Audience Feedback - Georgiou

Audience Feedback

Why is audience feedback essential to carry out?

The audience feedback is essential as it helps us decide if our thriller was good or not. This is because the audience can pick out things they may think doesn't wok in the opening which we may have missed, and they help pick out scenes that may not make sense or not well filmed. This includes camera shots/angles, lighting, costume, location, credits and the narrative. The audience also tells us the scenes which worked well and how we can improve on them.

Where did you screen your production?

Firstly, we uploaded our thriller opening onto YouTube. Then, we screened our production to 6 people who were all aged 16 or 17 during a Media lesson and asked for a brief written response from each viewer. We also received feedback from users from around the world via the comments section on YouTube.
 

How did youtube help?

Youtube helped as our thriller opening was able to be screened around the world with millions of people are able to watch it. We got allot of feedback from strangers who watched our thriller online. We got allot of positive feedback and and some negative feedback from our viewers. Also the y gave us ideas on how we could imporve if we were to make our thriller opening again.

What feedback did you receive?

We received good feedback as well as constructive criticisms which is a good thing because we knew that our production wasn't flawless, so we could see what people didn't like or did like. One person said that the camera quality was not good enough which is a fair point to make, but because we only made the opening to the film, we did not feel that it was necessary to purchase a superior camera. This was because we were on a small budget. If we were to make the whole film, then we would have bought ,or loaned, a camera of better quality.

Another criticism of our film was that if we were to make the whole film, then it would be too short because there is a murder at the start of the film and that there would be no meaning for the rest of the film. However, they did not understand that if we were to make the rest of the film, we would use the beginning as the ending and the film would consist of what happened prior to that scene to solve the enigma.

We also received a large amount of good feedback. One person said that they were impressed with the different camera shots we used for the murder scene which was something my group had already recognised as a strong positive of our production.

Reflection

If I was going to create another thriller opening, then I would keep a large proportion of what we did the same as I feel that it was a successful production. I would only make minor adjustments such as filming each scene multiple times so that we would be able to choose what scene had the best lighting, sound and if there were any human errors involved.

I would also check the weather prior to filming because we had to film on a Sunday rather than the Saturday because of heavy rain which created a background noise and got the camera lens wet. This required good improvisation skills that we wouldn't have had to use if we planned what days we were going to film on.

 

Meetings - Georgiou

Meetings - Miss Georgiou

Why are meetings important to a production?

Meetings are vital in the production process because the whole group have to have an understanding of what is best for the group. The best way to do this is through sharing ideas in meetings. Meetings helped every group member get their opinion through. It also allows a group to be organised and keep track of time.


Overall do you think your group worked well together?

I think that worked very well as a group because we all worked with same objective in mind (to create a successful, conventional thriller). After every meeting that took place, we knew exactly what we wanted to achieve when we carried out tasks. This was an advantage because it meant that no time was wasted when we carried out tasks. When we created our credits, we knew what we were going to write because we had decided in a group meeting. When we chose the soundtrack, we decided that we would all look on a different website. This helped us save time.

Date	Action	To be done by	By whom	Discussions
05.11.2012	Review individual storyboards	07.11.2012	Whole group	We discussed ideas and concepts that we have, and we reflected on the ideas and then created a group storyboard.
12.11.2012	Planning the cinematography	14.11.2012	Whole group	We started to plan what camera shots, lighting, costume, setting and iconography we wanted to use in our opening.
14.11.2012	Creating the Questionnaire	19.11.2012	Individual then as a group	We each created a questionnaire and then we joined the questions together that we thought were better.
19.11.2012	Recording the results from the questionnaire	21.11.2012	Whole group	We gave our questionnaire to 32 pupils in our school and recorded the results.
21.11.2012	Risk Assessment Planning the day we can film	21.11.2012	Whole group	We decided as a group what we thought would be a potential hazard and how we can prevent it. We also decided that we would film on the Friday and Sunday.
23.11.2012	Filming our thriller opening	25.11.2012	Whole group	We filmed our thriller using the group storyboards as guidance. Also we followed the group risk assessment so there would be less of a chance that an injury would occur.
26.11.2012	Editing our thriller	19.12.2012	Whole group	We discussed ideas on how we should edit our scenes and what transitions we should add. Also we were looking for as soundtrack, which would go well with our thriller.

