmed on two different days.

Zaq, David and Joe.

Planning our evaluations

We have spent the past week planning our evaluation podcasts/powerpoints. David has filmed his podcast already, only Zaq and I need to film ours now. My notes for the podcast are ready, all I need to do is book out a tripod for the night and film it at home and edit it on windows movie maker. I found that I struggled a bit on a few of the questions especially question 1 and 6 as the key terminology wasn't as fresh in my brain as it should have been.

Joe.

Audience questionnaie

To help us evaluate our final film we made a rough audience questionnaire in which it asks problems and where they would like to see the film lead on to. Below is our first handed back questionnaire.

Joe.

Costume research

We wanted all our characters to look realistic to their social groups, doing so meant we had to dress them in a way we felt expressed this. Below are images that we had asked our actors and actresses to wear for the film to look effective.

We wanted all our kidnappers to look suspicious and stay under the cover of darkness, this meant we had to dress them up in black hoodies. This then follows what many people think gang and youth affiliated people dress in, the hoodie will make them look dangerous as it obscures your vision of their face.

This snood covers the identity of the wearer leaving them looking sinister and like they were looking for trouble, which our gang were. These were easy to find and very cheap to buy, we managed to rent a snood from a ski hire shop for a day for almost no cost at all.

Below is a similar Bandana which was used by one of the actors who kidnaps our main protagonists girlfriend. This gear allowed the kidnapper to cover his face, to prevent the victim from not seeing his face and to keep his disguise. This had planned to look more realistic and made the kidnapper look much more intermediating. 

Zaq and Joe.

Location recees

Below are a few images of a bedroom that would have been used for the waking up scene, and the scene when Josh is speaking to both Aleisha and Denzel. There are also location shots of the house that would be used to film in.

Zaq, David and Joe.

Audience feedback

After the completion of our final task, we needed to get an outside opinion on our final piece. We asked around and looked for things we could change.

 By putting the film on Facebook and Youtube, we could find out what our peer thought of our film. Facebook proved to be the most useful of these networking sites as the video was linked only to people of the target audience group. The video managed to get 20 "Likes" in as many minutes on Facebook and had over 7 comments stating how much people enjoyed the video.
A few people had picked up on a few continuity editing errors as the section where Josh Diller is on the phone to Denzel the curtains in the background seemed to open and close in between shots.

Zaq, David and Joe.