Evaluation 6

Evaluation 6

While in pre-production of our film we used blogger. This is the website in which all our work would be posted onto. Before the start of pre-production i had never used blogger so it was all new to me. Blogger has all the plans we used for our film including storyboards and scripts. Using blogger was a success as it gave our group an easy way in which to store all plans needed for our film. 

During editing we used a software called Adobe Premiere Pro. This like blogger was something that i had never used before. This was also much harder to grasp than blogger as it was far more technical. After a while we all began to get a good understanding of the process and began to edit with more confidence in what we were doing. This is why I believe we could have made a much more graphic Title sequence the one we used for our film was very basic in comparison to what we had learnt. We also learnt how to successfully use a camera in order to film our film. I think that we quickly got an understanding of how to use the camera and therefore were able to efficiently film with ease

Evaluation 2

Evaluation 2 from ConorHeald

Evaluation 7

Evaluation 7 from ConorHeald

Evaluation 5

Evaluation 5

I think that our film ‘A day out in Sheff’ reached our target audience which we had planned to be young adults most likely male who enjoy football and fighting. This is like the audiences who enjoyed films like Green Street or Away Days. Our film met these criteria as it is about football hooliganism. During production, we made sure we got the point of the film across to the audience as early into as possible this is shown through our first 2-minute extract. We also added a small fight scene used in a flashback to show that this film had violent aspects which could attract certain audiences. Using our Post production questionnaires, we asked people if they enjoyed the film then asked them to state what they enjoyed about our film. Many of the answers stated that it was the ‘accurate portrayal of football hooliganism’. This shows that our film attracted audiences and that our films aspects appealed to the audience. We also kept audiences engrossed within the film by using certain editing techniques such as Flashbacks to show one of the characters been hit in the face in a previous fight. This gave the audience an idea on the style of the film.

As you can see from these two charts only 22% of people said they were unsure or didn’t like the film. This goes to show that we obviously attracted the audience we wanted. The other chart asks if the audience believed this film was meant for a male or female audience. The chart shows that it was unanimous in favour of a male audience. This also shows that we managed to reach our target audience of young adult males.

Evaluation 2

Evaluation 1

Evaluation 1 from MattLeesley

Evaluation question 7

Now that I have finished my film I can look back on the original preliminary task we created and see how it compares to our final film.. In this preliminary task I noticed we used very basic cinematography with not using a variation of shots, whereas in the final film I think we vastly improved on this by using a wider array of shots which make the film look a lot more appealing and just makes the cinematography better as a whole. This is shown as we mainly just used mid-shots throughout it with a few other shot whereas in our final film there is a complete array of different shots used.

 However the main thing that I think we improved on from this preliminary task to our final film was our editing. This is because in the preliminary task we only really used basic cuts, shot-reverse-shots and the 180 degree rule, however in our final film we used jump cuts, we changed the colour grading in certain shots, dissolves and many other things. This as a whole completely changed the quality of our final film making it so much better. This can also be slightly attributed to the different tasks at hand as in the preliminary tasks we only had to create a short conversation using editing techniques such as shot-reverse-shot, 180 degree rule and match on action whereas with our final film we had to create the first two minutes and title sequence of a fiction film which allowed us to have a lot more creative freedom. Besides this though I still feel we greatly improved our editing from this preliminary task to the final product. 

Overall, I think we improved immensely from the preliminary task to the final film as we used a lot more techniques in our filmmaking that made it a lot better. I think that the preliminary task allowed us to practice these techniques such as shot-reverse-shot so that we could improve upon them in this final film.