Evaluation Question 5

Evaluation 5 from HarrisonMarsden

Evaluation 3

                                               Evaluation 3

I think that the company that should distribute our film is Warp Films this is because they usually make films that are for a certain type of audience. This is what our film would benefit from as it is specific to a certain audience. Warp films have produced films such as Four Lions and This is England 86. Both films were big successes which is a positive for us as Warp films are good at making highly successful films. We would be better of using Warp Films than one of the big American companies such as Universal. This is because if we were to use Universal then they would go for big named stars to play the characters in a way to attract people to see the film. This would be a bad choice as the actors used may take the realism out of the film whereas using Warp Films they are most likely to actors who fit the roles of Football hooligans.

Warp Films make low budget which is fine for us as our film would not require a large budget. This is the same for other films which I researched such as Green Street or Football Factory. These films were made on low budgets and were successful football Hooligan films.

Evaluation - Question 6

Within the pre-production of the film, many technologies were used. The main source of technology used would have been Blogger. This is because many posts were made about similar films to our own and all other research was posted onto Blogger by each individual of the group. I did not know how to use Blogger at all before hand as it was completely new to me but as time has gone on, i have gained more experienced with the technology and i can happily use this for future reference. The research was followed out mostly on Microsoft PowerPoint by myself and then embedded onto Blogger. Microsoft Word and Excel was also used within pre production. Word was to create the pre-production questionnaire and Excel was to create the charts for the results of the questionnaire. The questionnaire and results were then embedded onto Blogger. The reason for using Word and Excel because within the group I was part of, we all had a clear understanding on how to use these two pieces of software. Another piece of software i learned to use within the pre-production was Celtx. This software is used to create scripts. This software was new to the majority of the class and therefore, the reason for sung this in pre-production was so that we could get a feel of how to create a professional film script. Then from this we could go and create a film script for our opening title sequence.

Within the production of the film, I was introduced to some new pieces of software and hardware. One piece of hardware that i had learned to use within this period was a DV camera and this was for shooting the opening title sequence. The software that I had learned to use within the production was Adobe Premier and this was to edit our first two minutes of the film.

Within the post production stage, We had used repeated technology from the pre-production and production stages. Such as, Microsoft Word to create a post-production questionnaire to see if we had attracted our target audience to want to watch the rest of the film if it was to be released. Microsoft Excel was also used again so that we had a professional way presenting the results from the questionnaire to use on question 5 of the evaluations. But there was one piece of software that i was introduced to within his stage. The piece of software is called Prezi. The purpose of this is similar to PowerPoint, it allows you to create a presentation but there is more interaction for the reader rather than just selecting the next slide. It allows you to select different section on the page and as a result of that, information within the different section will appear clearly onto the screen. I used to Prezi to present question 4 of the evaluations.

Evaluation - Question 5

Did you attract/address your audience?

We believe we have done this successfully. A big factor to this success would be taking into consideration the results of the pre-production questionnaire results. From these results, it gave us a big insight of what the target audience of males between 15 and 30 would like to see from the film and therefore go and create it. To see if we had addressed my target audience, we followed out a post-production questionnaire and the results were very positive.

One of the ways we used to attract my target audience was through the making of the character profiles. When crating this we put the ages of the characters to the age of around 18. The reason behind this is because we believed that the would be average age for our target audience and therefore they would be able to relate to the characters more.

Another way of attracting our target audience was through micro elements through the opening title sequence. Mise en scene was was used through props such as drugs and alcohol which the audience can relate to as a film within the crime genre.Also, a flashback was used within the opening title sequence. The flashback was of the main character getting hit in the face as part of previous fight he had gotten himself into at a previous football match. This is also gives the feel that the film is crime related. On top of this, the flashback will also keep the audience engaged as it gives them an insight of what the rest of the film will be like. I think this has helped attract the audience to want to watch the full film.

From the post-production questionnaire results shown already above, it shows that just less than half of the participants thought that our film was something other than within the genre of sports crime. To change the views and improve our film to make it more like the chosen genre, we could make the opening title sequence less comedic and dramatic.

Post-production questionnaire results from HarrisonMarsden

Post-production Questionnaire

Evaluation 4

Evaluation 4 from ConorHeald