Group StoryBoard - Georgiou

Group StoryBoard

We have created a group story board by all three of us doing parts of the story board each. I have drawn all the images relating to our narrative description written by Liam. The rest of the story board was written by alex who is story board manager. This will help us keep on track when we film so we know what we have to film.

Preliminary Task - Georgiou

Preliminary Task

(Liam-Alex-Daniel)

What was the purpose of this task?

The purpose of this task was was to get used to the equipment which was the camera and tripod. With this we created 40 seconds of footage which we used different camera shots taken from different angles. It also helped us gain more experience to how and where we place the camera to make our camera shots more effective. We had a lesson to film this in, basically 40 minutes as we had to quickly plan where and what we were going to film.


What went well?

What went well was that we were able to work together very well to create a small scene in not much time. We got allot of different camera shot in and most of them were smooth when we were editing. Like when I opened the door we used 3 scenes that ran smoothly when played. This was because I had to do do the exact same thing for it to look perfect. Some camera shot were a challenge like in the scene when i was talking to Alex we didn't know where to stand or put the camera, but we managed to do it in the end.


What went wrong?

Only a couple of things that went wrong (could have been better)... in the first scene when I was walking towards the door the camera was shacking. This is because we dint have enough room to do a panning shot. We were able to film it though by having Liam hold it as still as he could while panning at the same time. Also in the scene when myself and Alex were talking we didn't know what to say completely, so we had to make it up. Apart from that i think we did well, only some scenes which could have been better if we had more time and experience with the equipment. Lastly we went over our time limit by 10-20 minutes which could be costly in the filming industry.

How will this task assist you when creating your own thriller?

This task has assisted us with creating our thriller opening as it has given us some basic experience on how to use the equipment such as the camera and tripod. We learned that we may not have enough room in some scenes to place the tripod so we will have to use our imagination to make it happen. We also learned that's its best to keep checking on how much battery the camera has as it effects the filming if it dies.

During our recording we found out that some camera shots looked better for some scenes than other shots did. This will help us allot as we will be looking to experiment different camera shots when we film our thriller to get the best scenes, angles and shots.

We were not able to the lighting we will be using for our thriller opening as it is set at night. However we have plenty of time to film and experiment with more camera techniques and lighting outside of school. We not have to worry about sound as we will use music in the opening to our thriller.

Thriller Poster Analysis - Hartt

Thriller Poster Analysis 

(new) Individual StoryBoard - Georgiou

Individual Storyboard

I have created a story board based on the thriller narrative i created. It is important to create a story board as it is used as a guidance for what my narrative is about. I will share this story board by going through it with them and we will decide if we could take parts of it and add it to theirs so our group narrative will have something from each of our individual story boards.

Character Representation - Hartt

Character Representation

 It is important to have a variety of characters in a film as this makes the film more exciting and interesting. Also the characters representations can give a different impression on the film as the characters have different attitudes, wear different clothes and come from different background's.

During the creation of the characters we knew that their had to be a victim and a villain.

We created the victim by making sure he was smaller in height than the villain which  represents him as a weak character and an inferior person compared to the villain. This is shown when the victim is easily caught and killed by the villain. It is also shown when the victim gets scared and frightened very easily when the villain is talking to him on the computer.  The victim wears a white polo which shows innocence.

When creating the villain he had to be taller than the victim as it will show that he has more power over the victim. The villain is a strong character as he is able to torment and kill a boy very easily. This is show when the killer picks up the victim by the throat and strangles him to death. This tells the audience that he is physicaly stronger than the victim. He also wears black and a strange looking mask which shows that he is mysterious and frightening.